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actually, no it doesn't. more deception or ignorance. summary lede label describes the kinda lede. "you're going to need a bigger boat." elderly cuban fisherman loses record-setting marlin to sharks. is not a summary o' old man and the sea anymore than is most o' your not linked and not attributed quotes. heck, you claimed, with your typical ignorant certainty, that, "The first paragraph of an article is always a summary." *chuckle* ledes is, by their nature and limitations, not meaningful summaries. a summary lede hooks and provides essential facts... though again, not all your supplied ledes were summary ledes. and 'course all you have been doing now for multiple posts is the hypocritical sophistry nonsense you complain 'bout--you never provided any genuine support for your conformation other than to state you lifted quotes from search engine results, after which you added a list o' rando quotes sans any attribution or links and no genuine support for how these rando links, by their mere existence, supports your conclusion that western media were active trying to "embiggen" pahlavi... a guy who has shown up 2x in four days based o' the first 60 search engine results each day for iran + protests in spite o' the fact he had an hour long news conference on the 16th... not to mention the fact that anybody reading the articles you did not link or attribute (bad zor) would realize just how equivocal and ambivalent they were insofar as pahlavi's newfound relevance to iranians. heck, we pulled quotes from al jazeera that were functional identical to the western quotes you found meaningful and egregious. "anyone who has completed primary school," would mock your efforts as you did not link or attribute your rando quotes, and you didn't even meaningful support your hasty and overbroad generalization with anything but the list o' rando quotes produced by a search engine. the fact you thinks ledes = meaningful summaries, and your efforts to ignore how your own unattributed sources undermine your conclusion, would be derided by primary school teachers everywhere; again, no primary school teacher would give you passing marks for mindless quoting a lede verbatim as being equivalent o' summarizing an article. primary school teachers would chastise your efforts as lazy and deceptive, though no doubt they would use as a teaching moment regardless o' the scorn and ridicule your efforts deserve. and given that your only support for your initial conclusion following your initial flawed quote-list post is to argue semantics, am guessing the primary school education you received were either substandard or it didn't stick. we lived in chicago, so we got a soft spot for clowns with a daily act, but... am admitted curious to see just how many rakes zor will trip over before one o' us loses patience. HA! Good Fun!

Congress Clown Greg Steube needs to get out of Florida for a bit. Back in December we had three weeks of constantly overcast skies and a lot of fog. Very, very persistent fog. In fact so persistent, that we've gotten less than ten minutes of sunshine from December 1st to Christmas. Three entire weeks it looked like Silent Hill. Nice shot from our office terrace. So yeah, dunno, how long can water vaptor stay in the air given the right conditions? Weeks of cloudy skies? Fog that won't go away for days and days?

That is context. You'd have some sort of point if I'd pulled the quotes from elsewhere in the articles, but I pulled them from the place which every source (other than you) has as a summary giving what the author thinks was the most important facts. As I didn't, you don't. In order for your claims to be relevant you have to show that there's some unique property about Reza Pahlavi that makes articles about him different. We both know you won't, because you can't. I mean, it does, in english, and for news articles. Hence it isn't sophistry from you, it isn't semantics, it's just refusing to concede something which is blatantly obvious and hoping the other person will just give up so you can 'win'.

new florida man entry am placing here 'cause this kinda willful (and quite possible performative) ignorance is increasingly normal in US politics. too many voters believe stoopid and being corrected about their stoopid makes 'em more likely to become angry with smarty-pants experts. people has always been stoopid. the difference is that in the past, people knew they were ignorant about a whole host o' subjects and issues, so they put their trust in experts. 'cause o' the internet, nowadays every yahoo believes their confirmation bias skewed research makes 'em experts on health, medicine, military tactics, tariffs and soros-funded space lasers. politicians, some o' whom is as ignorant as voters, but many know better, embrace stoopid conspiracy theories such as chemtrails and seth rich because they know the libs is gonna aggressive correct 'em. obtuse voters who believe seth rich stoopid see one o' the politicians from their team being criticized by know-it-all reporters, experts and libs, and even if they don't particular like Congressman steube, they hate reporters, experts and libs. vote steube is a thumb in the eye o' experts, reporters and libs. ... 'course recognizing the problem ain't gonna stop us from laughing at the florida man stuff. HA! Good Fun!

Nope. Just realized that... I got them now lol

^^ but Trump has their back right, i mean he said he would help, surely he would never lie.

