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There's zero chance of Bethesda actually using one of those Intel libraries, though it would make for superb lolz.

It would be funny if the CPU performance delta was because they were using one of those Intel libraries that pretty much literally does exactly that. Otherwise, you don't really need to depart from a variation of Poe's Law* when it's a new title from Bethesda. Though as above, considering the engine's age that it just works™ at all is a bit of a miracle. *Howard's Law: any performance issues in a Bethesda game can be adequately explained by it being a Bethesda game in the first place.

The Nazism isn't really suspicion. Ukraine's fetishisation of the OUN/ UPA is pretty blatant, and they were, well, nazis. Despite a pretty concerted attempt to launder their image. No one forced Ukraine to name so many streets after Stepan Bandera, no one forced them to have so many UPA flags in their cemeteries (that's the red and black ones that just about outnumber the official Ukrainian ones in the top photo) and no one forced so many of their guys to do nazi salutes, wear nazi regalia or get nazi tattoos. No one forced them to integrate Azov into their army either. Those were all choices. Just imagine Germany with multiple- literally dozens of- Adolf Hitler Strasses, swastika flags outnumbering official tricolours, totemkopf/ SS/ sonnenrad etc patches and tattoos... wouldn't be much doubt then, eh? There's always a certain amount of nazism in any country's armies but Ukraine's has... considerably more than most. (UPA's favourite modus operandi was bailing up civilians in buildings and setting them on fire, eg Wola Ostrowiecka and Ostrowki Massacres. Which was, of course, the same method used in Odessa by Right Sector and pals. Also ironic, all those anti fascists on reddit and twitter with their Slava Ukraini/ Heroiam Slava's are- quite literally and verbatim- parroting the UPA's slogan) I don't think anyone with any sense thinks Russia invaded because of the nazism, but just because it's a Russian talking point doesn't mean it doesn't exist. They were also never usable by Ukraine, but in any case if you're going to count Ukraine specifically for that then you also have to count Belarus and Kazakhstan as well. Belarus especially tends to get forgotten about, because in that case it's been the west abrogating the Budapest Memorandum and the Rules Based Order (but of course only with the best of intentions). If the question is which country gave up its nuclear weapons voluntarily the answer is:

Odessa Trade Union Hall fire (of 2014), presumably. You'd need some pretty specific conditions to have 70 unarmed warheads hit. The arming distance isn't that far, nor is reliability that bad. Then again, the only way the 70 claim was remotely feasible would be if they lined up to fire only at the frontal armour, or weren't using AT rounds. Or were ww2 era Panzerfausts or... But really, the 70 claim was always a load of bollocks and about as credible as any other obvious propaganda puff piece. And yes, dreadfully designed tank with awful visibility andor incredibly poorly utilised if the enemy is hitting it 70 times.

Molotov- Ribbentrop Pact, presumably. To be fair, it wasn't precisely a myth. One hadn't been destroyed by enemy action until whenever that video was shot, just one destroyed accidentally by the Brits themselves. (OTOH, them surviving getting hit by eleventy billion 70 RPG rounds in Basra always seemed to be about as hyperbolic as, well, calling 70 eleventy billion)

First Challenger 2 knocked out- and pretty comprehensively so. Doubt even the most hopeful Ukrainian supporter thinks that one is getting towed back to Poland for a quick fix.

Reznikov (Ukrainian Defence Minister) has been fired. Not surprising though. First rumours he was going were back in January due to corruption (iirc not specifically his but in the ministry/ armed forces in general), so not 'counter'offensive related.

Volition is shutting down. Probably a combo of the SR reboot not doing well and the problems Embracer has from blowing up like a balloon on (now not so) cheap debt then failing to get a bail out from the Saudis. Shame, quite apart from the people losing jobs they made some great stupid but fun games.

The timing is wrong for that. Turkey lost their Leos against ISIS in 2016, they attacked the Kurds in January 2018 and Germany refused to upgrade them in January 2018 also. Once they'd been upgraded they wouldn't have been 2a4s any more; they'd have been 2a7s. A 2a4 supplied to Ukraine is not significantly different from those Turkey is/ was running, if they were they would have a different model number (2a4M, 2a4r for the Finnish supplied minerollers etc). Turkey admitted that tank was destroyed- not much way to deny it- along with 5 crew dead, in Sheikh Haruz.

