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Donald Trump has won a lot of national support for his position that "anchor babies" are not U.S. Citizens. https://www.yahoo.com/politics/birthright-citizenship-where-the-2016-127093585661.html
Despite their appetite for socialism and socialist engineering of U.S. Demography, I think it is fair to say that few if any the Radical Republican Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment ever dreamt of or envisioned a situation where millions of "huddled masses" and "wretched refuse " types of people would come to America just to have babies to enroll in schools and obtain other welfare entitlements.
No, the purpose of the Fourteenth Amendment was to create a national standard for citizenship and civil rights, and to abolish the notion that the States of the United States were equivalent to the "States" who obtain membership in the United Nations.
State citizenship was the weakest point of Cousin Abraham's Northern policy during the War: while many Radical Republicans wanted to call Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis, and every other Confederate Officer and Politician, a "traitor", these charges simply would not stick for one single reason. From 1776-1868, the individual states were the ones which established and determined citizenship, and so Lee was right to think of himself as a Virginian (about a 10th or 12th generation Virginian, in fact) by both the doctrines of ius solis and ius sanguinis. Jefferson Davis might have been born in Kentucky, but he was a "naturalized" Mississippian. Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard was a 6th or 7th generation Louisianian, like Lee, either by ius solis or ius sanguinis.
So Lee and Beauregard were unquestionably citizens of their own home states, and NOT of the United States. They might have been employed in the armies of the United States, or, like Davis, also officers of the United States Government in its legislative (Senate) and Executive Branches (where Davis was Secretary of War).
But by every pre-War understanding, the Confederate leaders were not CAPABLE of betraying a Country WHICH NEVER EXISTED. Like the States they belonged to, the Confederate Leaders could resign from the service of the Union, but in no legal or moral sense could they be called "traitors" to it, because (at least before 1868) the UNION WAS NOT A SINGLE SOVEREIGNTY. Yes, indeed, quite simply, there WAS no such thing as "United States citizenship" prior to the Fourteenth Amendment—just a very generalized "American" citizenship which dependent on the collaboration and contribution of the ratifying states. And that is why "Birth of a Nation" (by D.W. Griffith) was so correctly named: a collection of closely cooperating and allied free nation-states (small Jeffersonian Democracies) went to war with each other in 1861, and they were, afterwards, at gunpoint, forced into one single new country.
This was the debate that framed Barack Hussein Obama's Presidency—so long as he could convince (fool?) a majority of the people into believing he was born in Hawaii, he was eligible, under the ius solis doctrine of the 14th Amendment, to be President. But if a ius sanguinis standard should be applied, Obama's rather famous Kenyan father stood as an absolute obstacle to his eligibility. So as Dinesh D'Souza had shown in his brilliant movie Obama 2016, Obama's goal as President was absolutely to abolish both the identity and nature of American society and culture. Now the 44th President effects this transformation largely through emotionally manipulative lies and psychological manipulation, rather than democratic process or law.
But, indeed, the language of the Fourteenth Amendment's "citizenship" clause is clear enough in making "soil" more important than "blood," and has been consistently applied by the Supreme Court for over a hundred years to mean that literally anyone born in the United States, for any reason, automatically is an American Citizen. This is obviously a disaster for the Country and many have written about it, including the mad Texan elf of Clearwater, Florida, Robert M. Hurt, Jr.:
Trump Is Right: Anchor Babies Do Not Rightfully Become US Citizens
What Hurt proposes is essentially changing the law by reinterpreting the law, and this often does not work so well—and could in fact be described as the source of much of modern America's woes—allowing the Supreme Court to say that night is day and day is night is getting old, 62 years after Earl Warren became Chief Justice, 113 after Oliver Wendell Holmes brought Massachusetts "progressivism" to the Court, paving the way for the New Deal for whose eventual triumph (through popularity over constitutional rigor) Holmes might be considered a kind of Prophet….
Among Holmes' most famous pronouncements is that, "an experiment, as all life is an experiment" (Abrams v. United States, 250 U.S. 616, 630 (1919)). Allowing, or even encouraging, population replacement—the "Browning of America"—is among the left's favorite long-term social goals and experiments, and (admittedly) all of us who oppose the Browning of America are classified by Salon.com, the Huffington Post, and the New York Times, among others, as vile racist reactionaries.
But I can live with that. As far as the way out, though, as far as how White America can preserve itself, I don't think that verbal games such as Robert M. Hurt, Jr., Donald John Trump, and many others will work.
No, I always prefer dealing with issues directly and in taking a "full-frontal" approach. The Fourteenth Amendment resulted from a massive war of Centralization of Power. The only politician in MY LIFETIME who ever addressed the problem directly was San Diego Mayor and later California Governor and Senator Pete Wilson: who directly advocated repeal of the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment during the 1980s. He is almost totally forgotten now, but when I was in Law School, I remember thinking his approach was sound. Repeal of the Citizenship Clause would be clear statement that unlimited immigration and population replacement via "anchor babies" is and ought to be intolerable.
People don't realize it, but prior to the War of 1861-65 between the North and the South, MANY NORTHERN STATES if not most of them, DENIED CITIZENSHIP of any kind to blacks. (the last state to have such a law was Oregon, which literally made it simply illegal to "be a negro" in the State of Oregon— to enter the state at all, under any pretext, was cause for imprisonment, fine, and immediate removal to the state lines upon release.
While "the Underground Railroad" was very famous, you might ask yourself, "if Abolitionist sentiment was so strong in the North, (a) why was the underground railroad "underground" and (b) why did it end up in Canada? The answer is that since Northern States had enacted "no black citizenship" laws, being "free" in most places meant nothing.
The way history is taught and discussed in modern America, it's not always quite clear, but Chief Justice Roger Taney, in Scott v. Sanford was actually adopting a MERGER of both the Northern and Southern positions in his (plurality against Freedom for Slaves by Crossing State Lines) decision in 1857 (every Justice on the Court rendered a Separate opinion in that case).
