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I have been under the weather, stuck on the sofa. So I finally felt lousy enough to waste time and watch The Watch. That show is a dumpster fire. The most amazing thing is, the people responsible for it were so delusional, they even wrote in the hooks for a second season.

Not so sure its pride as much as memorializing the 750,000 people who died while settling the issue.

NAFO types think tricking the intellectually disabled into planting bombs and then blowing themselves up is fine, so long as it kills Russian police as well. They think using an Azeri truck driver to deliver a bomb and getting him blown up is fine, so long as it's targeting the Kerch Bridge. And yes, they shed tears for a literal literal Russian nazi, so long as he's fighting for Ukraine and killing Russians. There's pretty clearly quite literally nothing they wouldn't excuse so long as it results in dead Russians. They are the living (eh, rather a lot are most certainly bots) embodiment of 'no bad tactics, only bad targets'; many have a previous record of supporting ISIS, when it targets Russians. It is thus utterly unsurprising that most of them are absolutely fine with dead Palestinian children, tortured Palestinian prisoners etc etc. Not very high quality human beings, to be sure. Fair chance Kapustin got whacked by his own side anyway. His organisation was largely irrelevant once the figment of the Belgorod incursions being home grown was gone, and he personally was embarrassing. Plus if there were a peace agreement he'd be an excellent chance for trying to mess it up. Always a good candidate for an 'unfortunate accident' as happened with a number of pro Russian militia leaders.

https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/skald-against-the-black-priory-cffcc0 SKALD: Against the Black Priory is free on EGS. It is a decent turn-based CRPG, even if the ending is disappointing.

Seeing NAFO types praising Kapustin is pretty funny, given the guy has a Schengen ban. Hm, Stephen Miller would cry for him.

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lol, Pluribus s2 is set to release in 2 to 3 years. The tv show release times are getting ridiculous. Why even bother with new shows.

somehow in almost 300h of playtime, I have still not finished a full playthrough of this game. Maybe this time? and, as usual, I have a disastrous case of choice paralysis regarding my character. What class? What role? What morals? Who to use as companions? Who to support? I am leaning towards a ranged character, since I never really did that, and I never sided with Italians too (damn capitalists), so.... maybe? My previous runs were as follows: Monk/rogue Barbarian/priest of Skaen Berserker/wizard (this one actually got the farthest, past beast of winter) Rogue/wizard Paladin/priest of Berath I have a preference for heavy-hitting dual-wielding characters with some casting or at least a variety of activated abilities (the tank run was a dud). I finished PoE1 with a cipher, so maybe that should a part of it. Thoughts, ideas? Thanks!

Any specific genre (gameplay/setting) you would like to try? --- Death Trash. The story has picked up, though I have not found an alternative solution for the quest I did not want to do. The Tower and the Godhunters' Prison locations were significantly larger than any previous ones, with the latter, unfortunately, being extremely light on story progression per encounter (as in, I cleared 4 large floors for 1 quest McGuffin and 1 lore bit). On the other hand, the Tower had 1 puzzle and 3 (!) quests with multiple solutions and skill checks. In terms of balance, I have found a decent 2h sword, attached an upgrade to it, and maxed out the Melee Sharp and Stealth skills, so I have a decent chance to 1-shoot non-boss foes. However, if I do not do so, they have a very high chance to 1-shoot me. The regular ranged enemies have perfect aim and just strifing is not sufficient to avoid getting shot, though it is possible to get out of the attack distance (depends). The PC does not have auto-aim either for the melee or the ranged attacks. Nor do I have the ability to restore HP automatically between encounters, while the enemies seem to do so. Thus, any 1-on-1 or 1-on-closely standing group encounters usually end in my favour fairly easily. If anything does survive the first strike, it results in a fair bit of kiting and dodging. Enemies do not dodge, at least. Reloading is almost instantaneous and automatic upon dying, so redoing a battle 3-30 times is less annoying. There have been 3 bosses so far - 1 with arena gimmicks (you can clear the arena, save, and face only the boss for 75% of its HP bar; it restores health if you leave the arena; has 1 attack and summons trash mobs at 25% HP), 1 with 2 attacks (just hitting and AoE explosives), and 1 which did not fight back but had a boss HP bar, therefore counts. The enemy variety feels sufficient, though it is mostly humans with weapons, a few zombies (regular, explosive, charging), 2 types of robots, and 1 type of turret. Also wierd dogs. I think it is possible to attack any NPC at will which is nice. Same for the locations - desert (and with meat), ruins (and with meat), underground facilities (and with meat), 1 purple forest. The equipment feels good, as every new weapon helps greatly, though it has only been dropping from the regular foes rather than being found in chests or dropped from the bosses (I did get a fairly useless but fancy-looking mask). I have found 1 armour set during exploration and purchased the one I use. Lockpicking feels pointless, as the value of the items found usually does not even offset the lockpick spent, while the XP gain is negligible (10-20% of a bandit). Regarding the above-mentioned quest, it gives an ability which might (will test) be required to access the newer areas, namely, the Perished City. From a quick look at the news and discussions, there might be more story content there. --- Update. Tested, the quest is not required to proceed. The Perished City has a better distribution and variety of pretty much everything.

didn't brazil abolish slavery in 1850 always weird that usa are so proud of being this late to the party

finally played dispatch great art and genre style didn't feel a game are this good and want to play again immediately since mass effect 2 hope this is the direction telltale style game is going

Perhaps this also explains the current administration's weird obsession with striking some notional grand bargain with Putin. *In fairness to Czarist Russia serfdom would be abolished about the time the American Civil War kicked off, two years before the Emancipation Proclamation, and almost four before the 13th Amendment was ratified.

^^ 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