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In other news, while most of us have put April Fools well behind us, I did find this gem for the upcoming Door Kickers: Task Force North:

Apparently Obsidian got beaten to the punch for the first totalitarian dictator simulator of the year: "Soviet City". I can imagine the meetings at chickeninthecornstudio:

That episode "Proposition Infinity" from Futurama, anybody?

https://twitter.com/ABCPolitics/status/715207444947832832

They do say that if a newly-minted 2LT wants to make 1st Lieutenant, he only needs to know four words: "As you were, sergeant."

Story of a former SS commando-turned Mossad assassin: http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.711115 Sounds like something Kurt Vonnegut would have written with John Le Carre.

While it might not be a fantastic way of spending your Easter weekend, you can get a sobering look into Trump's mind through the transcripts of his interviews on his foreign policy in the New York Times and the Washington Post: Most politicians up until now generally find ways of saying non-committal things dressed up in purple prose, yet Trump manages to get the same general point out while legitimately sounding like a 1st-grader with Alzheimer's.

Sort of makes me think back to these old Old Man Murray pieces: From the Mixed Up Files of Roberta S. Williams The Death of Adventure Games While I hardly think the devs of That Dragon Cancer thinks of its audience and gamers at large are "uncultured dimwit" it probably should have occurred to them what it is exactly about games that makes the medium differ from movies and TV.

As someone who uses Photoshop for a living, it astounds me that people take the time to extract these guys frame by frame for a fairly high quality gif:

Emphases mine:

There is nothing isolationist about peaceful trade and travel. Nothing. Get it right. Sorry for the intrusion. You may all now resume squabbling over which leg of The State gets to stand on your neck. Trade and travel is also dependent on security, good order at sea, and low energy prices. Countries with highly dynamic economies being threatened with SRBMs and IRBMs by tinpot dictators (South Korea, Japan, et al), the risk of chokepoints being mined and/or blockaded (the Strait of Hormuz), and pirates running roughshod over the SLOCs (Strait of Malacca and the Gulf of Aden) aren't exactly conducive to this. For those who think they can live with that, then I hope they enjoy their new $75,000 Hondas (that contrary to vehicles built by domestic manufacturers for many countries, you can count on to _work_), $10,000 Samsung TVs, and gas at $10 a gallon.

Eighty in French is also <<quatre (four) vingt (twenty)>>. Hence, 80 blaze it YOLO 360 no-scope.

Alex Wellerstein's conversation with former CIA and NSA head, Michael Hayden, on secrecy: http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2016/03/18/conversation-with-a-super-spook/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnM3LYIXX1w

Oddly cathartic.

Russian filmmaker is granted unprecedented access by the DPRK to shoot a propaganda piece. Instead, uses side footage to show how bogus the affair was: I especially like the part of people bringing flowers to the statues of the Great Leader and the Dear Leader, only for them to be returned to the sellers to be sold to the next group that came to pay its respects.

I don't know. Given its history in From Software games, how do you _not_ use the Moonlight as a magic specced character in a Dark Souls game?

Cyberdyne Plans Nasdaq Listing Next Year for U.S. Expansion And if it wasn't tempting fate enough, they're in the business of making robits too.

If you got Dawn of War 2: Retribution, the Necron Lord hero for The Last Stand mode is free for a limited time.

Looks like the SM-6 is pulling double-duty for long range AAW and anti-surface warfare: http://news.usni.org/2016/03/07/navy-sinks-former-frigate-uss-reuben-james-in-test-of-new-supersonic-anti-surface-missile