PK htiw klaw eriF
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Compared to the other sekrit endings, the Midnight Isles one is very easy to get, at least as part of the main game. So much so I really have a hard time calling it a secret ending.
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1 hour ago, Malcador said:
US politics is going to end up like chat in Counterstrike
Good.
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31 minutes ago, Sarex said:
Serbia in to West?
Yes. You see the world inside the giant ball of ice is constantly shifting. What was once south is now north, what was east is now west.
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33 minutes ago, majestic said:
I feel
feelz got no place in serious discussion *snort* *fart*
7 minutes ago, Gorth said:Look on the bright side. We have an Austrian and a Serb in the same thread and no weapons drawn over whether Franz Ferdinand had it coming. Maybe there is hope for humanity yet (given enough time)?
All monarchs and nobility have it coming.......uhhhh metaphorically speaking.
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24 minutes ago, Chilloutman said:
It irritates me no matter the subject at hand. although I try to not slip into that mindset myself. As for the boxes you mentioned.. dunno if its single subject there really is no need for the box huh?
If that was true then why did it take you a year to go off on it, and to something that was a tangent? I've seen Zor get called a Russian apologist for doing his usual pedantic aktuallllly thing and never seen you speak up about that putting him into a box. Really it sounds like you're more offended by a perceived slight against yourself than you are putting people into boxes.
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36 minutes ago, Chilloutman said:
well this was my initial point of you putting people into your box of wackos. Also not all people who didn\t want to get wax thought it was some space aliens conspiracy but just didn't want state to order them to get vaxed by untested vaccine. But you already showed into which box you put those people in so I guess my point stands. Don't want to get vaxxed? - flat earther
Every iteration of this thread has been about putting people into boxes, the good box or the russia box. That it took an observation of who was organizing the pro-Russian thing in Austria to set you off on putting people in boxes is pretty damn funny.
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Just now, majestic said:
So wanna talk about flat urf next?
Look, I know we've had some fun here but let's not go too far. Flat earth should be left in the dustbin of history. Scientific evidence has confirmed the giant ball of ice theory.
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14 minutes ago, Chilloutman said:
wtf, but those are related topics - food and obesity. Mixing pro or against russia with people not wanting to get untested DNA altering vaccine 4 times a year are related how?
Well similarly to how obese people tend to eat more fast food than average, people who believe the vaxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx will give them tiger aids are more likely to be into other conspiracy theories and be Putin fanbois. Now just like you have fat folks who don't eat fast food and skinny folks who eat it every day, you have anti-vaxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxers who don't like Putin and Putin stans who get their microchip firmware updates. It's a correlation that seems to hold true in at least three different countries, no one is saying that not getting a vaccine means you personally cheer for every Ukrainian killed.
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5 minutes ago, Malcador said:
Derailing is good, beats the usual crap in the Ukraine threads.
Sounds like Ukraine should get one of those weather warping balloons.
2 minutes ago, Bartimaeus said:See, the beauty of wording a right proper "this should be totally against the rules" insult is in theoretically allowing the person you're talking about an opportunity to back away and not immediately prove it as being true while obviously knowing that they never will. You can call someone all sorts of nasty things straight to their face as much as you like if you make it just ever so slightly vague. I never specifically said this person is a moron...just that anybody saying the things they happen to be saying would have to be one in order to be saying those things, and that's totally different! All I did was lay out the conditions for someone to qualify as a moron, and if they decide to post right after I do while matching the exact qualifying criteria, well, that's on them and not me. I didn't make them do that, it's not my fault!
Of course, it breaks down a bit when the conditions you lay out are very specific, like say...oh, I suppose I shouldn't.
Start being naughty.
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4 minutes ago, Chilloutman said:
look, I didn't started mixing completely unrelated topics (vax, russia) togather. If you can't see that such statement is ment to invoke relation between these two I don't know what to tell you. Its like noting that 90 percent of bankers are jewis. Am I trying to imply something by it or not?
You're comparing apples and astrophysics. One of them is an observation of general correlation and the other is fantasy **** that's numerically impossible. If you want to make a comparison, it's that people who eat fast food 3+ times a week tend to be more overweight than the general population. Does that also get you booty blasted?
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1 hour ago, Chilloutman said:
bullcrap, its you who is putting people into your nice little boxes of good and evil based on you perception of those things (vax, trump, russia or otherwise) but you want to feel better about yourself, you want to be the 'better' one, you maybe even believe you are... yet your inner me slip on the bannana peel and show your true color as person judging others by those exact boxes you put people in instead of each individual opinion of those poeple on any particular matter. Kinda judging the book by the cover style
Buddy, noting an overlap isn't equating anything. If 75% of RPG players like vidya game romance, it doesn't mean that playing a RPG is the same thing as smashing some digital bootay after 3 conversations and you'd be dumb to think that. I don't know why you're this triggered and you should probably not get so worked up.
