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Star Trek: Resurgence is the first Trek anything to capture the spirit of the '90s shows in a long, long time Buying this on release

@Malcador Lavrov or Peskov or MoD have released official statement two or three weeks ago, that Ukrainian air force has been destroyed IIRC. @BruceVC Me and my wife have taken one Ukrainian refugee to our house, so I am spending less time with my PC now. But I am still trying to read a little bit here and there. An interesting reportage about the "disappearance" of one of the most elite brigades in Russia during Hostomel fights, and how the people are slowly getting the correct information through the extreme news embargo in Russia through Telegram and are confronted with the notion, that state media cannot lie.

Finished Ergo Proxy. I went in expecting some cyberpunk stuff, and instead got something that was surreal insanity. So pleasant surprise there. I'll try to do a writeup later. Not sure who else has seen it here, but I'd recommend it to @Sarex, @Gorth, and @InsaneCommander for sure. @majestic will probably react the same way he does to David Lynch movies, but at this point he's taken enough mental trauma from Kurtzman Trek that he may like it now. @Bartimaeus will hate it and curse us for all eternity if they watch it, so stay away! I can't get a good read on @Amentep's taste, so I can't recommend it to them beyond generally as an interesting surreal post-apocalyptic series. Let's see if all the @s break the post lmao Edit: Thanks @ShadySands, this show was really my jam

HA! Good Fun!

It's f---g SNOWING again. April 1st, spring time, baseball is starting in a week and it's f---g SNOWING! Winter isn't coming. It never leaves!

Open ocean swimming is a terrifying thought for me.

We arrived in Oceanside yesterday for our half Ironman. It is pretty cool seeing all of the military helicopters buzzing around. We ride through Camp Pendleton tomorrow, so that should be entertaining. We attempted a swim in the ocean. It was really rough. Windy with about 6-foot swells. My first attempt to swim didn't go well, but I caught my breathe and gave it a 2nd go and got out past the surf. My wife was not up for it at all. Race day is supposed to be calmer, so hopefully that will help. It is fumny how I stress out more for her than I do for myself. Anyways, it is fun seeing all the triathletes around town. This is a big pro race, so it should be entertaining to race behind them.

Could've been russian own copters that got lost and confused.

I've heard some not so great things about bosses being pretty wack...between ridiculous attack wind-ups and combos that are even worse than DS3's, and some boss encounter design borderline requiring you to get help. Which I hate, because boss AI is very clearly never equipped to deal with changing aggro mid-fight. Only game I used summons was DS2, and only because I was hate-playing that cruddy game. Also, a friend sent me this a few days ago.

Just another case that this is somehow Putin's war so a choice of a one man. The reality is his approval rating jumped and is now at 80%. The war might have been Putin's call, but like it or not, it is now Russia's war and majority embraces it. Hoping for a quick coup to return old normal is a fantasy. Even if you can beat Russia's armies you will not change the minds of its people.

What I meant (plus minor adjusyement) : Unarmed attack without talent : 10-14 damages, 6 PEN Unarmed attack with talent : 14-19 damages, 7 PEN + (+2 Acc, +1 PEN, +5% damages)* + scaling (* the level 0 transcendant suffering/Monastic training bonus) As a consequences, foe fists would be : 10-14 damages, 6 PEN + (+2 Acc, +1 PEN, +5% damages + scaling) So it makes unarmed attacks : - a bit worse than other fast weapon on early game. Just incitative enough to make them avoided. - not changed with talent - about as good as a normal fast weapon for foes : 10-14 damages, 7 PEN +2 Acc, +5% damages (basically a club with -3 Acc and +5% damages), with transcending suffering scaling replacing quality enchant. Of course, if someone has a more direct fix for the bug, I'll take it.

https://ip-quarterly.com/en/one-mans-war-one-mans-choice Interview with Fiona Hill about this situation

Having played more builds in this game than I can possibly count, I wanted to try something new. In particular, I was thinking of downloading and installing Housefly's Level Cap 33 mod, which theoretically raises the level cap to 33, although in practice there is apparently only enough experience in the game (with DLCs) to get to level 27, which is enough for multi classes to reach PL 9. In thinking about this, I wonder which MCs might be the most fun if you are able to get the top tier abilities. Being an incurable monk fan, my fist though was monk/assassin, for the assassinate boosts as well as sneak attack and backstab while using WotW. But a sorcerer with top tier wizard and druid spells would be an incredible caster. I was just wondering if anyone else had any suggestions/ideas about this. Granted, one would not gain these top tier abilities until very late in the game, but I thought it might be fun to try this anyway.

