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Well, all of this seems moot now, because apparently yesterday in Geneva very good progress was made on amending the document on all points, such that everyone--the US, the Europeans, and most importantly the Ukrainians--are now satisfied and on the same page. It seems that the Ukrainians are willing to accept the painful territorial concessions, just as I expected and predicted, in exchange for very strong security guarantees, protection of their sovereignty, and a good reconstruction plan. But that is all the more reason to expect that Putin will very likely reject it. It will at least serve to put more pressure on the Russians, though, and hopefully also will re-isolate them internationally if we can get other major states around the world to accept the modified plan as a good plan that is reasonable and fair to both sides.

Did you play with the expansion included?

From where do you get that information?

in my experience this would completely be the reason why. I've had almost no problem (on the hanging side of things) since I started doing the above. Else I very much keep on experiencing a lot of the problems described by OP

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High lore + high ACC + scrolls of Paralysis, Confusion and Maelstrom. End.

Ukraine is over, they will accept any plan at this point, front is collapsing, soldiers are deserting at mass and latest corruption scandal will deal final blow to EU support. Better to accept whatever they can get now than later

I have finished Black Geyser: Couriers of Darkness. It is a party-based CRPG with RTwP combat in a fantasy setting. While the writing is uneven and the combat is simple (not based on an existing system), there is enough roleplay, QoL features, and some interesting gameplay systems to make the experience enjoyable. There is also delightfully little bloat allowing for a completionist playthrough of a reasonable length of 30-40 hours. The review which was longer than the character limit on Steam and GOG (there are no spoilers but it is long) :

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let not pretend eu care about ukraine or the baltic state they care as much as uk and france care about poland and czech during ww2 ukraine already served their purpose better than most expected

rotten carcass of usa federal goverment are dismembered much further in the last year so oligarch got what they wanted sadly what people wanted was rarely what they needed even oligarch are people in this aspect

I wondered if it would be something like that, This may be why I don't experience it as much as others, I don't always sneak/enter combat and I often use Alt to manually unseak before taking turns.

Yes, and then they dismantled the agencies that had dirt on Musk and were about to get him for it.

No it had stated goals that were basically about reducing Federal expenditure that was considered wasteful and unnecessary And Musk was brought in because he claimed this would be " easy " Musk made a unexpected mistake of assuming public sector restructuring is the same as private sector restructuring which he had successfully done within his own companies But DOGE had an understandable objective. There are lots of Americans who think the Federal government is bloated and ineffective They just went about it a completely heavy handed and unsustainable way Im not sure why you think it was about Musk's enemies?

The reason why Russia "allows" europeans to protect Ukraine is that they know how little the help of Europe is worth it. We are too slow, too cautious, too much don't want to get involved. We all know that if this peace plan would be put into place, Ukraine will be over.

It was just a means to sabotage Musks enemies, guess they were successful.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/doge-doesnt-exist-with-eight-months-left-its-charter-2025-11-23/ DOGE has officially closed 8 months early What a disaster, it was hyped and sensationalized and now its over Musk should have stayed in his lane in the private sector, his sojourn into public sector was an unmitigated failure

Facing the exact same issue. I ended up clearing Spireton alone, but then going to the Archive via Newton. Cleared it myself without help, then I went back and did all the parts of Equitable Arrangement. After I fixed UENIAC, there was nobody waiting for me to take the Caladuceus. I tried fast traveling to Spireton and some Archive soldiers appeared and ran to the lift, but the door was still locked. I unlocked the lift from the Archive side but still nobody is coming up to advance the quest. Now I guess I need to decide whether to wait an indefinite amount of time for this bug to be fixed (it's been a month since this thread was created) or just do the final mission alone so I can finish the game.

The theory emphasizes a "both/and" approach rather than an "either/or" one. An individual or organization that overemphasizes one color to the exclusion of others may become imbalanced.

For a story whose factions are based on Spiral Dynamics, I really wish the Computronic Cerebellum would allow those of us who understand the point of Dr. Graves work to select one of each.

There isn't really a comparison between the two. BM has literally no detail at all and its only 'enforcement' 'mechanism' is consultation. It's specifically written to avoid committing any of the big players to anything concrete. OTOH, language like "such actions as it deems necessary" is about as explicit as you can get in treaties. It's far more direct and committal than the contemporaneous ANZUS alliance's III/IV/V, for example. And so long as the eventual text includes an article 5 provision and a trigger mechanism ('art 4') it is effectively enforceable, even if it isn't a big T Treaty. If everyone is happy with it- or more realistically, not unhappy enough with it- you could even get it through the UNSC at which point it is to all intents and purposes an actual treaty. Yes, there are various ways it might not work out that way, and yes, even for NATO triggering article 5 does not necessarily mean the invoker gets exactly what they want. But there's literally no treaty anywhere that has literal forced compliance which isn't a surrender document; because in the end countries have the last resort of simply repudiating treaties and obligations whatever they state.

Udo Kier. I guess it's finally done, Yuri.

Proposed peace deal also is not a treaty (as joining to legally binding treaties demand quite long political and legal process in most of the countries and they don't have anyone that has authority to actually sign such deal without parliament vote), but BM like agreement. So if BM does not have any legal merits so does not this proposed peace deal. It is just agreement between countries without anything behind it to enforce it. And so like BM all the signatory countries can just abrogate it when they think they don't feel like it should beholden them. Even though politicians and media speak article 5 like security guarantees, those can't be given in proposed peace deal, because it would actually need Nato like organization behind it to enforce it, which the proposed peace deal says that Ukraine can't be member of. Also article 5 is not that strong guarantee of anything when you go just by the text.

We've done this before, but the BM is not a security guarantee since it isn't a treaty. It has all the legal weight of a new years' resolution. It's also been abrogated by every signatory to some extent- China the least- people just tend to ignore that it 'prevents' western interference in Belarus every bit as much as Russian interference in Ukraine. Article 5 does have legal weight though, which is why the 'article 5 like' usage is important in either document. The EU does actively extend/ renew the sanctions every six months, apart from the 19 packages that have been approved unanimously including one within the last couple of months. That includes Hungary, every time, and Slovakia every time. Orban's position is a lot closer to the old UK one- we want carve outs, to benefit Hungary- than actually being pro Russian. ie if he were pro Russian he'd veto the sanctions, not approve them. It was also the old stridently anti Russian Slovak government that got Slovakia's carve outs, not Fico. They obviously weren't pro Russian; Orban largely makes a convenient scapegoat for the sanctions not being anywhere near as effective as Europe hoped. That does make it beholden on you to show how it would actually be different to now; because per above they both approve sanctions, now. The weapons, I personally kind of agree that that reflects reality. But, at least in theory Europe itself does not agree at all. We get monthly news of supposed modern weaponry deals. 100 Rafales/ SAMPT++ this month, 100 Gripens++ last month, and there was a UK announcement a month before. German IRIST++ before that. Personally, yes, I reckon those deals are pie in the sky for a continent that cannot even spin up artillery production over nearly 4 years. But europe seems to expect people to take them seriosuly at least. (with the caveat that both documents are leaked/ 'leaked' so not definitive, where appropriate)

Same issue: took the Archive solo, after that I try to complete Auntie's Choice missions, it starts dialog with Auntie, but it interrupts. I cannot use HQ elevator, I cannot complete the Order missions - it makes Auntie's Choice aggressive.