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I started playing Disco Elysium. I put on most of my clothes. Reached for my tie which was on a ceiling fan, then had a heart attack and died and went to the game over screen. That counts as completing a playthrough right?

been a while since last seen anyone talk about kannagi barely remember anything about it but the art style are certainly aged well compare to most

https://www.reuters.com/science/scientists-find-strongest-evidence-yet-life-an-alien-planet-2025-04-16/

I think you can die even earlier than that if you pick the right (wrong) options in the first dialogue. (Not the earliest death in a game in any case, if you play Kingdom Come in hardcore mode you have a 90% chance of dying from measles/ childbirth/ smallpox/ typhoid/ cholera/ whooping cough/ plague/ misadventure/ non specific infection immediately after leaving the main menu. You even get an achievement for it)

clarification, 'cause we got a few folks who reflexive blm whenever protests is mentioned. am suspecting in the coming months we will be told how george bush used the insurrection act in 1992 to send troops to help end riots in los angeles. a key point to recollect is that the governor o' california in 1992 requested assistance o' fed troops. converse, during the summer 2020 riots, no state governor or legislature asked for fed assistance. trump did not use the insurrection act in 2020 to kidnap people off o' the streets o' portland and whisk 'em away to be temporary "imprisoned" and interrogated w/o assistance o' counsel offered. william barr, arguable evil but most certain not dumb, found a loophole and because citizens detained were never charged with anything, they could not bring civil rights claims against the fed government. the thing is, 'cause trump didn't use the insurrection act, he could not mobilize the military, and we don't have a national police force capable o' mass arrests. in 2020, the fed had to use disguised ice agents to do the white panel van operation. project 2025 and trump has both threatened to use the insurrection act regardless o' state desires. so not the same. have tried to explain this previous... ordinarily it is up to the states to decide whether to request fed troop assistance. is extreme few recent examples o' the fed not responding to state requests and sending in troops and the only post ww 2 examples we can think o' off hand is when Presidents sent troops to the south to protect school kids post brown v. board o' education, or when they ordered military to protect protesters from state governments related to mlk assassination, the aforementioned brown v. board and the civil rights act legislation. send troops into, just as rando examples, california, illinois, oregon or washington, to quell violence w/o state approval woulda' been viewed as unthinkable even by J. Rhenquist and the Court in 1992. today? am thinking trump gots a near guaranteed two votes no matter how outrageous the argument put forward by the government. am concerned any kinda violence by protesters is gonna be used as an excuse to do more illegal and impossible. in the summer o' 2020 we had more than a few folks on these boards buying into a conjured narrative o' chaos and violence supplied by fox news to legitimize white panel vans in portland and other nonsense. trump wanted to shoot lafayette square protesters in 2020. what do you think happens when something similar happens with trump 2.0? btw, a handful o' republicans in Congress voting with democrats could stop most o' this insanity, but so far the only thing moving the needle on trump's public opinion is his efforts to tank the world economy and the resulting damage done to the 401ks o' many o' his voters. so wrong. is freaking the 1920s-1930s all over again. HA! Good Fun!

evidence old dogs may learn new tricks. am having spent many cumulative hours cleaning steel baking sheets after cooking. chicken fat is mild annoying, but sugars is especial tough to remove and am having used bar keeper's friend enough to eliminate our fingerprints when am too lazy to wear gloves in an effort to get rid o' carbon scoring. maintained as shiny as lancelot's armour from excalibur. we do have a few o' grandma's baking sheets, which look like cast iron pans with all the built up residue on 'em, but we rare used 'em 'cause they are complete flat and have no rims... save two smallish round sheets which were almost non functional for everyday uses. ... 'bout a year ago we tested grandma's compared to our shiny sheets. grandma wins for all but cookies or similar. the cast-iron black pans work far better for roasting protein and vegetables and they is virtual non-stick... almost, but not quite. roasted veggies come out particular fantastic on the blackened pans. have spent the past year effective seasoning most o' our baking sheets and metal cooking pans. HA! Good Fun!

