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I have finished the Symphony of War DLC missions. There was quite a decent variety of missions and new units - the ones accessible earlier were noticeably easier while the later ones provided a decent challenge. The new units generally enhanced the performance of the existing squads, as I did not want to create a full necromancer squad and could not find enough War Cats. I guess, the main appeal of the DLC would be the NG+ mode. While it does not allow to carry over everything (the units are possible to repurchase for the new currency, Memory Crystals, but they start from level 1), it allows to customise the experience further than the base difficulty options. In terms of story, it provided some interesting lore, but it did not anyhow affect the main game or the ending. I have also found a guide which explained what I suspected - same units attack the same row, so having mixed squads is preferable to the single-type ones.

A few titles I was interested in are available on Fanatical for £2.25 - 3.00 each (I probably will repurchase them on GOG if they are good). https://www.fanatical.com/en/pick-and-mix/build-your-own-fantasy-worlds-bundle

Unemployment benefits are a little more nuanced than that. From Google (its a little out of date but): "Long-Term Unemployed Rise: By August 2025, the number of people unemployed for 27 weeks or longer—those most likely to exhaust state benefits—surged, with more than one in four (25.7%) unemployed Americans out of work for over half a year." So people will eventually drop off the books.

Yes I could, that is correct, but to me it is kind of hassle to do it. And it will become more of a hassle, as the time goes on, as I still prefer playing on my PS4 and PS3 consoles. And I am still buying once in a while new games for them. But yes, that is an issue which I could solve if I had mood and time for that. But, as we all have experienced last few years, it looks like that the world is slowly burning down, and being dependent on outside source to be able to access what I have purchased during another man made crisis, is IMHO not the smartest thing to do. For now it is still OK, but imagine, if people beyond the big pond will elect another MAGA muppet into the office in 2028, and the relationship between the USA and EU deteriorate even more. In worst case economic scenario, this could mean, that for US companies it would be extremely problematic to provide their services in EU. And all of the biggest players in providing these services, are based in USA, including SONY. In such a scenario it would be much more problematic to adhere to 30 day activation period. That being said, the chance of all of that gloom and doom happening is pretty slim (at least for now), but this risk is currently much higher than 15-20 years ago, when Valve, Sony and MS went full steam ahead on transition to "fully digital future."

My consoles were not connected online for last three months 🤷‍♂️ And my PC for month and half 🤷‍♂️ The issue is, that in the last 15 years, I was more often online than Playstation services 😄

Forgot - I tried swapping the DLSS 4+ .dll in CD with a DLSS 3.5 .dll. No clue why, but it seems to work better for me. Less pixelated image noise (foilage/grass, shadow/light noise, no more ghosting, and increased FPS by maybe 10fps. Image is maybe a tad softer but I increased sharpness on my monitor a small amount and it's fine. It's not perfect but it's better than default game DLSS. Maybe older nvida gpu's don't like 4+, or DLSS 4 sucks, or the fact I only install nvidia driver (no nvidia app with all the new ABCD options etc) affects something - who knows.

Crimson Desert - still playing my version 1.02.00 --every play session I go "Most current Faction quests done, time to do another MQ section, if I get to early Chapt. 11 I can probably ignore the MQ forever (for me) then!" Then 5 minutes after loading save, I'm distracted by something (I need to get more poison/ore/whatever) and go running off into the wilderness for 2.5 hrs. My "knowledge" entries are now around 1400 and I'd guess 65% of map exposed. --Kliff has this one, er, spell, called nature's snare. I just love this thing, the visual and animation of it. It's not actually really useful/needed most of the time, outside of certain boss types, but man I love using it. I so wish the game had had more "magic", even just a little more. Mostly it's socket-gems to give your weapons PoE-like ranged attacks. Effective, but I wanna Mage a bit here and there, not spam-fire lighting or mystical orbs or crows out of my sword. And I still keep kinda wanting to create a new start save folder, mostly to create a "perfect" Chapt 4-5 save as a starting point if I ever want to replay whole thing again, that sort of thing. Of course, it's unclear (or somewhat dubious) that I'd replay this game, so then I think it'd be a waste of tedious time. But my brain still wants to. And I still have a serious love/hate for the game. I'd say it does "get better" - if the sandbox aspects appeal to you - but man still so much to aggravate at the same time. yet I keep turning it on. :D :D

Finished BG3 and started on Civ 5. Still my favorite Civ game. Need a break from cRPGs after hundreds of hours slogging through BG3. 😛

Vampire Crawlers. It's not as good Vampire Survivors, but it's fun enough. Only played about 4 hours, so maybe it'll turn as ridiculous as Survivors does when you get far enough, dunno. Basically, Survivors is fun because it doesn't take too much thinking so you can play it while doing something else, or when you want to zone out. Crawlers takes a bit more thinking (only very slightly bit more), while being similarly simple, so it doesn't really fill the same niche in my gameplaying needs as Survivor does.

Perhaps you believe this is the hand waving argument by the politicians, but a blockade is a war-like act by international law. Ergo, it must be authorized by Congress.

A funny thought... and yes, before anyone tries to explain the obvious errors in such thinking (it really just was a funny completely unscientific thought), that maybe less people apply for unemployment because they people that used to have those jobs left the country? (i.e. the US has a negative net migration number, more people trying to get out from the US than into the US) BrookingsMacroeconomic implications of immigration flows in 2025 a...Wendy Edelberg, Stan Veuger, and Tara Watson review immigration flow trends in 2025 and 2026, and analyze their macroeconomic implications.

I find it deeply ironic to complain about the Obsidian distribution decisions on their official forums. Nonetheless, removing the better-optimised version is remarkably customer-unfriendly, even if I own it on GOG (and EGS) and there is nothing Obsidian/MS can do to mess it up. I remember thinking that it was great that Obsidian did not shove the "upgrade" bloat onto the original game's owners and I am sorry to see that it has changed now. https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1920490/view/694259874864824927?l=english On a similar note, the Syndicat des Travailleureuses du Jeu Vidéo (STJV) union calls to boycott the publisher whose actions led to the closer of one of its developers. https://www.stjv.fr/en/2026/04/spiders-liquidation-a-tale-of-social-destruction/ Regarding DRM, if the access to the software I have purchased can be cut off on some exec's whim, then my inclination to pay rapidly decreases.

Well my post was satirical, but yes. It's unclear how you can run a military blockage without maintaining a state of military conflict, in which case Redacted has exceeded his 60-day deadline. WIthout renewal of the war powers act, it's presumably an unconstitutional act. I wonder if the administration can be sued for unconstitutional behavior, and have the SCOTUS end the blockade? (Sheesh, my editor kept trying to change 'sued' to 'used'. 🤨) But I suppose such a lawsuit would be tossed because it's in the purvue of Congress.

I have yet to mini-game fish in CD. I simply swim around and catch by hand. It works so why not. Every medieval/fantasy game needs the hangin' tree, right? There are 7 trillion "jigsaw puzzle" scenes in this game. Still like his hair. And the cat. Especially the cat. (they've also added birds as tameable pets now, heh).