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"It may be difficult to believe, but per the Guinness Book of World Records, Klingon is the most widely spoken fictional language in the world. " other than elvish, or perhaps australian, we couldn't think o' a likely challenger to the klingon guinness title, so not a surprise at all. and don't tell us australians predominant speak english. have listened to a group o' australians speaking more than a few times and we need a freaking translator as often as not. HA! Good Fun!

It is the natural evolution of the paradox model though: Now even dev studios come as dlcs.

I reached the part And now I can't stop watching because they started a sequence of important revelations.

Made a new (hidden) Keyword, added it to one of the Brilliant effects. Made a duplicate of the Fireball_Aoe attack named Fireball_Aoe_Brilliant, made it hostile-only and added it as an extra attack to the original Fireball_Aoe. Added a conditional to Fireball_Aoe so that it will ignore all targets if the caster has an effect with the new Brilliant Keyword. Added a conditional to Fireball_Aoe_Brilliant so that it will only fire if the caster has an effect with the new Brilliant Keyword. Basically makes the original attack ignore everything and puts a hostile-only duplicate on top if it when the caster is Brilliant. The process would have to be repeated on all AoE attacks, so dunno if I can automize it and actually make a mod out of this concept, but the result is a lot better than I expected.

Amazed my coworker by explaining to her how to use lsof and ps to hunt down where a server was running from. Undermined it all by saying "Praise be the Omnissiah", perhaps. Other than that wasting time at work watching some lady in Khabarovsk vlog about her city

On the contrary

India has a region where people either elect the local socialists or the communists - and it's the region with the best overall figures afaik. Calling India fascist is pretty wild, even if rising nationalism is a concern. But then you need to call all western democracies who currently see a surge of right wing populism and nationalism fascist countries. That would include Sweden, Poland, Hungary and Germany as well I guess... 😕 My wife is a rel. high ranking diplomat with the German Foreign Ministry (currently with a minister of the social democrats - so basically a younger Bernie Sanders ;)) - and while Germany doesn't share the US' general attitude towards China, our governmant also has its own insights and concerns. What China's leaders do is def. not all honest, benevolent and altruistic... Thing is they do it quietly most of times: buying foreign companies for much more than they are worth (so every owner/shareholder says "Oh hell yes! YES!"), sucking up the know-how, rebuilding similar facilities in China and then closing the foreign company (sending the workers home). China then has all the knowledge and can produce way cheaper, selling the stuff back to foreign countries AND the foreign country has lost an asset AND the workers are angry and without jobs, turning to nationalists and right wing populists and so on and so forth. It's very effective and - one must admit it - smart. Also they really get **** done...

The more I hear about JoJo's Bizarre Adventure the more bizarre it becomes. Also, I'll just quote the Sailor Moon Wiki here for something that just happened in Crystal: You go girl, you go. I think I'll skip the manga for the time being, because that is really... directly taken from it. Holy crap.

Maybe they like cgi or giraffe people? Someone has to I guess. Everything I've seen of and heard about Crystal tells me to stay the hell away. I'll get to finish Great Pretender and finally start Attack on Titan instead, and hopefully Stone Ocean gets confirmed so I can watch a lesbian prison riot against a gay priest who is trying to fulfill his dead boyfriend's dream of going to Heaven.

Explosion captured in Jupiter’s upper atmosphere. if it wasn’t for Jupiter I think there’s a pretty good chance there would be no life on earth. It is the solar systems catchers mitt!

That would be a miracle I can get by

Hah, watch it end up with a Brian Mitsoda led studio.

