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Some lady I came across recently on YouTube recently who does long-ish form content on all matters related to death ("Let's Visit the Churches Made of Human Skulls"). She calls her subscribers "deathlings": I guess I'm now a deathling. She mixes humor and interesting information in a way that reminds me a lot of Lindsay Ellis, who is now retired from the YouTube game on account of social media being cancer.

Yeah in czech I think its called 'Kostnice' - ossuary. We have quite big one https://www.visitczechrepublic.com/en-US/29565d85-b0e5-4e95-a8e0-145c3d973284/place/c-brno-st-james-ossuary also this weird one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedlec_Ossuary

If it were just that. Wagner thugs are wreaking havoc in Mali right now and nobody cares. IMO they should be branded a terrorist organization.

Enjoy (I think it's awesome )

Hello, it's review time for Pentiment. I'll start with this bit (IGN, 10/10 points): https://www.ign.com/articles/pentiment-review Also short overlook from Klobrille (on Twitter):

Poland or NATO needs to do something, because Russia already blown up ammo warehouses in Czech Republic and IIRC Bulgaria some time ago. Which is third attack against NATO country in 5-10 years… Else the khuylo will start to escalate it. Let’s hope it will be rational response, which will help Ukraine and does not start WW3…

Two things I'd like (RPG) developers to take from this: - games don't need to have quests travelling the world, hell, there and back again. There's huge promise in the concept of having finite sets of characters, as well as locations. And showing how they grow and change throughout the day, the months, the years. In particular in games about player choice. 1990s instant classic "Day Of The Tentacle" was all about showing the same location and "changing" it throughout the ages. I'm actually reminded of "The Last Express" though, a game set solely aboard the legendary Orient Express. It involes a unique art style, mystery, murder and a historical setting as well. Albeit mixed with "real-time" events, giving the illusion of living NPCs moving through the train as you move as well (to lessen frustration, the game has a feature that allows to go back in time in case you've screwed up or missed something). The Last Express' sense of place is still pretty unique today, despite being released in 1997. - historical scenarios can work. That's nothing new, but there's only so many elves, zombies, space ships, power armors and more recently cyberpunk gear you can deal with before growing tired. (Admittedly, in a CRPG setting, even zombies could be somewhat fresh again -- see Dead State a couple years ago, but that's another topic entirelly. 😄 )

Not worth it, sure, but could be deliberate anyway. Fleeing from Kherson with their tails between the legs, "G19", scrotum voodoo doll's no-show there and sad horse's hospital time, things like that all chip away at their moronic "RUSSIA STRONK!!!" narrative they seem incapable of even adjusting, let alone letting go. Bombing Ukrainian cities cannot cut it anymore because it is already routine for them, why not ruffle NATO's feathers by letting missiles "accidentally" graze its corner. Because "So what? Whatchagonna do, gayropeans, huh? Huh????"

I'm reading they're firing Calibers, X-101 and X-555s that are supposed to be high precision missiles? Interesting how their high precision missiles still hit apartment blocks and civilian infrastructure just like their low precision missiles...

Same. After reading some reviews I was worried that ascetic nature of the presentation will make it difficult to get into, but I was fully drawn in. It helps that as some raised on European history and an art degree at least a decent amount of stuff rings a bell, or it at least is conceptually familiar. It's been also much funnier then I expected. There are also a detail that I am wondering if I am getting it right - all titles refering to god/trinity (God, Lord, Christ) seem to be left blank and then filled in as if for players benefit. I am wondering if it's refering to a long tradition of not using God's name and the subsequent erasure of the tetragram from the written scriptures.

The latest DLC for Solasta is out: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2100430/Solasta_Crown_of_the_Magister__Inner_Strength/

Fallout 3 has the same problem I have with Oblivion. Aggressively terrible level scaling. At high levels of Fallout 3, you can't go for a jaunty stroll without running into a constant stream of Deathclaws and Albino Radscorpions. All sorts of enemies that ignore armor. It was not fun running around in power armor and getting 3 shot like I was naked by some enemy with a standard rifle because their name had Master in it. I not only like it less than New Vegas, I hold hate in my heart for it.

