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Just checking, if no one has beaten me today https://www.gog.com/en/game/the_night_of_the_rabbit And three games by Quantic Dreams has been released on GOG! And another sale started...

TESIII: Morrowind One of the very few merchants with gold. Negotiating with the Great Houses Negotiating with the Ashlander tribes End-game

TESIII: Morrowind. Was chosen as the Hortator for 3 Great Houses (several councillors died unexpectedly. Very tragic) and as the Nerevarine for 4 tribes. Somehow, the Great Houses were easier to convince than the tribes, which involved dungeon crawling, slavery, wiping out a group of worshippers, and expediting succession. Finished the main story line. Discovered that potion effects stack together and the Dunmer Living Gods wear very little armour. Going to finish some side quests and the Tribunal expansion. I think, the assassin whose armour I used for most of the game was related to it.

Yes I agree and this is the point I was trying to make especially around geographical proximity and lack of identifying with any conflict But then I would expect to find that general indifference when there is any conflict that fits the same profile. And my point is not directed at this forum, Im talking about other examples of how some people have responded to the invasion of Ukraine compared to the invasion of Iraq by the US For example the ANC took a very " critical " view of the invasion of Iraq by the US and condemned it and basically used the argument " its wrong to lie and invade a country. Invasions are wrong "...I can provide you the links with exactly what our president said at the time But they havent openly taken the same position and instead used doublespeak like " we call for peace and for all parties to return to the negotiation party " and some have even gone as far as saying " the invasion is an example of the failure of the UNSC and why we need to transform the UNSC" But Russia sits on the UNSC and Im not sure how having an African country sitting on the UNSC as a permanent member would have prevented this invasion especially when the Russians said they were doing a training exercise

https://www.paradoxinteractive.com/games/vampire-the-masquerade-bloodlines-2/news/welcome-to-the-chinese-room Somehow mixed messages. As a Nosferatu, I guess (played a Toreador), the experience was to hide in the sewers until no one is watching, because of the possible Masquerade violations.

Am absolutely loving the game! I've been collecting armour pieces lately and this idea popped into my head. I just had to get it out! I would love to see butterflies in the yard. The armour could be made from pupa leather, monarch wings, monarch antenna and gnat fuzz. What do you think? (I've also been thinking of doing a dragonfly set too. Thoughts?)

Whomever created this obviously never gamed in the 90's, or had to sort out the IRQ for a flightstick pro....

You are absolutely correct about this, and such people exist even here in the US. The US is indeed held to a very different standard (a double standard) than any other country in the world, and not just compared with countries like Russia and China but even other Western countries. But I will give some credit to those people who are at least honest about their double standard, even if the arguments they make to justify their double standard are complete B.S.

It's 2023, SSD is always necessary. Hell, even my backup server only runs on SSD now. Not buying anything else anymore.

I went to a wine tasting, checked out a clothing shop, and convinced a friend to not take a big deal. Also saw the absolute greatest romance scene in RPG history. looking forward to playing more when I get the chance, but Act 3 is already noticeably more janky than previously.

^ I've seen others (in comments) discussing re: ghosting. Seems a little dependent on settings, where some might work better for some or the opposite for whatever reasons - frame generation on/off (if you can do that), that ray reconstruction on/off etc. I was considering reinstalling the game and finally trying it again, with years of updates, but the graphic stuff means little to me since I still have a 20xx. But I'll probably get curious if it all means better or worse performance on the (now) middling side.

Hubby had his round with the back specialist. In colloquial terms, "You're boned." ... pun not intended. In some cases there is apparently no more cartilage, so it's essentially bone rubbing bone when he moves no matter what. There is no fixing that. Meaning even if it feels somewhat better at times, he can't/shouldn't do anything re: excess movement stress/wear even at small levels, like he was hoping (example: light gardening/handy man-ing). Pain management is about it. So next week they're going to try a short term local anesthetic (not steroids) in the area, as a test to see if it helps with pain. If it does, the steroid injections might work/help. If it doesn't, no point in the steroids. Anyway, I think hubby is - understandably - pretty down. Not just about pain/discomfort but the "even if it feels better, shouldn't/can't do anything" because there's a pretty high danger of it becoming even still worse. Thus I'll continue to be the strong person re:shopping/lifting/moving and whatever else. I also have a great talent for writing checks to get others to do things for us.

@Keyrock This guy went to the bathroom alone: A halfling/gnome friendly bar: Karlach couldn't even stand after the romance scene. Not to mention she didn't reach her tent. Yes, there is an option to lick a carcass: Some surprising skill checks (Spoilers):

This has nothing to do with Zora and Im also not criticizing anyone or trying to shame anyone . I am pointing out the reasons that people dont really care\have an interest in conflicts in Africa is because you dont live in Africa and you dont have any political or ideological connection to the various conflicts in Africa Its expected and normal. And there will be much more interest in the Ukraine war from the West and the world because people have ethnic, historical and geographical ties to that war and it impacts much of the world around the things like the grain deal and energy

As Zoraptor predicted. Well, some do, I have posted stuff about the Tigray conflict (think that still tops Ukraine for body count) although I don't follow news as much as I should.

