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Yes willpower is defensive, except if you use it in combination with light sabres and CM-patch. So boost willpower with the buff and buff gear, do a second boost with x% willpower equipment (which could be light sabres). Never tried how high the damage boost may go, perhaps someone should test it. Shadow warrior with two x% willpower light sabres and Kullgard's_Swedish_Student's_Drinking_Suit. Should nearly double the willpower from buff.

Star_Wars: Added that the Desert_Jazz_Bar looks like the Mos Eisley Cantina. Added that mobilicum and monitor lizard look like the mount of Obi-Wan and General Grevious in their battle in EpisodeIII. Desert_Jazz_Bar: Added that the layout is the one of the Mos Eisley Cantina of Star Wars. Since the Desert Jazz Bar seems to have no name in Sacred2 yet, why not rename it for its Star Wars equivalent?

I think willpower for light sabres may be changed if a willpower build would proof this as overpowered. Dragon mage and shadow warrior have willpower buffs.

The supermarket closest to our place has a quarter of its food department for sugar free, lactose free, gluten free or nut free stuff. And cheese can have a lot of other allergic stuff: there is cheese with nuts, mold cheese, fruits, ... So if the production lines are not carefully cleaned people may get an allergic reaction to nuts even they bought normal cheese. 3 classmates of my daughters suffer from gluten allergy. So at birthday parties it was always which potatoe chips or sweets are free of gluten. Take for example Kinder Chocolate. The company writes on its homepage that it is free of gluten. But only if you buy the normal chocolate bars or Ü-Eier (short for Überraschungseier translates as surprise eggs = Kinder_Surprise available everywhere except USA). If you buy the small Kinderchocolade piece in a bag,then they may contain gluten, because the same machine runs other chocolade variants too. I have only one allergy; I blush and can't breath when I am close to girls. Not all, but the ones which take a certain perfume with stuff from a certain orchid. And it is not triggered by just one breath, but being close for 15 minutes or more. So being forced to leave an opera, theatre or something like this because of a nearby girl using this perfume is not nice. Now my wife pays the cards, saying she is a doc and she may be called out for emergencies so she wants a place close to the door (so way less people around=less risc) to disturb noone. The classmates of my oldest daughter know of my allergy so if they visit us they take another perfume. Soon our second will have to do the same procedure to her classmates I think. When I was 17 I always got an allergic reaction when having chemics at school. So dozens of allergy tests were done, the teacher even changed room when all failed. My allergy was noticed when the girl 2 places away was ill for 2 weeks. No allergy and as soon she was back the allergy was back too. My daughter actually likes my allergy, she takes my allergy-card and asks for perfume probes at shops. She claims that perfume contains are a secret(I would right away sign a law forcing to write all contents on the perfume flask) and she has to do try and error with the probes in case her classmates use a wrong perfume. So she has no need to buy perfume yet.

Whow I got a lesson in lactose intolerance yesterday by my wife while we cleaned the kitchen: There are 2 types of lactose intolerance: primary and secondary. Primary would be genetic and secondary because of a disease. The gen test can rule out a primary intolerance quickly so that the docs can search for secondary reasons or false positives: not milk but for example gluten intolerance caused hydrogen in bowels. My wife says that the gen tests are way cheaper and faster than other tests, so that they are normally done before the other tests. Testing breath for hydrogen is like no eating, no work, no cigarettes for half a day, test takes some hours and man cost for people controlling you during the test are higher. Also if you have a weakened body, kidney problems and stuff like this may cause problems. Another variant is a blood sugar test in certain intervals after drinking lactose or using an endoscope to test the bowel for lactose. Old gen test is just a little blood and new ones just a little rubbing inside your mouth to get cells. But if the gen test shows that you should be tolerant then the other tests have to be done, because there is a high probability of a disease in the digesting system: tropical sprue, Morbus Crohn, ... And another things she said: Stay away from pills if you don't know what you have. The gen tests are just a few years old, so clearance(being allowed/whatever the word is) for other countries might be still pending. And they are mainly for people of european heritage, some parts of asia have a different mutation.