So, in case you thought I wouldn't respond to your little snide remark towards Ami here: You were wrong! Ami is... <insert character defense here>. So let's talk characters a bit now that I'm done rewatching the entire run of Sailor Moon, and I'll be talking about them purely in their civilian form. I'll leave discussing who has the cooler super powers or the better attacks to fans of the manga where these discussions belong. First time I watched Sailor Moon, indeed, I loved Ami. I still do, don't get me wrong, but it no longer is the same. My life simply moved to a point where she's no longer the most relevant of the characters for me, plus the parts that could still be relevant are criminally underused. I really enjoyed watching her fangirl about on the internet in SuperS and in real life in Sailor Stars and being all embarrassed about it when asked, but this happens in three or four episodes out of 200, and she has one episode where she wonders if there's more to her life than what she's currently doing. While this is probably one of the best episodes in Sailor Moon S, and perhaps even of the entire run, it's... not enough. Not any more. The top spot now goes to Makoto and her attempts to move past being an outsider. Now to be fair to all the other characters, each of them - before meeting Usagi - is an outsider all on their own for various reasons. People are scared of Rei's abilities, think Ami is an aloof nerd girl looking down on them and Minako has all the problems that a girl realistically would have if she for some reason turned into a crime fighting super hero at age 13. Makoto though, Makoto's issues stem from an unhealthy body image and her lack of self-esteem and self-respect that come from that. That is something that will always stay relevant for me. Not that she gets more attention than Ami in focus episodes, but the relevance of her problems and how she deals with them is present all the time, so hey, here we go. It makes more sense in Crystal and in the manga (it's there according to the wiki) because we meet Minako like three quarters into Sailor Moon's 46 episodes (man, really, why couldn't they just number the seasons?) and by the time the other Senshi have had a good deal of interaction, character development and fighting as a team. Since they do none of that in Crystal, Minako being sensible and taking up a leadership role makes perfect sense. She stumbles upon a freshly awoken team of girls desperately in need of guidance. In Crystal, like in the manga, she also pretends to be Princess Serenity until Usagi's memories surface. Giving Rei a more active role and Minako a more goofball one was an adaptational necessity for the format, having to come up with 4 or 5 episodes between manga chapter releases.

Back to games people actually care about: Evil Genius 2 will have Brian Blessed as the voice actor for Red Ivan. According to Rebellion, this means the game is also an official sequel to Flash Gordon.

Not when you add the theme song in:

Well, I bought this game.. that was a mistake. Played it for about an hour before the bugs/general level of unfinishedness overwhelmed me. I'm hoping Cyberpunk 2077 has a similar journey as The Witcher 3 did, but so many systems seem to be missing or are so deeply broken that I have a difficult time keeping my hopes up. Still, I'm gonna wait for patches before I jump back in. Lots of patches. At least give me my modifiable cars, dammit!!

NYPD testing robot dog I have to say I knew it wouldn’t be this but I was kind of hoping that it would be this.

The Globalist Lizardman Cabal has won.

From what I've heard in Sailor V, yes it is. Sailor Moon manga, well, no idea yet. So far I've only read chapters that invovled Ami, Rei and Makoto from the first and the fourth arc. Definitely not in Crystal. She's the sensible leader type there. The one with experience the other girls turn to, and bringer of lots of exposition. Let's see what the second season brings.

I have it on good authority Beforeigners is more accurate. Time travel is a huge social issue in Norway.

The inflection point was actually the economic crisis. It, with a little help from the refugee crisis, basically allowed right wingers everywhere to lean on foreigner scaremongering. "your life is in the crapper and it's their fault, vote for us"

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😂. Nope, not a drop since middle of last year. But I wouldn’t worry overly much about the sipping whiskey business. They will do just fine without my contributions! Seriously are the only thing I drink nowadays are black coffee, unsweet iced tea and water. And Gatorade sometimes. And juice sometimes. I’ve cut way back on the amount of carbohydrates I eat. Most of my meals are now just protein and vegetable. And the majority the vegetables are the ones I grow. Can’t say the same about the meat because I can’t bring myself to actually kill my livestock. I get too attached to them.

They're actually less popular than they used to be. They've seen up to 15% of the votes in earlier elections, now they're polled at around 8%. As far as "far right" parties go, they're kind of mild and hard to categorize. They attract the nationalist loonies though, that's for sure, and I wonder how they'll fare with if Sylvi Listhaug ( https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-36102329 )becomes their new leader, which looks like it'll happen.

