Gets up to 700 degs

That’s a furnace. Aluminium melts at 700 degrees. Gold at 1000.

I’m an IT guy, if my printer made a noise I don’t recognise I’d shoot it.

Why do people who obviously prefer a rules light set of rules play something as rigid and overcomplicated as DnD.

Because the entry barrier is low, a lot of groups playing DnD/Pathfinder, tons of content, it’s mainstream, celebrities play it so the rules are shallowly known to a lot of people.

At least that’s my take.

Wouldn’t you find far more enjoyment in systems lile fate or savage worlds?

Fate is Fudge, and as I mentioned I prefer it over DnD

I see what you’re saying, but… To me that’s okay? I don’t need to follow the book for all that shiet? You don’t need to overspecialize on your character sheet.

In DnD/Pathfinder you grab the Lore/Knowledge/etc skill for a wide range of actions. The nobility will respect your cleric because it’s a cleric, has a symbol of the order, ecclesiastic rank from the roleplaying, but if she can’t persuade for shiet, she’ll loose that initial respect quickly.

Have you ever played Shadowrun? I think I left that system the moment my DM decided to reference table for jumping out of a riding car by / brand / speed / manoeuvre / skill level to determine my damage.

The Dark Eye is that German thingy, right? I never liked it as a system, it felt constraining. On the other hand, my favourite system is Fudge, so we might just like different things.

During investigations the wizard rolls an investigation check, the cleric rolls an investigation check and the barbarian does nothing because they dumped wisdom

You might be playing it wrong.

During investigations Wizard checks the books in the library, references his own notes, chats up local researcher community. Creates and sends Arcane Eye, spreads his familiars, tries Clairvoyance.

Cleric visits a local church, talks to the priests and churchgoers, prays to the Divine, maybe convinces the town to join her in the crusade against the target and lits the town on fire, while villages attack the nobleman mansion looking for the culprit and plunder.

Barbarian goes to the local tavern to drink with the local guards. Helps local elder find his kitten. Maybe talks to a local hunter and they bond over a bear hunt they just finished, maybe about the beauty of wilderness… One things leads to another, a secret touch, a hidden look, a moment of courage, a stolen kiss… What I was talking about?

You will need to learn the language if you want to stay for longer (like you should). Also, bring your friends and family, it’s not easy making new ones.

“Public sector of the economy as proportion of GDP” is “Government expenditure, percent of GDP” + State Owned Enterprises (public corporations owned by the country) so it’s a little bit different.

In my previous comment I though you’re misusing the term public sector to mean only SEO (as is commonly done), that’s why I asked for source.

The source you linked, while good, is only showing government expenditure without SEO, so it does not cover your original claim though. Unless in the original comment you did misuse public sector to mean only government expenditure?

I’m curious about the source of this statement

The Chinese public sector of their economy is actually lower, as a proportion of GDP, than Sweden

Can you provide source? Because for State Owned Enterprises I can only find metric ~40% (China) vs 10% in Sweden.

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_2044

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_252

After the commission found that China has unsymmetrical trade barriers for EU medical devices, it recommended some actions. For the past year EU was trying to negotiate China opening their medical market to the same level EUs market is open to China. It failed.

More symmetrical tarrifs incoming (from both sides).

NetHack, ADoM, Angband, Brogue

One of those things is not like the others.

Also you’re missing Elona (2007), game where your wizard can dual wield rifles while riding on an abomination with the head of your pet cat, body of a tyrannosaurs rex and 8 claymore wielding human arms taken from your gene slaves. Or get rich while playing a piano and finish the game by using that sweet sweet moneh hiring adventures and sending them to die exploring the BBEG lair.

All with cheerful pokemon-like gameboy graphics.

Ever heard of Churchill and what he (and other British people) did in India? He starved millions to death. Look up Bengali famine.

As a person living next to Russia, I tend to follow it’s situation. I know that the exports from Russia to India has been declining for years, following India moving (not all yet) production of weaponry home. Only oil remains strong.

Also India - I think - seems to be projecting more and more “Western” image. Not sure why. Maybe my perception is skewed here, because the CEOs of biggest corporations sound more and more indian every year. Maybe it’s Modi skipping Shanghai Cooperation Agreement summit - and generally avoiding public places where Putin is - since Russian invasion of Ukraine.

So while Russia and India will remain trade partners and probable allies, I think they are currently trying to figure out how to increase their trade ties (and India might be wanting to be hush hush about it for Western publicity). There might be other challenges there - if I remember correctly, the current trade flow is that India buys significantly more from Russia than it sells there, so they might want to increase their exports - but this is totally my opinion.

I know there were plans for more ports and trade corridors before the Ukraine invasion, but I don’t know their status now.

India Russia hate each other to the bone

I don’t think so. Russia supported India during Cold War, didn’t it? It also stood with India during India-Pakistani War. That counts for a lot, especially with older folks - and politicians tend to be older folks.

Compared to polish cities too it’s not that small.

That was my point, what I saw looked like a small, provincial polish city with an old town, tourists, relaxing people, etc.

I really don’t understand where your “Basel is a small provincial town” impression is rooted.

I literally explained that in my last comment. I thought it was small, provincial city, full of medium sized buildings, full of tourists, that was so close to neighboring cities they shared trams. I spent a month there. I swam down the river, was forced to see removed street, had a public grill next to the river, went to see some overpriced art festival, stuff like that.

I remember that after we took a tram to German suburbs (or neighbouring city) there was a lot of police checking out Arabs and their documents.

Thank you though for the population size information. Does it take into consideration metropolitan area across three countries or only the Swiss part? I’m not arguing here, just curious.

No, no, you don’t have to explain that to me, I’m from Poland. It’s just that Basel is like, small and lacking skyscrapers even for me (aka “cozy”), so I always thought during my time there that it’s like, IDK, Perth - not really known world wide nor really associated as the profile picture of the country - and thus my confusion. Does that make sense?

third largest

Oh, I didn’t know that. I loved that place but I thought it’s like… you know, deep province small city.

Yes, but it’s like a small city?

This looks like Basel, is it Basel? Why photo of Basel for Switzerland?

Please don’t upvote this person, I think they’re a bot. The libs use AWS SDK internally and claim 90% performance boost over AWS SDK, and the person explains it as “you can write less verbose code so development time is shorter”

The point is not a few less milliseconds, it’s many hours of reduced development for people implementing DynamoDB

So you’re comparing claimed performance (execution) gains to development time? Yeah, that makes sense.

I think you’re a bot.

I have a great idea.

Why don’t you all move to Russia?

Definitely outside of Moscow and Pitersburg. Preferably newly “liberated” territories.

I’m not saying Ukraine is good, or USA, or whatever, but I honestly wonder why you have not moved yet.