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Yeah, the song is not great, although with the combination of scenes it works. I was more interested to see how many shows people here recognized. There is a list of anime used in the description. For me I know these ones, but mostly from manga Darling in the Franxx Spy x Family - Haikyuu!! Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai One Punch Man Akame ga Kill! Boku no Hero Academia Kimetsu no Yaiba Fate/Zero Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade The End of Evangelion Sword Art Online Sono Bisque Doll wa Koi wo Suru Highschool of the Dead Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works Dragon Ball Super JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Puella Magi Madoka Magica Shingeki no Kyojin Kobayashi-san Chi no Maid Dragon Kakegurui Owari no Seraph Chainsaw Man Koi wa Ameagari no You ni Bleach Kizumonogatari Hajime no Ippo Bungou Stray Dogs Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka I have not read/watched all of these, but still tried/know about them.

What I recognized: SpyxFamily (because of InsaneCommander's posts in this thread) My Hero Academia (I think) because a specific character I read about (before having ever seen the show) sold me on trying it out and then it was the worst show I'd ever seen in my entire life (but I say that a lot, so). Neon Genesis Evangelion One Punch Man Dragon Ball Z Somehow, I didn't notice Madoka Magica (e: or JoJo? How did I miss that too? ) which majestic says was in it. I suppose that's just as well, really.

Russian grain is not exported to west, but mainly in countries that Russia would not like to join western sanctions. Biggest importers of Russian grain are Turkey and Egypt (~50% of total exported grain), which control canals which are very important for Russia's Black Sea operations. Russia is already blocking Ukraine's grain which mainly went western Africa With gas Russia already has stopped most of the flow (either they stopped flow fully or most of it as they claim they need to repair North Stream), which has already forced even Germany to seek fast alternative from coal.

NY Libraries giving away free books to kids

Firefighter rescue dog trapped in submerged car

The ISS transiting in front of the Sun:

