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Wish all those popcorn entertainment bozos would just stop rethreading the same old stuff over and over. Like, before clapping yourself on the shoulder for colorqueer cast in some Agatha Christie's adaptation, maybe ask yourself if the world needs the 114th Agatha Christie's adaptation? And there are whole genres where a cast of diverse people would be a default, like science fiction or cyberpunk...with its signature hatred for corporations...yeah ok, this one's not happening.

...our shepherd turns One tomorrow, so the wife has a Birthday Party scheduled fer the dog...grandkids comin' over, some "healthy" dog cake, the whole Nine Yards...WTF be wrong wit' women??... ...WHO LUVS YA, BABY!!...

It's like boxing though. Loads do it, but not everyone is Muhammad Ali.

Binning and VBIOS shenanigans in the RTX 4070 MSRP models. TL;DR: Some RTX 4070 MSRP cards with a decent enough cooling solution and a 215W power limit can easily reach the same clock speeds as the OC models with a 240W power limit. If anyone is in the market for a 4070, which currently appears to be no one on the planet (), it might pay off to go for a three fan MRSP model, as they can potentially reach stable 3GHz clock speeds within the 215W MSRP card power limit. Not that it makes much of a difference, and the OC markup is really not worth it on these cards (arguably on any of them except for the 4090). Speaking of making a difference: Clocked it "down" to the RTX 4070 TI's default boost clock and lowered the voltage some more, 2610Mhz @ 900mV. 3% loss of performance, but a silent GPU even under heavier loads.

Curse of the Golden Idol and Scarlet Hollow Curse of the Golden Idol was a good game. Like a 2d Curse of the Obra Dinn. I can't put my finger on it, but it failed to capture me in the same way. But it's all the same stuff, look at a scene and some dialogue, and piece together who everyone is and how they died. It's intellectually stimulating even if it is lacking the same magic. Scarlet Hollow is simply incredible. An episodic Horror VN that is leaving me with post-game withdrawals while I wait for the next release. I knew it'd be good from the demo of Slay the Princess (their other WIP game), but I wasn't ready for how good.

To go with the classic quote: "Wallace and company screaming for “freedom!” in their Pict-paint while dressed up in 17th-century kilts on a bridge-less meadow is the equivalent of me making a movie about the Battle of Bunker Hill in which I dress the American colonials in Star Trek uniforms, paint their faces with made-up “Native American” designs … and then shot the film in a Florida parking lot." It might be the classical civilisation student in me, but docu-dramas on historical figures /events always bug me for how much they misrepresent the facts. Sure, dramatise around the facts, be fuzzy with things, craft your own dialogue, but mashing key points of history wrong just for the drama of it, grates on my nerves already. Mostly because how many people will then take it as fact and forget the "docu-drama" element. We are very good at what we do, and at times in history what we did best was Imperialism on the planet. Which historically is not a very nice thing. But, that's because we were better at it then pretty much every other country trying to do not-nice Imperialism. So I don't think it's a particular bad point on the British.

May I suggest incorporating a feature into the game that allows players to track the milk molars they have obtained and those they are yet to acquire? I am currently missing four milk molars and have extensively searched all locations while viewing every available video guide without success. I believe that such a feature would greatly enhance the gaming experience for players, including myself, and would be highly appreciated. Thank you for your consideration.

the one thing i've found her to shine at (at least compared to any other paladin build) is to proc a bajillion stacks of Combusting Wounds using her otherwise-extremely-lame Wrath of the Five Suns. (most of the time IMO it's not worth using over just a normal Sworn Enemey, esp on PotD. it does real lame damage (on PotD it's basically doomed to always underpenetrate, too), and it uses *2* zeal, which is far more limiting)

