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Best D&D 5e based RPG on the market gets new DLC in about an hour - a new campaign, Lost Valley allegedly priced, at $12.99/£10.99.

The official Kherson Airport report by Arestovych from three hours ago. Apparently, the Ukraine wiped the floor with Russian forces for 15th time at the same spot Google translated from Ukrainian: "- You will laugh, but ... Chernobaevka-15. Warehouses with ammunition of the 22nd Army Corps (Crimea) were destroyed. Plus - the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation, the cruiser "Moskva" made a negative ascent in the area of the island where it was sent to yuh. Gestalt is closed. Where is Moscow? "She drowned." The sinking of the Moskva is a colossal military event and the largest defeat of the Russian fleet since WWII, and the largest warship sunk in the world since 1945. A very ringing slap in the face, all the more symbolic in name. You wouldn't go, damn it, to Ukraine.)"

can't they see the irony of it?

Well that was a Deus Ex quote As for why I'm so cynical and cold hearted, too many video games as a child no doubt.

Ha! For such an (apparently) young person you seem remarkably and consistenly cynical in the attitude displayed in your posts. What has made you so cold-hearted? I'm sure it wasn't a computer game about a convoluted conspiracy to install a shadow world government by means of mass surveillance, manufactured conflict, tax codes and a deadly epidemic...

One day there'll be a game called: The valley everyone knew was there all along

We do care. Only in Vysegrad Countries and Romania are more than 4.5 millions of them. Even my incompetent government is pumping a lot of money to volunteers and companies who help the refugees with accommodation and work.

The New York Times reports that 50,000 to 70,000 tech workers have now departed Russia with an additional 70,000 to 100,000 to follow. That's a pretty significant brain drain for the Russian economy.

Gurren Lagann. It's pretty shounen stuff, but I'm enjoying it for what it is. BG2 portraits are bad. I think I used a mod, PaintBG or something, that had consistent style. When it comes to creating characters in (c)RPGs, I usually come up with a concept and see if I can make it fit the game mechanically then go into aesthetics. I'll usually use a preset as a base and then go from there.

^Admit it, youre pedaling a bamboo unicycle right now to power your PC.

honestly i have a real hard time generally remembering to use the "of the lost" abilities (e.g. chorus of the lost). they are once/rest and generally not any more powerful than a tier 1 or tier 2 spell. i feel like pathfinder: wrath of the righteous and bg2 nailed the "specialness" requirement of the mainchar's unique abilities better. at once/rest it should be much more impactful. the main one i ever use is the one you get that can heal your allies. it's a decent heal with a big radius and sometimes i'll just be in a pinch and it'll be the one extra heal i need to give me some breathing room in a fight. edit: the death's herald abilities can be super important, but in a niche metagamy sense. i only ever really value the brilliant inspiration (resource gen) or the energized inspiration (crit-based builds), though, intuitive just isn't as impactful in any build i've done. earlier on in my playing time, i would use the lower-level version of the intellect inspirations too for certain builds that really wanted more duration on buffs, but these days i don't even bother until i get brilliant. I do periodically use the might inspiration version once it gets to tenacious-tier, since +2 PEN can be extremely relevant especially for spellcasters. if i remember correctly, not only do you have to absorb the machine energy in poe1 history, but you also have to stay cruel in poe2. if you aren't cruel, the option is blocked off, and your soul is like "are you the same person as blah blah" and your only option is "no, i've changed."

Anyone reading that article might want to check the reader comments at the end of it. The character "Alex" appears to be a perfect example of a Russian troll. I think it's both fascinating and horrifying to consider that there are these troll factories in Russia, i.e. establishments whose only purpose is to spread misinformation and sow discord on social media. I agree it's a fairly clever plan, but the worldview it's built upon is one I'd never want to share. (Like, why spend your working hours doing something disruptive when you might as well work in the other direction?) https://www.rferl.org/a/russian-troll-factory-hacking/31076160.html PS. The ship appears not to have sunk, even according to Pentagon. Doesn't mean it's useful to anyone anymore, though. Also, apparently no more info on Shoigu's reputed heart attack.

Impressive.