"Finished" Rogue Legacy 2, and by that, I mean I cleared the world ten times over to see all the content. Well, almost all the content. Technically it can be done in seven clears, because each iteration of New Game+ unlocks one "Prime" (hard mode) boss. But I'm a fairly cautious, thorough player, so I stuck to full clears instead of beelining bosses for quick clears, and as a result I tended to stay 50-100 levels ahead of the level curve. The good news is that the core gameplay is fundamentally good and I have no notable complaints about it. But as with all games I like, I'm a lot more critical of the problems it does have, which are all at the meta level of the game, and here are some I found particularly glaring. 1) The "upgrades" system, i.e. the castle building money sink that serves as the game's tech tree. It's incredibly cluttered yet somehow also incredibly bland. Here's a picture of the fully unlocked castle: Besides the incredibly high numbers and the absolutely packed grid that obscures everything, my biggest complaint would be the actual upgrades themselves. Take the five brain icons at the right side of the grid. Three of them act identically, where each point in brains increases your Focus stat by one. What does Focus do? It increases the damage your spell crits do. Then there's the brain icon with the little plus sign on it. What does that one do? It ...increases the damage your spell crits do. But for some reason it does so directly instead of by increasing your focus. Just... why? Never mind the fact that Focus itself is a trap for new players, it's a stat you should disregard entirely because spell crits (and indeed crits in general) aren't a meaningful mechanic for your first few playthroughs. Except that you do have to put one point in each of those tiles because doing so unlocks an adjacent tile. However you don't know what it'll be without looking up the wiki, and it may be something incredibly important like unlocking a new class, or it may be completely useless like being a more expensive duplicate of the thing you just bought. 2) Scar challenges. These are sort of preset scenarios where you might, say, re-fight a boss with a twist, or complete some platforming challenge within a time limit. I have quite a few issues with how this is done. These challenges completely ignore your progression, i.e. the "lite" part in rogue-lite, and instead hard-code your level and available upgrades. Used to having nice things like increased movement speed, extra double jumps, all that good stuff? Nope, it's all ripped away from you so despite 95% of your time playing with those upgrades, you're suddenly thrust into a fight with half your normal movement speed, and none of the usual movement utility skills you've gotten used to. There's a limited handicap system you can use that crudely scales your health and damage (for combat challenges) or gives you a few seconds of extra time (for platforming challenges) but they do nothing to address the feeling of playing with your hands tied behind your back. So with such a crappy system it might seem odd that my other main complaint is how hard it is to access. From your home base, you have to enter a building, jump up to the relevant NPC, navigate a poorly designed menu, start the challenge, tediously walk in and out of three separate rooms which each house a choice of two random "relics" (i.e. combat upgrades), click away the pop-up explaining what the relic you've chosen does, then manually enter the boss room proper. Just let me retry the challenge again without the song and dance, dammit. Furthermore, this functionality is locked out completely on the first character you use each time you start a new New Game+, so you have to intentionally die at least once. This is particularly egregious because these challenges - the combat ones at least - are designed such that you're forced to do them with multiple classes to actually get the reward. Got a perfect score on one with your mage? Well good for you, you get *nothing* until you do the same fight with several other classes such that your cumulative score is enough to reach the bronze/silver/gold thresholds. 3) The horrendous equipment UI. It's incredibly basic and refuses to show the information you actually need in terms of selection your loadout. The UI for purchasing gear and equipping it is one and the same, and it's remarkably inadequate for both. On the purchasing side, you have no way of knowing what tier of equipment you've unlocked until you've purchased the immediately preceding item. Have I unlocked the recipe for Leather Weapon (don't ask)+2? The only way of knowing is to first purchase Leather Weapon+1 and then seeing if the upgrade button is available next to it. And in terms of unlocking gear in the first place, there's a bit of a trap in that unlocking a higher tier of gear can be an act of self-sabotage. Hell, the NPC outright tells you to buy the unlock to get +1 gear immediately, but it's not necessarily good advice. You have the default Leather gear but have yet to find the Obsidian stuff? Well have fun having your drops diluted by Leather+1 instead of that more advanced stuff you wanted. In terms of equipping gear, it's not much better either. Notably while you have a maximum encumbrance limit that's shown straightforwardly enough, it's actually fairly key to know there are multiple soft limits before you hit that hard cap, you gain significant bonuses by "travelling light", i.e. progressive bonuses for only carrying 20/40/60% of your hard limit. Or it may be 21%/42%/63%. Or 24%/48%/72%, etc, depending on upgrades you've unlocked. But all you get in the UI is the straight hard cap and where you are in relation to it, so the game might tell you you're at 640/870 weight and leave you to figure out the rest for yourself. Armour rating is another trap where you have no way of knowing how much armour is enough, and how much is too much. By default you can only block 35% of the damage from a given hit (though it may be 39%/43%/etc with upgrades). Well, how hard can the enemies hit for? After all, if no enemy hits for more than 1000 damage, then having more than 350 armour is literally useless. So how hard do enemies hit in this particular iteration of New Game+? Have fun figuring that out.

Having actually watched: The End of Evangelion Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Rebellion Recognize: Bleach Spy x Family Some JoJo's season Something from some Dragonball Some stuff from the Fate franchise Going to assume that the volleyball anime showing up every now and then is Haikyuu!!. Also, terrible song, but the video was clearly a lot of work, blending the Michael Bay cuts together like that. Mostly not my thing. In every way.

You should no longer wonder, who is gonna pay for it. Common Russian people are already paying for it: https://hnonline-sk.translate.goog/svet/96026989-ani-pocas-druhej-svetovej-vojny-sa-ludia-nepytali-na-vyplatu-odkazal-sef-strajkujucim-v-rusku?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

The Waylanders. I have encountered 2 side quests that were impossible to complete, one for the unrecruited companion (who needed to be in the active party in order to progress the quest), the other for a recruited one (the post-quest dialogue did not trigger). One cut-scene for another quest was shown as a black screen with "Sequence LS_032_003_LorencioDefeated_B" at the bottom, but the quest was finished successfully. Fortunately, the main quest line has not got locked (yet). The story is becoming jollier and jollier as the party advances, though the main objective for the last main quest was to gather the scattered party, i.e. not to progress the main objective. Side note, most of the side quests have taken place in different places of the same location - only the relevant for the quest paths were available and the rest blocked. While it is not exactly bad, being able to progress all of them at the same time would have been more convenient, but much harder to code and test.

My firm belief that efforts to curb the "counterculture" du jour typically begets an even greater hostile reaction, from the satanic panic and Evangelical Revolution of the 80's came the satanic Norwegian black metal and Swedish and American death metal of the 90's.

Yes I have decided to go with BG1 EE and I just checked now on Steam and I have the Dragonspear DLC I will start playing it tomorrow

BG1 Enhanced Edition with the Siege of Dragonspear DLC/expansion.