There's also at least one picture of a deturreted Leopard from Ukraine, and if it's deturreted the ammo has 100% gone up. On the positive side, was definitely disabled first and exploded later. The classic from Syria: yep, more bijis than a playlist at a 70s disco. The tank explosion is fairly classic too I guess.

David Axe is awful, and probably less reliable than either MoD in the war. Which may seem impossible, but he tries so very very hard. His previous article on the Leopards used methodology that would have the mythic Polish Repair Yards giving Einstein conniptions by managing to create new Leopards from thin air*. I have a slight suspicion he may be doing the exact same thing again... (My personal favourite, a storm shadow strike "may have destroyed a hundred or more [russian armoured] vehicles". For reference, a 65kg S300 warhead managed, well, one tractor, in Poland and the warhead on the SS is not much larger at 100kg. There's being hopeful, and then there's David Axe. In case it has to be said: sites.Forbes is blogging, not journalism anyway) *same Leopard damaged twice and repaired twice --> 'both' re-added to active count. So if you had 80 you would end up with 81 and the Polish Repair Yard has broken conservation of energy laws.

WoT had Harriet McDougal and Brandon Sanderson as producers, for all the good it did. Witcher had Sapkowski... How on earth they gave Rafe Judkins another series (not Bladerunner, to avoid any implication) to run after WoT I don't know unless the whole thing actually is an elaborate tax fiddle. WoT was an expensive series and it looked like Hercules/ Xena half the time.

Comparing the uplift from 7600/ 6650 is misleading in this case though. 7700/ 7800xt have a proper node improvement (-->5nm) to take into account, 7600 is still 7nm. Or at least, what we would have called 7nm+ a few years ago before every node improvement needed a new number for marketing. While 7-->5 wasn't the greatest node improvement in the history of the world it was still decent. Launch pricing very much looks like a 7900XT/X situation with the weaker card being priced to make the stronger look better rather than on its own merits.

I doubt there's much dedication- 99% chance they've just written a script/ bot to do it for them. Which I guess takes some effort but not 6000 manual one star review class effort.

Not everyone in anglo media is saying that it was a missile either, though it was certainly popular with certain groups. The ones who are* are tending to use evidence they wouldn't use in a more neutral situation and doing so because it makes a nice tidy story though. *maybe were, now, since the US came out and said it wasn't a missile. I haven't really been paying attention to it today.

To be fair in this case whether it was a missile or not is peripheral rather than fundamental, it's just indicative of some bad reasoning. The only fundamentals are if it was an accident or deliberate, and if the latter who did it. But; people do desperately want it to be a missile because that's definitive on both counts ie that would make it deliberate and done by Russia. And there's been an awful lot of experts working back from the conclusion they want rather than working from the evidence over the course of this war over multiple different issues and with multiple examples of experts ignoring or not knowing stuff they really ought to. You thus end up with two conclusions; either they're not experts but 'experts' or they're being deliberately dishonest. The first explanation seems more... charitable.

Well that sucks. And everyone thought he was finally recovering. Yeah, vast majority of people who die from 'dementia' die from pneumonia (or malnutrition when they lose their swallow reflex or for Alzheimers lose all interest in food, or from a plethora of other secondary effects). Unlike HIV it's possible to die directly from the disease itself via the breathing reflex being lost but it's pretty rare to survive that long.

