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I've got a Ukrainian driver that went home for christmas and stayed to go back into the army, I hope he's ok. Awesome guy, while all other truckdrivers where watching netflix in their cabs, he went running to the gym and then ran back.

St... St... Discovery, thing. Episode something, season whatever. "We're in orbit around a former gas giant. The gas was burnt off by meterorite impacts." Except for the beginning, the episode was fine, actually. Not good, but in the context of the endless sea of stupid this is, it was passable.

That's pure Orwellianism. What a waste this all is. Let us remember that Kyiv has an awful lot more history than Moscow does. Kyiv was around, and a major center, for approximately half a millennium before Moscow even existed.

Let's see who is old enough to get this

Well, it's not *that* bad. In good news, I bought Elden Ring today, so I'm going to shut off completely for at least a couple hours, maybe even the full weekend. And who knows, if I'm lucky, I might even see the end of it before we're burning in the nuclear holocaust. That said, it does bring up quite the old forgotten fear about Chernobyl back into the daylight. Of course I was too young at the time to realize any of what had happened, but my parents got stories to tell..

Funny, I wasn't really sleeping well for a full week now. Every day is a bit of a mess and now I'm pretty much sleeping a few hours right after work, and then a few hours later in the night. And every time I wake up this feels so unreal, like none of this really happened. It also doesn't help that the last couple weeks were very stressful for me and already costing my sanity. Weird experience. Right now I'm just hoping that I'm opening the news feed and it says that russia pulled out of ukraine and all is like before again. Everyone is a big, happy family. Yay.

I could have put a joke about a burning nuclear plant here, but it might be too rad....

Finished up with the rewatch of Cowboy Bebop. Top 10 series of all time. When I think about Watanabe's series, I think they all run 1 or 2 seasons with 26 episodes at most. To be honest, that seems to be a real sweet spot for the kind of storytelling they engage in. I wish more original content (anime and live action) was like this, more expansive than a movie but designed to end in one (or two) block(s) of episodes. See You Space Cowboy...

Oh please. This is just plain silly. China wants to take land from India and dominate India and you want to claim some sort of China + India? That's just nuts. India is staunchly anti-China. Period. And the only reason they hold on to their Russia card is as insurance against Western pressure or sanctions threats vis-a-vis some future action they may take against Pakistan. There is no love for Russia anywhere in India. By contrast, there is genuine warmth among a great many Indians toward the US, especially given the very large Indian diaspora now in the US that is becoming increasingly prominent in American political, social, and cultural circles. And South America? Go and listen to the speeches that more than one hundred countries made on the UNGA floor including many S. American states. They all pounded Russia into the dirt. Even India's speech made it very obvious that they completely reject all of Russia's claims and are totally on Ukraine's side, but were abstaining for certain diplomatic reasons. There is an indisputable global consensus that Russia is the aggressor and a bully here and that Ukraine is an innocent victim. Many small developing states, even though not part of any sanctions regime themselves, have voluntarily cut off business and trade ties with Russia. In news media across the world, the stories are exclusively about how much they are impressed with the courage and bravery of those plucky Ukrainians. Every UN member that chose to abstain or not vote, did so NOT because of any support for Russia's position but rather only because they had some grievances with the US/West and did not want to get grouped in with the US/West. Even the ICC prosecutor, not at all a fan of the West, has launched a war crimes investigation of Russia and sent investigators to Ukraine. Russia is now very much a global pariah. And they are going to remain that way for a long while as their brutality and destructiveness in Ukraine is only going to get much worse with time. All you Russia fans are going to have to suck it up and get used to it.

When rewatching Brisco County, just remember

Time to revisit an old friend I haven't seen in almost 30 years: My buddy and I watched this show religiously when it was on TV. He was a HUGE fan of Wild Wild West (the TV show), we both loved Bruce Campbell (who doesn't?), this was completely up our alleys. I remember absolutely loving this show then being horribly crushed when it got canned after season 1. That cancellation hurt worse than Firefly getting yanked. Will it hold up? I'll report back.

Being under Russian domination is the worst possible outcome for Ukrainians (and anyone else for that matter), so may as well try the insurgency path.

I gotta say I did not expect the EU to engage in censorship. Outright banning Russian state news from transmitting inside the EU. Censorship is not the way. I mean, yes, it's propaganda. I know that, and I'm also an adult, I can make up my own mind. I don't want the "truth" handed down from up high, that's exactly what they are doing wrong in Russia, why would we want to mimic that.