Here is an informative video of how effectively UK Storm Shadow missiles are being used, always interesting to see how the Russians deny successful targeting of there infrastructure

No Man's Sky ...go into a cave, expecting a not too large area (all the others I'd found weren't huge). Saw minerals I wanted. Kept going forward to mine them and it turns out this cave was ginormous, seemingly never-ending caverns and twists, as if it maybe continued under half the planet's crust. Long time later I ran out of bag space with maxed 9999 stacks and tried to make my way back out. There's no mini-map in the game. It's dark. I thought I'd kept to a fairly straight path, not taking side turns and I tried to backtrack. But ... I got lost. I wandered and wandered, realized I hadn't been this way or that way yet from unmined thingies. The compass markers of the surface did not help much since I hadn't taken note of what and where before going in. ...after 20 minutes of ever increasingly desperate wandering, I finally remembered something - I took the terrain shaping tool out and blasted a tunnel upwards out to the sky. I think that's the worst that I've ever been "lost" in a game, ever. And it was glorious.

No fancy ship or base, no pet/mount and I haven't spent time trying to get extra kewl or original images yet. But here's some scenes/bits that I liked.

It's hard to make people aware of something when there is an information blackout though. Iraq, Syria and Ukraine had/has loads of images and videos come out, journalists weren't being kept out of the area and kept it in the news cycle. And people seem to not read news anymore as much as watch it, and a talking head with scant few still images is less likely to draw attention(Or views if you want to be crass) compared to the barrage that you can get from other places. Same thing with Chinas genocides, not considering that any real action against Poohs actions are likely to quadruple the price of said iphones.

Owlcat's YouTube community post: People are assuming Starfinder is their next game.

Someday you'll be very entertained or very confused, perhaps both.

I've settled on a character. I went with Nord for blunt weapons and medium armor, plus frost resistance is never a bad thing and Woad will serve me well until I get my restoration skill nice and high and get a better shield spell. I'm slowly hoofing my way to Balmora, first stop Fort Pelagiad. Edit: Apologies for the FPS counter. I'm keeping it on until I run through a big city with lots of moving parts. I have all the new post processing effects from OpenMW on and ludicrous draw distance.

But the US is bad because of the Iraq invasion. I'd say most people here don't defend the US and their actions in Iraq.

I think the 1, 2, 3, 4 on the right side of the picture are misnumbered for 9, 10, 11, 12.

This is interesting and explains the outward facing hole in the sub:

Yes I agree but I can guarantee you most of those same people will be outraged about any Western country, and particularly the US, doing anything similar to Russia. So they not indifferent when Western countries are involved in wars or invasions, so its selective indifference thats based on ideological reasons and anti-Western bias. This is common in SA from those who support Russia

I agree that this is true. However, I don't think that the word "today" is in any way operative. It has always been so, and in fact, for most of history, it has been much more so.

No, the reason people say things along these lines is so that it serves to justify their indifference toward the war and the plight of the Ukrainians. A lot of people in the world today, unfortunately, just don't want to be bothered by the plight of other people in the world. But they also want all those bad things happening out there to "go away" so that their indifference doesn't make them look bad.

The grain thing just shows how much corruption there is in europe as well. I can understand both sides - ukraine who just want to move their grain through poland, etc. and the bordering countries who are worried about crashing grain prices because they can't compete with them. On the other hand, there are already rules that the ukraine grain can't be sold in european stores... but why does it happen anyways? Look at the people who are mixing the local stuff with it. This is where they have to crack down - give them huge fines or whatever, I don't know. I'm sure the authorities could find out who's behind it if they would try.

Its partly because people want to say " look Ukraine is also bad like Russia " because they think its going to the change or reduce the warmongering and brutal nature of the Russian military in Ukraine But it doesn't convince or change anyone's views and who is responsible for this war

Here's an extremely interesting interview that provides quite a lot of fascinating historical context that doesn't disregard, for instance, the manifold failures of the US along the way, particularly in its politics. I'm especially thinking of people like @Gorth and @BruceVC who might be interested to take the time (which I personally took during a work project that allowed it, but only in the listening sense).

"I got this." "Maybe I don't got this." Darnit. ...just rookie careless mistakes. Yes, that's it.

I've never understood the big concern over whether something gets blown up by Russians or Ukrainians. Whether it is a Russian attack or a Ukrainian accident doesn't change the fact that Russia is the aggressor and this is all on them.

Patch roadmap: https://community.jaggedalliance.com/index/dev-diaries/devdiary-16-patch-roadmap-r21/ Bobby Ray's incoming! On the one hand, I've really missed the shop, on the other hand, my crew is already fully decked out and I don't really have any issues with crafting the ammo I need. Since I have almost unlimited amount of money now, I fear the shop will make the game even easier. That said, I do kinda miss the early game difficulty. Rolling with 2 squads of fully geared out mercs with high skills does make the game quite easy most of the time.

For no reason whatsoever, prairie dog yahoos:

Well, in Japanese, the honorific term for someone else's wife literally means inside (the house), coming from a term that originally used to express that something is out of sight and inside (a house, or some other enclosure). Edit: It is the polite way to talk about someone else's wife, because indirect address is polite in Japanese, so basically many of the polite words - or words that used to be polite but no longer aren't - indicate the direction of someone, up to a point where the respectful word for person is "direction" with an addad modifier. Example: 日本人 (nihonjin) means Japanese (person), while the respectful variant used to talk about or adress people of higher social standing is 日本の方 (nihonnokata), meaning "from the direction of Japan". So, well, in a way it makes sense to talk about someone's wife by adding the location of where she is supposed to be if you want to be polite. Which is where women belong, after all. Back home in the house.

Not what I expected to hear. If I didn't have the visual part of the video, I'd assume that sound came from a bird rather than a mammal.

Per usual, apologies if already posted semi-recently, I don't keep track anymore. But I can confirm when you have a lot of cats (I had nine once), this can be a nightly occurrence. Fall asleep on the living room sofa at your own risk.

For no reason whatsoever, here's a zero-g cat: