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Here's a more complete list of the loot tables in Raedric's hold that I Tracked while searching for the Gloves of Manipulation: Raedric's Hold Dungeon (Hidden Floor Tile): Ring of Overseeing (1 Fonprima) Ring of Overseeing (2 Fonprima) Minor Gauntlets of Accuracy (3 Fonprima) Ring of Searing Flame (4 Fonprima) Boots of Stealth (5 Fonprima) Boots of Stealth (6 Fonprima) Ring of Overseeing (7 Fonprima) Boots of Stability (8 Fonprima) Rymrgand's Mantle (9 Fonprima) Cape of Withdraw (10 Fonprima) Cape of Deflection (11 Fonprima) Ring of Overseeing (12 Fonprima) Boots of Evasion (13 Fonprima) Boots of Evasion (14 Fonprima) Cape of Deflection (15 Fonprima) Cape of Withdraw (16 Fonprima) Gloves of Manipulation (17 Fonprima) Amulet of Health (18 Fonprima) Healing Hands (19 Fonprima) Minor Bracers of Deflection (20 Fonprima) Raedric's Hold Dungeon (Trapped Chest on SW Table) Ring of Overseeing (1 Fonprima) Ring of Overseeing (2 Fonprima) Ring of Overseeing (3 Fonprima) Gauntlets of Minor Accuracy (4 Fonprima) Cape of Withdraw (5 Fonprima) Rymrgand's Mantle (6 Fonprima) Boots of Stability (7 Fonprima) Blunting Belt (8 Fonprima) Minor Bracers of Deflection (9 Fonprima) Cape of Deflection (10 Fonprima) Blunting Belt (11 Fonprima) Rymrgand's Mantle (12 Fonprima) Ring of Overseeing (13 Fonprima) Boots of Stability (14 Fonprima) Boots of Stability (15 Fonprima) Rymrgand's Mantle (16 Fonprima) Healing Hands (17 Fonprima) Blunting Belt (18 Fonprima) Minor Bracers of Deflection (19 Fonprima) Stalker's Torc (20 Fonprima) Raedric's Hold Roof (Hidden Crate): Ring of Searing Flame (20 Majprima) Boots of Evasion (1 Fonprima) Boots of Stability (2 Fonprima) Minor Cloak of Protection (3 Fonprima) Ring of Unshackling (4 Fonprima) Raedric's Hold Main Floor (Trapped Chest by Bed): Boots of Stealth (20 Majprima) Gauntlets of Accuracy (1 Fonprima) Cape of Deflection (2 Fonprima) Blunting Belt (3 Fonprima) Ring of Searing Flame (4 Fonprima) Ring of Unshackling (5 Fonprima) Belt of Bountiful Healing (6 Fonprima) Belt of Bountiful Healing (7 Fonprima) Boots of Stealth (8 Fonprima) Ring of Searing Flames (9 Fonprima) Gauntlets of Accuracy (10 Fonprima) Raedric's Hold Main Floor (Locked Chest on SW Table): Belt of Bountiful Healing (1 Fonprima) Boots of Stability (2 Fonprima) Ring of Overseeing (3 Fonprima) Rotward Amulet (4 Fonprima) Blunting Belt (5 Fonprima) Rotward Amulet (6 Fonprima) Rymrgand's Mantle (7 Fonprima) Boots of Evasion (8 Fonprima) Rymrgand's Mantle (9 Fonprima) Rotward Amulet (10 Fonprima) Ring of Overseeing (11 Fonprima) Amulet of Health (12 Fonprima) Minor Cloak of Protection (13 Fonprima) Blunting Belt (14 Fonprima) Minor Cloak of Protection (15 Fonprima) Torc of the Falcon's Eye (16 Fonprima) Minor Cloak of Protection (17 Fonprima) Belt of Bountiful Healing (18 Fonprima) Boots of Evasion (19 Fonprima) Boots of Evasion (20 Fonprima) Raedric's Hold Dungeon (First Locked Chest Just inside Entryway): Plate Armor (1 Fonprima)