Justice Taney said that no negro could ever be a citizen of the United States. So he was ALREADY (by usurpation) establishing a Federal rather than a state standard of citizenship—THAT IS WHY THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT WAS ENACTED—the whole War Between the States and 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution can be considered an effort to Overrule the "Dred Scott" ruling— but what many people forget is that Taney had already taken the critical first step by attempting to impose NORTHERN standards of Citizenship NATIONWIDE— ironically, this ruling (if it had been allowed to stand) might well, would almost certainly, have had the bizarre effect of "outlawing" or depriving tens of thousands of free (and many slaveholding) blacks in Louisiana of their citizenship, professional licenses, and right to vote.
So the real problem was Taney's (1857, pre-War) judicial "stealth" transition from allowing STATES to determine Citizenship to his rather clumsy attempt to impose a NATIONWIDE standard for citizenship. The Fourteenth Amendment was the "Radical Republican" answer to this.
Ironic, isn't it?, that when properly understood, the Fourteenth Amendment was just as oppressive to the Northern States as to the Southern States. Northern States could no longer ban black people. (Although the remarkable State of Oregon did not repeal it's African-exclusionary laws until 1926, and only ratified the Fifteenth Amendment until the centennial of that State's admission to the Union in 1959)(Oregon's 1844, pre-state, pre-war position on slavery was that all blacks, free or slave, should be whipped and lashed twice a year until they left the territory).
Former California Governor Pete Wilson, by contrast with both Roger Taney and Donald Trump, understood that and would have returned to the individual states the power to determine citizenship by repeal of the "birth clause" of the Fourteenth Amendment. One can easily imagine, almost too easily, how permitting the states to determine citizenship would be nearly equivalent to allowing secession—because Hawaii, for example, could pass a law decreeing that no "Howlees" (i.e. Anglo-Saxon or other European Whites) could ever be citizens of Hawaii—and so effectively dissolve the ties between that improperly annexed Island State and the rest of "the Union." (Hawaii currently has the most radical and politically "real" and active secessionist movement in the USA).

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Kleiner Perkins partner Mary Meeker published a gigantic 460 page research report this morning, analyzing the entire USA as if it were a company.
"USA Inc," she calls it.
Meeker's verdict: "By the standards of any public corporation, USA Inc.'s financials are discouraging."
"Our review finds serious challenges in USA Inc.'s financials," she writes.
"The 'management team' has created incentives to spend on healthcare, housing, and current consumption. At the margin, investing in productive capital, education, and technology - the very tools needed to compete in the global marketplace - has stagnated."
"In effect, USA Inc. is maxing out its credit card. It has fallen into a pattern of spending more than it earns and is issuing debt at nearly every turn."
Fortunately, Meeker does more than just analyze USA Inc's troubles; she also provides a thorough turnaround plan.
The centerpiece of this turnaround plan is a "focus on revenues."
She touches on a need for USA Inc to trim expenses, but cautions: "while revenue is highly correlated with GDP growth, expenses are less so."
Given that Meeker's spent her professional career in technology, it is no surprise that she makes increasing investment in tech a centerpiece of her turnaround plan.
"Technology plus infrastructure plus education investments drove ~90% of labor productivity growth for past ~30 years," she writes.
"However, USA Inc. has increasingly allocated resources away from productive technology plus infrastructure plus education investment spending toward less-productive entitlement program spending."
This brief summary doesn't do Meeker's comprehensive argument justice. For that, Her turnaround plan really needs to be seen in its full context.


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Pakistan, IMF agree to $5.3 billion bailout
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan and the International Monetary Fund have reached an initial agreement on a bailout of at least $5.3 billion.
Pakistani Finance Minister Muhammad Ishaq Dar and IMF mission chief Jeffrey Franks announced the agreement at a press conference Thursday.
The deal has been approved by the Pakistani government and IMF staffers in the country. It still needs to be approved by IMF officials in Washington and the institution's board of directors.
The $5.3 billion loan will be disbursed over a three year period and will have an interest rate of roughly 3%.
It will be repaid over 10 years after an initial grace period of four years.
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Would You Trust Any Organization That Doesn't Trust 4,000 Of Its Employees? What If It's The NSA?
from the something-wrong-here dept
It's becoming increasingly clear that one of the reasons Edward Snowden was able to access so much secret information -- and walk out of the door with it -- is that the NSA is an organizational mess. A fascinating post by David Ignatius in the Washington Post underlines another way in which the NSA is deeply dysfunctional by any normal standard:
the NSA planned to investigate at least 4,000 of its employees and contractors in 2013, thanks in part to new software that could detect "anomalous" behavior by the workforce.
He goes on to ask an extremely important question:
How do you run an organization where 4,000 of your employees are suspect? I fear that if the NSA tries to impose ever-more stringent controls, this will create even more disgruntled workers and a larger pool of anomalies. A new "Red Scare" may well follow the Snowden revelations, but making every employee a suspect is likely to backfire.
Even the most anodyne of organizations that can't fully trust 4000 of its employees is in big trouble; if it's one that handles some of the most sensitive information in the world, with the potential to save or cost many lives, that lack of trust is a recipe for disaster on a massive scale. And as Ignatius notes, the more the NSA tries to clamp down on people, the more likely it is to create further Edward Snowdens.
Ignatius also points out that the solution is not to close down, but to open up. By reducing drastically the number of things that are deemed secret in the first place, it would be possible to concentrate on protecting just those that really matter:
The beneficiaries in a no-secrets world will be relatively open societies, such as the United States, that are slowly developing a culture of accountability and disclosure for their intelligence agencies, however painful the process may be. The fewer secrets, the less to protect.
Although it's arguable to what extent the US has developed that "culture of accountability and disclosure" for the NSA yet, as President Obama inches towards admitting the scale of the problem here, the rest of the analysis in Ignatius' piece is well-worth reading.
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Marilyn Nistler Schlabach '58 of Fairfield, Ohio went to Rome on a pilgrimage for the canonization of Saint John XXIII and Saint John Paul in April 2014.
Shirley Kruger Bonds '66 of Spanish Fort, Ala. recently married Howard Bonds.
Maribeth Jergens '67 of Strongsville, Ohio has retired from 45 years of private practice counseling, school psychology, school counseling, and special education teaching in Cleveland.
Sandra Marie Heitz '69 of Cincinnati, retires in June 2014 from Our Lady of Visitation School in Cincinnati, after teaching 3rd grade for 45 years.
