Malcador

Been waking up oddly early all this year, like 0500 or so. Sort of annoying but not a huge problem. At least it means I can goof off before work.

Finished the painful CIA mission Death Dealers in DK2. No plan for the most part, cheesed it by having a Black Ops soldier just camping with an SVD and the idiot insurgents stroll into a hallway stepping over their buddies' corpses. The Nowheraki (the devs' humour is real great) SWAT missions are pain, suicide bombers aplenty and their equipment is total crap

Everything I found is very vague, or just says some people interpret the decree as meaning they want to reclaim Alaska. Sure they want WW3, I guess. Or maybe hoping Trump wins and they can get it from him on sale.

Sushko says it insinuates, and he's full of crap more often than not. So doubt it.

Not sure the West will disapprove, Ukrainians doing it with their own stuff, for once.

Interesting. Haven't really followed him much, only exposure has been retards online extolling his, uh, teachings. Well that and cleaning your room but I was already inspired to do that regularly by Admiral McRaven and thorough beatings instruction from parents.

That's Andrew Tate, I think.

Relying on Tom Cooper is....suspect.

Well selling to both sides in a war would be smart business as well... And people say Russian AD is crap, pfft.

Sounds smart, better to sell than give for free. Especially as a smaller country. Free money from the US is on hold for a while longer - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/17/us/politics/johnson-biden-border-ukraine.html?unlocked_article_code=1.OU0.BImv.tbWjn4EYoVWe&smid=url-share I'd bet they'd have cleared this up before the end of January, guess that was a bust.

Well the first game was a SWAT team game. Decided to branch out and give you military. As of now, there's a Ranger team, CIA SAD team and a generic brown people SWAT team that you can use. The CIA missions are less mass murder, although the operatives are some of the best at killing. Just a bit awkward as things are more dynamic, and I really liked the planning being the most key thing.

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/01/16/eu-will-approve-50-billion-for-ukraine-with-or-without-hungary-vows-von-der-leyen Guess will be an end to all the pessimism and fear mongering soon

Getting the hang of the CIA guys in Door Kickers 2 finally, the missions are a bit nuts. Perhaps I should try putting my pistol away and being sneaky but that's too much work.

Trying to fix a client's error and they refuse to tell me what error they get. Completely unrelated to this, came across a great quote belatedly - "To live is to suffer; to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”

Think it's the idea that sounds like a joke rather than the destination. Could be shipping them off to Norway and it'd still sound absurd. Hm, should donate them to Ukraine, help with their demographics. Or mobilization

https://www.euronews.com/2024/01/14/100-days-into-the-war-netanyahu-says-no-one-will-stop-us Rules based order working as intended.

Morocco will be onside with the US' wishes, they were bribed to normalize relations with Israel after all. Jamaica will probably also go along with the US.

Gibson needs to advance his Age or Braveheart series past Vietnam

Door Kickers 2's CIA missions aren't that fun for me. Guess I just suck at stealth. Wish my AI soldiers would realize an enemy isn't down after 2 shots and, y'know, shoot them again but they're soldiers not US cops, so. Reminds me to check if Ready Or Not is any good.

Pro-Russia statements regarding the war, I assume - https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-64580688

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-781767 Sort of boiler plate response to Israel catching any criticism, really. I do like the idea that Israel's fighting for the whole world they've been trying. Didn't really sell for Ukraine, doubt it's going to work here.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67922431 So they've probably been doing this every year. Also Lazio fans exist

Europe's a pretty small continent, recall issues people had with map projections related to that. But suppose Sweden is a decently sized player on the world stage.