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The game, and you just lost...

My mom is in a Parkinson's rehabilitation program for the next four weeks. Had to feed her pet today. She calls it Hugo and luckily it is really undemanding, quiet and not much of a problem when left alone. A bit of attention and some food once per week is enough. It's also quite ascetic. All it really needs is some rye flour and a bit of water.

Play Sekiro first. It's easier to go from Sekiro to Dark Souls than vice versa. You might even hate your time in Sekiro that way. Or give up. Assuming you even want to play Sekiro, but who wouldn't?

In my ideal dream world the creative writing team behind a new sci-fi show would be Robert Hewitt Wolfe, Ashley Miller and Zack Stentz. Doesn't even need to be Trek, although arguably RHW's best work was indeed on Trek (he wrote DS9 episodes like The Wire, Hard Time and A Call To Arms ).

Huh. I watched a bit of that video and tried to remember my Alpha Protocol playthroughs and I can't for the life of me recall having that many bugs or weird things happening in combat. So what's that I hear on the wind? Yeah. Don't play master race games on consoles you peasants.

Sorry man, just having fun. I case it wasn't clear enough already, we don't know which game you're talking about. Oh come on, don't let him/her in on that. They're limited!

Overrated in which way?

Found a Honey Badger in Wasteland 3. Decided not to tame it. The game's combat is already more on the easy side and having such a vicious killer in the party would have removed the last shreds of challenge. I'm certain of it. Instead I tested my party against its mettle. Got a lucky sniper crit in so that went pretty smoothly, but damn, that thing had more hit points than the Scorpitron I came across. edit: Also, why is there a Scorpitron roaming the countryside close to the location of the first main quest? Do they spawn once you get to a certain level or are they just always around?

That's just the thing, there's nothing to pre-order. There's Early Access Grounded and Avowed which was just recently revealed.

Well... no. The game gives no indication as to what is happening, and it's not a quest. Just something that happens if you stumble into something that involves a tetradrachm, a defective toaster and a mysterious cave. "You uncovered the darkest of conspiracies." is just the achievement name you unlock when you find it. Which most people probably will not because it involves keeping an AI controller wet paper towel NPC alive for a long stretch of the game (or through some serious side questing).

I... uncovered the darkest of conspiracies in Wasteland 3. This game is so weird at times.

Ye pure shouldn't hae lit that damned connle.

Nah, I think he's actually trying to say that European women like Arab men because of their superior virility. That's some serious Beta cuck talk there. I'm not sure that's accurate though, that usually comes up when talking about the superiority of big black... male chickens. But eh. Maybe BBCs for Amuricans and Arabs are for Europe. Although technically they're North African, so maybe... who knows. Brown is brown. Also something, something Coudenhove-Kalergi plan, something. I hope @Azdeus will come along and post, because finding actual information on that Arab Party in Sweden is kind of hard. There's an article in a German online Nazi magazine and one from Russia Today, both extolling the Arab Party for demanding an immediate immigration stop in Sweden (especially from Arabic nations) and something or other about 80 something places in Sweden where the muslim invaders already established Islamic law.

It's midnight and there's a ruckus outside. Seriously, what do I live in a gentrified suburb for?

I'm pretty sure that @213374U is just laughing his butt off when the right wing brigade comes stomping in and demands government sanctions of private enterprise because they excercise the very freedoms they're usually arguing for (i.e. as long as it fits their narrative and said freedoms are not used to further some Jonesian conspiracy). Hence the "start your own platform" argument. I sure did. That doesn't mean I disagree. Doesn't happen very often but I think Skarpen's got a point here, apart from calling it an Orwellian nightmare, those were very much of an authoritarian government nature. The large tech players have undue influence and too much power. And yes, the government(s) should do something about it. They probably won't because money, but they should. Thanks, Obama! Right? edit: Wow, look at that @ callout not working. Hell... whatever. Ah, now it does. GG board software.

No, you don't. Gorth is Danish and simply migrated to Australia for the second time or so (not sure, he's zipping around the globe faster than other people are changing underpants).

Fights in Wasteland 3 are beginning to be a strange combination of RNGesus hates me. It's entirely possible to have a party wipe, then reload, do the exact same thing (or near as) and come out unscathed. Deployable turrets also seem to be really strong in the beginning of the game. Enemies really hate the things but can barely touch them and they deal some goodly damage as well. Especially with the mechanic perks. Also not sure if it is a bug or intentional, but there's a small arms perk called Draw! that allows for a free shot after reloading, but it's not actually limited to small arms. It also works with rocket launchers, effectively reducing the AP for firing to three per shot. Rocket spam! So go and grab some explosives skill on your small arms characters while it lasts.

