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Perhaps this explains the current administration's weird obsession with striking some notional grand bargain with Putin.

^^ Arnold careless whisper is the best application of AI so far. I don't know if it's worth all of us losing our jobs, but it's close.

The new comedy special by Dave Chappelle. I sat through it, it was interesting enough, but I maybe chuckled 2 times. Probably his worst one to date. I think fame has really done a number on his material. This will probably be the last thing I watch from him.

On PC/steam. Was facing a lot of issues with saving the game being bugged. I connected my xbox account and was saving fine for about 2 hours. Lost all the progress when I hopped back on the game apparently. Cant find the xbox save files anywhere. I can see the images of the save files with my most up to date progress but cant load them. It seems as if the screenshot image was saved but not the data somehow. Realy disappointing to lose this game time.

Man, I really wanted to play some new game over the holidays, but just nothing looks interesting to me right now. Dispatch was the only thing still on my current list, but that was done in 2 days. Big sad.

miller's family didn't exactly come over on the mayflower... arrived in 1903 after fleeing russian pogroms. am having mentioned how US refugee laws didn't come into being until post ww2. given his family background, you would think miller would have some kinda empathy for immigrants and refugees. counter to star trek visions o' the future, am suspecting prejudice and bigotry is fundamental to the human condition. when afraid, social predators seem to have an instinct to attack perceived weakness from within the group, though admitted, cultural, racial and religious differences equating weakness is a distinct human perversion. in any event, nativism, as a distinct flavour o' bigotry, has reared its ugly head a number o' times in US history. extreme income inequality and fundamental changes in the labor force is common characteristics o' rising nativism. https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtid=2&psid=3432# in the late 1890s, +40% o' the US population lived and worked on farms. by 1920, the agriculture accounted for ~1/4 o' the US workforce. at the same time, while the economy were s'posed booming, from a practical pov, most people were getting poorer. rise in political populism blame o' immigrants for all woes nostalgia for "traditional" values etc. just as the US never brought back all those family farms, the lost manufacturing jobs ain't coming back to the states, and ai is gonna disappear many entry-level white collar jobs young people has counted on for decades. an eat the rich moment is coming for the tech oligarchs if the income inequality issue ain't addressed, and no amount o' social media manipulation is gonna convince people that everything is wonderful when they cannot afford minimal health insurance and rent. given how similar is the economic and social reality o' 2020s US when compared to the 1920s, spawning objectively hypocritical and ridiculous proto fascists such as miller is perhaps a feature as opposed to an aberration o' the times we find ourselves. HA! Good Fun!

It's Miller, so as long as they're white, they're good. Remember:

Poked a bit more at S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 now that 1.8.1(.1) is out and, well, feels mostly the same as before. The main difference appears to be that some mutants feel tankier again (Bloodsuckers, notably) and there's more of them in the wild (Poltergeists especially). I also have visual artifacts now, so yay for that? Haven't found the new weapon/missions yet so no opinion on those. Honestly, this is one of those games that the more I play it the more disappointed I get. The environments are great, but they gave up on everything else that made the original games great to get that fidelity it feels like, immersion being the main thing, but the storytelling is just bad in a lot of ways, and given that it's pretty in-your-face in this one it's kinda hard to ignore. Just played through the SIRCAA part (again), and am now at the Noontide base As a side note, ambient subtitles are still broken (though slightly less than before), most of the time (by which I mean: "almost always") the first line of a dialogue doesn't get subtitled. My Ukrainian hasn't gotten any better since the last major patch so it's still really annoying.

Somewhat ironic to use second and third generation migrants as example how migrants are bad for America

So solo paladin is the safest one i find for an iron man solo run. Hes very tough hard to kill. But at some point the game becomes agonisingly slow. How can i make him do enough damage until he hits sacred immolation. Even draw in spring is like death by a thousand cuts. I do need a modest amount of damage.

I Think It will have to wait a little bit in my backlog. I am a little bit busy IRL last few months, and my current primary gaming goal is to finish my last two owned Soulborne games, before I turn 50 and still have some reflexes I have nit started them yet though, so my plans might be still subject to change

hatred and spite are always there just get paint over by the nice policy and qol improvement after ww2 for a while

yeah, just imagine what frank sinatra might say to stephen miller. late 1800s and early 1900s US nativism has been forgotten by too many. let's hope it don't take another world war to once again snap us out o' our collective stoopid. HA! Good Fun!

Playing outer worlds 2 and tainted grail. Switching between the two hoping one will pull me in. So far id say tainted grail is closer to pulling me in. I like the grim setting a lot more than the goofy and kinda dumb outer worlds. Tainted grail feels a lot like how I remember oblivion. It even feels 20 years old like oblivion. There have been some quests that were interesting. Characters and dialogue don't annoy me. It's not bad, but it also doesn't do anything special. Pretty standard fantasy open world RPG. Outer worlds is just so souless. I'm almost done with the first planet and I'd have to think hard about any mission that sticks out. Or a characters name even. I'm roleplaying as a brilliant dumb guy... not sure how that works but I chose brilliant and witty then chose dumb as a negative perk. If this was a game I was invested in, the combo of dumb and brilliant would ruin my immersion, but it actually fits the goofy setting.

This same issue happened with my account. I logged off before finishing the quest and when I logged back in the ability to access the burndown controls aren't present even though the indicator icon is. I contacted Obsidian support recorded video of the issue and was transferred to another department who I haven't heard from in over a month. It absolutely sucks the amount of time I put into the game only to be trapped. I have no heart to restart.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ZZ2789T DLC survey

So I got the keycard, and I need to enter the vent thats in the room to get to the other side, but my character wont climb into the vent no matter what I do. I've taken off armor, switched weapons, reloaded saves, died, dismissed companions, changed PoV, you name it. My character refuses to climb into the vent.

RIP Spiders.

So, should we schedule you for next month?

I think there should be a option added to the buggy to hold a button to trash the stack in it's hands for cases like I've had right now where I was cleaning out the grass that grew in my base and didn't need the grass so all I could do was pile it in a corner and wait for it to despawn which made my game crash multiple times this will make things alot more helpful for many people I believe with similar situations

Looks like, I’ll be the last in this thread to play that game

On GOG it is sold under Activision.