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Anyone here played Fallout: New Vegas? Always found it grating on the ears hearing people calling him Caesar pronounced with a K (I.e. Kaesar)? Well, turns out it is wrong... sort of. Because that doesn't make it sound any closer to classical Latin anyway, far from it, so you might as well stick with the established English pronunciation of it!

Still 10 days to go (game time, not real time) before I get my pyramid. Pharaoh Gorth Ank Amun I is preparing a... house? warming party Ok, no idea if that actually ends up with a pyramid building anywhere or not. But the idea sounded like fun at the time. Lets see what the actual end result is. My necromancy focused sorcerer (undead bloodline) had a some fun with those blasted trees in WinterSun. I still need to clear out some forest there Those ancient blighters hits like a hammer and their magic resistance is a problem for my level 10 party. Not at least because they have regeneration (vulnerable to fire) and my party has very little in the way of fire. A few wands of fireballs. Ember was down as was Sociel, so no help there. Wojthief (sorry, can't spell his name from top of my head) had burning hands and 3 fireballs from my staff all failed to overcome the downed ancient tree because it's magic resistance beats whatever those spells were cast with. In the end, 15 attempts of coup do grace actually did it in. I'll give the other trees a break a for now and work on better spell penetration for fire based spells before going back for the rest of boss trees (the "normal" angry trees weren't a problem, they didn't have regeneration, but those ancient bark fiends sure had)

Saw some oddball movie that was surprisingly entertaining. Spontaneous (I think from 2020). Part teenage romance, part comedy, lots of exploding teenagers

If they don't act fast, it will be Trump as president in 2024 and the end of peace in Europe... I'm sure he can find a few more fires to fan the flames or however the saying goes. Northern Ireland, Bosnia, Cyprus, The Levant, Kosovo, Belgium, Scotland, Lombardia, Scania, Moldova, whatsitsname the region with all the Hungarians under Romanian rule... so many hot spots, independence movements and armed conflicts lurking just underneath the surface waiting for the next spark.

I thought it was about the 2024 elections

A review of the new Australian governments climate policy...

30 days to build a pyramid? Where is there a Pharaoh when you need one?

Continued from old joke... https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/129222-funny-stuff-which-website-did-chewbacca-get-arrested-for-creating-wookieleaks/

For those who are in for the long joke...

Sooo many naughty boyhood dreams...

Sometimes guys needs to compensate for "shortcomings" in other areas if you get my drift. Sometimes it manifests itself as over the top brutality, aggressiveness or bullying. Heck, you see it on the internet too, when guys feel insecure in their masculinity

Something about Boeing and staying in the air just seems to not mix... (laughing because nobody was killed) https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64645457 "US air safety officials say they will investigate why a Boeing 777 jet unexpectedly lost altitude and nearly plunged into the Pacific Ocean" No, it wasn't a Boeing 777 Max

You need the right technology to match your adversaries...

Old but not out... I remember these old Leopard 1 tanks (I used to live near the coast as a young man, where the army had the target practice and general training area for gunnery and the occasional large scale NATO maneuvers) https://mil.in.ua/en/news/denmark-will-hand-over-leopard-1-tanks-to-ukraine/ I thought Denmark had sold them as scrap. Turned out they were sold to a German company to be converted into some other kind of military vehicle. Now they (the Danish government) are buying them back, to be refurbished according to Ukrainian needs and then to be shipped off to the Ukrainian army instead. Old, but still with decent fire control equipment and a nice 105mm gun. I think they last saw active combat in Bosnia several decades ago by now...

True or not, I don't know as I'm no professional in such things, but read from multiple sources that true empathy in humans isn't really fully developed until past teenage years. Hence why kids can be cruel, vicious little bastards taking scissors to cats whiskers or fry ants under the sun with with a looking glass with glee... on a similar note, male juveniles have particularly slow developing brains when it comes to the part of the brain that is responsible for assessing self (own capability) and risk. Hence why they (young males) are the source of many groans and hand wringing at insurance companies (because they cause the most and the most serious car accidents) Edit: Iirc, that part of the male brain is seldom developed until after around 25 years

Depending on who you ask, those objects will either be Russian, Chinese, Deep State, BLM or Greenpeace (spying on Candian seal clubbing) objects

Nothing to see here, move on!…

I'm still looking for a reason for *why* I should upgrade from 10 to 11 Nobody has so far presented a good case for why it would be a good idea. Microsoft trying to trick me using every trick in the marketing beginners handbook, with prominent OK and tiny cancel buttons to the placement of the options and dark zones just makes me even more reluctant to do so.

As said, I wasn't quite sure which, if any of the two were part of the WP. Maybe neither. But in the western mindset in the 70's it was regarded as commie/socialist territory and therefore only one step removed from eternal damnation Edit: Don't get me started on Albania and Hoxha (the only true friend China ever had, to the point where Albanian was the only second language being taught in Chinese schools, making it one of the worlds most spoken languages, even if just as a second language)

Oh... just saw the local news. I better take in my garden furniture. It's getting windy the next several days... https://7news.com.au/video/news/brisbane-weather/dangerous-conditions-ahead-as-tropical-cyclone-gabrielle-forms-off-queenslands-coast-bc-6319998941112 Luckily it seems like it's moving in a direction parallel to the coast, so it's unlikely to affect the mainland. But... just in case the weather guys got it wrong.

Some recent Nanowar of Steel

Growing up, Yugoslavia (i.e. Serbia and its friendly neighbours) and Romania were "The Eastern Bloc". Until they decided that the CCCP wasn't their friend and picked the third option so to speak. Not part of EU/NATO, not part WP (I should say affiliated with, as they were not technically WP countries iirc). Nationalism eventually put an end to Tito's Yugoslavia and... people got fed up with the Ceausescu family in Romania. Edit: I remember when Nikolai and his missus got put up against the wall and executed by firing squad. Soooo many red ears in a lot of western countries, because they had all heaped medals and honours on him, because he was a light in the dark, a beacon of freedom standing up to the mighty oppressors in the CCCP. Of course, the guy praised with medals and honours was a worse tyrant and despot than Saddam Hussein.

Oh my, heathen! The sense of relief when I got a gigantic HDD (my first hard drive ever) for my first Commodore Amiga (Amiga 500) was immense. Spent days copying stuff from the 3.5" floppies to the HDD so I could have all software in one place I'm trying to remember what the size was. I *think* it was 10GB, but my memory is a bit fuzzy. I do remember there was a necessary hack to be done because the drive was larger than the normal physical limit for Amiga SCSI drives of 4GB, so larger than that. It was a similar experience to when I got my first floppy drive for my C64.... no longer struggling to find the correct spot on old cassette tapes, where I had saved something. It felt like a HDD at the time!

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)?

I can now log into the forums from my work computer without having to install a private email client to authenticate the browser on that laptop. Thank you