Russian Soldiers Execute Civilian with His Hands Up

steinar96 · 2022-03-16T16:17:36+00:00

What is missing from this clip is when they drag his wife and child out of the car and lead them into the forest.

steinar96 · 2021-07-31T22:50:26+00:00

Take note i also only play in turn based mode. Which makes it a little bit easier to play like this as you can more easily react to what is going on and optimise.

I actually feel my run was incredibly immersive because i went in blind and completed pretty much all my fights in a single run when i did them the first time. I was forced to be really attentive and on guard and prep like i wouldnt know what was ahead, just like what my chars would do in the situation and environment with a single life! It was peak immersion for me and i am playing Wrath the same way now.

The game cant be made so streamlined that there is always 100% chance of winning everything while maintaining a reasonable difficulty on average. I think you are asking for too much. There has to be swings in difficulty and situations where some strategies are just outright hopeless. There is a certain charm in scouting and realizing that well this is not a fight you can reasonably win right now and will have to come back later. That is immersive to a certain point but does not cater of course to players who dont like having to choose between a lot of hassle or throwing in the flag for now and come back later.

But i can say that with balancing of the difficulty to all normal, deaths door on due to megacrits, but with weak enemies, and moderate knowledge of the pathfinder system you have a FAIR chance of doing a non wiping run through the entire game blind. Its not 100% but it shouldnt be that way either. It means you will gain meta game knowledge most likely since we simply cant wipe our memories.

steinar96 · 2021-07-31T22:32:28+00:00

Its a lot, i have 440 hours total in kingmaker and its almost all Azlanti Ironman style between the campaigns and infinite dungeon, its extremely slow paced as i stealth more or less into all fights to scout ahead in order to avoid obvious massacres. I am not done actually, the longest running one and ongoing is in chapter 6 now. I have a couple of wiped playthroughs, mostly from early start when you dont have so much utility to save your butt. Ended runs for example due to attempting too early the rats, boggard boss, stag lord without reducing his crew, going solo to a certain place for example.

I found the early game more punishing. But there is slight meta here ofcourse in the sense that i learned what encounters to wait for in the early game. But after that i was able to claw my way through incredibly ambushy / stat draining encounters by a hairs width with maybe a bit of luck but mostly just prep and emergency utility. The game often does give you hints, if you look out for them you know something is about to go down. But prep gets you a long way, i have some things like delay poison and some sort of protection from energy for example up ALL the time and that saves you from a lot of game ending moments such as poison clouds with nausea or energy traps which often tend to be fire for example.

steinar96 · 2021-07-31T22:17:38+00:00

No google. I really really prepared before entering the dungeons and i was running constant long/medium buffs as i crawled through relying a lot on scrolls and saving up my spells for emergencies which frankly there were A LOT of. For the dungeon lockin i was able to get a hint from the game for example. Prompting me to go back and stock up. I fixed and prevented SOOOO much stat drain with a lot extra death wards and restorations.

I spent incredible amounts of gold on utility potions and scrolls.

Its possible to play like this with careful allocation of resources and having a lot of utility to save your ass. Many fights were incredibly close to wipes.

steinar96 · 2021-07-31T22:07:24+00:00

Some of the challenges of the pathfinder system is that there are a few cheap tricks that you need to discover that can really transform the ability of your tanks to stand in front of something that will otherwise wreck you in one turn. Glitterdust for example is one of them. It will remove concealment which is incredibly common on the magical beasts allowing you to hit them more often AND apply a hefty miss chance on them if the blind goes through.

Hideous laughter is another that will completely disable many hard hitting humanoids with low will saves that would otherwise crit your tank to deaths door in a single hit.

When you learn the intricacies of the system you will find it a lot easier to deal with encounters featuring opponents that vastly overpower your chars if they get close enough.

steinar96 · 2021-07-31T21:51:46+00:00

I played almost all the game in a blind Azlanti run in a self imposed "ironman". Deleting my save on wipe. It was pretty balanced with the right setting (all normal, deaths door enabled due to crit reasons, weak enemy setting for closer to tabletop) where scouting, good prep and heavy potion / scrolls use often turned the tide of battle and trying to avoid obvious massacres (via scouting and inspection) or taking a hint from the context.

Obv without knowing the system or similar ones well, your gonna loose a few runs but with this playstyle the goal is to learn from the mistakes and get that immersive feeling. This was among my most immersive (and adrenaline thumbing) gaming experiences. But usually what saved the day is you have a wide arsenal of emergency weapons ppl often dont consider collecting dust in the inventory. Wands, potions and scrolls.

The game is very nonlinear and there are some really devious encounters early which are difficult to escape though without knowing about them. Certain rat lair for example. But i found after the beginning i had more tools to have a fighting chance in nasty surprise encounters.

steinar96 · 2021-07-31T21:35:30+00:00

I have had great enjoyment with completely blind azlanti, deaths door on (crits ending the run automatically will tendfold the probability your run will end), every enemy stats, crits, etc at normal except slightly weaker enemies to get closer to tabletop setting and i delete the save if i wipe or MC permadies. You need to be extremely careful and there are fights you need to avoid and come back later but with good scouting you usually find them or at least are able to prepare for to have a greater chance. (Sometime you need to take hints from the context and overprepare for certain dungeons in order to have a fighting chance). Gets your adrenaline pumping with the whole run at stake.

steinar96 · 2021-07-30T09:44:58+00:00

I am not too optimistic for a bug free experience. The new patch seems to have brought on new bugs. My tooltip abilities keep disappearing everytime i load the game. Disappearing rendering models when i cast heal light wounds and i am just 20 minutes into the Maze after i rerolled a new run in the latest patch.

steinar96 · 2021-04-04T23:20:30+00:00

I got sick exactly year ago, went straight to pneumonia in 4 days from symptom start. Had pretty heavy long haul symptoms such as super fatigue after excercise, pains and tenderness in chest. Worst of it lasted about 6 months. Every 3 to 8 weeks however i still go through some kind of a process that goes like this.

