All Activity

First both Houses are entirely toothless. Entirely. They will either endorse whatever comes out of this administration, or ah-hum-ing their to the apocalypse, with vague hand wringing about norms and civility. As for the courts, the system is slow, but the Supreme Court has already clearly shown who it stands with. Congress, lol.

I want to ask you something Trumps presidency has had several examples where he has been accused of ignoring the Constitution like with National Guard deployments and deportations And then these actions get challenged in the various courts and sometimes Trump wins and sometimes he loses Do you consider that the same as him ignoring the Constitution around a third term? In other words do you believe its irrelevant what Congress thinks or what the courts will rule if Trump decides to stay on as president? Do you believe he can decide something as fundamental as ignoring the 2 terms rule and it will become a reality I believe Congress and the courts in the US can and absolutely do have final say on what any US president can or cannot do on many things

Yes and that would be the worst possible outcome for the US and the reality of Democracy Some dystopian event where Trump seizes power militarily and becomes a leader for life with no more elections I cant imagine that ever happening but I understand the concern

@BruceVC I don’t think Trumps ambitions are relying on getting elected for life, just on being able to seize power for life. Those tiny cogwheels inside his head trying to assess whether or not his interior police/national guard goons will help him do away with the pesky election process or whether the regular army will oppose it (I get the impression that US veterans are not fond of him) edit he has repeatedly shown little interest in following rules other than when it benefits him. Insurrection, hello?

It's very fortunate then that the GOP hasn't been ignoring the constitution with no consequences, so far. We really dodged a bullet here, thanks for the help.

I see my point is being misunderstood and maybe its my fault for not clarifying something which I thought I did Im sure there are people who genuinely want Trump to become a leader for life and Trump would love to have a 3rd term But he cannot because that would require changing the US Constitution and the GOP doesnt have that support, as the previous link mentions to change the US Constitution you need 2/3 control of both the House and Senate 75% control of State Legislatures Even after the massive GOP win in the last election they dont have that support and in the midterms I predict the GOP will lose seats in Congress. So when Trump and some of his MAGA supporters say " I want to stay on for a 3rd term " you can ignore it because its not legislatively possible Its no different to the whole Gaza Riviera, annexing of Canada and Greenland becoming part of the US You will notice no one talks about those "ideas" from Trump anymore but yet at the time people responded to them as if they were real and possible Trump becoming a leader for life\monarch\3rd term is the same

Good game but hobbled initially by a bad case of Paradoxitis. Absolute content desert without the dlc, especially late game. And without the dlc you had very little reason to, well, want the dlc due to it being a very shallow game after the initial set up was done. And even with the dlc still had a fair bit of 'could have been better' about it in some aspects.

Got fed up squinting at file names on the 27" 1440 etc so I replaced it with the earlier LED 40" 4k TV (and its heavy swinging-stand, argh). Since it'll only be used for program monitoring and browsing, don't care about uber clarity and put the windows app scale sizing at 125%. That+bigger screen size works better. But - OLED and this LED are both LG. Meaning the remote/s work on both at once. Which is fine when I want to turn both off for the night. But trying to adjust other settings has everything popping up on both TV's rather randomly. Or if I only want to turn off the LED to reduce monitor light (film watching). Have to hold remotes super close to TV and at an angle to prevent it. Oh well - at least I can read stuff from sitting-distance and still have more windows visible etc. Edit: also having both be 4k = less dual-display resolution/positioning issues.

I am playing on medium difficulty. Usually my ant buggy is returned to the nest when it dies. I have had 3 of them say they are "going to the nest," and then get the notification saying "buggy is ready." Then when I try to call them out, they are locked and eventually completely removed when I quit and log back in. Is this a bug or a feature of how many times a buggy dies?

The idea for this is we know trinkets are very useful yet half the time i'm playing I usually just equip a trinket and forget, but with a trinket wheel (similar to the hotpouch feature), could allow players to switch between trinkets without having to open the backpack or I suppose in the hotbar (I really never put it in the hotbar; love stuffin' weapons). This would make trinkets feel like have more use then sitting in a chest named trinkets, as I'd be able to quickly switch between multiple trinkets between multiple enemies, or enviromental things (such as falling). I do usually try keeping a couple of trinkets on me yet I never really have the time to switch them or forget to.

There is no house in G2's map as this is a park, so no porch/deck/house/shed. Flying on butterflies/moths I would think is impractical for two reasons: 1. Wings would get in the way of player visibility while riding. 2. These insects utilize their low body mass to lift themselves into the air, hence the large wingspans. A better insect for flight might be a bumblebee, a flying ant, a locust, or a mosquito.

I've noticed that freezing occurs more gradually based on armor worn and consumable buffs compared to sizzle with appropriate gear and buffs. I would assume this is just due to balancing being needed between these two. Progression of environmental effect somewhere in the middle of those two would seem appropriate.