You're right, she once did what her conscience told her to do, and reneged on it later after "Wir schaffen das!" proved to be rather unpopular. How else would you define a populist then? Yes, of course she was a lot less blundering and pompous about it than Trump or Orban, and she also did not attempt to undermine Germany's democratic institutions, insofar that is a perfectly valid statement - but does that make her less of a populist in a more strict sense of the word (instead of the pejorative it has become, at least) just because she was not an autocratic (extreme) right-wing one but more soft-spoken, eloquent and politically centered? Everything Merkel did had one, and one goal only: To get Merkel re-elected. From blustering against Greece and the other "PIGS", to actively making sure there's no party competition rising to meet her, to first wanting to extend nuclear power generation to suddenly deciding to not to the moment it became clear that voters are currently leaning heavily against nuclear power. The good thing about it was that not tolerating any popular competition inside her party made sure the CDU finally got where it belongs, now and for a long, long time hopefully. Far away from governing. I am/was rather partial to Panzeruschi or Zensurla.

From what I understood, now that the Mykolaiv is unreachable to Russia, the Black Sea Fleet is considered the only way how to start/stage the attack on Odessa, a city which is pretty high in the hierarchy of cities to defeat for Russian propaganda. And Moskva was also the primary defense system against attacks on supply ships in the area. Yes, from the reports I've read (not sure how true they are) they made the air defense of Moskva busy with couples of Bayraktars, so they probably did not noticed the Neptunes, until it was to late. EDIT: The situation about the Kherson Airport was so ridiculous already week or two ago, that the official Ukrainian Army Media Officer did compare it to the famous scene from Far Cry 3 in one of his speeches

Germany's biggest problem is, perhaps unsurprisingly, von der Leyen. Offloading her onto the EU may yet prove to be their biggest mistake in years. Her being German and constantly shooting her mouth off pointlessly- particularly amusing her threatening to deinvite India from guesting at the G7 for not being hard enough on Russia and getting the "you spend more on Russian stuff in a day than we spend in a month" response- continually highlight Germany's continuing purchases. Cost is pretty irrelevant since it was built literally in the 70s. Indeed, it's ~10yrs older than a Ticonderoga, and that class is just about completely phased out. It's like updating the cost of a 70s Ford Escort if you crash it- it only costs something if you plan on replacing it, and you've well and truly got your value already. Russia hasn't built a warship (better clarify, surface warship) that size in decades. Now, in terms of prestige etc the cost is significant... The big Russian ships are all loaded up with S-300; they're an intrinsic part of its armament and included in the cost. Kirov's like Pyotr Veliky have a really ludicrous amount, like 96 or something (albeit they're ~twice as large).

More information about what happened at Black Sea, armament of the ship, and the strategic implications of the loss for Russia. Said by one of our retired generals, who knows a lot about how Russian military works. Google translate from his official Facebook page. "The destruction of the Moscow cruiser is a severe blow to Russia All indications are that the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet, the missile cruiser Moscow is over. This was to happen after being hit by two Neptune missiles of Ukrainian production. This is extremely bad news for the Black Sea Fleet. In addition to the command, this ship was also to provide missile defense for the fleet. The cruiser became known for the incident on Serpent Island, and it appears to have ended up where it was sent by the island's defenders, who refused to surrender. The Moscow cruiser was 46 years old. It was originally called Glory. It was built in 1976 and was included in the armament in 1979. The cruiser was decommissioned in 1990. Subsequently, it was modernized and re-assigned to the Navy in 2000 under the new name Moscow. It is an important ship and its loss will hurt the Russians very much. The Russians have already announced that after the ship's fire and the explosion of its ammunition, they had to evacuate the ship. It was a 186.4 m long ship, literally packed with weapons of all kinds. The Russians have not yet officially admitted that they lost the ship as a result of the Ukrainian attack. They obscure the fire, but did not specify its cause. The ship's armament included 16 fixed launchers for anti-ship missiles P-1000, 64 vertical containers for air defense system missiles S-300 and launchers for 40 missiles Axis for air protection of the ship itself and a variety of weapons. The equipment was supplemented by torpedo chambers and a helicopter. It was this rocket-laden ship that was supposed to be the best protection for the entire fleet against Ukrainian attacks. Without this ship, the fleet will be significantly more vulnerable. The possibility of a naval landing at Odessa is thus significantly reduced. The Russian navy has so far been more or less intact, but it has kept its distance. A number of caliber flat-caliber missiles were fired from the ships, destroying targets throughout Ukraine. The Ukrainians originally wanted to get a total of 6 Neptune fire batteries in the spring of this year, but according to published reports, they have only one battery. The Neptune rocket is a missile with a flat flight path. It is derived and redesigned from the original S-125 (Neva) anti-aircraft missile, which was also in the arsenal of the Slovak Armed Forces in the second half of the 1990s. Rating: After the heavy losses of the ground forces and air force, the loss of the anti-missile cruiser, which was supposed to protect the entire fleet, is another shameful message for the Russian armed forces. It does not fit into the concept of a special military operation. The Russians will deny the destruction of the attack. But they will have to stay away from the shore. To make matters worse, the Ukrainians said they were seizing ten merchant ships from the Russians. They were in Odessa for repairs." EDIT: Just for the sake of it, Russian official stance on the incident by MoD: Russian Ministry of Defense says fire at cruiser Moskva has been contained, explosions ceased, crew evacuated and the vessel is being tugged to the port.