USC - Counterforce First Impressions. I knew going into USC that it was a UFO/XCOM style game on the heavier end. Still, I did not expect it to be this heavy. I tried firing up a campaign and the game prompted me to play the tutorial. I like playing tutorials, so I did. Two crew on a spaceship, a tech and a medic, go to fix some tech stuff. The medic isn't strictly needed, as she points out, but regulations are that no-one ever does anything alone. It seems they have watched enough movies to know you don't walk along a spaceship alone. In short order you learn how to walk, how to open doors, how to use a device in your inventory to fix machinery, how to use another device to unlock a locked door, how to use a blowtorch to breach a sealed door. How to pick up loot. How to equip the gun you looted, reload it, then split ammunition with your squad member. How to jump over environmental hazards, how to shoot and swap between different weapon modes. How to overwatch. How to extract from a mission. Then you learn how to set up a squad before a mission. How to equip the each member. How to train them. Some rudimentary bits about specializations. You learn about different weapon types, directional armor, crouching so people can fire over the soldier in front of them. About AoE and things going boom. And when you then click "Start New Campaign" the game informs you that perhaps you should play some one off skirmishes and all the different game modes first, to ensure you know what the hell all the bits are. I said "Nah, I am good." The campaign puts you in orbit of a planet, with 24 soldiers under your command, to split into squads as you see fit. With (what seems like) loads of starting cash. And with a whole planet where you can drop into any region you like. No hand holding, after all, you were warned. GLHF So I backed out into the main menu and have started a base defense one off. Hold off against 10 waves or earn at least 10.000 detherium or what it's called. 40 minutes later, we have wiped out wave 1. We have ~5400 of the stuff. I spend all my cash reinforcing the base. Maybe I should have saved some to drop some supply crates with ammo boxes. But if we survive wave 2, at the rate I extract, we can evacuate with the resources and write it up as a win. Recommended for: People who want a UFO game that has an action for every interaction you can think of. People who know that obviously the scanner for bio signals can't be simply re calibrated to scan for minerals. Obviously you need a different scanner for that. And a third scanner for other stuff. People who realize that the most important thing you can learn is the thirst for knowledge, not knowledge itself. As Gotthold Lessing would have said: "It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man." This game has a tutorial that teaches you everything it can, then leaves you needing to learn more. And more. So this game is recommended to those who want the values of Enlightenment in their gaming.

Honestly, if you massacre every living being, eventually you will kill someone you pretended to have been a target all along.

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-824901 @Gfted1 Here are some details around how Mossad was able to implement the pager attack on Hezbollah Very interesting

Yeah, first screen when starting a new campaign is not overwhelming at all.

Speaking of XCOM type games. I just started the tutorial of USC: Counterforce. If you don't hear from me - send help.

Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense. Because it's still an awesome concert/stage/performance piece. Of course, one has to like Talking Heads music. Which I do. Some of his dance moves, however, seem even more oddball/amusing today than it did back then.

I don't know if the US will directly attack Iran, but I'd say it's a lot more likely now. Whatever the case, it's almost certain that US bombs will hit Iran via Israel, and given Israel's actions over the last year I'd be surprised if they didn't target civilians. And not to lionize Iran or anything, but this "unprecedented" missile barage hit all military targets, which is a pretty notable difference than Israel's massacre in Gaza or invasion of Lebanon. Iirc, Iran said it would light every oil field in the region on fire if its oil was targeted.

One of those things you're not meant to remember: Sinwar was supposed to have all the remaining hostages around him as human shields. Strange they haven't mentioned finding any. (He's very likely dead, but also very likely killed ages ago and not in the situation suggested. It's exactly the sort of thing you save up for a PR release when you've had a bad week of publicity)

https://www.gamepressure.com/newsroom/arma-4-with-release-window-bohemia-interactive-will-severely-test/z57428 2027 for Arma 4, possibly.