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The impact of not taking revenge at the end of a game to break the cycle is definitely undercut by the bloody trail of dozens upon dozens of dead bodies Ellie creates on the way to the final confrontation. It's similar in how at the end of Man of Steel Superman saves the one family and has to kill Zod to do it. Even if you don't think about the half dozen ways Supes could have saved the family that didn't involve snapping Zod's neck, the impact of saving that one family of 4 is severely undercut by the 25 mile radius of complete and utter destruction and the hundreds of thousands of mangled, smoldering corpses Supes and Zod caused during their 40 minute rampage. If you're going to make a game where your ultimate moral message is that the cycle of revenge and killing needs to be broken and you have to forgive, maybe, just maybe, give the player the option of proceeding through the game without murdering a whole bunch of people along the way.

TLOU II has the same basic problem a lot of games have* with them trying to Say Something Significant and it being done stupidly. On one hand, it tells you to feel bad about seeking revenge and tries to say something about its futility/ circularity. On the other, there's only one way to actually play the game, and that involves... seeking revenge. The only way not to be lectured to about morality is to destroy the disk on youtube. And then you get lectured about a different kind of morality, I guess. *Case study being Bioshock, point out that the game is on rails plot wise and you're forced to obey the voice in your head- how meta, but potentially interesting- in order to progress; then once your programming is broken... you continue blithely following orders exactly the same as when Fontlas was 'would you kindly'ing you.

It was my mothers. :P I had it in a closet for ages but I think last time we moved over a decade ago I finally tossed it. I see ppl selling similar for $200-$300 these days. Drat. In other daily news: I was poked by Pfizer. It was just a quickie tho ... Pfizer got no time for foreplay. The worst thing about leaving the house is having to get dressed in real clothes. So uncomfy. I wonder if anyone would care if next time I just stay in my kitty night-shirt and fuzzy slippers.

It think overall it was good way to go.

After quite a while, I managed to get myself some extra money and it was immediatly spent on games: Cyberpunk 2077: spent some 7 hours playing it and it's ok. It runs good enough on the Xbox One X and I haven't encountred any game breaking bugs yet but honestly, Deus Ex feels a whole lot more 'cyberpunk' compared to this game. Mafia Trilogy: oh man, I had my sights on this one for quite a while. Haven't played it yet but it sure is worth it. All the games with the dlcs + complete remake of the first game. I wanted to buy Nier: Replicant today but the retailer said they were out of stock.

I took my sister and her boyfriend out for sushi: I got unagi temaki, which has rapidly become my favorite, and we got various other sushi to share. As an aside, I went cosplaying Mike Stoklasa:

For Sailor Moon I watched the original anime subbed. Sailor Moon Crystal looks hideous and should be avoided. The rest of Stardust Crusaders is awesome, and it gets beaten by Diamond is Unbreakable and Golden Wind.

So, update; Chassis; Corsair 900D Motherboard; MSI X570 MEG Unify CPU; Ryzen 7 5800X Cooler; Fractal Design Celsius S36, added some rubber vibration dampeners to the fans to get them even quieter. RAM; 2*16GB GSkill 3600 CL14 Ripjaws GPU; ASUS Geforce RTX 3080 OC PSU; EVGA Supernova G2 750W Soundcard(Yes, they still make them); Creative SoundBlaster Z NZXT Grid controller for the front fans, biggest mistake in my entire build. When I bought it they didn't have the online crap tied to it though. Storage; 3 TB Seagate Barracuda 3.5" 7200RPM 1TB Samsung 970 EVO m.2 750GB Western Digital Black 3.5" Kingston 120GB SSD Optiarc DVD-RW Monitor; ASUS MG 279 Speakers; Logitech X530 5.1 surround system VR; HTC Vive Pro Eye + Steam controllers and one extra base station Joystick; Thrustmaster T16000M HOTAS Controller; XBox One Wheel; Logitech G29 Keyboard; Razer Huntsman Mouse; Logitech G502 Hero

hey guys, i really love the game it makes me feel nostalgic about a lot of things from my childhood i think that some things that would be interesting in the game would be like if we're using full set of ant armor and get attacked, nerby ants would come and help us until we defeat the threat or all of us get killed. some ability to ride bees or another kind of flying bugs would also be nice, along with the possibility to have them as pets. a new equipment made of spider chunks that would allow us to climb surfaces like walls or tree branches would also be super cool

It happened to me actually. In 1993 the Corps was going through a force reduction. My MOS was being merged with another which left twice as many Marines for half as many billets. If I wanted to re-enlist I'd have to choose a new MOS. I had 3 options, S2 (Intelligence) Air Traffic Control, and I forgot what the third one was. S2 might have been interesting but I was a Corporal with all of 4 months in grade. What possible good would I be there? I'd end up as some 1st Lieutenant's bitch. ATC I knew well because I worked on ATC RADAR. But there were far more Marines in that field than billets for them and a good number of them never actually got to do their thing. They ended up in S4 or worse, Barracks Support. I'd rather be eaten by ants. I was already planning to walk away at the end of my contract but that made the decision a lot easier.