What happens with hylea's talons? Whenever the bleed effect happens it summons a bolt? Or each tick of the bleed effect? The avenging storm isn't extendable though with a SC druid (assuming no party)...does it last long enough to kill megabosses? Assuming I can proc blade cascade and extend with SOF. So the benefit of empowering avenging storm vs casting it from a scroll is just to constantly proc LUC and weyc items right? LUC procs don't really matter if they happen more than once, for classes that extend them (besides resisting afflictions I guess). As for the weyc procs...let's see. Muse of Mystery and Mirrored Empower on Robes are pretty good but they can also be extended. For the wand, Wael's Sight would be extremely good to proc every 3 seconds since it has 100% miss to graze. But that's wizard. Attuned Channel +3 PL also good but also extendable. Only thing that isn't is the "Follower of the Obscured" that refreshes recovery. But if I've procced blade cascade it's already gone. So why is a Fury better than using scrolls? I assume anything that crits will proc the storm bolts with effort. And there are other builds that can cast much faster. Oh I guess brilliant on pulse gives slightly more resources because you get +1 whenever brilliant procs, but I assume it just extends the effect rather than refreshing it... Tried testing on Fury and Effort is pretty bonkers. The craziest thing about it and avenging storm is that crits from avenging storm also proc hemorhhaging which chains avenging storm so one proc often gets like 5 or 6 bolts. Also conduit is crazy with this, if you walk into a great maelstrom or crit yourself with a chain lightning scroll outside of combat you can triple your damage output. My druid had accuracy around 143 with the avenging storm bolts so he crit enough to cause big chains. Tried with a cipher because lots of .5s casts but you don't get as many chains. Even with 25 effective arcana the accuracy for scroll of avenging storm was just 103. With a potion of ascension + borrowed instinct I got the accuracy to 129 which isn't bad, especially since there are cheap spells that proc a lot like antipathetic field, and eyestrike has a large AOE blind debuff with shared nightmare. Most cipher debuffs reduce will though, or fortutude, but the hobbling effect from Effort also debuffs reflex for a total of 20 so you still crit quite a lot, almost as much as with the actual spell. Fighting 1v1 you could smack things with a flail and switch back to effort and get huge chains. Some more testing. Mental Binding is hugely effective since paralyze both reduces reflex by 10 and causes 25% hit to crit.

It's a fantasy movie with barely a vestige of historicity about it. Not actually too bad either so long as brain is parked in neutral. The cast was... not very historically accurate in terms of ethnicity from what I remember, though that was the least of its issues. The only really out of place one was the blonde Isis(?) Even with that though, well, Ramses the Great was pretty much 100% confirmed a ginger (yes, seriously). Doubt we'd see Rupert Grint playing him any time soon though.

Revenge of the Fifth is here, so... I'm watching Disney-movies tonight.

Star Wars day, so watched the series on TV instead of working.

Cleopatra was Greek, she certainly wasn't sub saharan in the way the documentary writers would like her to be. The Ptolemies were greek, and more inbred than the actual Egyptian pharaohs in their later years. But even before that they married fellow Greeks. You'd need an extremely unusual departure to get any sub saharan ancestory into that. The big irony is that there are at least three queens they could have picked that could be argued to have been nubian, and hence 'black'*. Hatshepsut, Nefertiti/ Nefertuaten (assuming the same person) and at a pinch Ankesa/-namun -paaten (likely never a regnal pharaoh though). Historically Hatshepsut was ruler of a far more important and powerful country than Cleopatra's comparatively pathetic rump Egypt, she just didn't boff any Romans or get written about by Shakespeare. But then these are documentary writers who started off claiming her Seleucid ancestry made her African. If you wanted genuinely and historically 'black' pharaohs there is also the actual Nubian Dynasty, but they had no female pharaohs. There are at least two other female pharaohs though not much is known about them (Sobeknefru(?) at the end of the old kingdom and one other whose name escapes me). Fun fact for the day: Nubia has more pyramids than Egypt- and lasted longer as an independent country. Ultimately there isn't any issue with having a black Cleopatra, the issue is with having her in a documentary. No one (well, I'm sure someone does, but...) really cares about, say, a black Anne Boleyn in a BBC drama or a black Queen Charlotte in Bridgerton because they're dramas, and specifically not documentaries. *they probably weren't either though and it still has the problem that to most writers black --> west african, because that's usually their ultimate origin due to where most US/ Caribbean slaves originated. Nubians looked nothing like Ghanaians/ Nigerians/ Congolese/ Senegalese though. Unsurprising, after all Tamils look nothing like Vietnamese and they're a similar distance apart. If you had Muttiah Muralitharan playing Ho Chi Minh in a doco you'd get some commentary too. Yeah, nah. That's the difference between culture and ethnicity (and to a large extent why it's a load of bunk). Egyptians/ Misr are only culturally arab. They're genetically- and thus 'racially'- very similar to ancient Egyptians, so far as anyone can tell. Which actually is a decent amount here, since they left so many mummies. Replacement Theory is very popular in certain circles because it means that the pyramids and the greatest ancient civilisation for a millenia was built by black africans who all then got killed off by not black enough misr around 660AD- and it's a load of old bollocks as credible and scientific as the pyramids being grain silos, something everyone laughed at Herman Cain for thinking. You can see the same phenomenon with other people. English, named after a german tribe and continually invaded for over 600 years in the first millenium, are still mostly celtic genetically. Not Roman, not Angle/ Saxon, not Danish or other Norseman, not French. And Turks are almost all Greek, Kurd or Anatolian genetically, the proportion of actual capital T Turkic DNA they have is miniscule. That's because areas basically never get properly depopulated and invaders almost always end up just replacing the ruling caste, and in the end they get bred out. Unless they're Ptolemaic and the family tree looks more like a plait.

