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Nice, I thought they didn't want to talk about Star Trek anymore. I'd rather watch their videos about it than the actual tv show.

The ruble is dead.

For some reason Elden Ring reminds me *a lot* of Berserk. The whole atmosphere and everything. I can't even get myself to not use a huge sword, even though I never liked huge swords in DS games.

I have seen videos of civilians getting shredded to bits ....

So there's lots of reports now of russians killing and raping civilians. Coincidentally also just saw a video of an old couple getting shredded by an autocannon. That's some vile ****, man. I think the "innocent russian soldier"-trope has worn off by now.

I do agree that the west is also very much to blame for this conflict, but as said before... if living under russian rule wouldn't be such a crap deal, more people might consider it. If russia would be able to fix itself and be more trustworthy, the bordering countries might not try so hard to get away from them...

Hmm, I just had an idea regarding old german territories ...

Grinded to level 44 now in Elden Ring. Only because I wanted one of those frog helmets, but the damn guy just isn't dropping any. Multiple shields, weapons, clothes, but not the god damn helmet. If there is one thing I'm really bleh about in Elden Ring it's that you don't really find armor sets in the world anymore. Stuff is now dropped by mobs at random.

I still remember the one scene in s1 where Picard is standing in his office and out of nowhere comes a wild camera shot of his old clock with 110% lens flares etc. For me, this is exactly what this show is. Totally random and lots of lens flares that nobody asked for.

Also russia is now on path to be a full nazi state. With all the propaganda and crap they are doing now -- I think it's dangerous to let them just keep going as if nothing happened. Here are some more thoughts that I found interesting:

Thing is... what guarantees that russia won't just invade again in 5 years? Demilitarizing ukraine smells like a trap to me.

What about the oil and gas they found? Does that all fall under crimea territory? If so, I doubt they are going to take the deal.

Looks like mainstream media is slowly catching up to what we know for a while already.

I thought DS3 was much easier. I almost completely breezed through the game. Was in shock when I suddenly saw the end scene. Never finished DS1. I thought some of the mechanics were too annoying and random. For example the bonfire upgrades pissed me off, because I never knew where it makes sense to use them. If someone asks me with what DS game to start ... honestly, I couldn't even answer. Personally I started with DS2 and liked it, played all the DLCs even. However, one thing is for sure ... if you start one (and like it), you're probably going to pump 60 to 100 hours into it.

Looks like russia is bringing in new top of the line military hardware to the frontlines:

lol that one sticker on the laptop says Geilenkirchen, which is a town at the very western border of germany. https://www.google.com/maps/place/52511+Geilenkirchen/@50.6911199,6.8916398,7z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x47c0a452466c9121:0x42760fc4a2a7b00!8m2!3d50.967168!4d6.1174584 (there is also a NATO base, so that much checks out) My guess is that this is some super old crap that wasn't used anymore, and it somehow made its way over there. Probably given to the ukraine military and then it somehow landed there, who knows.

Why do you have 7 or 8 souls like games if you don't like playing them?

I dunno. Usually the only way for me to figure out the story in their games is if I read it in a walkthrough / wiki article.

Bit weird, but I wonder if Covid actually saved us. I'm pretty sure without it f'ing everything up, Trump would have easily been reelected. It doesn't need a genius to figure out what he would have done in this situation.

What I find more interesting is that Putin doesn't seem to be in the same room as these air hostesses whom he explains the current situation right now .. for some reason.

Apparently russia is thinking about making software piracy legal. Tells you how bad things are.

I started as the knight guy. Rolling is extremely inefficient, which feels so wrong after grinding Bloodborne for 100s of hours and being able to jump out of the way of almost everything. Though I do seem to be getting a little more agile now. I remember that back in DS2/3 I constantly used the shield and barely dodged at all. In hindsight, I feel like the Bloodborne system ... does feel somewhat better. Also I'm really missing to regen some hitpoints when quickly attacking enemies after getting hit. Not sure yet what to think of the open world... it feels so extremely big and overwhelming. Half the time I'm just running through the landscape but can't really find anything of interest. In the games prior there was always something interesting around every corner. Now I'm just looting whatever plants I walk over and haven't really found anything fancy at all. Couldn't help myself and looked up some armors on the wiki. There's some stuff that looks super fancy and I need to get my hands on it. But outside of that ... I really want to play Bloodborne now.

I completely forgot how much I suck in the beginning of every Souls game. What's funny is that I am barely using my shield... thanks to Bloodborne. Now I have to relearn the combat again, and once I switch back to Blooborne at some point, I'm going to completely suck again.

Is it time to buy MREs? Preferable not some that have run out since 8 years.

Don't have any of the reported stuttering in Elden Ring so far - runs pretty good actually, even though my pc is god knows how old. However, I think it's been a long time since my graphics card was running this hot.