Damn I missed that it's for turn based. That changes stuff a bit and makes arquebuses (+modal) quite viable. Just need some backup against pierce immune foes. If we only look at the weapons themselves, Fire in the Hole does more damage than Hand Mortar. Just because Chain Shot grants a bounce (AoE included). The bounce damage will be reduced (like nearly all bounces) and also there's the general dmg reduction from Chain Shot, but against mobs it's still better than no bounce. Also it's great with stuff like Gambit and Stunning Surge bc. it makes sure you almost always get the full refund when aiming at multiple enemies. It's also great with Clear Out, Whirling Strikes and Heart of Fury. Twinned Shot, too. Combusting Wounds: also great with it. If we take some very special abilities into account - mostly Avenging Storm and Resonant Touch - Hand Mortar will be better with the help of Blinding Smoke. Not only does that unlock Deathblows at range - but it also counts as weapon hits when we look at Avenging Storm and Resonant Touch(!). If those can be used it makes it extremely good against groups of enemies. Hand Mortar's Blinding Smoke + Resonant Touch is the reason why I recommend SC Mortar Monk so much. But beware: with Community Patch both Resonant Touch as well as Avenging Storm got "fixed" so that they are not that abusable with Blinding Smoke anymore. With CP installed I would say Fire in the Hole is the better option in most cases. Blinding Smoke still unlocks Deathblows though, so still nice to have.

Honestly, I really appreciate not having a cutting edge PC growing up. If I had, I would never use DOSBox, nor discovered some real classics. I gave a try to UFO: Enemy Unknown, Pirates!, Another World, Flashback, Deus Ex, Thief1&2, Systemshock2, and much much more purely out of necessity.

Indeed. And the port facilities were just the tip of the iceberg... https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/australian-economy/how-much-of-australia-does-china-own/news-story/a0a710be9cbd78923c7500c147f4e764 Dairy companies, farmland, educational facilities, real estate in center of the large cities, energy companies, it companies etc. "A number of Australian energy companies, for example, are owned by Chinese firms. EnergyAustralia, despite its name, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hong Kong-based China Light and Power Co Ltd, while Alinta Energy is owned Chow Tai Fook Enterprises. Earlier this year, leaked documents obtained by the ABC and Nine Newspapers revealed that Alinta was potentially putting the personal data of its 1.1 million gas and electricity customers at risk with what an insider described as a “reckless approach to privacy and data”. The sale of $4 billion sale of Alinta to the Chinese energy giant was signed off by then-Treasurer Scott Morrison in 2017 under a series of 10 secret FIRB conditions, largely related to data security." I.e. selling out of Australia AND Australians including all their personal info to the Chinese government. At least Facebook tries to be a bit less obvious about it and hide it (when they sell your details). Makes it easier to keep an eye on expats and dissidents in exile I presume. It's only very recently that the Scott Morrison government decided that maybe China actually owning so much of Australia wasn't such a hot idea. I doubt he thought it up himself, as he does have a few "hawks" in his government who seems to have raised the red flags (pun unintended) at his current and previous actions. Slamming the door shut on Huawei telling them they weren't going to build and manage Australia's 5g infrastructure after all was probably the first sensible thing he (unwillingly) did. Edit: The biggest problem with getting rid of Morrison is, he has perfected the art of lying. Might have something to do with his background, being from the world of marketing. He can bull**** people like no other. His lies have sometimes been so outrageous, he makes Trump look like a sane and honest person. Unfortunately, Australia also has a large population in more rural areas who are less educated. Not stupid, just less educated and less savvy in the world of politics and believes what they hear. It really is in many ways a third world country ruled by conservative and religious forces. The church is incredibly powerful down here here, as we saw when they managed to avoid being held accountable for the thousands of cases of child rape that got revealed by a Royal Commission and even managed to get Cardinal Pell out of jail and on a plane to the Vatican in the middle of a complete lockdown, as long as the price was right ($2m dollars paid by the Vatican to get him out of jail and away from the press), but that's sort of irrelevant to the China situation, just one of the reasons a conservative government can be hard to get rid of, no matter how incompetent they are.

She's the one who doesn't want to play Witcher 2 and Call of Pripyat. I'm sure she'd enjoy Alpha Protocol too.