Finished Solasta. Took me 40 hours. As far as the game itself, while I am not a fan of turned based, it does do turned based combat in the best possible way, like XCOM. The story and quest are fairly simple and straight forward, but not to the detriment of the game, instead the whole package is very lean and focused. There are no uneven parts of the game, the encounters are to the point and don't make the game drag on. For what it is I'm fairly satisfied with what I got for my money. The only thing that I particularly disliked is that it's a low level adventure and as such there is not that much to customize build wise (although that could also be the edition of d&d) and there is a noticeable lack of interesting items. I think there is an expansion/dlc coming that continues the adventure and raises the lvl cap to 16. I will definitely come back to it.

So this drone that got shot down over Kiev was a TB2, bit of an antclimax to the news there, heh.

Do you still remeber the brilliant idea of Russian commander to dig in Chernobil soil? It looks like some other commander came with similarly brilliant idea in Zaporhizhzhia Oblast and decided to dig in a graveyard for the last rest of infected cattle. After short while his troops contracted and started to spread Anthrax withun their units

Well, it was one of sorts. On how one can make historians very cross.

In a fiction, I do not care if Caesar is portrayed as black or Martin Luther King as asian. It’s up to the director to make the the movie worth watching while offering plausible enough justifications for the race swaps. Although, I can get annoyed, of someone raceswaps Hill Dwarfs with Duergars But anything, which calls itself a documentary should stick to the real facts, else you end up sooner or later with the “true” history, where Ukrainians or Jews are not a nation That being said Cleopatra was of Ptolemaian heritage, who were well know for “enjoying” quite a bit of interbreeding, which makes it very implausible, that she was anything but a Greek/Macedonian woman with a healthy dose of tan from all of that sunbathing under Egyptian skies.

One-Handed Style doesn't get applied to chants, only the generic +12 ACC bonus. I actually never tested predatory items but I suspect they alo don't work with chants.

Yup. Now I have my own apartment but those who didn't invest in a property in the past 10 years probably have to pay rent for the rest of their lives. Inflation is skyrocketing and internet censorship is at its peak pretty much. I can only use a VPN on my phone. I have to download stuff on my phone and transfer them to my PC...talk about workaround tactics. On the plus side, women don't wear hijab anymore and the government is too scared to fight back on that front. They still use nerve agents on our schools(women) to test it out for Russians. Can you believe this? 'Here is a school full of beautiful 16 year old Iranian school girls...let's use them as guinea pigs for our Russian overlords!!!' Terrifying. What's worse is that the opposition is divided into 3 groups that can't stop fighting each other: -The MEK - Islamic leftist group with Marxist roots. Think Kim Jong Un but with Islam. Pretty much the least popular group. Nobody likes them really. -The Democrats - They are mostly on the American democrats side. Most folks accuse them of being the Islamic republics reformists shedding skin. They(like most democrats) look after their own pockets so a lot of people hate them. -The Pahlavi Dynasty - Now this is the most popular group/person(Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi). They have a reputation for being patriots. They aren't racists and strongly condemn all sorts of discrimination against minority groups. They aren't backed by any specific country or party though, so they might have a long way ahead of them. I don't know how things will proceed but a lot of it will be decided once(hopefully) Putin shoots himself in the head.