Russia exports over half of its fertilizers in five countries; Brazil (21%) , China (~10%) , USA (~9%), Estonia+Finland (~9%). Exports to India have in past months surpassed exports to Estonia and Finland. China is world biggest fertilizer producer, USA is second biggest. Russia is forth with about 9% of world fertilizer production Considering that Russia tries to keep China, India and Brazil not joining with West, I am not sure how comprehensive their ban will be

To the best of my knowledge, I never claimed Putin to be a champion of Democracy. What I have given him credit for, is providing stability after the implosion of the Soviet Union. The Russian "rump state", with the worlds largest (possibly second largest, as I don't know how many of the nukes Kazakhstan and Ukraine had respectively) and completely falling apart. I still remember watching on TV, how Soviet tanks rolled into Moscow as Red Army officers wanted to force a stop to the dissolution by any means necessary and Yeltsin taking power, literally on the barricades and then proceeded to governing the remnant of Russia while transitioning the country from communism to alcoholism. My horror vision back then was a Russian federation falling apart into 30+ warring areas, each with a warlord or oligarch with their private armies and all of them having hands on nuclear weapons, including world wide reaching ICBM's Putin put an end to that and made me sleep better at night in the late 90's. That I will give him credit for. Also for trying to approach the west and get Russia integrated with Western Europe, but constantly being rejected, rebuffed and mocked for his attempts at modernizing Russia together with the west, rather than despite the west doing much other than encouraging the Ukrainian invasion of Crimea (where were the cries of outrage and the threats of sanctions against Ukraine when they occupied Crimea? Oh right, the victims were Russians, therefore it was perfectly Ok and beneficial for the west), splitting off chunks of sovereign countries allied with Russia, ignoring sovereign borders, and acting with at times cringe worthy arrogance. All those events in the 90's contribute to me "feeling", that this is very much something the west brought upon itself, despite all the cries of outrage and disbelief. Yes, we can easily agree today, that isolation and ridicule may have done permanent damage to Russia and Putin's psyche, creating a completely irrational and ruthless decision maker. I still ask the question though, what could have been done differently at a much earlier point in time (like 1991-92) to avoid the present.

We have colleagues in both Russia and the Ukraine (who are all fine, luckily, for the time being at least), it's pretty surreal.

Mayor of recently occupied Kherson informs that the occupant army brought about ~60-80 agitators for Crimea to pose with Russian army as "Khersonians tearfully thanking their "liberators" for propaganda cameras: https://t.me/khersonskaODA/48 I probably ruined a post from comrade yellow with this. Oops.

In short, no. It's like asking, if all Germanic tribes are the same. Once i saw this vid, which seemed interesting. Not on tribes, but how Russia came to be.

Deleted a few posts. Let’s *not* play the false quote game without making it painfully explicit it’s a sarcastic paraphrasing, never said in that form by the person being quoted. Or I’ll get grumpy. It’s fine to give an interpretation of what somebody else says (within reason) but don’t make it look like something actually said

Edér nearly always uses Cadhu Scalth + Kapana Taga in my runs with official companions. Raising Metaphysics with Edér feels odd, but the shield is so good for his swashbuckling health that I decided that Aloth just rubbed off on him.

"Those evil nazi Ukrainians raised exaggerated alarms because of mere administrative building fire in the big nuclear plant! The nerve of these guys, amirite? How dare they discredit glorious Russian army, the most peace loving army in the world!" - some dumbass tankie somewhere Meanwhile, the most peace loving country's in the world "Parliament" just fully approved the law criminalizing, well, saying anything different than official state propaganda: https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-duma-false-news-war-law-invasion/31734629.html Up to fifteen years for "false news". Like for murder. The only thing this law needs now is the signature of septic tank in human form...oh, pardon me, comrade yellow, didn't see you there. Ahem. " The glorious peacekeeper, the sole saviour of the world from putrescent miasma emanating from decadent USA and its nazi fascist allies, may his botox reserve stay bottomless forever!"

The moment the Indian guy realized he effed up. It shows though anti-US rhetoric in there

That's from a Reuters reporter, not a pro Russian source. The building has also variously been reported as being for admin, hence that caveat.

Genuinely astonished that "Ukraine is game to you?!" hasn't quite been as widespread as I anticipated:

Devoted/berserker with LDV is very solid, has great AoE dps (very fast attacker, cleave attack and of course Clear Out) and doesn't require much micro. Because of the high crit chance, Amra is another good weapon choice. WotEP works well only with a soul blade/rogue for the big AoE bonuses you get with Soul Annihilation. However vs less than 3 targets the damage is bad. The Offensive Parry is nice, but it's not worth building around it because it does little damage and isn't an AoE attack. A much better AoE weapon than WotEP is Citzal's Spirit Lance (you can use LDV/WotEP until you obtain it), but of course you have to pick a wizard. The wizard has some great melee buffs and you can pair him with barbarian, rogue or monk for great results. Barbarian/wizard lacks Clear Out and cleave attack, but the regular AoE dps outperforms LDV. The rogue/wizard can add Sneak Attack, Deathblows, Deep Wounds, Gouging Strike to his AoE attacks. The monk/wizards with Merciless Gaze and Citzal's Martial Spirit can generate many crits and thus perform many free AoE attacks. PS. The AoE attacks of the weapons are considered ranged and are affected by the Ring of the Marksman and the Harley pet.