5 minutes ago, Gorth said:Entirely anecdotal, but it sort of matches my observations of people around me in this side of the world too...
You forgot QAnon believer btw
They're also disproportionately Naruto fans, and watching Naruto is objectively the worst thing you can do.
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31 minutes ago, Chilloutman said:
it still amazes me that someone can put anti-vax into same group as pro russian by default. But I guess everyone needs class enemy
More often than not, the anti-vaxxers put themselves in that group.
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Twin Peaks: The Return.
David Lynch said it was an 18 hour movie, so I'm posting about it here.
So this is he second time I've seen this, and it's gotten better for me. Much better. If the original Twin Peaks can be seen as a vehicle for surrealism and an examination of the hidden nightmares found in America's idealized projection of itself wrapped up in a satire of soap operas and mystery series, then The Return is takes that, almost entirely peels the wrapping off, and launches in to some very strange territory. Even by Lynch standards it's a very weird movie with....you know what just watch it for yourself. It feels impossible to spoil because like the anime JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, what happens is so off the wall that accurately describing what happens would be taken by most folks as a joke. Yuge reccomend, this is a masterpiece.
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22 minutes ago, majestic said:
Well, this is from our former foreign minister's wedding party.
I am kind of uncertain how people are surprised by these 'revelations', but some parts of the Twatter thread are (not going to speculate about whether that is intentional or not) misleading. Christian Kern, for instance, resigned his position at the board of the Russian Railways when war broke out, and the reduction in intelligence sharing goes back to an earlier point in time and was related to a hostile takeover attempt where the
NaziFreedom Party (illegally) had the police raid the intelligence service headquarter over some North Korean passports in order to install a leadership more inclined to, say, look the other way when it comes to their connections with far right neo-nazi elements.The Schengen veto has absolutely nothing to do with any Russian agenda and everything with our ridiculous chancellor trying to score brownie points with the right-wing fringes before a couple of very important elections (one of which recently happened and saw his party lose a 50% +1 majority that they have held since the end of World War Two, just to drive home in what sort of dire straits the party really is). If tihs was at all related to any Russian agenda, then Orban's vote would have been different.
The spying part is, to borrow from a local idiom, an old hat that is barely worth talking about. Everyone in Vienna is a spy, and has been for two centuries now, and as the thread said, it pretty much was codified post World War Two with certain changes to our laws. It's part of the reason how and why we managed to get the Russians off our territory, and it certainly wasn't and still isn't just for the benefit of Russia.
It is also missing a few details, but what can one expect from Twatter. Our politicians were also constantly lobbying to soften or even remove the EU Post-Crimean annexation sanctions. Again, this does not come as much of a surprise, as RBI (Raiffeisen Bank International) is heavily invested in Russia, and it is also heavily invested in the ÖVP*, a party that has been a part of our governmen for 40 years now and is in really, really dire need of a timeout from power. Alas, for that to happen, the centrist and left-wing elements of our political landscape would have to work with the far-right fringes, and there's a better chance of hell freezing over.
Anyway, it is hard to overstate the amount of power that the RBI wields. If one is proficient enough in German they could read the Raiffeisen Black Book for a glimpse. They have an enormous amount of money invested in Russia, and act accordingly. Fun fact, the Ukraine recently put RBI board members on the sanction list, with the exception of the one board member who is actually Ukrainian (Andrii Stepanenko). Because... yeah, never mind, I think that's obvious and rather revealing.
In closing, because I have no idea what caused me to write this post now that I've reached a natural ending point, there's also the issue of the conspiracy theorists and Putin apologists. Those exist, in scary numbers, and there's a massive overlap with the anti-vaxxers. The FPÖ is openly garnering their votes, and they're rapidly approaching 25% or more according to polls. Politically, this is going to be fun going foward, because our current government it too busy with keeping itself from falling apart to actually address the issues the common people are facing. In the odd case they're actually realizing that there's an issue. To quote our president with his 300k yearly pay: Just grit your teeth. That's going to help for sure.
*There's an old joke. To explain, first one needs to know that the BAWAG bank was initially created by prominent members of the Socialist Party as a way for workers to have access to banking services without having to go to the bourgeoise and capitalist other banks. It was held, until a financial scandal and dire straits, by the unions and the Austrian consumer's co-operative had shares too. It is fair to say that the Socialist Party (nowadays Social-Democratic Party) once indirectly 'owned' a bank.
So, what is the difference between the SPÖ and the Raiffeisen bank? Well, one's a party with a bank, and the other's a bank with a party...
That's interesting and all that, but I think this may be a good reaction image.
