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i did some testing to confirm some of my suspicions. here's what i've found: ranged movement recovery penalty only applies while moving (correction of earlier thing i said) ranged movement recovery penalty is +100% recovery time shot on the run does benefit from inversions and will completely cancel the recovery penalty suffered while moving (edit: so, makes no difference whether you stand still or move as a ranger with this. could be pretty handy for kiting) reload time is not affected by ranged movement-recovery penalty, instead it's paused your reload progress is saved if you interrupt it, so if you run around for a while, your remaining reload time should pick up back from where it left off however, in normal circumstances it appears there is a minimum reload time of what appears to be ~2.5s for most weapons, but arquebus appears to have a slightly faster minimum reload time of ~2s. so, as i mentioned in an earlier post, if you perpetually interrupt your reload, then you'll never be able to fire again since the animation needs to fully complete. however with firearms, there's a moment during the reload animation when you **** the gun (you can hear a very slight 'click' when this happens) and if you interrupt the reload at this point and then resume attack you bypass the entirety of the reload time (including the remainder of the reload time that you should've seen) and go straight to attack. [edit: lol erroneous forum censorship strikes again! "when you c.o.c.k the gun"] if Deadfire was somehow more of a twitch-y game like DotA or a fighting game, this means there's actually a "reload cancel" optimization you could do. in practice, i don't think this is worth the micromanagement since it's like tenths of a second in savings which, while possibly a substantial % increase, is extremely annoying to keep track of over an entire fight. i say "normal circumstances" b.c. if your natural reload time is shorter than the minimum reload time, then it uses your natural reload time (possible with dual-wielding, high dex, pistol modal) i know there's a further absolute minimum reload time (it's why one of the enchantments on a gun that clears recovery doesn't work) but with some simple testing with a console i wasn't able to find what that was (i got down to 1.5s and still obeyed the 1.5s recovery time instead of being capped)

You're describing the people, not the land.