If this war has done anything it's finished off any vestigial respect I had for 'experts'. Which to be fair, wasn't much at all, but still. Bodies of people who die in bomb incidents on planes are very seldom either burnt or exposed to high temperatures as a result of a bomb*; they almost always have just blunt force/ impact trauma. This is a common mistake people make when they've seen a lot of LE/ propellant explosions which are, basically, a big fire created from something that is designed not to explode violently. Same for fuel: there's a reason your cabin is pressurised at 8500m and engines require a compressor- lack of oxygen- which is exactly what fuel needs to ignite. Despite the reputation of jet fuel it's generally about as ignitable as diesel (indeed the main jet fuel, kerosene, was used as fuel for tractors just like diesel is now and some diesel engines and jet turbines will run on the other fuel fine), not worse than petrol. HE otoh does not create much 'fire'** as that would be counterproductive to its main task. Fire involves a lot of relatively slow and incomplete/ inefficient combustion (hence smoke--> unoxidised carbon) while you want very rapid and complete 'combustion' for a HE; and all it has to do in 99% of cases to bring down a plane is punch a hole in it. If you really want to do that and you're a state security service there are a plethora of ways to do it that will leave no traces on any bodies and no obvious traces on the aircraft anyway, not just bombs. Still could be a missile of course, and I'd agree if it were there's no chance of it being a case of mistaken identity. If it had been a random plane then with what we've seen the suggestion would be either bomb or far more likely a mechanical issue but it wasn't a random plane. *on the ground is more likely. Think of it this way, while our experience of flying is in a high oxygen low (apparent) velocity environment in which a fire would flourish as soon as a hole is made in the plane by a bomb all the air gets sucked out and at very high speed--> fire in low oxygen environment and with very high velocity winds --> fire goes out. **hence HiMARS having aluminium powder added to their explosive warheads to enhance heat/ incendiary effects. Which, of course, was forgotten completely when it came to the Olenivka Prison explosion. Especially when the target was Prigo. One suspects all the hand wringing over the poor flight attendant and pilots would stop pretty damn quick if Ukraine claimed responsibility. Though one doesn't really need to suspect given the completely different attitude towards the truck driver Ukraine atomised in the Kerch Bridge attack. At least the FA and pilots were Wagner employees...

Name change (or two*, perhaps something educational sounding after the musical name?) for Wagner and then status quo for Africa, assuming Prigo is actually dead. Which he probably is, but that guy loves/ loved a good troll. In any case nice deniable groups are far too much use for geopolitical shenanigans and Wagner was far too successful to be wound up as a concept. *I will never fail to be amused by Jabhat al Nusra/ Al Qaeda in Syria and Blackwater using the exact same strategy to whitewash themselves

Internationally, people ought to know Mike Pence at minimum since he was VP to Trump and was prominent in the post election incidents. And for his uncanny resemblance to a character on Sealab2021. Otherwise, decent chance of recognising Haley and DeSantis. Christie too maybe, especially if you like Nyoo Joizee bridges.

If Prigozhin getting shot down is a psyop then it would be far more likely it was all a psyop and they pop up again attacking Chernigov or Sumy in a few weeks time. He doesn't seem the type to fake his own death so he could retire to the Bahamas.

Since there was some debate a while back: SBU chief reveals details of 1st attack on Kerch Bridge per PravdaUA. Summary: 21 tons of explosive in a homicide truck bombing. Not 65kg of TNT in a rinky dinky boat, not a false flag and not any of the other pie in the sky theories media were banding about to make it not a suicide bombing. Though to be fair, remote trigger, "we used so many people without their knowledge" so obviously right about it not being a suicide bombing, just plain old murder. Next item on list Nova Kahkovka dam... Note for pro Russian types though, that doesn't actually make them worse than ISIS. ISIS used plenty of drugged up and unwitting 'suicide' bombers too.

Fallout 4 goatee edition released w/75% discount (-->9 USD, here).

Plenty of pictures of lancets hitting targets with cope cages, doesn't seem to do them much good (though see below). A couple of examples of them snagging rather than detonating I can think of, but that was on large flexible camouflage netting/ non taut chicken wire over artillery, not the classic rigid cope cages over a tank turret. Perhaps the best example though are of lancets hitting obstacles like tree branches well before their target yet still taking out armoured vehicles. On the big lancets with HEAT the copper jet is long enough to cope with even that amount of displacement. Definitely would be confirmation bias there as the Russians are unlikely to release footage where cope cages work- but at the same time you'd think more Ukrainian vehicles would have the cages if they did work. They did for a time back when lancets only had HE/frag warheads but don't seem popular any more. Presumably the negatives to usability/ visibility doesn't work out against increased survivability any more. That's a pretty specific example though, in normal circumstances evidence is that they do very little to nothing for either side.

DLCs for Outer Worlds are more of the same, but better. They were not as good for me as they should have been because I found the base game was too long and too much the same (especially massive amounts of filler combat) but even so I still liked the expansions. For someone who is still enjoying the base game they would, I imagine, be thoroughly worth buying.