"I gave U.N.I.A.C. the Actuational personality, and then handed over the Calcaduceus to Junior Seer Amaryllis, but her dialogue was wrong, she stated something like 'you were supposed to get your reinforcements up from Spireton but it looks like you didn't need them anyway'." For what it's worth, I noted this as well, on my XBOX Series S (game version 1.0.6.0 - 2313922.0 last tie I checked). I had activated the Spireton lift and just outside the doors, all of the reinforcements she was chiding me for not having called were in fact present and guarding the bridge. However, I didn't run into this bug -- that is, when I returned to Ruth, she praised my intervention and both Auntie's and the Order are my allies. For me, all animations and dialogue were appropriate to the scene (it wasn't as if I were meeting her for the first time). I otherwise completed all quests similarly to you (though I did talk Ruth out of frying her brains to interface with the Archive). Question: did you talk with Vicar Laureate Levin prior to meeting Ruth? I think I almost forgot to talk with him, but he was standing in front of her office when I first gained the opportunity to speak with her (and he lightly chided me about it, saying he'd wanted to speak to me beforehand but "no matter"). I'm wondering if interacting with him is somehow key to this quest.

I really love the feeling of the hit and run bleed + poison from the one handed dagger in the first game. Now in the second game that’s just gone and instead the playstyle of daggers is crits and dual wielding. It’s not unfun or anything but it’s just different and removes the old one I liked. I don’t see why they can’t just bring back the old playstyle while keeping the new one. Maybe it could be if you want to hold one or two daggers so if you hold one you get the like stab bleed hit and run and then if you dual wield you get the crit assassin or whatever. Or, if they don’t want to differentiate dual wielding with the current daggers, then just add some daggers that aren’t dual wields. It just makes me sad they got rid of the way I liked to play (and it wasn’t even that strong, since it took forever to kill things, I just preferred it)

https://www.wypr.org/2026-01-16/irans-supreme-leader-acknowledges-thousands-killed-as-pressure-builds-on-clerical-rule The Iranian supreme leader has admitted thousands of people were killed during the protests " Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has acknowledged that "thousands" of people have been killed — some of them in what he called an "inhuman, savage manner" — during weeks of unrest across the country. The rare public admission, which took place during a speech broadcast on state television, comes as international scrutiny of Iran's crackdown continues — and after Iranian officials had previously acknowledged significant casualties while blaming terrorists, foreign governments and intelligence agencies for fomenting unrest. But human rights groups say the scale of violence has been far greater than authorities have — until now — admitted publicly. The Norway-based organization Iran Human Rights estimates that more than 3,400 people have been killed nationwide since the protests began, while the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists in Iran group has also documented thousands of deaths and widespread arrests of demonstrators." And the global attention on the brutal crackdown is not going away Obviously Russia and China vetoed any UNSC resolution on Iran but its now been refered to the UN Human Rights Council, I am very interested to see how South Africa will vote because we currently a member https://unwatch.org/after-security-council-meeting-balks-on-iran-30-ngos-demand-unhrc-urgent-session/ "After yesterday’s Security Council meeting on Iran yesterday failed to produce any outcome resolution, a cross-regional coalition of 30 non-governmental organizations and human rights groups today sent an urgent appeal to 100 UN ambassadors in Geneva calling for an emergency session of the UN Human Rights Council to address what they describe as the “horrific mass killings” of protesters by the Islamic Republic of Iran. “Due to the veto power of China and Russia, the Security Council is blocked from taking action on Iran, but we know from past experience that if EU states take the lead at the General Assembly and the Human Rights Council — where there is no veto — they can adopt a strong condemnation of the Iranian regime’s massacre of protesters, and establish mechanisms of investigation, accountability and justice,” said Hillel Neuer, Executive Director of UN Watch, an independent Geneva-based human rights group that plays a leading role in supporting Iranian dissidents. Signatories to today’s appeal come from Australia, Cameroon, Canada, France, Gambia, Ghana, India, Japan, Latvia, Moldova, Morocco, Nigeria, Pakistan, Senegal, Singapore, Switzerland, and the United States. The coalition warned that Iran’s violent crackdown on nationwide protests that began on December 28 has resulted in grave, widespread, and systematic violations of international human rights law. Thousands of protesters have been killed by Iranian security forces in recent weeks, with many more injured, arbitrarily detained, tortured, or forcibly disappeared. Protesters have been shot with live ammunition, detainees denied access to lawyers and medical care, and journalists, students, women, and minority communities deliberately targeted. Internet shutdowns and information blackouts have further concealed the full scale of abuses."

It's a computer. It doesn't have DID. It is glitching due to three different factions trying to give it three different conflicting priorities.

