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Cake day: August 12th, 2022

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  • Idk what you precisely get as retro and how much level of aging you want, but:

    • Ezio from Assassin Creed is in 3 games where he starts in his 20’s and at the end in 50’s.
    • Geralt is around 94 in Witcher 3 and sure as hell sometimes behave like a cranky old man, topic of age also often came in talks especially with Vesemir.

    Not protagonists but prominent characters:

    • KotOR have Canderous Ordo who is at least 40 and Jolee Bindo who looks as he’s in his 60’s but might be older. Also Kreia in KotOR 2
    • Mass Effect have: Zaeed - in 40’s and playing the part of old grizzled veteran, Liara - around 100 but as Asari barely an adult, Samara - 800 so entering old age for Asari, often mentions it, Thane 39, so while not particularly old for his species old for his job (assassin), Mordin - in his 30’s so very old for Salarian and this topic comes often, Wrex - over 1000 so ancient for a Krogan and plays part of the grumpy old man
    • Planescape Toment, Dak’kon is old and that is mentioned. Protagonist of that game is also very old but due to amnesia and copious amounts of magic it’s not very relevant.
    • Dynasty Warriors have some old playable characters like Zuo Ci, Huang Gai or Huang Zhong
    • FF10 Auron is in 30’s but behave like he was much older


  • I mean they didn’t officially called Russia to surrender, but after the first talks were sabotaged by Johnson, official stance of Ukraine, supported by their western helpers was (and still is) that Russia should entirely left borders of Ukraine including Donbas and also give them Crimea. The only situation in which this could happen is Russia’s surrender (and historically such maximum one sided demands also only happened after surrendering of one side).



  • Indian PM Narendra Modi and South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa, two of the most powerful Commonwealth heads of government who would normally be in attendance, both plan to skip this year’s summit in favor of BRICS — a separate gathering of major developing nations hosted by the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, in Kazan, where Chinese President Xi Jinping is also in attendance.

    Oof

    CHOGM

    “Had he sent up the Atreides banner, he’d have had to live by what that meant. Too many observers about. He could’ve signaled with the Harkonnen flag on his staff – a flat declaration that’d have been. But, no – he sends up the CHOGM CHOAM rag. He’s telling the people up there . . . " Gurney pointed toward space. " . . . where the profit is.”







  • Yeah i seen it too though that flying taxi looked pretty good in comparison, like big drone basically. Also it was just a flying vehicle and this here is also a car.

    Finally, it’s still wasteful and aimed at rich people, it would also require early centralised flight control service to avoid accidents (though i admit it would be feasible unlike the self driving cars), and in such case again, why not just use train, especially that it would also allow to reduce traffic, negating even the need for flying car.