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ComradeYellow

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  1. Sounds more like personal choices than burdens but ok.
  2. Bad news here. I shall remain optimistic for laptop dies though, if they focus on that specifically it might be doable. I personally can't think of any desktop enthusiast who would want an Intel discrete anyway. EDIT: Crap. More reports coming in, it's not looking good, even for midrange and it's looking like Arc may be completely scrapped after 'Battlemage' if that. Now I'm just wondering if someone were to theoretically purchase a 'Battlemage' card, would there be continuous driver updates?
  3. Yes, EA sucks, but never understood this whole outrage over "always online" to be honest. Is it an "outside of the USA" problem? I mean by American standards I'm pretty dirt poor and live paycheck to paycheck but I always manage to have fast internet and can float the bill...
  4. Steelrising looks interesting but there's no way my laptop can run it. I mean just look at the hardware requirements. Anything that's poorly optimized for PC is almost like a red light signal and should probably skip it, regardless of how powerful your rig is. Better to be an exclusive and retain your integrity than cynically launch a shoddy port. @Keyrock PS5 controllers are nice but they're an acquired taste and currently aren't optimized for windows very well, but progress is being made and firmware updates are being dished out regularly.
  5. By far the most successful UA attack on Russian lines, but Russians are committing reserves to contain it so don't get your hopes up yet. Western Psyops are having a field day with this but all I see is a reminiscent of 1943 Kursk offensive where reserves eventually won out. @Mamoulian War Ukrainian Nazi army is invincible! Western toys are gonna destroy Ruskieland, Putin is going to be overthrown by a shadow sect in Russia and what remains of Russia will be a Chinese oil factory with snowcaps.
  6. In the year 2022, proletarians living in the South have more common sense than Joe Yankee living in the northeast or West Coast.
  7. https://www.neowin.net/news/intel-wants-to-convince-arc-is-the-real-deal-shows-off-50-games-in-dx12vulkan-vs-rtx-3060/ Whilst Intel is certainly inflating their numbers in some way, shape, and form (Not to mention their extremely rocky driver issues and delayed launches), the fact that Arc770 should be able to reasonably compete with a RTX 3060 is hardly what I would call a bad start for a flagship card. I have a laptop sporting some variant of a 1650 TI and the only game I can't play comfortably is the new Evil Dead game. If I like the numbers I may just wait for Battlemage. Big IF, though.
  8. https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/chinas-top-chipmaker-smic-7-nm-breakthrough DUN DUN DUUUUN
  9. Russian equipment is proving to be pretty low tech and hasn't really improved much since the Soviet Era (Let's be honest here, USSR collapse was the worst thing that happened to them), but their 'Deep Operations' tactics are slowly but surely working. The question is how long can they keep it up? "Deep Operations" was developed in the pre-War USSR (Stalin purged the original architect but eventually allowed his generals to implement it with astonishing success against German Blitzkrieg) that calls for a wide front and using combined arms tactics with constant artillery fire all along the front in an effort to entice the enemy to attack and then "mop them up" with reserves when they inevitably take the bait and launch an offensive. The Ukrainians are making the same mistakes the Germans did near the end of WW2 and launching petty "counter offenses" as the Russian MoD explains here. Sure, this whole thing seems like an IRL scenario of Hearts of Iron and other WW2 larping on a small scale with both sides using outdated tactics but it looks the Russians will inevitably gain the upper hand here as they now have first hand experience against modern NATO equipment and implement countering these in their doctrine. China's MoD is also watching closely here. The West gains nothing because Russia is not doing or using anything new or innovative in their tactics to learn from.
  10. But they are not giving up in any event https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/339258-intel-says-its-committed-to-discrete-graphics-despite-rocky-arc-rollout It'll be many years but I'll be excited to jam out on a completely Blue laptop in the future.
  11. https://www.theamericanconservative.com/chips-wont-help-china/ Lol what a bull**** article. Nothing the US does helps NOR hinders China. China is an entity that is growing quite nice own its own, U.S. is an annoying fly at best. They have some progress to go, they are still a developing nation, but they are well on their way to becoming the greatest economy in the world. The proof is in the pudding, they have effectively got 7nm process down, their video games are showing lots of potential, and their vehicle manufacturing is already state of the art in many ways (Built in GPS, 5G, Traffic monitoring, electrical, ect.), they just need a bit more muscle in their quality to compete with U.S./Euro/Japanese counterparts and they've all but got it. But it is not the Chinese way to forge ahead belligerently, they know that gradual development is the key to national success so they are in no rush to emulate U.S. values of predatory industrial manufacturing.
  12. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auUyZcAxn6c Some of you old farts on here might remember Japan's rise in the 1970's and 80's, and how they almost became an economic peer competitor to the U.S. But I bet you might not know that the U.S. orchestrated Japan's demise in detail with the Plaza Accords, which effectively injected them with proverbial economic AIDS virus which set forth a cycle of doom and gloom which led to their loss decades that they're still feeling today. I guess it helps when you have military bases, and can Red Scare them into submission. The USSR was super frightening to Japabn government, especially Nakasone's.
