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Troubleshooter is a good game, if you can stand some of the Asian approach to RPGs. It is a good xcom jrpg blend

Forgot to mention that I made a selfie with the top band Us Crack and music legend Kerry Eurodyne.

Yeah, nah. That semi-sentient infected ballsack did not want to prevent anything for quite some time, if ever. On the contrary, it was itching for conquest lately and the only question is how much of that was pragmatism of grabbing rich lands/keeping zone of influence and how much revanchistic delusions of grandeur of aging mediocrity of a dictator whose grip on its country had't been challenged for a long, long time. It is wary of USA, not sure how much of that is inheritance of sovietistan's archenemy -- that thing is very fond of sovietistan's "legacy" -- or deliberately constructed bogeyman for its country's people that had gotten out of hand and affected those that created it in the first place, but it's there alright. It definitely didn't think EU was a threat, and to be completely honest it was deserved - have Ukraine folded overnight, I'm certain EU would just tut disapprovingly and invoke some weak-ass excuse of "sanctions", like it was with Crimea in 2015 or Georgia in 2008. So "NATO is a threat" is just a piece of propaganda. Anyway. It's kind of funny in "really not funny at all" way that russia's blitzkrieg turned into blyatzkrieg largely because of russia's signature penchant for lying about everything all the time and corruption of immeasurable proportions. Fingers crossed they will finish the job eventually.

Well, would rate 5/10. Vivid Strike! clearly still has the best bullying revenge scene. Crunch.

"There are many like it, but this one is mine." ...finding a system that had the right fleets pop, and then the reload-grind to get the specific freighter to be actually offered, plus as over a B class was long. I got impatient re: an "S" class and settled on an "A" class. ...there are some much more unique/kewl freighters in the game I think, but I would guess they are hard to find/get. ...looks like you can build a huge modular-room base on the thing (red-lined squares in pic below are player-placed). To the point it would get annoying to run around in. But I hear getting the freighter modules/currency to unlock more/all the modular rooms/thingies for it are a serious PITA. I probably won't bother. In fact, I probably won't use it, since I'm not interested in quests/combat etc, altho who knows. But I had to have the ST/SW combo one. And now I know what they're like. 😛

Well two things can be true at the same time and this would apply to Russia and what people think about there military effectiveness but also the military threat they represent And we can use Ukraine as an example to demonstrate that, Russia didnt defeat Ukraine in 2 months and we all seen the numerous failures with there military strategies and how ineffectively they do certain things. But they have successfully destroyed cities, killed thousands of Ukrainians and continue to use missiles to attack infrastructure and spread terror And no country would want to face this, so you live in fear of a Russian attack but that doesnt mean you think there military is the problem. Its the overall strategy they will use to achieve victory. And also a small country like Estonia would not be able to create the same resistance like Ukraine so it differs from country to country So you can definitely criticize aspects of the Russian military but thats not the same thing as saying most East European countries dont have a legitimate fear of Russian invasion

Israel's part of the rules based order, so no need for that.

Tbh, I didn't mind the SW prequels either, there were some things that I didn't like but they are still miles better than the hot garbage coming out of Disney.

There was one thing in Reloaded that made watching Revolutions wholly unnecessary. The architect dropped a big ass spoiler. Only logical conclusion of Smith being the Matrix trying to correct an error by introducing balance to an equation. One cannot defeat the other, therefore, if Neo dies, so does Smith. Walked out of the theater talking to my friends how the next film is going to end with Neo's death. The two and a half hours before that, yeah, nothing of interest happened. Almost fell asleep when Morpheus fell off the van while backflipping for the fourth time, and it is really hard for me to fall alseep in bright light while hearing loud noise. To make matters worse whenever the two films are not having ludicrously drawn out action sequences, they're dipping their toes way too deep into pseudo-philosophical musings. Hey Neo, you're in Limbo. *wink* *wink* Get it? Limbo. Spelled out on the station name. Not sure what the bigger disappointment turned out to be, Matrix Reloaded or The Phantom Menace. Leaning towards the former, but that might be hindsight (not to mention viewing the prequels in an entirely different light after the sequel travesty, err, trilogy).

Of note is that Cesar E. Chavez, nominally a liberal icon, took a hardline stance on immigration who didn't shy away from using pejoratives typically associated with the MAGA crowd for his brethren across the border. The reasons I feel are beautifully elucidated in this video from Evan Hadfield:

There were 2 separate instances - the one mentioned in the article where the severance was inadequate (not related to unions) and another one where a contract with another company (Keyword Studios) was not renewed, then that company fired their unionised employees. https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/canadas-first-ever-unionised-game-staff-working-on-dragon-age-dreadwolf-have-all-been-fired I hope that the people affected will be able to protect their rights and find new employment.

As Lexx said, the NATO fear is just a bull**** excuse. If there would be any fear of NATO, Russia would never reduce their personnel and vehicle numbers by 80% after Finland Joined NATO and doubled the length of NATO borders with Russia. This is the best evidence, that Russia always knew very well, that there is absolutely no threat from NATO to them. They just want to have back their vassals, which they lost during Yeltsin's rule. 🤷‍♂️

If you really want to see the thing from the perspective of both sides, here is one more perspective from the Russian PoV, which you are still missing. At the end you have also a google translate link from Russian Media.

Just look how diplomacy with Putin worked out for Prigozhin. 🤷‍♂️ Russia plans to fight with NATO for a very long time, to get back their east eauropean colonies back. Ukraine is just the beginning. They spent 20 years of Hybrid Warfare to attack my country aswell with bribing corrupt politicians, which used our state fleet to kidnap Vietnamese businessman from Germany, and have close relations to N’Dranghetta, which have now won elections. When Ukraine falls, in 10 years or less it will be my people dying, and West will be paying much bigger bills for that…

Tesla coils, though.

I like that Steam reviews put people on my friends list at the top. @melkathi has reviewed everything. But seriously, I usually just read a few and can get a pretty decent idea if the reviews are any use. Of course the AAA just gets a lot of random haters, but it's not like those games don't have enough exposure to overcome that.

But seriously, give everyone a SSN and get them taxes rolling in.

The new companion, Penta:

Finally made it to Baldur's Gate. Time to wear normal clothes and visit the circus: Find someone who looks at you the way Karlach looks at my character: Baldur's Gate (or at least its entrance):

*drops put of warp* ... "You're not a trading ship." ... "wtf is happening."

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Imagine not wearing a spacesuit on a -30°C planet

Finished up Mandalorian Season 3. It was pretty great and I'm enjoying the focus on Mandalore. There were also a few really good standalone episodes in this one. There is an entire episode on Coruscant that really focus on two characters, and it was phenomenal. There was also a fun one with Jack Black, Lizzo, and Christopher Lloyd.