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Susan Florian Garofalo '76 of Parma, Ohio is a pre-admission testing nurse at Big Creek Surgery Center in Middleburg Heights, Ohio. Daughter Meredith is meteorologist at KEYT Santa Barbara, Calif.; daughter Megan is an early childhood intervention specialist at the Academy of Arts and Sciences, Lorain Ohio; and husband Rick is retired from AT&T and a contract instructor with Ameritraining.
Capt. James W. Cannon III '01 of Reynoldsburg, Ohio ran as a Republican Primary candidate for the 71st Ohio House District in 2014.
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Anti-fascist demonstrators outnumbered far-right supporters more than 20 to one in Denmark as an English Defence League-led attempt to form a pan-European movement was humiliated.
Estimates suggested as few as 160 defence league members from several countries gathered at the inaugural far-right summit in Aarhus for the European counter-jihad meeting, devised to "send a clear message to the leaders of Europe" that Islamism would not be tolerated.
EDL leader Tommy Robinson admitted only 15 supporters from England made the trip, despite earlier speculation that hundreds might attend. By comparison, an anti-fascist demonstration in the same city, to protest against the arrival of the EDL, attracted up to 4,000 people.
Fears of violence had seen local police mount their biggest operation on the Jutland peninsula with the tense atmosphere amplified by the start of the trial this month of Anders Behring Breivik, the far-right extremist and anti-Islamist who confessed to the murder of 77 people in Norway last July.
A cohort of the Norwegian Defence League travelled to Aarhus. Although none condoned Breivik's actions, some said they shared his frustrations. One, who gave his name only as Simon, from eastern Norway, said: "He had some important points. There are people who share his thinking, if not his methods."
The low turnout in Aarhus is in fact the second time the EDL has travelled abroad to try to forge alliances. Its first attempt, in Amsterdam in 2010, was widely dismissed as a "damp squib", attracting about 60 supporters who were met with fierce opposition from Ajax football fans and anti-racist supporters. Robinson, the main attraction at the Aarhus summit, was unrepentant despite even fewer of his followers appearing, saying: "Just wait until there are hundreds of us coming in."
Numerous brief scuffles throughout the day between the two groups led to more than 80 arrests as protesters hurled rocks and bottles at each other.


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* Some characters' appearances were altered to better express their ''Samurai Warriors 3'' characterizations: for example, [[Mitsunari]], [[Kiyomasa]], and [[Masanori]] are all depicted as children in ''Pokémon Conquest'' to reinforce [[Nene]] acting as a mother of sorts to Hideyoshi's retainers.
* Some characters' appearances were altered to better express their ''Samurai Warriors 3'' characterizations: for example, [[Mitsunari]], [[Kiyomasa]], and [[Masanori]] are all depicted as children in ''Pokémon Conquest'' to reinforce [[Nene]] acting as a mother of sorts to Hideyoshi's retainers.
* Almost all of the characters are depicted without their weapons, though some remain if they are not particularly "weapon-like": for example, [[Shingen]] and his iconic war fan, [[Motochika]] and his shamisen, [[Ujiyasu]] and his cane, and [[Okuni]] and her parasol.
* Almost all of the characters are depicted without their weapons, though some remain if they are not particularly "weapon-like": for example, [[Shingen]] and his iconic war fan, [[Motochika]] and his shamisen, [[Ujiyasu]] and his cane, and [[Okuni]] and her parasol.
* Some clan crests are altered to incorporate a Pokémon motif: [[Oichi]]'s costume has a number of
* Some clan crests are altered to incorporate a Pokémon motif: [[Oichi]]'s costume has a number of Poké Ball symbols where the Azai clan crest was in her ''Samurai Warriors 3'' costume, while Yukimura's costume has Poké Balls as part of the Sanada clan crest instead of coins.
Similarly, the choice of Perfect Link Pokémon for a given Warlord may be influenced by their ''Samurai Warriors 3'' personality or moveset:
Similarly, the choice of Perfect Link Pokémon for a given Warlord may be influenced by their ''Samurai Warriors 3'' personality or moveset:
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Pokémon Conquest (Japanese: ポケモン+ノブナガの野望 Pokémon + Nobunaga's Ambition) is a spin-off crossover between the Pokémon and Nobunaga's Ambition series of games, a first for the franchise. It was released in Japan on March 17, 2012, in North America on June 18, 2012, in Australia on June 21, 2012 and in the United Kingdom on July 27, 2012.
Following a series of news regarding surprising announcements from both Jump Festa 2012 and the first issue of CoroCoro magazine in 2012, the game was revealed on December 17, 2011, at the Jump Festa event itself, with the official site launching soon after.
The game takes place in the Ransei region. Various Pokémon from the first five generations appear in this game. The game is Nintendo DSi enhanced.
The game has received a manga adaptation.
- 1 Development
- 2 Gameplay
- 3 Plot of The Legend of Ransei
- 4 Blurb
- 5 Characters
- 6 Stories
- 7 Kingdom events
- 7.1 Messenger
- 7.2 Professor
- 7.3 Traveling merchant
- 7.4 New Year's celebration
- 7.5 Weather
- 7.6 Farmers
- 7.7 Cold
- 7.8 Hay Fever
- 7.9 Attractive kingdom
- 7.10 Full kingdom
- 7.11 Stolen item
- 7.12 Stolen Pokémon
- 7.13 Training trip
- 7.14 Losing a battle
- 7.15 Disappearing Pokémon
- 7.16 Dissatisfied Warriors
- 7.17 Warriors not in battle
- 7.18 Strengthened opposing armies
- 7.19 Four guardians
- 8 Passwords
- 9 Reception
- 10 Staff
- 11 Trivia
- 12 External links
- 13 References
Pokémon Conquest was the second collaboration between Nintendo and Tecmo Koei, with the first being the Murasame Castle mode in Samurai Warriors 3. Because Tsunekazu Ishihara was a fan of Nobunaga's Ambition and Tecmo-Koei president Kou Shibasawa was a fan of Pokémon, this presented an opportunity to work with each other. Among one of the key design elements of Ransei was the fact that the first Nobunaga's Ambition game featured 17 regions, just as there were 17 different Pokémon types at the time. Among Koei's game franchises, this is the first collaboration effort for Nobunaga's Ambition; all previous collaborations had been through the Warriors series (though a true Nintendo-themed Warriors game would not arrive until Hyrule Warriors years later). In deference to this, character designs for Pokémon Conquest were primarily taken from Samurai Warriors 3 as opposed to a Nobunaga's Ambition game.