Have only played the (fairly linear) beginning so far and am looking forward for more. Two gripes though: I wish you could turn off / mute the scribbling sound of the ink pen. It's a neat stylistic choice at first, but gets a tad annoying (at least to me) fast. Plus make it less of an added "hassle" and faster to fast forward dialogue. The first click upon initiating a dialogue makes the ink pen write faster. It's only when the pen is finished filling the dialogue that a second click moves dialogue forward / makes it advance. As there's no VO anyway, I'm not going to wait for every dialogue to, er, "finish". And engaging in / advancing dialogue is the name of this game. Can I just else appreciate though how great this is. 20 years ago this game wouldn't have existed and remained a pipe dream. 12-15 years ago it would have been a shoestring indie project from a garage developer at best. Just a decade ago, this would have been a Kickstarter. One that likely wouldn't even have met its funding goals, as it isn't a BG-clone. But here they are to hopefully entertain us. The times, they are a-changin'.

Not especially meaningful, but still a marvelous show of solidarity from Banksy: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/11/14/banksy-in-ukraine-seven-new-works-appear-in-war-torn-sites Art specifically for or against something tends to be embarrassing (think Sun City, for instance), but these works look good. Of course it helps that there are no words.

I was watching an interesting interview on Bloomberg about how Putins War has created a reality where China and Russia are now on opposite sides of certain traditional geopolitical objectives. The failures of the invasion and Western sanctions have led to Putin trying to destabilize the global economy through things like energy blackmail and grain blockages which he hopes will lead to the West reducing support for Ukraine and insisting on some kind of negotiations. Putin doesnt care about the global economy because he is concerned only about surviving the consequences of invading Ukraine China wants a stable world and global economy because its economy is dependant on that but China also has to consider its previous publicly stated ideological support for Russia. But the reality now is Russia and China have fundamental different objectives, China wants the war to end and Putin wants to survive it both politically and militarily

hobbs now projected to win in the arizona govenor race. so, cheney channeling a bit o' nelson muntz? HA! Good Fun! ps once again am linking the relevant fox news article: Arizona gov election: Katie Hobbs defeats GOP challenger Kari Lake, race may now go to recount under state law read the comments and recognize how even though lake lost, a significant % of americans are true believers in the lies trump, lake and others is continuing to sell 'em. real don't matter. facts don't matter. truth don't matter. given the degree o' polarization we see as normal nowadays, any narrative which benefits or originates from the libs is part o' a scheme by them to keep real americans down... or whatever. lake' losing is a win for reality, but not a big win 'cause look how close a thing it were and those near 50% who supported lake yesterday is not waking up tomorrow to the realization they has been willful buying snake oil. is a real win when folks such as lake is once again a momentary punchline embraced serious only by the lunatic fringe.

That's a definite danger. Vampire Survivors will consume your life. You can forget about playing anything else. It's video game crack cocaine.

Yor has a very fertile imagination: I shouldn't be reading the spoilers, since this is next on my list, but that reminded of a similar scene in Mushoku Tensei. As I mentioned here once, this anime is great in many aspects, but the protagonist is a total pervert and there are plenty of unnecessary situations.

There's your problem, the souls of would-be summoners are low tier. If you're willing to summon a creature from hell then it already has a strong claim on your soul while entities from beyond don't really care about such stuff. It's like trying to sell ice to an Alaskan or a hamburger to a vegan, respectively. For the hell creature try sacrificing someone else's soul, while the thing from beyond will be satisfied with taking a look at the world through your eyes. Have fun.

I keep trying, but nobody's picking up the phone... I'm even willin' to sign over my soul and everything. Does anyone have any tips? ...Oh no, is it because I'm not a magical girl? Okay, if I just get an otherworldly entity to change me into...aw, crap: is this one of those "you have to be a magical girl to become a magical girl" situations? Life's such a crock of crap, I tells ya. Yeah, well, he also gave Maison Ikkoku a 9/10, so the guy's a moron. Or maybe just old. I guess there's a lot worse than liking 1986 shonens, particularly if you watched it when you were young-ish... He was talking purely about the manga, not the anime, so who knows - I guess you'll knows when/if you read the manga, .

That's unfortunate, but it's next on my list so let's see if it drives me to madness. Nonsense, it's slice of life. Whomst amongst us has not summoned an entity from beyond reality and/or hell that wreaks havoc?

Watch Card Captor Sakura on Netflix, thank me later.