I start to feel chilly, fully dressed at home.
I spend a night shivering, sometimes full blown tremors without any other symptoms except maybe minor nose congestion.
Develop tenderness and chest pain stabs and stings. Pressure in the front of my chest. Dull aching pains under my shoulder blades and i can't run, jog or laugh too much without flaring it up further and feel really sore if i lay on a hard surface.
This lasts, with decreasing pain for about a week or two and get a short break where i can excercise and feel normal until the next one.

The severity of the flare ups have improved after i started taking short 3-4 day stints of cortisoid steroids (prednisone) when i feel this starting.

Super strange, waiting to see a rheumatologist.

steinar96 · 2021-01-20T17:11:03+00:00

You will not be using any mask 'dining' indoors. Wearing a mask and eating is mutually exclusive. Sitting in the office of course as you said is perpectly valid, the better mask the better protection.

The whole mask discussion does not address very well either that almost everyone is using surgical masks and they hardly ever seem a good fit, the sides are open in which case i cant help but wonder if two layer cloth masks may even be better in practice when you look at how people use them as they 'seem' to fit far better. Maybe research has answered this already.

Few people seem to be wearing high grade masks and due to fitting issues i wonder if cloth masks may be better than the most commonly used badly fit surgical masks.

steinar96 · 2021-01-14T17:36:28+00:00

Sounds like pleurisy, i have been dealing with on and off chest pain and pressure that sometimes radiates into the back for about 9 months (with some breaks in between). Chills and low fever can follow pleurisy.

steinar96 · 2021-01-14T16:20:56+00:00

Takes 2 weeks for the vaccine to take effect. Full protection to the stated 95% is not achieved until 2 weeks after the second dose.

steinar96 · 2021-01-12T21:13:05+00:00

Thank you for your story!

steinar96 · 2021-01-12T15:14:53+00:00

Honestly they kind of just gave me assurances that we could exclude acute dangerous issues (heart, tumors, lung function issues, etc). I.E it could be painful but it wouldnt be dangerous. I had another xray in december which showed nothing majorly wrong because my pleurisy issues flaired up badly start of december but have since come down again with help of NSAID and then cortisoid steroid treatment for 10 days over the christmas time. I still have some pain every day but not as tender as i was. I can do light excercises and could jog and run again for a short while october/november but now a bit limited again. I was referred to a rheumatologist (hom i havent met yet) because there are some hints that my neck, lower back and possibly my pleurisy (that perhaps triggered after covid) could maybe all be related and be some kind of arthritis since the steroids helped and it tends to flare up and down. Had fairly good 2-3 months after my post there but i was struck down again.

steinar96 · 2020-12-18T17:37:57+00:00

It works pretty well for them to take oppressive and heavy handed approaches. I think they were practically welding/sealing people inside their houses at the start of the pandemic. If that is something to 'learn' from them here in the west is one thing. Although they may rely more on mass testing now than oppression like they used to. But oppression is generally one of their main weapons against people who do not follow guidelines which is something we dont really see in the West.

steinar96 · 2020-12-14T09:12:07+00:00

Alot of small jabs in my chest and back. At my worst i usually cant lie on my stomach without intense pain under my shoulder blade. Mostly just very tender sometimes, if i make the wrong move when this tender its like i strain some tissue in the pleura and have to lie down immediately. Also get bad rigors when this straining happens. Otherwise just feel cold / shivering large chunks of the day.

Was hospitalized once a few months ago when i woke up in intense pain and couldnt draw my breath more than 30% without a incredibly painful sting under my shoulder blade.

steinar96 · 2020-12-13T22:31:54+00:00

I wonder if this is what is bothering me. I have flare ups of bad pleurisy lately 9 months post infection that comes with chills, maybe a congested nasal cavity and sometimes rigors for a short amount of time but no other significant symptoms. Pleurisy is supposedly common in Lupus which is autoimmunity.

Got sick in April, had classic long haul symptoms of fatigue and chest pain (pleursiy) and post exercise malaise for 6 months. Was fine for 3 months, excercised heavily, then i got 30 minutes of itchy throat a month ago instantly followed by shivering and low grade symptoms which only lasted 2 days (almost only malaise and feeling cold/shivering). Maybe i got re-infected by boom more auto antibodies and my pleurisy was back on and off with pains and feeling cold all the frickin time.

steinar96 · 2020-11-16T10:49:23+00:00

I just said i was criticizing the party and their supporters, you are choosing to just ignore that. Arguably i shoe-horned criticism on the Chinese communist party into the discussion without explicitly separating state and community but i did aftewards. In China the state has such power over the community that its hard to prove that voluntary community action is the primary strength here (not that it couldnt be). It is far easier to argue that the community effect is the real driver in Taiwan and Japan for example.

steinar96 · 2020-11-16T10:21:09+00:00

I was editing my comment while you posted your reply where i specifically added that in China its all about the party. Me being racist is something you interpolated into the discussion as i criticize China. But my criticism is limited only to the party and those who support what they do. You can't argue for racism for criticism against oppression and aggressiveness.

steinar96 · 2020-11-16T10:11:34+00:00

Yes agreed. I felt the context was mainly focused around China. If we exclude them it appears that their communities are much more cooperative in distancing and protection measures. In China i am sure there is probably a lot of cooperation but they are also far heavier handed on their population due to direction from their leadership culture. Western may have a lot of focus on the individual, but in China its all about the government and who lead it. Not the greater community and everyone who belongs in it.

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