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And this is a reaction after the incident in Russian TV.

Three Putin body doubles having their after-work glass of vodka together when suddenly their supervisor-colonel appears: "Guys, breaking news. There was an assassination attempt on Putin. I've got good news and bad news for you" One of the guys replied: "Please tell us the good news first" Colonel: "He survived" "And now the bad news" "He has lost one arm"

I think, this is another message, which is more likely aimed to domestic audience than to international. On 1st April, they started another round of conscription and they want to get as much as 400k more unfortunate Russian to the meatgrinder. And rhetoric as this, is said to boost the patriotism as much as possible from the lethargic people at home, who just want to be left alone so they can get drunk 🤷‍♂️

Could not happen to a nicer guy 🤷‍♂️ We'll see, if it was Ukraine or not very soon, depending on how fast the FSB will find the "most likely" suspect 🤷‍♂️ EDIT: acording to the article, he was also criticising Russian MoD, so who knows? He might lived in an appartment without windows and was not a fan of tea 🤷‍♂️

The big washing machine cabal doesn't want you to know. I bought a fairly expensive washing machine 3-4 years ago (Miele) and although the initial experience was not that great (I won't get in to it, but basically I got a new unit in the end), no issues so far. Saying that, they do not offer a long warranty here (outside of rare promotions) and when I asked the technician why that is he told me there is no need because they last. 😄 I just laughed in his face and the answer I got eventually was that it's because the water is very hard in this region of Europe and it kills everything, also people do not do the proper maintenance to combat that. Basically you need to do a cleaning cycle with an anti-limescale solution every 3 months or use water softener tablets during the wash. I do that so I guess we will se how long it last. Also do not buy Bosch, everything I got from them failed in warranty. Built in oven, stove, small appliances I either exchanged or returned, the only thing that lasted was the dish washer we barely use. I didn't buy their top of the line models, but I also didn't go for the cheapest ones... For my place, I spent new car money on appliances so in 10 years I will see if I'm an idiot or if it payed for itself.

Enemies 'winning' in cutscenes having been splattered in gameplay is a bit of a Bioware tradition, see the first encounter with Malak in K1. Hmm, and while I've expurgated most of the game from my memory I'm pretty sure the same thing happens in Jade Empire too, via your 'flaw', though at least that is a more creative and well set up way to deal with it than 'u lose lol'. It's just that Malak (and I can't even remember who the JE main bad guy is except he used to be your mentor) is merely a boring antagonist as opposed to K** L*** who is a charisma singularity that makes everything associated with him worse and worse and worse. Sometimes I even wonder if he's actually a good antagonist he generates such a negative response, but having your playerbase want to take a drill to their frontal cortex in the hope of hitting the bit containing memories of KL is not really ideal, they might hit their memories of Jade Empire instead. OTOH, it's a less annoying fight than Letho v1 in TWitcher2 which is a legitimately difficult fight, that you then... lose by cutscene. Ho hum. On a completely different tack, I am here to spread the Good News about Terraformers. Every once in a while I hit an indie game bought on a whim that makes the money spent on mediocre ones or ones that don't quite work worthwhile; and Terraformers is that game. Just perfectly crafted to my tastes. Basically just a really simple colonise/ terraform Mars tile game, but much like Chess or Go the simple systems result in a whole heap of underlying complexity. 100% unequivocal recommendation to anyone who likes turn based strategy (and, just to be equivocal, doesn't mind there being no (e)X(terminate) in their 4X, and some potential RNG unfairness).

For me it's worldbuilding and story for ME (even if I prefer its combat over ME2's, worldbuilding is more of a key thing), NPCs for ME2 and combat for ME3. Mordin is one of my top favorite characters in all videogames but he isn't enough to compensate for the rest of ME2; faux one in ME3 was quite noticeably worse, but it was okay since I didn't mind that pretender dying. I played the original trilogy, with Miranda's behind as separate character and all...speaking of which, I reached the conclusion that aforesaid behind isn't there for fanservice only -- it is also a reminder that this woman talks out of her arse and is full of sh†t. I didn't mind Weeb McDweeb that much this time since I was able to eventually just swat him away like annoying blowfly that he was, and split my hatred between some kid who died and TIM the wąnker who seriously overstayed his welcome somewhere, I dunno, around 5 seconds in his ME2's intro. I plan to do a Fail Shepard run where everything goes wrong and then I'll just change class on character import for more ME3 as I can play ME pretty much endlessly but wouldn't want to go through ME2 again.

