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Maybe I am just not perceptive enough, but what are the new "improvements" for the 2026 version of the game? Only thing, which I have noticed was some online "features" which could turn the game after three decades into Online Only mode 🤷‍♂️

am wondering if texas republicans are concerned about their redistricting efforts, which were largely influenced by trump's improvement with latino voters or assumed latino indifference during midterms. New congressional maps will test the Latino vote in the 2026 election "Republicans are banking on their gains with Hispanic voters" given the way they designed the new districts in Texas, one analyst noted. and is a whole lotta time 'tween now and the mid-terms. will dems also tyson fury themselves as they has done so frequent in recent years? will trump invoke the insurrection act or use some other means to interfere with the elections? dunno, but for the moment, the primary rationale for much o' the tx redistricting looks to be far less certain that it were last summer... and even then it were kinda iffy. HA! Good Fun!

Yeah, I noticed a few days ago, the internet was awash with end of the world for gold and silver trader messages. Australia's ABC News speculate it because of the uncertainty around the US Feds independence and some have conspiracy theories like this guy... I honestly don't know enough about the big picture to have an opinion of my own

Einstein’s Speed of Light Rule Just Faced Its Toughest Test—and Prevailed Once Again - The Debrief

Alone in the Dark original trilogy as a Giveaway on GOG. https://www.gog.com/en/news/alone_in_the_dark_trilogy_giveaway_as_a_celebration_of_what_we_achieved_together

This is very Sony. At least in this case you get the new version for free, with FF1-6, you had to pay again. https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/39140/view/514107648813039662?l=english

Damn The Dems won a race for state senate in Texas in a R+20 area that's possibly the hotbed of Christian Nationalism in the US, where the Republican outspent them to an absurd degree, and where Trump himself tried to stir up magats to the polls. Only a special election and we're 9 months out from the midterms, but I would never have bet on this happening.

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Alternative title “Why we can’t have nice things”. Tax write off is an interesting bit I didn’t know about.

Yeah, in the end of I will want to upgrade it comes down to overpriced m4 chip, vs m5 chip motherboard and RAM. I would be happy with £200, less so with £300-£500 for used 5700 and 58003d. My 5600x is mostly enough for 5070Ti fortunately.

what on earth are you talking about? where in the portion you quote do we claim you "constant brought up blix"? again, we specific observed that you don't like talking about blix and his "mythical video" where he not only contradicts your claims that the bush administration lied about wmds, but that he were coerced during his investigations. oh and, you brought up blix in the context o' gary johnson and aleppo? you did so outta the blue and w/o any prompting. our response, which you gratifyingly linked (thanks,) were little more than a brief recognition that the video were quite real and ridiculous ez to find: "hans blix berkeley." did low effort zor do a search for blix posts by Gromnir and then forget to look at his own post that inspired our response? classic. that would at least explain the blunder. am suspecting similar lazy is what led you to list a bunch of rando pahlavi quotes from stories which were largely ambivalent and equivocal regarding his significance in the current iranian protest movement. you are going beyond obtuse. we also suggested checking every one o' your sources. obviously we could not do both ignore AND check sources. duh... again. we presented multiple alternatives. for people not Gromnir, we explained how ignoring you was a best option, but that we would not be doing so 'cause o' this kinda nonsense, where you lie, fabricate and dissemble. the fact that we did indeed choose one o' the options we highlighted should not come as a shock. more perplexing is how after explaining why we chose the not ignore alternative, you blundered into the following query: you are a gift. we could not invent you if we tried. the lengths you go to self-own is challenging our imagination. page one, and above the fold, or page 28... or maybe buried somewhere deep in the middle east section of world news? doing a targeted search don't tell you relevance. without digging, doing a targeted search, you can't find pahlavi in a headline at the bbc site, not even their world news headlines. washington post? not even their middle east section reveals a pahlavi headline... because there is no effort to embiggen him. again, you had to add "pahlavi" into the search and that still wouldn't have produced pahlavi showing in the headlines or ledes which you earlier thought were important. the fact pahlavi gets any mention at all in stories about iranian protests is hardly evidence o' a western effort to embiggen him. *snort* our "extraordinarily long list" were every return for iran + protests for the day via a ddg search. not a single return had pahlavi in a headline or blurb snippet... which you curious imagined as "summary opinions" or some such. use any browser "find" function for word "pahlavi" in our supplied list. no western news articles. do same for a ddg week search for iran protests and pahlavi gets only a couple mentions in the first 60+ western headlines/blurbs, neither o' which embiggen him. for an "any time" search for iran + protests, pahlavi appears in headlines and blurbs 2x in the first 130+ returned western stories, and neither story embiggens his relevance... which comes as no shock 'cause the original quotes you did not link or attribute came from stories which were, for the most part, tepid about pahlavi's significance to the moment. converse, "erfan soltani" received numerous mentions for a past day search o' iran + protests. even if we had no idea who is erfan soltani, the fact he shows up in so many stories suggests to us he is newsworthy, at least during the past day's news cycle. next week? if erfan keep showing up in daily returns for iran +protests next week, then his relevance is undeniable. and of course a targeted search for erfan is gonna generate returns next week and likely next month. duh. even on the day when tv stations were hacked in iran by his supporters or when held a news conference, pahlavi couldn't get more than two mentions in the first 60+ headline returns for an iran + protests search. but you are gonna ride this bit o' western embiggening nonsense beyond exhaustion, aren't you? in any event, thanks for your gary johnson + hans blix mythical video bit o' fatuity. what a hoot. HA! Good Fun!