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Incoming Wall of Text, but I think it is worth to read, to get a little bit into what is going on in Russia atm. It was written in Polish, then translated to Czech, and I have translated it to you through Google Translate, so I hope nothing is lost from the original article. "Tyrant's new dress or Why Putin pretends and the world jumps at it Sergei Guriyev, a professor of economics, a former adviser to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and a former chief economist at the EBRD, on what Putin and Russia can expect under his dictatorial rule. JACEK ŻAKOWSKI (JŻ): Can you still understand Putin 9 years after fleeing Russia? SERGEI GURIEV (SG): It's hard for everyone to understand. But I can rationally explain what he does. JZ: Because you know him. SG: We never talked in plain sight. But I met him in a group of several people. He always tried to give the impression that he understood and accepted the main arguments of his partners. He took that from the KGB school. He avoids polemics. He tries to find out how the interview partner thinks and what he wants, as if he wants to recruit him. He approaches conversations solely in terms of usefulness. He is cynically rational. JŻ: When it is rational, then it is also predictable. SG: Unless, in his opinion, unpredictability is more rational. Therefore, it is always easier to explain what he has done than to predict what he will do. That is his tactics. This is different from Western politicians, who try to be predictable so as not to raise unnecessary fears in others and escalate unnecessary tensions. JZ: And Putin is chimerical. SG: He's pretending. For the West, unpredictability plays a role. And a lot of people jump at him. I still read that he is detached, obsessed, emotionally unstable. Or he may be highly uninformed. But we don't know what his ignorance is about. That is why it is difficult for us to predict what he will do. JŻ: So what is its rationality? SG: Political and economic. The political is based on the experience of the annexation of the Crimea in 2014. It lost popularity, so he made an annexation and again became popular. According to a study by the Levada Center, between 2010 and 2013, ie before the annexation, its popularity in Russia fell from 80 to 60 percent and after the annexation it jumped to an unprecedented 90 percent. But then stagnation began, real wages fell, and Putin's popularity gradually returned to about 80 percent. It was not until 2018 that it increased when the retirement age was raised and it dropped again to 60 percent after the outbreak of the 2019 pandemic. Therefore, he concluded that he needed another Crimea. It never occurred to him that this time the war would look different. JŻ: That wasn't very rational anymore. SG: That rationality was based on false assumptions. Putin did not know about the extent of the changes that took place in Ukraine after 2014. He misjudged Zelenský. He knew too little about the competence and determination of Biden's team, which could not afford to show weakness after Afghanistan. And the worst part for him was that he didn't realize the extent of the disintegration of his own army. That's why he takes revenge on the intelligence. If he knew all this, he would probably attack elsewhere. Trebas in Georgia. JŻ: Did he have to attack? SG: He had no idea how to regain support when real wages fell next year. Already in 2019, they were on average 7% lower than in 2013. JŻ: 2013 was still a good year in Russia. Why did you, the golden child of the Russian economy, travel so suddenly? SG: As an economist, I had to teach students real economics. That is, one that knows that economic growth requires good institutions - such as independent courts, fair competition, conscientious officials, promotion based on competencies, politically independent companies. And as rector of a private university, responsible for, among other things, funding, I had to appear in public debates. And in public I had to say what in the lectures. And Putin stopped liking it. For example, I was among the nine people whom then-President Medvedev publicly asked what we thought about Khodorkovsky's conviction. I replied that, as a holding economist, I considered this verdict to be unfounded. Putin didn't like it. Then Navalny came to me in May 2012 and said, "I am setting up an anti-corruption foundation, I want you to support it." I could not refuse, because as an economist and manager, I knew that corruption was Russia's biggest economic development problem. Putin didn't like that either. I was summoned for questioning, after which I realized that there was no place for me in Russia. JŻ: Somehow it doesn't surprise me. SG: Not me either, but I had no choice. How would I explain this to the students if I rejected Navalny? You can't teach one thing and do something else in public. It has already been seen that the economy is slowing down due to corruption. And then she stopped. JZ: Because of the sanctions. SG: The sanctions imposed after the annexation of Crimea were practically insignificant. They have never reduced Russian GDP growth by more than one percentage point. Even if there were no sanctions, the Russian economy would grow by less than 2 percent a year. It is not the growth that gives the dictatorial power that gave popularity. And it couldn't be higher, because the system is based on corruption and favoring friends. In the state and economy of Putin's Russia, the loyal, not the competent, are promoted. This is causing more and more economic problems and growing inequality because the protégés of state power are greedy. And when there is no growth, they can only get rich at the expense of others. JŻ: The greed of the oligarchs forced the war? SG: The impunity greed of hundreds of thousands of privileged companies and officials at very diverse levels. But