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From your perspective, which side is more likely to concede first?

Without any real insight, I'm going to venture a guess that the limitation exists in order to accommodate co-op play with the Xbox Series S.

Critical - yes. Financial - not that I'm aware of.

ISW analysis for 01 May 2023: Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, May 1, 2023 | Institute for the Study of War WWW.UNDERSTANDINGWAR.ORG Russian forces conducted another large-scale missile strike against Ukraine on the night of April 30 to May 1. Ukrainian sources reported that nine Tu-95 and two Tu-160 strategic bombers took off from Murmansk Oblast and near the Caspian Sea and launched

This comparison really does illustrate the existence of a non-quantitative difference in perception between an aggregate score of 75 for Dead Island 2 -- a game for which expectations were about as low as they could possibly get -- and an aggregate score of 70 (and that's being somewhat generous) for Redfall -- a game from a studio with Arkane's pedigree and ostensibly the financial backing of Betheda/Microsoft.

Oh, there's no "maybe" about that at all as Arkane hasn't produced a significant commercial success since the first Dishonored game.

The Roman invasion/occupation of Britain was truly a ridiculous blunder derived solely from Roman imperial "arrogance" - a waste of both time and resources for little (if any) tangible gain.

"Far Cry with Vampires" is exactly how Arkane itself wanted to characterize this game: Redfall is more like Far Cry than Left 4 Dead, says Arkane WWW.ROCKPAPERSHOTGUN.COM Arkane's co-op vampire shooter might have a bit of Left 4 Dead about it, but its open world means it's more like Far Cry, say its developers. Furthermore, people going into this game looking for an "Arkane game" are going to be severely disappointed as well as the systems-driven, immersive sim/clockwork mechanics approach that characterized Dishonored, Prey, and to a lesser extent Deathloop simply don't appear to be present in Redfall at all. Put simply, this title genuinely doesn't appear to have a core audience that it would even come remotely close to satisfying.

‘The Godfather of AI’ Quits Google and Warns of Danger Ahead - The New York Times WWW.NYTIMES.COM For half a century, Geoffrey Hinton nurtured the technology at the heart of chatbots like ChatGPT. Now he worries it will cause serious harm.

The Second Romano-Punic War was exactly what I had in mind when I made that post!

Dacia wasn't nearly the hostile, impenetrable territory that was Germania! I'd give the Romans this: when they got their ass kicked in a battle, they knew how to get their ass kicked! We're not talking the loss of just a few thousand legionnaires - oh no, we're talking the annihilation of several legions (tens of thousands able-bodied fighting men) with their commander having his skull turned into a drinking goblet and his testicles used for dice.

IGN's review is in-progress, but they're not especially keen either. Redfall Review in Progress - IGN WWW.IGN.COM Vanilla missions, vapid enemies, and a lengthy list of other issues is making it hard to sink our teeth into Redfall.

From what I gather, the difference is that ELEX has "heart" which can somewhat mitigate its other shortcomings for players like yourself.