For Pokémon Conquest, each of the Warlords' initial (Rank I) costumes are based on their default costumes from Samurai Warriors 3, and an original costume when they rank up to Rank II. (The exceptions are Nobunaga, where this is reversed; and Hideyoshi, whose Rank I and Rank II costumes are taken from Samurai Warriors and Samurai Warriors 3 respectively, while his Rank III costume is original.) There are some minor modifications in character appearances and costumes between the two games, however:
- Some characters' costumes were altered to better associate them with their Perfect Link Pokémon: for example, Motonari's hair was turned green to better resemble Servine, while Kunoichi's outfit became primarily black instead of white, in order to better associate her with Sneasel.
- Some characters' appearances were altered to better express their Samurai Warriors 3 characterizations: for example, Mitsunari, Kiyomasa, and Masanori are all depicted as children in Pokémon Conquest to reinforce Nene acting as a mother of sorts to Hideyoshi's retainers.
- Almost all of the characters are depicted without their weapons, though some remain if they are not particularly "weapon-like": for example, Shingen and his iconic war fan, Motochika and his shamisen, Ujiyasu and his cane, and Okuni and her parasol.
- Some clan crests are altered to incorporate a Pokémon motif: Oichi's costume has a number of Poké Ball symbols where the Azai clan crest was in her Samurai Warriors 3 costume, while Yukimura's costume has Poké Balls as part of the Sanada clan crest instead of coins.
Similarly, the choice of Perfect Link Pokémon for a given Warlord may be influenced by their Samurai Warriors 3 personality or moveset:
- Motochika's attacks are primarily based on the water element in Samurai Warriors 3, hence his pairing with Dewott.
- Kanbei's appearance resembling a ghost in some side story missions is the inspiration behind his pairing with Lampent.
- Tadakatsu's reputation of being the Samurai Warriors series' unbeatable foe is the inspiration of pairing him with Dialga.
Of the Samurai Warriors 3 cast, only four characters (Nagamasa Azai, Katsuie Shibata, Sakon Shima, and Toshiie Maeda) are not also present in Pokémon Conquest.
Pokémon Conquest features a turn-based strategy battle system. Up to six Pokémon on each side are positioned on the battlefield, one for each participating Warrior, and both sides take turns moving and attacking with their Pokémon. Each Pokémon has a single move. A battle is won or lost when the engaging army manages or fails to achieve the victory conditions, which vary by location, within a numbered amount of turns, which also vary by location. When a battle is fought, the strength of the link (which is this game's analogy to experience points) between participating Pokémon and their respective Warriors will usually increase. Battles can be fought in wild Pokémon kingdom locations, or against other kingdoms, which are conquered upon victory. Free Warriors (including Warlords) can be recruited to the player's army if they are defeated in a way that meets one of several recruitment criteria.
Pokémon in the game can grow in strength by increasing their link with their Warrior. A Pokémon's move will strengthen as the link increases, signified by +1 (20% link), +2 (40% link), +3 (60% link), +4 (80% link), or +S (100% link), being added to the move's name. Depending on how well matched a pair is, the maximum value of the link between the two varies, with most Warriors only able to achieve a 100% or Perfect Link with a single species of Pokémon. Aside from growing more powerful, Pokémon may evolve when their link reaches a high enough percentage, though there are also Pokémon which evolve through other conditions such as the use of specific items. Warriors can also establish links with Pokémon other than the one they started with, though only one can be used by each Warrior in a given battle at a time. Certain Warriors will have a more difficult time finding their Perfect Link than others, as some Pokémon only appear on special, random occasions. However, through the use of a password these Pokémon can be found much more easily. In the case of legendary Pokémon, which certain Warlords share Perfect Links with, they each have their specific criteria required for appearing.
The game makes use of the seventeen Pokémon types as of Generation V and their respective weaknesses, resistances, and immunities. Pokémon also have various Abilities, many the same as in the main series games, and many unique new additions. Warriors also have Warrior Skills that can be used once per battle, which have various effects such as powering up or healing Pokémon. Warriors can also equip items, which can provide additional effects such as stat increases or in-battle effects.
Aside from battling, Warriors can perform other actions within their kingdom, such as buying items at the Shop and mining for gold. However, Warriors can only make one action per month. This means a Warrior who is picked to buy from a Shop cannot be chosen to battle or mine for gold afterwards, as they have used up their action for the month, and the same is said for any other executed action. In the case of purchasing from Shops, the action only counts if the player actually buys or sells something, meaning that one can browse without using up the turn. Besides Shops and mines, various other locations are available per kingdom, such as Ponigiri Shops. Feeding a Pokémon these will increase its Energy. Warriors can also battle at wild Pokémon kingdom locations or neighboring enemy kingdoms. A maximum of 6 Warriors can be present in one kingdom, and Warriors can be transported between the player's kingdoms.
Also, instead of using up every Warrior's turn, the player can choose to delegate a kingdom by picking one of three options: Train (increase link), Search (recruit more allies), or Develop (increase gold and spend on leveling kingdom locations up). All Warriors who have not used up their action during the month by the player will automatically Train, Search, or Develop at the end of the month. All kingdoms the player controls, besides the player's main kingdom, can be delegated.
Random kingdom events will also occur at times. Some events may occur depending on the player's current funds or an item in the inventory. Sometimes bandits will steal an item or a Warrior's Pokémon, or a traveling merchant may arrive selling rare items. Weather is another occurrence that may raise the Energy of Pokémon depending on their type; for example, a heat wave raises the Energy of Fire-type Pokémon. Kingdom events which occur at the start of a month, such as buying items from a traveling merchant, do not use up a Warrior's action for the month.
Players may save their progress at any point in time during single-player mode, even during a battle.
Muliplayer mode
There is also a multiplayer local wireless mode in which two players may battle each other. In this, the host can decide to place no limit on the Pokémon's link (in which case, the highest registered value in the Gallery is chosen), or can choose to restrict the maximum link between 10-100, in multiples of 10. The host also chooses the battlefield, and allocates whether the player will attack or defend (the host can also choose "random", in which case, the player is randomly assigned to attack or defend.)