our response is gonna be unsatisfactory. There is a Constitutional crisis if scotus says there is a Constitutional crisis. in the garcia case, the issue o' most immediate concern, the Court did their effectuate v. facilitate silliness and so there is just enough ambiguity that the executive may implausible but perhaps legal realistic claim confusion. https://www.stevevladeck.com/p/143-the-state-of-play-in-the-abrego highly recommended read. not too long. if you still have questions after reading, ask us and we will explain sans most o' the legal stuff. by the way, more than a couple dems makes it tough to take 'em serious if trump does explicit ignore the courts and they then complain. rules for thee but not for me. concerning to us personal, and no doubt confusing given our recent posts, is the fact all o' the legal debate ignores the more important questions o' right v. wrong. yeah, we must not ignore due process to get bad guys such as tren de aragua/ms-13 members... or trump, but debates over legal ignores far more important and fundamental questions o' right v. wrong. so much o' what trump is doing (has already done) should be seen as wrong/immoral/unthinkable by all those salt-of-the-earth christian americans who vote for trump regardless o' whether a court decides he can legal do. by constant debating the legalities, people are able to ignore the more important and fundamental questions o' right and wrong. worse, at some point people replace "right" with "legal" and the two is most assured not synonymous. slavery were legal for a long time. until more recent, it were legal impossible to sexual assault your wife. purchasing and displaying foam fingers at sporting events is legal, but we all know it is wrong. call out the wrong is a moral duty even if not a legal one. yeah, too many ignore due process when it suits 'em but even more sit quiet or only complain via text or post when they nevertheless witness wrongs being done. as we noted already, obama used the espionage act and other means to target fox reporters and tea party members. such were wrong then even when it were legal. you think trump is gonna show same "restraint" as the obama administration? a couple years past we noted how even after the Court ruled that use o' testimony induced by torture o' non citizens not on US soil were legal admissible if obtained pre trial, the biden administration vowed it would not do such a thing, declaring such acts repugnant. 'course is nothing stopping trump from ignoring biden's conscience. right. v legal. read the 2025 project and as each week passes, the trump administration checks off a new item from the authoritarian to-do list... and we ain't even three months in as o' today. we did think that the alien enemies act would be invoked and used sooner by trump, but he will get around to targeting individual american citizens before he finishes up with law firms and universities. so, we are most certainly already in a crisis situation, but until the Court says we got a Constitutional crisis, we don't, 'cause they were purposeful obtuse/vague. HA! Good Fun! ps speaking o' what trump may do to US citizens on US soil, before he ships 'em off to cecot, am suspecting the administration is purposeful trying to provoke summer 2020 kinda protests. have already mentioned the espionage act as a way to target reporters and likely lawyers, but the insurrection act is also a possibility. bush used the insurrection act in 1992 to send troops to la to quell riots. project 2025 anticipates the use o' the insurrection act and such should be chilling given the way they have bent and twisted the alien enemies act. also recall that when teslas were set on fire, trump claimed such were terrorist acts. as we has warned numerous times, identify a person or organization as a terrorist is a way to diminish due process rights, which is why we always balk at legal using domestic terrorist language. if somebody burns a tesla or poops in pelosi's desk, get 'em for vandalism or whatever is appropriate, but tack on terrorist label just to reduce due process strikes us as dangerous. tween insurrection act, patriot act and espionage act, trump is gonna have legal tools to disappear people or use the military to suppress 'em.

I think he got fed up with forum software issues back when it was really bad

Hello everyone, If you are, like me, obsessed with ticking boxes when you finish somethign and seeing how much there is still left to do, you might be interested in a little spreadsheet I made for quests for POE. I am playing it for the first time ever now. (i know, but better late then never). If you would like to grab it its attached here. Please bare in mind its pretty much just a copy paste from the wiki. If there is any mistakes let me know. POE QUEST TRACKER.xlsx

@Gromnir Glad to see you!

