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I wonder if Trump will wind up becoming the greatest single factor for the adoption of alternative energy globally. Leaders across the world are faced with a situation where a handful of not particularly wise individuals are able to severely hamstring the flow of energy from the gulf region, possibly creating a global recession, and however this war plays out it's quite unlikely to be a permanent settlement of the issue. All of a sudden windmills and solar panels start looking like a good idea.

This is one of my highest priority asks. Hot deposit is mandatory for games with this kind of inventory management, but I also need to be able to keep my armor repair parts on me without having to search every box in the world after I hot stack.

Scientists shocked to find lab gloves may be skewing microplastics data Face-palm emoji. 🤦‍♂️ This will not look good on your annual performance review...

Kharg Island was put out of commission during the Iraq-Iran war, so Iran has been through this type of oil shipment denial before. I'm skeptical they will bow to threats to occupy the island or blow it up, when they can effectively keep the Straits of Hormuz closed to oil traffic, then charge a high toll fee. Redacted's other threats to Iran would deal a hardship to the Iranian people, but I doubt it would remove the current government. The longer this war goes on, the greater the time and repairs necessary to get the goods flowing again. It's looking like a pyrrhic victory for the US.

Me and my wife broke the questline on accident by completing the "sowing wild Limes" before finishing the "Beyond the garden" wall quest. By doing this the leaky faucet never triggered and thus cannot repair the hose, sprinkler system, or fight the boss at the end of wild limes. Is there a fix for this or anything that can be looked at in fixing this issue?

I thought Iranian hackers shut down breathalyzer so he couldn't drive to work

NK sappers?

usa have no presidential babysitter left usa almost end modern civilization during cuba missle crisis it is certainly far more stupid and impulsive now

Hard to see how that could be done. If you go by what the US claimed earlier it's mostly sitting under tons of rock, after all. Going to fly in some excavators and backhoes on a Globemaster you land on some back country Iranian road? Yes, that is answered in the article, but taking up to weeks to set up a temporary airstrip in the middle of Iran would seem to have one or two minor potential problems associated with it. Even if they don't think of Dien Bien Phu they could always think about Hostomel. And for below, Russia in 1812 or the USSR in 1941. Kharg Island makes more sense. Not much sense either, since it's near inevitable the Iranians would blow all the oil infrastructure up themselves if the US tried to seize it, and then it's just a very hot flat rock. (I actually wondered what had happened to Hegseth yesterday, since he seems to have disappeared. Then I saw an article saying that they seem to have given up on doing briefings about two weeks ago)

I just finished a veteran run with this character and I loved it. This build is lots of fun all around and you can feel the power spikes through the entire game but especially when you start pooping skeletons automatically. I used most of the gear described here and it worked great, but I strongly recommend the Helm of the White Void for the headgear as soon as you can tackle the Beast of Winter because causing body and mind afflictions is what you will do most of the time. If I had to nitpick something is the chanter starter ability, I understand why it is there, but the skeletons fall off fast and I wish I could use those ability points somewhere else later in the game. And do we need Penetrating Visions since the only spell that makes use of it is Soul Shock? I also wished that I had an extra ability point just for the Eld Nary invocation, even with only 10 might that ability is 🍌🍌. May be on the next run I will try the Pindown Poet or something with a Monk, because rangers and monks are the classes I least use.

I'm not a big fan of the Cipher class in general but I really like the Psion - and I really like the Psion/Troubadour, too. It's one of my most beloved class combos: The Ceaseless Siren

Ah, you started reading the manga. That's cool! As I said Fire Punch also had an atypical ending, but here it just felt like he wrote himself in to a corner and gave up. Then again maybe people just had expectations that he never promised in the story to meet. I'm genuinely curios to hear what you think. On a aside, I read the first five chapter of Koi to Yobu ni wa Sasayaka desuga (It's Not Quite Love Yet, but...) that are out (it's monthly :( ). This is an original story from the godhand of slice of life Hagiwara Daisuke. I'm now itching to reread Horimiya.

https://web.archive.org/web/20260330181554/http://web.archive.org/screenshot/https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/trump-weighs-military-operation-to-extract-irans-uranium-37427c8b?st=tpQhTo&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink Should call it Eagle Claw 2. Temptation for some super high profile chance for SpecOps wank must be unbearable for Hegseth.

I got drawn into playing Dead by Daylight by some friends, which is a 1v4 asymmetrical PVP game. Unfortunately, I seem to be a lot better at murdering people (the 1 killer) than I am at living (the 4 survivors), which doesn't really jive with the spirit of co-op with your friends... Whoops.

That's right. I've only heard a little bit, because they've been shielding me from spoilers knowing that I started reading it, but there has seemed to be a general attitude of "haha, the media-illiterate Chainsaw Man fans don't like it but iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii sure do". Imagine someone making the smuggest face in the entire world to punctuate that statement, because that's basically what I've seen over the past week every time the subject of Chainsaw Man has come up. I'm genuinely very curious as to how I'll feel about it, especially given everything that happened at the end of part 1. big spoilers for manga, don't read if you've only seen the show

Happy with part 2 of the manga?

The person who made me watch the Chainsaw Man show and movie says they've been perfectly happy with part 2. I've now finished part 1, I guess I'll be seeing with whom I agree in the coming week or two.

