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I kinda feel now how Romans were when Caligula made his horse a senator.

My current level of energy/enthusiasm for anything.

I really love this board. Almost every day, I learn something new. Today, I have learned, that Bethesda has employees, who test their games for bugs. Who would have thought, that this is reality in this Universe

Yes, the "barely have to pay attention" is what lifts the Ranger (without Animal Companion) up over the Rogue imo who usually needs constant attention to be most effective. This maybe isn't a plus if one's considering a Ranger as the main character (I think most players even like to micromanage their MC) but as a companion or adventurer that's a good thing, especially when you have 6 party members who all might demand at least a little bit attention. That was the only reason why a tried to turn the otherwise high-micro-mgnt Monk into a low-maintenance build: It's cool to have a party member you don't need to care for and who's still very good.

90h, finished Rogue Trader. Apparently my Iconoclast utopia was not acceptable, luckily Nomos saved me, apparently. Pretty sad ending to Yrilet romance but that was a good arc. Overall fun game, finally made Argenta into a killing machine, found some bolter with exploding shells. Works well until I ended up killing Abelard with it during the last fight, whoops. As most of my first playthroughs go, didn't unlock most stuff, the uber sniper rifle I had didn't get the 30% buff due to me being well short with my Iconoclast rating, shazbot. I should replay it, but that's going to be in a while. Fatigued mentally of thinking of all those fights to redo.

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Playing Factorio Space Age. My base is spaghetti, that is just as efficient as it needs to be. I am trying to resist the urge to do the main bus base plan.

Beat the game with the DLC last week. Contemplating a new run but while I like the game more than the Pathfinder games, I don't find it as replayable... He said after beating it 4 times.

According to internet, I quite likely have many "traits" of: ADHD PTSD being somewhere "on the autism spectrum" (ASD), or whatever title is currently in fashion to use Major Depressive Order (long or maybe forever "remission" stage) or whatever they might call it now A laundry list of physical disorders A laundry list of hormonal disorders "Of course, this is not a diagnosis, but only a list of possibilities." ...is it just me, or has it reached a point in mass modern culture where everything anyone ever does is a symptom of something, that might need "fixing" or "managing?" ...maybe I am just ... me?

Allah Gold approves!

Just for the record Musk is not a particularly successful businessman. He is just, like most multimillionaires, rich enough to be effectively immune to all the stupid crap he has done to his businesses. He is more successful than Trump, but that is such a low bar you'd have to be shorter than the Planck length to limbo under it.

Ukraine has eliminated in Crimea war criminal, who has ordered a cruise missile attack on Vinnytsia city center, killing 29 civilians (https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/07/14/7358046/). He was also responsible for periodical attacks on Ukrainian cities by cruise missiles launched from Black Sea. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/11/13/7484248/

Asking for a friend... did you ever drop the bread into the fondue? edit: in case the reference is too obscure

Make it white chocolate macadamia nut cookies and hot chocolate, and maybe. Except I can't, because glucose levels. Ah well. Maybe I could try being a "whale" in some idiotic mobile game that I could play on the tablet, on the couch. *looks at some mobile games, fine print* "app purchases to $299" Uh, holy... not quite that bored (or rich), yet. Back to zombies.

Just speculation on my part now, so take with a grain of salt, solely based on Musk's personality... The first things to disappear will be things like The Occupational Health and Safety Act (too much red tape for what businesses are allowed to expose workers to), The environmental impact analysis for construction projects (who needs drinking water anyway when The Coca Cola company sells bottled water), the much hated federal minimum wage etc... (never mind that more than half the states have local minimum wage laws that are higher) because they all impede the growth of share values.

