Malcador

Well as long as it's not tedious bolter porn with some wank death metal OST, should be ok.

F-35 has an automatic ejection system in that mode, I believe, maybe that triggered ?

Ciaphas Cain I can hope.

Arrests for beer smuggling

Seems like a bad idea, but guess we'll see. Ukraine is pretty thin in the north as well, granted is just from OSINT types that are pro-UA.

UT3's soundtrack is pretty good at least. And no, Tribes is the gold standard.

My old workplace finally got around to taking the SSD out of my work laptop and is giving it to me next week. Good enough Christmas gift, I guess, a beat up T460p. Has a 940MX though, so that's something.

Well the HIM part of HIMARS is what makes them hard to hunt, I don't think the Patriots are as mobile and also are defensive so less proactive so to speak. Probably wouldn't be effective to try to rush it with drones or missiles but would be an easier attempt. Economist had a bunch of interview with Ukrainian officials and such, this one was interesting An interview with General Valery Zaluzhny, head of Ukraine’s armed forces (archive) "TE: What do you make of Russia’s mobilisation? VZ: Russian mobilisation has worked. It is not true that their problems are so dire that these people will not fight. They will. A tsar tells them to go to war, and they go to war. I’ve studied the history of the two Chechen wars—it was the same. They may not be that well equipped, but they still present a problem for us. We estimate that they have a reserve of 1.2m-1.5m people… The Russians are preparing some 200,000 fresh troops. I have no doubt they will have another go at Kyiv" Not sure if the talk of this second offensive is just more scaremongering for the wishlist.

https://www.pcgamer.com/epic-is-delisting-almost-every-unreal-game-but-making-unreal-tournament-3-free/ "Epic is apparently bringing back Unreal Tournament 3, originally released in 2007, as Unreal Tournament 3 X, fully free and cross-platform between Steam, EGS, and GOG" Well that's something.

So they invented something worse than Agile.

Expensive gifts for Christmas. Guess the Russians will try to focus on those, easier than hunting HIMARS.

I'd like France to win, just to enhance Giroud's success and Arsenal fans' bitterness over him

Brace yourself for all the Messi headlines, I guess.

Got a grandson scammer, but was disappointing in how he brought no energy to the role just said "Hi Grandpa. I'm in trouble" so flat and uninspired. Worthless.

They state outright it is prehistoric Earth. I guess killing the dinosaurs via space vehicle accident is better than having Driver solo them all. Shame his futuristic carbine seems weak.

Maybe related to https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/01/19/new-language-requirement-raises-concerns-ukraine "The law aims to revitalize the Ukrainian language and is part of government efforts to reinforce national identity after the fall of the Soviet Union. Some officials called it essential for Ukraine’s national security. Public opinion polls indicate that at least 60 percent of Ukrainians support certain provisions of the law. Article 25, regarding print media outlets, makes exceptions for certain minority languages, English, and official EU languages, but not for Russian. Ukrainian authorities justify this by referring to the country’s European ambitions and “the century of oppression of … Ukrainian in favor of Russian.” There are concerns about whether guarantees for minority languages are sufficient. The Venice Commission, the Council of Europe’s top advisory body on constitutional matters, said that several of the law’s articles, including article 25, “failed to strike a fair balance” between promoting the Ukrainian language and safeguarding minorities’ linguistic rights. It stated that “historical oppression of Ukrainian ... may lead to the adoption of positive measures aimed at promoting Ukrainian, but this cannot justify depriving the Russian language and its speakers of the protection granted to other languages…”" That would be hilarious to see the diplomatic storm if they did that, kicking out half the alliance. I'd always thought the carrot would be Ukraine not in NATO for some number of years if anything. Who's going to whine about whataboutism to you, you figure ?

Good job slowing down the whole page

Better feedback than I get from management.

Managed to remain conscious through my work day.

If France gets to final, they're going to concede about 4 penalties.

Yah. Guess Messi is going to win it all.

You're the 3rd person to tell me that Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment

Strange penalty there, I guess the keeper is to dive out of the way if a striker just runs at them. Game over anyway.