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It's not like Trump hasn't been a weather vane before. He's been pretty infamous for repeating the views of whoever he talked to last whatever he seemed to believe beforehand. In that particular case though Trump's previous 'support' for Ukraine/ Zelensky always looked very bluff like as well as being heavily transactional. For all the shouting about tomahawks no one ever explained how they'd be launched* or programmed, least of all Trump, so they never made for a very good stick to get concessions from Russia/ Putin. *aside from just fire them from a container bro, she'll be right. Super simple, barely an inconvenience. Which one suspects is ever so slightly a simplification of the problems involved.

Interesting idea! Weather patterns definitely affect gameplay in many ways. The sunny weather seems like a double-edged sword—it gives you that warmth but also dehydrates you quicker and makes it harder to keep food safe. Windy conditions are tricky too, especially when you're trying to keep track of smaller items like harvested plant fibers and meat chunks—they can easily blow away. The rain, though, seems like a blessing with its fresh water, but the drops hurting you and flooding low areas definitely adds a challenge. I like the detail about puddles staying drinkable for 24 hours after it rains—it adds a nice strategic element to planning your next move.

Heheh, just a bit. Yeah, I only have lowly Win10Pro. I could probably get Ent. stuff from hubby but that wouldn't be our style anymore. I think Win7-Pro was the first Windows I paid for, then Win10-Pro. Before that hubby just kept bringing it home (win 3.1 et al). He also deals with network firewall stuff (working from home precautions = more than average I'm guessing) so I rarely do much with that outside of Windows settings and being very discriminate re: downloading and net presence. ======== Going Sideways: I was reading about Discord and their recent security/user data breach stuff. I remember when the advice was to never give real info on the net if you don't have to, because identity theft. I would still consider that good advice. From that to "send us photo ID's over the internet to confirm your age/person." FFS. Any social media or general net service that wants me send them a copy of my legal ID cards etc is a service I don't need. If Steam ever starts doing that (I don't care why) it's being uninstalled.

Flo is back with her machine

I probably went a bit farther than you, as I use Windows 10 LTSC (a special cut-down Enterprise-ish version of Windows 10 more meant for critical infrastructure systems that has many annoying features disabled by default - it never receives feature updates with the last release of it being 21H2, but you can still receive security updates, and unlike the consumer versions, support will last until 2032!!!), which doesn't come with any of the stuff that Windows10Debloater aims on removing/disabling in the first place. I also use Shutup10 and Winaero Tweaker which unbury and coalesce a number of hidden settings to better disable crap (including ads and telemetry) but also for reverting a number of basic functionalities that I missed from Windows 7, and I use simplewall, a firewall that kinda overlays Windows Firewall while allowing you way better and direct control of your firewall settings, which also allows you to further lobotomize Windows from connecting to Microsoft in any manner unless you give it your explicit approval. This setup has been serving me well for a number of years, though I did need to manually upgrade to the last version of LTSC that they released for Windows 10 a couple of years back when a game didn't work because my Windows feature version was too out of date...but that's fine, I prefer manually doing it over Windows just bulldozing me with its automatic feature updates. As long as I'm the one deciding to do it at the time and place of my desire, that works for me. Windows LTSC (for either 10 or 11) is not available to license to the general public, i.e. you cannot buy it. You can obtain official installation .isos from the Internet Archive rather easily though (among many other sources), and literally any version of Windows 10 or 11 takes about 60 seconds to permanently license with just a simple PowerShell script that you can find rather easily on a well-maintained GitHub project that's been around for many years now. And if I'm remembering correctly, the LTSC installers of at least 10 do not even try to force you to immediately register with an online account like the consumer versions of Windows do, so how about that? Look into some of the software I mentioned above - if it weren't for the fact that I have to deal with it at work, I'd have completely forgotten some of the worst Windows garbage like OneDrive even exists for the past 10 years.

our disappointment in fellow americans who has not expressed outrage and horror over the cecot efforts by the trump administration is impossible to fully communicate... and somehow seven months past might as well be a century removed in our new attention economy. that trump would do this kinda thing surprised us not at all, and you may review our posts since 2017 to confirm that claim. project 2025 was, in part, an effort to assemble a group o' at least marginal competent people who would be willing to advance tribal values either for personal power or 'cause o' a genuine ideological commitment regardless o' legal niceties, so am not surprised there is lawyers and burecrats carrying out the sinister marching orders o' the tangerine tyrant. am not shocked that hardcore maga people who have utmost faith in trumpism and is ok with any excess as long as the libs is being owned would choose the steven miller narrative regardless o' any evidence which might challenge their increasingly myopic world view. where is the rest of america? what serious bothered medicine dan, and others like him who somehow see themselves as reasonable trump voters in spite of hundreds o' examples o' trump excesses, were defund the police, white privilege accusations and talk of reparations for slavery... am thinking the subtext o' the underlying motivation need not be stated aloud for that kinda trump apologist to be understood. folks such as gd is sudden tired of all the negativity, but he somehow still sees equivalency 'tween trump and the dems ordinary incompetence? joe rogan now thinks what trump is doing to immigrants is crazy and inhumane, but is not as if trump hid his plans when he promised a mass deportation of 20 million people. even so, am not certain rogan and the kinda low information bro culture people who helped make trump 2024 possible is capable o' enough self reflection to recognize that their mind blowing gullibility is the cause o' the ice excesses near as much as is kristi noem or tom "cava bag" homan. ... but where is everybody else? even if you subtract the willful obtuse and proud boy adjacent crowds, where is the outrage from the rest of america? am pleased + seven million people came out for no kings. we saw a whole lotta gen x and boomer representation with their fanny packs, npr totes and american flags... not quite the sorros terror campaign republican leadership and fox news described. maybe the next no kings reaches nine million? even so, am not sure how we got past cecot with only a relative small number o' folks showing outrage. disappointed. HA! Good Fun!

