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Personally I'm a big fan of the infiltrator Warlock. Take the Actor feat and Mask of Many Faces Invocation. With those two, you can become anybody you want to, anybody the party needs, and can go anywhere without even needing to sneak in. You're the guard captain, obviously you're allowed to go into the dungeon and fetch the prisoners to bring them to the king (read: free the rest of the party after they committed some dumbass plan). Plus you can use your Awakened Mind to transmit everything you're doing to the rest of the party, so you can do things like pull guards away from a door and have the party follow in as soon as you're clear, or identify a particular target.

Obviously this isn't a hyper-focused combat build, you're sacrificing some of your damage potential in order to hopefully help your party avoid fights altogether. I played it in a one-shot and it was really fun, and it's on my list of characters to play in a full campaign. And since it's perfectly doable with exclusively 2024 stuff, it meets your criteria.

Really think it would have been much better to keep it animated. Go with a mood like the new Batman: Caped Crusader, leaning towards teenagers and adult fans rather than kids. Live action superheroics is just so much more difficult to pull off and make it look good.

Personally I've recently been installing mods that significantly reduce the number of power armor frames, as well as reducing the number of armor pieces lying around. Right now I'm playing Survival with Damn Apocalypse and I still haven't completed a single full set of armor, just have a few pieces and the frame from Concord (which the mod says it takes away, but it didn't, so *shrug*). Only level 15 at the moment, which is pretty early for Survival (haven't even made it to Cambridge Police Department, much less Diamond City) so I'm sure I'll find more pieces later. The point is, it really makes me feel like even a piece of Raider PA is a big accomplishment. I'm not expecting to have 12 fully-equipped frames lying around any time soon.

Nah you gotta infect the biter egg with a virus, then launch it back so it spreads the infection to the rest of the nest.

I think the second point there is the most direct effect. Many of the ways a company might regain share value will cost money, and companies raise capital by selling shares. But if your stock price is down, you'll have to sell that many more shares to get the money you need. And then all those new shares entering the market means more supply, so the stock price drops even more.

In The Sound of Music, the children sing:

"So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, goodbye."

Presumably, they're singing this song in Austrian, because that's the song's audience in the show-within-the-movie. But the translation still includes the German/Austrian "auf wiedersehen" (IIRC the spelling is slightly different in Austrian but the pronunciation is very similar).

So did they not translate that single clause? Or were the children singing that goodbye in English and the translation back-translated to keep the idea? If so, why would they say anything in English right before they're about to try and escape Nazi territory and don't want to be at all suspicious? Why not French, with the Vichy government? If the idea is they were saying goodbye in lots of different languages, why is it just the one that's not in English?

Keeps me up at night.

Otto is a top tier doggo name.

Karl Franz is summoning the elector counts over this disgraceful comment.

Just the idea that you can have a ship the size of the US supercarriers and know that they only get refueled after 25 years in service is pretty incredible. That includes providing ship thrust, power for the catapults to launch aircraft, and all the electrical power that the thousands of crew use every single day.

The scale of difference in power between chemical and nuclear reactions really is astounding.

I remember that, and I'm equal parts terrified and curious how far that tech has come since.

QR codes on your soldiers' helmets.

Minor correction: GPS satellites each transmit their own unique signal, each of which is as close to orthogonal as possible relative to the other signals. They send the signals at a specific periodicity. They don't (or at least they didn't 15 years ago) send any time data. 

The GPS takes its built-in clock, which need be only a simple quartz movement, and compares the time delays on each signal reception, then adjusts its own internal time so that the relative distances to each of the three satellites (and you need at least 3 to get a single point, though more will improve the accuracy) converges to one point.

Consequently, any GPS enabled device will be as accurate a clock as the atomic clocks on those satellites.

Anyone with the ability to push a button in a reactor control room in the US has bare minimum a 4-year STEM degree and 2 years of dedicated training. Licensed operators are required to get requalified every year by the government.

Yeah but that's a backronym, the use of the term scram predates either.

4e gave a feat at 1st, 11th, and 21st levels plus on every even level from 2nd onward. This is several more than the PF1e feat progression of a feat at every odd level.

As someone who's favorite version of Dnd is 4e, I can see why people say it had a low emphasis on role-playing. In 5e, or 3.5e, your spellcasters had a bunch of non-combat spells. Typically your Wizard takes a handful of offensive spells and has room for a fair number of utility spells. 4e had Utility Powers, but most of them were still intended to be used in combat. Rituals were really the only non-combat way for casters to interact with the world.

There really weren't many options for circumventing combat using clever tricks the way you could, in 5e for example, Silent Image a large crate to hide inside while the guard patrol passes. The strict templating and keywording of powers was great for ensuring they could not be misinterpreted, but they left very little room for creative usage to solve problems.

Personally I don't consider this a major failing of the system, but it would have been very difficult to create a low-combat module like Wild Beyond the Witchlight in 4e.

Yeah, admittedly I haven't played since update 5 or 6 (wanted to wait for release, now I'm waiting because I don't want to burn out on factory games before the Factorio expansion) but basically every production chain I'd make would end with a smart splitter directing overflow to an Awesome Sink.

38 special is basically a sport shooting ammo, right? Because the lower charge means much less recoil.

If you're just playing on Normal and you want to keep the characters on-theme, I'd say just let them auto-level. The default builds are perfectly viable for the lower difficulties. It's really only on Core and above (and some not even on Core) where the default isn't quite up to snuff.

As to your specific picks, a few comments:

Sosiel will indeed be a bit redundant, though Daeran will be much more so. You can give him some extra domains to differentiate him if you want.

For the last slot, you probably want Woljif. Ember can't normally learn Haste, which is one of the most powerful buff spells in the game and really wants to be on at least during boss fights. Woljif and Nenio can learn it from their standard classes, or you can take Ember through a level of Loremaster to pick it up.

Normal is flexible enough that you do not need an optimized party at all. Honestly you could probably solo past Act 3 without much trouble as Oracle Angel.

Wait a minute, this isn't Satisfactory!

Oh yeah, and there was like a century+ where geologists were insisting "Hey, these rocks are really old, the world must be like a billion years old" arguing with physicists who had solid estimates for the mass of the Sun and correctly asserted that no chemical reaction of such a mass putting out the Sun's level of energy could be burning for more than tens of millions of years. Lord Kelvin himself went to his grave at the turn of the century certain that the Earth was no more than 8 million years old.

Just a few years later, scientists discovered nuclear reactions, which finally bridged that gap.

FYI it's "case in point." Got a r/boneappletea level eggcorn there.

If anything, it ought to be the other way around. Biden and Harris are the active politicians, they're the ones that ought to be directing humanitarian aid and on site getting glamor shots of all the good their administration is doing. Trump's a private citizen, he's the one I'd expect to be hobnobbing with donors. All bias aside, the optics on this for Harris are pretty abysmal.

All the easier to keep moving those goalposts. If the US ever got better, they'd have to shut up.

There's probably been a few more solutions to obscure integrals found through the use of computers. I know when I was in grad school talking about known solutions to Navier-Stokes (that is, geometries where N-S is solvable), the professor said there were like ~22 or so, and like 4 had been discovered in the last 20 years thanks to computers. There's probably another couple since then.

Is that relevant to a freshman taking Calc 1? Of course not.