Malcador

Slovakia is only good for one half, I guess. England vs Slovakia would be a great match

ROK has some surplus, everyone seems to think they'll go all in for everything to Ukraine, though.

There will always be a need for COBOL developers

Studio gone now as well -https://www.eurogamer.net/paradox-shuts-down-life-by-you-studio-following-sims-likes-sudden-cancellation

Really ? When the US was bombing Afghanistan they mentioned it a whole lot. Sort of a curious argument that only places people have heard of matter though, heh.

Barring Argentina, or a large chunk of CONCACAF.

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/life-sim/paradox-cancels-life-sim-life-by-you-ceo-says-they-gave-the-studio-a-fair-shot-but-now-believe-it-is-better-to-stop/ Shame no alternative to The Sims, this looked pretty meh everytime I checked it out

Morocco and Western Sahara

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/article/why-are-arms-dealers-hiking-prices-for-ukraine-92hqdtlx2 https://archive.is/IMaDq "For some, it was a time of terrible sacrifice and loss. For others, it was a time of great opportunity"

Ukraine sucks, the West has failed by not donating their best players. Good goals by Romania though

https://www.eda.admin.ch/eda/en/home/das_eda/aktuell/dossiers/konferenz-zum-frieden-ukraine/Summit-on-Peace-in-ukraine-joint-communique-on-a-peace-framework.html Very productive summit.

Could say the same for Zelensky's proposals for peace, basically outlines total victory. At least everyone gets a nice trip to Switzerland. Doubt either side can sustain it that long, Russia equipment wise and economic, and Ukraine manpower wise. Both of these countries are screwed for a long time, but Ukraine will be a welfare recipient I guess

https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20240613-g7-leaders-to-50-billion-ukraine-loan-backed-by-russia-s-frozen-assets Guess they got over their issues earlier from https://www.politico.eu/article/us-eu-war-in-ukraine-loan-russian-assets-negotiations-g7-us-election-western-support-joe-biden-olaf-scholz-emmanuel-macron/

Looks like a decent MMORPG.

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/call-of-duty/call-of-duty-black-ops-6-will-not-depict-911-treyarch-confirms/ I guess Americans are still sensitive after two decades. Shame though, the media fuss would have been great

Huh, only 2 months and change for beta.

Same price as RoS, and is in line with the price of expansions back in the day. Adding raids, meh.

Mercs, pets, new class Spiritborn added

Finished Wing Commander 3. Only cheesed a couple missions on Rookie as I am too old. Also my wingmen kept getting wasted attacking a cruiser like morons. Excalibur is a hilarious ship, auto aim, woo. The ground missions really can go to hell though, frustrating and hideous.

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/gog-is-going-to-start-deleting-oversized-cloud-saves-at-the-end-of-august/ 200 MB of saves per game max on the cloud. Not a huge deal to me though.

Caught it on Youtube. Well the dub anyway.

Watched AD Police Files. The creators really liked Blade Runner.

The story, apparently, or the characters? The reviews bitching about that are so suitably skinny on details, it's hard to tell.

Finished Agency, it was a weird book. Stuff just happens, the people from the future just solve every issue. Apparently the original plot was some alternate history where Trump won, and the future was trying to save that. Flynn is barely in this, is mostly Netherton in quantum Skype calls.

France - lots more blood - and UK are more recent, their empires falling apart after those two, slightly.