the system would not have felt it politically without the opposition, which has become extremely effective on the social media. By exposing state corruption, it has increasingly disarmed the spin on which Putin based his popularity. Because he was still a typical spin dictator. JŻ: What does that mean? SG: The spin dictatorship is a great discovery of the twenty-first century autocrats. We still hear that Putin is the Stalin of our time. But what is Stalin without great purges and fears, without the Gulag, mass deportations, staged monstrous trials, moreover with legal opposition and very limited but legally functioning independent media, with the sincere support of the majority and not particularly false election results? The patent of the spin dictators - Putin, Orban, Nazarbayev, Chavez, Bolsonar, Trump - is that instead of killing people, they kill their minds. Instead of a big horror, they use a big spin. Instead of intimidation, they seduce, corrupt and demobilize resistance. This is a global trend based on universal know-how. Together with Daniel Treisman, we calculated that from the 1940s to the 1960s, one in four dictators who came to power was responsible for at least 100 political assassinations a year. In the zero years, it was less than every tenth. Similarly, 40 to 60 percent of dictators coming to power between 1945 and 1970 imprisoned more than a thousand political prisoners. But in the 21st century, less than 20 percent. JŻ: Dictatorships have become more pleasant? SG: The goal of a dictatorship is power and the benefits that power brings, not the killing of people. But a dictatorship is still a dictatorship, even when it uses informational and economic violence instead of physical violence and uses television, the press, Facebook, Twitter and TikTok instead of rifles and batons. JŻ: We both remember that in the 20th century, dictatorships did both. SG: Now they do both, but the proportions are opposite. The discovery of spin dictatorships is that if, instead of imprisoning or killing critics, they are allowed to function in some nice way and are downplayed in the dominant media, then people can be convinced that the dictator is a great democrat and his enemies are an elite who wants to harm ordinary people. A legal opposition niche is essential for a spin dictatorship so that it can be blamed for all the failures. Pseudo-alternatives are key. Without them, it would be difficult to explain to people the inevitable defeats and injustices of spin dictators. The classic spin argument is: "if they didn't interfere, everything would be better" or "if they ruled, it would be much worse." JŻ: Fascists and communists said the same thing. SG: But they imprisoned, murdered and intimidated their opponents. This deprived them of credibility. In a spin dictatorship, repression is an extreme used only when dissent comes from seclusion and begins to threaten the maintenance of power. Navalny was safe until his online announcements gained mass reach and influenced public opinion. Every week, he uploaded more episodes of a series on corruption by the Putin elite, which was watched by millions of people and tolerated by the authorities. It wasn't until years of stagnation and declining living standards in April 2020 that Putin's popularity dropped below 60 percent that his people resorted to repression to cut off the younger generation from dangerous content on the Internet. Navalny was poisoned and then imprisoned, the Memorial Association was dissolved, and most of Nik's free media were abolished. And when that turned out to be no longer enough to restore the popularity of power as the Internet spiraled out of control, Putin reached for a tool that worked in 2014 and sparked another war with Ukraine. JZ: Stalin said that "in building socialism, the class struggle is intensifying." The example of Putin's Russia shows that this is true of the progress made in building various dictatorships. SG: Most. Few dictatorships can modernize quickly and stably enough to compete effectively with democracies. And if they modernize successfully, they are usually doomed to democratization, like South Korea. Because the growing urban middle class demands freedom. JŻ: So the paradox of tyranny is that it must perish - either because of failure or because of success - but in any case they go through a phase of cruelty when they die? SG: If they want to stay open to the world - which is one of the basic preconditions of spin dictatorships - they cannot be permanent. But when they resort to repression, they can close themselves off from the world and remain in ever deeper autarchy for a long time as the usual dictatorships of fear. Like North Korea. Singapore is a critical exception. Despite the rapidly growing wealth, the dictatorship is not threatened, but the regime is softening. Of course, we do not know what will happen to China, which probably has its best years behind it. Rich countries are democratic with the exception of commodity dictatorships such as Saudi Arabia or Kuwait. But these are also gradually softening dictatorships. But Putin's Russia is beginning to take the North Korean route. It falls into isolation and poverty, the spin dictatorship ends, replaced by the old-fashioned dictatorship of fear, which may persist for some time, but will become poorer, more cruel and isolated. JZ: For Russia, this is another failed attempt at modernization. Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great, Nicholas II, Lenin, Gorbachev, Putin - everyone tried to catch up with the West in their own way. Some were already quite close, but a crisis broke out that destroyed everything. You are an Ossetian, not a Russian, but you know Russia through and through. What's wrong with him? SG: Nothing. It simply still has a system that hinders its development. Economic growth is the result of investment and free enterprise. Russia had a period of large investments, but these were state investments or heavily controlled by the state. Freedom, including economic freedom, has always been limited or non-existent. Property protection and social cohesion, the rule of law, competition have built up Western power - and Russia is still lacking. From tsarism to Putin, corrupt, incompetent regimes ruled, stifling innovation and initiative. The result can not surprise anyone. JZ: The curse of eternal tyranny? SG: The same was said of many other countries before they democratized. JŻ: Some - like Turkey, Hungary or Poland - only for a short time. SG: South Korea was always a dictatorship before it became a democracy. Sweden too. I Germany. There are many more democracies in the world than there were 200 years ago, 100 years ago, 50 years ago. If we live for a while, we will see a democratic Russia. I'm sure of that. JZ: That's good news for Russia and bad news for Putin. SG: Sure. JZ: So in your opinion, Putin is in a tragic situation. It cannot maintain its popularity without economic growth, and the Russian economy will not be able to grow as long as Putin's authoritarian rule continues. SG: Exactly. The interests of Putin and the Russians have diverged. He tries to maximize his personal power. The Russians want to live better. For the first 10 years of Putin's rule, these goals coincided because raw material exports were enough to reduce poverty. Putin was really popular then. But then corruption, censorship, the feeding of the oligarchs and their surroundings at the expense of other Russians stopped the growth. The stronger Putin was, the weaker the Russian economy. The war radicalized this process. We all see Putin destroying Ukraine with bombs and rockets. But the media does not see how much Putin is destroying Russia. Hundreds of thousands of young Russian professionals have already fled abroad. Russia's economy is isolated and increasingly destroyed by breaking ties with the world. JŻ: Not with the whole world. SG: With the developed world. Putin is strengthening relations with some less developed countries. This can make an impression at the UN, because it is clear during the vote that he is not completely alone. But that will not bring Russia development. What can Russia sell them? Raw materials, weapons, very simple products. And they can offer Russia the same. For a while, it will be enough for Russia not to back down in civilization. But development will not bring it. And the West will move forward. JŻ: Repetition of the late USSR? SG: More or less. But the severance of ties with the West is already causing the biggest recession since the early 1990s. After 23 years of absolute rule, Putin has brought Russia to a state where he has taken power and gained popularity precisely for getting Russia out of this state. For years, it was believed that what was good for Putin was good for Russia. The attack on Ukraine ended this phase. What is good for Putin has become bad for Russia. JZ: Does Putin understand that? SG: He understands. But the question is what he sees when he looks in the mirror and how he explains it. JŻ: And? SG: He thinks things are more important than GDP. He reiterates that Russia is a proud country, that more important is its imperial spirit, that the Russians must resist the West, because that is their historical mission. Of course, he knows how much Russia and its power and war cost. But he thinks it's worth paying the price, and in the end Russia will benefit. Because the only alternative he can imagine is the triumph of American imperialism, the exploitation of Russian wealth by the West, and the tightening of the NATO loop around Russia. If anything really scares him now, it is the prospect of Finland and Sweden joining NATO quickly. Even though he has some tactical success in Ukraine, the strategic effects of the war are exactly the opposite of his intentions. Ukraine is consolidating against Russia. NATO is moving closer and more firmly integrated. The West is leaving Russian raw materials. Russia is compromising and degenerating economically. The Second World Army is rotting in the Ukrainian mud for the third month in a row and cannot cope with the resistance of many times smaller Ukraine. JZ: This war is a tragedy for Ukraine, it is destroying Russia, it is damaging the whole world, because the war is raising energy and food prices. But there is also an optimistic spark, which is essential. For two decades, the world has been under the growing impression of the success of the spin dictatorships that you and Daniel Treisman described in the book. Do the impacts and limits of the greatest spin dictatorship free us from the illusion that spin dictators are an alternative that will replace outdated Western market democracy? SG: That's the point of the book. Spin dictatorships are the same impasse as previous dictatorships of fear, communism or fascism. In the beginning, they can give the impression of efficient systems. They tend to be really effective for a while. But they inevitably lead to self-destruction because they run out of resources. They need educated people to develop, but educated people rebel or emigrate to the free world. The more developed a company is, the more it costs to control it. As costs begin to outweigh the benefits. This is an irreparable internal contradiction of any dictatorship, which is best seen in Cuba and Venezuela. JŻ: In this way, the Soviet bloc and the formerly Francoist Spain and Salazar's Portugal fell. SG: Now this is the path of all post-Soviet spin dictatorships, led by Putin's Russia. JŻ: Turkey too. SG: Turkey is a strange case. Erdogan combines spin with terror and the appearance of democratic freedom. Prisoners of thousands of professors, judges and opposition. He controls and pursues the media. But - unlike Putin - he lost the last election in the five