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Well, it's not *that* bad. In good news, I bought Elden Ring today, so I'm going to shut off completely for at least a couple hours, maybe even the full weekend. And who knows, if I'm lucky, I might even see the end of it before we're burning in the nuclear holocaust. That said, it does bring up quite the old forgotten fear about Chernobyl back into the daylight. Of course I was too young at the time to realize any of what had happened, but my parents got stories to tell..

Funny, I wasn't really sleeping well for a full week now. Every day is a bit of a mess and now I'm pretty much sleeping a few hours right after work, and then a few hours later in the night. And every time I wake up this feels so unreal, like none of this really happened. It also doesn't help that the last couple weeks were very stressful for me and already costing my sanity. Weird experience. Right now I'm just hoping that I'm opening the news feed and it says that russia pulled out of ukraine and all is like before again. Everyone is a big, happy family. Yay.

Went ahead and bought Elden Ring for PC, because I am weak. First thing I saw was lots of graphic artifacts on the screen. Luckily that was fixed with updating my graphic drivers. Other than that... visually it looks great. Kinda makes me want to have Bloodborne with that paintjob on it. : x

Get out of here, Stalker.

I want to buy Elden Ring, but I don't want to buy it on PC and I don't want to buy it on PS4 either. : x Also I'm scared of it eating countless hours of my time.

Do you really think ukraine would want to give all the new found natural gas sources to russia? That suddenly makes the country a lot less attractive to our western rich boys, imo.

Nah, I think you're lying.

Yeah, first season was good, then the problems they dealt with became "too big" and it just felt awkward. First season still dealt with smaller day-to-day issues and was much better because of that. Don't remember what I wrote about it in the past, but could be that it was one of my rants. : >

I actually started rewatching it again a few days ago. Didn't really work that well anymore than it did on the first watch, because there's some very.. uh, overdramatic scenes and word-throwing-around that kinda loses its appeal once you went through it once. At least for me. I still like it, but had a harder time to sit through a full episode. /edit: Oh wait, it's about the anime, not the Netflix show. Confused the threads and never seen the cartoon version. : >

Don't think I like the Ukraine to join the EU (just yet). Not sure how you people feel about it, but personally I'm not really in the mood for a full-on non-proxy war between NATO and russia.

There's rumors that russia is or was destroying fields on purpose. Not sure how much truth is in it, though.

Sounds to me more like rich people trying to build a story to get out of this mess. : > I can't believe that Putin is supposed to be the sole owner of this idea. Usually it takes a few more people.

Yes, they get drafted into the local defense forces.

You just have to look at the russian population and how they stand economically, and then look at Putins palace in contrast. I don't think russia will get better unless this kinda stuff changes.

This video is making the rounds right now. Just watched it and I think it's pretty good at explaining why russia is doing what they do and I think seeing it from this side, I even agree with russias perspective. However, as usual, the issue is ... complicated. We know that life under russian rulership isn't necessarily great. There's a crapton examples of that to be found.. so I totally get why people don't want this. Guess the tl;dr is ... if russia would stop being such a corrupt duck that only serves the very rich, the whole situation could look quite different now and *maybe* more people would like to join them instead of the NATO. I want to blame the west for this crap situation as well, because let's be honest, we love selling weapons and fire up conflicts wherever isn't our home, but ... again ... if russia would have been less of a duck, maybe the situation could look different? After all.. there is a reason why the ukraine population (and the other countries surrounding russia) don't want to join CSTO and look at NATO instead. It's a competition, and for me, imagining myself on the side of russia is economically simply not attractive enough.

Some people are going to get very rich soon. Shame we don't have insider knowledge to get rich as well.

He is winning right now, but I don't think he is stupid enough to expect to be able to win an attrition war against the endless waves of russian soldiers.

Sure, it's going to f stuff up hard in the future. I'm already expecting increased energy prices. That said, the current events also affect me personally in at least 2 ways: First of course the money, because I will have to pay more for certain work to get done, and second, one of the people I am working with had to leave his home, but didn't manage to get out of the Ukraine and is now drafted into the defense forces. Don't know how it's going to continue from here, but everything sucks hard right now.

meh, I'll give it 2 or so weeks until most will not be talking about it anymore. I can already see the feeds slowing down right now.

That's exactly what I posted about, but people were like lalalala, blocking SWIFT will be PERFECT! Anyways. I'm kinda tired of all of this and I wouldn't mind going back to normal again. For all I care, we could forget about most of this if russia just pulls out now and leaves them alone.

And here you've lost me.

Is there a bloodborne dude class?

Why do you look like some samurai dude.

For most people on the internet this is just entertainment. Next week it'll be boring again and already forgotten. Then everyone waits for the new season set in a different setting / country. Honestly, reading reddit threads and seeing the comments in the live streams is pretty disgusting.

They are recycling assets in every game. Personally I don't have a problem with that - don't fix what isn't broken, and remaking every asset for every game will drastically increase the production costs.