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So bald old baboon commissioned nine rings as presents for CIS leaders and his precioussssss self, and again I'm thinking there's a creative and very bold saboteur in Kremlin's PR team.

Doing the last minute prep and checking that dad's going to be good while I'm away, before getting up early manana and heading to the airport. Here's hoping no strange weather keeps hitting San Diego. I really don't want an 11 hour flight being diverted while friends are waiting. I saw a lot of that was happening at the weekend for folks traveling there. Still, y'all have fun as the New Year approaches.

Finished off the space heater build with some final upgrades for the year. This combo is so power hungry it's stupid, CPU and GPU pushing 400w+ each when maxed out. Reminds me of the triple SLI days... Intel i9 13900KF @ 6GHz Zotac RTX 4090 @ 3GHz Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Master 32GB G.Skill TridentZ5 DDR5 6400 2x Samsung 980 Pro 2TB Gen 4 NVMe Corsair RM1000e Hyte Y60 case 48” Gigabyte FO48U OLED

I've been playing an MMO called Zwift. Bit of a weird game, I joined a group and finished the session drenched in sweat. I reached level 4 and unlocked a helmet though, so that was nice. I am using the Zwift Hub Trainer in my garage. Perfect for a rainy day.

Off for a run in what I hope is not the forecasted freezing rain event! Then ending the day with welcoming a friend who is one of the few people I know whose flight has not been knackered!

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Same thing happens

Leaving in the morning for an all-day round trip in the car with maybe a couple hours of being not in the car, outside, moving furniture and stuff: ---Hubby: You might want to take more than that light sweatjacket (he says while wearing two layered jackets himself) ---Me: (dressed in t-shirt and thin, light pants) Oh? Is it supposed to be extra cold or something? Eh, I'll be fine. *hubby blasts the van's heater, as usual, the entire trip while I keep the window cracked open so I can breathe* ...I never even wore my light sweatjacket. ...I'm picturing hubby at some point wearing an entire puffy ski jacket/pants/boots outfit around the house before too long. ...Edit: if you're wondering, if I'm driving, hubby is always a little too cold/might use a leg/lap blanket because I don't blast the heater like that, heh

The list is getting quite long. Though, of course, all of those deaths are just accidental and in no way connected to the war effort.

If I'm not totally misremembering things then Cap of the Laughingstock's effects also apply to the wearer. I use it on the same guy who's wearing Ngati's Tusk from time to time in order to bring down all defenses, including deflection - in an auto-hit-AoE by 10 or more - and one disadvantage was that the wearer also loses those 10 points of deflection. Beneficial auras that do not work on the wearer that come to mind are the stealth/RES one from that split cape right at the harbor in Queen's Berth (forgot the name of the cape) and the +1 AR one from the Last Defense tower shield found in Crookspur. --- I do not know about Effigy's Husk and its immunity issues. I have little experience with it bc. I rarely use it. --- I believe it is written somewhere in the export-char UI or the import-char UI that you can export/import your chars including items, but it's not very obvious unfortunately.

Wife wanted to watch Glass Onion until she realized it's the Last Jedi guy. She's really holding on to that grudge.

That is a daily occurrence in 7th grade. What's a eunuch? What's circumcision?

Ah, sometimes it's good to go back to the classics...

HA! Good Fun!

I know, it's still a few days off, but people being busy and all and I'm sure Ukraine and China are more interesting topics, but still... some things just are part of my upbringing, so Merry Christmas everyone (and a Happy New year to those who are too busy the next few weeks to spend time on social media, which is hopefully most of you) (and if anyone suggests this should have been some kind of flavourless 'Seasonal Holidays' instead, go stow it, Christmas gettogethers with the family is what I grew up with)

Posting on one line as forum appears to just eat everything over a single paragraph. Completed my second Cyberpunk 2077 playthrough as street kid. Tried to get the achievement to buy all vehicles, which I did, but achievement didn't unlock Considering restarting my Witcher 3 playthrough, maybe I'll even complete it this time...

Intel i9 12900K Nvidia RTX 4090 Gigabyte Aorus Z690 128GB Corsair Vengeance 3600 2x Samsung 980 Pro 2TB NVME Corsair RM1000e Hyte Y60 case 48” Gigabyte FO48U OLED Moved the 3080ti to my old 8700K rig that lives by the 85” TV

The library resolves much differently if you don't do it before the tavern gets attacked, and maybe visiting Daeran's mansion will play differently if you wait. I'd go ahead and do those before the tower if possible. That random encounter is forced so unless you rest for three days at the market, you're doing it. If you do the Tower quest before the attack you get time added to the timer. But it's a hard fight unless you can pass a couple of checks, so much so the game advises you to wait. I like them when done well, but I think this timed event has too many things that can blow up if you don't deal with them first. One could say that the things you should do before and the things it doesn't matter if you do before should be more......balanced.