Moin. Mein Gasthund frisst mir gerade die Zeit weg. Zumindest bei der Arbeit kann der Chef sich bei gutem Wetter auch ganz uneigennützig kümmern (und draußen seine Fußballkünste zeigen).

Daher kommt der Faden heute pünktlich zum Mittag.

Was gibt es so bei euch, was bewegt euch?

Today's game is Assassin's Creed Shadows. I finally finished up Act 2 today, and i'm pretty sure i'm close to finished with Act 3. The above screenshot i got in a sidequest for Naoe where she goes through her heritage and discovers the past of the brotherhood, and i get some sick ass robes that i'm like 90% sure is inspired by Ezio. This is all essential stuff for Act 3 as far as i understand. I feel like it would have been better interspersed with Act 2 to help with the monotony, but it was still a cool moment. Especially because i had some fears that the Assassin Brotherhood plot line was being dropped to the side.

Pictures of Animals

Before i start lore dumping though, here's a cool shark i found. It was swimming in the ocean while i was wandering around in the Obama region (No, that's not a typo).

A few feet from it i found a Stingray, and then another two to the right of this one. This one is the only one i photographed though. I used photo mode to peak into it's mouth and there was ribbing along the top.

Lore Pictures (And spoilers)

Act 2 Ends and Act 3 opens with you using a battle to sneak into a fortress and kill one of the last two guys responsible for killing your father. It's a really cool moment, and i wish either A) the last few targets before this were this cool or B) they were cut entirely.

The assassination had you chase after the target in the battle field on horseback as Yasuke. I assume if you chose to go after the target as Yasuke intially (i chose Naoe initially), then it would be Naoe chasing him instead.

You corner him on a dock, and you start to fight him. Midway through the battle though you switch from the character you chased him down as too the other one, which was really cool. Especially because both Yasuke and Naoe have a grudge against this guy so it's a bit appropriate they both get too fight him.

Anyways, after you fight him, and also find out who is behind the entire organization, you also find out the Templars are working in Japan and are behind this whole thing. Naoe goes on this quest and confronts a guy from her past who reveals all about the Assassin brotherhood.

Act 3 then opens up to even more story with Yasuke hunting Templars and his previous Slaver, and Naoe discovering more about her past. Which all in all, while i enjoyed a good few of the Assassinations in Act 2, this is leagues better than 1/3 of the Assassinations.

I ended my gameplay session as Yasuke having killed the second of what i believe to be 4 total Templars. I'm getting the feeling that after the Templars that will be the end of Act 3, and then the Story is over. All in all, Act 3 is a lot more fun than Act 2. Act 2 was fun at the start, dragged on a bit too long, and then got really good again as it transitioned over to Act 3.

A lot of this is feeling like it's setting up for a Sequel involving more of rebuilding the brotherhood and a direct confrontation with the Templars, which would be interesting to see as irc we haven't gotten a direct sequel since Ezio. This feeling might just be because there have been a few Ezio references and this game is giving major "BoTW Soft Reboot" vibes though.

Game will be free until May:

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2660930/view/498319683381887247

Sauce: KOWLOON GENERIC ROMANCE

All on my own!

I've heard horror stories about it taking months upon months in the past and they've been keeping me from trying. Silly me :)

It took under two days; and most of the time was trying to figure out all the problems caused by being behind a an http proxy. Looking back, I can see it can be done in a minute or so now that I've got a few bits of config nailed down.

Granted this is a very bare bones cluster atm, but applying that test nginx deployment and seeing all three replicas running, one on each node, has sent me buzzing :)

Next step - generating an internal intermediate and shoving it into the cluster.

Happy Monday!

Season 15 of Doctor Who saw a substantial bounce in the overnight ratings for the third episode, rebounding from last week’s series low.

The Well aired on BBC One at 6.50pm on Saturday 26th April and received an overnight rating of 1.9 million viewers.

That’s a huge bump from last week’s episode Lux, which drew only 1.58 million viewers, marking the lowest overnight viewership ratings in the show's history.

Once again, those are only over-the-air numbers from Saturday, and pretty much confirm that word of mouth about the previous episode has made viewers return for the "appointment TV" broadcast.

This will pretty surely also bolster the streaming views of episodes 1 and 2 as people catch up on iPlayer. Simultaneously, this whole race to follow the instant and 7 day viewing numbers — and the #RIPDoctorWho prognoses often derived from them — appear more and more irrelevant as the media landscape sprints away from such onesided metrics.

A family says their newborn son nearly bled to death and is fighting for his life after he was circumcised at a New York City hospital.

Tim and Gabrielle Groth said their son, Cole, underwent the circumcision at NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital in Manhattan, where he was born on March 31.

Welche Dinge fallen euch ein, von denen ihr im Nachhinein denkt, es wäre besser gewesen, sie früher schon zu machen/zu entdecken?

By 'stealth archer equivalent' I mean the stereotypical easy/newbie or basic bitch way to play the game. It may be easy to pivot to and get stuck in a rut of playing that way.

I thought about this while playing Balatro. I kept trying to do creative combinations like Stone Joker and Marble Joker to see how far I could go with stone cards and pairs but pretty much always end up doing 8 Ball flushes.

Bon ne vous affolez pas, je ne joue pas à un jeu pareil sur un si petit écran. Mais j'expérimente des solutions nomades pour mes allers-retours mensuels.

J'ai récemment mis la main sur des lunettes AR de chez Viture, c'est pas parfait et pas adapter à du mmo mais ça fait un bel écran pour dépanner sur ce genre de machine.

J'ai aussi à disposition un laptop qui permet de jouer dans de meilleures conditions mais il pèse un âne mort avec son chargeur. Cela dit, entre le steamdeck + le combo clavier/souris + les lunettes, ça commence à devenir pas si pratique à transporter.

PS: C'est Turtle WoW, un serveur privé Vanilla qui a pas mal flambé grâce à son intégration du mode hardcore. Mais ils développent beaucoup en ajoutant pas mal de contenu.

Opinion: Think that next refresh is going to get better? The first step to freedom is admitting there's a problem

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak has accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of declaring war on Israel, tampering with its capabilities and causing grave damage to its standing and image.

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250428-ex-israel-pm-accuses-netanyahu-of-waging-war-on-israel/

Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

cross-posted from: https://metawire.eu/post/55297

Author: John T Psaropoulos
Published on: 28/04/2025 | 00:00:00

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Europe led a record international rise in defence spending last year. European expenses rose by 17 percent to $693m, spearheading a global rise of 9.4 percent to $2.7 trillion. Russia saw the biggest annual rise of any single country at 38 percent, as it suffered devastating material losses in its war in Ukraine. The size of the European Union economy meant that it needed to spend only 0.12 percent more of its gross domestic product (GDP) to replace US military support for Ukraine, the think tank Bruegel estimated last February. “We will see further increases in the years ahead. Europe recognises the need to stand on its own and not rely as heavily on the United States,” he said. Every EU member state except Malta raised its defence budget. The relaxed EU deficit rules, known as Rearm Europe, and a 150-billion-euro ($170bn) fund to boost EU defence products. German parliament decision last month to devote up to 1 trillion euros ($1.14 trillion) to infrastructure and defence all advocated in favour of what Krummrich predicted. The US and Europe should not be decoupling, but working together to provide specific needs in both Europe and the Asia Pacific. The scarce assets America needs are the very high-end [air]lift, missiles. This internationalist approach is currently out of favour on the continent.

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