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NWN2 Enhanced Edition comes out tomorrow, so I decided to pick it up on GOG. I'm pretty excited to play it after so long. It doesn't look like they've done much graphically, but it was a decent looking game back in the day, so it should be fine.

Was watching some videos re: Trump/stripping naturalized US citizenship etc. I am a naturalized US citizen, since I was adopted in early 1971. I think they altered some laws 20-30 years ago where adoptees can be US citizens without actual naturalization process, but only applies to those adopted post-early 1980's, with certain requirements etc, or something. I don't know details on that. Anyway, while watching it occurred to me I should go doublecheck all my adoption/citizen paperwork/records, because moving a few years ago is chaotic + my memory/organization gets worse every year. Looked in file cabinet, closets, looked in some boxes (still packed re: moving homes), couldn't find them, started to panic. Then remember the "mom" box. I had put them in there. Phew. New safer place for those again. Hopefully, since I'm almost invisible to everyone but the DMV/taxman (haha), as long as I don't try to become a drug kingpin or accrue 1000 parking tickets in a few months, Trump won't notice me.* *Not really worried about my personal status/self, mind. Not what he's (currently) chasing after. But it's Trump - and things are crazy. I think I won't leave the US for vacation/anything for a while. Trump might not let me back in.

I jumped on my bike and kept going until I ran out of road and had to circle back. Before and after I ran out of city. + an obligatory instagram shot of the cold beer i thought i deserved for my troubles.

I'm picking it up too, graphic is fine as it is, but it didn't work for me on Win10. Even though I played basically every class and combination possible already, except fighter and barbarian types, but hey, what's another 100 hours, right.

Yesterday, while leaving CostCo and putting our stuff in our car: ---A woman nearly as tall as hubby and about our age approaches, says "don't worry I don't want money" then looks mostly at hubby and proceeds to say she has a bad back plus still recovering from recent surgery or something - could we help her get a giant watermelon/other heavy items out of her cart and into her car. ---I said "Sure, I'll do it" -- and pointed at hubby -- "He has a bad back too." and walked over to her car. --Watermelon was maybe 15+ pounds but easy. Stuff like that is hard on hubby/others because bending/pulling up out of an extra tall/deep cart is stressful - she kept asking if I was sure/was I ok etc - remember I'm super short and not 20 anymore either etc - I made the usual "I'm the strong one now" jokes. ---She and hubby then had a long convo re: backs, surgery/options/doctors as I unloaded our own full cart into our car. It was all rather amusing, from my point of view. Plus hubby was pleased to find someone else in near the same position as him to bounce off of.

I have connected my microsoft account 10+ times in a row, restarted the game and reinstalled. Still cannot get to play multiplayer on steam.

I'm currently replaying the OC. Still my retail copy.

Cultural icon Iggy Pop; 78 years old and the guy is still performing

Heh. Well it is the 50th anniversary of the movie Jaws, so the whole "I'm never going into the sea again" thing makes sense.

I should have years ago started convincing people to leave reviews on games "Melkathi suggested I should buy this game - so I did." Just to make devs wonder "Melkathi, melkathi who tf is melkathi?" and maybe even do a Smokie cover. Though we aren't at the 24 year mark yet, so you are spared. Oh, I don't know why he's posting, or how off topic this is gonna go, I guess he's got his reasons, but I just don't want to know Imagine getting spammed for 24 years by melkathi

Yes, he's looking into how to strip naturalized citizenship from people; the DOJ has made that a priority. You know, rather than go after actual criminals like the people DJT's pardoned. Anyway, Musk can afford to live anywhere. I'm sure he'll find a new home and invest his billions there instead.

Project Zomboid is a sandbox survival game without story. So keep that in mind. BG3 - you will need at least 130 hours of free time for this one. Cyberpunk 2077 - more casual shooter-y than rpg, imo. Fo4 - belongs into the trash.

Yay. My Pillars 1 run is done. ... Time to start a new Deadfire run

This. You never know if he's just going to back out of any deal because he needs a "win" at the moment. While they are basically forced to do business with him now you can be assured that a lot of countries will try to pivot away from reliance on the US in the future which only weakens us.

The only issue with YT is that it pushes the slop to the forefront, so it's hard to discover good channels. It makes it seem like that is all there is to it.

It depends a bit what you use YouTube for I suppose. I actively search for things like miniature painting guides, Horus heresy battle reports, history and archeology channels etc. I frequently use he do not suggest channel option to get rid of a lot of contemporary political activist channels that the algorithm (or paid for exposure) tried to get me to watch. Also, don’t visit that site without extensions that skip the 30 second ads that otherwise seems to pop up either every 120 second or you use the skip to different place on the timeline function whichever happens first edit: I do sometimes watch YouTubes recommended videos but that’s almost always for related music videos

everyone bounce back from the last great depression eventually the poor will suffer and lost all their property some of the rich will get much richer

Finally beat Expedition 33. The endings feel tacked on. Or maybe just the one I did. But the journey was beautiful enough to make up for it. Doing some Stellar Blade now. It's decent.

edit: also, if anyone really believes Japan or Japanese companies are going to invest a single yen more in the United States than they would have anyway thanks to this agreement, I have this here slightly used bridge to sell you for cheap. It's a great deal. A fantastic deal. The best deal ever. The bigliest biggest deal ever. Don't miss out!

RIP Hogan. He was a big part of growing up watching wrestling in the 'Rock & Wrestling' period (which partially coincided with the period after WWE bought & tanked the local wrestling promotion and Ted Turner started WCW). But the last few decades have not been kind to his legacy.

"Propagating errors in automated ways" is something I need on a tshirt.

