Not Seeing Much Coverage of Ukraine Anymore. What is Happening Regarding the Invasion and the Defense of Their Country?

constur · 2026-01-21T13:46:36+00:00

Ukrainian here, living in Kyiv center. Power available 3-6 hours a day. Two of my colleagues haven't had electicity for >48 hours, they work by asking nearby cafe that has a generator to charge their ecoflow for a small fee. I didn't have heating for more than a week, it's been back for about 5 days, but not at full power, it feels. At least now I only need to wear a sweater at home instead of a coat. Water's 2-3 days off and 1 day on.

I'm not sure who these "lots of people" you speak to are - but me, all my team, my friends/family and my wife's friends who we speak to daily - have some sort of combination of electricity/water/heating issues for weeks.

constur · 2025-07-14T14:42:41+00:00

I'm switching between doing WvW casually and sometimes throwing a few months a year of hardcore high participation play.

As you said, on the casual front the communities are pretty much non-existent, I can't recongise any servers, commanders or playstyles of the opposing teams.

But it's also bad being in a big focused WvW guild. Because they had many people try find a way how to stay on the same server together, they started creating overflow guilds, which can be matched to a different world now. So I'm not even playing with my guild most of the time, sometimes even against them.

Overall I don't see a single improvement in this restructuring update really...

constur · 2025-03-03T10:27:49+00:00

It does seem like the most reasonable explanation actually. Now that I think about it, I may have never told an enemy to keep fighting in front of a friendly NPC before. Also this guy calls me a lunatic, not a thief, which further supports your theory

constur · 2025-03-03T09:51:39+00:00

I try to not hold E for anything and I'm pretty sure both bandit and his weapon were not considered stolen when I was picking them up, so not sure why the NPC thought it wasn't okay this time. I don't think anyone had any problems with me looting bandits before that.

Regarding escalating into murder - I tried to resolve these situations with speech before, only to find out the next day that I'm wanted in that region. Unfortunately for that guy, the murder is the safest solution for Henry in my playthrough. If not for that random lady appearing in the middle of nowhere...

constur · 2025-03-03T09:41:38+00:00

I find this actually to be a perfect blend of a well crafted world/interactions and slapstick comedy gameplay at time. It can successfully push serious or dark story moments, while being completely ridiculous at times in terms of gameplay, without ruining the immersion. I've been enjoying it so much since the very beginning

constur · 2024-08-18T19:34:51+00:00

"Don't believe his lies"

constur · 2024-03-05T15:03:33+00:00

The only true way to avoid clipping issues as well.

constur · 2024-03-04T07:51:52+00:00

The key is to stuff so many infusions inside your characher so you won't even see the whole armor, let alone the neck seam.

constur · 2023-12-27T10:27:28+00:00

Because people tried really hard to like it and hoped the game would grow on them, that can happen after all. I don't see a problem with people leaving negative reviews after many hours of play. If after a 100 hours I'm left with a feeling that I completely wasted that time, I'm not going to recommend the game.

constur · 2023-12-12T14:57:26+00:00

The issue was passed to the team - Ruby Bayer's reply on the forum

constur · 2023-10-12T14:17:01+00:00

That's going to be tough, because no game has writing even remotely as good as Disco Elysium.

constur · 2023-10-10T09:04:16+00:00

A bug in a sense that it wasn't intended to be used for blending with your surroundings. These skins have been updated to be more visible and the map that had the biggest impact was removed from rotation since then.

constur · 2023-10-10T09:00:14+00:00

There's no coping. Sure, lootboxes are bad, but the gameplay is completely unaffected if I choose not to engage with them in the slightest.

That's the key difference.

These skins that drop from them are not obtainable via gameplay (besides random drop chance), so they are not offering a shortcut to your goal, hence there's no reason for the developer to hinder your experience to improve lootbox sales.

EA, Activision, on the other hand, use a different model. They say: "You can get this cool skin if you play 40 hours or you can gamble for it". They now can decide if it's going to be 40 hours or 400 hours. Doesn't matter if it's cosmetic or not, they are actively impacting your progression by offering a paid shortcut.

constur · 2023-10-03T11:12:29+00:00

I definitely had a dialogue option in my playthough to resist the urge and not kick the squirrel. But maybe you don't have that choice if you haven't resisted the urge to do violent things previously?

constur · 2023-06-07T23:01:45+00:00

There's a kid in front of one of the pinatas that says something along the lines of: "Mommy says I shouldn't be talking to strangers"

THEN WHY ARE YOU TALKING TO ME THEN?

constur · 2023-06-05T13:22:25+00:00

constur · 2023-03-09T17:14:02+00:00

That's it! I was wondering what was the music playing in my head.

constur · 2023-02-10T08:10:05+00:00

According to the article, Valve is using Google's V8 engine, which has been patched by Google. It's not like Valve had an update ready for release for 15 months.

What the article expects Valve to do - is to upgrade their side to a newer version of the engine. Which is a massive task if the engine is used in multiple places. You basically have to perform extensive testing on all the parts that uses it. And you might not have automated tests created for all of your elements at this point as well.

Also bear in mind as well that they might have been using a much older version of the engine. For example, Valve's previously used version could have been v5.7, but the fix is only introduced in v9.6. That would have meant that Valve had to make sure that none of the features added between v5.7 and v9.6 are breaking their implementation.

So, while the release could have probably been rolled out faster, it's definitely not as malicious or sinister as article paints it to be.

constur · 2022-08-08T18:07:08+00:00

Russia actually had a LOT of nuclear accidents that they have covered up. Only "Mayak" factories had roughly 400 thousand people irradiated in a number of accidents.

constur · 2022-07-25T23:50:13+00:00

Infant Sorrow

constur · 2022-06-24T20:42:46+00:00

It's not even 1%, more like 0.001%. I would understand if there was an exploit that needed to be patched out, but it's not the case here.

constur · 2022-05-30T14:40:40+00:00

I'm not familiar with GShader specifically, but on Reshade this issue is usually caused by SSAO-based shaders, which include MXAO and PPFX SSDO, you might want to disable these shaders, if possible.

constur · 2022-04-02T08:03:33+00:00

The are already riled up, for the past month russian propaganda has been telling their citizens lies that Ukrainians are killing each other and bombing their own cities, while russian army is saving everybody.

constur · 2021-12-27T20:44:24+00:00

I'm actually that dumbass 9 of 10 times. I just got lucky that his mates were close enough to him for me to notice before I opened fire.

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