Plot of The Legend of Ransei
|Spoiler warning: this article may contain major plot or ending details.
Legend has it that the one who will be able to conquer all seventeen kingdoms of Ransei will bring the return of the region's creator. Players begin in the story known as The Legend of Ransei.
The player (as either the Hero or Heroine) starts off in the nation of Aurora with their partner Eevee, having just become the most recent Warlord. They then meet up with Mitsunari, Kiyomasa, and Masanori, who taunt the player, stating that they aren't ready to be a Warlord. At this point, two Warriors from the neighboring nation of Ignis quickly challenge the player to battle. Oichi joins in the battle to support the player.
After defeating the duo, Oichi relays the details of the legend of Ransei, and sets the player off on a quest to unite the 17 nations. The player first challenges Hideyoshi's nation of Ignis, then moves on to battle Motonari in Greenleaf and Motochika in Fontaine. Along the way, the player learns how to recruit other Warlords and link with wild Pokémon.
From there, the player is able to conquer Violight, led by Ginchiyo; Chrysalia, led by Yoshimoto; and Pugilis, led by Yoshihiro. At this point, the nations of Terrera and Illusio, led by Kenshin and Shingen respectively, become available for conquering. However, when the player goes to challenge one of them, they will not accept the challenge, stating that the player is not yet ready to face them, and turn the player's forces back. At this point, whichever nation the player went to will send forces back to the nation in which the player resides (either Pugilis or Chrysalia), and the player must defend their nation from the attack.
Upon a successful defense, the player will undergo a Warrior transformation, allowing them to successfully challenge the nation. After defeating either Kenshin or Shingen's forces, both will join the player on their quest to unite the nations. At this point, Nobunaga himself appears before the player, stating his own aims to conquer Ransei (and in doing so, debates with Oichi, who is revealed to be his sister, about his goals).
Following this, the player can then conquer the nations of Cragspur, led by Ujiyasu; Avia, led by Masamune; Viperia, led by Nene; and Yaksha, led by Kotarō. Upon defeating one of these nations, Keiji will appear and give the player three evolutionary stones—the Fire Stone, Water Stone, and Thunderstone—which will allow the player to evolve their Eevee into Vaporeon, Jolteon or Flareon if they so choose.
After defeating the rest of the area's Warlords, the three nations of Nobunaga's highest aides will appear: Spectra, led by Nō; Valora, led by Ieyasu; and Nixtorm, led by Mitsuhide. Upon defeat of these three, the final nation, Dragnor, appears, and the player is able to battle Nobunaga himself.
Upon conquering the final nation, a cutscene will play in which several pillars of light shoot out from across the nation and converge on a tower in Dragnor. When the player enters the tower, they find the legendary Pokémon Arceus awaiting them. Arceus tells the player to link with it, and the battle begins. When the player successfully links with Arceus, Nobunaga appears and reveals that he planned all along for this to happen. He secretly wanted to get Arceus appear so that he could strike it down and prove to the region that the legend was unimportant. Nobunaga, along with Nō, Ieyasu, Mitsuhide, Hideyoshi, and Ranmaru, then challenge the player's party to the final battle.
Upon defeating Nobunaga, the player brings peace to the land of Ransei, allowing each Warlord leader to rule their respective nations once again. Arceus goes off, telling the player it will appear again when the time is right.
Warlords and Pokémon unite to conquer the land!
- Main article: List of Pokémon Conquest characters
In Pokémon Conquest, players take control of Warriors' Pokémon. Each Warrior in the game, excluding the Hero/Heroine, is based on someone from Japanese history, with several notable ones portraying Warlords in the game. There are also multiple non-playable characters, with unique character designs, such as the Messenger or the male Farmer.
- Main article: List of Pokémon Conquest stories
After the first story, The Legend of Ransei, eight other stories are unlocked, allowing the player to play through several different stories as different characters. Each episode has a specific goal that must be complete in order to clear it, ranging from uniting the region to defeating a certain number of Warlords to collecting a certain number of Pokémon. Notably, the player won't be allowed to replay The Legend of Ransei despite being able to replay all other stories. Instead, players can only unlock a final story after clearing any 33 stories. This story is an altered version of the first story.
Downloadable stories and events
In addition to the above stories, several more may be unlocked via Wi-Fi. Much like missions from Ranger Net, the stories require unlocking. Events are also available through Wi-Fi, and these events can only happen during certain stories.
|The Free Spirit's Path
|March 24 to April 13, 2012
|North America
|July 12 to December 31, 2012
|A Date With Destiny
|April 14 to May 11, 2012
|North America
|July 27 to December 31, 2012
|A Fate Born of Beauty
|May 12 to June 8, 2012
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|July 2 to December 31, 2012
|Motochika and Motonari
|March 17, 2012 to May 19, 2014
|North America
|June 18 to December 31, 2012
|Hideyoshi and Reshiram
|March 31, 2012 to May 19, 2014
|North America
|August 13 to December 31, 2012
Kingdom events
Certain events can occur in kingdoms at random or when certain conditions are met that will affect gameplay. These events are predetermined several months in advance. Not all events are available in every story.
A Messenger will sometimes appear at the start of the month. The Messenger will alert the player when there is an approaching invasion, when there is a rare Pokémon appearing in a kingdom, and when certain kingdom events appear.
A Professor will offer advice about basic game mechanics once every story during May of Year 1.
Traveling merchant
One of the traveling merchants may visit, offering a large selection of rare items. These merchants have higher prices but offer evolution items as well as high quality supplies.
New Year's celebration
If the player owns Fireworks, a New Year's celebration will be held in January of the new year. This will strengthen the link between Warrior and Pokémon in all kingdoms the player rules over.
Rainstorms, snowstorms, or heat waves can appear in kingdoms. They will be signified by an icon of a rain cloud, snowflake, or a sun appearing over the affected kingdoms. They will maximize the Energy of Water, Ice and Fire-type Pokémon respectively in those kingdoms.
Sometimes one of the Farmers will show up and ask for a monetary donation of 1000, 2500 or 5000. If the player donates to the farmers three times, they will hold a festival the month after the third donation to thank for the support. This will maximize the Energy of Pokémon in the main kingdom. The farmers will also give the player three rare gift items, with the rarity of the item increasing with larger donations. Donations of 1000 will yield items available in Lv. 2 Shops. Donations of 2500 will yield items available in Lv. 3 Shops. Donations of 5000 will yield single-use held items and equipment that can only be bought from the traveling merchant. The amount donated the third time determines the rarity of items received.