Not really. Although I should. I’ve got arthritis in my shoulder and both knees and still have soreness from the accident sometimes. But I am active and walk a lot. Even walking to cold creek is about a 20 minute walk each way with a decent incline on the way back. Plus I do eat right and I have completely given up booze

There's a clear case to be made regarding Hungary, I'd say. While it is not fascist in the strictest sense of the word, Orbán seems to be making an active and successful effort in making Hungary less democratic. I've seen his government called "soft fascism."

I didn't realize how short Crystal is until I just looked it up right now. That pace seems like it'd be utterly brutal for all the characters, especially if you're new to the series and have no idea who these characters already are. If you've seen the manga or watched the original show, sure, you can kind of...supplement via your imagination/memory of the characters, but I can't imagine someone new to the property wanting to sit through what's basically SAILOR MOON: ONLY THE MAIN STORY (EXCEPT EVEN WORSE!), that sounds like a nightmare. I mean, it already sounds like a nightmare for a fan of the original show, but imagine how new viewers who have functioning brains would feel! I was watching that animation video and thinking "eh, this is really only marginally better, it's still pretty ba-OH MY GOSH, Ami and Rei and the rest look so much better when they're not rendered in almost literally the world's worst 3D anime style, they no longer look like weird G-Mod tier anime puppets thank god". I could probably watch that with the character animation so vastly improved (even if it's still wrong)...if the show itself was good. Season 3 will probably be better, but at the same time, with so few episodes, they're still going to have to focus overwhelmingly on the main story and Usagi + only the other absolutely critical characters, and who the hell wants to watch that? ...Well, I guess you'll let me know if it's even kind of worth watching, because I sure as hell ain't watching season 1, and I think we can all but rule out season 2 as well, .

Well, that was the first arc of Crystal. Or the first season, however you want to call that. IC, you should NOT read this. I mean, not until you're done with the first season. You don't have much left anyway. Phew. So what do you think, is the next arc going to be as awesome? Not entirely sure, but they do have a new director and a new writer for the third season (and the new movies from this year, and any perhaps coming adaptations for Stars). The animation looks completely different too, might as well be a completely new show. 4K difference video, I hope that one isn't locked in the US as well: Still don't really like the way it looks, but it certainly is a major improvement nonetheless. Final thoughts:

I haven't properly read through this post yet, but I saved it for later since I'm off for work, you could have a look and see if there's anything you can make sense of that is interesting

I feel I need to buy a new motherboard and 5800x so I can get some insights to assist you. Yes. Definetly no other reason. I've stopped reading the AMD reddit lately, but I've seen posts there detailing that they've lowered temps and increased performance somewhat with just undervolting and using PBO2. Might want to have a looksee over there.

I find SC Arcane Archer extremely impactful in three different setups: As CC setup with Imbue:Web from stealth followed by an immediate Imbue: Web (or the other way round), Watershaper's Focus and Driving Flight - which gives you 6x AoE damage from Blast + high chance of Ondra's Wrath happening + 3x Binding Web + 3x Pull of Eora with insane ACC. It pulls the enemies very tightly together and they can't move on their own. Perfect setup for further nuking. As AoE dmg setup with Hand Mortar (Blinding Smoke) + Twinned Shot + Driving Flight + Avenging Storm: Blinding Smoke gets triggered unbelievably often because of Driving Flight and two shots at once. Blinding Smoke, although not doing damage, does trigger Avenging Storms. I had over 1000 hit rolls with this on a group of 5 or 6. It's instadeath against mobs. Second weapon set with Fire in the Hole for imbue shots (one more projectile bounce = one more imbue proc). Also works with other Ranger subclasses of course. You just won't have the tools to pull enemies together yourself to hit more enemies at once. Also works well with Whirling Strikes - if you put a melee weapon into your offhand. As another AoE dmg setup with Current's Rush + Twinned Shot. High Tide procs off itself(!) so once you get a proc of this and have enough enemies in the AoE it's very likely to proc a chain-reaction where High Tide procs other High Tides and so on until every enemy in range is dead. Obviously Imbue:Eora helps to pull enemies together so this works better but as with the previous setup it's also doable with any other Ranger subclass. Also works with Whirling Strikes + melee weapon but I had better results with One Handed Style + Twinned Shot. And of course my beloved Bleak Walker/Arcane Archer with Spearcaster. But that's a multiclass. With Frostseeker is another option of course, but again better with multiclass (e.g. Cipher or Helwalker).

