Malcador

Some mythical country no doubt. Remarkable how MoDs just BS like this, although the source for the Russian claim of F-16s turned out to be some dude on Telegram, but I imagine the RuF MoD would claim that.

Thought they walked back the Su-30 claim. Pretty sure was ground based air defense doing it. Russia claimed they downed several F16s for some reason though.

Get well soon Shady. Google keyboard suggested "swole" not well, but maybe that too.

Way too much time cooking, but at least the weather is pleasant.

They got the PAC2 so 100 miles or so and Germany gave them a battery recently.

I dunno, seems to be pretty Western centric to think that's the main goal as opposed to the simple idea of keep attacking your enemy (especially with Israel and domestic US issues affecting support) , Russian domestic concerns perhaps.

And then we'd rejoice as the war would crash and end.

God I hate YouTube thumbnails. Saw that, not sure I buy that's their plan to play with western opinion as opposed to...just keep attacking their enemy to try to retain initiative.

Seems both sides in this war can't think of more than just playing kill ratio games.

Wonder if that's realistic.

Seems it's just more attrition warfare, Russia can't force them out but must be hard on morale if it goes on long.

https://kyivindependent.com/you-get-to-the-other-side-and-then-what-ukrainian-soldiers-crossing-dnipro-fear-their-mission-is-hopeless/ NYT published something similar earlier this week, people weren't too happy with that for some reason.

Are they going to be changing Max's dialogues that much ?

https://www.ign.com/articles/max-payne-actor-james-mccaffrey-dies-aged-65 Well ****

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67732895 Have to think if they had just been Palestinian civilians, no one would have cared.

Liking 40k is birth control enough.

Tried beating that RT3 mission without cheesing it, failed. So if anyone asks, I'll just lie. Going through the latest WoW raid in LFR, sure is boring to heal, I guess we have competent people slumming in LFR for some reason.

Yah carries still exist, I disagreed with adding arena way back, but still not making WoW a pay to win, I feel. Depends a lot on degree. Tribes Ascend was one I played that definitely was. And WoW has put in things to drag out the experience that you can't skip anyway, time gating to pump up engagement KPIs But people pay for these MTX and games are for money, so I really can't be worked up over it.

Before, I believe

Oh good act man, I am sure he will soil himself ranting about how it was all due to woke. Don't really have a problem with the boosting, seems incredibly wasteful of the cash especially with how easy things are. Even in a PvP setting, would be surprised if someone getting boosted heavily would do that well, skill is still somewhat an issue (addons do the rest!).

Not sure that's winning, though, at that ilvl you can queue up for LFR for the current raid, no idea if you can be useful in Normal or higher levels of the raids. For comparison, I have 438 and I barely grind for gear. WoW's always been an endgame focused game - of late people have found problems with that - but definitely is a market for people who left (funnily enough they may have quit at a higher level than max) and just want to catch up. Not money well spent mind you, is very easy these days.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-senate-expected-be-session-monday-border-aid-talks-continue-senators-2023-12-14/ Seems House is still not on board. Not sure it matters all that much, even with all these fear mongering articles that Ukraine will be crushed with the delay. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/12/13/russia-ukraine-war-west-funding-00131638

Don't really see WoW as pay to win even now, you can buy cosmetics which isn't really winning especially with the transmog system.

RT3 defeated. Sort of a crooked way I won the last mission with gold though, just waited until last possible minute and pumped my networth by buying my company's shares on margin in a huge amount, just got me over.