The actual term for the genre is ero guro (エログロ) from shortened from erotic grotesque to erogro and mangled through Japanese pronunciation. Guro is just shorthand, but often mistaken to mean gore (but that would be goru, not guro). Guro as a word is part of a phenomenon where vaguely English sounding terms appear in other languages that are however not of English origin, or have vastly different meanings. Since I'm working from home today, I had to put "Home Office" in my calendar so people know I'm not at the office. Sounds like it might be a term taken from English, but hey, it's not. Just like Handy for mobile phone, or a couple of other things. Well, lesson over. Well, in that case, I stand corrected. I'll just read the manga and re-asses then, but the anime part never gave off the feeling of being an NGE wannabe, outside of messed up people controlling starfish alien entities with half a will of their own. Well, putting it that way...

I didn't think "guro" meant erotic, just gore/grotesque. I haven't actually typed "anime guro meaning" into Google, and I'm not going to, but that was my impression. This particular poster, funnily, is actually...uh, believe it or not, literally the only person I know of from that website that has even a lick of sense: I remember them because of that stupid avatar, and because of the amount of times I've seen them comment on something that I've watched and I've thought "man, this guy really is the only other semi-sane person on this entire website", . Case in point, they have NGE as one of their highest rated shows but didn't even bother to watch the Rebuilds, or if they did, they did not rate them. They're also fans of various old shoujo series series like Ririka SOS, Sailor Moon, and Devilman Lady, so avatar notwithstanding, I can't complain too much about their judgement...

I liked Rings of Power. And I've been struggling to find anything else worth watching. Starting up Manifest just because someone at work recommended and it's not near as interesting as they made it sound.

That's a very strange sounding show

Oh yes, it was. Anyway, I think Sun City is a brilliant example of how art done "in the name of good" can often be embarrassing. Boycotting Sun City during apartheid was a good idea, and raising awareness of the situation in South Africa was also a good idea, but the song just sucks. As a pop song it's not the worst, but the preachy lyrics make it hard to listen to, no matter how pertinent the message. Banksy's new works, on the other hand, look fine to me. And in other news: that Wagner guy Prigozhin shows what a wonderful philantropist he is. This is full-blown ISIS stuff, which is not surprising: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/sledgehammer-execution-russian-mercenary-who-defected-ukraine-shown-video-2022-11-13/

I don't know how old you are and whether I should have expected you to recognize it, but my reference was to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_City_(song)

Well, Australia's genius loci has been trying to kill you guys off through dangerous wildlife for a while now. Call that an adaptation of means, if you will. You better get out of that alien hellscape while you can.

Also, Macron tweets "with" or "alongside" Xi, thus: Interesting. The photos of Lavrov in Bali (?) are also delightful: the guy's wearing a Basquiat T-shirt, and he's got a Western mobile phone and a Western wristwatch. Such a staunch opponent of the "decadent West" he is, indeed. No hypocrisy there at all.

In 2021 Twitter made 5 billion dollars of ad revenue in couple weeks Elon has succeed to drop it less than billion dollars. So cutting jobs could have been necessary to make Twitter profitable (as it made 200 million dollars loss 2021), but way Elon did it doesn't seem to be best way. But of course he may be able to convince advertiser come back, although some of biggest advertisers have declared that they will not advertise in Twitter or use Twitter ever after Twitter Blue impersonators were able to crash their stock price with fake announcements. So Elon may have difficult time ahead. But he already made SpaceX buy ads from Twitter with hefty sum, so he at least I'd able to fund Twitter with his other companies, although their other owners may not like such actions.

Yet another fire in Russia, this time in a factory whose speciality makes you think that perhaps this is not accidental, even if many of the others have been.

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/chinese-officials-speak-unprecedented-criticism-115245605.html Rare but becoming more common of Chinese criticism towards Russia, this time at the G20 But China mustn't think we stupid, they would have been fine with the invasion if things were going well for Russia so this is just a reality of the failures of Putin's War....its not like the CCP really care about the sovereignty of Ukraine or there right to decide their own future

I installed it on GOG as well to get a fresh new install instead of my Steam one which I don't even know will run. Too lazy to research what fixes and mods to install yet, but no plans to play it this year anyhow. But yeah, never felt there were many grey solutions to problems other than simply ignoring the entry on your quest log. I suppose it makes sense in that it would always be, at the earliest, the third solution to be implemented for any given quest, and therefore the first on the chopping block when it comes to designing those quests. Still don't get why they cut the easiest way to go grey though: the ability to leave and just go home to California.