Crimson Desert - another big patch. At this rate it's going to be 40% a different game in a month. I think they're mostly trying to simplify/smooth out the early sections/areas and MQ fights to maintain a better early impression/retention of masses. Y'know, the 70% of gamers who never get past the first 1/3 of most games (me sometimes included, heh. I've been pushing out to other zones/regions and general mobs are still easy to kill in two's and fours - but what they do is ramp up the numbers/patrols/waves so it gets harder to manage camps/forts, with more danger of being overwhelmed if one tries to Leroy in/gets cornered. the occasional tougher or "leader" or side boss to make you use up your healing items. Anyway - this is going exactly like Enshrouded did, for me, where I like the game a lot one moment, then almost dislike it the next It waxes and wanes depending what one is tackling at any point in time. Kitty cute note: I only use the other two playable chrs. when games forces me to, but did recently discover if I summon the female PC to base camp, all my (now 12 or so) parked pets immediately flock/run to her, with all the cats jumping onto her shoulder AT ONCE. Kind of a visual nightmare really, all the tails and faces moving around on top of each other. But it is hilarious, and with oodles of "meow, meow, meow" to go with.

No names mentioned, but I could just as well have posted this in the politics thread. Like, how Shopenhauer recommends dealing with Trump (some of his handlers seems to already having worked this out when manipulating him)

Based of all that very detailed information - thanks once again! ⸜(｡˃ ᵕ ˂ )⸝♡ - i think i may just stay clear of Debonair. I really, really thought that the Debonair gets the Tier 3 Body Inspiration, not the enemy x.x I think i might just go for Trickster then, as it seems the most unique of em all that doesnt buff the enemy haha. Or, well, maybe Psion. Vibe wise, just as special as Debonair seems to be. Likely with a Chanter Subclass stacked on top for maximum "i literally just stand 'round and ya'll vanish". Who needs knives and underhanded tactics if your mere presence is enough, right?... smth smth along those lines.

Single class Rogue is fine. Mostly because both Gambit and Vanishing Strike are good abilities and fun to use. By the time you get Gambit you will usually have over 10 Guile (+2 if you use the Devil of Caroc's Breastplate) which means the crit conversion when using Gambit is at 100% or only a bit below (Gambit's cost of 4 Guile gets substracted before the conversion check). That means unless you miss or graze you will critically hit all the time, giving you back the 4 Guile (if you are using a dual wielding setup, else only 2 Guile). This lets you spam Gambit endlessly which is very powerful, especially with weapons and other items that do something good on crit (see Ball and Chain, Rust's Poignard, Boltcatcher Gloves and so on). It also works well with ranged weapons such as hand mortars, blunderbusses and pistols so a Debonaire who doesn't want to go too near to enemies or doesn't want to leave allies can also make good use of it. If you have a party member who can charm all sorts of enemies for the Debonaire then the critical hits for Gambit are even more likely, at least for the first attack (which will flip the target back to hostile). Vanishing Strike gives you an invisibility that doesn't break until its duration is up. This means you stay invisible even if you are damaging enemies with attacks. Since the duration is rather short you want to: a) prolong it with high INT and items (Salvation of Time is not working because the spell will not hit you because you are invisible and not targetable) b) be very fast with your attacks while invisible to squeeze the most out of it. Both Assassin and Streetfighter are nice for this. The Assassin because of the Assassinate passive being at work while invisible and the Streetfighter because of the reduced recovery which allows more attacks while invisible. Debonaire can also use it of course. Obviously Backstab is a great ability to combine with Vanishing Strike. You can use both - like turning invisible and then slam Gambit - but imo it's better to concentrate on one of them to maximize the effect. Debonaire as a subclass is charming (pun intended) but its uses are fairly limited. Because charmed enemies immediately flip back to hostile if you hit them, the 100% crit conversion isn't a very exploitable feature. The added damage charmed kith do (if you charm them with the Debonaire's own Rogueish Charm) is okay but not really impactful. Imo something like a self-contained Skald/Debonaire (focus on the charm invocation + melee crits for phrases) or a Psion/Debonaire (charm and then use Disintegrate as an almost guaranteed crit, this doesn't flip back the enemy) is most fun, even if a combination of a dedicated Charmer + a Debonaire on the party is usually better in terms of action and resource economy. One charms and the other immediately profits (instead of having to wait for recovery to finish). Single class Debonaire works and can be used like any other Rogue with the known drawbacks of a Debonaire. I just find the other Rogue subclasses more suited for single class operation. Assassin in combination with Vanishing Strike, Streetfighter with Gambit and Trickster with stuff like Freezing Rake, Wall of Many Colors or even Gambit in combination with Wall of Flashing Steel. The Debonaire's special thing at level 18 is that the kith enemies they charm with Rogueish Charm get any tier 3 body inspiration. It's nice but very situational imo. Like... why would you want the charmed enemy to become Robust? So when looking at single class Rogues the Debonaire isn't more attractive than a vanilla Rogue to me. PS: iirc you can combine the Chanter's charm upgrade (charmed enemies deal more damage) with the Debonaire's body inspiration on the same (kith) target somehow (don't remember how I did it). Not really worth it though imo. The most annoying thing about a melee Debonaire is that Persistent Distraction doesn't work and is a trap choice because they cannot ever engage enemies in the first place.

Nice, the right to protest is often taken for granted in Western countries and especially where the LGBT community can openly participate Its one of the fundamental human rights that doesn't exist in countries like Iran or Russia And its good that you put the effort in to be part of this protest. RL activism is always appreciated and better than Internet activism