Bad news, I changed my mind and went to watch Racoonatouille and Paddington 2. Oh, I mean: Everything Everywhere at Once Crazy and silly, but I agree with @KP wants Blue Velvetand @Sarex, it's a pretty good movie, including the moments it was being serious. It was more than two hours, but when it was over that was not my impression. Just don't ask me about the hot dog universe. Come on, I said above that in an infinite universe, everything should be possible somewhere, but this? This may be too much. And it actually serves a purpose in the story, becoming relevant when Evelyn needs it. And there are worse offenders, that @majestic mentioned in his post. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent I enjoyed this one too. It is mostly a comedy, but everything is done well: the action scenes, making fun of Nicholas Cage and the acting too. I could point out some plot holes, but who cares, they are nothing that grabbed my attention for more than a moment.

I have watched: Spy x Family One Punch Man Mushoku Tensei Kimetsu no Yaiba The End of Evangelion Dragon Ball JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean Puella Magi Madoka Magica Attack on Titan Is It Wrong to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? I recognize: Darling in the Franxx Kaguya-sama Jujutsu Kaisen Fate/Zero Sword Art Online Dragon Maid My Dress Up Darling Bleach This reminded me that I still have to watch the 2nd and 3rd seasons of Is It Wrong to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?, which I heard are really bad when compared to the first one. The 4th season will be released now in July. Minor spoiler: Edit: I had to check the list because I missed some. I also didn't recognized the name of "My Dress Up Darling".

Sounds like our ploy to get Europe on our LNG is going according to plan

https://www.sportskeeda.com/esports/rumor-diablo-immortal-reportedly-met-ban-china-according-reddit If this turns out to be true, what a blow to Blizzard...

You can ask from Iran when western sanctions are lifted when you let them stabilize as status quo

Iraqi Drought Reveals Stunning 3,400-Year-Old City Covered By Tigris River I think I sacked this city while playing Old World.

As example how fast Russians rebuild area they occupy, Karelia which Soviets took from Finland in second world war has only seen minimal rebuilding and most of that is done by Finnish Karelians who have tried to rebuild it for nostalgic reasons

Well, this should if anything raise some serious questions about defense preparedness in Czechia and other NATO countries. If you are running out of arms reserves just simply supporting another state in its war, how will you have fared fighting your own war? The Czech people should ask some serious questions of their politicians about how long their own military would have lasted facing a Russian invasion.

Double post, but I guess I'll split out the non-RL2 stuff here. Started playing Shredder's Revenge, which is fortunately on Game Pass because it'd be a very marginal standalone purchase. As I believe I've said before back when first footage of the game was first revealed, I had a pretty deep sense of uncanny valley with this game, and that hasn't changed with the full release. It's like, these are the Turtles I grew up with, only, these aren't really the Turtles I grew up with - I much prefer the look of the classic Turtles in Time. The new voice actors, while unavoidable, contribute to this feeling as well. In terms of gameplay, I haven't delved into the more complex elements of the fighting just yet, so mostly playing it like a primitive two-button brawler using a combination of attacking, jumping and dashing alone. I'll look into the provided in-game tutorial when we're not in a hurry. It feels solid enough, other than impacts perhaps lacking a bit of oomph. Also had a pretty annoying bug where during a dual boss fight, one of them just vanished from my screen, but remained on my (online) co-op partner's screen. Couldn't hit or be hit by the invisible boss directly, except when he shoots projectiles, which very much can hit me.

in the video for like half a second, starting at 53 seconds. It's from Stone Ocean, which I only recognize because of the pictures posted here, and then it cuts to you favorite anime character ever: Homura.

so that slam into wall gif are still in use always surprise by what meme or reference survive more than a decade like how flat is justice are still pretty common phrase among acg circle

Virus mainly targets respiratory organs, but it can infect and damage heart’s muscle tissue like other respiratory viruses https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/coronavirus/heart-problems-after-covid19

What i mean is that the media (at least here in Greece) are making a big deal about the spread of this dangerous infectious disease, they say no factual thing about it (like symptoms, how it spreads, how its treated and so on) and at the same time nobody seems to be taking any measures for it. This is the problem with sensationalist journalism. On the other hand, the "experts" they have on tv are giving conflicting reports. On one hand they say "long covid" to describe problems that may appear on other organs after someone got it, on the other when asked about other viruses and if their altered behavior is related to covid's effects on the body they reply with "no, covid is strictly a respiratory disease and doesn't affect other parts of the body". Both these statements can't be true at the same time.