That doesnt work because weapons's effects only work when the weapon is equipped, but it is not senseless in a way : Equip SSC (dualwielded with mortar), empower The Ranga, use mortar to get full phrases back ; Then, equip Effort, cast spells , when needed switch back to first set to use mortar (phrases back), return to Effort. The chain lightning will be interrupted when you switch to SSC set, and the refresh effect will ending when you switch to Effort, but because The ranga have a duration (that can be extended) this tactic can be really useful.

I found out later Japanese schoolgirls must conform and have black hair. Even with brown hair schools will force them to dye their hair black. There have been lawsuits about this. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/27/japanese-student-sues-over-schools-order-to-dye-hair-black In the anime, for reasons the main character has naturally red hair even though her parents have dark hair. She's an oddity to say the least yet still managed to become class president

Eh. Not a bad piece especially considering what gets printed these days but I lol'd at "history shows that blitzkrieg never works". I know that you know, but blitzkrieg was an incredibly successful model in 1939 Poland and 1940 France. It "failed" in 1941 in large part because its main requisite -speed- couldn't be realized due to the infamous Russian mud season and, well, the sheer number of Soviet armies to destroy. It still got Hitler within spitting distance of Moscow in a bit over 5 months and caused millions of casualties to the Soviets. If anything, what the Russians have attempted is not "blitzkrieg" but rather an application of the old Soviet deep battle doctrine. Deep battle anticipates non-trivial losses, which is why looking at these figures from a Western perspective can be misleading. In any case, the offensive seems to have lost all momentum pretty early on so it's not exactly according to doctrine, heh. Anyway, sorry for the pedantic tangent, but I'd expect a better grasp of terms from someone using them in a professional capacity. I also wasn't impressed by the amount of conjecture and assumptions about Putin's decision-making process and internal motivations. Of course, without face-to-face interviews or access to his shrink's files, there's not much to go on.

If there's one thing that I didn't enjoy too much so far is the anime's tendency to introduce an element or information at the beginning of an episode and make it pay off in the same one. It did that twice in a row now, I'm hoping the next few instances will get some more time to breathe. Otherwise, your sentiments echo mine exactly, by the looks of it. There's something else, unlike with other shows I've started to watch the small preview sections at the end, and every time there's something silly (like a guy talking to a snake) I'm like "This doesn't look too good, huh?" but then it just works in the episode. It's hard to say why. It just does, and every now and then, every now and then an episode has these perfectly brilliant moments in addition to being baseline really good, like Hitomi and Van talking about their respective families. It also has a knack on ending the episode at pretty good cliffhanger moments. I could see myself making sure to tune in every week. Even if it falls apart later, and for now it doesn't look like it will, at least - it's pretty meticulously crafted. 何？

That opens up a lot of interesting stuff! Assassin/Monk… ouch, crazy combos!? Wizard/Cipher for AoE? Priest/Cipher? Paladin/Chanter? Wizard/Ranger Caedbald? 🤯

Hades. Finally escaped using the spear only to go back to hell. Oh well, it's fun when I'm in the mood for hack and slash. Currently gaming to get the fated prophecies done, once that's over with I can just take the stuff that works best for me.

Thanks! I like the idea of a warlock with this mod. Furyshaper/blood mage sounds like a great combo. Only downside is you can't have a ward and an essential phantom at the same time.

I played this mod once with furyshaper/ blood mage and It was pretty fun with battle axes, blood ward, barbaric retaliation and cloak of death etc.

