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PTB Update 2: Bug Fixes: • Addressed an issue where Raw Science was not spawning on saves made in 0.2.2.5. • Resolved a problem where the ORC raid notification prevented the player from sleeping. • Eliminated a crash caused by Peep.R tracking more than one item; Peep.R was moved back to 4 on all platforms. • Corrected an issue where the SCAB.2k Scanner was visible to clients in multiplayer, allowing the multiplayer team to trigger the Mysterious Stranger fight early. • Fixed a situation where Passive Mutations became stuck and could not be unequipped, including cases where they remained equipped across multiple loadouts. • Prevented the Sour Seed from being lost after saving and loading. • Restored ability to use Large Pallets. • Adjusted armor upgrade behavior so Bulky and Sleek paths no longer shared identical stats during path switching. • Updated Sour Staff behavior so projectiles matched intended length and reliably connected with targets. • Ensured that recipes unlocked properly when analyzing the correct resources. • Addressed a crash that occurred when Alt‑tabbing on PC. • Resolved a foliage‑related crash that could occur under certain conditions.

agreed. too little attention for this point. Buy Greenland? Take It? Why? An Old Pact Already Gives Trump a Free Hand. Analysts say the Cold War agreement allows the president to increase the American military presence almost at will. Under a little-known Cold War agreement, the United States already enjoys sweeping military access in Greenland. Right now, the United States has one base in a very remote corner of the island. But the agreement allows it to “construct, install, maintain, and operate” military bases across Greenland, “house personnel” and “control landings, takeoffs, anchorages, moorings, movements, and operation of ships, aircraft, and waterborne craft.” It was signed in 1951 by the United States and Denmark, which colonized Greenland more than 300 years ago and still controls some of its affairs. “The U.S. has such a free hand in Greenland that it can pretty much do what it wants,” said Mikkel Runge Olesen, a researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies in Copenhagen. “I have a very hard time seeing that the U.S. couldn’t get pretty much everything it wanted,” he said, adding, “if it just asked nicely.” ... The fear was that Nazis could use Greenland as a steppingstone to America. The Germans had already established small meteorological bases on the island’s east coast and relayed information for battles in Europe. American troops eventually ousted them and established more than a dozen bases there with thousands of troops, landing strips and other military facilities. After World War II, the United States continued to run some bases and a string of early warning radar sites. As the Cold War wound down, the United States closed all of them except one. It’s now called the Pittufik Space Base and helps track missiles crossing the North Pole. end at one time, the US had something like seventeen bases in greenland, although "bases" can be misleading as a few listening stations described as bases were likely a building or two manned by a handful o' people, but our understanding is that the people in greenland and denmark were, by and large, perfectly fine with the arrangement. no surprise as there isn't much meaningful industry in greenlandl, and the US presence meant there were business opportunities for greenlanders who is significant supported by government assistance programs. this is all so stoopid... unless you accept the equal ridiculous suggestion that the greenland nonsense is due to the fact greenland appears extreme large on flat maps, and trump wants to add the huge island to his real estate portfolio. longitude demarcations at the equator is +111 km apart and at the north pole they all converge and therefore is 0 km apart, so on many flat maps, greenland appears much larger than it is in reality. trump sees acquisition o' greenland as akin to the louisiana purchase or alaska, and he is convinced acquiring the property would be a major benefit to his personal brand. based on reporting from folks such as susan glasser, trump was just as obsessed with greenland in term 1, but the sane folks surrounding the President always managed to deflect his attention to something more meaningful, but there is far less sanity to be found in trump 2.0. this is all just so dumb, and yet republicans in Congress and the trump administration who know better has decided to unapologetic go all in on what should be a comical emperor's new clothes bit, but even Gromnir is having difficulty seeing the humor in this idiocy. HA! Good Fun!

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As opposed to all of the good reality tv shows out there?

