Do people want to play Warcraft 2? I have a lot of nostalgic memories of when I played it as a kid but unlike the other remastered old Blizzard games, it isn’t very good by 21st century standards.

I thought that they checked to make sure people were psychologically stable before giving them special-forces training…

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Are there a lot of Ukrainian Americans voting for Trump? The ones I know tend to be relatively conservative by American standards and a couple of them are voting for him, but most of them support aid to Ukraine and so they support Harris.

It’s a bold move but I don’t see it changing the outcome of the ongoing war. If Ukraine could build long-range ballistic missiles in the near future, I think they could regain the advantage even without any nuclear warheads. Nuclear warheads would not be useful without those ballistic missiles.

(What would happen if Ukraine did have nuclear-armed ballistic missiles but Russia refused to withdraw from Ukrainian territory? I don’t foresee Ukraine actually nuking Russia, even in those circumstances.)

It would be nice if other people joined because of the network effect, but ultimately your decision is about you and what you want. I never used Twitter (the format is terrible for the sort of thing I like to read) but there’s an industry I’m morally opposed to and I refuse to support it despite the fact that this makes my life harder while that industry doesn’t even notice losing one customer. They do still lose the money I would have spent, and that’s a non-zero loss even if they aren’t aware of it.

Maybe one day my contribution will be part of a network effect, but even without that I feel like I’m doing the right thing and that’s enough for me.

outline looks like a bolt-action

I don’t even.

They wouldn’t be shooting at you, which is a big deal.

When the Soviets and the Americans reached each other, that meant that there were no more Nazis left in between and if I were in that situation I think I would be kissing anyone and everyone.

This isn’t a perfect analogy, but imagine you were driving 25 mph over the speed limit and a cop gave you a ticket. You’d be upset but you’d know that you deserved it. Now imagine that you were only going 1 mph over the speed limit. Now if you got a ticket you would be angry because it was such bullshit. I think carrying out a seizure over

five pairs of military camouflage trousers and several camouflage nets

is more like the second category than the first. I’m not expressing sympathy for Russia here; I just think that pushing them even the tiniest bit closer to doing something really stupid isn’t worth it when it doesn’t lead to any military advantage.

I’m not sure that “piss off Russia for no reason” symbolism is helpful. So much support from the West is gated behind “don’t piss off Russia too much” that frankly this looks like a waste of the provocation budget.

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You could. This type of gun is not intended primarily for use against people (although this particular gun might be modified to serve the role of a sniper rifle). It’s for shooting aircraft and lightly armored vehicles. By that I don’t mean cars; I mean armored personnel carriers. The bullets would go right through a building’s walls.

I can’t quickly find a photo of this gun’s 12.7 mm bullet doing its thing, but here’s what the very similar American 50 cal bullet does to six-inch-thick concrete:

Wow, I think that’s a modified DShK, which entered service in 1938. It’s not a museum piece - these guns are still in widespread use.

If it’s stupid and it works…

She’s single, you know…

Meanwhile Simba has a perfectly good mother.

Hide and seek champion.

licensing issues

I understand that the buyer doesn’t lose the de facto ability to install the game from a local copy of the installer, but is it possible to lose the de jure right to install the game in that way due to licensing issues on GOG’s end? I’m not saying it is, I’m just curious.

In the original Fallout you could defeat the final boss just by talking to him, but in addition to the speech skill you actually had to find and bring the evidence that his plan was doomed to failure. The issue wasn’t a matter of opinion - you needed scientific proof.

You could also choose to let him convince you that he was right, which was one of the ways to get the bad ending.