Because the previous >>28357 is autosäging. From the last posts: >>42501 Crusader Kings 3 first impressions by Rusbernd >>42504 unkown vidya making fun of Australia due to the lack of certain biome by Ausbernd
Last year I found out there's native Linux version of the Baldur's Gate Enhanced Editions. They are working well but I don't think I'll ever finish a playthrough again. Back then I finished original BG, and BG2, but not the Throne of Bhaal expansion. Damn long games. Enhanced Edition makes it possible to play this classic DnD based crpg on modern steel, fixes bugs, changes some rules, adds new NPCs with quests, new items, two new expansions (The Black Pits - arena fight generator?, and Siege of Dragonspear - which is a module for the original story, taking part between BG1 and BG2). It seems okay all in all.
>>51944 I concur. They could have got stuff like "Solomon's temple" unique building or some type of light infantry, slingers for example. And considering from all these "civilizations" they are the only one around for about 2500 years, surprising absence from the lists. I'm curious how the discussion of the devs went, for I'm sure the topic came up. Did anyone made a mod? I know a couple of Hungarian ones, I think someone even made one for Civ 1! (Was just a question of editing some txt files.)
Yes there's Jerusalem as city state in Civ 6 and also Judaism as a religion in many of the games (I think in every one that has religion as a mechanic). Tbh I can undestand if they conciously decided to not include Jews as civilization in the game. Of course they would make them look normal and whatnot but with how touchy some people are there's still risk of it exploding for some stupid reason and the damage control for that would be more expensive than if it was some other civ.
>>51887 I have it and I wish it was better, I dont think I can recommend. Single player is very poor. It's just a series of skirmishes that mostly play the same (they try to include some variations but I dont think they were succesful at it). AI is very dumb and not challenging at all. After a scenario you get to pick up an upgrade for your faction and we get this weird inverted difficulty situation where the game is the hardest at the beginning and the easiest at the end (I feel kind of the same with total war games). I feel like this game has been made with multiplayer skirmish in mind first, and the campaign and AI opponents were slapped on top of it just to be there. Another thing is I feel like developers dont exactly know how their game is supposed to work like. They were reworking quite drastically certain mechanics, and it was acceptable when they had their game was in early access, but it has been released as 1.0 full game and yet they're still applying changes and I dont mean slight balance adjustments. Maybe some of those changes are for the better, but again, it strikes me as they dont exactly know what they are doing and its not filling me with confidence. If you're interested in getting it anyway I'd like to warn you that they like to include more factions as DLC. Their previous game, Northgaard, has like 16 factions and only 6 are in base game. The rest you have to pay for separately. If not owning everything is something that bothers you (it is for me) then be warned about this fact. They already released House Ix for dune as paid DLC.
>>51894 Now this game I like. Played the tabletop version first, its very cool euro game with worker placement mechanic and deck building. The digital version include some extra challenges which is the normal game but with a twist to the mechanic, for example first challenge is you have infinite agents to place on the map but every one placed now costs you money. My only problem with this game is the pricing. The regular price for the board game here is 250 PLN and they're asking for 100 on steam, its a bit too much imo. If it was 60 i'd recommend grabbing it if you're into this kind of games.
Oh right and both games do this one gay thing where they base their aesthetics on the recent movie, and it includes changing doctor Kynes to a black, young woman.
>>51960 >Judaism as a religion I don't remember that. In Civ 5 I know there were these empty religions, and one could pick various belief systems, which were essentially bonuses. I just picked Tengri and that's that.
>>51961 I got a copy form a backup copy sharing site and played some. It is repetitive, but sometimes there are goals I don't think possible to achieve. I did not see any point in the factions, their pros and cons were just so bland, even after I got to know the mechanics, I just picked Atreides. >they're still applying changes and I dont mean slight balance adjustments. There was something I did not understand and tried to look for it, and they described something that wasn't in the game at all. Was weird.
>>51962 It felt too dry for me. And that movie thing just don't do it for me at all. >doctor Kynes to a black, young woman. Oh yeah. I was liek what the fuck it's clear he's a dude in the book.
