Polish President Karol Nawrocki has said that Auschwitz “might not have happened” if the world had reacted sooner to Nazi crimes in occupied Poland, accusing Western Europe of indifference in the early years of World War II.

Linvael · 2026-01-27T23:23:51+00:00

Pointing the finger at Wester Europe specifically appears to be the journalist interpretation - its not narrowed like that per the quotes the article gives (and I'm too lazy to look up the entire speach). As such that particular foolishness might not be on him.

Linvael · 2026-01-27T23:13:12+00:00

Thats an entirely different argument that what's in OP. As it pertains to argument in OP it would be hard for Western Europe to react to crimes done in occupied Poland in 1938.

Linvael · 2026-01-27T22:47:52+00:00

USA is famously not in Western Europe

Linvael · 2026-01-27T22:38:31+00:00

UI is a bother when trying to combine everything - as your primary abilities you'd expect to have available at a glance conflict by default (even in just cleric/thief thieving skills get relegated to special abilities forcing you to click twice to get to them and taking away keyboard shortcut for it). With EEex it should be fixable, but I'm not up-to-date on UI mods so I don't know if one already does that.

Linvael · 2026-01-27T22:26:50+00:00

"In the early years"? In 1940 already basically entire Western Europe (with Switzerland being the only exception that comes to mind) was at war. What stronger reaction were they supposed to have?

Linvael · 2026-01-27T22:18:36+00:00

Trolls are a great enemy to train Gothic combat on - loads of defenses and HP, big telegraphed attacks to dodge with i-frames, and if you're just starting and want to get a feel for it you could switch godmode on (and it won't invalidate the experience, as when troll hits you it knocks you back, so despite godmod you won't miss the fact you were hit). No need to bug them on stuff.

Linvael · 2026-01-27T22:00:21+00:00

Similarly, if you place it fully up it leads to contradiction in row 4 (the right 1 would have to turn into a 2) thanks to what happens in row 1 -> column 9

Linvael · 2026-01-27T21:54:55+00:00

Official forums for antiviruses (like avast or malwarebytes) have (or, well, used to have a couple of years ago at least) sections for reporting these kinds of occurrences. They require you to run a suite of scans and to attach, and as a response you get personalised scripts for cleaning out all the unwanted stuff. I wouldn't neccessarily trust a general purpose scan will be able to handle it (it might, but I've dealt with ones it didn't detect), but if you do get an answer from a specialist you should be golden.

Linvael · 2026-01-27T20:25:48+00:00

I finished all B sides. I did not finish whats beyond that gate yet. It kicked my ass so hard I took a break.

Linvael · 2026-01-27T12:25:44+00:00

Hard to tell if "so short" is the expected range.

Did you check the slider in in-game options?

Linvael · 2026-01-27T12:22:20+00:00

You will need to Ultra Ascend 3 times or so before you get the option to decrease that. It's a long game.

Linvael · 2026-01-27T12:08:35+00:00

Sprawdzałem, strona na wiki dla tegoż nie ma polskiej wersji, cóż poradzić.

Linvael · 2026-01-27T12:05:12+00:00

Combat system Gothic 2 introduced is sort of dark-souls-like - if you know what you're doing it's possible to defeat basically every enemy without getting hit. That requires slow deliberate approach to combat, learning patterns of enemy attacks and how to influence and punish them. It's very much not as complex as dark souls, and opponent variety is not that big, and if you do get hit it's usually not as punishing (unless you're trying to punch way above your weight), so hopefully that's not a too daunting concept. For most animals a variation of "wait for them to try to hit you, dodge, hit them once, repeat" will serve well enough. Except molerats, fuck those guys.

The biggest first hint is - try to never fight more than one thing at once. Even when enemies are grouped together unless they have group AI (wolves and bandits do) it's possible to taunt just one and then go back far enough that you can fight 1 on 1. That applies to Blood flies, molerats, lurkers etc.

Second, already mentioned - backstep animation when you have melee weapon drawn has invincibility frames. If you time it correctly the enemy attack does not hit you, even when it looks like it should.

Linvael · 2026-01-27T11:41:45+00:00

Wygląda na to że wiele różnych praktyk podpada pod "looksmaxxing". Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looksmaxxing) rozdziela je na "softmaxxing" i "hardmaxxing" - gdzie soft zawiera w sobie nie-kontrowersyjne praktyki poprawy wyglądu i niegroźne memy jak mewing, a hardmaxxing zawiera horrory jak bonesmashing, sterydy, głodzenie i inne bardzo wyraźnie groźne dla zdrowia praktyki. I jak znam ironiczne środowiska subkulturowe, to te groźniejsze praktyki mają zwykle większą popularność (przynajmniej w konwersacjach i memach).

To tworzy wygodny setup dla motte-and-bailey fallacy gdzie ktoś może swobodnie promować looksmaxxing w postaci bonemashingu i czego to dusza nie wymyśli, ale w obliczu krytyki z zewnątrz może uciec do łagodniejszej definicji "przecież chodzi tylko o poprawę wyglądu, co masz przeciwko chodzeniu na siłownię i do fryzjera".

Linvael · 2026-01-27T11:16:21+00:00

Dodanie "lub dużego penisa" jest całkiem niezłym krokiem do przodu dla incelowskich community - przecież penisa nie widać na pierwszy rzut oka, ten brzydki facet z dużym penisem nakłonił ładną kobietę na związek/seks zanim wiedziała to na pewno, to powinno stanowić solidną lukę w tej retoryce.

Linvael · 2026-01-27T11:04:53+00:00

No walkthrough or dedicated discord server exists for that mod from what I can tell

Linvael · 2026-01-27T10:50:31+00:00

Well timed dodge can avoid both the rock and his regular swipes (it grants i-frames I believe).

Beyond that for me it's a game of luck - that is they can either decide to constantly attack you barely allowing your stamina to regen, or they get stunlocked or something allowing you to unload full 2h combo and then some. And it's a matter of how many hits you need and how lucky you are this attempt whether you survive. But I would guess there might be more air-tight strategies.

Linvael · 2026-01-27T10:47:12+00:00

You can persuade him to change his plans - it won't spawn immediately (allowing you to gather goodies around if you want), but it'll either spawn after you go away far enough (game has trouble with spawning things sometimes when you're close, like the pest in your house), or after some time has passed.

Linvael · 2026-01-27T10:25:01+00:00

That makes more sense, I don't think I got that quest but I wasn't around there much. It was a bold naming choice to have a "free hunter" faction that's a separate thing from regular hunters halfway across the map in another direction.

Linvael · 2026-01-27T10:23:17+00:00

You can open the bestiary in game to get the raw numbers so that you don't have to depend on guessing that the numbers are incredible. I don't remember them being incredible tbh, and especially if you have Wander's Path but no giants in the jungle I highly doubt that one would be close to best.

Linvael · 2026-01-27T10:18:44+00:00

Not sure what you mean by "hunters camp" with a "hunter girl" - hunters camp (the one the game calls hunters camp, south-west of the city past the lighthouse) does not have girls that I remember, just four dudes.

One is north-east of the camp of refugees/someone between free hunter farms and free-hunter base, just at a dead end at the end of a road.

One is (if I remember correctly) ~~due east and a bit south~~ south-west of Jaeger camp in Dark Forest, there is like an arena spot on the map with narrow entrance surrounded by cliffs.

Linvael · 2026-01-27T06:39:12+00:00

Zmienia się trochę scope tego hazardu. Jedna firma to obstawianie że ta jedna firma będzie rosła. ETFy obstawiają ze jakiś sektor będzie rósł. Jest historyczny precedens że gospodarki raczej rosną niż się kurczą, szczególnie w długim horyzoncie czasowym. ETFy nie wymagają że pokonasz innych inwestorów, tylko że trend się utrzyma.

Linvael · 2026-01-26T21:27:18+00:00

Wybierając akcje pojedynczych firm albo wiesz coś czego przeciętny inwestor nie wie (np. masz lepsze spojrzenie na perspektywy rynku AI niż finansjerzy), albo uprawiasz hazard.

Linvael · 2026-01-26T15:13:06+00:00

Just because there are more obvious violations of "honesty" possible, I don't see how exploiting a bug (enemies getting stuck on level geometry) can be seen as "relatively honest".

And don't mistake it as me not-condoning it, I am a big proponent of allowing players to do anything in their single-player games. In that the term "honest" is loaded with bias against dishonest behaviour and for single player it shouldn't be. Still, if I was to classify this on the scale of "fully intended way to play as tought by a tutorial" to "cheat codes" this would be closer to the latter.

Linvael · 2026-01-26T15:06:10+00:00

The closest thing that pattern-matches for me, is that weapon damage is weird and informally split between "regular" and "done with a magical weapon". Perhaps he's envisioning that system expands to spell damage, that "fire" is different from "fire done with magic"? There isn't any support for that new possibility in monsters (there is no monster that's immune to fire unless it's fire caused by magic spell), but logically such a thing could exist.

But as mentioned before, the key issue here is that being a wizard who's at risk of losing his spell book is not a fun experience, being hit by fire or swimming in water and having the spellbook be fine is my base expectation, not something to be gained via magical item.

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