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You can be like my brother and just mooch off other people. I think he is just missing someone with Amazon prime to complete the set.

Cancelled Netflix, HBO, and Paramount Plus because I barely use them as they rarely have anything I care to watch anymore. About halfway through my "vacation" and my son keeps having bad reactions to bug bites. Wouldn't be so bad but he's awful at taking meds.

Yezhov_disappears.gif Not sure there's anything geopolitically funnier than the current US v India stoush. All that work at bromancing Modi and all those poor photons and elctrons working overtime about how Russia was losing India and it's back to 1971 because Trump has the mentality of a 7 year old*. If it's hard work isolating China without Russia it's absolutely impossible without India as well, let alone if you manage to drive an actual rapprochement. It's also the fundamental problem with buddying up to strongman populists- they know their popularity relies on Nationalism and appearing strong, so they cannot be seen to back down from public threats. Doubly so when it's a country that has been a colony within (just) living memory. It's not even like there's a major pro US party other than the BJP in India. *It'd be interesting to know if the views of those in the EU who thought they rolled over for Trump on the tariffs would change if that was the cost for imposing secondary sanctions on those trading with Russia**. Because that would be an alternative reading besides Trump hating BRICS and not being given his tendies diet coke and well done steak on a silver platter with sufficient subservience. **Excepting, of course, the EU's trade with Russia. It really is a mystery why the rest of the world think the west are a bunch of hypocrites.

I tried a new run of MechWarrior 5. It is fascinating how much a dev team can do wrong. The new scrapyard maps added with dlc are the worst maps I have ever played in any game. The AI is completely incapable of navigating them and gets stuck on bits of terrain every few meters. The AI gets worse/better with difficulty. At normal difficulty, when reaching higher tier missions, the allied AI started to dumb down noticeably, to the point where it would simply stop firing and stand there, allowing the enemy AI destroy the mechs. As the enemy AI gets significant stat boosts across the board, including turning speed, acceleration, cooldown time on weapons, damage and armour (so much armour), it meant that a light mech could almost take down a full lance of heavy mechs, while a heavy mech could take down your whole lance. Of course AI mechs never overheat. So, it becomes increasingly frustrating and unrewarding to play this. The first impression is "What a great mech sandbox". And then the game works at a steady pace to deconstruct that.

I was going to try Twinkling Watermelon (2023) next. Two of the 2L's from WH are in it and I've heard some good things. Guy goes back to the 90's, has to get his parents together. So heartwarming family drama/romance/comedy, maybe with a focus on music? Of the streaming I sub to, it was only on my Viki website/tablet app, dunno if it's on other services/other regions etc. Edit: think the FL is Seol In-ah. There were two common teasers I found, one more the comedy and the other maybe the family drama side.

Ah, that's the fun little bug where a notification tells you about a like in a thread moved to the moderator forum for moderation. Had that one too, after I replied to a SonicComradYellowMage117 post. God told off for trying to "evade" the word filter by "accidentially" misspelling a common colloquial term for fornication. Edit: Kinda bizarre, that was over five years ago.

Go play SOMA next.

Good to know, esp. vs Nemnok goons.

Huh weird. I don't think I liked any of your posts in weeks.

My issue isn’t about the founders pack, I bought the game on steam and it didn’t download but it took my money, so I was desperate to play right then and there so I figured it just glitched so I’d just buy it again… happened twice… luckily my friend agreed just to gift it to me so I just gave him money and played, my money returned to my account later that day so all’s good but still annoying

Dandadan manga getting hype again.

Got fired at my second job (company wide restructuring) and I have to say, while inconvenient, I do feel a certain sense of relief at all the extra free time I am getting. It's going to be interesting looking for a PM role as I'm not certain how that will work, but on the other hand they did me a favor, I should have left half a year ago. I think they were taken aback about how chill I was regarding the whole thing.

I have 1 episode left of Weak Hero s2. Will probably watch it tomorrow. Tbh, I kinda need a new lighthearted romantic k-drama to swoon over. Feels like I already watched everything that interests me, which sucks. Saw that Jung So-min had a new show in 2024, so went into it immediately.. just to see that I already saw it, lol. Or rather, I started watching it, but it didn't click with me at all and dropped it after a few episodes. Nothing new from Bae Suzy yet either, sux too.