If the farmers are rejected three times, the farmers will rebel and decrease the Energy of Pokémon present in the main Warlord's kingdom by three levels.
Warriors may be affected by a cold which will render the Warriors unable to perform any actions. The cold may last several months and can spread to Warriors in adjacent kingdoms. Colds can be cured with Cold Medicine.
Hay Fever
Warriors may be affected by hay fever which will render the Warriors unable to perform any actions. The hay fever may last several months. Hay fever can be cured with Hayfever Pills.
Attractive kingdom
Warriors from other kingdoms will visit one of the player's kingdoms where they can be battled and recruited.
Full kingdom
When the number of Warriors in the player's army reaches a certain number, the Warriors will celebrate and the Energy of their Pokémon will increase by three levels.
Stolen item
A gang of bandits may steal an item belonging to the player's army, and must be defeated in order to recover the stolen item.
Stolen Pokémon
A gang of thieves may kidnap a Princess's Lilligant, and must be defeated in order to receive a reward item from the Princess. In the event that the player does not manage to defeat the gang of thieves, or simply let them escape without battling, the Princess will still get her Lilligant back. However the thieves will retain the reward item.
Training trip
A Warrior in the player's army may ask for permission to go on a training trip, after which (if permission is granted) he or she will be absent for several months. If the Warrior travels with a Pokémon with a Perfect Link, the Warrior will send the player letters while gone. Along with the letter, the Warrior will also send a rare item which cannot be bought from Shops (such as Razor Claw and Ornate Helmet). After several months, the Warrior will return with his or her Pokémon, with their Link increased by 15%, rounded down.
If the Warrior travels with a Pokémon which does not have a Perfect Link, the Warrior will not send letters and will come back early with a new Pokémon met and linked with during the trip.
Losing a battle
When a battle is lost, a Warrior may go on a trip without permission from the player. The Warrior will return some time later with three rare items.
Disappearing Pokémon
A Pokémon that shares a 100% link with its Warrior may briefly disappear, returning with one or more items.
Dissatisfied Warriors
When the player does not use a recruited Warrior in a kingdom for a certain number of months, the Warrior will become dissatisfied and an angry face will appear on their profile page. Once they are used in the kingdom, the angry face disappears during the next month. If the recruited Warrior isn't used for a few months after the angry face appears, the Warrior will leave the army.
Warriors not in battle
Warriors that have not been used in a battle against an opposing army for a while may assist in war efforts by giving 3 Max Potions, Sylph Wings, Siren Songs, Double Plays, Twice Luckys or Winged Boots.
Strengthened opposing armies
When the player has conquered at least half of the available kingdoms and the strength of the player's army is considerably higher than opposing armies, civilians from opposing nations will notice and the strength of their army will increase. This may involve an Officer with a Gabite, who will considerably strengthen the armies of nations adjacent to the player's kingdoms.
In a similar yet distinct event, when the strength of the player's army is higher than opposing armies, all enemy kingdoms will have their strength increased to a small extent.
Four guardians
When the player has conquered at least half of all available nations, four Warriors including Warlords are made guardians of one stat each (Power, Wisdom, Charisma, and Capacity), appointed to the Warrior with the highest values for each particular stat. This maximizes the Energy of their Pokémon, and prevents them from leaving the army.
Certain Pokémon will appear in one kingdom the month after their password is typed in the Password section. After a password is used, it may not be used again unless save data is cleared. However, some Pokémon, such as Pikachu, have multiple passwords, which allow for more than one appearance. This is due to passwords occupying one of 64 slots. When a slot is taken up, a password that would use that slot cannot be used.
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Gaming magazine Famitsu has given Pokémon Conquest a score of 34/40, praising how it was easy for children to understand along with its high replay value. In addition, Nintendo Power magazine gave the game a rating of 9/10, citing its engaging and elaborate gameplay and also noting that it was simple enough to pick up for newcomers to the tactical RPG genre. IGN rated the game an "Amazing" 9.0/10.[5] It holds a rating of 81.97% on GameRankings, based on 29 reviews.[6]
Japanese sales
Pokémon Conquest sold 172,027 units on its first week on the Japanese market, with a sell-through of 58.43%. By December 29, 2013, the end of its 94th week, it had sold 345,374 copies.
|Week ending
|Units sold
|Total units sold
|March 18, 2012
|March 25, 2012
|April 1, 2012
|April 8, 2012
|April 15, 2012
|April 22, 2012
|April 29, 2012
|May 6, 2012
|May 13, 2012
|May 20, 2012
|May 27, 2012
|December 30, 2012
|December 29, 2013
- Main article: Staff of Pokémon Conquest
- This is the only Pokémon game since Hey You, Pikachu! to only be released in Japanese and English.
- Had this game not existed, the game Tokyo Mirage Sessions ♯FE would have been proposed as a Fire Emblem/Pokémon crossover game instead. [7]
External links
- Official PDF-file manual for Pokémon Conquest (English)
|This article is part of Project Sidegames, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on the Pokémon Sidegames.


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The Strand was a mid-sized movie theatre located in the Strand Building in downtown Haverhill. It was at one time operated by Charles Morse theatres of Boston. Further information welcomed.
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There is a MGM Theatre Photograph and Report form for the Strand in Haverhill with an exterior photo dated April 1941. The entrance was in the right half of a 3-story building called the Strand Building. The left half was occupied by a Liggett's Rexall drugstore. The Strand had a half-round semicircular marquee. A movie with Joan Blondell was playing; also a Charlie Chan movie. The Report states that the Strand is on Main St., but someone crossed that out and wrote in "135 Merrimac St." The Report says that the Strand has been showing MGM films for "over 10 years", but then says that it's "under 10 years old". The condition is Fair, and it had 835 seats on the orchestra floor and 555 in the balcony, total: 1,390 seats. In the 1942-43 Motion Picture Almanac, the Strand is listed under Charles Morse theatres of Boston.
