ABigGuy4U
16hr ago
No. Not many games used it in 2016 either. The production lines needed something to do, so all those unused gyroscopes were sold to drone companies like DJI for cheap, causing a huge leap in quad-copter drone development, changing the face of warfare as we know it.
ABigGuy4U
1d ago
ABigGuy4U
1d ago
I wouldn’t necessarily say it’s ironic. I would say that I think the war was foolish and probably avoidable. And that Ukraine could have easily ended up like Turkey, balancing NATO and Russian interests and getting rich in the process. I also think that Russia will win, barring some major black swan like NATO overtly entering the war with ground troops, nuclear weapons, Russian economic collapse, etc.
Russia is critically low on much of its kit and now sends handfuls of men on foot to infiltrate and try to take ground
That’s not necessarily because they’re low on gear, that’s just the meta in the age of drones and cheap cruise missiles. This is how Ukraine fights now too after their larger scale tactics failed. Ironically, it’s a hell of a lot like what everyone in the 1950s predicted the nuclear age battlefield would like: everything done with small units because big assaults would get zotted with tactical devices. Ukraine and Russia are actually adapting a lot of their old Soviet nuclear land battle strategies for the Ukraine war.
Russia's advance has collapsed this year?
I really don’t think this is true. Russia has made major advances in the south, and around Kramantorsk, and some new fronts in the North. Ukraine has done a genuinely good job of reducing the Kupyansk cauldron these past few months, which is a good example of what they could have achieved more of if they hadn’t wasted three years and a trillion dollars trying to LARP the Fulda Gap.
Now that the dust has settled, can we all agree that the Nintendo Wii-mote accelerometer is the 21st Century’s equivalent to the Minié ball?
ABigGuy4U
3d ago
Realistically, all the hot zones on the line are going to be jammed to hell anyway, and drones would have to be fiber-optic.
ABigGuy4U
8d ago
One is still a live issue. I think China’s main interests here are keeping its own gas supply going, and preventing the world economy from collapsing and taking China down with it. Beyond that I think they would generally like Iran to keep existing to counterbalance US influence in the Middle East. But I don’t think they are willing to take heroic measures to save Iran. I think they will quietly provide significant aid like they do for Russia during the ongoing Ukraine War.
ABigGuy4U
8d ago
with metal teeth having a meet cute with some girl
Some girl with BRACES! No I’m not crazy! They were there all along, I can see them... burned into my memory... that’s the joke! That was the joke, they both have metal teeth! They edited it out, they scrubbed the tape, they don’t want you to see it I don’t know why—get away from me with that syringe! I will not take the psychiatric meds! I hate the Antichrist! I HATE THE ANTICHRIST!
ABigGuy4U
8d ago
Twilight isn’t my cup of tea, but I suspect it will be considered Great Literature in a hundred years. I think a lot of things that a jaded modern audience sees as hilariously Freudian will be seen as rich with symbolism to later readers.
ABigGuy4U
14d ago
During the Cold War, you did have a lot of ridiculously incompetent third world armies being given pretty advanced soviet Migs. This is part of why NATO had such an unrealistically high opinion of its own vehicles and equipment: most of the time then they were fighting an enemy with Soviet gear, that gear was being operated by literal retards. It’s also why fighting Iran has been such a shock for America.
ABigGuy4U
14d ago
Also the stealth Blackhawk. If one hadn’t gone down in Pakistan during the Osama Bin Ladin raid, it would still be unknown to the public. I think that one is especially significant since it’s a vehicle that routinely flies low, and and yet it’s hardly ever been seen.
ABigGuy4U
14d ago
I'm a hard-SF nerd, so if I can't salvage your argument, who can?
I can. It’s not aliens. It’s the remnants of technologically advanced civilizations that rose and fell in earths antediluvian past. That would solve the two hardest problems, the interstellar travel physics issue and the ontological question of why they would travel a billion miles just to kind of fart around earth and the moon a bit.
As to why we’ve never found them, the deep ocean and deep underground are still pretty much uncharted and unobserved.
For secret aliens at Area 51, the compelling ideological scenario to maintain secrecy isn’t really there.
What is the compelling ideological scenario for the Chinese Communist Party to ban the existence of ghosts, and spend very real terrestrial government money and resources censoring media to make sure ghosts aren’t mentioned?
ABigGuy4U
14d ago
Biological weapons are not nuclear weapons, gigantic state capacity isn’t necessarily needed.
ABigGuy4U
16d ago
What I resent most is losing the opportunity to be a hack writer. If I had lived in the 20th century, I know that I could have made a mint cranking out airport novels or slop short stories to Weird Fiction.
ABigGuy4U
16d ago
•extremely rare version that can pass from person to person
•pops up 800 miles from its closest recorded habitat
•in a cruise ship, the perfect floating incubator for massive global transmission
This sounds like a bio-weapon deployment.
ABigGuy4U
17d ago
Please do, I am trying to get confirmation about whether it sucks before I buy. I am interested in the premise as an occasional King in Yellow enjoyer.
ABigGuy4U
18d ago
It did genuinely cause a massive measurable decrease in life expectancy.
Non-communist authoritarian countries usually have shared factors that make them less oppressive. The military junta that rules the Republic of Banana just wants to keep the shipments to the Dole company going. They will be ferociously repressive in certain limited circumstances, but they aren’t interested in regulating everyone’s fence-post heights to the millimeter in search of a better world.
Communist governments usually want to make major changes to the economy and society in a way that requires them to exercise a lot more direct state control.
ABigGuy4U
21d ago
What’s interesting though is that the split was long-predicted but took nearly a century to actually develop. Which would seem to moly there are other factors that have recently separated men’s and women’s joint interests.
ABigGuy4U
21d ago
I don’t think that’s a problem caused by dating apps. That gentleman would have been equally autistic and unappealing when he was an 18th century farmer. The difference is that back then, he would have had a lot more female relatives around to help him moderate that and present a courtable image.
ABigGuy4U
21d ago
@omw_68 That leads into the larger question of why the greater left seems to have suddenly put a damper on environmentalism and climate change activism. This seems like more than just a pivot to a new Current Thing. Environmentalism and climate change hysteria has been the background music of the left for the last 30 years, and suddenly there seems to be a coordinated move to turn down the volume. I’m not sure why.
Kek, which apostle is he throwing shade at?
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