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Not even getting into good/bad, but if the problem is that people don't believe the message from the government, more message from the government isn't going to fix the problem.

V'ger had help...

I thought we all agreed never to bring that movie up again? Dead stinky things should remain buried!

Biden admin considering shutting down their new "Ministry of Truth" : Biden Administration Considers Shutting Down Disinformation Board amid Blistering Criticism: Report This would unquestioningly be for the best. Even if something like this is created with the best if intentions (not saying that is the case here) you had better believe it will be weaponized sooner or later. Almost certainly sooner. People are going to believe stupid and even dangerous s--t. There is NOTHING the government can or should do about it.

I'm still sad I didn't bought Rheinmetall stock when it was at 90€. Thought it is pretty much at the top already and buying into it was too late. Then war started for realz and it went up to 220€. Even right now it's still at 180€, so pretty much 100% increase. Crazy - some people got really rich.

Jesus Tapdancing Christ, this is perfect.

Mystery issue experienced on NASA's Voyager 1 probe from 1977 It has travelled 45 years in space. It has travelled 15.5 Billion miles. In space! 45 YEARS. Why can't I get a laptop that lasts more than four years????? Of course no one ever spilled coffee on the two Voyager probes. Probably.

I think in addition to bad factional waves there should be good factional waves where you could work as a community with certain bugs like the red ants/bees/black ants and termites as an example. This should be told via burg.l giving a quest or a tip from him. The good factional reputation should work by not killing many of the certain bugs and doing good for them (like maybe giving/offering food to the red ants or providing your service when they need help). When your good factional reputation reaches a certain level they should see you as a friend and provide their assistance in wave bases triggered by other bugs coming to raid you, they would also act very friendly around you and not attack you on sight. It's should be harder to win over certain factions the higher the tier of bug (like maybe termites). If you start killing your new friends the good reputation decreases. Hopefully I explained that clear enough for everyone and I would love to see this addition as it would give more meaning to bugs and in a way, pets!

exactly, otherwise I struggled to hit with WoD with all battlefield moving

We must remember the long history of this. You can ask Hungary (1956), Prague (1968) or Afganistan (1979?) what it was like to receive "help" from the Soviet Union. Few things are as lethal as Russian "help". At the moment, if you ask Russia, there is no war in Ukraine. And so on.

That is not true, they will just say that it does not matter and Russia achieved what it wanted ("de-nazification" of Ukraine).

@kanisathamay be interested in a 17-point thread by Timothy Snyder on the question of giving Putin an "out". Snyder's point is that Putin always has it, as he is a dictator. As far as "changing the subject" (quoting Snyder) is concerned, we have a very recent example of this. The president of Finland had a telephone conversation with Putin. Putin argued that Russia has to "liberate" the east of Ukraine from the nazis. President Niinistö countered by saying that what about Kyiv, then, why was Kyiv attacked, it has nothing to do with the east of Ukraine. The journalists gathered around Niinistö were very keen to hear how Putin responded to this. "He said nothing. Nothing at all", Niinistö told them. "And then he changed the subject."

The relationship between Denmark and Sweden explained... edit: Iirc, the solution being an artificial island, where the bridge and the tunnel connects

...are tasty with fava beans and a nice Chianti.

Okay... would you believe it was a good Richard Dawson film?

Meanwhile, CISCO alone lost 40billion in market cap, just because it admited 200mil lost on Russia revenue. You will see a lot of backtracking on Russia as US and more importantly EU will go into long stagflation period, where food price and energy will be increasing to the point of social unrests, that will be magnified by large migrant waves from African and West Asian countries struck by hunger (Sri-Lanka is a prelude to what will happen on a larger scale in a couple of months) EU has so much bad debt that it is paralyzing ECB from increasing the rates, because they well know it will crash soverign debt of a couple countries of EURoZone, like Italy.

Playing spicy police and terrorizing the remaining population in the area.

I can get behind this 100%. I hate that all of my armor and weapons can be repaired with repair glue but I still have to carry around and keep a stock of black ant parts to repair my shield. I'm pretty sure this has been suggested in the discord so hopefully that will be coming in the future.

That's one that I skipped.

Curious which ones you skipped, there's a few late game ones on timers that I'd recommend completing regardless. Certainly seems like the middle act is missing some content because I had to resort to random gigs to get the time to pass at the end of my first playthrough (maybe gets fleshed out with expansions?). There's also an option to simply progress time, no need to spam sleep if you just want to trigger those quests. Curious which ending you actually got, there's two people argue about which one has the better outcome, though given your mention of Judy I think I can make an educated guess For what it's worth you can do all the endings on a single save (assuming you meet the prerequisites). If nothing else they seriously nailed the atmosphere, I regularly boot up the game just to wander Night City. Reminds me of Bloodlines a bit (if they would have created the whole city in that game, I'd probably have gone wandering there too)

The Shining (yes I didn't like that movie, except Jack is always a good psyho), Running Man and Firestarter are what convinced me that Stephen King movies were usually going to be dreck, or at least only just barely connected to the source material. Carrie and Dead Zone were decent tho. Edit: and Dawson was the best thing in Running Man, agreed.