Nothing much going on in Syria anymore. Bit of ISIS I see on the map, and the SAA bombarding rebels on the north east. Beside that Israel is constantly attacking into Syria, targeting Iranian backed terrorists, and Iranian backed militias, and apparently Iranian militias themselves. In Israel, the IDF still wrestling with some Iranian backed, dirty, barefeet, stone throwing kids since October... Where Yom Kippur and Six-Day Wars disappeared? Anyway. In Gaza they bombing Iranian backed Hamas, in Lebanon the Iranian backed Hezbollah. Sometimes they have a cease fire to release hostages as the Iranian backed Qatar negotiates it. From Yemen, the Iranian backed Houthis raiding the shipping lanes with drones and whatnot. In Ukraine the Iranian backed RAF/RuAf is on the attack. The initiative is theirs, AFU tries holding their trenches, forts, and foxholes. I heard couple of interesting things today, but would need some drawing and look up possible sources.
>>51954 >and more importantly incited a rebellion Arguably the Maidan was the rebellion. And Crimea and Donbass didn't want to play along the Western Ukrainian plans. But since Western Ukraine had some powerful allies, they got themselves a powerful ally as well? I am not quite sure what happened and why Crimea, but not Donetsk. I have theories and I am curious about yours (basically everything war-related), that's why I write here.
>>51955 Hm. So ISIS plays for you a secondary role compared to the primary role Sri Lanka is playing, because they aren't a state?
I am not twisting your words, I am taking them at face value and point out the inconsistencies. Anyway forget that I asked. Not so interested in your opinion anymore.
>>51958 That's not inconsistency. That is in fact part of Realpolitik. They marginalize the role of everything else but the state. They probably treat ISIS differently than an actor in foreign politics.
I just realised something... something spooky as fuck.
You know how sumo is derived from some ancient rituals? How it was performed in shrines, to appease the kami, to ensure prosperity? It was only later professionalised, and is now performed on a national level by salaried wrestlers, but there are still many religious elements, from how the ring is consecrated by a priest before each tournament, yokozuna entering the ring with that big white rope around his belt, to wrestlers actually throwing salt into the ring before each bout as a means of consecration. It is a deeply religious ritual, somehow performed to appease the kami for the entire nation of Japan. Kinda like how the ancient Olympic Games were performed on temple grounds, and were a form of vitalist worship of Greek gods.
You know when's the last time sumo wasn't performed as scheduled? March 2011. The March of the earthquake and tsunami that rekt Japan. But guess what? The tournament was cancelled a month before. Because of some match-fixing scandal. Yep, that's right. And the earthquake happened 2 days before the tournament was scheduled.
The earthquake happened because the sumo ritual wasn't performed. Because the kami weren't appeased. They were pissed and caused the earthquake as a warning.
>>51849 I read Miyagino was or is a branch of Isegahama or something. >What happens then? Can Miyagino-beya branch out again? I assume this is temporary. >Hakuoho and Atamifuji won't be able to face each other – not good for rivalry development. Not to mention the third rising star Takerufuji. And with Onosato we're starting to run out of promising new talents. Hoshoryu is veteran at this point (heh Takerufuji is same age). Gonoyama is new but I'm not sure of hist capabilities. Sometimes his fights are impressive. Oho isn't good, although if he could muscle up, he could counter skill with strength.
>>51850 I like Kirishima so I do hope it will work out. Luckily at least one other rikishi, and personnel are transferred, so not entirely new situation. >Hope he can recover. Indeed. Heh on Natto's discord there is a couple of users who are vocal Kirishima opposers. They see attitude problems with him, he smirks a lot apparently. He does do that but it doesn't seem haughty to me. So basically they just find him antipathetic. Happens.
Basho of May is approaching. Kotonowaka updated his shikona to Kotozakura. Hoshoryu is the top ozeki at the moment. He's doing good, pulling 10+ points in the last three tournaments, can he win the yusho finally? Twice consequently perhaps? I'm sure Kotozakura will be there trying to prevent him doing that, and claim the title for himself. I think Takakeisho is recovering still, and Kirishima is kadoban, has to pull shit together to remain ozeki. Abi and Asanoyama are back in the sanyaku ranks. Onosato is now komusubi. Takerufuji jumped to #6 maegeshira. I think there was speculation that he could enter sanyaku. A bit too optimist apparently. Not much else interesting honestly. Fingers crossed for Teru not gettin injured again.
