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This! Some years ago, I watched the occasional Fox news articles and some Fox youtube videos (to avoid the echo chamber thing). I seriously thought at first, that I was watching some surreal satire in the comments sections until I realized those people actually believed what they wrote. Made me despair for the state of the world.

that is a concern, but am gonna point out that the administration's gaslighting efforts has been so successful, they may not feel any need to rely on ai or make ai claims as a defense. https://www.facebook.com/RiseUpAndResist/videos/bash-you-said-he-wanted-to-massacre-law-enforcement-what-evidence-do-you-have-th/1532399077827566/ trump supporters watching fox, oan, news max and countless maga sites is seeing video and they is glomping onto the narrative offered by trump, steven miller, kristi noem and greg bovino. have mentioned previous how reading stories at fox doesn't provide much insight, but reading the reader comments following the stories does. us v. them. HA! Good Fun!

am gonna admit to being pleasant surprised that at least a few (admitted too few) o' the no compromise second amendment advocates has been more reasonable than our more notorious board pundits. and HA! Good Fun!

Played through Bloodborne again. Well, almost. Didn't do Gehrman yet, but the DLC is done. Took me over an hour again to beat the orphan of Kos (or some say... Kosm). First phase is for sure a lot harder than the 2nd one. First one needs a lot of patience and some luck. 2nd phase is pretty much just "dodge into him" and don't drain your stamina too fast. After that, I went a little bit into Elden Ring again. Haven't finished the DLC yet, still lots of content for that one. But damn, the game is visually just beautiful.

Haha I didn't know this. I guess I am going to have to console Eder into a monk in every playthrough now... Speaking of multi-hit weapons, does Ball and Chain give 3 chances for Swift Flurry/HBD per attack when it crits with Crushing Yoke and Subjugation? I am looking at Crushing Yoke in the exported JSONs right now and I didn't realize it launches an attack in basically the same way Mohora Tanga does. If so, there is only a ~12.5% chance that it doesn't trigger at least one proc. That's pretty great.

I figured I would test it more and sure enough crashed my game almost immediately with Stunning Blow and MT in the offhand. Just had to add a bunch more accuracy - I don't think I was quite high enough to truly go infinite on PotD with modded extra upscaling. Also, I had Seeker's Fang in my main hand for my last playthrough on a transcendent, so I think the giant raw damage was killing all the low-fortitude weaklings before MT even hit them (so maybe the consistent order of hits with full attack abilities does matter in some contexts). Currently making a "safety valve" mod that does not interfere with the self-proc, but prevents the infinite loop. By setting `MaxTriggerCount` to a finite number I think it may stop the loop from going infinite. I just one-handed MT hit a dummy three times in a row and my game did not crash. It hangs for a bit, but the loop does stop even when every Red Flag Flying hit is a crit. I need to tune the value a bit to see if I can cut the loop off earlier. At `MaxTriggerCount: 30` it still overflows the combat log before stopping itself and hangs for a good second or two.

Ok, I've now seen the modern version of The Running Man. It was ok, as such things go. Not a very good film, really, but at least it did feel more like it actually used the book as inspiration. The main chr/actor tho - I was assuming the uber angry/max bad temper posture/walk/expression was intentional, and it didn't work. It was like a bad SNL angry-man satire. The pacing/editing killed it, like many things these days. I mean, I felt more attachment to everything going on (and chrs) in ye old Lethal Weapon series. These days it's just set piece after set piece sewn together with nylon threads. Edit: actually, a lot of stuff these days feels akin to doing a TikTok scroll pattern. "Set piece", finger-scroll, "Set piece", finger scroll. Makes sense I suppose. 2nd Edit: I saw Matt Damon/Ben Affleck's interview re: Netflix asking them to put a huge action sequence in the 1st 5 minutes to keep phone-users attention at the start, and they made it sound like that's a totally new thing/ruining movies. Matrix? Bond, sometimes? It's more how it's done - plus whether the film makes that 1st attention grabber worth the rest of the time, to the end.

It's Costco day. Which is where one spends a silly amount of money, to supposedly save money. At least we've never left CostCo with a giant inflatable boat or $5k patio set. Wouldn't fit in the car, anyway.

That sounds like a positioning or animation offset bug rather than something you did wrong. Stuff like this usually happens when the interaction point on the furniture doesn’t line up correctly, especially on consoles. Try picking up and placing the lounger again on a flat surface, or rotating it and reloading the area. A full restart can also reset animation sync issues. If it keeps happening, it’s probably a known Xbox Series S glitch and worth reporting, since it’s more visual than gameplay-breaking.

This issue came up again while I was playing and it for some reason bound to my ESC key.