A bit of mutual back scratching. Musk purchased votes for Trump and Trump gives Musk a role where he can crack down on workers rights to make Tesla more profitable... The BBC had that story too https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cnvjr42yq39t "Donald Trump appoints Elon Musk to 'efficiency' role and Fox News host as defence secretary"... You can't make this stuff up At least Musk, unlike Trump, is a successful businessman regardless of what else (nothing of it nice) can be said about him.

pathetic victim complex want to be coddled nothing new

@Boeroer Okay, I can see what you're saying now. The Ranger's DPS after getting Twinned Arrow is very high. Sagani is feeling like one of my strongest units, and I barely have to pay attention to her. I think Bread and Butter Tier is a good spot for the class.

To be honest/fair,I don't really care what my avatar is - I don't put tons of thought into it, outside of "why can't I make this dress BLUE, darnit". At this point I barely play any games where avatar/chr even matter. In my head all player-avatars are "me" - not in terms of any real-world "representation", but I mean that I am not a purposeful role-player - thus I suppose I pick avatars that represent what I idealistically might pick out of a real closet or be attracted to in real life. Including hair styles/deco, colors, or whatever. I remember in Hogwart's, one of the youthful male avatar face options strongly reminded me of a childhood "boyfriend", which made me laugh, and I picked that one. That's about as deep as I go.

When a game doesn't have the options I like, I usually stick with whatever is the default so I don't have to make any choices. If none of my choices are good, then I might as well not make any. Meanwhile, Dark Souls:

Games should have a "random but reasonable" button. I remember trying random in Outer Worlds, and everything that came out looked like a person who just went to a punk concert and then got beaten up.

I always play exactly what I am in real life, which is a paranoid schizophrenic goth girl that likes to sneak up behind people and either gnaw off their heads or repeatedly stab them in the back. Sometimes, you just have to stick with what you're best at.

I mean how lite are we talking about? There is a bit more agency and build variety (so stuff like, will your rip open a door, or sneak in through the vent just around the corner). Side content is a bit more robust, and potentially allowing for more variety of approaches. Quest design isn't Deux Ex, though. Systems in Cyberpunk a more complex than in Witcher, but it is not a systemic game that allows for emergent solutions. And Cyberpunk is way too cinematic, to give players an objective, sandbox and let them loose. In the main quests you mainly follow objectives and watch cutscenes inbetween gameplay sections.

Well, not quite. The entire Atlantic Charter is an international treaty, and as such, if a state has "ratified" it, then they do have a legal obligation under international law to abide by its requirements. However, because it is international law, yes, there are no mechanisms available that can be used to overrule state sovereignty and compel a state to do so. In the case of the U.S., however, things are different. Per our Constitution, once the Senate has ratified a treaty, that treaty then becomes U.S. federal law. And the president is oath-sworn to uphold all federal laws. So a president can be impeached for not following through on Atlantic Charter Article 5 obligations. This is why Trump would want to withdraw us from NATO. Also @BruceVC, FYI, Article 5 has been activated once. It happened a few days after 9/11, and resulted in NATO AWACS aircraft flying patrols over NYC and DC. Subsequently, NATO's participation in the Afghanistan war was legally handled under that Article 5 activation, which was precisely why some NATO members like Germany agreed to join the NATO force there.

Article 5, does not come with written obligations, but country that fails to help in defense of another member state can as well leave the alliance, because they will most likely never themself receive aid in case they are attacked.

I typically make an avatar that reflects the way I look, right down to being bald. Of course, now that I'm much older, it can be a bit harder to find the settings that add some wrinkles and gray in the beard. It's also a bit awkward making an avatar that looks 46, and then starting the game as a young squire or whatever.

I just dropped in to take my victory lap. I believe I predicted the 47th President of the United States would be a complete idiot who has no business being put in charge of anything? Nailed it! Of course that was a bet I really couldn't lose!

Actually i think i mean MechWarrior 4 mercenaries, which came out a few years later.

There was way too much combat in the game even when there were all these massive bugs making it easier and shorter. I dread to think of playing it now, really. I'm good with my first playthrough, read the other ending slides, that'll suffice. For a long time.