so, you aren't gonna admit you were talking out your piehole in regards to claims we dismissed the threat trump posed? typical. again, is Gromnir who pointed out time and time again that trump did illegal and s'posed impossible many times during his first term, but people kept pretending as if the next improbable were too unlikely to consider. we warned 'bout the second term precise 'cause the law failed to stop all but the worst o' trump efforts in term one. am still baffled by the the trump derangement syndrome folks, pretending as if trump is normal. even so we got no excuse for lexx clowning. makes stuff up and when confronted with mistakes via multiple posts where Gromnir said opposite o' what you claimed, you deflect. aside, trump were never gonna be tried for inciting the insurrection for reasons we has stated ad nauseum... first amendment stuff. his january 6 case, which looked extreme strong before the immunity ruling and were not dead after the ruling, were not 'bout incitement. the january 6 case were hinging on the scheme to use fraudulent slates of electors to force the individual state legislatures to decide the Presidential election. legal stuff. btw, we have had folks run for President from prison and such were perfect legal. the fact trump were able to become President in spite o' convictions and incitement is not only legal, but it is freaking democratic. The People voted for trump. maybe you didn't listen when we said the first half dozen times or so, but informed y'all that sentencing for felonies and even prison would would not necessarily prevent trump 2.0. somehow you heard opposite? *chuckle* The People voted against Socrates btw; is an education fail that so many forget such, eh. the athenians had a pure democracy, so were no need for a separate court system or a divided legislature as well as an executive. for the athenians, every trial were a popularity contest. and am fine with throwing guilty republicans and democrats in prison, but if you ignore the law, then next thing you know, it is ok to send people to a dystopian prison in el salvador without due process for no other reason than that the current administration says the folks disappeared deserved it. they deserved it or they are bad, is not enough. eventually, somebody in power might decide lexx or Gromnir is bad. we spent a career representing people we disliked who had views we abhorred-- kkk, cultists, gang members, progressives. *shudder* the only speech, religious beliefs and associations which need protection is those which offend the majority. example: mlk never achieved even 50% popularity with the american public during his lifetime, and he were also disappeared (briefly) by the government. most americans once considered the naacp were to be a threat. lexx and Gromnir shouldn't be the ones deciding who deserves the protection o' the law. definite not lexx. as an aside, there is current too many legal issues o' Constitutional import for us to cliff's notes 'em all... and we have been a bit busy. maybe take a stab at Gromsplaining one or two cases before we personal get gulaged. HA! Good Fun!

malc and lexx is, as usual, full o' it... first, the link by malc is a Gromnir defense o' US First Amendment. trump keeps losing first amendment cases and he is needing use backdoor efforts to kill radio america and npr-- staffing and budget cuts. purposeful avoiding the viewpoint or content discrimination which triggers easy first amendment claims. our first amendment observations comparing US and euro free speech differences is hardly representing a claim that trump shenanigans is impossible. receipts (particular relevant as malc were one o' the jokers claiming trump had to know he couldn't contest the election results.) *snort* this next one is from january 5, 2021 and ... time and again we warned trump were doing illegal and that the only way to stop him were Congress, Courts and voters. Congress refused to convict even after january 6 and voters chose to bring the convicted felon back to office after scotus decided to give trump immunity. the Courts? Courts has been hit and miss. we warned time and again. contrary to lexx revisionist history, we fully embraced our cassandra role. however, we will observe that we did says it would be a mistake to break law just to "get" trump. used the 'bove more than once. get trump w/o due process is same excuse trump is using to send venezuelans to a dystopian hellhole in el salvador. immigrant gang members don't deserve due process, right? his supporters don't care if trump is doing illegal 'cause he is going after the bad guys. is also why we found navalny's murder repugnant in spite o' fact we disliked the russian. they are bad guys and don't deserve the protection o' the law. they is commies, ms-13, tren de aragua, japanese during ww2. they is navalny. they is trans athletes. they is ________. oh, and democracy ain't gonna save you from tyranny. democracy got you jim crow laws passed legal. over the years, democracy got you any number o' horrific US eugenics and nativist laws . democracy got you trump reelected. the terrible tragedy is not so much that trump were a threat to democracy but rather he represents one o' the great flaws o' democracy. the First Amendment, and much o' the Constitution, is enumerating the LIMITS on US democracy. due process, right to trial, prohibitions on unreasonable searches and seizures, etc. is all limits on democracy. democracy is better than the alternatives, but the law is one o' our few remaining defenses against a democratic elected President coupled with a democratic elected but complicit Congress. is not a perfect defense 'cause trump keeps doing illegal and Congress won't stop him, but so far it is the only thing that prevents this administration from sending folks such as chris krebs, jeffery goldberg or Gromnir to CECOT w/o due process. getting the bad guys the wrong way is worse than letting 'em go free. for chrissakes, trump 2.0 should make that painful clear. btw, obama used the espionage act to go after numerous whistleblowers and reporters he didn't like. we complained. we thought obama's use o' the espionage act were dystopian. just 'cause it were fox reporters being jailed didn't make obama administration actions ok. to make it clear, am not suggesting an equivalency 'tween trump and obama, but am recognizing that norms were undermined before trump in 2017... much like filibuster confirmation rules. HA! Good Fun! ps first time we visit the board in months and lexx is yet again trying to rewrite history. figures.