I upgraded AM4 one last time from an older Ryzen 3 a while ago. Back then, the 5700X3D was still around (for ~200 EUR). As I'm never looking for a higher end experience, this was a no-brainer decision: The 5700X3D thus cost twice as much as the 5600, but is nowhere close to providing twice the performance. X3Ds are great chips if you want the extra performance. But I'm actually surprised that they are so popular. They're clearly sold as enthusiast chips -- and as any enthusiast hardware (RTX 4090/5090 etc.), you're also PAYING extra. Guess that people are figuring that they still have much lower price tags then the best GPUs (true) and just go: "Ah, who cares!" :D And naturally, on AM4, they're now forever the fastest gaming chips around, driving up demand all by itself.

Me too! ahahah please. This game is fantastic and finally in switch 2, the loading time is acceptable. But the graphics and frame rate needs a refresh! Pleaseeeeeee :(

Yeah, there are only few titles for which CPU is a bottleneck (Cyberpunk being one of them). I wish Ryzen would resurrect m4 3d chips, but I am good as it is. A friend of mine convinced me to double down on my irresponsible spendings and swap my 27inch 1440p IPS for 32inch 4k QD-OLED. Visual gains vary from game to game - games with a lot of dark and contrast benefit the most from OLEDs true darks. One thing which surprised me is how little performance gap there is between 2k and 4k thanks to DLSS - In 1440p anything below quality preset would be noticeable and even quality sometimes showed some ugly bits. With 4k though, I can easily use balanced and have a better image quality then I did in 1440p, and on performance it seems to be more or less on par with quality in 1440p. I was a bit disappointed with the performance I was getting with my 5070 Ti when I turn raytracing on in Cyberpunk and Alan Wake2. I mean it is mostly playable now, but still seems like mostly novelty feature for high end GPUs. To compare I resubscribed for a month to GamePass to try the mandatory Raytracing games: Indiana Jones and new Doom. Both look stunning and run like butter. Unless I turn on Pathtracing - Pathtracing cuts my framerate by 2/3rds. Eh, I will see with time if it was a wise investments or if the RAM panic will blow over and I have overspend for an unpgrade I didn’t need just yet. The screen is nice though. Probably will enhance my experience more overall than the GPU.

