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Zehir felt really oldschool to me - like playing a game from amiga era. I seems people aren't fond of it (which is understandable as it had to follow MotB), but I found it very charming.

Took a chapter out of @Azdeus' Food Heresy (tm). Pizza with kebab. I guess any Italian boardies (not sure, don't think there are any that frequent this thread) will run to mommy to cry at the sight of this, but it is pretty tasty.

I have finished NWN2 MoB and I have already summarized what I loved about this game so all that's outstanding is the anticipated and highly influential score on the " BruceVC game rating system "...it gets a sold 78/100 Now Im playing Storm of Zehir, I appreciate the new mechanics like the map and how that works and I know its going to be another rewarding Forgotten Realms D&D experience

So, art assets totally going to be generated by AI, writing absolutely, AI can code, now it will do voices too, it's like wet dream of all future bobby coticks. Wish someone replaced those f*cking suits with AI, it already has advantage over them by being literally soulless instead of metaphorically.

For the new year, I bought a new road bike. I've had my Specialized Roubaix for 6 years, and I've put 20k miles on it, along with a few major crashes. So it was definitely time for a new bike. I went with a Specialized Aethos. It's a pretty good upgrade and has the fancy electronic shifters. I love it so far. I'm still using the old bike for my commute, but the new bike will keep me happy on weekends and for races. https://www.specialized.com/us/en/aethos-comp---rival-etap-axs/p/199444?color=335127-199444

I have made thousands of posts on the Bethesda forums about how Starfield is a festering piece of **** and I have never played a minute of it.

so is an open-face gyro on pizza dough instead o' pita bread? sure. why not? ... chances are we would do chicago tavern style 'stead o' typical pizza dough, 'cause if am gonna have a gyro then why not just use a pita? am doubtful anybody is curious, but tavern style is easy to make at home 'cause the curing o' the dough is pretty much fool proof and you cook at 500 fahrenheit, so no need for a special oven. for the tavern crust, you is for all intents and purposes making failed bread, and is nothing more simple then failure. once you get a little practice at making the tavern-style dough (which admitted does involve at least an overnight step, but am finding that letting the dough over ferment/rest three days in the fridge is ideal,) you may use the resulting crust for pretty much any topping you can imagine... much like pizza, but far more simple. btw, tavern style is a guarantee win with guests who will think you did something complicated and special when in reality you chose a path o' least resistance. HA! Good Fun!

Pro-Russia statements regarding the war, I assume - https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-64580688

@majesticHonestly, I'm curious to try that pizza, in my head that sounds good. Then again, I'm one of the few people that is apathetic toward pineapple on pizza. If you put a slice of Hawaiian in front of me, I'll eat without complaint. I'd never buy it for myself, though, because I could just get a Margherita instead. The most disliked thing on pizza I regularly see is barbecue sauce. Pizza with chicken and barbecue sauce is fairly common where I live. The chicken portion of that is fine, great even, but BBQ sauce on pizza just tastes wrong to me. I see it on menus everywhere, though, so it must be at least somewhat popular. I don't find it an affront to God or anything, I just don't like it and won't eat it.

Same for me. It was actually the best part of NWN2 for me. Never played Westgate, due to the ridiculous DRM.

Like I said, if you play Factorio, going with the better CPU is a good idea...

Oh, yeah, I've always used wooden spoons/metal utensils. Hubby has this one cheap plastic wide spatula that he's had for 30 years and won't toss but otherwise. I also bought a lot more glassware/storage containers, don't heat plastic in the microwave, tried other variations of non-stick cookware that's made now and the only nonstick I'm concerned with to begin with is frying pans, everything else is non-coated metal, ceramic crockpot, all that. But almost everything non-produce in a(US) grocery store comes in plastic, wrapped in plastic, maybe a plastic inner lining coating of some sort etc. Certain things come in glass jars but not tons. My mother would always save things like plastic butter/other food containers to use over, so it wouldn't be landfill trash, and I've always done that but then now you wonder if you should be storing food in them (so I don't anymore) and ... can't win. I meant the blood-brain barrier aspect specifically, not mirco plastic/plastic contamination is harmful general. Seemed like the stuff I read where some tests were confirming particles were small enough to bypass that (vs. theory) was a few years or so old. But I didn't specifically research that, just random articles.