Great link and it raises some pertinent points like who will pay for the rebuilding of occupied and destroyed regions of eastern Ukraine? Russia will continue to become indebted to China if its going to do this and since they destroyed cities like Mariupol they would have to carry the cost. Its not going to be Western aid under illegitimate Russian occupation and self-proclaimed " independence " ? If the UN doesnt recognize it you will battle to get the funding and reconstruction aid

Wouldn't think it would need that much explaining. The guy who blew up the Death Star is going to be pretty famous, and Vader knows 'the force is strong in this one' in Star Wars itself. Not a huge leap to work out that the Tatooine native Luke Skywalker who lived with Shmi Skywalker's relatives and blew up the Death Star plus rescued Princess Leia (while accompanied by Obi Wan Kenobi) is the son of Anakin Skywalker. Legend of the Seeker Strange New Worlds S1Ep8

you have met young people, yes? folks such as you and Gromnir expressing bemusement or curiosity is exact why the fad persisted, 'cause it were mostly young people with the pants and every time somebody older complained or questioned the fad, particular somebodies who didn't look much like those embracing the fad, it further legitimized and entrenched the fad. the quickest way to end virtual any youth embraced fad is for every "old" person to adopt the fad. HA! Good Fun!

Depends a bit. Imo "Many Lives Pass By" nonstop is the most universally useful phrase with Brisk Recitation, but stuff like Ancient Memory if combined with Exalted Endurance is also nice and good for the party, too. If you have another healer then Mercy and Kindness is very good, too. If you have high defenses and armor and only tend to get minor damage from attacks then Her Courage Thick as Steel is very good, too. The 10pt damage shield gets refreshed every 3 secs then which nullifies all the grazes that might otherwise hurt you. If you have ranged-heavy party with reloading weapons (firearms and crossbows) then Sure-Handed Ila is very good, too because it applies -20% reloading time AND -20% recovery time to those weapons, making the reloading very fast. It stacks with the action speed bonus of Sasha's Singing Scimitar.

Today's interesting read: https://www.19fortyfive.com/2022/06/the-ukraine-war-is-bleeding-russia-dry/

Hah, I even posted screenshots for a while, but people didn't notice. I backed Spellcaster Univeristy on kickstarter actually and have been playing it through various iterations. The added dungeons were the truly huge change. I haven't tried out the jousting yet... pro-tip: traits stack. So if you have a student who is Ambitious in a house that gives all members Ambitious, the student will get double the boost.

Women in Russia and China have more rights than in Amerika.

I have some updated gameplay information about Starfield, its looking good

https://www.gog.com/game/virtuaverse Last giveaway I believe, this one I think I'll play.

Just finished Symphony of War. TLDR: Best indie trpg I've ever played. Fire Emblem is one of my favorite video game franchises and SoW scratched that Fire Emblem itch. I mainlined the whole game starting Friday night and finished early this morning. It was that good. I have only two problems, 1) the game has a menu based UI, which will make it a great game on the Switch when it gets ported but makes me frustrated that all I'm doing is left and right clicking the mouse, and 2) the Player Turn and Enemy Turn cards that come up at the end of each turn and can't be turned off--I know its my turn 'cause the enemy isn't moving. Everything else, the combat, the unit diversity, the enemy verity, the deep gameplay systems, the characters, the world building, and the story are wonderful. If you like trpg's, you have to check this game out, and its cheap.