>Given final block not properly padded. Such issues can arise if a bad key is used during decryption. >failed to process: img.cdn.nimg.jp:443 img.cdn.nimg.jp に対するhttps通信がおかしいというエラー。 ・暗号化キーとペアになっていないキーで復号しようとした ・何かによって通信サイズが変更された ・復号メソッドがおかしい場合(つまりプログラミングエラー) これらの場合に起きる。
Easter is here, Good Friday today. Looked up a bit of folk believes, and traditions related to this particular day within the greater holiday of Easter, which actually starts 40 days before, with the Great Fast. One group of customs is a type of health conjuration, all related to water, more specifically to fresh stream/brook water. Most often is bathing in it, washing oneself, just face or fully submerging in it. Sometimes done at early dawn. It could help with various ailments, give beauty, or just health in general. It should help with animals too, either the through should be filled, or the animals has to be led into the water. I like the one where girls seek out places where willow trees grow next to the water for bathing in it results in long, thick, healthy hair (on their scalp). Christianized explanation of this power of brooks: when the soldiers led Jesus, they pushed him into the Cebron/Kidron river. Another group is the so called "Pilate burning". A literal act is when they burn a figurine made of straw, which they name either Pilate of Judas Iscariot. This has some derivatives. Sometimes they beat the strawman before burning. At places a child was chased around the courtyard and if he got caught, he got beaten. At one place the priest hit the step leading to the altar with the Bible, and the congregation beat the benches with sticks. The custom of Pilate burning should be known in other ex-parts of the Habsburg monarchy - Austria, Czechia, Poland, Croatia, etc. Banishing pests - such as rats or cockroaches - can be done on Good Friday. There are taboos, such as butchering chicken or plowing must not be done on this day. There are places where they light fires, sometimes young men jump over it, in some regions they hold vigils at these fires. It was also customary to treat the day as if someone from the family died, and act accordingly (like dress in black/dark clothing, cover mirrors, etc.)
>>51916 >site that lists all Easter traditions around the world? This does not exists. Wikipedia has lots of things but missing even more. And they have biased editing too, they just skip what it doesn't fit in the picture they paint. What I wrote above for example is specifically for Good Friday, and I found in a Hungarian Catholic lexicon.
ITT: post interesting sattelite images and what's notable about them.
These are shots from Rondônia state, where human settlement is strikingly clear. Highways -most notably, the BR-364 flowing SE to NE- and their evenly spaced perpendicular side roads flow deep into the jungle, with deforestation, cattle herding, agriculture and urbanization (roughly in this order) following suite. This leaves a light green (mostly composed of pasture) grid dotted with gray points where lines meet, overlaid on a dark green matrix. Few other places have so many clear, sharp edges that can be easily seen from extreme heights.
>>51605 This and their other video on Saharan circles was just what I yearned for, I wish they'd do more on this format.
>It's surprising that there are places on this Earth, where people can just get the idea and move to a remote place and create their own settlement noone knows about, and live in relative peace, on their own. You can find private ventures founding new settlements on newly deforested land less than 50 years ago, but those made every effort to connect themselves with the rest of the world. To be fair, Anosibe Ambohiby isn't a closely guarded secret, they have to sell their crops and buy consumer and capital goods and some or most of this trade necessarily happens in the nearby villages. Given enough time and insistent interviews, the film crew could have gathered at least superficial information on Anosibe without entering the massif.
This blog post makes important questions: https://christiankull.net/2023/12/09/tany-malalaka-settling-new-land-in-the-western-highlands-of-madagascar/ > Haubursin’s excellent video opens up many more questions. I’d love to learn more from the farmers of Anosibe Ambohiby – how did they negotiate access to the land with nearby villagers and the cattle grazers used to free rein in the crater grasslands? How do they manage the free-burning pastures fires that must annually come close to their new orchards? Do they have connections to a trustworthy citrus merchant who regularly buys their oranges and lemons? And finally, what is the impact of their new-found internet fame? Will it bring more settlers seeking out the volcanic soils and plentiful water? Will it bring government services or the tax man? Will it bring dahalo cattle rustlers and thieves? They even filmed cattle on the road to the village, and another notable piece of evidence is the village elder's story - he got to know the area while trading cattle. I saw no fences but that land did belong to someone, no matter how loose property claims may have been. And Anosibe's settlers must have had a good degree of pooled wealth to invest in buying land in the area, they are successful cash crop producers after all.