Door Kickers 2's CIA missions aren't that fun for me. Guess I just suck at stealth. Wish my AI soldiers would realize an enemy isn't down after 2 shots and, y'know, shoot them again but they're soldiers not US cops, so. Reminds me to check if Ready Or Not is any good.

Not yet, I need you to exercise tantric commenting. Potatoes quest update: I'm up to 41!

Yes, well, cough, when I said I did that, I meant I used the back entrance and just agreed to cooperate with Wymund, and then pillaged the dungeon. I can't remember the last time I bothered to fight my way through

Two more minutes, majestic!

Is the buzz gone? Can I complain about the 10 hours I wasted on Starfield yet?

The legal regulations might catch up, which will make most existing generative AI models effectively illegal due to the copyrighted or personal data used for training. (Generative) AI can improve many aspects of development, such as animations or speech recognition (though, I would prefer just to ditch VA in general), or NPCs behaviour, and it can improve some aspects for independent games and mods (e.g. if the developer is 1 person and can't do some things on their own), but I doubt that it will be used that way. Then again, there are already Ubisoft games that look incredibly similar to each other with all parts created by humans. I know I won't notice the difference if some of it is AI-generated.

I made Searing Fall cave and Cail solo PoTD at level 10, so if you do Dyrford before Searing Falls, I think you can beat it Edit: about Dyrford, there are Scaen Cultist who are imho worst than Searing Falls...

Gee, and here I thought I had cosmic brained Raedric's Hold by rushing to Nedmar so I can rest all I like... It all did work out on the second attempt. Did EP5 and Dyrford quests before ever going to Defiance Bay. Felt like seasoned adventurers coming in to help the puny citydwellers with their trivial problems. It won't be anytime soon, but stay tuned nonetheless for my megalomania causing me to try Searing Falls before DB too.

You don't really need those red flags in this case though, it's a Netflix article about a Netflix movie. It's hardly going to call it an ahistorical whitewash replete with bad directing and awful acting- especially if that is what it was. Haven't seen it personally though. I'm a bit more worried that Bruce seems to think the Swedes fought bravely against the Nazis than that he thinks the Danes did. A lot of german munitions were quite literally made with Swedish steel, not German. Not exactly alone in that though of course, a lot of the admin for the Holocaust was done using International Business Machines tech too for example. Or the Soviets selling heaps of stuff to the germans right up until Barbarossa launched...

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-781767 Sort of boiler plate response to Israel catching any criticism, really. I do like the idea that Israel's fighting for the whole world they've been trying. Didn't really sell for Ukraine, doubt it's going to work here.

Danny Devito could single handedly defeat the Netherbrain.

Sad state of affairs, I’m too old to remember vim vi was the editor I grew up with TeX/LaTeX compilers to create the postscript files for the printers

Hey @LadyCrimson and @Gorth! Thanks for the heads up. Testing myself, I'm noticing the same thing, which is weird as we haven't made any changes in awhile. I've reported it to the web team to take a look and see what the heck is goin on. Hopefully we can get it sorted and back up to speed soon. Thanks again for letting us know and sorry for the trouble

For Raedric's Castle I nearly always make sure to bring a Chanter with White Worms (usually that's Kana). As long as you don't reload the map and turn off the "gib" option in the game menu you can "reuse" the corpses of fallen enemies over and over again which is very effective at chokepoints where you can pile them in a small area. So what I will do is to lure enemies to a doorway, kill them there, then lure more enemies to that chokepoint, kill them with White Worms, lure more and so on. At some point whole groups will get one-shot by White Worms' multiple corpse explosions. It's the easiest way I know to clear the whole castle whithout wasting too many resources. I like to loot all the rel. expensive plate armor and other gear (which grants a lot of money so early in the game). I didn't actually try that with a solo Chanter - but I don't see why this wouldn't work solo, too.