largest cities. The Turkish opposition was not driven to seclusion. This is a borderline case. The impact is similar to that in Russia - a deepening economic crisis, irreparable tensions masked by muscle strain and still strong support for the government. However, it is worth looking at Armenia, whose dictator tried to impose apparent democratization in 2018 and had to leave under the influence of mass protests when he was appointed prime minister after his party's election, although he had previously promised to retire. The democratization of Armenia shows what a good end to spin dictatorships may look like. JZ: Kazakhstan is on this road. SG: It's not democracy yet, but he's embarked on a path that Turkey and Russia can take after the war. JŻ: Antony Blinken says that Russia will not win the war. What should that mean? SG: A spin dictator can't lose. He still has to talk about his successes. He presents every defeat as a victory. However, there are limits to distorting the facts. Putin cannot tell the Russians that the war brought nothing and ended with a return to the February 24 border. He must connect at least a piece of territory to Russia. JŻ: Donbas? SG: At least part of Donbas and maybe Transnistria. Then he says: we have conquered new territories, we have defended our brothers in the Donbas, we have conquered Kherson, so we have water for Crimea, we have destroyed the fascist infrastructure and ousted NATO - so success again! JŻ: The Russians will jump at that? SG: Maybe most. But it will not be the end. The West will see this as a brutal violation of international law, will maintain sanctions, and Putin's Russia will become a classic dictatorship of fear. Because who cares about Kherson, when wages fall, prices rise, shops are empty, you can forget about holidays abroad, and even athletes do not leave the country. From month to month, Kherson will be less important, and emptying refrigerators will be increasingly important. JŻ: Will this be the end of "illiberal democracy" as an enticing alternative to democratic capitalism? SG: The final end. The spin of the dictatorship will end, as did Soviet communism. JŻ: A good emperor will become a cruel wounded emperor. The place occupied by spin doctors will be taken by physicists and police officers with batons. And then what? SG: We both grew up in a similar system. It can't last forever. It is much less stable in the twenty-first century than in the twentieth century. At the time, Western Radio was the only source of independent information. There are now Internet media and VPNs. YouTube still operates legally in Russia. After blocking Instagram, people en masse turned on VPN and the ban is ineffective. I'm not saying it will be easy to reach most Russians, but it will be incomparably easier than it was 30 or 50 years ago. JŻ: Will Putin - like Pinochet, Honecker, Jaruzelski - be ready to resign in such a situation? SG: No. He is already accused of war crimes and his surroundings as well. No one resigns to go to prison. But people close to him can arrest him. Although it seems unlikely - like any palace coup until it happens. There may be mass protests that the police will no longer want to suppress. This also looks unrealistic today, but it was similar during the Ukrainian Maidan and many other revolutions. This is how the fall of the famous Berlin Wall came about. Ceaușescu also did not intend to resign, but the Romanians overthrew his regime within three days. JŻ: When will the Russians overthrow Putin? SG: It's not known. But there is no going back after February 24th. JŻ: Will Russia become different without Putin, or will it be like the declining USSR, where Brezhnev replaced Andropov, Andropov Chernenko and only after them Gorbachev appeared, until Yeltsin finally came? SG: There are several scenarios. Putin may be overthrown by one of the generals who wants to become the new dictator. But it will not work because Putin has built this system for himself. He had long since got rid of all those who could replace him. It is more likely that governments will be seized by a junta of several generals. This will quickly run out, because everyone is very unpopular and Russia is facing difficult times. Under the influence of unrest, they will blame each other and eliminate them until everything falls apart. The third scenario is that, according to the constitution, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin will take power, and he will call new, freer elections to deal with the West and prevent large-scale protests. JŻ: So liberalization? SG: Which is usually out of control with such regimes. We saw it during perestroika and during the French Revolution. Because such regimes almost always start changing too late and too slowly. JŻ: And then you return to Russia? Maybe. In the social sciences, we know that such changes cannot be planned. But as a former EBRD chief economist, I co-created the team with which we developed a post-war reconstruction plan for Ukraine. It was an offer I could not refuse - just like Navalny's offer had once been. I think that before I return to Russia, I will work with other economists to help Ukraine. This is my duty as an economist, as a European and as a citizen of Russia. Jacek Żakowski spoke Sergei Guriyev - Economist, Professor and Scientific Director of Sciences Po in Paris. He was Chief Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (2015-2019). In 2004-2013 he was rector of the Moscow New Economic School and, among other things, a member of the board of directors of Sberbank (Russia's largest retail bank). Adviser to President Dmitry Medvedev (2008-2012). He co-financed Alexei Navalny's anti-corruption fund and co-authored his economic program. He has recently published (with Daniel Treisman) a book: “Spin Dictators. The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century ”(Princeton, 2022)."

