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Well, tis being an odd mixture of times for me. After two years and 1 month since my father passed, we finally wrapped up the estate, sold the family house. My life is pretty much now in a 100 sq ft storage unit, and I'm renting a room while I do the hunt for my first house. Having a little debate on the potential for putting up insulated / powered summerhouse/workshop in the garden of wherever I end up buying. Once that's done.. slowly unpack and figure out where my life is going. Also doing that slight mental replay where one of my closest friends just killed our 15 odd-year friendship and I have no idea what actually happened or drove them to that decision. So that's a little odd. Still, adapting and figuring it out. I guess now I'm not having to deal with all the things on my evenings and weekends, I can possibly start catching up on books and computer games and tv shows and wotnot....

Xenonauts 2 is fully released and is glorious.

Pilot was rescued apparently. Firefight with armed Iranian civilians too. Although with the Americans, they may have gunned down people needlessly. https://www.axios.com/2026/04/05/iran-f15-crew-member-rescued https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/us/politics/military-iran-airman-rescue.html "The mission to save the crew member employed hundreds of special forces troops, dozens of U.S. warplanes, helicopters, and cyber, space and other intelligence capabilities. U.S. attack aircraft dropped bombs and opened fire on Iranian convoys to keep them away from the area where the airman was hiding. As U.S. forces converged on the downed airman, a firefight erupted, two former senior military officials briefed on the operation said. The airman was equipped with a beacon and a secure communication device for coordinating with forces mounting the rescue. A senior U.S. military official described the mission to rescue the airman as one of the most challenging and complex in the history of U.S. special operations. In a final twist after the weapons officer was rescued, two transport planes that would carry the commandos and the airmen to safety got stuck at a remote base in Iran. Commanders decided to fly in three new planes to extract all the U.S. military personnel and the airmen, and they blew up the two disabled planes rather than have them fall into Iranian hands." So movie in, what, a year or two ?

Photos: Behind-the-scenes images taken by NASA's Artemis II crew : The Picture Show : NPR

Thanks, Hawke64, I will pass this on

No, I would just try it out with the help of the console. It also depends on the amount of your CON and if you have stuff like Tough, an Amulet of Greater Health, damage resistance from items like Death's Maw, Voidward and food (Rice for example) etc.

I saw it before the title edit, and started wheeze-laughing around 20 seconds in and never quite stopped. He did pretty good at staying in chr/straight-face plus his jabs at DLSS 5, heh.

Crimson Desert - EDIT - TLDR - my love/hate relationship with the game continues, basically. There really are 10/10 moments, most of the time it's a 7, and then there are the 4/10 moments/aspects. Heh. --- I think I'm a little past half-way the Main Quest - which is nowhere near "completion" of game content, mind. I might stop there for a while and just go my own way for as long as I'm able. I'm beginning to really dislike the MQ and their steps. It's boring/repetitive and hugely time-wasting re: back and forth. You can't skip-speed dialogues (only FFWD in cutscenes) and sometimes it goes on and on. The sky-Abyss puzzling is also annoying over time, even while visually/design amazing at times. --- Kliff, so far, has developed zero personality. He mostly grunts, outside of some MQ dialogues. eg, I find him easy to ignore, he's just a blank avatar while you're running around exploring. --- the poster-bounties are so not worth it because you have to take a criminal back to a faction's jail by foot or horseback. Can't teleport. And some of them are REALLY FAR AWAY. I spent an hour plus looking for a (horse) safe/non-hostile path back, once. And if you don't do them, the posters stay in your inventory forever, can't even drop them. I stopped looking at/picking up those posters. --- the 2 other playable characters, one issue is increasing their skills and refining their gear to high levels takes away from increasing the others skills/gears, because you'd need triple the resources and special Abyss skill stone thingies AND the socket "gems" to do all three equally. Maybe you can get there post-MQ with grind, but most aren't going to want to do that initially/for a long time. You're gonna mostly focus/stick on Kliff, because Kliff is the MQ One. --- what this game does well is have so many different things/systems to do and ways to do it, that players can decide what the game is, for them. I mean, technically, after chapt 6 or so, which is around where I am (I've also heard chapt. 9, if you're into the other playable chrs), you could largely ignore the MQ for 200 hours if you really wanted, etc.

No they aren't identical, but the same can be said of any two wars. Iran has a larger population, more territory, a (veteran) standing national army with trained officers, and it is likely to receive aid from Russia and China. Long term, US casualties are likely to be higher in an invasion and partial occupation of Iran. It will also have more pronounced economic impacts. Finally, the Afghan War had the support of the US population; this one does not. The big question is how long would an invasion force have to remain?

But Afghanistan was a different war for a different reason with a different long-term US objective You have to try to differentiate US\Western conflicts to analyze outcomes objectively Iran is not the same on almost every level as Afghanistan

Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden. If you liked Vampyr you need to play this. Basically the same gameplay, but polished a bit more. Story and atmosphere is really good. Enemy variety is poor, but some good boss battles.

Possessor(s) I like this loading screen - it is an amusing thought that the NPC buddy drags the MC's corpse back to the checkpoint. I'd think we'd have better luck with the regular explosives, but sure, let's go find 4 people in a large city and pluck out their eyes. This was not an eye. The Land of the Magnates As the store page states, the game is "harnessing the power of Unreal Engine 5". The "power" was not enough to match the NPC portraits with the models. Is he suggesting succeeding Arthas-style? Recital Of The Heart Playtest Very realistic reasoning. Every time I see RNG in dialogues and the panel being on the side, I blame Disco Elysium. It is a demo, by the way. The full version currently costs more than I am willing to pay for the perpetual annoyance of the poor UI. I have small hopes that the developers might fix it.