I recall seeing double features at the Strand for $.25 – all those wonderful '50s musicals!! It was on Merrimack Street, close to the foot of Howe St. (Candy counter was on the left as you walked in!)
The Strand is listed in the 1927 Film Daily Yearbook as having 1346 seats and open daily. Of the 4 Haverhill movie theaters listed in the 1927 FDY, the only one not found here in Cinema Treasures is the Academy, with 1400 seats, open daily.
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26-year-old Jamaal Sampson of Danville was pronounced dead just before 6 am at Presence United Samaritans Medical Center. An autopsy performed (Saturday) revealed Sampson died as the result of a single gunshot wound.
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Malibu, Calif. - The top-ranked Pepperdine men's volleyball team rode a 13.5-5.0 advantage in blocks to a 3-1 victory over No. 4 UC Santa Barbara in a Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) Tournament semifinal match Thursday at Firestone Fieldhouse.
Top-seeded Pepperdine (26-1), which won its 23rd consecutive match, took the opening set 30-23 before UCSB (20-12), the fourth seed, hit .594 in the second frame to win by a score of 30-24. The Waves won the following two games 30-26 and 30-20.
Pepperdine advances to take on the winner of the BYU/UC Irvine match in the MPSF Championship on Saturday, April 28. The winner of that match earns an automatic bid to the NCAA Championships May 3-5 at Ohio State.
In a battle between the two best opposite hitters in the nation, UCSB senior Evan Patak finished with a match-high 26 kills on .259 hitting. He also added five digs, three blocks, a service ace, and a match-best 28.5 points. Pepperdine's Paul Carroll amassed 22 kills and hit .381 while chipping in with eight digs, three blocks, and 23.5 points. Entering the match, Patak led the nation in kills, aces, and points and Carroll was second in kills and points and fourth in aces.
Patak, playing in his final career match, finished three kills short of becoming UCSB's all-time leader in that category. Donny Harris racked up 2,114 kills between 1994 and 1997. With his 26 smacks tonight, Patak ended with 2,112.
The Gaucho middle hitters were effective as Theo Brunner had 15 kills and two blocks and David Kennedy had nine kills and three blocks. Brunner hit just .324, but his season mark of .531 is a new school record.
Libero Tyson Norton led UCSB defensively with seven digs. Setter Bart Kowalski totaled 46 assists.
Pepperdine had three players with double-digit kills. Joining Carroll was J.D. Schleppenbach with 18 and Greg Gaudino with 13. Schleppenbach did it all as he had 10 digs and seven blocks, both match-highs. Gaudino and Tom Hulse each had six blocks and setter Jonathan Winder, the MPSF Player of the Year, totaled 59 assists.
UCSB entered the match with a .365 team hitting percentage, but hit just .299 against the Waves. Pepperdine swung at .402 as Hulse hit .643 and Gaudino was at .571.
The match featured several long rallies and unbelievable digs by both teams. Down by eight points at 23-15 in the third game, the Gauchos mounted a run that nearly gave them the game. Two Pepperdine errors and a kill by Patak forced the Waves to take a timeout. The momentum stayed with UCSB after the break as Michael Fisher one-armed a ball that came straight down off of the low ceiling for a kill. After kills by Schleppenbach and Kennedy, three consecutive hitting errors by Pepperdine brought UCSB within one point at 24-23. Winder and Fisher then traded kills before the Waves tallied two straight points on a Gaudino kill and a triple block by Carroll, Schleppenbach, and Gaudino, giving Pepperdine a 27-24 advantage. Two UCSB service errors the rest of the way helped give the set to the Waves.
Pepperdine has won the last four meetings between the two squads, dating back to last season. It was the first time that UCSB and Pepperdine had met in the MPSF Tournament. The Gauchos are now 1-5 all-time in league semifinal matches.


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At least two people were reportedly shot and injured near the Millington Navy Base on Thursday in Tennessee, north of Memphis. The suspect is now in custody, and the lockdown has since been lifted. The shooter and both victims are all National Guardsmen, according to police.
The victims are in "non-critical" condition, and a Navy spokesperson told CNN that the two people wounded in the shooting were taken to local hospitals. Spc. 1st Class William Jamieson said to CNN that the shooting occurred at a Tennessee National Guard office, which is across the streetfrom the base itself. There were initially conflicting reports on how many people were shot — earlier accounts indicated that four were shot in the incident.
The shooter may have been recently relieved of duty from the base — one eyewitness said he saw police apprehend a while male wearing a uniform. NBC reports that the shooter and the two victims were in an argument before one pulled a small handgun on the other two. One victim was shot in the foot, the other in the leg.
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Democrats' first ad has old theme: Rick Scott and Medicare fraud
The Florida Democratic Party's first TV spot of the 2014 governor's race airs this week and attacks Gov. Rick Scott over an old weakness: Medicare fraud.
"Maybe you've heard about what was the largest Medicare fraud in history, committed when Rick Scott was a CEO," says the ad. "Or that Scott's company paid record fraud fines of $1.7 billion."
The commercial is similar to those that appeared in the 2010 elections when Scott's Republican rival, Bill McCollum, and his then Democratic opponent, Alex Sink, wanted to ensure that voters knew about the 1997 fine paid by Columbia/HCA, a hospital company Scott built.
The Democrats' ad, announced during the week that the statewide candidates qualify for office, serves as another campaign milestone as well as an indication of the extreme negativity in store for Floridians through November.
The Republican Party of Florida responded by calling out former Gov. Charlie Crist, the Democratic front-runner in the governor's race, for receiving financial support from convicted Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein and for appointing Jim Greer, convicted in an unrelated fraud scheme, to head the state GOP when Crist was still a Republican.
When asked whether he needs to explain to voters what happened at Columbia/HCA, Scott attacked Crist, calling him "a mudslinger."
"Charlie Crist doesn't have a record to run on. While he was governor, we lost 800,000 jobs. He left me with a $3.6 billion budget deficit," said Scott. "So, this is what he's going to do. He's a professional politician. He's a mudslinger. This is what he's going to do."
The Scott campaign and the state GOP are focusing on the more recent past: the hundreds of thousands of Florida jobs created while Scott was in office compared with the hundreds of thousands of jobs lost between 2007 and 2011 under Crist.
Scott has now spent more than $13 million on TV already, about half dedicated to bashing Crist, who can't afford to respond yet.
