Malcador

The fact you think Kissinger, Bush and others would be there only on "ideologically biased" reasons is gold.

Debatable, they don't seem to do it that long. Neat bit of detective work

Just parodying some comments of people that seem to think handing GSC money is going to win the war. Company's response is fine. The reception of the game will be interesting to see, though.

A Russian drone getting knocked out of the sky ? I guess the same whining we have now and not much else Russia had a pilot get shot down and didn't nuke Turkey, after all.

Rebel Galaxy is also fun, if you've not tried it, and cheap to boot. Not really a space game as you're rooted to a plane, and it's not got immense replay value but should provide a fun 10 hours. Edit : I think I spent way more than 10 hours in the game, but point still stands, you'll get at least 10 😛

I think they were just screwing around with the drone, rather than wanting to down it. And shooting up US hardware is probably an escalation in things.

EVE Online

"We said 'Yolo'", describes my provincial government.

Underside I guess

https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-poland-russia-war-jets-migs-6d843ccbd50fef5f96091a5bff8f3e01 Guess the MiGs may happen this time. Although, still not sure how useful these will be

https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/14/opinions/saddam-hussein-iraq-war-interrogations-george-piro-bergen/index.html Interview with Hussein's interrogator, should be an interesting book he's writing

Soca, Trinidad's cruelest invention

https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/14/politics/russian-jet-us-drone-black-sea/index.html Flanker probably got a busted up nose or wing

WH:O was supposed to be like that, but gamers pursuit of efficiency led to it being trading, if I recall WoW PVP is also good for getting abuse by Gods that deigned to slum it if you don't heal them all the time. Shame these addons eliminate situational unawareness by people, I get primaried after first or second heal.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/03/13/ukraine-casualties-pessimism-ammunition-shortage/ "The situation on the battlefield now may not reflect a full picture of Ukraine’s forces, because Kyiv is training troops for the coming counteroffensive separately and deliberately holding them back from current fighting, including the defense of Bakhmut, a U.S. official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to be candid." “I get 100 new soldiers,” Kupol said. “They don’t give me any time to prepare them. They say, ‘Take them into the battle.’ They just drop everything and run. That’s it. Do you understand why? Because the soldier doesn’t shoot. I ask him why, and he says, ‘I’m afraid of the sound of the shot.’ And for some reason, he has never thrown a grenade. … We need NATO instructors in all our training centers, and our instructors need to be sent over there into the trenches. Because they failed in their task.”

That ratio seems to go up, was 5:1 last week. Seems it's a mix of everything there, Wagner and prisoners but now it seems it's VDV (where's Kamil Galeev now) and regulars. Ukraine's got TDF fodder and some better units like 93rd there. But who knows how many are left, maybe a withdrawal has occurred of all the heavy stuff and all that's left is infantry to book it out of there on wheels or by foot.

Also, if you don't pre-order, Putin wins.

Used to have them last 4-5 days, see people log in after work, out for sleep, repeat. Was a great experience though, battle would have ebbs and flows then ends on maintenance day, hah

WoW PvP is something else, after 17 years people still fight on the roads in AB, forgetting the lessons of their mothers and fathers. Damn, my WoW main is almost 18.

Strange to feel that way. But is interesting that they'll have 3 versions of the series running at same time. Maybe 3 will lose appeal, D2R won't, will have those committed to that as the be all and end all

Forms is better than doing this crap via Win32 anyway

Making a GUI for my grocery expenses application. I really suck at UI development.

This is ****ing rich from you. A lot of analysts are of the opinion that it's not serving that purpose now, Kofman if I recall said the losses are at parity now and the noose is tightening - basically that they should have pulled back two weeks ago. Not as if the country behind it isn't fortified, so not that devastating. But the idea Ukrainian command may err seems unpopular, heh, something to be said for marketing. An interesting claim by Kofman, incidentally, apparently both sides are so mauled that it's mobilized troops fighting each other for the most part.