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I’m currently in Melbourne, trying out some Persian food before flying home in the afternoon. Came down here Tuesday because a friend had bought Evanescence tickets for Wednesday nights concert and offered me one if I would go with her. What kind of friend would I be to not jump on a plane and join her 😂 the concert was great though 😎

Continued from previous thread... Russian Ministry of Special Military Operations warns employees to stay away from windows, mines and line of fire

More special military operation this way...

The new Guild Wars 2 expansion (Secrets of The Obscure) launched yesterday. I guess that is going to put it's teeth (and tentacles judging by the spoilers and previews) into my flesh the next week or two. Sucks to be you JA3...

For some reason, I've had more luck with the 2's in the past. I.e. Disciples II, Master of Orion 2, Baldurs Gate 2, Icewind Dale 2, Portal 2, Age of Empires 2... the exceptions (from top of my head) being X-Com 3 and HoMM 3 being my favourite of their respective series 😝 I hope JA3 and BG3 follow in the footsteps of the the latter...

Latest two purchases would be JA3 and BG3 for me (both GOG). Started playing JA3 (and just checked that BG3 actually runs)

Bought the game. Played it for 20 minutes just to see that it runs Ok on my pc. Trying to get off some giant nautil (sp?), but will probably restart the game at some later point (putting a bit more thought into choice of race and class). More interested in my Lich run in Pathfinder and my current game of JA3 atm

I can eat pineapple with almost anything 🤷‍♂️

It would have been more interesting if you made her pregnant, then asked her if she still felt the same way 🤔

So... R rated instead of XXX rated?

I know from programming both rules based and neural network based AI's in the dark and grim past, that the latter in particular is very resource demanding. Which is why I suspect it's not widely used to create "better AI's" in games. Rules based depends entirely on the rules as defined by the designer of course. No fun having an opponent that can out think and out smart you, if it also brings your PC to a grinding halt (despite outrageous hardware requirements)

Oooh, looks like one of the combatants may start to get cold feet... https://www.bbc.com/news/business-66494113 In a post on his social media site Threads, the Meta boss said he had offered Mr Musk "a real date" but the rival entrepreneur had made excuses. Mr Musk had earlier on Sunday suggested on his own messaging site X, formerly known as Twitter, that he was willing to fight as early as Monday. The billionaires agreed to the bout in June, sparking huge media attention. But despite egging each other on for months, the rivals have yet to secure a date, raising doubts the fight will ever go ahead. ... There can be only one!

I once had a Marklin Mini Club model train set (Z Scale)... not quite as ambitious as this 😂

Upcoming cage fight between Musk and Zuckerberg could be hosted in Italy. Ladies and Gentlemen place your bets… https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66480636

Sometimes the "simple" things can be enjoyable too. Simple in quotes, because I'm fairly sure there is absolutely nothing simple in the skills required to pull off a song like that, but simple in its composition. No subtitles and no clue what she's singing. Could be a love story, declaration of war, the apocalypse or enjoy the sunshine at the coast... (Bulgarian to the best of my knowledge from the context)

Not really... if I understood it correctly, you need either the demon or devil or whatever path (unmodded game) 😢

This game needs more Nocticula romance mods!... 🥰 Anyway, split off from previous path... https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/131386-pathfinder-wrath-of-the-righteous-part-6/

More Pathfinder along this path....

Nice stuff in there. Glad Pentiment did "better than expected" when it came to reception. If anyone had asked me a few years ago, Grounded would have been my candidate for a niche game with a tiny cult following (and not 10 million players) 😂 Interesting bits about Avowed. Sounds like the decision to ram multiplayer down its throat at all cost was what cased it to hiccup and get in trouble at some point (until the focus changed)

Announcing your intent on the front months in advance is quite counter productive. It may help boost domestic morale, but it will in the end get more of your own people killed (needlessly). A situation where secrecy and the element of surprise would have worked wonders. But that is in an ideal world (of course, in an ideal world there wouldn't have been a war in the first place), in the real world, you have to work with what you have and that is being the fall guy for 15 western countries waging a proxy war against Russia (the latter only having themselves to thank for it). The west gets to feed its starving media and tabloids, Ukraine gets to do the dying.

A bit of light entertainment for the math geeks out there...

Speaking of nostalgia...

Childhood memories... yes, I know, this was a year or two before I was born, but my parents had radio and believe it or not, this stuff was played all the way to the end of the 60's 😎

Not having an ssd drive to dedicate to a game means BG3 will go down the waiting list somewhat. My wallet thank you 😁 I suspect it has to do with a lot of frequent loading of smaller assets.

That's more than the total annual GDP of each of the countries 84-190 on the list of countries sorted by GDP Edit for those curious: https://www.worldometers.info/gdp/gdp-by-country/