  13. https://asiatimes.com/2022/07/what-to-expect-next-in-the-ukraine-war/ Massive Russian offensive incoming, the writing is on the wall. U.S. embassy in Kiev just urged every American to get out of Ukraine ASAP, which isn't something you do if the war is going in the direction you want. The quicker this ends, the better.
  14. Fellow motorcyclist here! You dumped your bike because you were turning and leaning going less than 5 mph, you want to be at least 8-12 mph when doing low speed maneuvering and mastering that friction zone on your clutch, rear brake, and throttle control or gravity will strike you down. Never crashed, never will, because I know my skill level. However, If some braindead teen in a Kia thwacks me someday (1% chance of that happenening!), and there was absolutely nothing I could have done about it, at least have good gear to mitigate the damage. U.S. cannot get adequate public transportation going so you gotta be an adventurer up for risks and danger if you wanna travel here. B-b-b-b-ayyyad to the Bone.
  15. They won't win anyway, Russia's military is too strong to be defeated in detail and the average Russian doesn't give a fig about sanctions or GDP per capita, which brings us to: Being a Chinese "Vassal" is a win-win, you get to retain your sovereignty and keep your policy and have any kind of leadership you want, there are no rules to be appendage to China like the Euro lemmings have towards U.S.A.*, you just get some added economic benefits via Belt and Road. North Korea is technically a Chinese "vassal" as they are heavily dependent on China economically, yet China does not care to try to control Kim in any way shape or form. Remember when Trump tried to get China to "Reign in" North Korea? Yeah, didn't work out so. *Washington "Rules" consensus can be simplified to: A) Free Markets B) Transparency C) Democracy If you break one of those rules, you will receive scolding and risk sanctions and damage by the U.S. Break two you risk military intervention, break all three and invasion is damn near certain, provided you are a weak country and not a major power of course.
  16. I think Lincoln was against slavery but remember he was a politician first and foremost, and their job is to tell people what they want to hear to get elected and enact policies that ensure re-election. It wasn't until late in the war when it became politically feasible to gear towards abolitionism due to the war dragging on longer and bloodier than literally anyone in the country anticipated (The American mindset being "All this death and carnage has to have some kind of moral meaning to it is well in line with American Christianity at the time). Interesting time and I find it fascinating and disturbing that renewed interest in both the American Civil War and WW2 has generated lots of renewed interest lately. Another big war soon? What are the dividing lines? Time will tell!
  17. Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Kremlin court Jester, comic relief leader of the Russian Liberal Democratic Party (Not anywhere near the American definition of 'liberal'), dies at 75. One of his greatest hits.
  18. I'm way away from the southern states yet I see a lot of idiots sporting Confederate Flags, I think it's a rural thing now and poor/lower middle pickup driving whites are just fed up with rich cosmopolitan liberals so they figured they go the troll route. Eh, whatever, I'm not fond of liberals either so I wouldn't mind a Marxist and Conservative alliance against liberals but something tells me North American conservatives don't even know what Marxism is or anything left of Democrats so it's probably a waste of time bothering. B3st advice if you want to live in Amerikka is to just make money and STFU, tbh.
  19. I'm starting to believe the crazies when they say only an alien invasion could save the human species.
  20. Eh, most of Russia's population lives in the western part of the country, the Siberians are only ever mobilized when they get attacked (1 million Siberian troops saved the day at Stalingrad). I think it's mostly just cultural an political differences as i'm sure Russians can travel to places like Kazakhstan and Iran and do fine. Go to the rural parts of China it's the same deal, some Australian tourists visited the outskirts of the Guizhou province in China and when one Chinese woman saw them as she was meditating out in the open grass she turned white and fled at the sight of them because her brain was operating on decades old perceptions of westerners due to no up to date information available.
  21. The Army AND businesses/corporations are hotbeds for sociopaths, it's the only places they can go and be rewarded for their mental illnesses and doesn't really have much to do intellect/education. I've seen Marines who show more smarts than some college grads. Anywho.... Russian troops arriving in Kremenets Mountain (South of Izyum), notable for its WW2 monument. I guess a significant battle took place there. Strange looking monument... Also sight to some Polovtsy stone figures dating back to the middle ages.
  22. Donbass soldiers with captured NLAWS, Javelins, and Stingers, courtesy of the MiC.
  23. *cough* This kind of rhetoric is similar to that of the Nazi's after the Winter War, hindsight is 20/20 but at the time the Germans were so confident that the Russian army was weak and inept after Winter War that it was the underlying motive to launch Barbarossa the way they did. Just because Russians have a history of inept invasions doesn't mean they can't defend themselves if attacked
  24. God I love that movie...some don't. Think I'll watch it again on Breadtube...it's free!
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