So I got a password to Paramount Plus and decided to watch Star Trek Picard. It's actually ok? The characters can be annoying at times but it really feels like an updated Trek show. One thing I'm wondering about though

Bagged my first bounty, the varmint had his posse holed up in a gold mine. Yeb done blessed me with foresight cause I happened to have my trusty pickaxe along. No sense in letting those gold nuggets go to waste. I dragged that feller kickin' and screamin' all the way back to Grackle, nice comfy jail cell waitin' for im. I tell ya, that boy had fire in his eyes when Flora slammed the cell door shut. Like 2 burning coals those eyes were, yessir. It might have been better to kill the varmint, far as my own neck is concerned. But I ain't about to let this demon infested land turn me into a monster, no sir. If that varmint ever gets out of those cold iron bars and comes fixin to put some lead in my body, well I'll cross that bridge when I get to it.

Here's my prediction for what comes in the next few weeks: referenda expressing the "popular" "democratic" will of the people will be conducted in Luhansk and Donetsk declaring their wish to join Russia by over 90% margins. Then Russia will pass laws to absorb these areas into Russia, and then declare their "special military operation" is actually about defending their territory and people from a vicious and unprovoked invasion by evil nazi Ukrainian aggressors. And, after this, similar referenda are coming in Russian-occupied parts of Georgia and Moldova too. And in those cases, a pretext may also be created for full invasions, Ukraine-style, to absorb the whole states into Russia, calculating that global costs (sanctions and condemnations) cannot get any worse so may as well reap as much benefit as possible.

But russia said they have air superiority now or something like that. : >

Surprised people thinking it is false flag on places like Reddit when they lap up every tale of Ukrainian prowess. Not implausible for two gunships to do that, though. They still do, still have pilots flying, read some puff piece about them earlier in the week.

This may have been clear in the Anime, but I've seen people asking about it online. In the Glepnir manga, regarding Aiko, Honoka and Kaito... Re Shuichi and Claire's rededication At least that's my memory...going a few months between releases is killer, and I'll probably have to re-read the whole thing when it finishes... 😄

Did what seems like "tutorial" section of Weird West. First impressions a very promising indeed.

I mean, a couple helicopters isn't necessarily a "functional air force"

Yeah, but there is exploration! Those mini-bosses serve as a nice distraction since the two ones I've encountered so far have been pretty easy to deal with.

Yes thats very true, the Russian people have never experienced the benefits of Democracy or seen how Capitalism can drive your economy in a positive way with regulations and labor laws They went from the absolute corrupt monarchy of Tzar Nicholas to the failed system of Communism to the mismanagement and excess of Yeltsin and the Oligarchs They have never experienced how both Democracy and Capitalism can and do work

I can understand Macrons frustration, the French intelligence reports were inaccurate. To quote However, in early March Gen Burkhard acknowledged that French intelligence had not been up to the level of US or UK briefings, which were publicised to pile pressure on Russia's Vladimir Putin. "The Americans said that the Russians were going to attack, they were right," he told Le Monde newspaper. But I think its a little unfair because many countries got it wrong and believed Putin would never invade. So I think the real reason he is being fired is France's misreading of President Putin was all the more embarrassing because President Emmanuel Macron had spoken to him regularly in the days leading up to the invasion on 24 February. So I think Macron is understandably annoyed but I would still say his attempts to negotiate were worth it...you never know what could have happened But the truth is clear now, Putin is a liar and a warmonger and now we have the unity and resolve amongst Western countries and their allies to stop Putins unnecessary endeavors to create the old Soviet borders But in summary, its unfair he was fired because you are almost punishing someone for " believing negotiation may succeed " ? @Mamoulian War Where have you been the last couple of days, you have been quiet?

1.0% and 0.1% are where its at for gaming as it amounts for consistency (avg fps is raw speed, which is low priority because GPU's are the dominant factor in games), if benchmarks show better values for the 5800X3D I would be interested.

Anyone remember Macron pulling a Chamberlain? Peace in our time? After his meetings with Putin before the war... Looks like they found someone to take the fall https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60938538 The head of French military intelligence, Gen Eric Vidaud, is losing his job after failing to predict Russia's war in Ukraine, reports say. Seven months after he took on the role, one report said he was blamed for "inadequate briefings" and a "lack of mastery of subjects". He also got the blame for Australia blindsiding France by dropping the order for French conventional submarines worth many billions of dollars and switching to US made nuclear submarines instead.