I miss Seinfeld, I am not a big comedy person but I use to love that show

Uhm, girls, you forgot to take your Legendary Sacred Sword with you. Hey, uhm. I don't think Luna and Artemis can carry that on their own. No, nope. They just teleported to the moon and left it lying there. Okay. Humm, humm, ho humm. It's starting to brainwash me too. This is great stuff. In the same way the Masters of the Universe movie was great. edit: Ah, it's okay. The Legendary Sacred Sword teleports itself into Sailor Venus' hand when she needs it. This is fine. She doesn't even need to pull it out of the Sorting Hat. edit 2: HOLY COW. Sailor Moon survived running herself through with the Legendary Sacred Sword which was shown two or so episodes ago to destroy even the hardest materials possible at the barest touch because it was deflected by Crystal's version of the Star Locket - Mamoru's moon phase pocket watch. edit 3: Oh look, Prince Endymion survived being slashed in half by the sword too, because that blow was deflected by four crystals pieces made of jadeite, zoisite, kunzite and, yeah, you guessed it, nephrite. Wow. Such awesome. Hey maybe SuperS wasn't that bad. Fly on the wings of love!

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Cool. But wow, manually that would be too much work imo. But if the naming patterns and ability structures were consistent then one could write a routine that does this automatically. But I fear that will not be the case. Has anybody knowledge about how Confusion causes everything to become friendly fire? I guess there's an overarching effect at play and not an implementation like above?

Metro Last Light. They are a bit harsh on the Red's but all-in-all a great game. Metro series deserves far more credit than it gets.

Salmon and couscous last night. I made my wife's piece with my homemade jerk seasoning and mango salsa and for my son and myself I made it with a lemon mustard sauce with dill and capers. My son loves lemon and has been asking for fish but then when I made it he barely ate it and instead devoured almost all the couscous.

Well, my Frankenstein system is more or less complete. Borrowed 32 GB (out of 64) from a different PC until I see RAM I like at a half-decent price, and I've got an "old" 5700 XT that I received for free sometime back but couldn't use due to its power draw (noting once again that I barely use my GPU, so I may end up going back to my GTX 1060 if I have too many driver problems, especially since a number of cutting-edge emulators, including for the PS3/Wii U/Switch, reportedly play poorly with AMD cards due to said drivers issues, and that's more important to me than anything else). As for my motherboard, I ended up going with a solid but unspectacular choice in the MSI X470 Gaming Max Plus. No bells and whistles, but I wasn't looking for any - just decent VRM/power phase design and all the standard features, and strangely, this board punches a bit above its weight, having tested for better VRM design than many boards literally twice what I paid for it. Didn't go for watercooling (I never overclock and the thought of running liquid in my system is skeevy to me), but the FUMA 2 I got tests just as well as some significantly pricier options and is even quieter. System is up and running but nothing's formatted yet and it likely won't be for a while because a migration is going to be very difficult. I have not yet decided whether I'll use Windows 7 Ultimate or Windows 10 LTSC. Windows 7 is my preferred option, but man is it getting lean in the years - and it'll take a bit of tinkering to get it to work with the 5000 series CPU. Windows 10 LTSC...is a compromise, but one I've been using for some time with my laptop, I'm not sure if I'm ready to fully jump over yet for my main desktop, though...I wish there was an even further modded version of Windows 10 than LTSC that stripped out some of remaining annoyances and problems to make it a little more hands-off Windows 7-style...perhaps I should do some investigation, since there are certain to be others who feel the same way. Complete specifications for now: Case: Fractal Design Meshify C Blackout PSU: SuperFlower Leadex III Gold 750 W MB: MSI X470 Gaming Plus Max CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800x Cooler: Scythe FUMA 2 RAM: 32 GB something or another (temporary) G.Skill 32 GB 3600 GPU: Asus Radeon XT 5700 SSD: TBD, want a 2 TB TLC+DRAM drive, saw one I almost bought yesterday for a great price, but hidden in the details was the fact that it was QLC - no deal!