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4 minutes ago, Sarex said:
The Balloon Wars have begun.
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I've seen Avatar but I can't remember it. Something about unobtanium and blue cat people fighting the US army and/or evil megacorp.
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5 hours ago, Sarex said:
What does it even mean being responsible. They are going to say they are sorry and never do it again? Our friendly neighbors the Croats, for an example, openly celebrate their Ustase roots and everything associated with that. Albanians celebrate some of their Nazi collaborators. Germany has neo-nazis in all layers of their society, even though it's a crime to celebrate it. The elements are always there, they are just waiting for a perfect storm to come to the forefront again.
I remember how until 2015 Germany refused to call the Herero and Namaqua genocide a genocide because it predated the codification of genocide under international law. I guess it's nice they took "responsibility" over a century later but that initial instinct to dodge the charges says quite a bit.
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16 minutes ago, Sarex said:
Well so far I am not finding core to be that difficult apart from the few encounters. I could feel the difference in the early levels between normal and core in that crits from archers wrecked me, but now on higher levels I just steamroll most mobs without any tactics, I use Nenio for the skill check mostly, unless I need her for some fights. I sometimes want to add Wenduag as the third archer just to see if my front line would manage to get a hit in.
Wait until Nenio gets Weird.
In my opinion, Archers mow down stuff like nothing else. Full attack at 50 ft can be devastating. Still, having at least one mage for control spells is a very good idea. I'd keep Nenio.
16 minutes ago, Sarex said:I would really like for Owlcat to do something like a Heart of Fury mode, where they actually add something to the gameplay and not only inflate the numbers
I agree. Maybe a "broken builds" mode where they all do monk dips.
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36 minutes ago, majestic said:
Not having watched any of Spy x Family and not being familiar with anything but Anya's character design and apparently quirky Japanese (which is, giving this the benefit of the doubt, hopefully where those spelling mistakes come from), am I going to regret asking what Anya and the salmon have to do with a Kitsune-dance?
Yes.
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9 minutes ago, Sarex said:
Mmmmmmm, I'll think about it.
I'll have to check, but I think the difference between difficulty settings is just the stat modifier. If that's the case, fighting Unfair Playful Darkness will be a lot like fighting the normal one in terms of tactics, with the obvious disclaimer that +8 to attack/AC/saves ain't nothing to sneeze at.
This is probably a relatively good thing, in that if Owlcat did something like Fire Emblem's Lunatic(+) modes and added various feats and buffs to enemies, the game would be unplayable on those settings instead of just extremely frustrating.
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4 minutes ago, Azdeus said:
Only if you're muslim, and considering the price of pork compared to other meats here the explanation is an easy one. I've yet to see a pizzeria that doesn't offer atleast one with bacon.
Cool, found this article as one of the sources on wikipedia; https://www.sonomamag.com/swedish-pizza-is-bananas-now-you-can-try-it-in-petaluma/
Someone that's trying to convert Californians to Swedish pizza
"Curry banana pizza"
No. Please stop.
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7 minutes ago, Sarex said:
That has become standard MO during the fights. But the first time I got him it was Lann doing all the dmg, kind of random. Should have protected the whole party from negative level though instead of just the tank.
Honestly as good as pets are I couldn't see myself using a ranger without the party bond thing. Stackable bonus with (pretty much) infinite uses? Yes please.
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Cinema and Movie Thread: I like to remember things my own way.
in Way Off-Topic
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The Elephant Man (1980)
The first David Lynch film I saw was Lost Highway. It was before I really followed directors and hadn't seen much besides tentpole stuff at theaters, b-movies rented for cheap from blockbuster, or stuff that was on tv. My memory is a bit fuzzy and I quite honestly don't remember much from my teenage years (thank god) so I can't place when I saw it...... but I think it was either on IFC or the Sundance channel. I'm not sure if I recorded it by mistake or by intention, but whatever the case it made a huge impression and did somewhat change my views on movies. I really want to see it again but the only legal way to watch it would be to get a bluray for $40 which I'd need a player for to boot. Maybe soon.
Anyways The Elephant Man is probably the furthest Lynch film of from Lost Highway, perhaps only beaten in that regard by the Disney film The Straight Story. Aside from a handful of dream sequences, the movie is entirely straightforward and almost feels like it could fit in with some of the old Hollywood black and white movies. Like Eraserhead, the sound is a constant and almost unnoticed companion that fills you with unease and really helps to elevate the film. I'll admit that the ending brought tears to my eyes, made all the more potent by the heavy foreshadowing that makes it seem like a slow moving crash.
I read John's suicide as an acceptance of his impending death and decision to die as a man. It says a lot about John Hurt's talent that behind that makeup he managed to convey such pain and dignity.
Beautiful film.