I've been looking to build a castle using those gorgeous mushroom bricks since the day they were implemented, but I was never a fan of grass or stem floors. Then, lo and behold my prayers are answered, and the burr floors are introduced, which look amazing, and will go perfectly with a castle aesthetic. Only problem is it would take me actual days to complete, since every single floor requires lint rope. Not even regular lint, lint ROPE! There aren't even 20 lint nodes on the entire map! I have to wait 3 in-game days or so just to build however many floors that measly supply of lint provides, and I'm not even a 10th of the way complete on the first floor. Until more lint nodes are spread across the map, I think the recipe should be reworked. Honestly, it should consist of 6 burrs, and that's it. The rope doesn't even seem to appear anyway, since it looks like you're just weaving the burrs into shape.

Running some benchmark on loop for an hour or so would be a decent way to figure out whether it was a fluke or actual cause for concern. 3DMark or Heaven would work as both have a "loop" mode. As to what I've been playing, I started, and finished Subnautica: Below Zero (took me 1d7h40min, according to my save file, though I did leave the game running at times) My expectations were kind of low since there was a lot of negativity around the game. Personally I considered it more of a standalone expansion than a full game, and as a standalone expansion it was definitely decent. I mean, it's more Subnautica, which is good. Game world definitely feels smaller, which was a common criticism, but conversely it's also much, much more confusing. Early on I died quite a few times due to running out of, ironically, water, because I got lost somewhere in a cave system (and everywhere has cave systems). However, there's now these new plants that give you oxygen, and they're everywhere, so dying by running out of oxygen is actually pretty hard, which, eeeehhhh, I dunno, seems a bit counterintuitive and makes a lot of places a lot less claustrophobic and scary than they would have otherwise been. Smaller size and the tight cave interiors also means that of the larger vehicles from Subnautica only the Prawn made it into the game. Unlike many I never cared too much for Cyclops (the big sub), I did however miss the Seamoth. The Seatruck really isn't a good substitute for the Seamoth since without modules it has no storage. Furthermore each module you add makes the thing slower, and, obviously, longer, and thus harder to get around the tighter cave interiors. Combined with quite a few of the modules being really situational, I ended up only using three on the regular: the storage module, the one with the crafting station, and the docking one (so I could lug a Prawn suit around), and given how often I used the Prawn (basically only on land, or to mine) I could have done without that last one most of the time as well. Which brings us to the land component, Below Zero features quite a bit of surface exploration, and it is kinda "meh". Don't get me wrong, instead of air, you gotta watch temperature (Below Zero is the outside temperature, in Celsius), and the atmosphere is great. You also get access to the Snowfox, some sort of hoverbike you're supposed to get around in. Unfortunately it's just not very usable, for starters it has no storage, you also get knocked off of it by certain enemies, all the damn time (oftentimes you get knocked off immediately after getting back on, multiple times in a row. RRRAAAGGGEEE). Using the Prawn was a much less obnoxious way of getting around, sadly. So we need to talk about the enemies. They were...disappointing. Most of them are way more aggressive than they were in the original, unfortunately they're also way, way less dangerous. It really doesn't take long before most enemies are just an annoyance rather than a threat (yes, *those* too). This is especially true on land (see earlier Snowfox comment) Unlike Subnautica, Below Zero has a narrated story and a voice protagonist. In fact, there's two storylines that are not directly related, though they do intersect. The first one is the reason you're there in the first place: finding out what happened to your sister. This one fell really, really flat in my opinion. Supposedly they changed writers somewhere during development and I have no trouble believing it with how this storyline went. Started of pretty strong but totally dropped the ball past a certain point. The other storyline seemed a bit more fleshed out. I feel I should also comment on the voiced protagonist. I generally prefer the silent type, however for plot reasons, that wouldn't really have worked here. Aside from the character you play reacting entirely differently from what I would have envisioned (really, strong reactions to something should be a player choice, not something forced onto them, it is jarring) it kinda worked better than I expected. I didn't hate it. I'd give the game a 6/10, it's decent, but the story, land exploration, and lack of sense of danger (plentiful oxygen, most predators being more of a nuisance than a threat) make it so I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who didn't like the first game. Tl;dr it's more Subnautica, If you liked Subnautica, can get past the story, and don't hate voiced protagonists with the fury of a thousand suns, I'd recommend it, certainly when you can get it on sale. For those who didn't enjoy Subnautica, well, doubt this entry will change your opinion.