Hi, single class Shifter isn't super appealing imo because the PL 8 and 9 abilities for Spiritshift aren't that great. In my experience the Shifter is more enjoyable when multiclassed. Here there a a lot of options which all work well and are fun to play, usually it's a combo of Shifter+martial class because of the spellcasting restriction when shifted: Shifter/Goldpact Knight - great AR with zero recovery penalty because of Paladin passives + Gilded Enmity (which is kind of free if you combine with Sworn Rival) + natural armor (especially Bear form). Eternal Flames stacks with Wildstrike lashes, Ring of Focused Flames gives extra +10 acc, Sacred Immolation + Nature's Terror is fantastic late game AoE dmg while in melee. Also nice with Steel Garotte but needs afflictions on enemies then to unlock life drain. So cast some affliction stuff before going in (Relentless Storm or Tanglefoot etc.). Shifter/Helwalker - higher speed and shocking lash from Lightning Strikes, burning lash from Turning Wheel, both stack with Wildstrike, +10 INT prolongs Spiritshift, +15 MIG (Helwalker's passive + Thunderous Blows) boost dmg and self-heal (pets, inter-shift), +10 INT/+15 MIG are fantastic for the Boar form because the shifter variant of the board form has a Wounding DoT lash that has the base duration of the spiritshift, not the usual one. Also great for any spellcasting between/before shifts (Relentless Storm or Plague of Insects and especially Moonwell - or whatever). Stunning Surge is a great attack ability and so are Efficient Anguish or Torment's Reach. Shifter/Trickster or Streetfighter - simple synergies due to high dmg bonuses from Sneak Attack etc. combined with Wildstrike lashes, no e Full Attack strikes sich as Crippling Strike and so on and nice mobility bc. of Escape. Streetfighter has a lot of potential with dmg (but has to be flanked AND blooded to unlock fully, pick human race to profit even more), Trickster with defense. Shifter/Furyshaper or Berserker - fast attack speed, some melee dmg bonuses (Blooded, One Stands Alone), added engagement via Barbaric Shout, added DoT with Blood Frenzy or terrify with Spirit Tornado, AR bonus (Thick Skinned), nice finisher Full Attack (Barbaric Smash), awesome mobility with Wild Sprint and especially when Leap becomes available. Berserker has higher dmg potential but also self dmg (use human race and Blooded to profit) and Furyshaper has nasty CC (Fear Ward). Shifter/Stalker - very high accuracy, added defense and AR, Boar form unlocks Predator's Sense of the Animal Companion automatically, nice Full Attack abilities (Wounding Shot but also the Hunter's Claw stuff) and of course an additional body on the battlefield which you can use to always flank enemies and thus apply -10 deflection and -1 AR to them (as well as Stalker's Link). During or before shifts you can use the awesome single target dmg combo Takedown Combo (+100% dmg for the next attack) + Sunlance. Shifter/Bloodmage - despite the spell casting restriction this works nicely in the early and mid game where you cast lots of the fast self-buffs with the Wizard, then shift and do melee. Late in the game it's extremely good because you can combine Wall of Draining (prolongs Spiritshift and all buffs and benefical effects, including healing over time and stuff like damaging aura spells - so you don't have to pause shift ever) with Zandethu's Draconic Fury (use Blood Sacrifice to get back the highest tier spell uses) and Citzal's Martial Power at last (cannot cast while shifted anyway). For lulz you can also use the Transmuter subclass and trade a bit of power for an additional shift form: into an Ogre. :)

American Civil Liberties UnionOne Year In: Defending the Constitution Under a Second Tr...The ACLU reflects on hard-won lessons and what the organization is preparing for next.the first year o' trump 2.0 was a busy one for the aclu and similar groups o' legal advocates. HA! Good Fun!

Also there have been a bunch of cases by now where ICE stole from those people. They really just do whatever they want.

Please do something about the travel sooner than summer.

Appreciate the buggies but they are still not fast enough. Takes half day of daylight to go from hot dog stand to garden.

Agreeed return them to bigger size. Very hard to see.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/chinese-speculators-set-stage-gold-120029836.html @Gorth you will find this interesting A good and interesting summary of the recent rise of gold and silver prices and then the crash on Friday In summary Chinese and other speculators pushed the price up over the last few months by buying. They decided after the Warsh announcement as Fed Chair to start selling because the dollar got a boost and these commodities are traded in dollars Mass selling started for profit and the price of gold and silver has crashed https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/gold

It's just a small little post but imagine we get like an entire dungeon set up to explore for their whole Minotaurs ans Myrmidions! Like a full dungeon set up normal sized for people but for us would be an awesome dungeon to explore!

Will black widows be added back?

I'm wondering where the ACLU is with all these ongoing 4th amendment violations by the administration? ICE is claiming they can issue their own warrants without a need for the court. What a joke. They are invading the homes of American citizens then arresting and detaining them. Talk about unreasonable search and seizure. This is completely abrogating their oath of office.

Hidden/Unlisted Controls (Buggy/Omni-Tool): Many items have unique, hardcoded, or "hidden" keybinds that are not listed in the standard options menu. For example, creatures like the Ant-Buggy have their own controls that overlap with player functions, so remapping jump to a key might not prevent that key from triggering an "auto-gather" on the buggy Default Binding Overlap: If you set a button to a new action, the game sometimes fails to fully unbind it from its default function, leading to one button doing two things Input "Sticky" Bug: Due to UI bugs, the game may not properly track which UI box is selected, causing a press to trigger a default or previously assigned action. This is particularly common when using ALT-TAB to switch windows, where the game fails to "release" a key FIX ALL THIS STUPID S**T this is HIGHLY ANNOYING!!!!!!! Makes me just drop the game in the dumpster for now.