Thank you for your response. Yes, I have uninstalled/re-installed, etc. No joy. I ran several speed tests as you suggested and they came back flawless. All 'in the green' as you'd say. Movies, gaming, etc. All green. Ping: 10 Download: 478.26 Upload: 11.53 Jitter: 3ms Loss: 0% For grins I ran it on my phone too but it didn't fare quite as well. Jitter was 44 on D/L and 10 on the upswing. Obviously I don't play games on my phone... Just wanted a quick comparison. The only other thing to test is my kids' connection since they are the only ones I've played with. I will get the results and post them here. I have a feeling I might be looking for the problem in the wrong place? Question: I'm the furthest from a network guru, so riddle me this: Why is it we can play just fine when we're all on our Xbox's? Sure there's a tiny amount of occasional lag but I figured it's my Xbox One S vs. their X system. Mine isn't nearly as beefy as theirs. I also have to play via the cloud. Different servers? Puzzling for sure. I don't have any other friends playing Grounded 2 otherwise I'd try to crossplay with someone else to see what happens. I think I ran across a web site somewhere that has a lobby of sorts. Maybe it was here on Obsidian, I'll take a look. I really want this to work. Other than StarField, it's the reason I built my new PC is to play with my kids since we don't live in the same town anymore. We have a great time playing. Eventually they will switch back to PC gaming like I did. Thank you,

Went back to D3 to destroy my wrist, shame the current season is the God awful soul shards one though. I enjoyed the Ethereal one the most. At least almost up to 1k hours spent on the DH

Can you add like a porch swing, or hammock, and it would be really amazing to be able to fly on butterflies.

And you believe this why ? You know his heart, or better yet, the people around him for whom he's a cheap puppet ?

I've this issue too! 40 odd hours of playing down the drain! (Or at least I hope not!)

Hi there I see this may not be as rare as I thought, but ALL saves on my Xbox (including my son's who's 6) are all walking forward.into the scenery and then you are stuck... You can look all around but all you see is colours (almost like zoomed in part of scenery), every single Iteration of ever save on my Xbox is affected. I tried deleting and reinstalling game but nothing has changed, still same getting stuck in scenery. Even tried the fix bugs and force dieing to reset position but still nothing works. Looks like I've lost weeks of gameplay now! I would attach video but it's saying it's too big... So here's a link to it: https://photos.app.goo.gl/t73yo97EwQxU2yYT6

In the aftermath of the Jimmy Kimmel show's indefinite suspension, I have to wonder: Apart from the political alignment, how is what Jimmy Kimmel said about the suspect any different than what DJT said? In this case, the only difference I can see between Kimmel and DJT is in who has more polical power. Both claim without evidence that the suspect is a member of an extreme political faction; one claims left wing and the other the right wing. Indeed, conspiracy theories included a conjecture about the suspect being a member of the far right Groypers, who are in conflict with Kirk. Likewise, DJT immediately jumped to the conclusion that the (then unknown) suspect was a member of a radical left group. As usual, the answer is probably somewhere in between.

Hi there I see this may not be as rare as I thought, but ALL saves on my Xbox (including my son's who's 6) are all walking forward.into the scenery and then you are stuck... You can look all around but all you see is colours (almost like zoomed in part of scenery), every single Iteration of ever save on my Xbox is affected. I tried deleting and reinstalling game but nothing has changed, still same getting stuck in scenery. Even tried the fix bugs and force dieing to reset position but still nothing works. Looks like I've lost weeks of gameplay now! I would attach video but it's saying it's too big... So here's a link to it: https://photos.app.goo.gl/t73yo97EwQxU2yYT6

Now that this Reinhard Heydrich Charlie Kirk fellow ended up dead, the decree that "...all LGBT members in the Reich six years of age or older were to wear a badge which consisted of a colorful rainbow..." may be postponed, possibly indefinitely?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx20lwedn23o The only way Trump could stand for another term is to change the Constitution and the GOP simply doesnt have that support, so its not possible and thats just a third term so the idea of him becoming a Monarch is even more unlikely . So it doesnt matter what he says or what some of his supporters say. This is just a sensationalized story peddled by MAGA and then people respond to it as if its possible " On the face of it, the US Constitution seems to rule out anyone having a third term. The 22nd Amendment states: No person shall be elected to the office of the president more than twice, and no person who has held the office of president, or acted as president, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected president shall be elected to the office of the president more than once." Changing the constitution would require a two-thirds approval from both the Senate and the House of Representatives, as well as approval from three-quarters of the country's state-level governments. Trump's Republican Party controls both chambers of Congress but does not have the majorities needed. Additionally, the Democratic Party controls 18 of the 50 state legislatures. "

Trump has said lots of things and 40-60% of what he says is BS or nonsense as you guys often quote and post and we laugh about And it IS a BS and sensationalized story that somehow Trump is going to stay on forever as US president Rather focus on the policies and things he does that are real like migration enforcement and tariffs But he will never become a leader for life like in Russia or NK

If you continue to read BruceVC posts of your own free volition, you are mad indeed. Well, maybe I should check to see what he said myself... Oh wait, I can't! And I think to myself...what a wonderful world. Well, except for all the other stupid, disingenuous ****s out there, but it is what it is.

It drives me mad that Bruce still gives Trump the benefit of doubt. Tell me it's not possible to be this naive? Trump is doing *exactly* what he said he would.