I know its really weird, but I really hate killing the caterpillars and the snails. They are just sweeties and so cute- could you possibly just make them a feedable bug as an option? As in you give them something edible they like and they give the production items such as the slime and small nubbins? Or something similar to that effect. Don't get me wrong, I know some would still want to slay them and all, but I struggle with doing so each time and it makes me feel guilty. Also highly suggest dialing it back on the scorpions ganging up on people- and letting them nest with wolf spiders. That was a crazy fight to deal with and try to recover a back pack from. Also, because I am evil, scorpions can live underwater for up to 2 days. If you wanted to include them in any water biomes. That would be pretty awesome. One last little thing, with all the new bugs and colors- maybe make some painting of various building items as options? It'd be kind of cool to just have a few colors to change building pieces too- just a random thought.

Yup only Companion relationship ever show a breakdown of the different axis changes.

Map a key to quick change between mutation loadouts. Can we get more than one hot pouch wheel? Also dont see the point of the the quick craft wheel, maybe replace that or the emote wheel with mutation select.

No O.R.C. after beating game. Cant complete creature cards

It'd be nice to configure the controls of my buggy as well.

Hey, I went to farm blueberries it was at night and encountered the ORC Bumblebee for the quest. I'm not 100% sure but we didn't have the quest at that time yet. I ran away, not killing it. I did see it a day later still there. We are now caught up with the quest and went there, but the boss is nowhere to be found. The quest is not completed, and we ran around but can't find it anywhere. We are now stuck on this quest. Is there anyway we can still complete this? Kind regards,

I've just finished Pillars 1 with the intention of exporting my character to game 2, I thought it would be a cool experience to see the whole story across two games. I feel absolutely heartbroken. I can clearly see that the engine is better, graphics, etc. a lot of improvements have been made on the finish of the game, but the **gameplay** absolutely crushed my enthusiasm. All I've been doing since installing the game is counting the nerfs, the wing-clips, difficulty increases, reduced options, etc. and just seething in frustration after having spent over 100 hours in the last game only to be constantly slapped over and over by a feeling of impotence in this one. I've made it to level 3 and I'm just about ready to uninstall and never look back. The only thing I like, other than the visuals, is team skillchecks. That's it. The rest is either "whatever" or between "bad" and "infuriating". Are there any mods that revert the rules back to Pillars 1 rules? I hate absolutely everything about the new character system, spells, classes, progression, the whole 9 yards. Also, are other games like Avowed more like POE2 or POE1? Did they revert back to Pillars 1 mentality or keep forcing this inferior system?

Spoiler Alert: After getting the Orb Weaver mount I've got a new issue which is that when I hop off the Orb Weaver mount, I can't sprint any more. Perpetually walking and hitting the sprint button does nothing. I superquit and restarted the game at that point and loaded up where I left off and hit the sprint button and took off sprinting. Jumped on the Orb Weaver and ran around for a second and hopped off and tried to sprint and failed. Please fix this along with the Infinite Sizzle. Though I do want to fend off attackers I would like to run away sometimes too cause I'm busy and in the middle of some other task so its not great the sprint is broken after grinding for this orb weaver spider after having discovered its egg before KNOWING i'd be able to ride the spider. A bit disheartening.

I think that in grounded 2.they should add the « distributeur to nearby chess from your inventory. Now puting it one by one is long for nothing

Right, so it shows absolutely nothing until I hit a certain threshold, in contrast with the companion stuff that shows every entry...inconsistent design, but thank you for the answer.

I get that its partially how lumen and lighting is working, but overall the general hue of the world makes my eyes feel weird after like 30 minutes of play. I miss the cleaner clear look of the first game. This one feels like I'm wearing blue light filtering glasses all the time. Maybe i'm in the minority of folks where this is bothersome, but as someone who put over 430 hours into the first game, and I'm already feeling visually tired by this one, I feel like just something is off with its overall environment color.

Waiting for the back surgeon video appointment. If they (and hubby) say "yes", guess we'll be driving down to San Fran in the near future. It's "outpatient" surgery but I think still general anesthesia (likely so the patient won't move/sneeze/twitch re: delicate surgery fiddling) so would need driver after. I'm a little nervous for some reason. Just the fussy/worried spouse I guess. At least it's not the more mega/major fusion/replacement stuff.