I dreamt I was stuck in a Maniac Mansion'esque point and click adventure. I'm not sure if that is at all related to watching Everything Everywhere All At Once, but probably. I'd post more details about the dream, but what happened in it is curiously out of grasp. I remember dreaming and the topic, but the details are gone. Anyway, I debated with myself whether or not I should post an honest opinion or not, but I will. This will be like the many times my friends dragged me to a movie and then asked how it was, and I usually say fine or okay, with the unsaid implication that fine isn't as good as it sounds, and okay was worse than that. I said it before, but I've been also asked if I like films at all. Which I do. *sigh* So, before getting needlessly verbose, here's a TL;DR: The film was fine, and it's my turn to be the meanie zucchini for a change. Which is fine too, because that's usually my role when talking about films anyway. For this to make sense, I'll have to explain a bit more - and spoil the end of the book series, so take care. In King's The Dark Tower, Ka is a wheel. Ka is a concept of fate, destiny and destination the people in this world have. As such, and even though a whole lot of people were disappointed with the ending of the book series, it makes sense for the protagonist of the series, Roland, to eventually end up exactly where he started. Albeit with the slight variation of having the Horn of Eld, an item of some importance, in this new turn of the wheel. The Horn of Eld in this case is me not hating the film, which makes it different to the last time the forum - back then before Interplay went belly up and some of Black Isle's staff founded Obsidian - agreed that there's a movie of year (or better) to watch. That, back then, it was also a film containing some martial arts, namely Kill Bill Vol. 1. As I said, the difference between this and Kill Bill Vol. 1 was that I hated watching Kill Bill for a myriad of reasons. There's a fine irony here insofar as I've mentioned to someone that I will hold off on watching Everything Everywhere All At Once because I'm afraid that it will be another Kill Bill repeat. Misgivings were overcome by this thread being overwhelmingly positive about the film, and what do you know, the wheel turned. I should have stuck with my initial feeling, really - and that was based simply on the reactions of posters, not even on knowing anything about the film. Alas. I did not hate Everything Everywhere All At Once, but I also don't think it is movie of the year material. For any number of reasons, many of which are spoilers. I'll try to post some general things before marking everything for whoever still wants to watch it. Anyway, the first, and most subjective of it all, is the casting of the film. I like Michelle Yeoh. I also like Jamie Lee Curtis in most of her roles. Even if @Bartimaeus hadn't pointed out that Waymond is Short Round from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, I would have noticed that, because apparently he was directed to simply act like Shorty in the film during the times he wasn't told to act like Jackie Chan. Which is, luckily, most of the time. He also often still sounds like Short Round. Although that last part is an issue that fused with knowing two versions of the film, the original, and the German dub, therefore it is hard to attribute this entirely to, I don't know, either Ke Huy Quan as an actor or the direction. To add some further insult to the injury, he looks like Harry Potter throughout most of the film. Right at the start I was thrown into a film where the main cast consisted of Michelle Yeoh, someone you don't cast simply for a role as small business owner in the US, Chinese Harry Potter and Jamie Lee Curtis as tax auditor, and while the film at least proceeds to show off that Ke Huy Quan is indeed a good actor, the overall impression of the cast was pretty immersion breaking right from the beginning. I can't put this any other way but to say that I think this movie would have benefitted immensely from not having big name actors attached to it.That said, I liked most of the opening, and I enjoyed the film up until the point they had the first action scene that went on for what felt like an hour. That said, let's move the thing that saved the film: The core of it, the message, if you will. Chinese Harry Potter's take on life is wonderful, and the resolution to the character's problems is great. And yet, therein also lies an issue, yet again. There's so much more of that which could have been in the film, instead of, well, protracted action sequences that serve no purpose. If there's one damning thing I can say about it is that I actually sat through the action and contemplated skipping the film ahead to the good scenes. Imagine how much that takes. I don't even skip the really bad episodes in series I sometimes rewatch. Yes, that means watching Shades of Gray from TNG (no relation to the terrible book and equally terrible film), or Move Along Home and Let He Who Is Without Sin... from DS9. And yes, Threshold from Voyager. I ultimately, being who I am, did not skip around on the off-chance that the scenes would contain something necessary for the resolution, or some minor tidbit that would cleverly come back into play, like, I don't know, a raccoon. There were not many of these, and in fact, I would have liked the film better if I just had fast-forwarded through all the nonsense. So, hey guys, reality is saved. I didn't hate it, so unmaking the entire universe isn't going to happen (yet?), and I certainly am not going to cause the fourth trumpet to blow by loving it. It was fine. It could have been so much more. It just wasn't. No need to hold on to your potatoes.

@Bartimaeus Did it remind you of

Nah, guess you'll have to wait until I try (and inevitably not like) Samurai Champloo.

This might be another aspect of when the support will end. With the economic crisis countries might have issues restocking what they have sent to UA and UA might run out of 'ammo' sooner than russians https://rmx.news/czech-republic/czechia-has-exhausted-its-arms-reserves-supporting-ukraine-czech-pm-reveals/ https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/return-industrial-warfare NOTE: I cannot verify for any of the sources, byt the perspective is worth to consider and evaluate in terms of risks and options

I played a little bit of Assetto Corsa again, and who would have guessed it, today, third Sunday in a row, the wheel stopped to work again Fanatec issued me an RMA, so I will be sending it to Germany tomorrow.

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