I think NV isn’t great in moral grey area stuff. It sometimes is, but a lot of choices feel difficult to justify.

I've started playing Fallout New Vegas because I got it for free on GoG and it just seemed like a good idea. It was. I still plan on starting a new character in LotRO when they release the new starter areas. My Captain is level 111 and battling despair in Mordor. edit: I wish I had the willpower to make different decisions in New Vegas. Like, I always side with Good Springs and go to war with the Powder Gangers. I always attack Caesar's Legion almost immediately. I'm no good at the moral gray area stuff.

Ender Lilies. It feels heavier on backtracking than I am used to, but the area transitions and whether a location is fully looted are shown on the map. I think, I am missing at least 3-4 moves. Defeated Ulv, the Mad Knight and acquired the wall-climbing ability. Also defeated/purified several mini-bosses. One of them was a dog who could damage the MC only by touch. On that note, touch damage in general should either not exist or be applied by the MC as well as the opponents.

The Onion will have to sue him for making reality too difficult to parody. Oh and now that I think of it, there is a fourth possibility: Elon Musk is desperately wants to be funny but has a sense of humor that would embarrass someone from 2005.

Soon in the news: "Elon Musk fires himself after forgetting he was the only one left working at Twitter."

This is a request for an item that is missing from grounded. add it as a dlc or a patch, but you are missing out on creating a Larva Lamp... this really needs to be a thing.

I think it would be really cool to attend a tribal wedding and observe the customs and traditions. Maybe let my groove thang out.

Others from this episode - Trixie is shocked, Speed is angry. Or determined. Maybe both. Neither Speed nor Trixie like being buzzed by a plane. Derp.

Barbarian (2022) This film is FANTASTIC. Genuinely horrifying on several levels in a way that most slashers wished they could be. The curveball thrown is beautifully executed in a way I have seldom seen pulled off. It's hard to say more without spoilers, so I'll wait to see if anyone else gives it a go. I highly recommend this. Good. Real talk, if a magical animal offers your daughter, or any child for that matter, to make a wish come true if they make a contact with it, make sure they don't sign up.

Putin signed decree allowing foreigners to join Russian Army, today. looks like we’ll see more of this soon 🤷‍♂️

You can only successfully, er, "date" Lexi with a demon, she's into dudes who like to ~assert dominance~. I loved Trickster's way with her, though it might seem a little objectifying. Also, Wrathfinder requiring meta knowledge on top of system minutiae is why I don't feel like I deprive myself of challenge in a fun way when I mod the **** out of all the nuisances. Fighting cheating with cheating is only fair. There is impossibly tacky devil hanging out now in my Aeon's HQ. Golden frilly skirt, three set of wings and all of them gaudy, three sets of horns and all of them overcompensating for something, ripped like a gym freak too. All he misses is a purple feathered hat and I'd feel compelled to build a brothel. 🦀

Yep. And this, in my view, is one of the less enjoyable aspects of the game. There's plenty of stuff where your only option tends to be: die, figure out what you should have done, reload, try again. It would be a lot better if, instead of "die", you could "respond to the challenge", but often it is really quite difficult. I wonder if you agree.

just retrain

I've heard good things about Andor, namely that if all the other Star Wars shows are adults playing with action figures, Andor feels more like a series with an idea behind it. I haven't seen it and could be wrong, so take that as hearsay.

-Hey Jonescnify132 We've had reports of BURG.L disappearing from his post in the Oak Lab, but I haven't seen reports of him blocking players from getting into the lab. Can you please submit a support ticket? Please include the following information: 1. Platform (Xbox Console, PC Game Pass, PC Steam). 2. Multiplayer or Single Player Game (if multiplayer, can you tell us how many players in total in the game, and their platforms if known) 3. Difficulty level 4. Description of issue. 5. Last thing you did in the game before the issue occurred, if applicable. Obsidian Support Thanks!

Thanks for the kind words. I haven't seen (or better: don't remember - getting old ) those older Druid solo vids although I know @baldurs_gate_2 from the forums, thanks for bringing them to my attention. 👍