This is a story about sacrifice. It is also a story about nostalgia, but more than anything, it is a story about the sacrifices gamers make. We travel back to a time of low pixel count and greenish screens – specifically the summer of 1992. The radio that summer would blast SNAP! Rythm Is a Dancer and my cousin and I, shortly before our 13th birthdays, were in summer camp on the German island of Norderney. In the evening, after lights out, with eight kids per tent, obviously nobody slept. In our tent we did two things. Firstly, one of the boys had brought terrible horror novellas, and we read those. Over thirty years later I still have nightmares. Mostly because the story did not make sense – you can’t hide a whole labyrinth inside the walls of a bell tower! The second thing was eating chocolate and other sweets. And this is where this becomes a story of sacrifice. You see, the eating was predominantly done by the other six. The two of us would initiate it, but then we’d spend the night selling our stash to the others in the tent. In retrospect, we should have found a way to expand business to the other tents, but we were not even thirteen. There was a reason to this, which had little to do with entrepreneurial spirit. The camp organizers had permitted each kid a 50DM allowance per week for the two weeks of camp. Incidentally, as my cousin pointed out, 50DM was roughly the price of a new Game Boy game. Not eating chocolate but watching others enjoy my stash was not a choice. It was a sacrifice that only gamers will understand: others would eat so I could game. Everything went well. Until the very last day. It was hot. We were on our last excursion in town, killing time until we had to get the ferry. In the (heat of the) moment we decided to grab an ice cream. The worst 3,50 I ever spent. Also, one of the worst ice creams I ever had and most likely the reason why I still do not eat lemon ice cream. It almost put me off lemonade as well. An hour before we left, I dropped to 46,50. One, horrible tasting lemon ice cream was the reason I couldn’t pay for Gargoyle’s Quest solely through the chocolate black market. Mind, the entire process did turn Gargoyle’s Quest into one of my favourite games, even though it wasn’t really my thing – too dark in tone, too much jumping around spikes. In the end, the cool green daemon on the box cover turned out to be red! That was an unexpected plot twist. It highlighted something though about descriptions and plot relevance: how often do authors abuse the fact that in written format you do not have information until they give it to you? In comics, movies, and games, you see things from the start. Unless it is a greenish Game Boy screen and after hours and hours some NPC tells you: your skin is red. Two things I remember about Gargoyle’s Quest: how I made the money to buy it and how surprised I was finding out the protagonist was red. Also, the many spikes. Three things I remember about Gargoyle’s Quest: how I made the money to buy it, how surprised I was finding out the protagonist was red, the many spikes, and the gnarly trees, the inextinguishable flames, the different breath weapons… Among the many things I remember about Gargoyle’s Quest is that it is a game literally worth it’s weight in chocolate.

Henry's coming home baby. And it's Europe's that's keeping bigger budget RPGs interesting. On that note, I've restarted The WItcher 3... and this is the first time it clicked. I had a beef with so much of the quests being railroady, the simple systems/combat, and all that. Additionally, Ciri isn't really properly introduced (never read the books), but still made the hook of the story, the damsel to hunt after. Never really worked much for me. This time I focused on the side content, adjusted the difficulty and skilled differently (which made combat more tactical) -- and even found a few alternative solutions to a quest here and there that wasn't spoilt by markers. (F'r instance, you can find the bandit hideout in Novigrad simply by listening to dialogues and following the clues, as opposed to doing what the quest log encourages you to do, step by step... so much more immersive!) I'm in now truly though. Novigrad looks like I'd always pictured Riva in my head way back on my Pentium 75.

It really sounds straight out of Backstroke of the West

I'm fairly sure the target isn't corruption, but as mentioned in article, get rid of regulations and rules (for business conduct). Say welcome to a new social class, the serfs, in the US Edit: Let's be honest, Musk is not known to care about his employees beyond squeezing every last drop of life force out of them and then discard them. Claiming anything else is being deliberately obtuse

Been dealing with a bug that's had me laid up for a few days. I don't have a temperature so it's probably not the COVID, fortunately. Can't wait until it goes away though.