You sound a bit like me. Did you use powershell to de-bloat it/get rid of all those stupid MS apps/programs, too? I updated the main "version" of W10 once, when a game demanded it. Haven't bothered since. Still works fine. At some point a game will demand something re: Win11, even if it's "only" version DX142.75 or some MS Visual C++ version or something similar. But until then.

I saw someone's review of this game. The name made me think it was going to some dungeon crawler, but nope, not that. I adore the artstyle and concept but not sure re: platform/puzzle (don't like platform, depends how "easy" it is). Plus it's supposedly super short (4-6 hrs?). And it doesn't have a cute cat to make me not care about those things. Haha! But the art design/world looks fantastic. it's on my wishlist now, so I don't forget about it.

NMS: Done with Abandoned Save #9. Tried loading up one of the 350 +/- saves. Problem is those saves, there's nothing left for me but hunt interceptor ships and/or perfect Giant Paradise planets. Neither of which I care all that much about anymore. Thought about Abandoned #10 but not sure I can stand another one for the moment, haha. Keep seeing vids of all these possible new games that might be interesting. But there's always something - online, MMO, combat looks like Elden Ring type style (even if it's not supposed to be super hard, I mean the mechanics/animations), early access, really short vs. price, not released yet etc.

https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-urged-zelenskiy-cut-deal-with-putin-or-risk-facing-destruction-ft-reports-2025-10-19/ Amazing what one phone call to Putin did

Please add a weapons and trinket maker in the ASL Terminal. Have all the weapons/trinkets and their effects that are deduped separate and transfer into the ASL Terminal. I don’t care how much Raw Science it costs to then make a custom weapon or trinket in the ASL Terminal out of the effects and weapons/trinkets collected by deduping. 250,000 or 500,000 raw science go ahead and make it expensive. I just want it to be possible. Unlock at NG+ 10, sure.

Seriously, when is this going to be released? The Spring Update was May 15th, the Summer Update was July 15th. Shouldn't the Fall Update have been released on October 15th? The Outer Worlds 2 is out on early access in less than a week, I figured Obsidian wouldn't want to overlap such a large update with a new game release. Can someone, anyone give us an update on this, please.

City of Springs A reasonable and relatable protagonist is welcome to see. I think the game's been out before the 2024 GE. The combat. It did not happen often, but I stopped trying to jump out of bounds. Why? An ending spoiler. At that point, I laughed for a few minutes.

we need honey pot ants and honey pot ant queens they could be level 3 4 or 5 they could be in a forest or a desert or a jungle

It's just one thing after another. En****tification and complete indifference the user experience. I don't need an account for my home PC, and what if the internet goes out ? OneDrive scans your data with facial recognition software and you can't opt out, windows forces you to create a password for bit locker as part of windows setup. Who knows when they are just arbitrarily enable it and ask for a password you picked 6 years ago and haven't used once. You don't need to have either enabled.... for now, but give it time. Every feature update is worse and treats the user base more like cattle than the last.

Reminds me to read Amusing Ourselves to Death

https://www.ign.com/articles/vampire-the-masquerade-bloodlines-2-review?

Breaking news: Mexico has agreed to pay for the wall, and Canada wants one too.

Since grounded 1 I know I and so many people have desired couch co op for this game. I get it i get the arguments, "imagine getting snuck up on with half the screen space" "imagine the lag" homies homies, sit down and listen, does it matter how big your screen is when you have an extra set of eyes guarding your back? Does it matter how long it takes obsidian to smooth out the lag when we all love this game despite and because of the bugs? Now imagine everytime you wanted to introduce a friend to this game but you dont want to just hand them the controller and scare them away from the game, it would be so much better to hop in the game with them and tell them "hey avoid that area there is a praying mantis there that will end your entire existence" we all know we have wanted to play this couch co op one time or another, so please, give us this, we WILL work through the issues with you because we love this game so much. You got this obsidian we believe in you

Yeah, I decline "push notifications" 100% of the time too.

Hey, we're stuck in our save game because we can't activate the MIX.R, even though all the ORC transmitters are enabled. In the quest log, all the checkmarks are green, but when I go to the MIX.R, I get a message that the ORC transmitters are still active. In addition, a story quest that has already been completed hasn't been moved to the completed quests. (See screenshots) https://gft-clan.de/images/2661300_51.jpg https://gft-clan.de/images/2661300_50.jpg https://gft-clan.de/images/2661300_49.jpg Can anyone help us with this problem?

I don't like the subtitles being directly above the character. Couldn't they be moved down, as they should be? Then they would be optional. If my English isn't up to scratch, I can just read along, and if it is, I can simply continue playing.

I have finished Saviorless (reached the epilogue where an NPC asked not to hit them, so I did not and quit the game). The visuals were quite nice, but everything else was not. Review: Absinthia. I have found an oni in a hidden location and the party was defeated in 3 turns. It is a very well-made RPGMaker game, even if I somewhat dislike the generic RPGMaker combat.

I suppose, I am going to try it and see how it goes even if I do not finish the game. It is £1.09 at the moment. Edit. It crashed with Curl error 7: Failed to connect to config.uca.cloud.unity3d.com port 443 after 6775 ms: Couldn't connect to server Crash!!! Will poke a bit more to see if it runs. The developers working with Unity forgetting to disable the analytics and hitting the firewall are not new. Edit. 2. It runs. But too hot for comfort, so until I get some better cooling, I'd rather keep it sitting in the library. Then again, you can play as a half-moose, so that's something to look forward to.