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*relived Austrian noises* What makes a country turn neutral? Lust for natural gas?

As Lisbon is at the other end of Europe I assume it is a call for the conquest of the entire continent.

There has been an official statement from Larian regarding the fact that the ACT III problems got worse again after some improvement. So if you are a standard RPG gamer that grabs a lot of red marked stuff it sounds like you are fucked until the patch. Performance during my current playtrough is definitely worse.

Probably a combination of that and that you can't stay home without sick leave anymore as there are no more quarantine rules. I have heard the some care homes(elderly or disabled people) encourage sick leave even with very mild symptoms to keep the inhabitants safe now that the option of quarantine is gone. Other respiratory infections are also at an all time high except the proper flu which is about the same as last year around this time(about 400 active cases).

They don't know how many people are currently infected with COVID in Austria but they have released sick leave numbers and in that case they still test. Last week there were 29164 people on sick leave with COVID. The number for the same week last year was 19802.

That is pretty standard for so-called democracies sadly and I believe it is called enhanced interrogation.

Legally when it comes to human rights there is usually no difference between prepubescent kids and teenagers but that is obviously not true when it comes to what people feel and most countries do have laws the punish teenagers harder than younger kids. Emotionally people will usually feel way more sympathy towards a little girl then a teenage boy. That is nothing new and pretty widespread I feel. Obviously nobody should be detained indefinitely without charges but that people feel that those two cases are not equivalent should not surprise anyone.

I would be willing to check it out but I'm not paying for Bild lol.

Well at least according to the limited data in Austria the current covid wave is one of the biggest if not the biggest ever infection wise but not in severity(waste water analysis). Nothing out of the ordinary symptom wise afaik. However there is evidence that getting Cvoid again and again is not particularly good for your immune system and that might make it easier for other infections. But it feels like lot of people have doubled down on doing as much as possible while having a mild case of an infectious disease and there is next to no masking in German language countries now. Far less than in left leaning US areas.

Lilith finally showed up in the Fraiser reboot and I enjoyed that a lot. I'm a big fan of the character having watched most of Cheers by now on top of Fraiser.

I don't but this article downplays the violent aspect from the very start.

I like it that your quoted part starts without this. No mention at all on why western media focuses on the "armed struggle" as the article calls terror attacks that it avoids mentioning. 1972 is actually the year of the Munich terror attack. The next ten years saw multiple terror attacks abroad.

I stopped my evil Durge playthrough because it felt a bit unsatisfying. A lot of the evulz options were fun but playing evil felt unsatisfying otherwise. As I suspect that future patches will improve upon some of the evil content I decided to play goodish again. I have restarted multiple times before I played my first character(a boring half-elf sorcerer) to act 3 and reached act 2 with my evulz Durge gnome and a hith barbarian(both add a lot of fun dialogue options with that combo). Now I'm playing with a non-evil Durge drow bard and this combo seems to have even more options than the gith/barb combo. Bard is a lot more fun than I expected. A great class in this game. I'm playing with Asterion and Lae'zel as Barbarians and Gale as Sorcerer. My character does not do much I guess as hasted Lae'zel and Asterion are more than enough. I made Asterion a tiger heart barb for the lulz actually because the idea if him making everyone bleeds seemed funny but that is actually a strong combo although not as strong as throw berserker. I used respec a lot my sorcerer game to test options for my party members and I throw berserker and tavern brawler monk are were probably to most effective simple options apart from pure fighter which works really well in this game. Most op thing I tried was probably sword bard with the arcane acuity hat. That combo can basically disable anything in the game from what I saw.

He is very conservative in a way. It just that he has been cursed with empathy a flaw conservatives do not usually possess and our influence has corrupted him.

I'm loving the game and I still think that real time with pause would be far superior. The throw mechanics and item abilities and interactions are probably the most fun parts.

I just read Snoop Dogg is quiting the smoke. Good work Scot.

A lot of companies are suddenly buying those things from India. Edit: I'm from Austria and companies here are definitely doing as much business with Russia as possible.

By now a lot of companies from countries that sanction Russia probably have well established ways of circumventing them.

Well clearly that would not have happened if everyone had a gun. /s

I did not say it that it is better for everyone. But the idea the world would be a better place for Jews if Israel was not a well armed and agressive nation is honestly ridiculous. Even a Qatar funded news organisation calls it that in English. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2023/11/14/israel-hamas-war-live-israeli-attacks-displace-700000-children-in-gaza

Jews are not being exterminated or deported en masse right now. Works better for them than the historic alternatives.

Non-violence has not worked very well for Jews throughout history.

The people who will change there stance on measures on climate change because of her commenting on the conflict in Israel are the same kind of people that claim that their dislike for traffic blocking protesters made them switch sides. They were never on board anyway and just pretended at best.

Haste makes the game much easier. I focused on using that from the start because that was really strong in BG1+2 too. Potions are good for the start and the spell comes pretty early. Twinned haste from a sorcerer on two characters with bonus attacks is just OP. The alert feat is good on the sorcerer because you can ensure going first.

I believe Thailand has reached out to countries supporting Hamas. But much more powerful countries have failed getting their citizens released. They are not dual citizens though unlike many other hostages with non-israeli citizenship. Sanctioning Qatar might help to increase the pressure on Hamas leadership though.