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This will be my last post about this topic, probably for a long while, because I am tired of it explaining it again and again, and this is not a correct thread as well. You know, I am a member of progressive political party with a seat in municipial office, and our political party has now pretty nice sample, why we lost last two national elections. So I am not talking out of my ass, when I say, when you push to much your ideology, you will start getting more and more resistance within your own moderate electorate, who are in the core your allies, but they simply do not want to be called all different kind of insults, because they also happen to be religious. And all this is for more than a decade fueled by Russian propaganda, which is turning this into extremes. My own parents are religious, and they are always voted for a political parties who support marriage for everyone, despite that, there are people in my party and a lot our supporters, who call even people like them bigots, and this insults me. And as a consequences of these actions, we have lost a lot of center and center right voters, and becuase of that, we are now slowly turning into Belarus 🤷‍♂️ I have very similar experience with my close friends, who changed their voting preferences during the last days, because they either felt insulted by some of our “fans” or they read some russian propaganda piece on Facebook. And all of this happend, because we have pushed in some topics to much, and the same happened in USA, as the mind of the human being is everywhere the same. Thankfuly our party has the data now, and we started to cooperate with more moderate personas, and using more moderate language. This in turn led to our party losing our most hardcore “fans” but the total number of voters have risen in the latest polls. Our political views are still the same, everyone knows it, but the people prefer the “milder” conversation. Some liberal people really loves to live in their bubble, looking down at everyone who is not 100% aligned with their worldvuew, but if they want to change the world for the better, they first have to understand, that they need allies in the conservative spectrum as well, as they will be always in the minority, if staying alone. Else there would never happened things like laws allowing marriage for everyone in extremely religious countries like Spain or Ireland 🤷‍♂️ So yeah, people now have two gamechanging options, either stopping to call their potential allies with all kind of names, when they do not share their worldview (you can see many of such insults even in this thread), or keep acting surprised how the populist and far right movements fuelled by Russian propaganda get more and more popular among general population 🤷‍♂️ And yes, the Russian propaganda works overtime in gaming world as well, because they are very well aware, how big population of the western world has gaming as their most beloved hobby. And many of the “outrage” youtubers are directly paid by them (and maybe to your surprise, they pay them on both sides to further the grow the divide). I will be on my way now as well…

Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. ~Mike Tython Luckily (?), weve been in a constant state of warfare for the last 20-something years so were kinda good at it. What we really need to do is revitalize the US industrial base. Blot out the very sun with cruise missile swarms!

My passion project sees the light of day! What can you do with it? Create builds! Export/import them! Make a build, press Summarize, then use one of the copy buttons below. Look at what abilities do! Mouse over icons on desktop; press icons on mobile/tablet. I don't have any inside info - the data is from fansites and videos - so there are some assumptions behind it that may not be correct: You get one point per level, starting at 2. There are no bonus skill points. The level cap is 25. This I'm pretty sure of, because there is no level 25 tier (which there should be if the cap were 30 or higher), but Iron Fists rank 4 requires level 25. You don't have to spend ability points as soon as you get them. You can hoard them. You can wait until you're level 20 and then learn all level 20 abilities at once. Therefore, the calculator lets you skip levels/hoard points if you turn off strict mode. As a result of these assumptions, there is a maximum of 24 points you can spend in my calculator. This may very well be wrong, so don't take it as gospel. I would love to know if you know/think differently! I have faithfully copied the data as written, other than fixing a few typos here and there, but the following are probably not correct: Rank 2 Corrosive Siphon can permastun an enemy. Freezing Pillar, Blackbow and Pull of Eora can be learned without finding them in a grimoire. These are the only spells that require Grimoire Mastery without having to be learned from a grimoire. I expect they do in fact need to be learned from a grimoire. Sniper is 25% for all ranks. Looking at other passives that are 25% at rank 1, it's probably supposed to be 25%/40%/50% or 25%/35%/40%. And now for some questions you may have about the tool... I want to make a max level build and/or not worry about build order. Turn off strict mode. I exported, but didn't get the build order I had in mind. When you play around and reduce skill levels while in strict mode, the calculator will try to keep your build intact and valid rather than force you to start over, but it cannot always figure out the order when you do this. If you want to be sure it gets the order right, start over and only increase skills to get your build. If you didn't lower any skills while building and the order still ended up wrong, do let me know. I can't increase this skill, why? You've spent all 24 points, the skill has no more ranks, you're missing a pre-requisite (Grimoire Mastery or Unbreakable), or you're in strict mode and taking the skill would cause you to skip levels. I can't lower this skill, why? It's a pre-requisite (Grimoire Mastery or Unbreakable) for a skill you still have. Get rid of that skill first. I have an issue with the calculator. What should I do? Post it here! I have a suggestion for the calculator. What should I do? Post it here! I have made a build that I want to talk about. What should I do? Post it! But not here. Give your build the space it deserves with its own thread!

i'm not aware of any guides, but it's relatively easy to sneak past the first island. i did so in my ultimate run (put it at 2x speed and skip like the first 10 minutes or so): i'm sure other ultimate video runs (if you can find them) will also feature sneaking on the first island, because it's frankly not worth the risk or the time to take on some of the big unnecessary fights. edit: if it's just a matter of being unenjoyable at low level, there's a berath's blessing that starts you off at level 4, have you given that a try?

If they don't understand it, why is it an issue, that's the thing. Really, they should sell anti Woke DLC that removes whatever Woke is this week. Might as well monetize the fragility

And that is why we can't get more Tron stuff.

Blizzard’s pulling of Warcraft I & II tests GOG’s new Preservation Program - Ars Technica

Somebody got into the glue...

I didn't realize back then, how ugly those guys were. They look more like the Bloodhound Gang or the Jackass Crew to me, now.

Bump, set, spike...the transgender advantage would be specifically in spiking? What we really need to be focused on is the volleyball shorts theyre wearing. Poor girls are going to catch a yeast infection like that.

but all of my passion for gaming died over a decade ago i am just a withered husk of my former self

Dark Souls 3 felt quite easy to me. I almost breezed through the main game. Not sure if the game is just generally easier, or if I suffered so much through Dark Souls 2 that my motoric skills improved a lot. On the other hand, for some reason I also burned out from the series a lot with it. Bought the DLC but never actually even started it. Took me a long time to get back to Souls games... actually Bloodborne a couple years later was what brought me back. Probably because it felt so very different. Oh, by the way. Not sure if I mentioned it, but I'm not in Bloodborne NG+. Just finished off Amelia and nibbled on the Hunters Nightmare already a little bit. Though I'm not sure if I can do that one again now... Facing the Orphan of Kos (some say, Kosm...) is not something I'm looking forward to at all. Especially not in NG+.

Nope not really, last time I played it was GTA San Andreas or what was the name. I spend probably 10-15 hours on it, and then became bored. Same for many other "open world" games. The tasks keep extremely repetitive and numb after few hours...

Unfortunately no. I find such games extremely boring 🤷‍♂️

^ Looks like that Indy game is going to require a GPU that is RT capable. They are listing 2060Super and Ryzen 5 3600 (for 1080) and specifically mention "gpu hardware ray tracing required." To be clear, that does not equal "needing" full blown fancy bling ray tracing being "on", but that they are using RT tech for their basic lighting/illumination or something like that, with no other lighting tech method offered, thus gpu has to support that tech. Wouldn't surprise me if AAA games all start going that way before too long. edit: I guess dev's may also like the RT lighting tech vs. older methods (I hear it's easier/simpler for them or some such? don't quote me, could be wrong)