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Progressing on Shadowrun Hong Kong, i like it a lot. Still not as much as Dragonfall that is my prefered Shadowrun, but so far Hong Kong has been very good to me in its own ways.

While the characters are good, it seems to me that Gobbet is just stealing the show completely, she's much more fun than all the other characters that surround you. It's not that the other guys aren't as charismatic, as they are well defined and have their own quirks to make them interesting, but Gobbet just outshine them all.

In Shadowrun Dragonfall i found that all the characters were on equal footing in term of charisma and character development so i didn't found them to be in the shadows of another one. But still it's great that the characterisation and archetypes are not some copy/paste of the Dragonfall ones.

Or maybe i just like crazy for that refreshing change of scenery and characterisation that comes with Gobbet , after those "down to earth but with quirks" guys and gals from Dragonfall

Anyways, combat seems to be easier than in Dragonfall, oh fortunately not back to the "it's too easy" that it was in Shadowrun Returns, but i felt much less threatened overall, maybe because i am running with a character very combat oriented, while in Dragonfall i started with a "pure" Decker that i was forced later to improve a lot his combat oriented skills due to how useless he was at some point with the many battles i was running into. 

There also seems i have more options in Hong Kong than in Dragonfall, there is less battles, and many of the fights felt they could have been circumvented in some ways , unless it was wrote to make me feel i could have done otherwise .

The matrix run are -very- different from how they were in Dragonfall (or Shadowrun Returns) , there's this real time part that feels very involved, as you need to time your move and the enemy probes one to avoid triggering fights. It's actually quite good, though it feels a lot easier than the matrix system from Dragonfall/Returns.

Yeah, I feel like they let Hong Kong get weirder than Dragonfall usually did (the mission to steal a bunch of bioware guarded by a cartoon-obsessed decker notwithstanding). Deckcon and the Feng Shui mission were subtly weird, and some of the stuff with your ghoul teammate and the vampire lady was pretty wild.

♪Gonna take on the world someday♫

Positive medical stuff is actually happening for me. At the end of this month, I have 3 vertebra in my neck fused. In early August, I have both sides of my lumbar spinal nerves ablated, so they'll shut up for a while and my legs will stop telling me they're on fire. In late August, I have 3 vertebra between my shoulder blades fused. I have movement on a pending State disability case, finally. I start therapy on Monday for severe untreated PTSD and an anxiety disorder that went undiagnosed until now. Everyone just lul'd and figured I was ADHD like the rest of my family. After I do a full suite of imaging next week, I'm probably going to be referred to an ortho specialist for damage to all the joints in my legs, and therapy for arthritis in everything from my hair down.

To top it all off, my brother and a friend I made on Twitch are teaming up to take me to not one, but TWO metal concerts for my birthday in September! I get to see Unleash the Archers and Judas Fucking Priest with special guest Sabaton.

You guys, I finally get to start healing.

Awesome!

"You can no longer enter yourself if you are a piece of enclosing furniture such as an iron maiden, a regeneration tank, or a psionic sarcophagus."

Qud has some interesting situations you can get yourself into. I assume a large amount of them are due to body-swapping shenanigans, like when you could turn into a fish, and probably wouldn't ever find another land-based animal to swap with, so you'd never be able to leave the pond you were in. Or when you could turn into the giant cats that fell asleep every 10-ish rounds.

Folks, a murder of passion isn't limited to I'm angry, bullet goes off, end scene. I think that's something that everyone here is aware of.

We have degrees of murder in order to cover the specific circumstances of the murder, not how (justifiably) angry it makes you or me. It's time to take a step back from the situation when we suggest that the court should have suspended the law in order to give someone a harsher sentence because he had a responsibility to uphold the law and protect the citizens thereof.

He should get EXACTLY the sentence prescribed by the letter of the law, and nothing else. If anything is going to be different, it should be exemption from things like parole or early release. It's not about it being worse than a "regular" murder. Remember, the crux of the matter is not that Chauvin was a cop who murdered a person, it's that he fully expected to have no legal consequences despite having dozens of witnesses in broad daylight, and that it was completely reasonable of him to believe that. The point is to prove that a police officer MUST be and WILL be held to the same standards as a regular citizen, and that has been done.

If we campaign for a harsher sentence based solely on the basis that he is a police officer, we will be reinforcing the us vs. them mentality in the long run.

At least make it equal between law enforcement and citizens. And remove all of the legal barriers to investigating police when they do commit crimes, especially when they're committing them to cover up other crimes.

Stunlocking. Stunning is fine, but when you can't defend yourself from being stunned repeatedly because you're currently stunned, and there's no prevention for stun, it's garbage.

Was just playing Genshin Impact (it's free, and not bad for the most part), and got in a fight with enemies who make you wet (and sometimes trap you in a bubble), and enemies who freeze. You have 60 seconds to kill them all, during which you spend about 55 seconds unable to do anything at all. And, because you were dumb enough to start this quest, about half of the game's functions are unavailable until the quest is complete. The only way to win appears to be to go through as many consumables as you have to buff your character and hope you get lucky enough to kill the worst enemies before you're stunlocked. I got lucky enough to drop a power that still did damage (boosted by like 3 different consumables) while I was frozen, which killed one enemy, allowing me to escape. But it was a wasted hour of frustrating attempts.

https://twitter.com/VPS_Reports/status/1398703555712753666

Portland Police brainstorming what to charge someone with after they arrested them. Just because you didn't commit a crime, doesn't mean you aren't a target.

I found a game that's still in development that looks interesting. You have a bag of dice, draw up to 5 each round, and can use up to 3 each round (unless they're hollow which don't count against that, or heavy which I think count as 2 dice). You have attack dice, block dice (block doesn't disappear at the end of the round, but maxes out equal to your max hp, same with enemies), heal dice, and modifier dice. Modifier dice add their value to other dice, so they're pretty nice. You can also find mirror dice, which replicate another die, including bonuses (a 2 that gets +2 modifier can be replicated, and get another +2 from the same modifier die). Your starting heal die is crystal, so it can only be used once each fight.

The sides on the dice are usually 1 and 2 at the start, and can be upgraded twice giving you better results when that die comes up. You get a reward after each fight.

So far, there's nothing to do but see how long you can survive, but I'm curious what they'll do with it.

https://alarts.itch.io/die-in-the-dungeon Looks like you can run it in the browser through that link if you want to try it.

Well, it's good to know the people who got voted in have the best interests of billionaires in mind, even if working people can't get enough money to survive.  Remember, they just cut unemployment benefits, and take them away if you don't take a minimum-wage job, after refusing to increase the minimum wage to a level that was livable 15 years ago. No money for that.

https://twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/1397265814810677255

They also appear to be okaying another big deal to sell bombs to Israel, despite them having just broken a ceasefire to kill off civilians.


Edit: About the abortion thing.They usually end up criminalizing miscarriages, because you can't really prove otherwise. Which is great for someone who is already going through trauma.