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kara looks a bit soft, her butt grew

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Lambert says "Still waters run deep" in the Witcher 3. A true proverb. Still waters run deep - Wikipedia Still waters run deep is a proverb of Latin origin now commonly taken to mean that a placid exterior hides a passionate or subtle nature. Formerly it also carried the warning that silent people are dangerous, as in Suffolk's comment on a fellow lord in William Shakespeare's play Henry VI part 2: Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep, And in his simple show he harbours treason... No, no, my sovereign, Gloucester is a man Unsounded yet and full of deep deceit.

The situation for Ukraine has been really dramatic since June 20th. yesterday there was 1 day of consolidation of territorial gains and this morning the Russians continued the offensive, tighening the noose around Lyshansk. Ukrainians admit that they suffered 15,000 POW minimum in this war. Zelensky on 6/25th executed an emergency order to shift reserves from all fronts to the Donbass. The supply corridor to the city is now just 8 kilometers wide, under Russian fire control (artillery, airstrikes, missiles)

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how will christy repopulate the earth if there were no "accidents"?

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Key to the success of GOT was that GRRM played a key role in casting and production. Also Season 1 is really close to the book. The bad result of Season 7-8 has critically damaged the hype for all the successor shows.

65th hour- return to Kaer Morhen after 20 hours in Skellige. The "Uma" character has no relation to anything in the novels. Lambert is such an asshole at Kaer Morhen, so much so that he would be polarizing if CDPR chose him as the lead in Witcher 4. Keira is also somewhat polarizing due to her deceptions. The trolls are brilliantly implemented throughout the game, as comedic relief and taken from the novels. However, the "rock trolls" are definitely inspired by the trolls in Tolkein. There are more far more trolls in the game than in the novels. (84) Witcher 3 Complete Walkthrough Part 64 All quests Death March (all side quests + commentary) - YouTube

Russian Battalion tactical groups 6/26 108 combat battalions (with 19 in reserve) manning 1039 KM of front main effort: 54 battalions manning the Donbass (5.6 KM per BTG) 35 battalions manning the Southern front (19KM or 14 KM per BTG) 10 battalions manning the Kharkiv axis (17.7 KM per BTG) compared to WW2 these are insanely long distances for such a small army. So it's literally company sized forces- approx. 200 infantrymen per battalion holding distances that were typically held by 6-18 full battalions of infantry of continuous front. 200 vs 4800- 18,000 infantrymen.

I made a typo, I saw her being measured at 6 foot 2 inch. Karlie Kloss at 6 foot 3 inch. insane.

"The Last Wish"- this is the Triss or Yenn moment in the game: (82) Witcher 3 Complete Walkthrough Part 62 All quests Death March (all side quests + commentary) - YouTube I think CDPR deliberately set it up to make it a hard choice. You have Yenn being difficult all throughout Skellige. Most readers of the novels would choose Yenn but gamers probably lean towards Triss as she's a sweetheart in the game. The discussion afterward is hugely important. It is about what happens to Yenn/Geralt/Ciri right after the novels, and is invented by CDPR to segway into Witcher 1. This incident is teased a bit in Witcher 1 and Witcher 2 but this discussion clarifies important points that aren't revealed there. Ultimately, even with all these lore bits the "incident" is intentionally kept mysterious. Players end the W3 knowing little more about Eredin and the Wild Hunt than what is in the novels. It was certainly possible for CDPR to expand these subjects massively.

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She is 42 years old.

I'm close to finishing the 19 and 1/2 hr audiobook for "Fellowship of the ring". Even though it is 15 1/2 hours longer than extended film the book covers a similar amount of story. The reason why it is so long is the great attention Tolkien makes for describing emotions, the environment, and lore. So far the LOTR is far superior to the Hobbit and a lot more artistically written than Game of Thrones book 1. Peter Jackson's film really enhances the text. The film itself deletes stuff, adds stuff, but maintains most of the key events. As a consequence, I can't see the Peter Jackson film ever being surpassed.

Between Mariupol and Donbass the Ukrainian marine corps has been decimated past the point of return. Weird that the Ukrainians are allowing indicators of their defeat appear in the media these past few weeks. I saw a PRAVDA war correspondent claim that the average Ukrainian combat unit is bled white: only 20% professional and 80% conscripts. I assume that these conscripts are from their reservist pool. In WW2 the German army was in this condition by September 1944. Azot Plant and Severodonesk fell to the Russians today.