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We were friends with China even during the iron curtain. In fact China was smuggling a bunch of stuff for us during the NATO aggression and we gave them the wreckage of the downed stealth bombers to study. Our relations have steadily improved since China turned communist and nowadays we probably have better diplomatic relations with them than we do with Russia.

It's snowing here; there's about an inch accumulated thus far and it's still coming down. This is very late in the season for snow in this area. ❄️ Meanwhile, the weather folk are predicting a strong El Niño for 2026, which may mean a year or two of abnormally high temperatures. 🥵 The Return of a Super El Niño: How the Rapid Collapse of La Niña is Triggering a Massive Global Shift for 2026 Guess I should enjoy the cold while I can...

I literally created an account just to respond to this. I spent probably an hour rebooting my Xbox, trying different controllers, looking online on how to… and the whole issue was I wasn’t pressing A. I feel dumb, but, thanks for the help. Thank god I found a 12 year old post lol

same waiting for this to be fixed.. i too i hope that this future patch is soon cause its holding back the story comepletly. ive done the rest and am waiting on this fix. i did upvote but i have a gut feeling this might take a while...

Adding my complaint. This is a game-breaker. No Auntie's questline.

is anyone playing crimson desert ?

That looks good, a Jaws theme integrated into a massive flood disaster 🦈

Is there a sense of irony in there, considering Albania used to be the only European country with close ties to China. Albanian was once the only second language allowed to be taugt in China (after the break between China and the USSR) Money talks I suppose edit: completely unrelated, but the Albanian language is actually a relic from the past, some sources claining it to be 6000+ years old. Basque is older still, but still on the old side

Railgun Being Fired By U.S. Navy Again After Abandoning It For Years

Yes, it would be good to have a timeline. I'm now busy modding CP2077, but I'll move on and start another game soon and, when I do, the chances that I'll come back to TOW2 to finish it are slim.

It's not just elves with too much time on their hands that are trolls... Crunchyroll celebrating world sleep day with a 24 hour stream of Frieren sleeping 😂

Yeah, no Oil companies will make great windfall profits but for everyone else cost of living and inflation goes up with sustained high oil prices

Priest would be great too. Mainly if don't come only with healing.

So sad that they took away so many cool stuff. Honestly, I would pay AAA price for Cipher abilities.

Getting into building. I like lighting up the place, using colours to change the ambience. In that, using a lot of lights it can be painfully slow when changing lighting. A QOL improvement would be is to allow us to assign a switch to each light, and we use a single switch for a group of lights to change colours, and therefore have a few switches that'll change a bunch of lights each. Even though I'm not into effects, you could probably add effects beyond just colours into the lighting via the switches, similar to the RGB in PCs. It would be amazing in playgrounds for people setting a mood, such as a boss fight under red lights brightening at the speed of breathing. So I have seen people lighting under floors. but I have noticed when doing it myself, I have to use a lot of lights, and it causes a bad moving square patterns appearing that is annoying and not what I was expecting. In that though, it might actually be difficult to fix. It might be easier to just be able to use lighting resources (such as sap, dry grass etc) to infuse glow into the floors or walls that looks like there is lights behind them. You can then allow the floors to be assigned to a switch and we can change the glow whenever we want.

Just noticed that the status of this bug has changed from "Investigating" to "Fixed in a future patch." So....I guess that's good...at some unknown future date... Aren't hot fixes a thing? Kinda frustrating. Hopefully this future patch is soon.

The Pitt/HBO, ssn2, eps 8-9 Finally starting to get more interesting/compelling. Both in terms of hospital staff chrs, some patients, and a "tech/digital vs. analog" situation. Robby's arc (lead/Noah Wyle) this season is seeming fairly dark. Not in an over-dramatic way, it's more of a continuation of his 1st season state. Boyfriend on Demand/Netflix/k-drama --I only tried this one because of the cast list. A rom-com, where lead gal goes through usual IRL trials while testing this virtual-reality-bf tech (you wear a skinny eyepiece, maybe it connects to your brain, not sure). Apparently the best VR ever. The first episode was IRL setup, then the VR boyfriend stuff takes stage for a couple episodes. Those scenarios are big visuals and sometimes funny for ppl familiar with kdrama or k-romance webtoon tropes - more often it just feels like retread cheese. Beyond the stacked/pretty cast list, not even really guilty-pleasure/lulz binge worthy. I won't continue.

Good to know the scorpions didn't get Frankie Muniz. They were after him for a while.

yeah, i feel the same. The game uses its own upscaler as an option to FRS and DLSS. Notice that the recommended specs are using an 8 gb card. That's pretty forgiving these days. If you are still on a 2080, it should be fine ? Death Stranding 2 On the Beach Recommended PC System RequirementsHere’s a table that lists the recommended system requirements you need for your PC to install Death Stranding 2 On the Beach from Steam for best performance: Component Recommended Requirements OS Windows 10/11 Version 1909 or newer Processor Inter core I7-11700, AMD Ryzen 7 5700X Memory 16 GB RAM GPU NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070, AMD Radeon RX 6800 Storage 150 GB SSD

I definitely am picturing all the hype is going to = tons of people buying a game that ends up nothing like they were picturing. That's often the end case for hype. For one thing, it seems to be mashing together many styles and loops. It could feel too unfocused/messy, even re: discovery/exploration (my thing).

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5780543-us-oil-prices-trump/ A bold marketing ploy, it might work.

That kind of cursor flickering usually comes from mouse input conflicts or polling issues, especially in some games that handle raw input differently. Since you already lowered the polling rate and tested graphics settings, try a few other things: disable mouse acceleration or raw input in the game settings if available run the game in borderless windowed mode instead of exclusive fullscreen close Logitech G Hub or gaming overlays while testing try plugging the mouse into a different USB port It’s also a good idea to make sure the mouse itself is sending stable input signals. You can quickly check your mouse clicks buttons and polling behavior using tools on Click Test Now. You can test your mouse here http://clicktestnow.com/ It helps verify if the mouse is producing unstable input that could cause cursor flickering in games.