I started a playthrough of Jagged Alliance since it has it's 30th anniversary this year.

@Noqn I appreciate the response, & while I've got ya just wanted to thank you for your work on Apotheosis. It's a really impressive tool, & I think very intuitive. Killer work chief.

Sorry about this, I think it happens any gamedata or (most likely) localization files are corrupt. I'll try to take a look at it during the weekend to make Apotheosis produce an error message instead of freezing, once and for all If you want Apotheosis to start working meanwhile, my only suggestion is to reinstall/repair your Deadfire installation. Again, sorry for the issues : ( Sadly @brokensave seems to have deleted their account but I've improved the behavior of the export setup dialog now 2025-04-10 Improved initial setup dialog behavior when extracting icons and loose data files into apotheosis_exported: Export progress is now visualised by progress bars. Apotheosis no longer freezes indefinitely if an error occurred during exporting, instead a message box will pop up. I put some extra work into making sure progress is displayed to the user, so it doesn't just feel like the program has frozen:

With the current craze of turning everything into an open world survival crafting game, it may be better if they don't remember some old games.

MLB The Show - I haven't played since 2019, but they've definitely improved the Road to the Show since I last played. You start in High school and get a chance to go to college before you end up in the minors. One slightly odd new feature is the ability to upload your own face for the character. So I did it, using the companion app. It is eerily accurate. So now my 40-something bald guy is trying to break into the big leagues after winning his High School championship. My wife is creeped out by all of this.

No you misunderstand. The PEN check is separate. There's a "total weapon damage" that goes through PEN/immunity. The lash is based on that total weapon damage, with its own PEN/immunity check. Put another way, the input for the lash isn't the weapon damage number you see in the combat log, it's a number BEFORE pen/immunities are checked. The weapon damage number you see (or don't see, for immunities) in the combat log as the final result is something else entirely that isn't directly related to your lash. This isn't hypothetical. Go get a spiritual weapon with contrasting weapon damage and lash damage types and use it against an enemy with immunity to your weapon damage. You will still do lash damage. You can get NO PEN alerts even if you have full penetration on the enemy, because your lash is underpenetrating.

lashes stack. additively. you can see this with like flames of devotion on a bleakwalker, you'll see three different numbers for each hit in your combat log. Edit: so two 15% fire lashes will combine into one 30% lash. A 15% fire lash and 15% corrode lash will still combine into net 30% damage, just as two distinct damage types. This matters for PEN issues and also how it gets rendered in your combat log. Two fire lashes will just show up as one bigger number attached to your weapon damage, whereas you'll see a distinct fire and distinct corrode number on top of your weapon damage. I don't think there's a limit. they are based on % total weapon damage (including bonuses like sneak attack or might); this is why lashes are really good in deadfire because they are multiplicative damage bonuses. they each have their own PEN/immunity check using their own elemental type and your weapon-based PEN. this is why woedica spiritual weapon is best spiritual weapon because their lash is raw, so even if the enemy you're up against is immune to your fist damage, you will still be doing full lash damage to them. Edit: also unlike all other sources of raw damage, it doesn't get a damage penalty compared to the alternatives, which is normally the case to balance its complete bypass of AR. Edit: this is all in my gamefaqs guide along with other mechanical stuff, if you're curious.

Yeah, I was super excited for Phantom Doctrine, then my enthusiasm lessened when they learned it’s by Hard West folks. I think I played about 2 mission of PD. I just found stealth gameplay to be so very boring. Not a fan.

Yeah, I gave up on Phantom Doctrine pretty quickly as well and put it into the wasted money category.

Common symptom of the big C even if you have no others. Hit me as well, the first time I got it (but not the second and third time). Ended up eating ham already gone bad because I couldn't smell it, which was pretty "fun" for two days afterwards.

Not too interested with Phantom Doctrine, will go down as yet another waste of money. Shazbot.