Twitter made over billion loss in 2020, even though it revenue increased, which people have used as proof for their ideological beliefs, as in 2019 Twitter made over billion profit, but people seem to ignore that Twitter loss was because they made acquisitions, not because their business suddenly collapsed.

Prison definitely dissuades me from a life of crime. Im too pretty to go to prison...Id have to join the Italian gang...theyd probably want me to shank someone to get in...its all too messy. Im not sure, an earlier link I posted showed the majority of prisoners are there for theft related crimes. You can go back and look at it. I dont understand. Not a day goes by that my wife and I wake up, look at each other lovingly, and say F-work. But I will recognize that some people love their jobs, I just dont know any.

Of course contractors make a profit on their services. No matter that service that is. If a private company is running a SP for a State DOC they are making money on doing it. So yes you could say they are making money on incarceration but that dies not rise to the level you seem to want to take it. They are not "incentivized" to lock people up for a better profit. They don't lock people up. The State does that. All the contractors are doing is maintaining the facility, making sure the prisoners are fed, secured, and otherwise provided for. It is no different than a state run CP. The only ones I'm familiar with are done in Florida and they were all minimum security/work camps. White collar or non violent with short sentences. Medium and maximum security in Florida was not contracted last I heard. The scenario you are imagining just does not exist that I've ever heard of.

Don't know about that. The plot made no sense. But then again it WAS a Schwarzenegger movie.

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given what were the utter fail o' prohibition, is kinda mind blowing that a mere fifty or sixtyish years would elapse before repeating the same mistakes... mistakes magnified by minimum sentencing guidelines voted 'pon and passed democratic 'cause society were not satisfied with the namby-pamby notions o' justice judges were embracing... or at least the conjured notions o' justice self-interested politicians were selling to the ignorant masses. am s'posing law & order as a political platform has been popular since before the athenians, and deterrence and reformation has always been at best secondary concerns for The People who demand criminals to get their due. HA! Good Fun!

Open fridge for more than 10 seconds taking lots of stuff out: *BEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPITYBEEP* Preheat convection oven: *BEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPITYBEEP* Turn off oven: "plays some beepy tune to verify* Open microwave, leave door open for a few to air steam out like I always do: *BEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPITYBEEP* Dryer/washer finishes cycle: *plays some long digital ringtone song* (I swear it's like, 15 seconds long) ... ... "Honey, where's the sledgehammer." ...this house came with newer "digital-fancy" appliances. Can we go back to the cheap and silent appliances.

I read it as prison isn't doing much as a deterrent to crime and/or the prison population doesn't reflect crime rates. IIRC our prison population boom was tied to the war on drugs and sentencing law/policy changes

Hey man, I literally just had someone tell me that Canada's almost entirely left wing and this was part of his explanation!

Definitely not working then. We don't even get that, the managers all deal with it. Of course the auditors have a policy that those can access data can not check in code and vice versa, and those that can affect data cannot access the application and vice versa. This is why I have 2 logins for Perforce and Citrix...

Thx, amazing info. Yes, i read the morningstar geomancer from Beorer and that's why i thought a pike and lance stalker with wizard summoned weapons could look badass too. I´m just finishing a run with an ascendant/ghost heart and i´m loving it from the start. The next one will be the tricky stalker haha. Thx again mates.

I was thinking that the club doesn't have a specific damage type like chop, slash, pulsate, smash or dig, I was thinking why doesn't smash damage do the club?