RIP Ozzy

Haven't seen the new episodes yet (weeks away at the rate I watch TV nowadays) but iirc the previous Gorn episodes were non IP infringing Alien Franchise rip offs down to the first being Alien and the second being Aliens. The first couple of seasons were very underwhelming really. Last season was like a completely different and far better program.

Sinners Wow, that was really good. Theres a great mid-credits scene too that ties some things up. Michael B. Jordan has some chops imo.

He was a business man who also held regular parties on his island. A lot of the people on the list could be nothing else but actual temporary visitors without any (morally?) evil intentions. It really doesn't mean that everyone on the list did something. However, if there are people on the list who were flying very regularly, you can probably guess from that. That said, the horse is beaten so dead by now, nobody would trust any list anyways. Like, how hard is it to just build a fake list? Take off some names, add some names? You can't trust what Trumps people release, or anyone at this point, tbh.

De-stressing from life and dealing with house valuation and the work juggle by grinding survival on Arrakis in Dune Awakening. Solo'ing around and exploring the world as I can.

Eh, maybe you should play SOMA if you haven't already. The gameplay is a bit lackluster, but it's a great sci-fi story.

Composer Mark Snow, probably most famous for his work on the X-Files. Back in the 90ies when I was a wee lad, we used to watch X-Files together. If there's one thing I miss about the linear TV experience, it is gathering once a week to watch a series we all watched, and then discussing the episode with my friends at school. We were probably a bit too young to watch X-Files. Still remember how my brother was quite afraid while watching Darkness Falls. Snuck up behind him and just touched him. Heh. Almost had a heart attack. Most certainly woke all the old people in the neighborhood with his screaming. Good times.

I ended up doing some very heavy refactoring on flowchart-related code. Everything should still work, but if you have some important conversation/chatter/quest projects in progress it might be a good time to take a backup on those just in case.

Finally, new release! Chatter Support! @Kvellen I changed the "highlight in folder"-button to instead play all matching files in the user's .wem associated media player, if available:

Incidentially, Great White Sharks have been rated the worst possible pet by Clint recently, coming even behind the previously lowest scoring pet (human children):

Happy Independence Day to you Americans.

https://www.stopkillinggames.com/ The counter ticked over 1 million earlier today, now we need to get a bit more to make sure to buffer against invalid signatures!

Hammerheads are really not dangerous to humans. Great whites, on the other hand, will bite you in half. When I swim in the ocean and I get separated from my group, every time my hand passes in front of my eyes on the downstroke, I get freaked out. What was that?!? Oh it's just my hand. There it is again!?! Oh, still my hand.

It's now being called the big spending bill, which is probably more apropos given that it's expected to add 5 trillion to the deficit. But at least the obscenely wealthy will be getting more money. Clearly a priority.

I have not used the Turn Based Mode - so I cannot say anything that would help you I'm afraid. I generally like Turn Based mechanics (for example I have sunk a lot of hours into Battle Brothers...), but since I started PoE and Deadfire with RTwP (and enjoy it) I saw no reason to switch the mode. Given that PoE's combat was designed around Real Time with Pause I'm inclined to say that it's the better mode for this game.

No, survival crafting games seem too much like work. Also it is labeled survival horror, which may make me forever stay away from beaches. That would be a shame living in Greece

Shouldn't Lexx be the one we force to play Lex Imperialis?

Yes, critical hits also raise spell damage. Direct damage gets raised like weapon damage with crits (+25%). Also crits provide more penetration (*1.5) which often leads to overpenetration. Overpenetration adds +30% damage. Spells which don't deal direct damage but damage over time (DoT) also profit from crits, but a bit differently (see below). Yes, I would recommend Ascendant for a Seer most of times. And yes, more INT = longer Ascension phase. More INT also means bigger AoEs (all AoEs) with spells and weapons as well as longer durations for all your spell effects (benefical on allies or hostile on enemies). This includes damage, see your Disintegration spell. That one deals raw damage (no armor, no penetration) in "ticks". Higher Might = more damage per tick. Higher INT = more ticks. Crits (in this case) = more ticks. A few points in an attribute (like Perception or Might) don't make a lot of difference. Abilities and gear are a lot more important than a few points of your attributes. You don't need to max out any attribute to have a great build. So if you feel forced to use a Pale Elf from the White that Wends just for the PER bonuses: don't. On the other hand: if you like that character concept in the first place then it surely doesn't hurt to have bonus perception. :). And a Pale Elf Seer from the White that Wends with Frostseeker is thematically very fitting. Bonus accuracy of hunting bows is fine, and the modal of hunting bows is also very good. Also the unique hunting bows are nice. But ultimately I don't think there's a better weapon for a Seer than Frostseeker. You can absolutely start with a hunting bow though. You will get enough weapon proficiency points to try both hunting and war bows. And once you get Frostseeker you can try it out and see if it performs better than your current hunting bow and if you like it or not.

There should be a locally saved PST file, if your emails are stored locally. You just copy that over the new PC import it in to outlook. Be warned the new outlook is tricky to say the least with PST files. MS is stepping away from that format and trying to make it difficult/impossible to use. So either stick to the old outlook if you know how, or do you research with the new one. Initially the new outlook didn't support pst files at all, but I think that added some support recently.

I've played hundreds of hours of Zomboid and made some very popular mods for it as well. Got burned out later because the community sucks ass and I just didn't want to deal with it anymore. Game is ok. Imagine The Sims but there's zombies around you. One day you'll do some farming, next day you beat some Zs and on the third day you'll wash your clothes. It's kinda like that.

Satisfactory co-op with a 12-year-old: I'd love to say there's a hidden system in this chaos, but there isn't.

Thank you, sir. I'm ok. They mostly hit military targets but yeah, it was scary. It's over now. Let's hope it stays this way.