Morrowind, I am about 20 hours into the game and its been a great and rewarding experience. I do enjoy the Bethesda RPG Sandbox design. The world is huge and full of things to do from the dozens of books to read around lore to the myriad of quests and the sequence of when you need to do them. Yes this is true sandbox and with the assistance of Mods Bethesda are the undisputed masters of this type of RPG At the moment I am just trying to survive in the game world financially and enjoying finding places based on the " directions " of NPCs...." go east past Fort Moonmoth and take the trail to Gnaar Mok " ....its always rewarding not having a blinking cursor on the map making it easy for you

Roger Corman is the grand master of utilizing every last penny of a limited budget to maximum effect.

from the source least likely to be cutting biden slack: the national review "Turning to the grim details, if this proposal is approved, those earning more than $1 million a year will face a top tax rate on long-term capital gains of 43.4 percent (once the Obamacare surtax on net investment income is thrown in), compared with 23.8 percent today. That would be a top rate higher — generally much higher — than anywhere in Europe, and that’s before considering what state and local taxes can do to the math. Those living in high-tax states such as California and New York will be looking at a top rate in excess of 54 percent, and for those lucky enough to be resident in de Blasio’s New York City, over 58 percent. Those who have been making plans to leave will get moving, and others are likely to join them, something that would come as a major blow to their governments’ already-shaky finances." https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/04/bidens-vindictive-capital-gains-tax-hike/ 20% for gd unless is a really good year, in which case he gets the surcharge we mentioned earlier in which case is 23.8%. only way gd gets the big new hit is if he is an extreme top earner. the current 20% is indeed a burden for folks trying to make ends meet through small investments in real property and non ira kinda stuff. likely still better than the income tax rate, but is still a burden. yeah, the $1million threshold is not as gracious as it seems for those family farmers we mentioned earlier or for individuals whose entire retirement plan is built 'round selling a business. details will need be worked out to accommodate such inevitable outliers, but is perhaps not near as terrible as gd thought it were. HA! Good Fun!

were a personal choice by tom. can't even blame on bad cgi. HA! Good Fun!

The issue has been resolved. As it turns out, Cargo - our data storage system - ****s the bed if an integer is specified as a float. I'll post a note on it, so that we can fix it in the future. Sorry for the inconvenience!

I had hot plum sake at the sushi restaurant I went to today. It's not something I could drink all the time, but once in a while it's pretty great.

Not really surprising, since he got his start working for Roger Corman.

I don't think it ever stops doing that. It's kind of strange in that when you look at when the manga came out it both set a precedent for a lot of shonen manga while moving past it in a lot of ways. It also doesn't get very close to tournament/training arcs besides a few episodes, and it generally does that better than hyperbolic time chambers and similar stuff.

I'm now in contact with a dev from MediaWiki who fixed the weapons' template. I'm sure she will fix the shield template as well.

the non-partisan CBO warned that trump's blissful advocacy o' trickle down as the means by which his proposed tax cuts would pay for themselves were misguided and would cost the US enormous amounts o' money. warned before the tax cuts. https://www.cbo.gov/publication/54994 and yet we still see trickle down being advocated in spite o' yet another fail. but maybe the fanciful appeals to ye goode olde days has us once again embracing mercantilism or slave labor. heck, the slavery thing worked for the greeks and for the US. @Guard Dog is likely gonna take offense at suggestion the capital gains tax is mostly a tax on windfall profits, but when looking at the total o' money the fed and states generate from capital gains it could be described as such. am suspecting gd ain't some kinda land baron who is enjoying his scrooge mcduck lifestyle as he skis down small mountains o' gold and jewels. nevertheless, when he tries and sells any o' his investment properties, he is gonna see a significant amount o' his profits disappear. is more than a few people who live off their investment income and their sale o' small real property investments, and those folks is not making anywhere near windfall profits. the 3.8% surcharge for families making over 250k per year is indeed a windfall tax, or at least it is meant to be. but again, the capital gains tax is 20%. compared to income tax rates save for lowest brackets, capital gains is extreme low and the rich has been taking advantage o' the capital gains rate to build ever increasing fortunes for many decades. your average american believes the rich is getting away with paying little or no tax, which is bs. nevertheless, the current situation with inheritance tax, hedge fund exceptions and capital gains is all contributing to unsupportable income disparity and trickle down does not boost the economy anywhere near enough to pay for even trump's recent tax cuts which pre pandemic the CBO were projecting would cost americans trillions in the next decade and a half. rich get richer, poor get poorer and gd gets screwed no matter what. HA! Good Fun! ps in the spirit o' full disclosure, Gromnir is pretty much living off our ira at this point, and as such our capital gains on investment is deferred until we withdraw, so am not immediate affected by capital gains taxes. our real property, which am increasing convinced we should unload, will be affected by capital gains taxes at some point, but am not gonna be personal hurt if the capital gains rate were to double. the relative small hit from capital gains is how we were able to make money via real estate. same thread fifteen or twenty years ago and am suspecting we mighta been a bit less critical o' low capital gains.

