caveat The Problem is that she is a little too unapologetic about russia.

I agree on that point. Germany needs to be extremely careful not to get worse relations with Poland or France with disagreements on Ukraine. Brexit has shown that the core of the EU might become unstable. Wars break out between direct neighbors most of the time, so Germany also needs to be nuanced and precise about being “not too different” on Ukraine compared to the countries that it directly borders. Diplomacy is nuanced and you can not just simply state what you think is the solution in a vacuum, like always.

In political discussions most people act like Germany can always suddenly pull a 180° without consequences (with France or Poland) lol.

• The plan: Freeze the conflict at the line of contact.
• The reality: Perhaps create a situation similar to the demarcation line between North-Korea and South-Korea, but a much longer contact area without clear geographic boundaries (flat land no mountains).

Why does Venezuela, one of the most oil rich countries on earth, need russian oil? Maybe Venezuela needs some refining capacity?

The article explains it a bit, sanctions and Venezuela exports oil to the US & China.

The biggest armies, by raw troop numbers, in NATO:

1. USA
2. Turkey
3. France or … Germany ? If this goes through?

How will Poland and their (current) right wing government react to such a large army, will they trust them and let them be stationed on Polish soil for a NATO mission? Afaik current relations between Poland and Germany are not very good (border controls disputes).

gigabytes? what. the. fuck.

Wow the free market was truly fixed by Valve cooperation there. Glad for your earnings. Rant: But I hate micro transactions and in-game-market-places, imo they can create an other level of addiction after the first stage.

Meta: Thanks for Chessposting on here. Rant: Modern 3D graphics are quite terrible for energy efficiency/environmental reasons, chess offers complexity in the 2D plane and can run on a potato PC.

In general we should pay more attention to board games (maybe on computers).

The golden apple (globe with a cross on top) of the Tsarist symbol in the background represents the worldly aspect of power, that now has fallen onto the soviet-revolutionary. At least that is also my interpretation.

Yeah but if your consumers are children playing video games, and getting dragged into this by other (older and friendgroup) advertisers, it stops being funny.

congrats you avoided the crash in Stock prices (is tf2 just as badly affected as CS?)

The same happens to me 0.AD. when I play against AI bots.

(0AD is an open source game btw, so I will support it over AOE2)

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nowadays we also pay with our time and electricity for some BS … which is also an investment tbh

So in short: You regret buying the slop game? Money unwell spent?

I have a similar feeling towards modern games. I decided against buying any new AAA game that is not indie.

Also I do not trust ChatGpt being a good steward to the data one types into it.

Youtubes suggestion algorithm can lead you down a dark rabbithole, it is hard to come out of off. Do not become addicted to it please.

When I sang in class, I was always the loudest, and it was wrong.

Slop suggestions, as you wish …

• Game of Thrones?
• Lord of the Rings? Just because its old and popular…
• Pirates of the Caribbean

found the trailer on peertube: https://trailers.ddigest.com/w/aGBV1CcfhZTwoM2UdWFMgi

From my view the story seems quite simplistic right now from the trailer. Black haired tribe comes, Prince wants to marry red-haired princess. Random conflict arises. Terrible war starts? I hope there is something more to this, than the shallow trailer.

I recently noticed how important eye and head towards the player can feel movements can be especially with minecraft mobs. So cool you mention the eye-tracking behavior, this is the attention to detail I like from devs.