Game Information Game Title: Redfall Platforms: PC (May 2, 2023) Xbox Series X/S (May 2, 2023) Developer: Arkane Austin Publisher: Bethesda Review Aggregator: OpenCritic - 58 average - 14% recommended Critic Reviews We Got This Covered - 4.5 / 5 DualShockers - 8.5 / 10 XboxEra - 8.5 / 10 SomosXbox - Spanish - 8.3 / 10 IGN Spain - Spanish - 8 / 10 Niche Gamer - 8 / 10 VGC - 4 / 5 XGN.nl - Dutch - 8 / 10 COGconnected - 78 / 100 Cerealkillerz - German - 7.8 / 10 Hobby Consolas - Spanish - 78 / 100 33bits - Spanish - 75 / 100 GameGrin - 7.5 / 10 Stevivor - 7.5 / 10 Areajugones - Spanish - 7.4 / 10 Gaming Nexus - 7.4 / 10 MondoXbox - Italian - 7.3 / 10 AltChar - 70 / 100 Attack of the Fanboy - 3.5 / 5 CGMagazine - 7 / 10 Game Rant - 3.5 / 5 Generación Xbox - Spanish - 70 / 100 NextGen Player - 7 / 10 PCGamesN - 7 / 10 Screen Rant - 3.5 / 5 Seasoned Gaming - 7 / 10 Spaziogames - Italian - 7 / 10 VideoGamer - 7 / 10 Worth Playing - 7 / 10 ZTGD - 7 / 10 Atomix - Spanish - 69 / 100 Wccftech - 6.8 / 10 IGN Italy - Italian - 6.5 / 10 INVEN - Korean - 6.5 / 10 Press Start - 6.5 / 10 SECTOR.sk - Slovak - 6.5 / 10 Tom's Hardware Italia - Italian - 6.5 / 10 Arabhardware - Arabic - 6 / 10 But Why Tho? - 6 / 10 ElderPlayers - Arabic - 6 / 10 Everyeye.it - Italian - 6 / 10 GAMES.CH - German - 60% GameSkinny - 6 / 10 Gamersky - Chinese - 6 / 10 GamesHub - 3 / 5 Geeks & Com - French - 6 / 10 God is a Geek - 6 / 10 Metro GameCentral - 6 / 10 Oyungezer Online - Turkish - 6 / 10 PowerUp! - 6 / 10 Pure Xbox - 6 / 10 PushStartPlay - 6 / 10 The Outerhaven Productions - 3 / 5 TrueAchievements - 6 / 10 Twinfinite - 3 / 5 Use a Potion - 6 / 10 VG247 - 3 / 5 Windows Central - 3 / 5 Xbox Achievements - 60% The Games Machine - Italian - 5.8 / 10 GamePro - German - 56 / 100 Digital Chumps - 5.5 / 10 Merlin'in Kazanı - Turkish - 55 / 100 Geek Culture - 5.1 / 10 AusGamers - 5 / 10 Capsule Computers - 5 / 10 Checkpoint Gaming - 5 / 10 Destructoid - 5 / 10 Easy Allies - 5 / 10 Game Informer - 5 / 10 GameSpew - 5 / 10 Gamefa - Persian - 5 / 10 Gamers Heroes - 50 / 100 GamesRadar+ - 2.5 / 5 GamingBolt - 5 / 10 Inverse - 5 / 10 Jump Dash Roll - 5 / 10 Nexus Hub - 5 / 10 Saudi Gamer - Arabic - 5 / 10 The Beta Network - 5 / 10 WellPlayed - 4.5 / 10 PC Gamer - 44 / 100 ComicBook.com - 2 / 5 Dexerto - 2 / 5 Digital Spy - 2 / 5 Digital Trends - 2 / 5 GGRecon - 2 / 5 GameSpot - 4 / 10 Gameblog - French - 4 / 10 Gaming on PC - 4 / 10 Guardian - 2 / 5 Hardcore Gamer - 2 / 5 Hey Poor Player - 2 / 5 IGN - 4 / 10 Kakuchopurei - 40 / 100 LevelUp - Spanish - 4 / 10 PC Invasion - 4 / 10 Saving Content - 2 / 5 Siliconera - 4 / 10 Telegraph - 2 / 5 TheGamer - 2 / 5 eXputer - 2 / 5 GamingTrend - 35 / 100 3DNews - Russian - 3 / 10 GameMAG - Russian - 3 / 10 Gamerheadquarters - 2 / 10 Total Gaming Network - 1 / 5 ACG - Rent Eurogamer - No Recommendation Eurogamer.pt - Portuguese - Avoid One More Game - Wait Polygon - Unscored Rock, Paper, Shotgun - Unscored Skill Up - Unscored Slant Magazine - Unscored TheSixthAxis - Unscored gameranx - Unscored

As I've said before, "substantive" gun control is a dead and buried issue. It's not worth spending an iota of political or economic capital on, at least for a couple more generations. The "left" would be better served by directing its energies towards ensuring that marginalized/threatened social groups are guaranteed in their rights to arm the hell up for their self-defense against the white ethnosupremacist/Christian nationalist forces that seek to eliminate their very existence. This definitely isn't the world we want, but we always get the world we deserve.

It has begun. Redfall Reviews OPENCRITIC.COM Redfall is rated 'Fair' after being reviewed by 18 critics, with an overall average score of 69. It's ranked in the bottom 37% of games and recommended by 38% of critics.

Ukraine's army is experimenting with using Steam Decks to remote-control gun turrets | PC Gamer WWW.PCGAMER.COM A video showcases Valve's hit handheld being used in a very unexpected way.

Ukraine's army is experimenting with using Steam Decks to remote-control gun turrets | PC Gamer WWW.PCGAMER.COM A video showcases Valve's hit handheld being used in a very unexpected way.

Perhaps for not much longer though: From Al Jazeera: Of course, resorting to airstirkes in a heavily civilian populated area is a testament to the Sudanese military's inability to defeat the RSF on the ground: Also from Al Jazeera:

Report from a resident of a city just cross the Nile River from Khartoum who indicates that the RSF appears to control most of the capital city: Sudan crisis: Fighter jets are roaring over my home in Omdurman WWW.BBC.COM Thousands of people have left Sudan's capital but the situation is getting worse for those left behind.

Dead Island 2 subverts its genre to make horror fun again | GamesRadar+ WWW.GAMESRADAR.COM Opinion | Now THAT'S what I call atmosphere

Sure did - stutters on the PC and some performance issues on the UHD consoles.

In all honesty, Dambuster Studios/Deep Silver NEED to find a way to work that into the game's marketing campaign! "Are you sick and tired of playing busted-ass so-called 'AAA" titles? Then come take a trip to HELL-A with Dead Island 2!"