He ate some rations from 1906 iirc, and wasn't dead. He did eat some Chineese 2018 rations in 2019 and got real ill. A few years before that he had a highly suspect Ukrainian ration that gave him e-coli and a trip to the ER.

So, I like to have bugs fixed, but otherwise am not to keen on having the game rebalanced. If am ONLY interested in bugfixes, can I (manually) install the basic Community Patch and delete all the gamedatabundles from that mod, I don' want? Or will this screw up my mod install? Edit: Oh bugger. I need to read the whole patch notes. There is a bugfix-only version of the mod. Thanks.

You may catch something I missed, and hasn't been articulated on the few English sites I skimmed through. Japan seemed to love it more than the English reviewers I looked at, so maybe there's a cultural piece or historical resonance that I just didn't get.

If you boil someone's funny bone, does that make it a laughing stock ?

Yup. Top down immersive sim from ex-Arcane devs. Coming to GamePass on day one.

Florida legislature passes bill banning abortions after 15 weeks - CNNPolitics

I'm about 15 hours into Elex 2 and sitting around level 13. I've scrounged enough weapons and armor and had enough levels that I'm starting to get to the point of not having to run in every fight. Wish my babymama wasn't such a nag, though.

Speaking of huge... playing Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons. Only 4 days in, so still a long way to go (skipping everything except the main story line at the moment)

I'd be playing Elex 2 except it doesn't like Vega cards*. I can currently choose between endless soothing clouds, or frantic flickering shapes when trying dxvk. I did manage to pick up an arrow completely randomly at least, with that with the tech troubles I know it has to be a PB game even if I can't see it. *Shouldn't have complained about their weird tech specs all requiring RDNA cards, though apparently it runs fine on 4/500 series...

I vaguely remember Hercules and Xena but didn't really watch them. I vaguely remember Andromeda as a show that would air late at night, but I never personally watched and only know about it from @majestic talking about it in the anime thread. When I think about it, I can't remember keeping up with anything Sorbo has been in. Though Sorbo did make a recording that was used by DARE back in the early aughts to convince kids not to do drugs. Anyways, video games. Uhh, I downloaded Hades and decided to replay PoE and Deadfire with a Chanter > Monk/Chanter who does drugs. Guess Sorbo's DARE video didn't work.

Andromeda had its issues, true, but that doesn't take away from 6 seasons of the glorious campy goodness that was Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. Plus, that show spawned the GOD-TIER Xena: Warrior Princess which gave us so much joy, including the single greatest sequence in cinematic history:* * This is hyperbole. The true greatest sequence in cinematic history is obviously ED-209 going haywire on Kenny in the original Robocop.

Finished Solasta. It was quite enjoyable for about 50 hours, but I don't feel like having a replay right now. Got my money's worth though. The three dimensional movement was certainly a unique mechanic, and one that had been lacking in games of this style. Perhaps others will try that now? Maybe I'll go back in a few years and give it a go as druid.

I see someone did a search (and anybody wondering who is not going to do a search, no, I did not name him, nor did I pick him out because of the name...as I did not really pick him out in the first place). And also, it's been longer than I thought...man, summer of 2018. Yeah, I don't really mind non-feral rodents, but I'm also the type that doesn't mind spiders, so... Also, capybaras look kinda like llamas head-on... ...but they look like about as scary as beavers when they show their teeth:

Wrong.

"Unfortunately, some of the new battle encounters we designed didn’t convey our intentions properly, and we felt like the new enemies and their mechanical features needed more balancing."

And now something little bit more positive. A one man made space strategy game very keen to realism - Falling Frontier. And it will be available on GOG as well... https://www.gog.com/en/game/falling_frontier

I liked it. It wasn't Chrono Trigger level of good, but I enjoyed the game a lot. But it was more about the journey than the destination I guess. I'm really excited to play it again and to play the alternate reality Radical Dreamers text game that was never released officially outside of a small Japanese language platform. ****** The Search for the Developer of Aquaventure Apparently the new Atari is trying to find out who, at old Atari, created the game. **** Edit - also from the Nintendo Direct:

Also coming to PS, xbox, steam, supposedly https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/chrono-cross-the-radical-dreamers-edition-switch/

Yeah, Sex with Hitler showed up on my Steam that way. Even with the adult block on. But if I want to go to the store page for a Fallout game or similar, I have to age verify.

I'm starting Solasta today. Have to admit to being a little bit excited about diving into 5e D&D. I've been playing in 5e games through Roll20 with a group of friends, but playing just my own limited PC hasn't given me a true exposure to all of 5e.