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Rats wearing tiny backpacks with microphones are being trained to find earthquake survivors (upworthy.com)

Decent east has a good ring to it

It depends how you look at it. He was fined only once where his subordinates were fined 8 times. Even though there were pictures that he participated in multiple of the events which participants police fined. So you support that employees can refuse using uniform/logos/ads/etc which their employer ask them to wear? I didn't know that you were such avid worker rights advocate and socialist

There should be additional lash damage, yes. I don't think CP took that away. I'm using the Community Patch as well and don't experience that behavior. [edit] that's actually wrong, see below [/edit] I get lashes and +10 for the fire head of Sun & Moon with the Ring of Focused Flame. Maybe the mods you installed are biting each other - maybe the loading order is not like recommended. Also sometimes unique weapons can lose their enchantments. It's a very rare bug of the vanilla game (not the mod) - but it's known to happen. Does the weapon's tooltip still mention the lashes and other enchantments? Edit: okay... tested it right now to be sure and indeed I get no lashes anymore despite the tooltip saying it. This is new to me. Maybe the latest update on CP broke Sun & Moon. I will test further and report.

I'm not sure I agree with all of this but it sure is compelling.

@Darkpriest An op-ed on the oil situation by the ex-chancellor of my ex-political party (I left few months ago, when he was removed from his position, by non-transparent means) It supports my conclusion from the Deutsche Well video I shared you, few days ago, where I have mentioned, that it is not in the interest of Saudi Arabia, to have very high oil prices for a very long time. (Google translated) "THE TIME OF THE STONE WAS NOT ENDED MANY THAT THE STONES ARE OUT 🛢️ Or, as Russia's economic destiny is largely in the hands of the Saudis, and why it doesn't suit the Saudis when the Russians mine little and oil prices are too high. The popular story of Russian trolls and their useful idiots tells how Russia will easily find a market for its oil after European sanctions. The reality is that their production is declining because European consumption cannot replace Russia. This creates a hole in the market that someone will have to fill. And either the OPEC oil cartel countries or the United States. The Champions League of International Diplomacy takes place here. Because: Saudi and the Middle East, in particular, are fabulously rich in high oil prices However, it is not in the interest of the Saudis that prices be too high in the long run. At high prices, it pays for Americans to extract shale oil. 👉 The Saudis just have to tuck the mallet into the sand and oil will gush out. Therefore, their mining costs are around three dollars per barrel. Shale oil production is expensive and worthwhile when the price of oil is at least around $ 40 per barrel. American capitalism is relentless. The market has a free hand, and when oil prices fell to historic lows last time during a pandemic ($ 11 a barrel, thanks to the OPEC-Russia oil war, that's another evening), about 46 shale oil companies rumbled (went bankrupt). which left behind an ax of $ 56 billion. At $ 120 a barrel, however, their time is up again. With such a margin, it is an investor's dream. The last thing the Saudi want is for American miners to re-run and flood the world with shale oil, cutting them off their market pie again. 👉 Saudi people have a lot of oil. So much and for so long that they "threaten" them that they won't have time to sell it all. The developed world, the largest buyers of oil, is moving away from fossil fuels, and once, in a relatively short future, perhaps sometime in 2050, the time will come when no one will care. Because the Stone Age did not end because the stones ran out. Even the era of fossil fuels will not end due to the shortage of fossil fuels (although the Moon predicted something different ten years ago). That is why the Saudi need to mine a lot and ideally at the best possible prices in terms of a gold average price. However, if prices are too high, American drillers will tear them off their cake. If prices are too low, they will not earn enough to save in the future to buy more English football clubs. CONCLUSION: HOW DOES RUSSIA? Current prices are too high for the Saudis. And it's only a matter of time before they let the tap down and oil prices return to some "normal" pre-crisis levels. And how will it affect the Russians? So that they get even less money for their oil, which they no longer have to sell to anyone than before. Easy math: 📈 a lot of oil sold, for a lot of money = a lot of money for war excesses and keeping the population in check through social packages. 📉 Little oil sold, little money = the collapse of an economy built on oil exports."

Only problem is that the only good predator movie is the first one. So despite the trailer, I have like zero hopes for this movie.