How is the bar named in starwars: Mos Eisley Cantina? I have no Starwars DVD's at home to do screenshots. It was Episode III with this Mantis general on a 'mobilicum' and the jedi on this lizard, or?

These ones were there from beginning I think, but I didn't find them on wiki yet: While looking for x-mas gifts for kids 2009. Somehow the mounts looked like good friends. Starwars Episode III Look at the pictures here: From GSF (German Sacred Forum) : Starwars Bar and compare with: The cave holds the bar from starwars, just without all these aliens. But listen to the background music - at leat in german version.

Did my first edit to the wiki: Shadowy_Catacombs grave inscription: * Welcome to the Potsdam Marketing Department. There are many machines here, although the coffee machine appears to be the only one in use. - Ascaron, who did Sacred, had a bureau in Potsdam (germany). It was planed to centralize marketing. Early press releases about Sacred2 came from there. If you can interpret some bad feelings from the coders towards this bureau is left to the reader. Have to get used to wiki editing. So I made something very very small first

I think I may try it out with spelt flour instead wheat. Is spelt already common in america in bigger amounts? I wrote something about our last self made bread here: Inglenook: day at the baking house I think it is funny that many old corn variants which nearly got forgotten because they contain less energy now become popular again: less energy = more undigestable fibres = better for health. Farmers in our area never stopped growing Dinkel(spelt), Hirse(millet) or Buchweizen(buckwheat). The corn is grown in chopped forests so big machines won't work. So they stayed individual and produced mainly for their families and neighbours. I can get whole cleaned spelt for nearly the same price as whole wheat, so I prefer spelt. With this health wave I think it is time to look for some ancient family recipes again: our feared hessian kitchen suddenly became popular in germany. hand cheese: traditional only 1-5% fat Sauerkraut spelt instead wheat marinated meat ... A corn field in our area looks like this: traditional hauberg farming: A hauberg (hew hill) is a hill with forest. Each year another part of the forest is coppiced. Young trees are cut of their bark (which is used for leather tanning), the leaves are left for fertilizer or cow food, the twigs are used for heating houses or baking houses, the trunks are chopped for charcoal (for nearby steel industry, now for barbescue). The roots remain in the ground and will create new trees more quickly(coppicing). Between this tree stumps corn is sawed. A long variant and not a short one (short ones are optimized for harvest machines, less waste = stray prodced). The long stray can be used to make roofs for houses. So here the modern corn variants never came in big usage. Even the cows are a small breed which reaches back to the celts 2000+ years ago. They were used instead horses, able to feed on tree leaves, cow hooves are better in hilly terrain, cows can give milk,... Many students visit the old haubergs now, because with peak oil wood pellets heating becomes an alternative in countries with less sunshine for solar energy. The old nothing is wasted is discussed for: stray for bio ethanol wood for wood pellets heating Spelt and other old corn variants can be sold for higher prices if declared bio-food. So harvesting with a sickle (high man-cost) is countered by high porices for bio-food. Whow, long speaking for just saying that I plan the recipe with spelt

Just to clear some words (being not a native english speaker): Lactose intolerance is the unability of a body to digest lactose? While 90% of people in africa suffer from it, it is way less in traditional milk producing areas (Buttermilch, Dickmilch, Sauermilch, we have 10 different names for more or less fermented milk). I think it is about 1-2% in our area if only the families which lived there for centuries count. If I remember right then the ability to digest lactose is a mutation. We live north of the limes (roman germanic border wall) so way less intolerance than germans south of it. The 30 year war 1618-1648 had mainly swedish soldiers raiding this area. Swedes are also highly lactose tolerant. Then there is also (cow) milk allergy. Even it is world wide much rarer than lactose intolerance it is same amount of 1-2% in my area. But in this case sometimes you can drink other milk: goat, horse, ... No need for Soya. So if you would live here: If in our region a person gets symptoms of lactose intolerance while not having it before: a gen test for the mutation is done. So they could rule out genetic lactose intolerance. If the mutation is there then it is normally checked for illness/disease of digesting system. So here doctors normaly think people as lactose tolerant. To be sure if you have the gen for lactose tolerance: do a gen test. If you have it, so some more tests what are the reasons for the sudden intolerance. In case of our daughters it was paid by health insurance. Our oldest is 1.93 centimetres and we feared that her size may do bone problems, which would be more problematic if she would be lactose intolerant. But my wife and me proofed to be both TT-types. T is the dominant gen for tolerance so none of our kids will suffer from lactose intolerance and none of our future grandchildren. But we also know that if they show symptoms of intolerance it must be something else. article about gen tests for lactose tolerance

