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Something that has kind of bugged me through the years about the seal of the Great State of 'Can't-afford-ya': Is the grizzly bear a pygmy? Or is Minerva a Zentraedi?

Not my footage, but still a thrill to watch:

There should be an ellipsis in there to make it: "Rock... or something."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlBiLNN1NhQ

Raided some of the boxes I never bothered to open up and unpack after we moved to our new house and found some of my old copies of the Salamander book series by Bill Gunston and illustrated by Mike Spick on late Cold War aircraft. A lot of it tends to be quite prophetic and relevant to this day, but one volume, Future Fighters (published in 1984) quite keenly demonstrates the 2001: A Space Odyssey effect: "The past's future always does seem at least a little silly in retrospect." For instance, the entry on the Advanced Technology Bomber program that would eventually lead to the B-2A Spirit:

Super stoked for Torment, regardless of the combat mechanics (as long as it's fun and the encounter design is well done, though I'll admit, this quote: “Combat isn’t our primary focus” is our way of saying “if we had to fail at either dialogue/story/reactivity versus combat, then we will choose to fail at combat" is a bit disconcerting). I would have preferred RTwP since honestly turn based doesn't make a ton of sense to me from a verisimilitude perspective. I'll never get past the imagery of someone quite sportingly standing where they are, picking their nose as a guy casually meanders up to him and gives him four consecutive clonks on the head. That said, turn-based hasn't stopped my enjoyment of Fallout, Temple of Elemental Evil, and Divinity.

Seems like it could turn into a spiritual successor to that game, Cryostasis: Sleep of Reason.

Navy "Aggressor" F/A-18s and F-16s at the Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center at NAS Fallon.

Yes, let us march on Edmonton against those 10 foot tall, subterranean lizard Jew bankers of Bioware

That's some esprit de corps:

Snazzy commercials from Northrop Grumman, hinting at their entry for the LRSB bid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J41D0kfkZKY Which is just as well, considering that if they don't win the contract, they will likely bow out of the (manned) combat aircraft business.

Jesus, Kevin Van Ord's review for The Witcher 3 on Gamespot is going on 6600 comments.

Moore's Law in action:

Last month's volcanic eruption in Chile.

Unfortunately I think it likely the most we'll get from Torment is a half-page in PCGamer issue of July. Seemed like that was the kind of media attention PoE got at E3 last year. Though one can dream InXile will do a Quick Look EX for Giant Bomb like Obsidian did for PoE.

Third year of The Division at E3? Hoping to see stuff on Torment and Deus Ex: MD.

What is it that's so hard to understand? China spends almost twice as much as Russia does on defense while barely lifting a finger in terms of expenditures as a percentage of GDP. With one percent of the U.S. economy the Air Force could purchase a thousand F-22s whereas one percent of the Russian economy gets the PVO 150 of the cheaper PAK-FA, and that was according to estimates prior to 2014. Russian R&D is also not immune to Murphy's Law and cost overruns as the much maligned Bulava program that was to be the centerpiece of the Russian strategic forces goes to show (to say nothing of teething problems the program can undergo, as the T-14 and the T-15 stalling in the rehearsal can attest to).

My guess is that that's where the gunner's sight is. Leopard 2A4 has a similar segment that's cut-out for that purpose: Or, at least where the gunner's primary sight is supposed to be. It's rather doubtful that the turret we're seeing now will be on the production version (if it comes), so what we're seeing now remains a mock-up, as the common belief is that the turret in its current form barely stands up to 30mm autocannon fire (if that). Supposedly a Russian general expressed some concern that a not insignificant percentage (to the tune of 80%) of the electronics is of western European make, and with the current geopolitical situation further technology transfers will be put into limbo (for instance, the Russian Army currently uses simulators built by, of all people, Rheinmetall, and the 2nd generation TIS for the T-90 is a license built version of the CATHERINE made by Thales).

Who do you think the "Arctic Challenge" exercises, the 900,000 reservists who got sent letters reminding them of their obligations to the Finnish Defence Force, and the navy's depth charging of a submerged contact off their coast was meant to send a message to? Sweden? Finland's worst kept military secret is that the agreement to join NATO had already already signed, it's just sitting in some Finnish general's drawer somewhere in a glass box with a hammer that says "In case of Russian incursion into the Lapland, break glass and fax to SACEUR". @Walsingham Archive of the segment is now up for the next 30 days: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007nf6t

Given that the Russian Army now considers ERA to be an integral part of the armour array, it's probably there. It's just that it doesn't look as haphazardly "pasted on" as Kontakt-1 would look on an older tank. Compare how much sleeker a T-90AM with Kontakt-5: looks compared to a T-80BV with Kontakt-1:

Blame standards and practices: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wqnNURx3Y6Q