That’s going to be a “he said, she said” case. Chances are, since she was an activist in the US, that she might’ve been labeled as an “instigator” in whatever ID database they are using.

Well, there is an OpenSource client, and private servers with custom rules. That makes every modification possible.

Crazy talk, and you’re onto something… that’s been solved already.

First part: you hate that a 10+ years old game is only getting cosmetic changes instead of a rehaul of the whole character model. That’s crazy, nobody’s going to do that, not the ones expecting a profit, and not the modding community doing it for free. If you feel it’s a silly change, you’re right, but realize that it’s the only change they could do.

You’re onto something: body feature sliders. Male, female, giraffe, and turtle bodies, have some structural differences, that however mostly match to the same bones having different shapes. The solution is a body shape slider, or 50. It’s something that existed, in some games, since at least the 2000s. Others were lazy and didn’t do it.

For reference of how far this could go, the following all have the same bones, only change in shape, size, and muscle placemen:

Games could have multiple protagonists with different bodies, genders, personalities, etc… something like Overwatch did have that, you could even play as a hamster or a robot!

What I’m wondering is, how is a Russia-controlled domain still working, if it’s been banned by Russia?

How is this on a .ru domain?

Moral of the story:

1. Don’t travel to Russia
2. If you have to travel to the US, Russia, China, or any of a number of other countries that will happily invade your privacy at the border, leave your phone behind and carry a burner phone

In January this year, a delivery rider in the eastern city of Qingdao was stabbed to death by a security guard for entering a building without authorisation.

WTF…

HIMARS is a launch platform, its range depends on which rockets it launches.

ATACMS is a missile that can be launched from HIMARS, it has a way longer range, the difference between a rocket and a missile is that a missile can maneuver freely, and the ATACMS can also carry a nuclear payload.

I know about the eternal warning stuff. In this case I think it’s more about plausible deniability: it’s harder to accuse Ukraine of initiating a nuclear war, if they don’t even use nuclear-capable missiles against Russian territory. I wouldn’t be surprised if Putin was ready to nuke some small city of his own, just to have an excuse to launch some tactical nukes against Ukraine.

Russia hasn’t been able to establish air dominance for 4 years, they advance at a snails pace, fighting for every 100m of land against swarms of drones decimating their troops, while Ukraine has been conceding each 100m of land by losing drones with as few people as possible.

Now Ukraine has invaded Russia, taken over a GazProm control station, and gained control of a rail line that Russia used to supply its troops on the front. For how long will they be able to advance those 100m by 100m, without supplies?

Ukraine now also has some F16s they can use to tip the scales in air dominance.

A month or so ago, Ukraine announced plans to produce at least one million drones by end of year. That’s a thousand drones for each Km of the Russian front, or one drone per meter, organized in swarms and waves with “mothership” control drones. It’s a strategy with no historical precedent, that Russia has no clue how to respond to… or at least has been highly ineffective in responding to.

Peace talks right now are being proposed by Russia, which usually means they’re in a weaker position and they know it. They’re running out of money, to the point that they want to crack down on the rampant corruption that held the whole system together. If they really do, then all bets are off on which general will be the first one to propose sticking Putin’s head on a spike.

Russia already has a huge manpower advantage

Manpower is not as important as training, which is not as important as technology and strategy.

Russia is already on its “4th army”: best trained forces are gone, reservists are gone, prisoners and noob recruits are gone… they’re now fighting with skeleton crews and mercenaries.

Ukraine on the other hand, has spent the time building up expertise in state of the art drone warfare strategies… which are completely novel and haven’t had a chance to get history books written about how to beat them.

It isn’t as simple as “manpower”.

The one thing that Russia has, and hasn’t used yet, is nukes… but that would open a full box of nasties.

Why? Simple: Western countries don’t feel like getting pulled into exchanging nukes with Russia. Yet.

Analysts can only work on existing data. A key to winning a war, is to keep your data secret, whether it be number of units, positioning, strategies, etc.

Maybe, just maybe, the real analysts and strategists, don’t go blabbering all they know to the media.