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Yeah, what Russia does instead is barges into its sovereign neighbour's territory with imperialistic delusions and scorched earth approach. Thing not exactly on the same level as "hypothetic alleged pressuring of its neighbours into presumed alliance", eh? Sorry, but when I see gross understatements like "Russia is hardly squeaky clean either", it means it's time for the daily reminder of how much Russia sucks compared to the majority of planet Earth.

I think it's more Skyrim in SPAAAAACE!

Lauren Boebert Says the Church Is Supposed To Direct the Government Hey that worked out well in the past right?

Just some hours before Russia started their invasion, you thought that Russia recognised Lugansk and Donetsk in order to have leverage in negotiations but as we saw it was Russian way to get casus belli their invasion 🤷‍♂️

Captain Sweden will evaporate all NATO's enemies with rainbow-coloured laser beams shot from his eyes

I would point out that Zora claimed until last day that Russia will not invade Ukraine and there is no reason for them doing so. So I would not sigh for relief 😉

Living close to Russia, I can attest that there is almost certainly no country that is worse living close to than Russia. There has never been a moment in history when it's been trustworthy. I recently read an African commentator point out how good Russia is because it is not a former colonist power. This is true, it is not. It is a current colonist power, and very racist to boot, among all other failures that it has. Russia did not take part in the African slave trade, but anyone with an access to a map should be able to instantly see why, given how strongly the trade was a naval endeavour. This African commentator almost made me lose hope. I reiterate the point that there is no significant movement into Russia. People don't want there. A fairly large number does want out, though.

It's not their back yard. I'm sorry but your argument doesn't even begin to hold water. Russia is currently the equivalent of a possessive relative, boyfriend or something who hasn't understood that other people are their own people and can do what they want. So it resorts to violence.

Since you were wondering... Though they have been saying the same all the way through the horse trading. Well, not exactly horse trading since the Finns and Swedes have bent over for daddy Erdogan on everything (well ok, they're not going to hand over a politician the Turks want; everything apart from that though). Only part of the cycle needed to complete it is the, heh, purely defensive invasion of another country from a NATO member- for Turkey the small matter of Cyprus, Syria and Iraq as examples. Might include Artsakh and Greece too, if one were being snarky. Ah well, I guess on the positive side I get another example of how the only actual principles the west actually has are the managers of their educational facilities. Better get cracking on that reconciliation agreement with Assad guys, though in this case it's not likely to help. Erdogan needs something nationalistic to deflect from the 50% inflation and pump those polls even if it means a literal war.

Samurai Champloo 11 Without money they take up some jobs, but only Fuu ends up doing any work. Mugen gambles on beetle sumo and Jin takes simpathy for a woman who lost her freedom. Samurai Champloo 12 Ten episodes later Mugen and Jin start to question their journey. Well, they did ask Fuu once, but then she got angry and they run away. Anyway, ten episodes. Well done, guys!

Ye I won't really have to prebuff a lot since I'm going the SC wizard route, so both vela and me will be permanently untargetable due to SoF + Temp Cocoon, and I'm also doing the grimoire switch cheese you discovered to steal permanently spamable SoT + Bdd just for good measure.

Context: I've been using DALL-E mini since it's been popular this past week, and I noticed that the image resolutions(256x256) are surprisingly close to portrait resolution(210x330). I slopped together a quick test. AI Example (generated by DALL-E mini): Disregard the PoE1. That's just what I had installed at the moment. I didn't bother refining the portrait much. Only spent like 10 min on all this to prove how quick it can be. In the forums, custom portraits are something I see come up fairly often, so I'm wondering why no one here ever considered neural networks to do it for them. I haven't seen anyone ever suggest it, and I just searched for anyone too. Hell I made an account just to post this. I guess it is pretty recent tech though. I've been watching different AI/neural network stuff for the past couple years. There's been some pretty impressive leaps in general from the last year alone (And just wait until next year and the year after!). (To the mods--Wasn't sure if this'd get buried under the main portraits thread or whether the AI stuff is directly relevant to it, so new topic it is. I hope that's okay)

imo the action economy is worse if you want to be caster. unlike psion, you have to attack to charge up your focus. that's a huge drag on your casting ability that would likely cancel out the 20% damage bonus*. if you want to be a caster-focused mystic, you should just be psion. * unless you are all-in on kitchen stove + thunderous report

Guess it's time for French cheese again.