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Hi, for DoTs and CC there are three classes that fit best: Wizard (per-rest caster, individual spell selection via learning and grimoires) Druid (per-rest caster, automatic spell selection) Cipher (casts spells with focus which is harvested via weapon damage) All of them can be good melee performers: Wizards with summoned weapons which are very good, Druids with Spiritshift which is extremely strong while it lasts and Ciphers with normal weapons and their special ability "Soul Whip" which not only transforms damage into focus but also gives you a damage bonus for weapons. They all have nice CC and DoT spells. Cipher's DoT is mostly against single targets but very strong. Wizard and Druid have AoE options for DoTs. My personal favorite is the Druid. Spiritshift is very potent but has limited duration. So you can play him as a CC/DoT caster mostly but shift as soon as somebody attacks you in melee - and you then shred them to pieces. Spiritshift performance is completely independent from gear - except one special belt, the Wildstrike Belt. This means there's more good gear for the rest of he party since your Druid usually doesn't care as much about it. The best Spiritshift forms are Cat (higher attack speed) or Boar (wounding DoT on every strike). The Cat is better against low DR foes, the Boar is better against high DR foes. Imo it mostly comes down to taste. Boar form is also a little bit more sturdy because it has a little regeneration effect while shifted. Wizard can have a (much) bigger spell selection, the summoned weapons (mainly Concelhaut's Parasitic Staff and later Citzal's Spirit Lance) have very high base damage and they also have reach, so you can attack from the back row over your front row/tanks which can be an advantage. But Wizards can also deal a lot of ranged weapon damage with Blast + Kalakoth's Minor Blights (another summioned weapon, this time a wand). Blast is an AoE that attaches itself to every wand/rod/scepter attack. It can also transport on-hit/on-crit effects from your weapon - for example prone on critical hit (Overbearing). So in theory everybody in the Blast AoE could be knocked down (if you crit them with the Blast). Ciphers are my personal least favorite of the trio. Mainly because I consider the focus mechanic as flawed: the action economy isn't great because you have to alternate between weapon damage and casting all the time. And also the transformation of damage into fuel for casts means that the Cipher usually is VERY good in fights with lots of weak foes (which are usually not that hard to win anyways) because dealing lots of damage to weak enemies is easy - but lacks impact in the hardest fights, when dealing a lot of damage is hard and therefore getting focus for spells is difficult and the Cipher can become focus-starved. But this depends a LOT on the difficulty setting. Ciphers generally perform much better on the lower difficulties up to Veteran where the enemies' defenses aren't so high. So if you plan to play on normal or veteran difficulty you can dismiss what I wrote there. Ciphers are def. the most popular of the three among players - I assume because the mix of weapon damage + spellcasting is entertaining and cool - and because it's fun to annihilate (trash) mobs very quickly. Against bosses the rest of the party can step in then - so it's not a big deal if the Cipher performs a little worse than usual.

This. the US already had free hands to expand their military presence on Greenland. Two problems with that... one, it doesn't distract from the still unreleased Epstein files and two, doesn't make Mango Mussolini look like a proper conqueror.

" The board of peace " ..what a joke Have you seen the countries that are on the board I am prepared to make prediction, they will come up with ideas for Gaza peace that have already been discussed but not implemented and they will achieve nothing substantive in other conflicts And once Trump is no longer president it will collapse into obscurity, like it never existed

Oh Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves Season 2 released yesterday, with QoL and balance changes implemented as well. From first impressions it seems, that from top4 cast (Hokutomaru, Hotaru, Kain, Marco) was Kain nerfsmacked the most, but it still seems that Hokutomaru will still be in Top Tier. Some people are saying, the he will be the strongest character in S2, but most of the S1 lower tier character did not get fully tested yet. My main Terry was slightly buffed, but I am mostly curious, how SNK treated Tizoc, who was the undisputed worst S1 character.

I don't believe those countries paid 1 billion to Trump when joining.

Check your emails and spam folders. As of today, the biggest discount of Imperator: Rome and DLC pack by Paradox is valid for next 18 hours. Of course, if your are into that kind of games. The complete game with all DLCs cost me 12 EUR.

There are rumours, that AMD will go back to AM4 chipsets to “counter” the current environment in PC market. So there might be not everything lost for you, yet.

Something else entirely. The original Forbidden Fist attack, mechanically "under the hood", works like a melee ranged spell: it has its own base damage, penetration and so on. It isn't considered an attack with a weapon because it simply lacks the proper code tag. It doesn't use weapons stats of weapon you carry or anything. It just uses its own stats but simply lacks a tag/keyword a la "melee weapon attack". This "spell" howver profits from Transcended Suffering (which scales it) and other bonuses to unarmed attacks (because it is tagged as unarmed - but not as weapon attack. It's an unarmed melee spell so to speak). Because of that, abilites which would trigger on "weapon attacks" won't proc if you use the Forbidden Fist attack. That includes Swift Flurry and Heartbeat Drumming. Soul Whip's Focus gain also wouldn't work (a Forbidden Fist/Cipher won't get focus when attacking with the Forbidden Fist attack), Berserker/Forbidden Fist wouldn't have the Frenzy hit-to-crit conversion with Forbidden Fist attacks and so on. You also shouldn't get Lightning Strike's and Turning Wheel lashes on it. The oly thing that the Community Patch does is to give the Forbidden Fist attack a proper tag so it counts as a "melee weapon" attack. Like your other fist attacks (auto attacks and attack abilities like Force of Anguish and so on) also are. I personally believe that's what it's supposed to be. The implementation as a quasi-spell seems to be an oversight by the devs. But we cannot know for sure. By the way: Inner Death (PL 9 ability of the Monk) has the same behavior and also got fixed in the same way with the Communty Patch.

trump's most successful diplomatic and trade efforts is tacoing. tariffs is most noteworthy for trump delays, exceptions and implementation fails. ukraine had to compromise by thanksgiving... but maybe he meant next thanksgiving? am suspecting the new greenland deal is gonna be near indistinguishable from the old greenland deal, which is good news for everybody. etc. the problem is that trump is unlikely to taco if the bond market fails to react. blowing up boats in the caribbean didn't move the needle and so trump decided a coup would be a fun thing to do in venezuela. regardless, this "concept o' a deal" 'tween nato and trump is a real life application o' sun tzu's advice: build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across. am thinking the nobel committee should keep a medal for trump in their pocket just in case it looks as if the very stable genius is about to start ww3. ... we got at least three more years o' this insanity. HA! Good Fun!

The USA was never going invade Greenland, that was just the expected sensationalism and SM drama with this story. There were comparisons to the regime change in Venezuela to how Greenland was going to be annexed and they not remotely the same thing for various reasons that include how Congress wont support any military action over the taking of Greenland despite the rhetoric from several of Trumps spokespeople. Would they declare Greenland an example of narcoterrorism Trump initially tried the threat of economic bullying to try to take Greenland through tariffs and now he was dropped that idea We dont know what this " framework " deal is he suggested and I doubt he even knows. But yes the EU and Canada stood there ground and it was good to see some backbone but its what you expect because as we discussed this was about the future of a sovereign territory that is part of an EU country and they had to draw a line

i'm gonna be honest the sleeping animation is pretty boring in grounded 2, and in the spirit of a lot of new changes from game 1 --> 2, i thought it'd be interesting if we got a new animation! i spent way too long on this drawing for this the idea is simple in concept, instead of a view of the sky (or whatevers above you), i thought it'd be interesting if we could actually see our player sleeping. maybe to have it appear like there's more motion, the camera pans around the bed?

That would be classic Trump "negotiating" at work: rip up the agreement we had, bluster and threaten, get the same deal or a little better or maybe even a little worse (at the cost of a lot of good will), announce to the world how brilliant he is and that he got what he wanted.

So I'm guessing he backed down completely. Claiming victory for something he could have gotten with no effort. I think Europe and Canada discovered that it feels empowering not to be a bunch of pussies. They would do it again.

Haha, seems like it I have actually not played anything since last week or two. But now I have prepared some basic recap of first Celestian Tales game, so I can finally play after 7 years or so the second part of the series

I do not doubt for a second either, that if Greenland didn't have friends and connections, ICE would march in and relocate the Inuit population to some tiny reservation in the Florida glades, for their own protection of course, while Greenland is being strip mined. Painful colonial past does seem preferable to a painful colonial present

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I think Gorgon covered the most important bits really. Disclaimer: I was never a nationalist to begin with, having lived more of my adult life abroad than in Denmark and I believe money is something better spent before you can't use it anymore. So no hoarder of wealth either. What I do remember from my early years, thinking about Greenland and The Faeroe Islands, can be summed up as "they are". They were part of the realm. Different people, different cultures and interesting history. But not a sense of "ownership". More a sense of bewilderment why anyone would want to live in such cold areas Do I think of them as "my people"? I probably does on a subconscious level, i.e. never thinking of the people living there as "foreigners". Just fellow citizens with the misfortune of living in a cold climate. I also know that, Greenland in particular, was not a happy story and Denmark was no benevolent colonial power. Like the Australian Aborigines, the Inuit people were subjected to abuse, atrocities and mistreatment. Eugenics programs, forced sterilization of young women (we are talking modern history here, 1970's) and generations of kids forcefully removed from their parents. Very similar to the Australian "stolen generation" programs. If the people of Greenland resent Denmark, I wont blame them. i still think both parts would benefit of keeping status quo as it is today though. Greenland minding its own business in most aspects, represented in the Danish parliament, the country subsidized by the government in Copenhagen because the living standard is not affordable by the local economy. Iirc, Greenland also has the right to do its own business with investors about the resources they have, so those minerals etc. are not disposable income for the government in Copenhagen.

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AI doesn't *know* anything, it's a predictive algorithm, which means when it comes to something complex and open to interpretation, it often amplifies existing ignorance. For instance, it could very likely be trained on literature that is missing a crucial pov. Greenland is a net loss for Denmark, there are mineral rights, sure, but we don't pretend that Denmark profit from those, we just expect that if they strike it rich they will be able to pay their own way. Greenland stays with Denmark because it already has autonomy, and isn't really big enough for afford all the trappings of a state. We don't care about a strong strategic presence, or rather, it's problem to be solved, not a source of prestige. after 400 years there are a lot of Greenlanders with Danish roots, Danish is a second language still, so it's not really a question of what Greenland offers Denmark. The arrangement with Danish territories, we have 2, Faroe Islands and Greenland, stands for as long as they want it to. Also, Denmark is the colonial power that Greenland eventually made peace with. We made all the same mistakes as the Americans and the Canadians did with the Inuit tribes, but a lot of progress has been made to address them in the last decades. The Greenlanders don't trust the Maga Americans. They believe, probably correctly, that the minute the ink was dry on an annexation treaty with the US, they would dismiss the rights of indigenous people as they have done so many times in the past. Denmark meanwhile, has already granted them autonomy.

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What I think is more annoying is that you don't have one companion that is loyal to the Empire. So if I play a character that is loyal to the empire, I will necesseraly be at odds with my companions.

Yeah, I remember you stunlocked Dorudugan in this way some time ago: Maybe there's some video about it around internet

Hey bro, i suggest you to try druid it has very good dot spells, and you can go melee with boar form(Boeroer style) it has a very powerful dot attack too. Also Priest has very good fire based dots but you need to be patient for few levels it feels weak at the start. Have fun!

am clear not gonna complain about getting drawn into a tangential discussion, particular when is more intriguing than the ones am having indulged recent. HA! Good Fun!

As much as I'm interested in theological archeology, I've yet to figure out the background for the Aboriginals (native Australians) creation myth, The Dream Time. It may have been covered in basic school, but I didn't go to school in Australia and a disproportional number (one third? I need to check sources) of schools is run by the Catholic Church and is more likely to teach kids, that we weren't here 6000+ years ago Sorry guys, completely unrelated to Florida, just my absent and sometimes too abstract mind going off on a tangent

No, especially because of all the other reality tv bullcrap being total shait as well. It's garbage and nobody should support it, ever.

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Oh yeah, the trailer is terribly. Thankfully I learned not to judge the content of the games, by content of trailers Still one of the most awful trailers in FGC, if not in gaming in general Anyway one of the mysterious characters is most likely Kenshiro from Fist of the North Star, which should print money for SNK. The other one? Looking at SNK's current track record, it will be Magnus Carlsen

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Just to say, I recall spending too much time making that cat avatar work - partly because tiny size ruined the visibility of eye-squinting expression, plus the circle cut off the ears etc. I gave the cat more and more "eyeliner" and filled in the pupils darker and darker until it kinda worked. Not a fan of circle avatars either.

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Reality tv based on Fallout? If I understood correctly.

I don't know if it's the ultimate flex, but its a good candidate. Floor Jansen singing the Dutch version of The Yellow Pages

You dont really have to keep the character in switching mode : after 1 min IRL of fast switch, the recovery time is already very long. You can see how the recovery time is affected when you do that nearby a party member wearing an heavy armor, by right-clicking in his weapon set, i think.

It is better because it already has superb quality and an additional enchantment (Preservation) - but if you have a second shield user in the party it's better to let them use Little Savior (because everybody can equip it) and leave Outworn Buckler to Pallegina (because only Paladins can equip it). The main reason is: the Herald enchantment stacks with everything, even itself, so with both shields in the party you will apply +10 to all defenses instead of just +5. If you only have Pallegina as shield user in the party then yes: Little Savior is the better shield and you should use that instead of Outworn Buckler.

I just wrapped a fun BPM & CP Triple Crown playthrough with a custom party, and it's left me hankering to play through again with companions and really try to lean into their unique classes/items. Elric's fixes in BPM for Xoti's Monk Subclass and Serafen's Cipher subclass work great in terms of balancing them with the smallest number of changes. I've found myself with slightly different desires/goals, though, and was hoping to gather some feedback on some proposed solutions. For both Xoti and Serafen, I wanted to not only update their subclasses, but also their weapons and armor, so that they could be used throughout an entire playthrough. Ideally, the changes would make sense as a package, and point to a general playstyle for each that feels thematic and balanced. Xoti Add: Sister of the Reaping Moon gains Reaping Moon Style: while you have a shield equipped, gain bonus accuracy (+15) and damage (+50%) against Near Death enemies. This focuses the playstyle around killing blows and makes sense of the buckler proficiency, starting items, and flavor text (A monastic order of Gaun, the reaping aspect of Eothas, Sisters of the Reaping Moon are most effective against opponents who are already at death's door.) It feels somewhat balanced, in that it's still worse for raw damage compared to any other monk subclass, but makes shield oriented builds more fun. Tuotilo's Palm is already so good, and this is an indirect buff to it, so I'm not 100% sold on this implementation, but I'm stumped on how to encourage the "with shield or with buckler" playstyle without making it better. Change: Resource Gain mechanic: gain +3 wounds on kill > gain +2 wounds, +2 Mortification on kill. The "worse at wounds, but then better if you can get lots of killing blows" playstyle falls flat, in my opinion, while the mortification gain from the lantern was always a unique and interesting flavor when compared to the other subclasses. I'm eager to try this out and see if it breaks anything, and if the balance of always worse at wounds, but better at mortification is fun. I'd love feedback here. Change: Lantern enchants: Holy Radiance: +2 Restoration, Inspiration PL > 4m Aura (include self): +% healing received (scales with religion) The +PL was always a little odd to me, given Xoti's spell list (she get's exactly 1 bonus spell with one those keywords). I'm not locked in on the healing received, but it feels like the safest effect here. I'm open to suggestions, but want to have it be an aura, so that it has more resonance with the quest upgrade enchant. Soulkeeper: Gain +1 of each Monk resource on kill > gain +1 PL until the end of the encounter on kill, stacks twice This effect might be too strong, esp. b/c it applies to the priest side as well, but I never liked the way the item only half-functioned if you were single class. Easy to tune. Could also replace with another stacking buff on kill. Change: Sickle enchants: Soul Reaper: +5% sickle Damage until combat end on scoring Kill (stacks 4 times) (increases with Religion skill) > +5% sickle Damage until combat end on scoring Kill (stacks 4 times) (increases with Religion skill); +1 penetration with sickle attacks. Change: Spiritual Weapon (Gaun): Added Soul Reaper enchant to the summoned weapon. Bit of an oddity to have the lantern enchants carry over, but not the sickle ones. Change: Vestments of Gaun: Made this unique so the quality can be upgraded. Added an enchant to make it more competitive for both priest and monk. Sacred Duty: reduced recovery that scales with religion. -1% per skill point. (I've tinkered with this a little, but I think this is the cleanest) Serafen Add: Wild Temper passive: gain bonus damage and penetration with AoE attacks. Currently this is a scaling bonus to damage (a la Sneak attack) and a flat +1 to pen. It applies to all AoE attacks, making Serafen a good candidate to keep his beloved hand mortars. It also makes Serafen the best companion to pick up Explosives as a skill. I'm not sure what the right amount of bonus is here, so I'd appreciate feedback in terms of relative balance. I really wanted something to incentivize play that caused the maximum number of wild mind procs, while actually offsetting the risk/reward. @thelee has made a strong case multiple times that randomness favors enemies, and that there needs to be a stronger benefit to offset, even if there are "great" outcomes from the random events. I also really like that this pushes an AoE damage niche rather than AoE debuff play that Beguiler. I also like how it synergizes with Barbarian in theme and mechanic, benefitting Carnage and Spirit Tornado in a Witch Build, offering unique benefit. I turned Miscast back to Friendly Fire to balance things, but kept Elric's awesome "always miscast on an empowered cast" feature. That little bit of control feels really great and enables some fun play. I like the idea of dropping Serafen into the enemy backline as a psychic bomb. Sometimes you get some collateral damage. Change: Serafen's Padded Mail: Made this unique so the quality can be upgraded. Changed it to be padded armor (per the description), but added some bonus armor back to it. More fitting for a mid-range caster, and usable for the whole game. Concealed Chain: +1 crush, pierce, slash AR Crow's Nest Comforts: +2 freeze AR, +2 shock AR I'd love any feedback on these from folks who have thought through ways to improve these characters/items in a balanced way. Thanks!

One of the best things that @Elric Galad added in BPM was the empower interaction. Predictable "miscast" is flavorful and adds some level of control to the randomness. I have not played BG2, but for the Wild Mage, there was a class ability that always proc'd a "wild surge" but came with benefits (e.g. casting a higher level spell using a level 1 spell slot). I think Empower fits really well here for that function. More thoughts on that later. I think you're so right about them being hard to notice. With the exception of invisibility and stun, there's usually very little visual information presented to you, and the combat log rolls by quickly. I really like having a shorter more impactful list of effects. Even if they were affliction/inspiration, pick a shorter list a la Tayn's Chaotic Orb. I also like the idea of making them focused on Serafen. There's something more playable and flavorful there vs. total chaos. One thing that's missing right now from the current list of Wild Surges is just casting the wrong spell. I think that's slightly harder to do in terms of programming, but even if you cast a second spell randomly chosen, that feels cooler/more flavorful. I'm noodling some effects and will come back with some more refined ideas. Thanks for the feedback/input.

please make pillars of eternity 3 start kickstarter maybe? -Anıl Erdem Sarak

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I have a full farsi translation of pillars of eternity. The whole game is translated and organized into the correct file structure to b e displayed in game. you can verify this by checking the contents of the "out" folder in this GitHub link: https://github.com/PillarFarsiGuy/PillarTranslate.git The only problem id that unity, the engine PoE runs on, does not support Persian/Arabic script. I cant find a solution for this on any forums or ai research agent. Im asking many reddit subs but with no answers anywhere. If you would like me to keep working on this please let me know. Farsi is the most underserved language of over 80 million speakers in the gaming world so this would open a huge door. Please let me know if you know a solution. P.s. everything outside of the "out" folder is the program I ran to translate the game. let me know if you have any questions about it.

Or maybe a mod that turns Avowed into a CRPG?