One of the video's themes is the inaccessibility of certain locations from the Internet. But being unlabelled is the default state for the entire planet. Urban areas are the exception, you can expect Google Maps to name just about every single street. Rural areas have no streets but they do have equivalents to neighborhoods, and those are hard to find on the Internet. I know one such case easily accessible by a state highway, with a sign on the road and well known by locals, and yet Google has no trace of it. You might find such places by downloading massive PDF maps or shapefiles from government databases.
The vegetation on the right bank of this stream was mostly deforested , while the left bank is mostly intact. Usually you'd expect deforestation on both banks at the valley floor, with patches of intact jungle preserved at the hilltops.
>>51926 >happens in the nearby villages According to the video they sell it in that one town. Which makes sense as probably that's the center of trade with a market where people form nearby villages go to sell their stuff and buy whatever they need. I'll read the article later.
>that land did belong to someone, no matter how loose property claims may have been. The land can be privately owned or by the state. If the state lacks the resources to keep track of whatsgoingon, or lack regulations and people can squat anywhere perhaps they really can just settle and produce what they need. For me its hard to imagine for I live in this bureaucratic shithole EU, and semi-authoritarian shithole Hungary. For example we have a law that says I can spend max 24 hours anywhere in the woods at one place, and can't erect permanent structures. Maybe Madagascar lacks such law. Could be /out/ist wet dream. Who knows. >well known by locals, and yet Google has no trace of it I concur with the implication that while we have the unprecedented power to look at any place in the world, or get information just about anything, this also creates the illusion of all-knowing and makes us blind to massive amount of information that really exists. Language barrier is still there no matter of auto/AI translators, and possibilities to get certain information in governmental databases - which might or might not be accessible online even for the locals - is slim.
Read that blogpost here >>51926 and I suspect it's a Madagascaran practice of land development to let communities to form themselves, let inner migration free to occupy and cultivate previously seldomly used lands, turning the unused means of production (the land, the soil) to be put to work and naturally allow growth without state investment. I do suspect there is a merchant in that nearby town who deals in wholesale products and buy fruits and who then exports it. There is still that chapter from the book he links to be explored or directly the laws of Madagascar. I'm not sure I'll go to either direction.
Wanna watch The Longest Yard, the original Burt Reynolds movie. I only see two remakes, the Mean Machine with Vinnie Jones, and the Adam Sandler comedy from 2005. Probably the only good Adam Sandler movie. It's greatest selling point is the catchy tunes played in the background and the supporting cast. Judging by the screenshots it follows the original story quite tightly. The Mean Machine is adapted to the circumstances of a Bri'is prison and normal football. It was entertaining too. One more remake was made, and Egyptian one: Captain Masr in 2015. Not sure if it's available anywhere, or has any English dubs or subs. Also features normal football.
>>51901 I'm somewhere before the pissing scene in the book. Blackthorne is more pro-active, he tries to learn the customs, and pick up words, get a general feeling about their situation. So he's more like in the first miniseries in this sense. On the other hand, in the new series he walks weird and looks frail, from the book that makes sense for all of em, the sailors that is, suffered illnesses, scurvy in the firs place. Tho in the book from the scurvy they were recovering fast for they got boiled and fresh veggies in the Japans. I imagine they suffered wounds, that not heal properly due to lack of vit C so such could cause permanent damage in health. In the old miniseries however Blackthorn seems fit as a fiddle.
>>51856 Finished the show. 10 episodes. I don't know. Much of it feels just filler, pointless dialogs and standing about. There are couple of cool scenes, like when Toranaga's kid uses the cannons to kill Ishido's envoy. They demoted Blackthorn to be entirely observer of events. I prefer the original series. I leave my final judgement after I finished the book, because right know I can tell there is much more to it than either of the two shows provides, and perhaps enough in it to explain the new one's shift of focus to the Japanese characters' thoughts and struggle.