The Democrats' ad buy isn't immediately clear. It's supposed to be "six figures," one Democrat says. A statewide ad buy usually has to be $1 million a week to take effect. Democrats say they'll ramp up to spend more in the coming weeks.
This spot is set to air in the three media markets where Scott has spent the most: Tampa Bay, Orlando and West Palm Beach.
The Miami-Fort Lauderdale media market is too expensive and too Democratic for Democrats to advertise here now. But the fact that the spots are going up in Tampa Bay, Crist's home base, indicates that Scott's spending has paid off, and they need to try to keep the incumbent polling below 45 percent.
Ever since Scott took office in 2011, his poll numbers have been poor and tenuous for an incumbent presiding over an improving economy. It's partly a legacy of the Medicare-fraud story that Scott's opponents burned into the mind of the electorate.
In 2010, Scott got fewer votes than the five other statewide office holders — all Republicans — including U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, who fought a de facto three-way race with Crist (then a struggling independent) and Democratic Miami Congressman Kendrick Meek.
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The ad makes sure to mention how Scott pleaded his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination amid the federal investigation of Columbia/HCA. The ad highlights that as well.
In the commercial, the video footage of a young Scott testifying comes from yet another deposition in another lawsuit, involving Central Florida hospitals.


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Shirley MacLaine forced herself to struggle through scenes in the wet and windy English countryside while filming hit period drama "Downton Abbey" after watching her British co-stars soldier on through the adverse weather conditions.
The movie veteran has joined the cast of the U.K. series as American socialite Martha Levinson, and while she has enjoyed working with the likes of Dame Maggie Smith, Hugh Bonneville and Michelle Dockery, she was surprised at how unaffected they were by the wintry weather.
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Can you Mountain bike better by riding and/or racing more? I sure thought so and it worked for a few years! I realize you might not have any competitive ambitions but bet you want to ride at your best. Wouldn't you like to confidently ride the toughest trails in your area? In Whistler and Moab? This article is for all riders who would like to mountain bike better! Some Advice from an Olympic champion with way less riding and racing time than the competitors she beat!
When I first started mountain bike racing in 1993 I wanted to race every weekend as that is what everyone said would make me faster and better. It kind of worked, I turned pro two years later and I had gotten much faster. Then, the strangest thing happened, I felt like over my first three years in the pro class I barely improved, I hit a plateau despite riding and racing as much as I could. I realized one of the biggest things holding me back was cornering, no one entered corners faster than me but many racers exited a lot faster. So I asked more experienced, faster pro racers how to corner faster and they said things like, "let off the brakes you wuss!" which really didn't help. There had to be an actual technique (like in ski racing and snowboard racing) but no one could teach me and after 10 years of riding at that point I had not managed to just stumble upon the technique. So in my first five years of riding my "skills" seemed to grow by leaps and bounds then just stopped growing in the next five years. This was frustrating!
I which I read this article, "The Secret of Mikaela Shiffrin's Success: Always Practice, Never Compete" when I started riding: http://www.slate.com/blogs/five_ring_circus/2014/02/21/mikaela_shiffrin_sochi_the_secret_to_the_18_year_old_s_success_was_to_practice.html So Mikaela's advice is to practice more, not ride more!
Turns out, riding everyday does make you "better" at first then you quickly reach a plateau as you reach the limit of the habits you have developed. As stated in the books Outliers, The Talent Code, Talent is Over Rated and Mastery just doing something over and over again doesn't make us better. What you need is deliberate practice! Deliberate practice is the opposite of going out and riding out in the wilderness, it is short, focused practice sections with a focus, making mistakes, figuring out why/what mistake you made, correcting it, practice with purpose. This is done in all sports by being coached in the proper, often non-intuitive skills and then doing drills to master those skills! So if you want to ride at your best follow Mikaela advice, invest in solid coaching and practice your way to success. Then you will be able to confidently ride the toughest trails in your area, in Whistler and Moab!
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Continuing ever onward with our raiding adventures, we cross the mountains and head further north until we reach the huge spire known as the the Bastion of Twilight.
Bastion holds just one boss fewer than Blackwing Descent did and is widely regarded as the shorter and easier of the two instances.
The first trouble you're likely to have in the instance is the first set of trash pulls that patrol back and forth down the hallway. The safest way to go about it is to grab one of the groups that moves closest to the entrance and then to pull the aoe packs on the left and right side one by one before moving back to the patrolling groups.
The happy first boss in this place is Halfus Wyrmbreaker.
Halfus has a bunch of dragons around him that may or may not join in the fight depending on what week of the rotation that you're in. Each of the possible adds will grant Halfus a specific buff while inactive and assist your raid in some way if you release them.
While it's completely up to your raid as to which ones to release and which to leave inactive, the big ones that you should watch out for includes the Slate Dragon which will let Halfus stack a Mortal Strike type debuff on the tank which will facilitate a tank switch periodically as the stack gets high.
Another is the Nether Scion which will grant Halfus a 100% increased attack speed bonus and will help alleviate that if you release him with a debuff on the boss.
The Stormrider will grant Halfus a nova type attack that does a knockback and MUST be interrupted. He makes this easier if you release him by tacking on a bit of extra cast time to that spell to make it a bit easier for you to interrupt as it comes.
The Time Warden lets Halfus's dragon breathe fireballs and releasing him will make those fireballs take longer to land while the batch of whelps will let his dragon breathe a fiery cone but also reduce the damage dealt by said dragon.
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JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT was given the seal of approval from CHANNING TATUM for his MAGIC MIKE-inspired skit on SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE.
The Looper star was the celebrity host on the hit U.S. TV sketch show in September (12) and thrilled his female fans by stripping off and gyrating with an umbrella to pop hit It's Raining Men.
Gordon-Levitt is good friends with Tatum, the star of the stripper movie which inspired the comedy skit, who gave his buddy a thumbs-up for the raunchy performance.
Gordon-Levitt tells U.S. talk show host Jay Leno, "We're good friends, we've been in three movies together. He couldn't come, I was going to invite him (to the show) but he was shooting that Saturday night in Montreal. But he emailed me while it was on. In fact he emailed me twice. His first email he was like 'You're killing it' and the second email was 'Humping the floor = amazing'."