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A bunch of updates from CDPR. There will be more than one new Witcher game.

Unfortunatelly it will never work. Unless there would be a complete change at he high leadership. Putin has shown, that he is interested only in his “Russian World” doctrine, and he is willing to sacrifices everyone to achieve this non-sense… Even if UN would supervise last month referendums, he would bribe the **** out of them, to achieve his goals. All he would need to do, is to make sure, that there would be more observers from countries more favourable to Russia, than the West… Russia needs to be kicked out of Ukraine by force. And I say that fully knowing, that the city where I live is probably among the candidates for possible Nuclear Strike as we have NATO Airport with Patriot defense system less than 7 km away from the city centre…

can't speak for others. the only way am doing the entire shield maze on unfair is at gunpoint. we do boss battles unfair, just to say we did so, but am not seeing the fun in an entire unfair run. make sure you got a leopard companion, 'cause is the only critter capable of tanking the water elemental at that level, even with camellia spamming protective luck. fighting defensive, your leopard may have as high as +30 ac ad you got a blur potion as well. add as many animal companions as possible. you do need to get lucky with attacks, but the chances o' even the unfair elemental hitting a fully buffed leopard is poor and with camellia doing nothing but spamming protective luck chances are you win if you can do enough damage before blur, shield of faith prayer and other buffs wear off. also, do anything possible to boost ab... which is obvious but much more difficult to pull off in practice. charging is good but only characters with reach weapons may charge multiple times 'cause you don't wanna provide the water elemental with attacks of opportunity. and yeah, reloads happen with hosilla and the water elemental. is an unfun way to play the game from our pov, but there is a "cheevo" so some folks will suffer through the slog which is a full unfair run. is likely others ways to take out the unfair water elemental, but for us leopard tanking is key. have also done a very improbable kite thing, but were more luck than anything else which had us survive. HA! Good Fun!

Still out before Star Citizen, too.

SpinLaunch just catapulted a NASA payload into the sky for the first time (interestingengineering.com) NASA Is Sending a Rotorcraft to Titan in 2027. Here's Where It Will Land. : ScienceAlert

https://www.thetimes.com.ng/2022/09/the-czechs-mock-russia-we-have-a-unique-opportunity-to-expand-our-territory-the-petition-was-created-world-news-more-news/

Makes sense. You can't talk with Putin, and you can't trust his word.

It’s official now, Zelenskyi today signed a degree to make negotiations with Putin impossible. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/10/4/7370293/

That is the difficult question as there is no simple definition of being Nazi, as it is ideology that consist of social, economical and political views. But if person views include racial purity, supporting political alternative for capitalism and socialism, opposing liberal democracy, disdain towards minority groups especially in form that minorities are threat to said person livelihood and way to live. And if person uses 'science' to prove their superiority. Then you can be pretty sure that you are dealing with person that would have been at home in Nazi Germany.

You make good points in this debate But maybe some of them are just concerned citizens afraid of foreign domination ? Surly you can't blame hard working landlords and small business owners for being afraid for there investments ?

While the 1.0 launch and update brought so many good additions and changes to the world of Grounded, there are still several quality of life improvements and significant bugs that need to be addressed. Quality of Life Improvements Inventory Sort Funcitons - please, let us sort inventory with different filters such as type, rarity, etc., and to pin items in place Hot Pouch items shouldn't take up Back Pack inventory space (treat them like armor) Broken Armor should stay equipped (but lose the protection until repaired or swapped) and not moved to inventory or worse, dropped randomly on the ground if inventory is full (as this happens in combat it is easy to lose) Contextual based Throwing/Hucking - not all items should be throwable, and those that should it should be mapped to an alternate attack/action button, i.e. when holding a pebble, LT drops and RT throws...not RB throws for everything Add vertical half wall options and more building pieces to connect/clip with rounded walls and mushroom arch On Xbox, change LB funciton to Tap LB quick cycles through Hot Pouch, and Hold LB opens Radial. Bugs Getting webbed by Orb Weaver converts you to 3rd person view from 1st person, and cannot be reset without either reloading the game or going into the executable controls to change the view game stuttering while sprinting, and input delay when picking items up/interacting with objects in multiplayer on Xbox Occasional game crashes in multiplayer games new visual bug similar to screen tear/artifacting occurs in the top right of the screen displaying random flashing red and green pixelation (on Xbox Series X, tested with 2 differetn consoles) while sprinting audio bug where a repeating beat triggers and continues to play, build until game is reloaded I'm sure there are more that would be beneficial, or needs to be addressed, but these are the most important that come to mind first in my opinion. Thank you Dev Team!

Before or after the Tesla Air autopilot crashes into it?

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Wael is a lot of fun for multiclassing. @thelee's Zealot build should still be good even with BPM. Maybe better because even if you installed the nerf package that makes BDD a 12 second 300 pt damage shield which imo would really let you stay heated up for a while without worrying about dying. A 300 pt shield should hold pretty well even if mobbed by a lot of enemies. Sure that's not as good as a flat death resistance, but it does last quite a bit longer and is still quite protective. Actually planning a run right now with it to see how it does with the bpm/cp installed. I will let you know. It's too bad Rymrgand isn't a player kit because Vatnir's kit is so strong since he can take fire spells to go along with his frost spells, giving him a very diverse damage kit. But I suppose you can just bring him along too. I like him well enough, though he's sometimes glass cannony if you just keep him in his robes (but hard not to wear those because of the +dmg effects! )

We're still waiting for Ja's peace plan.

Fingers crossed!

