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Wag More Bark Less -- Cute and Funny Animal Pics
If you've never stumbled across this channel before, it's one of my faves. She has two channels, one with shorter/more edited grooming sessions and one with longer/less edited. Anyway - it's crazy, she's wonderful at job, she does both cats and dogs and rescues, and it's oddly entertaining/amusing.
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Intel Thread
It's too bad Arrow Lake wasn't where it could have been at launch. Eh, well, but if Intel can actually sell the 270KP for 300$ and still make some money from it (big if, I guess) then Foveros isn't making CPUs excessively more expensive. Which is a good sign, all in all.
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Build Thread 3.0
You'd probably get the same results with a 5800X3D or 5700X3D. Game's GPU bound out the wazoo when you turn ray tracing on (and why wouldn't you with a 5080). You should try BG3 or Factorio and cry a little over not picking an AM4 X3D part up when you could though. :p
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The All Things Political Topic
Yep. They probably thought they were safe due to Russia not targeting all the western assets that Ukraine uses- which are also legitimate targets. That rather ignores that if Russia were in a similar situation to Iran is rather than Russia is... well, she wouldn't be, due to having nukes. ie the US would be trying to explain why the Ford was atomised rather than had a 'laundry fire'. Plus of course and inevitably there's an extremely long list of all the times the west bombed 'non belligerents', targeted the economies of 3rd parties etc. Indeed, every single point is a lesson in double standards. Perhaps best summed up by quoting an expert referring to the San Remo Manual. Which is specifically not binding, but in any case says: So yeah, you can legally target neutral ships running a blockade (though the binding legal framework for it is, iirc, from the 19th century). And of course, most of the people shocked and appalled at Iran Blockading the Strait aren't shocked and appalled at, say, Israel starving Gazans or denying them water via blockade; they're just shocked and appalled when it effects them.
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Are you ready for Win 11?
Hopefully the Macbook Neo becomes the kick in the ass Microslop needs to steer back from the cliff they insist going over. News coming out from them is positive, let's see the follow through.
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The All Things Political Topic
Democrat wins Florida state seat containing Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate
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If you could choose a Pillars of Eternity class to come into Avowed as a DLC tree, which class would you choose?
The Avowed skill tree is organised into the core classes of Warrior, Rogue and Mage. It retains the free allocation system from the rulebook, giving players a wide range of options for how their hybrid classes might look. Rather than a Paladin being strictly based on specific warrior skills and specific mage skills, the player has the choice. Accordingly, the hybrid classes exist as they can be played in the gameplay. But they can be shaped as the player sees fit for their character. How does a Cleric or Paladin with their ‘domain’ function in the role of the Envoy? The Envoy begins with their affiliation to the Aedyr Throne. And their task, which is part of the main plot. How would a Bleak Walker or Kind Wayfarers fit in? Various dialogues would need to be altered, including skills. A Woadica Paladin would work fine in some contexts, but restricting the Paladin class to that role feels limiting.
- Funny Stuff - Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it
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Random Sales again
Whatever cookie policy gg.deals uses is probably the same one used by the Obsidian forums. 🤐
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New Scientific Discoveries, Part Vier
Look mom, it didn't explode! 😀 I don't know why, but somehow I imagine the end of the world being, not going out with a bang, but the wooshing sound of a plunger in a kitchen sink.
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New Scientific Discoveries, Part Vier
Antimatter Breakthrough: CERN Scientists Successfully Transport Antiprotons in a Truck without Exploding - The Debrief
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Anime and Manga - New Season
Fire Punch had a wacky ending too, but it felt much better than this. This just feels like he got fed up and ended it. Especially with how suddenly the ending was announced. Ending Spoilers
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I got a good idea (I hope)
Your idea is so amazing.
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The All Things Political Topic
How can you not be a belligerent if you provide material support and bases of operation for a participant in a war? I would say that "auto includes" you in the list of belligerents.
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The All Things Political Topic
Obviously if you at war with someone you could and would target there economy. Thats expected and not cowardly But thats not why Iran is attacking Gulf State oil fields or closing the Straits. They want to create pressure and chaos on the global economy and even countries that are not part of this war are impacted by that decision. The petrol price in South Africa is going up because of the Straits, Iran has no legal mandate to close an International Strait which Hormuz is. Why should South Africa be negatively effected because of this specific Iranian decision? I dont think they are the same , sanctions are a tool that countries can and do use for various reasons. Its typically used to get a government to change a policy or decision Its legitimate because any country can decide to sanction another country, you may think its unfair or selective but its not illegal The Straits of Hormuz are considered an International Strait similar to International Waters, no country can unilaterally or legally decide to block this type of waterway or attack ships that aren't directly involved in the war So its not legitimate what Iran is doing The ConversationHow the law of naval warfare applies to the Strait of HormuzIn the law of naval warfare, the line between belligerents and neutrals is not always an easy one to draw."Once there are armed hostilities between two (or more) states, the law of armed conflict – or international humanitarian law – applies. The law of naval warfare is part of the law of armed conflict. Some laws of naval warfare can be traced back to the Hague Conventions adopted at the start of the 20th century. Most commonly, states will rely on the 1994 San Remo Manual on International Law Applicable to Armed Conflicts at Sea. Under the law of naval warfare, states are generally divided between belligerents (those engaged in armed hostilities) and neutrals (those not involved in the war). The line between belligerents and neutrals is not always an easy one to draw. In the Middle East, at a minimum, Iran, Israel and the US could be classified as belligerents. According to the San Remo Manual, ships flagged to neutral states, including their warships, may exercise their navigational rights under general international law through a belligerent’s strait. It is recommended that neutral warships give notice of their passage as a precautionary measure. A belligerent must not target neutral ships – they are not considered military objectives and must not be fired upon. During this conflict, Iran’s territorial sea (which includes the waters within the Strait of Hormuz) counts as an area of naval warfare. The belligerent states are legally required to have due regard for the legitimate rights and duties of neutral states in an international strait."