Both versions hit the charts in USA. American soldiers returning from garnisons in germany brought the german version to america and it went on 1 of sales chart and 2 for played at radio. But in great britain only the english version hit the charts.

There are songs like Rap (protest songs) ,emotional songs (first love...) which are more text than music based. But it is easier to follow text in the language you are used too. So many popular english songs don't find a broad audience in countries speaking other languages. Same other way around: text based german songs will never find a way into english countries, just look at the few ones which did: Trio "Da Da Da", Nena "99 Luftballoons", all had to do english versions.

We were running out of Melkfett yesterday. So what is Melkfett? Melkfett (translates milking fat) was used by farmers for centuries, first to make the udders of cows soft at milking. dry udders may lead to little ruptures at milking and may cause infections. They found different uses for the Melkfett too: Untrained riders were smearing it on delicate body parts after riding, advanced riders used it to soften and waterproof saddles, you can use it at dry elbows, dry lips, cold protection in ice storms, light sun protection, ... We use it too to smear it on the red hide parts of our hens once a week (they stay outside even at -15 Celcius), the paws of our dogs before they run on streets which are covered with a mix of ice and salt, as a 'fat glove' before doing dirty work = cleaning pipes of toilets or cutting acidic plants (giant hogweed), ... So we use it a lot and I am used to buy it in 2 litre plastic buckets at a store for farm supply for 6 euro each, normally... But the store is 40 miles away and so we thought it would be easier to ask our second daughter to bring a smaller amount from a drug store till we visit the farm supply store for a bigger shopping again. So she entered a drugstore before she drove home from school with the train. She waited till evening when our younger ones were already sleeping. She gave us a small box with 0.05 litres contain and labeled 3.50 euro and then she said to us: "I do not want to know what you are doing with this, but I was told that I should be careful with this, the fat may soften the rubber of condoms." and then she couldn't stop laughing. Seems the main usage in towns is way different to the one at countryside.

I remember that 1997 the main problem were molds and wood rot. Firefighters and house cleaning companies had not enough 'drying blowers' for all the affected houses. People trying to buy some on their own found sold out shops. People who were living along the river had their own ones since they were used to suffer from floodings (but normally way smaller ones). It were the people in the polder land who feld save from floodings before and had no pumps, drying blowers on their own. Adding to their problems was that the houses there weren't build to stay in water for a longer time. If I recall right 1997 uin germany were more people in hospital because of mold toxines months after the flood than were injured during the flooding. Out of my experience its best to remove the floor boards if they were below water for a longer time. It will speed up drying the house, less danger of molds.

Sorry was quite busy last weeks and my daughters changed to playing Patrician4 (another left over from Ascaron). So ido a bit hard to catch up with the forum again. I set priorities at darkmatters to food recipes first and playing secondary Grave inscription at Shadowy_Catacombs: Welcome to the Potsdam Marketing Department. There are many machines here, although the coffee machine appears to be the only one in use. What it could be: Ascaron founded a daughter company in Potsdam (german town) in 2006 I think, planed to centralize marketing. Early press releases about sacred2 were done there. Potsdam, Germany - August 2, 2007 - Ascaron, a leading German computer game developer, is proud to reveal details.... full text here: Potsdam marketing department But it seems that the developers were the opinion that the marketing department did a bad job, saying that only machine working in the department is the coffee machine: no computers, fax, telephon, copy machines, ... Nearly reads as if developers put a gravestone for their own company in this way.

