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Member Title:: Martyr of High House Mafia
Age:: 37 years old
Birthday:: October 10, 1987
Location:: 'sauga/GTA, City of the Lion
Interests:: Soccer, Chess, swimming, books, misc

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Skype:: pavlo.tvedokhlib

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In Topic: The game I'm playing is...

25 January 2025 - 09:29 PM

Been going thru PoP Lost Crown.
Decent MV, but light on bosses, compared some of the genre's recent greats.

Also been messing with a bunch of demos. Eternal Strands (the game from the director of DA:O) sold me without even finishing the demo. Fighting the first small colossus thingy was enough. The magic powers in the game are really cool and intuitive.

Also spent an evening going thru the demo for "The First Berserker: Khazan", which is a nice, cel-shaded soulslike. Also ran really smoothly- feels like some of the smaller devs are finally figuring out how to make UE5 games w/0 stutter. And MY GOD, the snow deformation is sooooo pretty, even on weak settings I'm putting all these games down to.

-Though I'm unlikely to Day 1 Khazan, cuz it happens to release the same day as ANOTHER cel-shaded soulslike, AI Limit (which also had a demo I played in Oct during the NextFest), and that one, being a sci-fi thing just happens to catch my attention more.

All in all, the year is shaping up to be pretty crazy good, despite the fact that I'm indifferent to most major upcoming releases.
In Topic: Ye Big Videogames Thread

25 January 2025 - 09:20 PM

Microsoft is bankrolling a collaboration between Ninja theory and Platinum to make Ninja Gaiden 4. Supposed to come out this autumn.

Team Ninja also remade Ninja Gaiden 2 in UE5, calling in Ninja Gaiden 2 Black Edition. It got shadowdropped at the Xbox Developers Direct on Thur.

Amusingly enough, neither this re-release, nor NG4 have the "controller only" tag on their Steam pages. Which makes me even madder about the Master trilogy thing being controller-only.

South of Midnight also looked cool, and it's only 50 CAD (if you're not crazy enough to pay extra 20 for playing it 5 days early).

And DOOM looked sick. But my home PC with a 1660ti probably won't be able to run it, lol. So that game will wait until winter.
In Topic: The Russia Politics and War in Ukraine Thread

24 January 2025 - 06:44 AM

loads of stuff blowing up in Muscovy tonight. The Ryazan oil refinery is not liking the drone debris.
In Topic: The Canada Politics Thread

22 January 2025 - 06:35 PM

Azath Vitr (D, on 19 January 2025 - 03:32 PM, said:

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Orange juice from Florida. Whiskey from Tennessee. Peanut butter from Kentucky.

Canada is preparing for an all-out trade war [...] meant to be precisely targeted and aimed at political impact.
Spoiler
They specifically want to focus on goods made in Republican or swing states, where the pain of tariffs, like pressure on jobs and the bottom lines of local businesses, would affect Trump allies.

[...] The detailed list of goods is closely held, but it includes dozens of consumer goods from various categories, such as food and beverages, as well as other types of daily products, including dishwashers and porcelain goods like bathtubs and toilets.

[...] The government is preparing for the possibility of financial bailouts for Canadian businesses that are badly hit by the U.S. tariffs, most likely on a case-by-case basis[...]

While mass bailouts or blanket funding for entire industries may not be on the table, the official said it would be unthinkable to allow a tariff war with the United States to wipe out thousands of jobs and businesses without the government stepping in to mitigate the blow.

https://www.nytimes....mp-tariffs.html

... but if Canadian tariffs reduce international demand for those goods, and the United States produces a surplus, the domestic price could actually go down, which Trump would point to as a (cherry-picked) triumph over inflation... but then again, how much peanut butter, orange juice, and whiskey (what a cocktail) do Canadians really eat?

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In 2022, Canada accounted for 14.5 percent of U.S. agricultural exports

https://www.ers.usda...oducts%E2%80%9D

guess I'd better stock up on Kraken, then
In Topic: The Canada Politics Thread

22 January 2025 - 06:34 PM

Azath Vitr (D, on 19 January 2025 - 03:32 PM, said:

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Orange juice from Florida. Whiskey from Tennessee. Peanut butter from Kentucky.
guess I'd better stock up on Kraken, then
Canada is preparing for an all-out trade war [...] meant to be precisely targeted and aimed at political impact.
Spoiler
They specifically want to focus on goods made in Republican or swing states, where the pain of tariffs, like pressure on jobs and the bottom lines of local businesses, would affect Trump allies.

[...] The detailed list of goods is closely held, but it includes dozens of consumer goods from various categories, such as food and beverages, as well as other types of daily products, including dishwashers and porcelain goods like bathtubs and toilets.

[...] The government is preparing for the possibility of financial bailouts for Canadian businesses that are badly hit by the U.S. tariffs, most likely on a case-by-case basis[...]

While mass bailouts or blanket funding for entire industries may not be on the table, the official said it would be unthinkable to allow a tariff war with the United States to wipe out thousands of jobs and businesses without the government stepping in to mitigate the blow.

https://www.nytimes....mp-tariffs.html

... but if Canadian tariffs reduce international demand for those goods, and the United States produces a surplus, the domestic price could actually go down, which Trump would point to as a (cherry-picked) triumph over inflation... but then again, how much peanut butter, orange juice, and whiskey (what a cocktail) do Canadians really eat?

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In 2022, Canada accounted for 14.5 percent of U.S. agricultural exports

https://www.ers.usda...oducts%E2%80%9D

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Tsundoku
02 Dec 2024 - 09:25
sorry I missed your birthday this year, hope it was a good one
Tsundoku
09 Oct 2023 - 20:46
happy birthday, say hi to the guys in ICU from me ;)
Tsundoku
09 Oct 2022 - 20:38
happy another birthday dude
Tsundoku
10 Oct 2021 - 02:00
Need photographic evidence you are indeed still in one piece. Happy birthday dude
Tsundoku
10 Oct 2020 - 01:51
And again.
Tsundoku
09 Oct 2019 - 19:51
ditto
Tsundoku
09 Oct 2018 - 19:56
happy birthday, try to stay in one piece
Shpetim
12 Feb 2015 - 21:30
I hope you won't mind mate, but I copied and posted that "poem" thing you posted on the West Vs Russian interest thread.. You know, the one that starts off about how pathetic Europe is or has become.. Liked it so much that I had to post it. Keep up the good work on reporting about anything new.. Peace out to you friend..
Terez
18 Dec 2014 - 15:32
'Tis a pleasure. I really appreciate your comments on Ukraine and Russia.
Raraku
31 Oct 2009 - 04:10
+ rep for "they can manipulate their way into a Spite/Envy foursome if needed"
HoosierDaddy
05 Mar 2009 - 19:06
Wow. I was reeeeaaaalllllll close with that one! :)
HoosierDaddy
05 Mar 2009 - 05:00
You originally from Kiev, Ment? I'm getting that vibe from you with the Eastern Europe and K-town thing.
frookenhauer
03 Nov 2008 - 21:41
Good luck with the back dude, that sucks! Lectures are one of the reasons I do not miss Uni :)
Lisheo
10 Oct 2008 - 09:15
Happy Birthday! :)
Terez
10 Oct 2008 - 08:03
Happy Birthday. :)

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