I have a very similar game breaking bug, it would appear not to be fixed as of today's date.

Summary: Game breaking bug in the quest "An Equitable Arrangement." PS5 version. Basically, despite negotiating an alliance between Auntie's Choice and the Order of the Ascendant, when I complete the quest "A Complication with the Computronic Cerebrum," and report back to Ruth as part of the former quest, it railroads me into the quest "Agenda for Altered States" and makes me "kill on sight" with Auntie's Choice. Very frustrating for a 60 hour save. Long Explanation: I'm playing on PS5, the game has the most recent update. I successfully negotiated an alliance with Auntie's Choice and the Order of the Ascendant as part of An Equitable Arrangement, the objective "Handle the Negotiations." I fully gave the Order the Archive and rift tech, had them share the skip drive tech, and didn't talk Ruth Basar out of using the chemicals to interface with the Archive. Then, I headed to Spireton to and took it over for the Order as directed by Ruth. I also got Auntie Cleo her new robot body, the quest "The Mechanical Matriarch." After that, I entered the Archive and got that companion dialogue prompt that triggers right when you enter, but it was wrong, the companions basically stated I should get allies before I try to take the Archive. I ignored that and continued on. I activated the lift, brought the Order folks up from Spireton, restored the Archive and completed the optional objective "Repair Thermal Transfer." I gave U.N.I.A.C. the Actuational personality, and then handed over the Calcaduceus to Junior Seer Amaryllis, but her dialogue was wrong, she stated something like "you were supposed to get your reinforcements up from Spireton but it looks like you didn't need them anyway." The quest "A Complication with the Computronic Cerebrum" was then completed. Then, for An Equitable Arrangement, I got the objective "Return to Ruth," the full objective description being "Return to Ruth and give her the news that the Archive is back under Order control." So, I went and talked to her, and she was in her decorative outfit, in the office outside her deprivation chamber, but she had the animation as if she was in the chamber, and then her dialogue played like we were meeting for the first time ever. She then said something like "we have a report that a rogue agent restored the Archive, know anything about that?" Then, I am prompted to give her the Calcaduceus despite the fact that I already gave it to Amaryllis. Then, she railroads me into doing the quest "An Agenda for Altered States" despite the fact that Auntie Cleo already agreed to give her the chemicals during the negotiations. After completing her dialogue, my Auntie's Choice's reputation is set to "kill on sight" and An Equitable Arrangement (as well as every other uncompleted Auntie's Choice quest) is set to "botched" with the description "Auntie's Choice is hostile to you. They won't work with you any longer." I tried reloading a save and toying around with decisions. Specifically, I have tried for about 4 hours, three different reload attempts. Main thing I tried was taking Spireton back before even getting the objective to do so, which allows that part of the quest to be skipped, but Amaryllis still had that incorrect dialogue stating that I failed to call for the reinforcements in Spireton. However, my companion dialogue upon entering the Archive seemed to correctly account for the fact that I had indeed recruited allies to take the Archive. I'm unsure if Spireton has something to do with the main bug, but I feel like something is occuring here to make the game think I stormed the Archive on my own. Another side note, I'm not sure if this is important, but I had previously went into the restricted area of the Auntie's Choice Chemical Factory out of curiosity, and I was not detected. But as a result, the quest note "You infiltrated the Auntie's Choice Chemical Factory and located the chemical dispensary room" is already in the entries upon involuntarily receiving the quest. As you can imagine, this happening on a 60 something hour save file is quite frustrating.

Have you scanned the mushroom bricks?

Playing tainted grail. Got to the final act. Was enjoying myself. Read that the DLC can't be played after you beat the main quest. Decided to go back and play the DLC. Now I am really struggling to play the game. I should have known when it involved squid people. On the plus side, I think I know what bothers me the most about squid people. It's the human body. Animal races at least kind of make sense. They have legs. But squid people their tentacles become a mouth I guess? A beard? At the very least they should use their tentacle beard to hold stuff.

Hey guys, just wanted to let you know ive been testing out the new update and its awesome. One bug I've come across though, ive been spending a lot of time exploring the pumpkin patch and figured Id try to grab the optical disk there. I repaired the 3 electrical boxes but when I tried to ping where abouts the optical disk is, theres nothing there. If you need pics, let me know.

Got all the burgl chips and purchased all I could from the science shop and I still have no option to build mushroom walls. I can make mushroom bricks but can't build with them.