I'm looking for a car but I don't know much about them. I am thinking of a car like a Fiat 500 or a VolksWagon Beetle. What other cars are there like this, cars that are small so they are easy to park and don't use much fuel but that also look interesting and nice.
>>51908 I should also mention, this is an Australian army channel, they have released a few fairly well polished videos recently about important battles in Australian military history.
>>51908 I wonder if the routing Korean units could have been stopped and recruited to do fortification works, and perhaps create some reserve from those who are willing to fight. But ultimately Chinese were stopped so. Bombing own/allied units is a surprisingly common phenomenon.
>>51922 >Bombing own/allied units is a surprisingly common phenomenon.
Particularly for the US, what was that WW2 Joke again? Something like, When the British fly over the Germans duck, when the Germans fly over the British duck, when the Americans fly over everybody ducks.
Can you please comment (and like and subscribe) on my recent post involving a few Turkish girls I met.
>>51481 >Small story about 2 girls that were visiting my city from Turkey.
>One was raly nice and had a husband. But she looked raly overworked and tired most of the time. She worked in a hotel and went to visit Turkey a lot.
>The other girl was raly whore-ish. And she always told everyone around my social group how much she hated Islam in regular conversation (being srs), was super Atheist, ate pork all the time out of spite. She was also liek hyper feminist. Kind of a weird experience dealing with her. She even hated Muslim men and Turks too.
>>51913 >Now they're all down it seems. They are. This pissing me off a bit. I think youtube is fucking with the code again, they jihading adblockers those faggots. Piped seems working (liek https://watch.leptons.xyz). For now.
>>51918 I don't think that's Turkbernd. Could be the guy from bernd.group who mods the site and posts with Turkball soemtimes, but I don't think he is from Turkey. Could be the Bernadette from >>>/agatha2/ who is apparently studies in Turkey.
>>51743 >Also most of the escapades might not be glorious.
Ack bernd but that's the entire appeal of KC. Assbergers, srs discussions and the occational mishaps that life gives us. We can't just cover bernd highlights in life. We gotta document Alle!
After 18 years on I2P I am taking an extended break for personal reasons.
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Ciao tutti. I just want you to know that the problems with Endchan were solved. Well the most urgent ones anyway. Should be stable from now on. You are welcomed here to settle if you want. Questions, complaints, etc post them on /operate/.
Major update with the ship, I have to get used to modifiers again. I run into problems. Solved it but was fiddly. Also I really don't like that baby blue water. Something has to be done, but not a priority. Many, many details and possibilities to add, still wanting to keep it simple. I did not want to overcomplicate the boat neither, so no rigging just for the jib or how the triangle sail is called, so it don't levitate in the air.
>>51830 Impressive. So the rig with the model more or less works. Shoulders need some working on?
>>51831 >Spoilered Oh well. Spoilering is tricky. I have to retest it because I don't remember at the moment. I think the big checkbox needs to be checked all the time, and only those small which images need spoilering.
>>51834 Yes, I fixed the shoulders as well as some other issues. To make the rig I had to merge vertices at a further distance than I normally would as it would not let me make the rig with Vertices too close. I didn't notice until afterwards but that ruined the mouth and navel, so then I had to fix that but in doing so even more issues came up with faces that were facing outwards thinking they were facing inwards and refusing to be corrected when I tried so I had to do more work to fix that so I could paint them again. Somewhere along the line that failed to translate into Unreal when I re exported it and so now she has red marks on her lips. I guess what I would have to do is reunwrap it in Blender to get the image texture fixed.
>>51836 Sadly I can't give suggestions or tips on how to form such model. I chose to model Capn. Bernd as a lego figurine for a reason. Each limbs are separate meshes themselves. >now she has red marks on her lips. Looks like a chink with big teeth.
>>51848 >I think this ship looks /comfy/ and homely in a possibly nostalgic r low poly shot of way. Thanks. >how easy would it be In case of RPG maker I guess a lot depends on the creation of assets. If it goes well, the rest is given by RPG maker. Okay writing is another thing. >Like Donkey Kong on the SNES. On RPG Maker?
