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From what I've seen Warface and Armored Warfare don't enjoy quite the growth War Thunder and World of Tanks have (probably only enough to keep the servers running, balance patches, and occasional content updates), and while parent company mail.ru is probably raking in a good bit of dough from VK I'm not sure they'd be willing to cannibalise the revenue from that division towards what is ostensibly a single-player RPG with very little to monetise post-release.

I played the beta and got the idea of it (and even got a free copy courtesy of a cousin who works at Blizzard) but there isn't really a ton there for me, who enjoys the official maximum 24-player TF2 games and sometimes those hacked 32-player 2fort and CP_Well cluster****s, or intimate co-op fare with my buddies like ArmA, pre-Siege Rainbow Six, Ghost Recon, etc. Though I'll grant you I got pretty heavy into the Company of Heroes and Dawn of War competitive scene and waited with bated breath for patch notes with balance changes.

This 600mm ‘Bazooka’ Lens from 1955 is Rather Impressive

Given how the bottom keeps falling out for the Trump family as a result of their own corrosive nature, I think this serves as a useful allegory (with the Trump family as the warrior form Xenomorph):

I suppose their philosophy is to avoid a dogfight in the first place? More that if your strategy for coming out on top is based solely on air show acrobatics rather than things like numerical factors, support assets (i.e. AWACS, tankers, electronic warfare, etc.), and operational readiness (high-g maneuvers exact a great deal of stress on airframes; the rule of thumb is that if an aircraft pulls more than nine-Gs in the course of a flight then the aircraft is in need of a serious stand-down for deep maintenance by the ground crews) you're doing something wrong. In addition, departure of controlled flight manuevers, while flashy, actually have fairly little usefulness in furballs. The resulting loss of energy just to get on the six of a bandit means one is easy meat for his wingman (plus there's a high probability that the bandit can disengage quite easily since he has a major speed advantage, and as the pilot's adage goes: "Speed is life"). This video also demonstrates how counterproductive the Pugachev's Cobra is in reality:

Well this is unfortunate: Icewind Dale 2 can't be 'Enhanced' because the source code is lost.

*Warhammer minis in front of me* *Magnifying lamp, paints, Micron pens, ultra-fine brushes at the ready* *Takes a shot of vodka, rubs face vigourously, sucks in some air through nose, pause, takes another shot of vodka* "Okay, time to paint diamonds on my Harlequins."

The Eldar Panzer General game? Solid choice. The neverending chorus of 40K games seems to be "Space Marines, Space Marines, Spess Muhreens" so that was a rather refreshing change of pace (even if it was more than fifteen years ago). Best representation of the summoning of the Avatar of Khaine: And that guy who voices the Farseer should get an Oscar or something.

Basic physics would also have dictated that Frost Giants would have faced an evolutionary dead-end millennia ago due to the square-cube law. If one were to spontaneously manifest on a planet with similar gravity as ours then it would have dropped dead from a heart attack in an instant.

Another entertaining and insightful newsletter from Richard Aboulafia on aviation and Brexit and economic nationalism:

I hope mods will permit the cuss word from the Youtube link.

Rather interesting slide from a PLAAF seminar. It would seem that even they're not convinced of the tactical viability of the Herbst Manuever and Pugachev's Cobra. Translated: Instructor: Why do you dogfight? Cadet: Because I have super-maneuverability Instructor: No, because you're silly

And it looks more ridiculous than, say, a giant hand summoned by a Wizard to crush his or her foes?

The real-life Xenia Onatopp:

It's getting to the point I wouldn't be enormously surprised if Maduro pulled a Galtieri and had his military invade the ABC Islands to rally public support.

Sadly no. The only interior stuff that is modeled is the Mk. 117 fire control display and the narrowband sonar display used for classifying contacts. That said you also have authentically modeled Soviet naval tactics and doctrine courtesy of Dr. Milan N. Vego.

December 28th, 1984, Norwegian Sea: "Conn, sonar, new contacts bearing 35. Designated Sierras One and Two." "Come left to course 300, make my depth 300 ft. Maneuvering, aye." Oscar-class cruise missile boat. Damn, what a whale, but its SS-N-19 Shipwrecks could wreak havoc on NATO supply convoys. I run a flanking course to the contacts to allow the more powerful TB-12 towed sonar array to track them and develop a firmer firing solution. After a few minutes gathering bearing and speed data, I manuever the boat into his baffles so they realise too late that they're under attack. "Sierra One, bearing 300, range ten thousand yards." "Fire point procedure, Sierra One, tubes one and three." "Ship ready." "Solution ready." "Weapon ready." "Match sonar bearing and shoot." "Conn, Sonar, units are running normally." The Mk. 48 torpedoes are wire guided, allowing mid-course updates from the launching boat against distant targets, and defeating countermeasures launched by the target. The Oscar only knows it's screwed once the fish go into acquisition mode. He deploys a noisemaker decoy, but the torpedoes simply drive around it to resume their track of the Oscar. The AN/WLR-9 active intercept sonar picks up the pings from the first torpedo, now emanating in a staccato-like fashion, indicating that it was close to its mark. "Conn, loud explosion on the bearing of Sierra One!" Sonar SUP shouts. The second torpedo follows close behind and detonates, finishing it off, eliciting silent cheers from the Dallas' crew. The Dallas slinks away, the sonar technicians electing to take off their headphones and watching the broadband waterfall displays to monitor for pop-up contacts instead. The sounds of the imploding hull of the Oscar is hard to listen to; a morbid reminder of the grisly death waiting for some in the silent service. The Dallas streams a floating wire antenna to transmit news of positive destruction of enemy cruise missile boats. The next day, COMSUBLANT cracks open his morning paper and chuckles softly to some good news.

I think we're rapidly approaching the point in which for security's sake all files on White House staff computers will have to be transcribed via 1950's typewriter for the following administration, then the computers summarily thrown into incinerators and the ash and cinders locked in a electro-magnetic-shielded sealed vault at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. Who knows what kind of malware got onto those machines.

I'd say that it means they're all Jewish, an attitude couched in a phobia towards the "10 ft tall subterranean Jewish lizard bankers"; the far-Right in the US is quite happy to help all the Jews go the Holy Land... at which point they better learn to accept the Lord Jesus as their saviour if they know what's good for them since that was supposed to be what pre-saged the Rapture.

Just so you know, the person who created that .gif also posted this (name censored to keep language reasonably clean): It's looking more <<The Plot Against America>> by the day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7p5kWPl7Xw

Iran targeted Star of David in ballistic missile test, Israel says Makes you wonder what those IAF pilots thought when they bombed those SA-2 sites in 1967, 1973, and 1982. Image was recon image over Cuba, but the arrangement of the "flying telephone poles" around the Fan Song fire control radar along with roads for launcher reloads is ubiquitous of the system.