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https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/strengthening-and-unleashing-americas-law-enforcement-to-pursue-criminals-and-protect-innocent-citizens/ "Sec. 4. Using National Security Assets for Law and Order. (a) Within 90 days of the date of this order, the Attorney General and the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security and the heads of agencies as appropriate, shall increase the provision of excess military and national security assets in local jurisdictions to assist State and local law enforcement. (b) Within 90 days of the date of this order, the Secretary of Defense, in coordination with the Attorney General, shall determine how military and national security assets, training, non-lethal capabilities, and personnel can most effectively be utilized to prevent crime." Also still crying about DEI.

I really liked the idea of the Oblivion gates - in theory. It's one of those things that big open world-making devs like Bethesda seem to always mess up: instead of spending dev time making a smaller amount of higher quality and preferably unique content, what do we do? Copy and paste, boys...copy and paste. According to Google, there are 20 permanent gates that always open throughout the course of the game, but there are another 80 "possible" gates, of which 40 will open. It would've been nice if instead of 20 fixed gates and 40 possible gates, we just have like...10, maybe 15 total, all of which would hopefully be a big deal and be specifically tailored in design.

And so it begins... *COUGH*Andromeda Strain*COUGH*

Ever since I said "RFKJ is probably one of the best people in the administration", it feels like every RFKJ headline I see or hear about is worse than the last. The thing about him being a true believer in his own ideas (as opposed to just another mindless sycophant like the rest of the administration) is that while he might fight for some of his decent ideas like banning food dyes and limiting added sugars to food, he's also going to fight to end water fluoridation, limit access to narcan, and round up autistic and ADHD people to put them into work camps. Great. And treat measles with vitamin R or whatever too, but we already knew about that one. Although I know the liberals aren't great and the conservatives aren't the same as U.S. conservatives, I can't help but think it's a good thing when countries globally stagger out their nationalist parties and candidates...so congratulations to Canada on not electing conservatives.

Where are you reading that? I know MGM made some cuts, but cutting concierge service hardly seems like bankruptcy.

las vegas casino are going into mass bankruptcy is the whole trade war and recession designed to enact revenge against successfully casino as plausible as any other theory

Kudos for the "Death Probe" reference!

we were alive in 1978 when the last soviet venus probe fell back to earth. lee majors is now an octogenarian, but perhaps he can save us this time as well. HA! Good Fun!

Do the Hiravias quest, have him banter with Pallegina about just how birdy her anatomy is and then sacrifice him, and nobody will think you did the wrong thing.

A failed Soviet Venus lander will fall back to Earth after being stranded for 53 years | Space

For my run I use Eder and Pallegina as the two primary frontliners, with Eder being exclusively for tanking and engaging with as many enemies as possible. All other characters are in the rear or the side of the formation. One is a rogue (protagonist), the rest are spellcasters and archers. So far having 2 frontliners seems to be working. I'd say swap Kana with Sagani to gain an additional ranged character and see how this plays out (although Kana is very strong from my experience).

I think I'm just gonna do that. Hiravias is basically permanently benched in this run. Thanks for the help.

Thanks.

They are not different, they just look better graphically. The first one is always fun as a low level noob suddenly plunged into a terrible world. But doing it over and over again was the flaw in the original. I'm pretty sure that will still be a slog.

The Oblivion gates were the lowest point of the original game, and a game filled with low points, to boot. Are they less terrible in the remaster? Recently I've been playing Blue Prince, which is loads of fun.

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Schedule I - I definitely feel like I'd like this game, although it does have a curfew/cops mechanic that is occasionally annoying. It's quite solid/sim addictive for what it is. I'm still just messing with the demo a bit tho. Not sure I'd want to EA it. Another "1 guy" project that (imo) is likely to take a long time to finish, unless they consider it almost finished to begin with. One for the wishlist. They keep updating the demo, too - having options greyed out bothers me not at all for the moment. And of course, still No Man's Sky off and on. They need to add a Freighter to abandoned mode so I can have my orbit-traveling storage and garden base. Don't care about having a "fleet" or "fleet missions" available or flavor NPC's wandering around inside (that just get in your way/glitch out sometimes anyhow), just disable all that for Abandoned mode. There are destroyed/derelict freighter encounters in the game - could pretend the chr. takes one of those and fixes it up just enough to be useful.

There has been no actual update for Manor Lords for a while, but there was this "what we're up to/doing" post recently. I think he/they like to use Discord more than anything else last I knew, so it's nice to see something on Steam. I like these types behind the scenes posts. It's not a "1 man" project anymore, either. https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1363080/view/573753783490708647 And the thought process idea of where the progression nodes/skills will be going finally sounds more full-fledged. Although from a city-build pov, it's starting to sound a little bit over-typical vs. something more unique, if that makes sense. I'm still not really getting a sense of Stronghold+citybuilder like I was hoping, tho. We'll see.

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Wow, cool! I didnt know there were lyrics either.

Elder Scrolls: Obsidian? Hey, I might even play that one.

Man, wow, this is incredible. Lovely

Wow, I'm on my second playthrough, and I just made an incredible discovery. Under a waterfall, I found a Steel Garote camp — and inside, I learned they were planning to burn down the city. I rushed to warn the mayor, and later, when I was leaving the ruins of Naku Tedek (I think that’s the name), I realized the city was not in flames. It was an amazing moment — the world felt completely different compared to my first run. I had thought the destruction was totally unavoidable! Now it makes me wonder... what else did I miss the first time around? This game is incredible. Seriously, seeing how different things turned out was a real "what the hell" moment.

What I'd do if I were you: do the Hiravias quest and then sacrifice him.