Ahh, thanks. So Brisbane has a big catchment area which is narrow at ocean. A reason why I a minterested in it personally: When I just started at army we were send to the Oder river flooding 1997. From Wiki: The flood of the Oder River in July 1997 affected Poland, Germany, and the Czech Republic, taking lives of 114 people and causing material damages estimated at $4.5 billion. It was one of the most disastrous floods in the history of Poland, where it was named the Millennium Flood. King Frederick the Great initiated the drainage of the Oderbruch (bruch = brook). The work was carried out in the years 1746-1753, a large tract of marshland being brought under cultivation, said to be a complete province conquered in peace. The dams at the Oderbruch build a system of polder and it was discussed to give up some polder with smaller villages to save the big towns. Blowing certain dams away, so some polder would be flooded, delaying the flood wave so it wouldn't add up with one from a side river. I was in the demolition unit but luckily it ended up for my unit to carry sandbags, even some polder were volunteerly flooded by other units. Was hard to see in the faces of the people in this polder when telling them that the polder may have to be flooded to prevent bigger damage to more people. So I was quite happy when we worked hand in hand with them to save a dam instead blowing it away. Even the re-union was 7 years ago, it was the first time for me in former eastern germany. Former visits to West-berlin were just on isolated transit roads which didn't allow contact to people in eastern germany.

Found one for Adelaide. Seems there are several different names for what we call Wasserscheide(watershed): water divide, watershed, basson, division, catchment, ...

The nature class of my second daughter is doing referats abiut nature disasters: fires, flooding, storms, ... Everyone got a different theme and she got drainage divides, water divides, watersheds or however they are called in english. The one of my area (between rivers Lahn and Dill, northwestern quadrant of map) looks like: A watershed map shows where water from a place will end and it used to predict danger of floodings. If a rain storm happens over a watershed border then the water will be divided into 2 or more rivers. If the rainstorm happens over a single watershed then whole water will end in a single river, higher risc of flooding. So the place of my parents is a bit west of Wetzlar where Lahn and Dill join. So a rain storm which is trapped by mid mountain regions between Lahn and Dill will put all the water to the Lahn river down from Wetzlar. In southeastern quadrant of map is the Vogelsberg (bird mountain), one of the biggest shield vulcanoes in europe. A rainstorm which is trapped at this place will send water to all the rivers in all directions which have a spring at the vulcano. So close to no flooding danger there. What I want to ask: We do hard to find watershed maps of Australia. Is there a big watershed near Brisbane?

No I was speaking about the german kid movie: close to 6 million people in cinema, best selling DVD (compared to all movies sold in germany), but I doubt that anyone outside german speaking countries would have known it. But last I heard was that there will be an american remake. German laws (remains from after war laws done by the allies) forbids showing the Hakenkreuz (cross with hooks, swastika) if it is not needed for historical correctness. Superbeasto is no movie going for historical correctness (it is a cartoon) and would have troubles. So people who know the german laws did strange stuff in their movies like: hooked triangles, reversed swastika, ... The laws sometimes were interpredet in such a way that even satiric or totally different use was forbidden. A student who did papers against nazi's was put to court for using something like the above image. He had the problem that the red in his version was not fully covering the black of the swastika below. The wiki version of the picture is, so I can post it without fear from germany.

Go for it. The last movies I was looking were german ones for kids. So even 2 million germans were seeing it at cinema I doubt that anyone else would know it.

A blonde with an eyepatch in a cartoon: El Superbeasto? I thought this would be only a decade long project by Rob Zombie and no real movie. But on the other side, if I watch movies at cinema it are exclusively kid movies so I may be way behind. Seemed I was wrong: Link with trailer

Having a 3 feet long cute little (?) polar bear in the room of our third daughter, I would say there was a Knut-mania. There is also a series of kid books(1987), a TV series(1992) and a movie(2001) about Lars, The Little Polar Bear. So the story of Knut who wasn't fed by its mother and had to be fed by his personal zookeeper became a Knut-mania because there was already a fundament of people loving little polar bears. Knut was kinda a living version of Lars. So when animal protectors said that it would be better to kill the cub there was an outcry of children. I don't know if it would have been the same in case there would have been no Lars books/TV-series earlier.