For those who use computers to play, I would like to suggest using the mouse scroll wheel to swap to different inventory in the hot box/pouch. It would just make gameplay so much more easier and flow better, in my opinion. In almost every other game it has that option so I think you guys should add it, it would be a lot more nice if that was at least just an option. Thank you.

Huge Ancient Forest World Discovered 630 Feet Down Sinkhole In China (unilad.co.uk)

Hi, I was watchin my spouse play the new 13.x content and after activating the MIX.R without knowing what it was. She thought it could not be repaired after it was attacked and broke down. She pressed X for "Repair" (on the controller) as it reads when she approached it, but nothing happened, so she assumed it was buggy or could not be repaired. On purpose I did not tell her what she had to do, becaues I wanted to gather feedback for you that it could be an issue to understand the requirements for how to repair the MIX.R. I was right. She even loaded a previous save to try again but still failed defending it. Finally she gave up, assuming it was a one-attempt trial, where you would either win or lose, but whatever the outcome, it would be permanent. When I realised how confusing this could be for some, I decided to write this feedback for your guys. ℹ I only know how this feature works because I had been watching the dev team introduce the feature. My suggestion I suggest to add information that you need the repair tool to fix it. Maybe add a repair tool icon above the broken MIX.R

Not sure if a base game bug or related to the fix that skips the need to roll for attacks against corpses, White Worms Writhed is receiving a +6 accuracy from PL bonus even though I'm only level 3. Ability level bonus is appropriately +2. Other abilities seem to work fine.

Right you are Even worse, I had the Conan soundtrack cd just in front of me

Some details I noticed about Nimble/Swift: 1. You only get the stride boost if you actually see an enemy. If your allies are engaging enemies around a corner and you can't see them, you have to round the corner before picking up your speed. 2. On my old garbage computer I noticed that my characters would twitch back and forth while running very fast under the effects of Nimble/Swift while this is not the case on my current decent computer. Might be that frame rate or something influences your character while at high stride rates.

Strange New Worlds, episode three. If I put this to the usual test I have for other nuTrek material, and that is asking myself "Is watching this better than driving rusty nails through my scrotum?", then this episode managed to get a yes as as an answer, a distinction so far only extended to the ludicrous and over the top mirror universe episodes of Discovery and perhaps Picard's second season opener, although my impression of the latter is marred by how that broke into a raging dumpster fire immediately afterward. That wasn't half bad, even if it feels like a rehash of a whole lot of elements we've seen before. Some of the dialogue was more in line with older Trek shows, some of it wasn't (please stop using the "Any suggestions? Run!" 'joke'), much like the crew behaviour - no way the doctor wouldn't tell someone else about his little transporter issue. Not all was good, the handwavium was strong in this one, a lot stronger than in others, and I am tired of evryone having a tragic backstory. I also hate this Nurse Chapel and the fact that they had the brilliant idea to put a (very) distant relative of Khan Noonien Singh on the ship who still carries his name, but what can you do. The acting got a little less wooden too, or maybe that was because I set the playback to double speed again. Not the worst way to waste twenty minutes a week, I guess. Many a lot better ones too, though. I await the turning point with bated breath. And a handful of rusty nails.

First of all, I really enjoy this game and love the idea of it. I would like to suggest getting either more characters or being able to customize our characters, such as: picking hair, clothes, how the face looks, gender, the voices. Also there could be classes or characters like the nerd, the jock, the outdoorsy one, etc. Just different characteristics for each one and then you get to customize further such as the customization I named before. I just think it would be really awesome if we could do that and make gameplay more personable and fun. Thank you.

Nope, they wat to get at least the full control of Luhansk, so no victory declaration before that.

Pretty simple, you would just relocate a chest/basket to a Zipline and it would attach, maybe even have a option where it doesn't move until you send it so you can load stuff into the container before sending it off. I think this would be an amazing thing for people who like to go on long gathering sessions across the map or maybe want to make a new base but don't want to deal with the relocation of their chests. I mean if a player puts the work in to have Ziplines going all over the map, maybe we should be able to do more and have ways to maybe just send items over long distances like with the stems. This could even be really helpful if you have a multiplayer world and your friend needs food or repair ingredients for their stuff but are all the way across the map, instead of just heading home their friend could just send over stuff and they can continue on with whatever they need to do across the map

On my Miele you press the up and down button at the same time to access the setting menu, and there you can select how much water it uses, how aggressive you want the wash to be and amongst other things how loud the beeps are. If you are really interested in seeing if you can turn those things off, send me the model numbers and I'll try and help you figure it out. For LG it's something like this But as I said, send me the model number and I'll hunt down for your model specifically how it's done. There should be an allergy setting, which uses more water and repeats the rinse. Really basic washers have this, so that LG should have it. edit: also, you probably know this already, but use fragrance free detergents.

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.

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...