After all the years, people voted for her simply because she was the status quo. Not the best, certainly not the worst. At least you knew what to expect, which couldn't be said of the competition. The lack of progress in many areas was very nerve wrecking and annoying, and I do blame a resurgency of the right wing on it, but at the same time nothing really got much worse for most of the time. I guess this shows the lack of trust of the population into our politicians. Can't really trust anyone, so better to not move at all.

Speaking of nations doing business with Russia, well, it's a fairly long list though, and one that includes the Ukraine, ironically - and not just in the times when a corrupt Russian puppet was president. They didn't say no to being able to siphon Russian gas deliveries on the by when they needed them for their own purposes, whether they were profit for a few or for the people, and the sweet, sweet transfer tariffs? Yes please. Singling out Germany, a nation that has imported Russian energy ever since before the Soviet Union collapsed, is a little ridiculous. Almost all of Central Europe is dependent on Russian energy, whether it is oil or natural gas. The noose was always there, this isn't a recent development under Putin, although he made very sure to ever tighten Russia's grip. Diversification initiatives like the Nabucco pipeline never amounted to much either, but that was largely because Russian money was very well received everywhere, including the upper echelons of the European Union leadership. This isn't on Germany alone, they're just in the spotlight, and for the most ridiculous reasons too, because their exit from nuclear power isn't what makes them dependent on Russian natural gas. That's a fairly minor part of their gas usage, overall - although I'm definitely with @Chilloutman in calling the exit ridiculous. That happened in the wake of Merkel waffling on her commitment after the Fukushima incident. Instead of telling her constituents that they should not worry because having a major earthquake and a tsunami hit a German nuclear power plant at the same time is going to be rather unlikely (for fun, think of this, there's the joke that German has a word for everything under the sun - and yet these sort of giant waves are called tsunami, even in German, so what does that say about how common they are?) she immediately turned towards going with what was popular - and it came from a PhD in physics to boot, let's not forget that Merkel definitely knew better than what she said and did at the time. Merkel was the ultimate populist leader. Spineless, no ideology of her own - and I don't mean being ideologically set in stone and unmoving even in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, like so many politicians seem to be, but really, void of any ideology at all - and never giving any impetus, for good or ill. 16 years of complete standstill, why thanks Mutti. Said my piece. I'll show myself out again.

Also, sorry for another multipost, but only now, I have found another funny news A day after Russian settled again at Kherson airport. There is a report that the Kherson Airport is again on fire (In all seriousness, if I count correctly, it is 12th attack of Ukrainian army on the same airport, after the Russians had settled there and got annihilated over and over and over Even few high ranked commanders were eliminated during these counterattacks It's a biggest military meme in the last 100 years

More news on Moskva, keep in mind, part of it is unconfirmed: Cost of the ship in todays money vould be 1-2billions USD. It is said, it was loaded with S300s to support occupied territories with AA defense. Ergo, if this is true, depending of number of S300s loaded, Ukraine just sunk minimum of 3 billions USD with two rockets...

I don't mind germany buying cheap from russia. Everybody did it. I hate that they are still so stubborn that they just refuse to go nuclear for their stupid 'green' ideology and rest of Europe is paying for it. Also previous prime minister being defacto employed by russia is quite red flag to me xD

But the whole energy dependence on Russia was a clever ploy that Germany swallowed hook, line and sinker. As I said, Germany bought a noose because it was cheap, and now it's hanging from it. Russia's aim has surely been well known for quite some time. Germany is not the only one to blame, of course, but in this energy situation it is the main culprit. England is equally culpable in the sense that it most certainly welcomed Russian money, although it was well known how dark it was.

USA has those hundreds of billions of Russian money they froze to give Ukraine

A coincidence I say! Or as typical Russian troll would say, All must me properly investigated first to draw proper conclusion!