Frieren... as beautiful as ever. It gives me this hard to explain warm and fuzzy feeling of seeing old friends, that I haven't seen in a long time. The little party is getting itself in motion again, heading towards the northern plateau. Nothing like seeing a familiar face again First challenge is being trapped in a cave of magic nullifying crystals, reducing the two mages to "ordinary girls" (followed by some hilarious conversation as Frieren has never forgiven Stark for calling her an old hag when they first met) This time however, he gets to to carry the party. Literally (screenshot is from the "landing" after the ground collapses beneath them and they plummet down into a large cave system) There is the mandatory fan service (nothing as hot and steamy as Ubels armpits this time) ...and of course flashbacks to Frierens travel with Himmel, Eisen and Heiter. Nothing says "we are a party!" like running away together from a black dragon Frieren... Frieren never changes (she is a messy sleeper)

It's like drugs and Maduro. https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/trump-denmark-european-tariffs-greenland-deal-rcna254551 "Trump also pointed to joint security exercises around Greenland between Denmark and other European allies, calling them a "very dangerous situation for the Safety, Security, and Survival of our Planet." "Therefore, it is imperative that, in order to protect Global Peace and Security, strong measures be taken so that this potentially perilous situation end quickly, and without question," Trump wrote." So I guess these trade deals he made with UK are blown?

agreed. too little attention for this point. Buy Greenland? Take It? Why? An Old Pact Already Gives Trump a Free Hand. Analysts say the Cold War agreement allows the president to increase the American military presence almost at will. Under a little-known Cold War agreement, the United States already enjoys sweeping military access in Greenland. Right now, the United States has one base in a very remote corner of the island. But the agreement allows it to “construct, install, maintain, and operate” military bases across Greenland, “house personnel” and “control landings, takeoffs, anchorages, moorings, movements, and operation of ships, aircraft, and waterborne craft.” It was signed in 1951 by the United States and Denmark, which colonized Greenland more than 300 years ago and still controls some of its affairs. “The U.S. has such a free hand in Greenland that it can pretty much do what it wants,” said Mikkel Runge Olesen, a researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies in Copenhagen. “I have a very hard time seeing that the U.S. couldn’t get pretty much everything it wanted,” he said, adding, “if it just asked nicely.” ... The fear was that Nazis could use Greenland as a steppingstone to America. The Germans had already established small meteorological bases on the island’s east coast and relayed information for battles in Europe. American troops eventually ousted them and established more than a dozen bases there with thousands of troops, landing strips and other military facilities. After World War II, the United States continued to run some bases and a string of early warning radar sites. As the Cold War wound down, the United States closed all of them except one. It’s now called the Pittufik Space Base and helps track missiles crossing the North Pole. end at one time, the US had something like seventeen bases in greenland, although "bases" can be misleading as a few listening stations described as bases were likely a building or two manned by a handful o' people, but our understanding is that the people in greenland and denmark were, by and large, perfectly fine with the arrangement. no surprise as there isn't much meaningful industry in greenlandl, and the US presence meant there were business opportunities for greenlanders who is significant supported by government assistance programs. this is all so stoopid... unless you accept the equal ridiculous suggestion that the greenland nonsense is due to the fact greenland appears extreme large on flat maps, and trump wants to add the huge island to his real estate portfolio. longitude demarcations at the equator is +111 km apart and at the north pole they all converge and therefore is 0 km apart, so on many flat maps, greenland appears much larger than it is in reality. trump sees acquisition o' greenland as akin to the louisiana purchase or alaska, and he is convinced acquiring the property would be a major benefit to his personal brand. based on reporting from folks such as susan glasser, trump was just as obsessed with greenland in term 1, but the sane folks surrounding the President always managed to deflect his attention to something more meaningful, but there is far less sanity to be found in trump 2.0. this is all just so dumb, and yet republicans in Congress and the trump administration who know better has decided to unapologetic go all in on what should be a comical emperor's new clothes bit, but even Gromnir is having difficulty seeing the humor in this idiocy. HA! Good Fun!

Points of interest nt counting even though storyline is complete

I'm stuck at 45 points of interest cannot get any further even though story line is complete!

I have a similar problem, but the game does not crash, but hangs tightly (you can only delete the process in the task manager). And this is observed only on saves made before 0.3, there are no problems on the new game (at least for 1 hour the game never hung up). Upd. After crawling around the forum, I decided to test hypothesis about the number of save slots. I deleted all autosaves and left 5 pieces of the necessary main ones. After launching, the game still hung several times, and then it work fine. For at least the last 4 hours, there hasn't been a single hang.

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