Justice Minister Moro resigned. He is immensely popular and was doing a good job. There have been high-profile arrests and in 2019 the number of murders dropped by 10 thousand compared to the previous year, a decrease of a fifth. This is a result of many factors: in the Northeast cooperation among cartels reduced violence, but the reduction happpened in other states. Legislation wasn't a factor as there was next to no real change in this regard. He retains much prestige despite the scandal with his leaks, eternal hate from the left due to being Lula's nemesis and repeated disempowerment of the anti-corruption struggle by Congress and the Supreme Court. What caused this was Bolsonaro's elimination of Federal Police director Maurício Valeixo, who had been picked by Moro. In his final address he noted that: -There was no legitimate reason for this as he had been effective in his post -This was a violation of the promise Bolsonaro made upon naming him Minister, that he'd have freedom to handle subordinates -Bolsonaro also intends to replace a subordinate of the director, the Rio de Janeiro superintendent, and possibly other superintendents, which goes against his spirit of giving autonomy to subordinates -A replacement now would create confusion and harm the Federal Police's functioning -Bolsonaro personally told him this was a political choice
Why political? He did not say this straight, but what everyone says is that it was to protect Bolsonaro's sons from investigation, and hence why the Rio de Janeiro superintendent is also involved. Their corruption accusations are petty for Brazilian standards but what's bigger are accusations they might be tied to militias. As always Bolsonaro's sons are his priority. This behavior doesn't come out of nowhere as he has few contacts in Brasília, having lived his career in the sidelines, and many reasons to be distrustful. Moro isn't someone he has a reason to distrust but his sons still came first.
>>51785 >sent in December >they sat on it for bout three months Hopefully for Milei Milei had time to prepare an alternative route to implement the fixing.
This really activates the almonds. And really typical behaviour, characteristic to Eastern Europe. It's obvious no previous methods succeeded fixing the economy so now that someone wants to try something new - which might not even work out but won't make things worse - they make sure it fails before even trying, in their fear that it works out. There might be some, who are interested in Argentine's economy never recovering, but others certainly sabotaging fixing attempts simply due their Pride.
>>51795 Well Decrees of Necessity and Urgency work in an odd way. Basically the executive power can send changes to the government without need of the congress. These changes technically last about 3 months until they're treated in congress, and if they're approved they stay, if they don't they're dismissed >Hopefully Milei had time to prepare an alternative route to implement the fixing. Basically he's gonna send the DNUs again but instead of having all the changes in one they would all be split in different ones. Making it harder/more time consuming to treat them. >>51796 >It's obvious no previous methods succeeded fixing the economy so now that someone wants to try something new - which might not even work out but won't make things worse - they make sure it fails before even trying, in their fear that it works out. >There might be some, who are interested in Argentine's economy never recovering, but others certainly sabotaging fixing attempts simply due their Pride. It's not really their pride, a lot of the changes that are being sent would cut drastically public spending, which is where a lot of money is funneled towards politicians pockets.
>>51798 Okay, so the DNUs are a defined and regulated tools of government, I thought this is the name of his reform package sent to the legislation to vote on it - and the senate vetted out before it could have landed in the commons. So instead basically means ruling by decrees in time of necessity and urgency. Ehh, Pride is larger than Greed. >cut public spending I think this term is a bit misleading. Governments still have to spend the income (taxes, tariffs, loans and printed money), they just spend it less on public institutions, bureaucracy. It's a reshuffling the percentages. They could cut back on the print and the loans, then shrink the spending in some areas.
Apparently India invests heavily into Argentinian lithium mines. Great mileistone.
Also found this great video, uh the info about the Indian investment - I found it here first, then looked it up. This pajeeta has an interesting way of presenting the news, kinda thorough how she close on the the point what she wants to make. Like about el-Sisi, section starts at 14:18 might edit out later. Basically she states the facts that el-Sisi was a general, become president of Egypt in a coup, despite this the - hypocritically - EU considers him a strategic partner and dumps lots of money into Egypt to curb the existential threat of migration. https://invidious.protokolla.fi/watch?v=GMyr0dLJLxo https://youtube.com/watch?v=GMyr0dLJLxo [Embed] >The EU is willing to reward everyone who can help stopping migration >They rewarded Tunisia's authoritarian leader Kais Said too I wonder if this will lead to an emergence of another round of dictators, will see Libya a new Khadaffi?