Yeah. We have an ISO 27001 certification, which the upcoming audit is for, an ISO 9001 certification, for which there are of course separate audits, and our branch has a TAPA certification too. Can't even go to the crapper without your (personalized) access badge. Internet filter, highly restrictive firewall rules, can only run executables that are on the whitelist (although that's pretty good protection from silly users clicking on WATCH.BIG.TIDDIES.WMV.CRYTO.TROJAN.EXE). If I want to install something on my computer that isn't part of our approved list I need to request a time-limited local administrator password that expires faster than the setup usually is. Need a reboot for something? Yeah, back to requesting a new one. Not that I disapprove. A little headache for us power users beats having major headaches because the regular users kill everything twice a week, or the entire company, right, Maersk?

I decided on a whim, what if I keep avoiding Furrante? It seems this wasn't expected behavior, and I can see why, considering how he homes in on you at first opportunity. Anyway... I killed Benweth without the quest, but the quest completed, and it said Furrante had given it to me, even though I'd never met him. Out on the world map, his ship is still stalking mine and if I let him catch me, he asks me to kill Ben. I reported to him in Dunnage just now, but his boat is still haunting mine. So anyway, grats Fireballs, you confused the game, woohoo. Yeah no, I didn't make this post only because of that. It's because Maia actually reacts to something Serafen says about Benweth in that first meeting with Furrante. And we all know we have to get to Neketaka to get Maia, so even though you're not supposed to be able to avoid that immediate post-Maje meeting with Furrante, there's at least one interaction that assumes you do so. I intend to let Furrante chase me across the Deadfire and eventually bring him to Ukaizo with me. Update: Furrante has now been hanged, but that's not stopping him. Maybe if I let him catch up, he'll ask me to reload and reconsider my decision? P.S. How I keep avoiding him:

I really doubt that Microsoft (who now owns Obsidian and therefore also the Pillars IP) would allow a Kickstarter campaign for PoE3. The first hurdle for a PoE3: the devs must be willing to do it. After the release of Deadfire and the low sales numbers the mood was pretty gloomy. But as I already wrote: several devs now came forth on Twitter and said they would be on board for a PoE3. Maybe Josh Sawyer still wouldn't be willing to direct it (too bad), but as things like Beast of Winter shows: other devs can step in and still deliver a really nice RPG experience. Imo BoW was excellent and Josh Sawyer wasn't involved that much. Then Microsoft would need to approve it and fund the development. As I said above they want a big portfolio - all kinds of different games - for the Game Pass program. Not all those games don't have to appeal to millions of players - as long as they don't burn money it's a win I guess. Deadfire could have been a lot cheaper if it didn't have Full VO and some quicksand-features like ship combat. And yet it broke even half a year ago or so (so it wasn't a commercial failure after all). Microsoft bought Obsidian in order to have more RPG expertise. Deadfire wasn't a huge financial success but broke even after all. Even such games can be a benefit for Game Pass. So while it still seems unlikely that we will see a PoE3 in the near future - mainly because Obsidian still really doesn't know what went wrong with Deadfire and seems hesitant to retry - it seems less unlikely than a year ago.

In a fun turn of events, my computer suddenly shut itself down and a distinct burning smell started coming out of my video card. Right, RIP my GPU and all that. However, it still works and there are no exploded capacitors or any obvious damage that I can see after detaching the cooling block to clean it a bit and apply new thermal paste. It's not even overheating. Maybe a bit of lint burned in there and that caused a temporary short which triggered the PSU auto-shutdown or something. Anyway, I'm not going to push my luck because it's a really bad time to be left without a graphics card. I'll bring it to the shop to have it taken a look at next week, maybe. So, on topic... I guess I will still not be finishing Cyberpunk for the time being, heh.

A pathetic attempt at a remake of this gem.

Final azovstal defenders are to surrender soon. If Putin plans to pursue any off-ramps this would be the best occasion to declare victory.

Well, we got an audit incoming, and received a guideline for our behaviour in case of questioning. Reads a little like "What to do when the Gestapo walks into your office and starts asking questions", particularily the part about no talking back to the auditors.

Ok, apparently 80 of those full-auto archers is maybe ... 70-75 too many. A million units didn't even get close. But...I laughed like a loon. $17 well spent. Gotta try 5 on a hill against 2 million Chuck Norris'....or maybe custom-make a still powerful but not god-tier archer unit.