This is now the second Russian ship to have a spontaneous fire, which caused ammo to cook off, which caused the complete loss of the vessel. Weird.

Well considering that the Russians also dug trenches in Red Forest, and got destroyed 15 times in a row at Kherson Airport, well, I think inventing some new words is already due, and attacking Odessa by sea would be now just another jewel in the crown of stupid decisions already made by their commanders

Answering to all of you at once this time Yeah the ship sunk. It was confirmed by Russian RIA Novosti and TASS. The reason why it sunk in the end was, that after the explosions (my take would be it was really from Neptunes, because, when was the last time Russians told truth?), The Russian navy tried to save the ship by towing it to Crimea, (un)fortunately there was really ****ty weather on Black Sea, and the ship just sunk with all of the military equipment while being towed. https://t.me/tass_agency/127473 Google translate: The cruiser Moskva sank while being towed in a storm, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

What episode are you up to? IWD 2 portraits was were it's at. I still use them to this day.

Probably lots of places, they made a lot of them. I think the US got some to equip the ANA with. Wonder how effective they can be as gunships though.

For a musical game I found the audio of the trailer very uninspiring.

Sometimes I'll see a lot of folks wearing one, and other times it'll just be me. It's nice to have because in addition to not spreading the rona, it confuses AI identifying software and can hide stubble if I didn't shave.

The only way to not get those perks is to go to Ashen Maw before you go to Hasongo. If you do that you don't get to talk with Eothas after Hasongo since he's obviously already left.

You right but their is a massive difference between the futures of the Syrian people and the Ukrainian people The West "pulled out " of supporting the Syrian people because Western intervention was vetoed by Russia and China when the Syrian civil war started in 2011. In other words the West will fund and assist its own allies or if it is the cause of a conflict Russia and Iran are now responsible to rebuild and fix the broken mess that is Syria, because they openly supported Assad, and since neither of those countries has the resources, inclination or experience at rebuilding a failed state its unlikely Syria will ever become economically stable in the next 30 years or so The West is deeply connected to Ukraine for numerous reasons and its highly unlikely they will abandon the rebuild process once Putins War is over I know its not ideal but we just have to be patient, most of the Ukrainian refugees will return home and they wont be an economic burden forever

same can be apply to any other country tho

But guys I dont understand this strange criticism similar to " as long as they dont come in millions " or " how much the west cares when the subject of money to support them comes about " Their is no country in the world, including the US, that can just absorb and fund millions of immigrants permanently in 2 month...its not possible and its not realistic The Ukrainian refugees are being given temporary shelter and places to live so they not killed during Putins War Most of the refugees obviously will go home and they want to go home once its safe. I am not sure why you would criticize the EU response when its clearly the right thing to do considering the proximity of Ukraine to the EU and the reality of what happens anyway during a war and or invasion when one country is attacked Have you see how many Syrian refugees live in these safe but appalling refugee camps in countries on the border of Syria? Take a look at these conditions and compare that to the appreciated response from the EU https://www.voanews.com/a/middle-east_syrian-refugees-border-camp-face-humanitarian-crisis/6172627.html I can understand your frustration but the EU didnt create this refugee crisis, its important we dont lose sight of that

What? do you think we live in huts or what? xD

Unconfirmed, very recently in: apparently the Russian military has been attacked in some manner in Azerbaijan. Interesting to see how this one develops, if in any way at all. A military expert in my country recently pointed out that given how badly Russia is doing in the war, it would be interesting for anyone so inclined to go through all the countires neighboring Russia and consider the recent relations of those countries with Russia. Tensions may be mounting in several spots. Georgia, for instance.

Here's great coverage about the Moskva: https://www.19fortyfive.com/2022/04/meet-the-moskva-how-ukraine-nearly-sank-russias-black-sea-flagship/

Hmm. Shoigu has had a "massive heart attack", according to various not-too-dependable sources. Waiting for confirmation on this.

I don't think you should go overboard with this. I.e. it's not "the whole world", and it's not "hating". But the fact is that Germany bought itself a noose from Russia because it was cheap, and now it's hanging from it. There is absolutely no one else to blame. Germany's naivety and gullibility is beyond description. It deserves flack. But it's not "the whole world hating" Germany. I do agree there's plenty of thinking along the lines of, "Germany being the shame of Western Europe, now when have we seen that before?"

Spoilers for bad language I guess

Elon Musk is trying to buy twitter to get people to stop posting this: