Totally not Gorgon

Ni no kuni 2 is on STEAM sale for 8 Euro.

What do i need it for exactly. Just turned down the upgrade because it would mean spending hours and days removing all the bloatware from search and what's her name, the Bing lady. Corona ?.. Cortana.

My thoughts exactly

I was gifted a game on steam. It's called furry cyber****** I have no words. if the mission was to have my friends list see "Gorgon is currently playing furry cyber****** " that's mission accomplished, and well played.

mmm. NATO responded more out of a sense of gratitude towards the US for the resources it had poured into the alliance, as well as in realization that it was the first time anyone had ever activated the "musketeer oath". If it didn't respond the one time it was actually needed, that might pose some serious questions as to its future usefulness. But, it's actually pretty dubious whether there was any threat to US territory. Which was always the situation imagined. It was a case of "close enough". I suppose. Article 5 is the fire alarm, you can't have it not work, it has to work.

The civilians are probably helping Ukrainians with intel in any way they can, so when the Russians go from door to door searching for Nazis or collaborators the answer is probably that everyone is "guilty". It's not unlike how the Germans were ordered to shoot Jews and commissars on sight, and pretty soon everyone and their grandmother was a Jew or a commissar.

It's like the Russians are cosplaying Barbarossa as the Wehrmacht.

Got 3/4 of the way through Elden Ring and ran out of steam. It looks really great, the atmosphere is really good, but compared to Darksouls the fighting mechanics are weak. You spam a "win button" spell or weapon art to beat the majority of the bosses, the most successful builds have no variety at all. Too many of the bosses are so large you can't tell what's going on or what you should be doing. So far I had tried to keep things interesting by learning to parry everything I could, and by sapping between 4 - 5 weapons and shields on the go for different effects. But, eventually the options narrow towards just spamming your best weapon art, or dying constantly.

Your antibodies get a firmware update whether you get sick or not. I believe the odds are around better than even, 75%, I can't remember, of not becoming sick if you had 3 shots. At this time at least where I'm at, there is no word of another shot. One should also remember that people who have been vaccinated 3 times are more likely to die from regular flu, than Omicron. That's a different level of risk calculation than we have been used to.

I should note that this is completely analogous to authorities picking the exact right moment to administer a booster shot, for instance. It's calculated to maximize protection while the threat is the highest.

I don't imagine medical technology will change drastically in the space of a few months. You can, however, make use of an additional 10 -15% protection if you are exposed before the effect tapers off. The good news is that you come out of the omicron wave with very high immunity across the whole of society.

But you can't, not with Omicron BA2, it's many times more transmissible than the measles. The wave is much shorter and peaks much higher. Which means, at it's peak, unless you can literally stay at home for 1-2 months, you will be exposed.

Just say no to games that do that.

I just went to buy some shoes, and everyone speaks Russian, or Ukrainian, not like I can tell the difference. It's bizarre. Like waking up in another country. It's a nice day out, and the refugees are all out shopping for things they left behind.

Ohh the Ukrainians massively underestimated just how urgently they needed peace, I agree.

I quoted the wrong thing. ehh. Nevermind,

Minsk 2 mentions Donbas autonomous regions that would somehow also have representation in Ukrainian central government and have veto power over, say, NATO membership for Ukraine. Yeah, that was never going to fly.

I don't see the need to invade Ukraine to get most of those fulfilled. Russian armies present in the breakaway republics would more than likely have been sufficient to prevent attacks, and to finally negotiate and end to the fighting. What's more, Russia could have done this years past. Russia didn't, because it needed to build antipathy against Ukraine in preparation for an invasion, and because the war was serving them so well in destabilizing Ukraine and slowing down membership of both NATO and the EU, neither of which would have allowed Ukraine to join while it was fighting a civil war. The West rather foolishly let Russia know by its actions that the opportunity to invade Ukraine was running out, and so Putin took our advice to do it while he could. It's pretty clear that Russia meant to overwhelm the whole of Ukraine, and claim the big prize, rather than the consolation prize of the Donbas, but couldn't do it because of the sad state of its armed forces.

I don't understand what the victory condition is for Russia, I mean they could take Kyev and remove the government. And then what ?. Another Ukrainian revolution in either months or years. Millions of willing resistance fighters. Millions of displaced refugees with nothing but hatred for Russia. The Ukrainians are simply done being told what to do. That's the main miscalculation. So far the Russian invasion has achieved nothing much that will be of value on the negotiation table. Best case scenario, Russia started this slaughter for the win of some small amount of territory and probably permanently terrible relations with Ukraine and the west. There is just no way it was worth it.

Putin is doing a deep cleansing. You don't want to be any of those *toxins* leaving the body He'll feel better once he has wrapped it up with a coffee enema.

I'm jumping in at steam deck 2

MYTH: The natural immunity I get from being sick with COVID-19 is better than the immunity I get from COVID-19 vaccination. FACT: Getting a COVID-19 vaccination is a safer and more dependable way to build immunity to COVID-19 than getting sick with COVID-19. Ok, but isn't this a non sequitur. We are talking Vaccine + natural immunity. Not vaccine OR natural immunity

You aren't making a lot of sense. Your reference to "Excessive lockdown language" is simply the variable I use to store the equation "lets not bother with lockdowns that don't work" And indeed you don't seem to be advocating Omicron lockdowns anyway. You aggressively assign disproportionate meaning to adverbs. That said, a lot of people have felt lockdowns to be excessive, now, I don't particularly care about "feelings", but we do need to take stock and consider when and how we are allowed to interfere in people's lives for the greater good. The answer is not "never," and it's not "always" either. So when does it become "excessive". Well arguably somewhere within the confines of having another choice to accept higher transmission and having emergency capacity bend, but not break, under the strain. This is the difference between the early days of people dying for lack of ventilators, and now.

Another thing to consider here, is that saving lives with extreme measures, which after two years I think you could call lockdowns, can be done more efficiently. If we force people to exercise or quit smoking we are pretty much guaranteed to save more lives. You seem to have zeroed in on 'voluntary infection', and what it is, is simply not choosing lockdown. The rest will take care of itself owing to the increased transmission of Omicron. We are putting immunity in the bank from a standpoint of not knowing when or if there is going to be a better time to do so. It's not free, this is increased risk for people with existing conditions, but that is the nature of these calculations, that was always the case.

It seems likely that we will run into the same supply problems from last time though, doesn't it.