I just got done playing STONEKEEP a first-person dungeon crawler from 1995. My cousin got it for Christmas when I was a little kid and I got to play a little bit of it but never too much. (I remember opening a door and seeing a goblin with a sword and getting jump scared as it killed me. I had just gotten done killing a lot of ants and thought I was backtracking the way I came from - when in reality I went a totally different way.) It always intrigued me as a kid and I loved dungeon crawlers. My first being Dungeon Master on the SNES which my cousin and I went through together in the summer once so it was always on the back of my mind as I've been doing a lot of research into first person ARPGS as of late I figured I'd give it a go. Well, it definitely has a ton of issues. Was still a great game, but man hindsight is 20-20 for sure. Having items display their names and an inventory that was larger than 5x1 would have been a huge help. There is a lot of vagueness to the game and the puzzle solving definitely felt rewarding, but it also required you to understand the designer's thought process. I remember getting a magical orb that I had no way of knowing what it did. I clicked it to use it and it made a noise but nothing happened. I tried it in a specific spot and it seemed to teleport me to a different area before warping me back. (Initially I dropped the orb after teleporting and wasn't able to get back to it.) Turns out the orb wasn't teleporting me, it was levitating me upwards to a hole on the ceiling you barely would notice unless you looked very closely. A lot of puzzles like that in this game. One I figured out through sheer luck of remembering a spell existed that shrunk things that I got about 15 hours earlier in the game and never found a use for up until that point. Combat was fun, but also extremely punishing early on and in late game. Most of the time I felt like I had to run away and throw things or cheese enemies at doorways they couldn't go through. I know the backup and throw stuff at monsters is common to a lot of dungeon crawlers, but it really just felt over the top in stone keep until you found the magic staffs and ways to recharge them. Still for its flaws there were a lot of interesting ideas. Namely the rune system for magic.

Finished Cyberpunk. Pretty good game. It doesn't have the best intro and the tutorial can be something like 15 - 20 hours. At one point I was so kitted up with cybernetics I considered raising the difficulty but left it on Normal 'cause I suck at shooters. Felt like the game threatened to melt my graphics card a few times. It runs so hot. There's an odd quest design quirk that pushes you to pursue the main plot right until the point of no return, and then to go do side content. I did what I always do in games in consuming as much side content I could before advancing the main plot. There was two quest chains (only two) I didn't finish 'cause I didn't feel like spam sleeping to move them along when I'd already done everything else. I got the good ending. Judy's story . . . well, that was the quest chain that left me questioning if I would continue to play. The driving is kinda bad. The cars felt floaty. they slid around a lot. Also, way have a first person driving mode that only shows you one half of the view looking out the window? Don't know about you guys, but I peripheral vision. Really good game. Highly recommend despite the bugs.

Kurds and Yazidis, right at this moment. What you say, it's not being reported? Weird that. Fun thing to remember: Erdogan's and his son made many millions buying oil from ISIS and hence funding them in their fight against... the US supported Kurdish YPG, among others. Indeed, one of the big reasons that Russia suddenly started bombing ISIS oil infrastructure and tankers back in 2016 after everyone had avoided doing it was that it massively hurt Erdogan in his personal finances, and he'd just 'personally' ordered Turkey to shoot down a Russian Su24.

My Oblivion gaming experience is going exceptionally well, Im about 110 hours into the game and Im only on level 11 due to the highly recommended Maskars Overhaul Mod. Its addresses basically every issue you can think of with vanilla Oblivion like no level scaling, slower and realistic advancement, monster variations and vastly improved mechanics on every level I also have started modding my single player RDR2 game and I dont know why I didnt do it earlier. I now have realistic survival requirements like eating, washing, urinating and sleep. I have added additional contracts, gangs, bounty hunting and hunting and herbalist skills. Plus some overhaul mods....its hard to believe how much better the game is

Well, the good thing about games is that you can stop them at any time and return to them whenever.

I unironically want Hunted: Demon's Forge 2

cyberpunk 1.5 are pretty stable economy still a mess but that is nothing new or really matter for most rpg

Wticher 1 was the best. Playing Crowns and Pawns, so far seems okay for a modern adventure game, at least the puzzles aren't too simplistic. Apparently from reviews, I will learn a lot about Lithuania from this game, so that's cool and helps justify the $20.

102 hours into CP2077 and still not making much headway. I am starting to think I'll never finish this game.

I'm playing Chaosgate: Daemonhunters and it's good so far. Gameplay is pretty much a well done XCOM: Enemy Unknown clone with some changes. Hit chance is always 100% but the damage dealt fluctuates based on various factors like distance, de/buffs, cover etc. The Chaos corruption you're fighting charges up every round or whenever your units use their psychic powers and causes a random effect when it hits Warp Surge. A debuff area, penalties for your units, reinforcements popping in, random enemies gaining mutations. Won one mission by the skin of my teeth when an enemy patrol, objective-based reinforcements and Warp Surge reinforcements decided to all gang up on me at once. You have a ship as your base that you upgrade similar to Harebrained's Battletech, repair sections to increase your out-of-combat capabilities, research stuff to make your in-combat mojo better. Units are divided into classes, they rank up, have their own upgrade trees with an atrocious UI, etc. Unfortunately there's some bugs that need ironing out, there's two area denial weapon abilities I can't use at all so far. The cinematics are pretty enough, though you can tell they could've use more time working on those. The tutorial was super cheesy, though I enjoyed it. Music is alright so far, the kind of choir chanting and haunting orchestral stuff you'd expect, but it's music that's playing quietly in the background instead of something adrenaline pumping so it doesn't stand out much.