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Nah, I dont believe anything Putin says or we hear what he apparently says I will believe it when I see Russia doing it Putin can go public anytime and say " we pausing the war to talk peace "

I want a discohelmet now.

I used duckduckgo as my main search engine for about a year, and it was useless for all but the most basic searches and I ended up just constantly repeating the same searches with Google instead. Its inability to consistently follow its own search operators (which I just did a search for again and as of the last year is apparently still an issue!) used to infuriate me endlessly. Now I use (and also apparently advertise for) Startpage, which is just a Netherlands-based Google Search pass-through that gives you the same results as Google Search but minus all the, uh, Google. Mind you, Google Search isn't as good as it used to be a decade ago (that or the internet is a much worse place that has lead to every search being inundated with endless garbage), but at least the search operators still correctly work through Startpage to drill down specific things I'm looking for. I'm waiting for the day Google takes away those, too.

I read somewhere that it's turned more in the Mass Effect direction, where you mostly control the main character and the party members don't contribute as much. Can't remember where I read it, so no idea how true. EDIT: Oh, it was mentioned in that article too, guess I didn't imagine it.

https://www.guru3d.com/story/microsoft-reportedly-readies-billion-bid-to-acquire-valve-steam/

No, but some really interesting tidbits. Probably, just like the original trailers it will make sense after beating the expansion. I do like the "vibes over plot" approach of FromSoftware marketing.

They might have been looking for a replacement of St. Petersburgh Larian, which they shut down when the Russian kerfuffle started. Warsaw sounds like a decent place for a studio on a budget with a lot of talent to draw from, and it is close enough within the time zone to support their 24h development cycle. ex-CD Project folks are an obvious titles, but there are a lot of polish devs and would-be-devs out there. It also seems like CDPR folks are more than happy to leave on their own, considering the ammount of "by ex-CDPR devs" attacked to indie projects, so I wouldn't worry too much. If anything, big budget RPG competition, might made CDPR care a bit more about their employees.

I wonder if this is a real development or not: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-wants-ukraine-ceasefire-current-frontlines-sources-say-2024-05-24/

After every fight I spend hours trying to find the corpses in the grass. I usually look for the last 1-2 in vain. This is extremely annoying and frustrating. Is there a trick, because that can't be the point of the thing?

So far the weakest goodie bag by GOG. But free is free

The x-rays were dated and I saw them side by side so there were minor differences in angle. And, while they are victims of budget cuts, it manifests in lengthy queues for non-emergency surgeries. Which means that I'll likely have to wait a loooong time for surgery

Do you consider yourself a chatty person in RL? Do you enjoy chatting to strangers in supermarket lines or striking up a conversation with someone on a plane Im generally very chatty. I talk all the time if people want to engage and most of the time they do but I can read signs if someone doesnt want to chat and thats fine, I find women are generally much friendlier with random conversation Its funny because on planes I have occasions where someone has said " sorry Im not being rude but I dont want to talk " and I say something like " no problem, I completely understand. I prefer people being honest and not feeling obliged to have a conversation on a flight " and they say " yes, I can tell you like to talk which is why Im telling you " And thats perfectly fine, especially on a plane. You have every right to not engage in random conversation if you dont want to

I am happy to see game developers having reliable employment. I never liked CDPR games, which seemed only to worsen since TW1, so hopefully, there will be no similarities. Larian games might have issues, but they are improving in some aspects. As the meme goes, "Stupid sexy Bioware". There is a very good chance that despite the DRM and rather poor system requirements (considering that it is an AAA, the graphics might be a priority), I will purchase it near the release date.

https://www.gog.com/en/game/warhammer_skulls_2024_digital_goodie_bag

Do you think RTwP games can learn at least something from Larian? I've finally tried BG3 (didn't finish it though, computer can't handle it mid to late game), it's clearly by far the best combat from Larian and even for a TB "hater" like me, I have to admit I can't complain about pretty much anything except for it being TB. I've seen people arguing that the Larian style of terrain utilizing and verticality are hard to adapt for RT or RTwP, but I don't know, isn't using Z-axis already in modern ACT or general RPGs? Maybe it's something technical, rather than a design problem? It's kind of funny that BG3 as a turn-based game allows saving mid-combat, while I've seen at various points in Pathfinder games, the auto-save checkpoints Owlcat put there don't work because they conflict with a cutscene or combat has begun, so a reload means going through cutscenes and dialogues again and again. I think this choice from Larian also helps reduce the punishment on player's mistakes.

About to start on my favourite slime hero (watched first episode a while ago), but otherwise at a bit of a loss what to watch next. I loved Ergo Proxy and Heavenly Delusion, absolutely adored Gushing over Magical Girls and... Frieren? I doubt I'll find an adventure that will captivate me to that degree again. Metallic Rouge was enjoyable too, even if not into the whole fighting and "mecha" kind of thing. If these shows have anything in common, it's probably that they don't have anything in common Ah well, hope Rimuru sticks around a while yet

My save is over 120 days in. I have defeated the assistant manager a while ago and already have the keycard for the koi pond door. When I entered the small lab room for the first time, the button to the stump lab was already pressed, despite me never entering that room before then. Even the door accessed by the assistant manager keycard was still locked. I figured if the button was already pressed, that meant the stump lab was open. I went up to the stump lab and the door is red with the message that it's still locked. I tried looking on Google but all it says is to make sure you have the assistant keycard, not what happens if the button is already pressed before you even reach it. And yes, I unlocked the door with the keycard leading to the chest with the right side charm in it, so that room is fully explored now.

The maulers of undermountain!

It's been a year. About time to bump this!

I don't think the marketing was there for it. Only us geeks who frequent this forum knew about it! I didn't love the first game but I was still excited for this. The pirates theme was OK to me, it's a bit different.

Truly shocked the Beeb banned this

Aren't they like 30 now Change name to Babametal

Azdeus, make sure they aren't just victims of budget cuts, using the same x-ray since November for all patients. LC, I take post-its with me to dentists, with pre written answers that I can hold up. It totally breaks their chattyness flow.

So maybe a year ago one of my upper back molars broke in half/off. But since I'm silly/stupid and almost never do the dentist thing, and there was no pain (I assume it "died" at some point, so it cracked), I didn't do anything about it. Then a lower back molar started to shift rotation and wiggle a bit. Then this week the gum above the broken upper molar finally had an infection. So today I had both removed. Dentistry has improved a lot in 17 years. No pain, fast. Those 3d images of your teeth they can do etc are pretty neat too. Other than those two teeth, everything else looked pretty good, weirdly enough. They have no idea why the one started wiggling. Per usual I'm complimented on having a mouth that never seems to produce tartar even after decades. After healing months I may get some implants. I explain all that because like many before me, as I lie half asleep in a chair as my jaw is tugged and pulled around, I kept asking myself: WHY do dentists/cleaners always yap at you and ask chatty questions while they have tools/fingers in your mouth - it's not like you can answer.

W40K Mechanicus II has been announced. No GOG for now