Fun, random and useless fact of the day, I'm allergic to paracetamol. Got it once while I had lateral pharyngitis as accompanying pain medication. Spent most of the day feeling like dying (I mean, being sick is exacerbated in severity by being male :p), lying in bed and I'd only get up to take my meds and eat something easily swallowable, then lie back down and continue to feel like dying. I only noticed that it wasn't just the disease after I started waking up and feeling a lot better and getting worse again after swallowing the pills. Turns out that very rare side effects of paracetamol are swelling of the vocal cords and sore throat. Go figure.

I'm thinking about restarting and playing more of a law and order style game.

The save files also seem to have hash information and two file size values. If you play around with the files you might get... dunno, some sort of weird crap from the game when it realizes during loading that the save's been tampered with.

The third season of BSG was really marred by how obvious it was that the writers had no idea what to do with the show after exhausting whatever creative ideas they have had in the first two seasons and the opening of season three on New Caprica, which I would say ranks very high among the finest hours of sci-fi on TV. Afterwards the show fell into a hole of meh and finished the season with the most ridiculous revelation/plot twist in the history of ever. After that not even the ending of the show was a letdown, although it rivaled the nonsense ending of Mass Effect 3.

I may have invested too much into weapon skills too early. Not on more than one per character, but it really so far doesn't look like the party needs to push for high weapon skills that soon. I'm generally at level 6 or 7 but that does not seem to make much difference. It's not like you find weapons requiring that much at this point in the game. Still thinking about restarting. I'm not that far into the game yet and with a bit of meta information from the beginning it might be a bunch easier to construct characters that can handle what the game throws at them, check wise. Not sure yet.

I just searched for "does Covid-19 cause heart disease" and found pretty much a number of articles, including a scathing take down article on Russia Today (although admittedly on duckduckgo, not on google). https://cardiovascularnews.com/frankfurt-study-finds-high-rate-of-cardiac-complications-in-recovered-covid-19-patients/ Looks like the numbers of the study were off due to mistakes that should have been caught even before the first draft: https://www.tctmd.com/news/message-unchanged-say-researchers-criticized-covid-19-cmr-study Anyhow, while the original authors stand by their conclusions it's certainly not nearly as clear cut as the original paper suggested. Science at work, I guess. I mean, except for the objections you raised anyway about pre-prints being used to make decisions due to the nature of the pandemic and the media making a fuzz as if even a mild case of Covid-19 will kill you in the future (as if all instances of myocarditis end deadly or cause permanent heart damage). So, yes, flawed study by the looks of it, causing a media spectacle. As to why, anyone's guess as good as mine. Terror inspiring conspiracies, malice, greed... wanting some more clicks, leftist media attacks on our freedom, pick one. Personally I'd go with being greedy for clicks and headlines like "Corona is going to kill us all through cardiac arrest" are perfect in this day and age, yes? The conclusions of this study might shock you. Picture #5 is amazing!

Five seconds of google-fu says they MRI'ed 100 asymptomatic patients who tested positive for this study and found more than half of them (60%) having myocarditits. You don't need to study Covid-19 to know that having myocarditits can lead to long term heart problems. Covid-19 seems to cause a precursor condition for future heart damage or failure, therefore the statement "Covid-19 leads to long term heart problems" might appear to be sweeping and hyperbolic, but it's a logically sound conclusion given the data available. Whether or not the sample size was enough or one study enough to draw a definitive conclusion is an entirely different matter. But based on the data available there's at the very least an extremely strong correlation, and as it always is with health issues, it's probably better to err on the side of caution... I mean, sure, we could also have a study of Wakefieldish fakeness here, but meh. That's what peer reviews are for.

Given the file size of the save games I'm assuming that is some form of compression. I'm not sure that was such a good idea on inXile's part. I read a few posts about wrap around troubles with variables, like people suddenly having a negative 90% crit chance and fun stuff like that. Would be easily fixable with regular XML files. Kingmaker had easily editable save games (albeit terribly large ones) and that allowed me to actuall finish the game. I would have been stuck at a non-firing event at some point without the ability to simply set a new event date. Well "simply" as it is, but anyway. I'm sure someone will figure it out. Sooner than later. Also it seems I was wrong about combat always starting for the enemy. They all just seem to have ridiculous initiative values. Kind of love the humor in the game, and the item descriptions. "Goes pew pew pew when fired" for laser pistols and "It's a motherf'ing laser shotgun. What else could you want?" xD