Long time since I posted here: Baking house (continued): We had a lot of black ice last weeks. So the old people decided to do an old recipe for bread which I never tried before. They said it would stay fresh for some weeks. So there would be no need to walk to the baking house in case of too much ice. The recipe how I wrote it down, caution big amounts: 1 kilogramm Hirse (millet?) are boiled in 3 litres water. Whole water will be sucked up by the Hirse. Then the hirse has to cooldown. Then 5kg full grain flour from Dinkel (spelt?), 10 cubes of yeast, 100 g salt and 2 litre water are mixed with the cooldowned Hirse. Put the mix in a warm place till the yeast did its job. Then stray some rolled oats on the shaped bread. I was told not really necessary, but better looking. An old baker I asked the other week sayed : old trick to avoid that breads will stick together if the ove nis filled too much. It was enough for 10 breads around 2 pounds each. The baking in the baking house was like 20 minutes hot zone (my infrared temperature sensor from work said 235-240Celcius) and then 40 minutes around 190-195Celcius. They sprayed water into the oven from time to time and used a fork to pierce holes into the bread after around 10 minutes hot zone. It was a very tasty bread, but it didn't last for weeks. 5 hungry kids and winter breaks. Dinkel/Spelt is harvested in our area so we have easy access to it. I hope I can redo the recipe with a baking automat. That was the reason I took the temperature inside the oven. With 3 kids doing sports now there might be too many soccer or hockey games when the baking house is heated on saturday afternoons. I felt a bit guilty with all the high fat recipes I posted and then reading that many suffer from diabetis. My wife told me that this bread is not too bad because the old corn variants are high on dietary fiber.

I think it is all a matter of balance. Even I ate way more on x-mas and new year: I lost 2 pounds. Because playing with kids, working in forest and not in bureau and I think most important enjoying lunch with kids even mid weeks. At work it is often just open mouth, insert calories, close mouth, chew 1-3 times, ... But in winter breaks I eat slower and enjoy eating with the family. So probably a better and earlier feedback when the satiation level is reached. When I read news today: dioxin polluted animal food, warnings not to buy eggs and meat from certain regions, ... I think these warning are more evil than the dioxin itself. If can't be healthy if you can't enjoy eating. Luckily we do most of our food on our own. Invented a new recipe last week: Left overs from new years party. Potatoe sticks spiced with wasabi, the kids considered them way to sharp. So they were put in a salade: field salade (was a lot of work and fun to search for it below all the snow) radices and carrots, cut into discs a bit oil and vinegar sprayed onto the mix a bit sugar, salt and black pepper and finally the wasabi potatoe sticks added to the mix Spicy finger food for kids while watching a movie on DVD while it was ice rain outside. And I think it wasn't too unhealthy.

Nearly whole half metre snow melted in a single afternoon when temperature raised from freezing to 10celcius and heavy and warm rain. Our neighbour villages were lucky, just 8 cellars had to be pumped out. Luckily the flood waves at the river crossings didn't arrived together. so the first wave was already getting weaker when the second started. Our house is near top of hill mid in forest so we still have snow and even melting of the polar ice shouldn't affect us. At my parents the Lahn was filling whole valley till first dam. So from normally being 5 metres broad it went to 230 metres. But no houses except one of a friend on a river island in this valley. The place is located river down from a river crossing with both rivers flooding. The house of my friend is save for flood warning condition 3(=red) +2 metres. This night it was at red +0.80 centimetres at peak level. He lives in the house which is used to operate the river lock at this place. Now Lahn river flood moves towards Rhine. And prediction is that people there are not so lucky, floods summing up.