During the fight there are a lot of times that I cant hurt the masked stranger, my attacks go right through her and she remains unhurt. Not sure if this is a way to force the player to kill the broodmother first or not but its frustrating that I have died multiple times now due to this I am assuming bug.

During the fight there are a lot of times that I cant hurt the masked stranger, my attacks go right through her and she remains unhurt. Not sure if this is a way to force the player to kill the broodmother first or not but its frustrating that I have died multiple times now due to this I am assuming bug.

it grows back

If I chop the stump to the grass does it grow back? I've had this come up so many times.. sometimes I feel like it does, and others I don't . Can I get an answer? I'm hoping it comes back..

I managed to get corporation cooperation prior to getting to the archive, with the order agreeing to take the Archive but allow Aunty access to some materials. Secured Spireton with the help of both Order and Aunties troops, gave the calcedeceus(?) to the Order NPC who greeted me after fixing up the Archive, and patted myself on the back for a job well done. Then I head back to Ruth to tell her of my achievements and she acts like she's never met me before, demands I hand over the calcedeceus (which I shouldn't have in my possession), after which I find myself with a shoot on sight status with AC. Can anyone shed any light on this? I've had the dialogue reset issue with other NPCs and companions, but not to the point it ruins the outcome of the game.. please help. I've researched and I've done everything to enable cooperation and keep on both factions good sides, including good reputation

Soon there'll be AI videos minutes after an execution to protect whatever narrative they come up with. And of course witness videos will be fake AI generated.

Oh for sure, german CDU is already getting more and more friendly with the AFD. That's probably what our next government will be.. CDU + AFD. Ironically, the few states and towns where the AFD was already voted in, are doing really badly economically. Those people are extremely incompetent and it will only get worse in the future.

conservative will choose to collaborate with fascist again it is all very predictable

The problem is that all the second amendment bros joined ICE, so they don't care about gun rights anymore.

In Portugal a neonazi organization was recently found to be heavily armed, doing military training, and planning operations to goad Muslims into violence. Over ten members of the organisation were found to also be members of Chega, the Portuguese Conservative party totally not right wing fascist.

Federal agent secured gun from Minn. man before fatal shooting, videos show

The german AFD sees the Minnesota ICE footage and ofc now says that we need something like ICE as well to get rid of our immigrants. And still there are people claiming the AFD aren't right wing fascists.

PS: if I remember correctly then Magran's Blessing has a Fire Shield which also can proc Swift Flurry because this version of Fire Shield inherits the weapon attack tag from the shield it's attached to. So Magran's Blessing + multihit weapon could also be a nice pick.

I have definitely crashed my game countless times with Force of Anguish on a single-/one-handed Nalpazca/Stalker. So not offhand but main hand, nothing in the offhand. So that might play a role as well. Since Swift Flurry/HBD only execute main hand attacks (even if the offhand crit triggered SF/HBD) it is considered to be safe(r) to use Mohora Tanga in the offhand since that limits the risk of too many Red Flag Flying loops. But this is a theory mostly, slightly backed by some testing results but comprehensively proven I guess. Your observation with offhand auto-attacks may reveal something still. For example it could be that exceptions get caught by the game properly when attack abilities are used and then the loop gets canceled no matter what or are just more robust - but with auto attacks those exceptions might get totally unchecked and get handed up until the game needs to close before compromising the OS's performance due to memory issues. No idea, it's just a guess. But it could indeed be that auto attacks behave differently in that regard and that's why you see more crashes (or any) in the first place. Could also be that your hardware (RAM size, CPU etc.) influence how many loops can be processed until it has to shut down to prevent bigger issues. It might be that players with more RAM will see Crashes a lot less often than players with less RAM. Again: just a guess. But if a player tries out Mohora Tanga and it just works and doesn't crash the game often: that's great. I also made it fun despite the crashes. I just had to find a way that works well for me. In any case it's mad fun to just obliterate an otherwise difficult foe with a series of nasty crits - all in one strike.

trump's immigration efforts are becoming less popular. however, The New York Times/Siena poll 11% o' all respondents believe ICE tactics have "not gone far enough." 24% o' republican respondents believe ICE tactics have "not gone far enough." the large % o' republicans who is ok with the current situation, and the significant % who want more o' the ultraviolence is problematic. those extreme republicans vote, and they is overrepresented in primaries where candidates is chosen. edit: please recall that in trump 1.0, the administration gave up on their family separation policy because republicans were repelled by the cruelty. only 25% of americans (or less) supported the family separation policy. today, routine violations o' first amendment and civil rights don't bother most republicans anymore than did cecot, and near a quarter o' republicans is disappointed that immigration enforcement is too cautious and polite. ... we are fundamentally broken, and a mid-term loss for the republicans ain't gonna fix the problems.