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You can already pick a specific crisis to happen, so I doubt that's much of a concern, I just want the inverse option: the ability to exclude certain crises without turning off the entire DLC they are in. Cetana is also very different from every other crisis. Most crises shake up the galaxy with their rampages, as generally by the time they spawn borders are kinda entrenched, and the crisis forces the galaxy to take action, shaking up borders and the political landscape. As far as I can tell that's their whole point. Cetana is just "there", and unless you, as the player, do a bunch of stuff, and set up very specific fleet compositions to deal with her insane difficulty (compared to every other crisis out there) there's really nothing happening until she presses her "I win"-button. The AI won't lift a finger, not even when she declares war on the entire galaxy (not that, given her power levels, they'd be much help anyway), and until she does it's pretty much business as usual. She may be fun once, or for some challenge run, but by and large I'd call her boring, as there's a whole lot of nothing, then a single massive fleet battle that you hopefully win, and...that's kinda it... If you beat her the game is basically over as there's probably not a whole lot left to do until the victory year as I'd be rather surprised that anyone able to beat Cetana would be having any issues beating up the rest of the galaxy after, if need be. Honestly, design-wise she really feels more like an elaborate event-chain than an endgame crisis. Maybe in a game with multiple crises having her mixed in, I can see that being more engaging, but on default settings with only the single major crisis? I'd rather not have it be her.

Well, it clearly says it's a group of investors, with the Saudi PIF being one of them. Throwing "Saudi" into the title seems to be just clickbait. And personally, I think this may be the best thing to happen to all of EA's IPs, in my case especially the DA IP.

Is this to diversify more from their oil income?

Wow. Maybe EA will finaly release games from old IPs, which do not suck…

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31289994/ I started on another new series, The Lowdown with Ethan Hawke Its really good and its about an investigative journaling who looks into corruption and murder in his small town Great characters and interesting plot

That AI video is surreal... and a little disturbed.

Thank you, I'm an idiot. since the other baits were made on the workbench, I thought the other one was made there too. I had almost not used the cooking station before either, so i did not find the poached ****roach roast. No bug just stupidity.

Good news for military barber careers, and for the American Barber Association. An army of one... barber.

https://kotaku.com/report-saudi-arabia-and-other-investors-nearing-50-billion-deal-to-buy-ea-2000629291

I made a cognac sour with amaretto because I ran out of cointreau for sidecars and it works out well enough, I imagine an inverted version of Morganthaler's Amaretto sour would hot better though.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/26/politics/hegseth-generals-meeting-warrior-ethos "The meeting is expected to resemble “a pep rally” where Hegseth will underscore the importance of the “warrior ethos” and outline a new vision for the US military, said three of the sources. He is expected to discuss new readiness, fitness and grooming standards the officers are expected to adhere to and enforce. “It’s about getting the horses into the stable and whipping them into shape,” said a defense official familiar with the planning. “And the guys with the stars on their shoulders make for a better audience from an optics standpoint. This is a showcase for Hegseth to tell them: get on board, or potentially have your career shortened.” Clown show.

Can confirm this is a fix!!! Mine was set to zero for some unholy reason! Must be a bug in the game. Set back to 100 and we are rocking again! Thanks Kevin!!

A more recent example of a ruler flipping a democracy is Ferdinand Marcos. Like Trump, he was re-elected to a second term. He responded to protests with military power, then after two years he declared martial law, suspended habeas corpus, and rewrote the constitution. The country remained under martial law for almost a decade.

It would be awesome to fight a huge eriovixia gryffindori and it can give you a new type of weapon or even a new type of mage staffs or crazy looking armor it would be a cool boss that camouflages and blends in with leafs and could jump at you like the green mantis it would be insane to see this in grounded 2 this is what it looks like

He's going to make them swear an oath of fealty to Mango Mussolini and purge those who would object to deploying the military for homeland defense against left-wing terror networks like BML and Antifa. There's also a government shutdown right around the corner for a little bit of a information blackout and some (or a lot of) convenient firings. There's always a chance he'll let them wage war against the sea. With this administration, we're not that far removed from the worst erratic behaviour that was ascribed to unpopular Roman empires in later written histories.

We can trust Trumps hubris and him wanting to take credit for ending this interminable ME conflict If Israel annexes the West Bank there will never be a peace agreement because what would the Palestinians have?

The people of the West Bank can trust him, surely.

So, Diablo IV season is done. This is the shortest time it took for me to clear one, and I generally tend to take my time rather than plow through the content in an efficient fashion. Not that I mind that much.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/25/politics/trump-says-he-wont-allow-israel-to-annex-west-bank Trump has unequivocally stated that Israel wont be allowed to annex the West Bank This is not a surprise as this would destroy any idea of a 2 state solution and a permanent solution around peace in this conflict that the US is involved in “I will not allow Israel to annex the West Bank. Nope, I will not allow it. It’s not going to happen,” Trump said in the Oval Office, acknowledging that he had spoken to Netanyahu earlier in the day on the topic. “It’s been enough. It’s time to stop now,” he added.

Oooh really! I'll have to try that. As I tried to start a new game the other night thinking I'll start again and bamn... Same thing!

Any fascist state means you cant have a free media or allow criticism of the state So Kimmel represents an aspect of that around how late night comedians generally criticize the current elected government But if no one watched his show then it will end because ratings determine the sustainability So if people watch his show it reinforces the popularity of this type of freedom of speech considering how he was initially criticised by the FCC Its organic belief in this type of freedom of speech and highlights the reality of how in the US it matters There are some Conservatives who refuse to watch his show but they arent enough to detract from the current high ratings

Absolutely and this is also why I reject basically all modern day conspiracy theories I still come across people who dont believe AQ was responsible for 9/11 and it was the US government or the " Jews " who are responsible 9/11 was 24 years ago and there have been different US presidents and lots of negative opinion within the US around the War on Terror so you would assume with that focus by now someone would have found conclusive evidence that 9/11 was in fact committed by the US government As you said all these conspiracy theories rely on complete control of the media, all politicians and all independent investigative agencies and that is simply not possible in the US

Huh, seems Capcom kept a lot of C.V. sauce from SF4. I would bet they would redesign and simplify her for SF6. I am really curious how she will fit he game. Probably too technical for me at the moment, but looks very cool.

It's Hegseth calling it though. Could very well be some culture war bull****, like him making them do a physical fitness test or preach lethality and warrior ethos. Maybe just firing a bunch