First Hard West then Weird West and now... When do we get an East West? 🤔

I'm running an Unbroken/Skald using Sun and Moon and Magran's Blessing to get the most out of Ring of Focused Flame, however when I got my hands on them I found that not only the fire head didn't get +10 ACC, but neither of the heads did bonus damage, is this how it should work? I think I ran a monk/skald with this setup back when I first played this game, and it seemed to work iirc. I have Community Patch and Balance Polishing Mod installed, but I checked changelog and game files, neither of them touches this item. I also tried getting one with console and it's the same.

I've survived getting infected by dark elex, I'm not worried about VD.

^Now to get tested. Just in case. After all, Nasty brings new meaning to doing the nasty.

Just beware when game actually applies mod changes. I think it usually works when refreshing (by clicking on the refresh or update button) mod list, but I remember a couple of cases where "extra gamedata object from mods" stayed in cache. New Keywords are extra object. I strongly suggest opening related CP KW file so you get the abilities they actually changed to implement their "fire weapon" keyword. They technically needed to update separately all abilities (Scion of Flame, Ring of Focused Flame, Sun&Moon fire damages mod...) to make each of them work with their new KW. I'm taking a break from PoE2 and gamedata files. I finally managed to finish Disco Elysium and to start Tyranny 😉 EDIT : I'm just too curious. According to Gamedata files, elemental weapon with CP should only benefit from Elemental Talent, other beneficial effects haven't been modified to take into account the new KW. So no synergy with Ring of Focused Flame. Twin Gods mod works with Fire Keyworded and Ice Keyworded flail attacks so shouldn't work with CP. As a consequence Golden Sun and Silver Moon shouldn't work with CP either. Lunar and Solar Excellence work with Fire and Ice Keyworded attack so shouldn't work with CP for flail attacks. Note this is a theoritical analysis, so I might be mistaken (at least I won't start the game 🙂 ). Maybe checking that everything works properly without any mod could help make things clearer. Sometimes there's bugs hidden by bugs.

That's because Danny Glover getting too old for this %&#* is always entertaining.

I should be nearing the end game in Elex 2. I'm level 38 and I'm pretty much walking death. I can still be killed if I get sloppy, but nothing scares me any more. There's nothing out there that I can't obliterate. Max level Alb magic is terrifying and it's not even my best weapon. Most of my companions are at true friend relationship status, I think only Falk and Bully aren't and they admire me, so I'm close to true friend with them. With any luck, I'll finish Elex 2 before The Quarry comes out. I was always interested in playing Until Dawn, but I never did, for whatever reason. Seeing as this is essentially Until Dawn 2: Slasher Movie Boogaloo, this is my chance to right that wrong, sort of. Plus, I kinda want something to flex the xXxBOxXx's graphical muscles. While The Quarry does still have last gen versions, so it's likely not going to push the xXxBOxXx nor the PS5 to its limits (it's likely 6 months to a year before we get games like that), it should give Forza Horizon 5 a run for its money for prettiest game I have on Microsoft's console. Reviews are starting to come in and they're generally positive, so I might take the plunge and see if I can help a group of campers survive the night.

Nioh 2. I think I am pretty close to the end of the main game. Defeated Lady Osakabe, aka the castle with tentacles. Luckily for me, her 2nd phase tentacles spawned at the farthest side of the roof and I was able to shoot her in the eye almost issue-free. So far the only things I dislike about Nioh 2 are The main story is linear, which should be expected, but still unpleasant; The loot is unsatisfying, like in Diablo or Divinity, colour-coded piles of RNG'ed story-free pointy sticks, instead of unique lore-rich legendary artifacts; There is no auto-saving on exit, only at the shrines ("bonfires"); The size of the game is ridiculous, around 76GB. Otherwise, it is a decent Souls-like with comfortable customizable controls, diverse character builds, and epic bosses. There is no open-world, the game uses mission-based structure, though the locations are quite large.

We watched Matrix 4. ...um...I liked the deja vu cat. Best character in the movie. Also, I'm not sure how they managed to make even the action scenes flat, lifeless and dull, but they did. That said, there were some interesting ideas and moments, and NPH's one long dialogue re: humanity was entertaining but yeah overall it earned its bad rep. ...they should have just made deja vu kitty the main character.

isn't there supposed to be additional damage with or without the ring anyway? also no bonus acc with the ring either, same acc for 2 heads. pretty sure it's community patch

Or Soft East, Normal East, Good East?

