Malcador

Should work with Lancets and such, although not sure that's really much of a threat to a Challenger. Is funny to see it praised as ingenuity, even on something as invulnerable as that, heh. When the Abrams show up that will be interesting to see

The English overreact so much when they have any success, here's hoping the Spanish can do it.

Somewhat funny.

https://kyivindependent.com/media-senior-nato-official-suggests-ukraine-could-exchange-territory-for-nato-membership/ DOA idea. Good for one thing, winding up all the Ukrainian REMF hawks like Podolyak.

I'd just read American Prometheus

Aside from him not citing much. I think he's wrong about the convicts, they didn't really stop and also was not just convicts but low grade troops being used. Also if they gave up Bakhmut, they'd run into a more fortified city. I don't get his point though where it comes to Wagner - he says if they gave it up, then Wagner gets a PR boost as Putin sees how their method works. But they got the same boost by grinding their way through the city anyway, and supposedly had the relation sour so much Prigozhin did the coup attempt anyway. Seems like a lot of hindsight to make the Ukrainians brilliant, heh.

Happy belated. It's been a long time since I really cared that much but I've realized that much like funerals, birthdays are for the people around you.

Playing There is No a Game. It's a rather interesting point and click, although some of the jokes hang around a bit too long, but creative at least. Some moon logic in play, at least to me, but perhaps I think within the box too much

Survived my enemies for one more year. Think I reached the age where I can denigrate the young people of today too.

Now that's some bold marketing.

Refers to the song Waltzing Matilda. Should have called them the Glowers, cause in a land down under...

Aussies to win the Women's World Cup for sure

Steam reviews really are useless to read, once the game passes a certain size, apparently people were posting reviews on Bg3 that were just dumping on Diablo 4 But I guess these people are going to jerk themselves off thinking they owned Blizzard here.

Should always doubt stuff like that, but apparently a big source of this is Eisenhower ? "Highly illuminating to me was his description of the Russian method of attacking through mine fields. The German mine fields, covered by defensive fire, were tactical obstacles that caused us many casualties and delays. It was always a laborious business to break through them, even though our technicians invented every conceivable kind of mechanical appliance to destroy mines safely. Marshal Zhukov gave me a matter-of-fact statement of his practice, which was, roughly, «There are two kinds of mines; one is the personnel mine and the other is the vehicular mine. When we come to a mine field our infantry attacks exactly as if it were not there. The losses we get from personnel mines we consider only equal to those we would have gotten from machine guns and artillery if the Germans had chosen to defend that particular area with strong bodies of troops instead of with mine fields." A Russian historian Isayev does have this "There's a very famous story, allegedly coming from Eisenhower, about how if Soviet infantry encountered a minefield, it would advance as though there was no minefield there. This is a retelling over a broken telephone. In reality, Zhukov insisted that regular ordinary infantry should undergo sapper training, because simple mine disarmament, removal of simple minefields, can be performed by a person who has certain combat experience, and the implementation of this in ordinary rifle units, so they would not be stalled in front of minefields waiting for sappers and deal with minefields that they could handle by themselves, moving forward, and not remain in place, vulnerable to artillery attack." Is impressive the amount of comments I found looking this up, albeit casually, on how Slavs or Russians are like some alien beings, not valuing life. Back to the war, Germany may be giving Ukraine the Taurus missile - https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/bundesregierung-prueft-lieferung-von-taurus-marschflugkoerpern-a-5412d838-4434-4706-86a3-292006f7912d

Huge blow to the King of the Hill revival.

Broke Born Punk, I got an achievement for the ending for an action done in the midgame. Still want to get one character killed so spending more time on that. Looking at backlog I realize I have Indpendence War, should finish that

Wartranslated just does translations and stuff but that Telegram seems pretty dodgy. I'm still waiting for Ja Rule's analysis.

Russia will run out shovels soon.

Mine clearing charges,but that isn't going to be easy with gunships and ATGMs everywhere. Well or maybe a lot of artillery.

Was wrong actually, the bits I read were in a NYT piece and with second hand sourcing - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/02/us/politics/ukraine-troops-counteroffensive-training.html / https://archive.is/UB0wI "But the Western-trained brigades received only four to six weeks of combined arms training, and units made several mistakes at the start of the counteroffensive in early June that set them back, according to U.S. officials and analysts who recently visited the front lines and spoke to Ukrainian troops and commanders. Some units failed to follow cleared paths and ran into mines. When a unit delayed a nighttime attack, an accompanying artillery bombardment to cover its advance went ahead as scheduled, tipping off the Russians." As Bernard would say, it's like one of those irregular verbs - I struggle against the odds, you're a complete muppet, as war goes. One of the more tedious things with the news and this war though.

The incidents I saw people talking about were about specific things - things like just poor planning meaning artillery wasn't ready, poor unit composition etc., and dumbo officers isn't really that unexpected (well unless you consumed only NA media since Feb 2022...). That stuff does happen - US had the screw up of Package Q and the Karbala attack, but is hardly NATO's fault. But yes, I suppose enough to go around, but I guess if it does falter (big if there I feel), there'll be some bitterness, heh. Western Diplomat chimes in https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/08/politics/ukraine-counteroffensive-us-briefings/index.html

Not sure why they had to copy WoW's affixes from Mythic for this. Goblins dropping a legendary guaranteed is nice, they seem exceptionally annoying to chase around this time.

The Internet was a mistake. Is hard to resist the hype on this game, hah. Never played either BG or BG 2, but I guess those aren't necessary for this one

I would say the blame for military failures is Ukraine's, at least specific ones. Ukraine soldiers on social media were complaining of some ****ups, for example. Also giving Western kit to new formations rather than veteran ones may be one. On Bakhmut it's funny to read some analysis that...poltical considerations may have trumped military ones! The horror. Not really the case here, sort of funny we just get a brief note on some missile strike by either side, or just the usual "it's hard going, they don't have air supremacy" type stuff. Ukraine themselves have said it's going slower than desired - https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/07/24/7412731/ - Chris Roberts should borrow that line though