It’s Not Hard For A Billion-Dollar Company To Credit An Artist From Time To Time

The companies who own these games never bother to credit the artist

I guess I’m a bit confused here. Every film I have seen in my entire life credits the artists, and many games do as well.

I think it is just the earth. It’s round and gets physically in the way of the signal as you approach the ground.

For this war, that was a pretty large assault! That first hit looks like it may have gotten a pair of vehicles too!

Yep, we can each do our individual part. Ukraine has a direct donation page at United 24. I sent some more money the day after the election, figured they could use it.

Some games that make for some fun coop and don’t require a ton of screen time. All of these are at least gold rated on ProtonDB so should be fine on the SteamDeck, though I’m not sure about crossplay with consoles on any:

• Sanctum - An interesting combo of first person shooter and tower defense (Sanctum 2 was also real good)
• Borderlands 1 - Looter shooter with some solid humor (Borderlands 2 was also real good, but goes downhill in later games)
• MechWarrior 5 - Who doesn’t want to be a giant mech riddled with guns?
• Left 4 Dead 2 - Fight together to escape zombies, or in multiplayer servers work together as the zombies to take out other humans

Now, less of a focus on shooters:

• Golf It and Golf With Your Friends - Put Put golf taken to extreme levels
• Magica 2 - Murder enemies together in a top-down wizard game
• BattleBlock Theater - Jump over obstacles and solve puzzles together

Jesus, going through all that destruction, and your incoming munition alarm starts going nuts…

There are companies that do freight forwarding. Much less dodgy than random person on the internet. Would be worth checking out.

Want to point out the Strykers. Not sure about the qty here, but always nice to see solid IFVs getting sent over. Seems to be the best land vehicle in this war in which nobody has air supremacy.

Edit:

Looks like 211 Strykers! Based on the difference in announced quantity from Oct 21st to Nov 1st.

The US could start by allowing Ukraine to strike targets in Russia using US-provided long range weapons. That should have happened from the get-go. But it is something we can do today that would help.

If the war ended this moment, I could absolutely see Russia’s military getting stronger over the next few years compared to today. However, the war won’t end for awhile yet. In the mean time their military will continue to be beaten down by Ukraine and sanctions will continue to hamper their industrial base. Not to mention the ever-mounting demographic issues Russia has take an increasing toll on their military and economy as time passes.

What’s happening next Tuesday?

The US elections. Many have theorized that the US is holding off on making any new moves till after the election so as to not potentially hurt Harris’ election chances.

People also are increasingly realizing that Ubisoft games are all very bland and…the same. People enjoyed it the first time, but why buy a new AC game when you already have essentially the same thing in you library already?

Ah, the good 'ol: you have three options, choose two!

Though, not paying annually for multiplayer access certainly helps with the financial ruin problem. ;p

Highly, highly recommend using GOG. Buying is owning. There is no DRM and they even provide offline installers for the games you buy.

But they updated the terms of use and apparently now, stating that buying is not owning

This has always been the case for Steam and every other service that isn’t GOG.

‘Whelp, guess it’s that time’

Jump over to PC and choose both 140fps and quality. ;p

I’m at least happy we are past the era of ‘the human eye can only see 30fps’.

My guess is they will be compartmentalized to their own unit(s), with dual speakers coordinating with Russian units/leadership. Though, like you say, there probably aren’t very many of those, so these units will be particularly at risk if their rare dual speaker gets taken out. They could probably mitigate this a bit by having dual speakers in safer locations one tier up the command chain.

This all assumes they will be in front-line roles. It is possible they will get assigned to safer duties, freeing up Russian soldiers to go to the front.

It’s good these are being made. One of the big downsides of the traditional cruise missile are they are expensive. Which means making them at industrial scale burns though quite a few resources. In many cases, having 10x-20x lower capability drones will do the job better.

Obviously you still want the high-capability cruise missiles for more difficult targets. But it’s very good the west is producing the cheaper ones in volume too!

NCOs and local autonomy is OP. The soldier with the most info is the one with a gun in his hand. The closer the command structure is to that information source, the better everything runs.

Yeah, that does seem odd. Maybe Iran doesn’t have enough lift capacity for either the volume or size of the satellites?