Yeah I'm not far in, but some camera and AI issues aside, this is pretty much my kinda game. Speaking Desperados 3, the art style in some ways reminds me of that too (coupled with Telltale's Walking Dead). It's pretty pleasant to look at. Just like in Prey, I went a bit experimental though, and may (or may not) have already spoiled myself a plot twist by killing a (major) at least early game NPC (and from the reaction to that). This was by accident, as I only wanted to test how the game kept track of killing NPCs, but happened upon this specific NPC. 😄 Still pretty cool that the game allowed me to do that, rather than scripting it so that you couldn't touch this NPC until it served its function in the plot. In Prey I had used the gloo gun to build a gigantic staircase to a place where I wasn't necessarily supposed to go that early, which kind of gave away what the entire situation was all about. But it's all still pretty early. Naturally, what I like the most is that the game world isn't but a set piece for plot, but fairly interactive. There's even neat touches recognized, such when you put a bucket outside when it's raining, it's slowly filling up with whater (which gives HP when drinking it). I also had to chuckle upon noticing that when you kill somebody, vultures will show up to nibble on the body. They've already announced that they plan to release free stuff in the coming weeks (and also fully on expansions of kinds, naturally to be paid for).

Weird West first impressions, so far so good. It's a mixture of Fallout 1 & 2, Divinity: Original Sin, and a twin stick shooter. The game is from a new studio with former Arkane devs, including Raphael Colantonio the founder of Arkane. It definitely has that Dishonored quality of letting you be creative in how to approach a situation. I'm playing the game as if it's Desperados. You give me the ability to stealth and I'm going to attempt a ghost run, that's just how I roll. It's a Raphael Colantonio game, a ghost run is likely possible. I did experiment with a decidedly not stealthy approach by sneaking an extinguished lantern to a strategic location, retreating to safe location, firing my revolver to get some outlaws attention and to break the lantern, creating an oil puddle, then hurling dynamite as they ran through the oil. It was super fun blowing a guy up and setting others on fire. Then I reloaded and stealthed the area. You can interact with most things, pick them up and throw them. I can confirm that you pet a horse. I have not found a living dog nor a cat so I cannot confirm whether you can pet them. You can take a $#!+ in an outhouse, though. Edit: Also if you dodge while aiming a gun you go into Max Payne bullet time while in midair, so you can play this game like a John Woo movie if that's your thing. Also, if you kill somebody a vulture will land on the corpse and start eating it. They get there quick too, those scavengers don't **** around.

My daughter actually called me with an update shortly after I posted that. The teacher accepted her apology, but she ended up with 3/14 on the test. That was her score even with the cheating issue, so I assume she has learned that cheating is bad, and she's also not very good at it, so it isn't worth the risk. Ah well, the kid has an A+ in woodshop and is already a better craftsperson than her dad. I'm pretty sure the construction track is the right one for her. She doesn't roll in poop and has decent hygiene. My son, on the other hand...

Essentially what the title says- once the upper portions of the back yard are more fleshed out and it becomes even more necessary to travel to various parts of the back yard quickly in order to continue having enough of all the resources you need, a pulley operated elevator could be added. Locking an acorn top elevator that's operated via pulley system behind the woodpile chip or some other yet-to-be-added burgl chip to make the upper portions still intimidating and challenging to conquer would be a good way to reward players with a "soft fast travel" that works both ways unlike the ziplines which are 1 way only could be a desireable reward for players, even if it's the very last area of the game that rewards you with them. As it stands now, having my base near the woodpile is great but it's a challenge to return from excursions that would be alleviated only somewhat by a pulley elevator- but enough to actually feel rewarding without subtracting from the absolutely wonderful experience of running through the back yard and dodging bugs.

No, stuff like Time Parasite, Shared Nightmare etc. and especially Driving Echoes (for a fellow caster) are good reasons to go for SC Cipher. It's just so that some multiclasses are more fun early on because they get two resource pools and are often frontloaded with good abilites. The advantages of a single class character become more obvious with more levels: higher Power Level, earlier access to impactful higher-level abilites and finally access to PL8 and 9 abilities is nothing that you "feel" early on but later.