Not necessarily. If you pick the Loaded Pockets among Berath's Blessings, you'll have a chance of getting better loot every time you pick pockets, including gems. Once you reach about lvl 10 you'll also start getting the rare gems, including Adra Ban and Sapphires, which are otherwise very rare in unmodded games. I've often been able to get several adra ban gems on a single map. It's random, yet I often find the same loot repeated 2 or more times on the same map for some reason.

Last week's Komi remained untalked about, apparently. It was the second part of the school trip and it was actually quite fine. It even had a decent payoff at the end. This will never really become good due to a number of bad decisions, but it really stopped being horrible a while back. Not sure if that has to do with the insane stalker girl and dog girl being curiously absent. Except for a brief stint in the bath where dog girl's breasts were called giant meatballs (or something like that, anyway) and stalker girl tried to touch Komi's. Or rather, asked if she was allowed to. A couple more of those and I'll actually start believing that's what Japanese girls do when in the bath. Sheesh.

Sorry, I was under impression you are from Poland 😂 Must have mistaken with @pmp10

Here's how I created my very own ship of the damned. First, I only took sailors with bad traits (greedy, murderous, cruel, etc.) and put them on the biggest ship they could barely handle so they all had to work double shifts. Then I blew all my gold so I couldn't pay them. Then I threw all the food and water overboard. Then I kept sailing into storms and choosing all the stupidest things, "let's open all the windows", "sure let's eat this barrel of rotten fish", etc. I also removed all of my companions in case the sailors were intimidated by them. Then we just sailed back and forth across the map until eventually one of them killed the cook and I chose an Intimidation check that I knew I'd fail. Then I felt bad and reloaded.

Unepic is much better than I expected. My first impression about the story wasn't good, with the character coming from another world. But the dialogues are actually pretty funny. And it's a great platform/metroidvania game.

I don't ever use it except there, once you are level 16 and can do the grimoire switching spell stealing, you can extend cocoon on vela with SoT (it makes you untargetable to enemy but not "friendly" spells including friendly fire) and ofc you also get bdd. The problem is my route to 16 was bad so I only hit 16 in Ashen maw and with way too much traveling. Ideally I need to hit 16 in Neketaka or with enough time to just go to Neketaka, because the skeleton priests in Sacred Stair have both BDD and SoT.

I'd say go with spreading all companion skills evenly. That way switching a companion out of the party won't leave gaps in skill coverage.

@majestic I thought you were going to say

But where have you seen this? On these forums? Are you sure you're not projecting? Btw, when I asked for an example of the kind of behaviour you described, I was being completely serious. Your "Haha" reaction was somewhat typical: you claimed that I was "continuously" doing what you said I was doing, but when I asked for an example, you didn't give me one. Although there should be plenty of them. This is how it often goes: a blanket statement is made, but when details are asked for, they are not given. Thus, no progress is made, understanding doesn't become clearer. Earlier, you didn't answer my sincere question, and when I pressed you, you said you didn't answer "Because your question had an already known and obvious answer which you chose to play ignorant about". Again, you are projecting: the known and obvious answer was not known and obvious to me, and this was precisely why I was asking. I have no agenda: if I ask, I am honestly curious and wish to know. I don't think it's useful to project your sense of "the obvious" to other people: when someone asks, simply answer -- or ignore the whole thing. That's the kind thing to do. Don't be snide. I agree this may change if someone asks whether the world is round or whether fire is hot.

Why do you hate freedom? Okay, 20 year old reference is old, but maybe it'll work.

Can you give me one example where I have done that?

