On steam you can downgrade via beta branch selection
Btw, I tried to find more info about this but found nothing, neither discussions about the Torturer talent being useless now, nor anything in the notes of the latest patches, which is weird considering that it would be a significant mechanics change. Do you still remember what patch it was? I would really like to read up on / confirm it.
it used to be that certain status effects (from abilities) are not applied if the ability is blocked by physical/magic armour.
There was a perk to enable status effects to work even in that condition.
Yes, that is also what I remember.
The new update made it so that status effects will be applied even on having armour
What? Why would they do that, doesn't seem to make a lot of sense. Sorry to hear it.
You are right, but you are oversimplifying too. Pointing out human rights violations by enemy states has always been part of political propaganda, sure. However, this must not distract us from the seriousness of these human rights violations themselves.
That is of course very sweet of you and I understand it on a personal level. You love your dog and would do anything for him and so you even wish he could live infinitely if that was possible. However, maybe you could also try to understand my reasoning as well? I was talking about human/canine society as a whole and if all humans and/or dogs would get to live, let´s say, twice as long or even become immortal, that would lead to severe problems regarding overpopulation, don´t you agree?
That is not what I meant to say. I argued against artificially increasing life expectancy, which does not equal arguing for decreasing natural life expectancy.
Accepting death as a part of life is in no way cynical, it´s logical.
My dog lives longer and shelters get more crowded?
Don´t think only of yourself, try to see the bigger picture. Not just your dog will live longer, a lot of dogs will with that drug, resulting in less adoptions. Since commercial breeders are not going to "produce" less dogs just because of the new drug, the result of dogs living longer will be a higher population of dogs. Now considering the number of people who want to adopt a dog will decrease while the number of dogs available will increase, this will necessarily result in more dogs who don´t find/have a home. It´s really quite obvious if you think about it.
the article seems to indicate that the pill will give a dog more “active years” and not necessarily more years
The article indicates both as far as I comprehend it:
"Biotech company Loyal is developing an injectable drug, LOY-001, designed to help large breed dogs not only live longer, but stay healthy longer"
Thank you for backing me up, I appreciate it. I also thought how dumb that ban was, since their gender not matching their sex seems to be the main struggle of trans people, at least as far as I can understand it as a cis dude. I argued that trans women are women by gender and by identity but not physically/biologically. Obviously someone did not like that and reported me. Worst part is I contacted reddit dozens of times, asked to remove the ban, or at least tell my how my statement was wrong but they simply would not talk to me. Despite using a different account on a different computer with a different browser and also a VPN, they somehow detected me anyway and kept banning my new accounts too. Well ... fuck reddit, lemmy is better anyway.
But why would we want that? In my opinion that would be a mistake. The planet is already severely overpopulated and as I said, death is a natural part of life, just like birth.
What actually shortens the life expectancy of dogs is the kind of selective breeding for unreasonable external characteristics that has long been carried out by greedy and/or ignorant dog breeders.
Why, though? Greedy breeders already "produce" more dogs than there are loving families for and as a result dog shelters are constantly full with sad dogs who don´t have a home. This drug will result in shelters getting even more overcrowded. Death is a natural part of life, just as birth, I wish more people would get that.
Or even better, have you cat neutered before she get´s into heat. Provided your cat is not suffering from liver problems and can tolerate anaesthesia of course. Being in heat regularly without breeding is not only unnecessary stress for your cat and yourself but also promotes cancer of her reproductive organs.
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