That's utterly unsurprising. Very good money to be made in public projects, and when companies talk about loving the free market and wanting no government interference they mean no interference with their profits. They happily take subsidies for example, despite them distorting the free market, and big public sector projects are all too often subsidies writ very very large. CGT is mostly a tax on windfall profits, not actual investment. Raising it an attempt to claw back the massive disparity in practical effect of 'recovery aiding' policies like quantitative easing and super low interest rates. If you're poor you've seen a lot of your wages- and that's assuming you're still working- inflated away by quantitative easing and the main benefit you've had from low interest rates is maybe lower credit card costs, if the bank has passed them along and is not having to keep them high due to increased defaulting. Yeah, and I guess you had a couple of one off payments too, which probably cover your rent for a month or two. If you're rich though you borrow money at low interest rates against assets and get, what, 15% annual returns from real estate and 20% from shares? And a lot more if you're astute about it. Increased share prices may go to investment in the company, extra jobs and building etc in theory, but the profit goes back to the shareholders who are making the capital gains and the company will happily move its entire workforce offshore if practical, and pay its directors and executives massive bonuses while doing so. Raising CGT will not suddenly make investment a bad deal, it will simply make it less of a good deal. The Soroses of the world aren't going to be stuffing mattresses with their billions, they'll still be doing what makes them the most money- which will almost certainly still be investing rather than 0% interest from sticking it in the bank. They'll just make less ludicrous profits and pay a fairer, uh, share. To take the other extreme, no CGT is how you end up with houses costing ~15x your median wage, deposits scaling up faster than its possible to save and outright neofeudalism with serfs making sure the landed gentry never have to do a days work- and how you end up with economists scratching their heads about a non existent economic recovery despite apparently good fundamentals. Free hint guys: the serfs are paying most of their money to the modern equivalent of Jean de Warenne and can't spend it on the things that drive a healthy economy. That is current New Zealand, an economy attached to a housing bubble due in major part to no CGT.

8. you have to go through the sewer in the water near the mosquito you will find something

is not as if the wealthy is gonna stuff their money in a mattress if capital gains increases. is a tax on profit. US capital gains is 20%. the bracket for 40k income earners is 22%. so, where do you think the top 1% is making all their money? corporate tax obvious has the corporates pass the hit on to consumers, so is rare beneficial in the long run. obvious carveouts for personal residences (which there already is) and family owned farms is always considered when there is talk o' adjusting capital gains, but other than the 100ns who also argue in favor o' a flat 15% tax, which would lower taxes on the wealthy significant and disproportionate punish the poor, is tough to come up with a decent argument for maintaining the status quo... other than trickle down which has been a dead-end since reaganomics were laid to rest. "The lower capital gains rate — designed to encourage investment — mainly benefits the wealthy. For the 99 percent of taxpayers making less than $500,000, salaries and wages accounted for 75 percent of their adjusted gross income for 2012, according to the latest period available from Internal Revenue Service returns. Yet for those making $10 million or more, salaries and wages only account for around 15 percent of their income, while capital gains accounted for about half of their earnings." https://www.cnbc.com/2016/05/02/bill-gates-calls-for-higher-capital-gains-taxes.html HA! Good Fun!

I just went Bacardi Gold and Mango Pepsi. It's just what I had on hand, this wasn't premeditated, but it's actually pretty good.

It's interesting to watch old movies with practical effects and see how they've aged relatively well while cgi looks like a 90s Playstation game.

The wiki generates those lists from datasets (it uses an extension called Cargo). Often the generation seems to have hickups. Sometimes there are multiple entries of one item, others are missing. Sometimes it can be fixed doing an empy edit (just so that that the list gets generated again properly). Often I can't change anything though. My knowledge about how that wiki operates under the hood is very limited so I can't really do anything without diving deeper into that software - which I don't want to do. But maybe if we tag one of the wiki guys here, for example @Tagaziel, they might be able to fix it...? Edit: several unique weapons also seem to have disappeared from other lists. For example Spearcaster is not only gone from the unique weapons list bzt also from the list of all arbalests. The wiki moved from gamepadia to fandom recently. Maybe that caused some problems, too?

I apologize for this joke in advance, and I'll spoiler it. You may only click if you promise to not hate me for it first!

Should've used Dr. Pepper tbh.