Everyone does that to a certain extent. Frankly, the first part is a good thing too, if there's one thing the forum software downgrade did it's mitigate tiresome wall of text/ line by line posting (and I freely admit, I did a fair bit of it myself). Ideally we'd all acknowledge when the other person has made a good point, but meh, humans gonna human. Again, I'd do a fair bit of that myself too. I'd generally be happy with, say, simply not getting "the EU never made the association agreement an us or Russia proposition" or "the association agreement was never a first step to EU accession" said again after providing the relevant quotes showing they actually did exactly that, I don't need people to publicly accept they were wrong*. I don't think Russia cares that much about Finland joining for precisely that reason; they're also already in the EU. Most of the Finnish border is very low infrastructure forest/ swamp/ marsh, seasonally, with blasted winter wasteland. There's a border with Norway too, Murmansk is actually closer to Norway than Finland iirc (and Archangelsk about the same distance). Same most definitely cannot be said for Ukraine and the south of Russia though, it moves a load of cities far, far closer to NATO and gives a second easy attack vector on Moscow if there were a conventional war. 11 million immigrants in Russia, 3rd most in the world. I'll be frank: I'd probably come across as a lot less pro Russian if people didn't continually post stuff which they want to be true- and feel like it's true- but simply isn't*. *I have a fair bit of sympathy because I know perfectly well that things like 'no one immigrates to Russia' or 'the EU never made it us or them' is a Well Known Fact that you can find in rather a lot of opinion pieces and articles and the like, and most people just presume it's true. They just happen to be well known facts that aren't actual facts. Or to quote Blake's 7 Vila: It's a well known fact! Avon: Actually it's a well known opinion Tarrant: As are most well known facts

Narrative having to be that way at least makes sense when it's time travel. In the end (or the beginning? :philosoraptor:) once you've got time travel involved you have the principle that things have to happen a certain way. Well, with a few caveats. On the specific issue, IIRC there is an implied reason for why she was convincing though I don't think it was ever stated explicitly. I don't think it's anything you've missed though, I think it's revealed later. Very much IIRC though, since I watched Dark in 2020.

Turkey is there to remind the world, that NATO is not a collection of Western Democracies 😛

But it’s nothing like MEs unless you refer to the mess that were Mako driving from ME1 - which is not exactly a flattering comparison.

Not really. They get paid and it's voluntary. They are not compelled to work. Slaves don't get that choice.

I got Unepic and Haven from GOG summer sale.

How many Kurdish heads will be sent to Sultan Erdogan on a silver platter?

Turkey drops opposition to Finland, Sweden joining NATO HA! Good Fun!

A roundabout way of saying it is inevitable. US likely knows best what it would take and so far weapon deliveries are around 10-30% of Ukrainian expectations. I bet the decision of 'no' has already been made.

several years of deadfire and i only just now learned that a game-month has 20 days. of note - what's your build/apporach? i needed a lot of cushion because the skaen + salvation of time build that so many people did, the way i would very conservatively pre-buff, each fight would be like a half day on its own (that would get me buffed up to like 400-600s on my buffs). if you're using strand of favor clickiness you probably get a lot of time efficiency that i didn't know about/have in my run.

my thought is that you'll have insane action economy issues as an ascendant (i rolled an ascendant/wael mystic and this was my experience) up until you start doing salvation of time shenanigans. even with wael's fast bonus spells, you'll still want to cast priest spells, which eat up time from attacking, which takes away from your focus generation, etc. retaliation and focus from retaliation might diminish that a bit, but the fundamental issue will be there. in that vein i think soul blade is better - you don't have to invest too much into cipher powers to be effective, and soul annihilation is a pretty good dump for focus that you can fit in-between spell casts w/out having to worry about specific focus thresholds to hit.

Holy hell, I thought that was a very well done parody, but it's an actual Blizzard trailer.

The ISS transiting in front of the Sun:

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

I went bit crazy with the GOG summer sale and bought: Lands of Lore 1 + 2 + 3, Indiana Jones The Last Crusade + The Fate of Atlantis, System Shock Enhanced Edition, Anachronox, and Outcast 1.1.