Love your ideas/points. Half stairs would be lovely as I like the 1.5 wall height best but that results in some interesting stair/ramp combinations. Of course that means we need half railings. We’d want half pillars as well. I’d also like the triangle piece to fit together. The beams adding structural support would be nice actually. I would love to be able to make dyes/paint. We have different colored flowers but they are all the same currently when picked up. If they were separate items we could have some dye materials. There are some existing items that would also work like charcoal, blue berries, etc. I rarely go I the pond or haze after I do those labs so maybe some new materials for those areas. Another poster mention adding slides to get down from tall bases quickly while still being able to move objects (gliding cancels object moves) and frankly I loved that idea.

I've started in on Black Geyser and it is pretty enjoyable. Seems like a solid BG type clone. I'm not too far into the story, but so far it is engaging.

Been playing Surviving Mars. It's...incomplete? Like it should still be in early access. The potential is there, but it needs work. There's just so many things missing from the base game (some of which are then "fixed" with DLC. Yes, it's a Paradox game, why do you ask?) There's also just general frustrating jankiness with the AI, and resource management is iffy as hell too. For example of the first issue, missing features: there's no way to transport water over longer distances (once piping becomes impractical). So you can have a colony that is borderline drowning because it's on top of a bunch of water sources, and another one where your colonists are permanently dehydrating because you have to vaporize water from the atmosphere, which is far less efficient, and there is no way to get the surplus from the one colony to the other... Instead of doing something about this in the base game they added trains (that can transport liquids) in a DLC... The AI is just...let me just give an example: so your colonists live in domes (because no breathable atmosphere). However, I had a dome complete building around the same time more colonists arrived, so they immediately moved into that dome, of course (even though there was plenty of space elsewhere), a dome that had no air, no water, and no living spaces(!). To make things worse, there was no way to get them to move out of that dome: I put it in quarantine, disabled all "allowed" types of colonists for the dome (after which they are supposed to move to an allowed dome with room, of which there were plenty), turned off the dome entirely (which makes it so it also isn't serviced, so no more power either at that point). The ones I could find on the map I was able to mostly manually reassign, but the rest just died from dehydration... Resource management similarly seems iffy as hell once you have multiple colonies. It's possible to set priorities on various tasks, however the AI often outright ignores these instead choosing to do something else, like using resources to sell to your colonists in a store inside a dome instead of fixing the air filtration system that you put on highest priority... Furthermore that priority is shared between what your drones (workers) and your colonists prioritize. So if you want to have a factory fixed asap and you increase the priority on it suddenly all colonists eligible for working in that factory drop everything they were doing and switch to working there, potentially leaving other jobs unmanned... Frankly, the entire game seems like it should be enjoyable enough, but after a few days of this it seems I am mostly fighting the game itself, rather than the challenges I'm supposed to be dealing with. I'd give it a 4/10: base game needs work, DLC are not an acceptable way to "patch" a game. Might be time to go back to another, similar game, that appears way better designed: Timberborn.

That's probably because Community Patch didn't add their "Fire Weapon" new KW (the one enabling hitting fire immune foes) to the Weapon property adding fire bonus damages. Ring of Focused Flame probably applies to this KW though.

Doom the one from 1993 I has to be over 25 years since I last played this one and shotgunning demons to the face is still satisfying.

I forgot to check the keyword component of community patch, it seems that Fire and Freeze keywords are replaced with something else so the crush damage can hit enemies with elemental immunities, but I still don't fully understand the files and have no idea why the bonus damage is missing

I've played a bit of Old World now, and it's good. I don't know how well it's going to last though, there's a sense that they've decided to aim for the best bits of Civilisation and Crusader Kings but (understandably) aren't as developed as either, so it's a lot less... gripping, I guess. I'm also fundamentally not a big fan of one unit per tile; doomstacks suck, but there are far better fixes to that. Someone also mentioned King's Bounty Dark Side- good game, but for me at least it regularly crashes my computer to an out and out hard reboot. Says something that I still played it for ~60 hours despite that. HoMM III is a very highly regarded game- it's GOG's out and out top seller for example- so for most people anything following it would have to be a decline.

Alpha Protocol when?

I don't know why, but I found this somewhat amusing:

I trust the scammer person calling me on the phone telling me my car's warranty is about to expire more than I trust the government.