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Ok, you guys are did it, i ll try priest/barbarian. Here we go 50th run...1 point
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I am about 20 hours into W3 EE and this was my 2nd best favourite RPG of all time but now Im using the mods but particularly a complex overhaul mod called W3EE Redux https://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/5802 Its been fantastic so far and W3 EE and several mods improves and expands on everything I wanted. W3 EE comes with its own built-in mods like All Quest Objectives on MAP The hardest part for me was getting use to the Controller and its mechanics like assigning and using bombs and potions but I am comfortable with all that now I did have to learn basic Script Merger functionality which is necessary to install W3EE Redux and how you need to merge certain files when you first install it but the W3EE Redux documentation explains how you do this I did have one bug with a weight increase mod that caused my vigor to stop regenerating but I uninstalled it and used another weigh increase mod and that worked fine And my game so far is very stable and everything is working as expected, Im doing all the side quests in White Orchid before I go kill the Griffin I really appreciate and prefer open-world RPGS, I am a huge fan of exploration and finding Easter eggs and random points of interest1 point
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Moscow bomb kills pro-Russia paramilitary leader | Russia | The Guardian1 point
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It's not just that they're overengineered, they were often made out of cast iron instead of aluminium, and since production tech wasn't as good they had greater tolerances. Add in that lubricants has become much better during their lifetime ontop of that and you're there. My engine is at 470k kms and was built in 1998, and has been well taken care of, and the bores are pretty much immaculate in that thing, and it's a B230 designed in 1974 with an improvement made in 1985 for better lubrication.1 point
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Yeah for sure we've tied ourselves to the Americans too much, but I guess on some level alliances should matter somewhat. Also the fact is, I'm not really sure Canada is really harming the US in any way. They send their drugs and guns to us, we send them some drugs and illegals back, but hardly a crisis issue. As the WSJ said, this is the dumbest trade war - https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-tariffs-25-percent-mexico-canada-trade-economy-84476fb21 point
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EU car issue is that countries decided to stop subsidizing buying new cars, because it was seen as supporting rich people and when you combine it with increasing energy prices especially in Germany, it create situation where European car makers were producing expensive cars that people didn't have money to buy which was already problem them and then Chinese manufactures started to increase their imports thanks to subsidies that they receive from their government. So EU was in hard place where they had with their actions caused their car manufactures be in bad competitive situation and they can't even give subsidies because they are currently unpopular, so tariffs were only way to ensure that Chinese producers can't take much of market when European manufactures adjust, as most of them already have cheaper electric cars in their pipelines, but for most they are coming out 2026 or 2027. So in EU case tariffs were specific to answer in specific problem. In US case tariffs are general, which effect is harder to predict, but they most likely will not help US that much as their manufactures supply lines rarely are just in US and as Mexico, Canada and China are not just their biggest trading partners but main suppliers for many products that US manufactures use, tariffs will most likely cause need to increase prices of products produced in US also, not only imported products. And as US workforce is expensive and tariffs aren't universal, companies will move their manufacturing facilities in countries that aren't targeted by tariffs. Chinese companies have in past moved their production in countries like Vietnam when Chinese products are targeted with tariffs. And some companies do virtual moves to US, like Mercedes that circled US tariffs by having facility in US where they shipped cars manufactured in Germany in parts and they had single robot line that put them together in US and claimed that they were build in US.1 point
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What has been going on in DC this weekend :1 point
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Or maybe they don't want to talk about their actual reason because they don't want to get in to it with you. Here in Serbia for the longest time the "right" was a silent majority. When you talked with the fiery left about voting they always were confused about not know anyone who voted for the right. Well yeah, because people don't care about you enough to get in to a discussion, especially when they see you are looking for a fight. The real reasons people are voting for a different option are obvious enough, the migrants and the economy. There isn't a year that goes by that you don't hear about someone driving a vehicle through a crowd of people or something similar. The economy is down in the dumps without any outlook for improvement. Euribor is sky high, the sanctions on Russia are hurting the EU more then they are the Russians. People want to be secure and well fed, that's always been the main voting motivator.1 point