I caved in at some point and bout that new edition with the repackaged ME 1-3 (legendary edition?). I'm only partway through ME 1, but based on past memory, ME 1 has the combat, ME 2 the npcs and ME 3 the... something? Epicness I guess? The space combat was nice looking and the final assault actually felt a little bit epic too. Also some nice choices between some of NPC's (bye bye Tali). Sadly you didn't get to put Kai Leng through enough pain. ME 3 needed a DLC where you can just torture the guy on various brutal implements, trying to max out the pain-o-meter on him. He was, together with the ending, the main things that detracted from the game for me (story was very uneven quality wise, but it did have good bits too along the way). Edit: And I really missed the original Mordin in ME3 😢

am thinking they might disown you anyway if a 2-day pickle is resulting too much sourness. just sayin. edit: @Keyrock point possible missed. you expressed the desire to add more carrot to your soup take the edge off the sour from the pickles when the obvious solution is to choose a less sour pickle alternative. is plenty o' authentic polish dill pickles which is existing in the half sour range. ask the grocer in pineville for a recommendation. the soup is not meant to use extreme fermented dills which is gonna result in more sour even w/o vinegar. HA! Good Fun!

I used ogórki małosolne from the Polish store in Pineville; there's no vinegar, they're pickled in brine and they're light years better than anything from Krakus. I'm not going to use a pickle brand I can buy from any ol' supermarket. If my family caught me doing that they'd disown me.

Hidden in a statue given to him as a gift… someone somewhere must have read Homer

Maybe six or seven months ago there was a nice comparison of the time it has taken for FSB to find the "most likely" suspect in various cases. Whenever someone like Anna Politkovskaya is murdered, no suspect is generally found at all, whereas in cases more expedient to the FSB, the suspect (and nearly always the culprit) is found within 24-48 hours. I can't see how this could make anyone suspicious of the Russian system at all.

Well, lucky for us, April only has 30 days rather than 31.

I do subscribe to more than a dozen channels (just about, close to a dozen), only one of which is politics related TheJuiceMedia (that's the "Honest Government Ads" people) because I like the people, I like their message, I"m a patreon supporter and sometimes I even share their videos here on this forum 😛 AKIHITO YO****OMI because watching that guy creating art in almost real time in front of my eyes is just fascinating A number of hobby related channels (miniature wargaming and painting, with a focus on Horus Heresy and Kill Team) Outer Circle, Rift Forge Studio, Black Briar Gaming, Cult of Paint, The Cult of Crafting, Grimdark Gamers And some history related channels: Drachinifel (my second favourite channel after Juicemedia), HistoryMarche, Kings and Generals, Invicta, History Matters (awesome series of 3 minute videos explaining things you didn't know you didn't know) Besides that, using the search bar to check for things that just springs to mind.... Edit: Not going to list things like Microsoft Partner Source, MCP and similar as that will only be available to a minority of people with a very narrow focus for what they are looking for. Not a Youtube subscription as much as collections of Youtube links organized by topic on other sites

@Gorgon Yeah, I've been noticing ever increasing vram usage for a bit too, mostly on 'next gen' or AAA games as they are getting pushed out now, but I think it'll become more prevalent even below that, before too long. Outside of "poor ports/poor coding" etc, it's just one of those fast major transitional periods. I'm still trying to hold out until the 50xx period before building a new rig - I think there would be too many bottlenecks or mobo/other issues to just upgrade gpu, from my wants anyway. 2080ti was a 'joke' to some re: performance/cost ratios but hey, at least it had 11 vram, even if it's slower vram, so I'm still marginally pushing thru so far. 😄

So I just ordered a 24 GB RX7900 XTX. Significant discount over other available RTX4080 cards, which is pretty much what it equates to, except way more VRAM and way worse RT performance. I dunno, it just kinda happened. I was resigned to not spending boatloads of money on PC parts, but to be honest I had started noticing the VRAM problem in other games as well.

Walz signs universal school meals bill into Minnesota law “If you’re looking for good news, this was certainly the place to be,” said Walz. “I’m honored and I do think this is one piece of that puzzle in reducing both childhood poverty and hunger insecurity.” HA! Good Fun!