According to Putin, Russia is at war against the collective West. That is what he said last Friday. Keep in mind, though, that Russia is not and has never been at war with Ukraine. I am currently engaged in a work project that has led me to some Pravda articles from the 1930s, before and during Stalin's Great Terror. I am both fascinated and stunned by how identical the tone is to what Putin is spewing today. The proclamations are characterized by an extremely odd combination of utter triumphalism and clinical paranoia(*). It's not often you see that. It seems likely that stuff like that may sound convincing to those already enhtralled by the same kind of thinking, but to anyone looking in from the outside it looks utterly childish and crazy. (*) Teeth-rattlingly stupid descriptions of Soviet military might interspersed with scaremongering about a secret group of poor farmhands and illiterate pigherders in rural Poltava designed to overthrow the Soviet government. As hard as it is to believe, this latter part is a genuine example.

I must say it is particularly heartwarming to see such unfettered idealism during these difficult times. 😃 (I completely agree, btw!)

At this rate theyre going to have to annex Moscow back from Ukraine.

Hoping Ukraine can liberate Kherson before winter: https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-kherson-collapse-counteroffensive-lyman-war-1748281

Well, not that it will convince you, but the Freedom Party's first chairman was former Nazi Minister of Agriculture and SS Brigardeführer Anton Reinthaller. In more recent times, long term leader Jörg Haider publicly praised Third Reich policies (particularily labour policies, with a wink at useless asylum seekers and migrants not pulling their weight), successor Heinz Strache regulariy participated in Neo-Nazi protests and Wehrsportübungen (use google translate, serviceable enough) and still retains contacts, and their current party leader is responsible for some of the party's best slogans, including but not limited to: Heimatliebe statt Marokkanerdiebe (Patriotism instead of Moroccan thieves!). Wien darf nicht Chicago werden (Vienna must not become Chicago, which back then caused the mayor of Chicago call and ask what's so bad about his city) Daham statt Islam (Home instead of Islam) Sometimes they pick up a caricature or two and change it: Original: Changed: Changes, focused: I'm not sure you'll get it, so let me spell it out for you: That's a whole bunch of anti-semitic imagery that could as easily have been taken from the Stürmer. Sometimes their members have songbooks full of great songs at home. Well, you know, @Amentep has it right. If it walks like a duck, looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck. Nazis gonna Nazi.

Very heartwarming to hear. Thanks for sharing. Now I hope someone inside Obsidian, even if not JES himself, will regain the passion for creating a PoE game. With MS money, a lot of the core problems and limitations with PoE2 can very easily be surmounted, providing for a really good game right from the get-go and not two years after launch.

That's wonderful news!

Henlo a little quote from Josh Sawyer's tumbler site today: Link: https://jesawyer.tumblr.com/post/697035912579891200/hello-i-just-finished-pillars-of-eternity-2-and-i

Will their be support for the Steam Deck for those of use that have purchased the game through steam? I know that it sort of worked in the past, but recently dose not work.

By the way, I don't blame him for most of his ideas not working out. There's no shame in failing if you at least try. Some things just don't work, it's normal. What really killed him for me is the stupid stuff he keeps saying nowadays. It's also funny how he actively sabotages his Tesla influence with being so anti-liberal, considering most of his potential buyers are very likely liberal folk. None of those patriot coal-burners will ever set foot into a tesla car, yet here we are. What a dumbass.

The beginnings of Tesla, the solar roof tile stuff, SpaceX, etc. He had lots of crazy ideas that would have been really cool if worked out. However, half that stuff never went into production or had other issues or he just silently dropped it, and so on and so on. He did a big push in the electric vehicle market. Also, with SpaceX he kind of started a new space race, which felt great and super cool. /edit: Also he had that underdog thing going for him, like if you remember the story about how he wanted to buy rockets from russia, but they laughed at him, so he decided to build his own rockets instead.. and succeeded so much with it that now america doesn't send people and cargo to spay anymore on russian rockets.

In a way I'm kind of not surprised that americans don't recognize nazis.

Can't believe there was a time where I was looking up to Musk. Now he is such a ****ing douche waffle. Funny, he could have cemented his reputation as this great, forward thinking guy, if he had just shut the **** up and didn't use Twitter. Guess he did the world a favor with outing himself as the narcissistic, self-centered idiot he is.

Yeah. Wait and see if it also walks in goose step. Then it's not a duck but a nationalist "patriot"!

Maybe I did, maybe I didn't.

Mechanically I think Priest of Woedica is great. The later writs are very useful. Writ of Mending is an AoE enfeeble that targets not fortitude but will (like all writs). Combined Writ of War + Sorcery is great - there is no immunity or resistance to that unlike vs. RES afflictions.

I know you guys are all about the self flagellation, but it sure seems like that word is thrown around pretty casually. Whatev, not my problem.

In Europe, you can spit in any direction and hit a Nazi! r00fles!

Just wait for the inevitable 'S in NSDAP stands for Socialist --> --> Nazis have to be left wing!' arguments.

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It would work better if it was ribbed for her pleasure.

"The final image, taken some 4 miles away from the asteroid and just one second before impact, is noticeably incomplete, with much of the screen blacked out. NASA says DART's impact occurred during the time when that image was being transmitted to Earth, resulting in a partial picture." now for some perspective, to get even the most vague sense o' galactic scale proportions, the speed of light is 186,000 miles per second. other than the sun, the nearest star in our galaxy to earth is more than four light years distant. is literal impossible for Gromnir to meaningful imagine such distances. we can solve for 10 to the nth power, but we got no foundation for grappling with the distances involved. HA! Good Fun!

+1 I'd love to play this on my Steam Deck also.