...so does Sweden...I's absolutely going ta Sweden, Finland, an' Norway before I dies...apparently there's a wee bit o' Norse in me bloodline, not jus' Scottish & Irish...the plan is ta hit 'em all before I's too old & decrepit ta enjoy the trip...so I guess it better be soon!!... ...yup...dunna ferget Polar Bears too...an' there's gotta be room fer the penguins that live in the freezer part...me grandmother always said that we was lettin' the penguins out when our arses were hangin' out o' the fridge too long, lookin' fer me grandfather's chocolate stash... ...WHO LUVS YA, BABY!!...

@LadyCrimson oh wow... that brings back early childhood memories That reminds of this one, from before even I was born! (they played it a lot on the radio long before I became a teenager)

When some notes are stuck in your head and you try to remember what they're from, then finally do. Also, this uploader's videos are great (US) top hits memory lane trips (some decades he made two vids). The approx. percent of ones I recognize: --1950's, 40% (1955+ is where it became more common for me) --1960's, 85% --1970's, 90% --1980's, 99.9%

I'm not sure what led you to this conclusion and perhaps my perspective here is off but one thing I can say for certain - is that I, along with many other people, love Durance. He was absolutely meant to be abrasive. However, he goes through tremendous growth and rather than word vomit the change he is undergoing, he keeps it relatively to himself. You pick up on it but it's because of subtleties, not because he has 12 minutes of monologuing about why he's changed. He's insightful, crass, doesn't give two ****s about your feelings, or anyone else' for that matter, and calls it like he see's it. He also understands exactly who and what he is and from all accounts, he's incredibly self-aware. You have to keep in mind that he's also seen some ****. Which is probably why he's so abrasive in the first place. This is a priest that killed a god. You have to wonder how that would effect his own faith- the gods in general go from seemingly omnipotent entities that people devote themselves to, prostrate themselves for, and spend their entire lives trying to appease, to little more than the mortals they rule over very very quickly. Compound that with what he learns at the end of the game and you've got a real good recipe for crazy. Everything he dedicated his entire life for, committed deicide for, turns out to be a lie. Not only that, after he engaged in what he thought was the holiest of acts, his goddess cast him aside like a piece of used furniture at the local dump. IMO he's also pretty hilarious at times and offers a comical, if not dark, perspective at times. Perhaps that's just my 40 year-old disabled combat veteran self finding him somewhat relatable but Durance is one of my favorite characters in the game. Having said that, I can definitely see why some people would dislike him. Especially people who don't particularly like confrontation and/or typically avoid it when possible. Xoti on the other hand drives me insane. Here is a character that is insanely devout to a God that is traipsing across the Deadfire laying waste to basically everything, despite the fact that the Watcher, Eder, Aloth and Pallegina are all acutely aware that the gods are "jumped up Engwithins" that put themselves on a pedestal. I find it incredibly hard to believe that she wouldn't undergo some SERIOUS reflection given that knowledge. I also find it hard to believe that she wouldn't be shook to her core considering how devout she actually is. She's travelling with a group of people who have seen what the Gods are, what they've done as a result of their petty in-fighting and just how little they actually care about the people they supposedly "watch over". Her quest and/or mission is also a direct contradiction to what the Watcher is doing and all of the aforementioned. She wants to essentially hoard all of the "lost" souls so that Eothas can collect them at a later date in Hel, when the Watcher himself was tasked with sending them back to the in-between to return to the wheel for Berath. At no point is the watcher able to tell her "I won't stand for this" or "I don't agree with what you're doing" or "Berath tasked me with leading these souls to Adra" (Or anything in between), she interjects before anything can even really be said whenever something to do with souls comes up, and she acts as if her job is more important - despite the fact that the Watcher was literally brought back from the dead by a God to do their job. Both the Watcher (At least in my case) and Eder' consistently try to drill it in her head that she's basically a naïve sheep being used to further the circle-jerk that is the gods "non-plan" and the only response she gives is how she's right and it's her sacred duty. It's honestly infuriating at times, lol.

Holy thread necro batman!

It’s spreading… not a school shooting though, but a mass shooting still https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65490418