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The wars, by and large, haven't been terrible for the US though. If they were they'd stop having so many. They cost money that goes on the fantasy pay back pile, a lot of people make a lot of money from them and, by and large, those who suffer most are people who aren't important. Problem is that those jobs aren't going to move back to the US, certainly not long term. The economy is based on buying cheap pap from overseas, not expensive guff from the US; making the overseas pap expensive isn't magically going to turn Detroit back into a thriving industrial powerhouse, it will just make everything expensive. To believe the Trump response requires the parallel belief that every other US President has been a malign actor deliberately stiffing their own country for the benefit of those overseas. Someone working 16 hour days in a Bangladeshi sweat shop making shoes or T shirts probably isn't that happy about it, but you're never going to get an american able to make T shirts to sell at 5 bucks a piece. You can only get an american to compete selling them at maybe $15 bucks a piece. Which will have an awful effect on poorer people who need those cheap shirts and will find their clothing bill and food bills going up significantly to be the last straw. Contrastingly, it's also 'bad' if too many poorer people get jobs due to all the illegal immigrants getting biffed out since that drives wage inflation which further drives prices up... Don't get me wrong, the orthodox economic model is awful, but it's the way it is for a reason. And when it comes to heavy industry type stuff coming home, well, to put it in perspective: nearing 3 years of a supposed existential crisis and with something as simple to make as artillery shells and it's still too hard to, uh, hit the targets. As always, the proper troll option is to buy French nuclear subs.1 point
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If I didn't want to deal with either Serafen's departure or picking up one benevolent point then I'd just leave. Btw: one benevolent decision doesn't influence your stats yet if that's for first time - unless it's a major one. Don't remember in this case, but it could well be that your disposition counter won't change yet. You could check on you character sheet under the right tab before and after. Then you can see it as "what do I care if people interpret this as benevolent?" You could also argue that you do Berath a service (saving a Death Godlike) - she's your ultimate task giver in this game.1 point
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"I need a quick store run, better make a short list since I'll forget something otherwise." "diet soda, yogurt, frozen veggies, almond flour" *walk away, remember something, better add it, look at list* What I actually wrote: "shadow, yoda, tundra, diamond floor" WTF brain.1 point
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Due to the increasing return of (most) speed bonuses in PoE, ranged recovery while running with Shot on the Run used to be faster than regular standing recovery. Don't know if that was ever patched. Iirc it's the same even in Deadfire (with linear speed bonus returns). It's only nuances, but it's faster than standing still I believe.1 point
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Successful marketing where they blame issues to some population that isn't really blame of those issues, but it is easier to sell than trying to tell that in past we have collected too little pension money, which now causes issues because population does not grow but gets older causing increase of both pension and health service expenses And failure to increase value of goods and services that we export, causing problems when it comes to increasing salaries in such extend that inflation has started to eat people's purchasing power. Failure to act on research about changing climate in past 50 years, which has lead to need to try find fast ways to fix infrastructure and policies that are designed to different kind of climate Failure to understand we can't lean single supplier in important products like fertilizers, gas and oil. Failure to see that tying large parts of economy to few big companies is as dangerous if not even more dangerous than tying it to public sector, because it both makes difficult to refocus economy if there is global issue and people's livelihood is tied to entity which they don't have any say over. Failure to see that we need to invest to future not pump billions and billions to sectors that are dying, even if that would cause short term problems. Failure to understand that short term gains from privatizing public infrastructure will lead to monopolies that will cause issues Failure to ensure bureaucracy of people immigrating to work does not prevent creation of jobs and cause people to go else where. System where seeking asylum is easiest way to get residence but with prohibition to work, will lead situation where migrants are see only as burden. Failure to create rules to prevent tax havens, unchecked imports, equal postal fees, need to have same standards for imported goods than domestically produced goods have, have same refund rules for imported goods than domestic goods, have equal tariffs. Failure to have coherent clear foreign policies that are same for all and lots of other issues.0 points
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"Even if Trump is elected, nothing will change," said the stupid bastard.0 points