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The All Things Political Topic
Many people are familiar with British humour. However, German humour, especially political satire, goes under the radar outside central Europe. Personally I find it brilliant (besides Das Heute Show, look up Volker Pispers political satire for something brutal, going back to the time before the first Iraq war)
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Ydwin Mindstalker build help
Yes, that's not really a bug though but a unfortunate implementation of elemental keywords and immunities. The attacks of Frostseeker are keyworded as freeze attacks (no matter the damage type) and thus they also profit from all bonuses for freeze (power level bonuses from certain items and so on). On the other hand it also always triggers the immunity vs. freeze (no matter the damage type). So an alternative weapon such as Essence Interrupter (which doesn't have that problem because it's not keyworded with shock but just does pierce/shock dmg) is a good idea.
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Build Thread 3.0
I've run some Cyberpunk benchmarks at 3440x1440 for a few minutes, and path tracing gets me 25-30 fps, maxed ray tracing without frame generation gets me 50 fps, with 2x frame generation goes up to 90-95, 4x goes over 200. No up scaling. Still planning on getting a new QD-OLED monitor in the summer.
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The All Things Political Topic
Interesting offer there to drop all sanctions
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Patch 2.1 is Live!
Greetings Envoys! Today we are releasing Patch 2.1 for Avowed with the latest bug fixes and a community requested feature! Community Requested Feature:In the previous update, we implemented 3 encounters in each region that would respawn enemy units. We’ve added a toggle in the settings menu to disable respawning enemies. Go to Settings > Gameplay > Combat > Check Toggle Bug FixesFixed an issue causing the player to get stuck leaning to the right during third person mode. Fixed a crash when engaging in combat with a Skeleton Barbarian. Fixed a crash when starting Photo Mode near a Xaurip Elder. Fixed an issue where companions would not look at the Envoy during inter-region party camp conversations. Fixed an issue where switching loadouts would remove the cooldown reduction of grimoire abilities when casting from the hot bar. Abilities from the grimoire and hotkey bar now properly separate their cooldown depending on which way they were used. Fixed issue where frame limits were incorrectly disabled when DLSS-FG was enabled. Fixed issue where XeSS Frame Generation did not work properly. Fixed the "Browse Photos" option not being functional in Photo Mode. Fixed an issue where certain decals would fail to display until game was reloaded. Fixed Yatzli's Obsidian Collection outfit not appearing for players who have the Premium Upgrade entitlement Fixed an issue where certain terrain shaders would initially show up incorrectly after clearing shader cache. Removed the “You cannot change character” line during character creation confirmation. Capped the companion ability points to the maximum purchasable amount of 16, to prevent notifications for additional unusable points in New Game+. Fixed issue where rebinding certain buttons would prevent user from closing tutorial pop-ups. Fixed issue where characters would sometimes stretch during ragdoll. Console FixesFixed an issue where color filters on Photo Mode for consoles would appear grainy. Xbox: Improved the presentation of conversation animations in inter-region party camps for XSX Performance mode. PlayStation: Added background music for Avowed on PlayStation 5. Fixed issue where controller settings reset after exiting the game on PlayStation 5. Fixed a crash that could occur during Fast Travel on PlayStation 5. Fixed an issue where game settings were shared between accounts on the same device on PlayStation 5.
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The All Things Political Topic
Mmm, it's about as legitimate as Western sanctions on Iran, wouldn't you say? They are using the Straits as a strategic lever to influence negotiations, just as we do with sanctions on Iran.
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Anime and Manga - New Season
This has convinced me to no longer follow the anime. That's just ****ing **** man
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Funny Stuff - Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it
- Does anyone else get booted from multiplayer every 5 minutes when playing with friends.
I FOUND A SOLUTION! It’s caused by a problem with autosave! I was having the same problem and noticed it was happening around the same time as me and my friends’ autosave. We all turned ours off and it stopped kicking me.- Yesterday
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wouldn't the strike on iran gas field also cowardly by this delusional standard anyway there is no value continue this discussion the blatant insider trading have become very funny why try to build any industry when scam and gambling are so profitable - Does anyone else get booted from multiplayer every 5 minutes when playing with friends.