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I'm not saying *I* would eat a sensitive document rather hand it over to somebody asking for it but every time I've seen someone do that in a movie I'm like, "that makes sense. I understand why they did that"

Had to be done #AndrewMountbattenWindsor

HW: Cataclysm was such a neat sequel to a phenomenal game.

Tailored exemptions from future tariff tantrums, I imagine.

For its specific sub-genre, I'd say Quake 3:Arena.

The line in the 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" adaptation where Haydon talks about his defection as being as much an 'aesthetic as a moral choice' really feels relevant re a lot of Western academic Soviet/Russophilia

Hmm; I suspect it might have something to do with Ukraine, like many other European countries, having a dedicated academic body charged with tending the garden of language. That is, dictionaries may not always reflect the way language is used, but rather how it's ought to be used.

Fairly certain it was still pretty much "diskette" in Ukrainian, just transliterated into Cyrillic.

Nothing good can happen. It can only bad happen.

what we need, is a talleyrand comedy by the death of stalin guy

Fatboy Slim - Weapon of Choice

It's even worse in contemporary context: since we see our desktops for maybe 5 seconds a day after boot, a background image like that is entirely performative. One of the few things more abominable than a gooner is one who labours to be seen as a gooner.

This ought to be printed and laminated. A useful lil' handout in explaining events both past and forthcoming.

Just say "French," this is taking too long.

In the age of vibes, a decade here or there makes little difference.

Reads like a mystery cult initiation promise.

Specifically FPS have hit a plateau before 2010ish, but it feels like the momentum kept going forward because third-person-shooters were still doing well. Something like Serious Sam or HL2:E2 are but cousins to, say, Gears of War.

A father-and-son generational drama about a contemporary forest-green painted abrams finally getting to do what his forebearer was meant to—but it's all too late to mend the memory of their relationship.

salivating thinking about the kind of dioramas you'd be able to assemble with these growing low-poly fleets

aww, it's sweating

Hannibal: I'm gonna cross the Alps lol

Hannibal's Guy In Charge of Packing Elephant Feed: dude it is 5:06 on a Friday you can't be dropping this on my desk are you fucking for real I have been asking what we're doing with the elephants for WEEKS and you just said "oh probably the usual" EACH TIME

#SunflowerFromJapan
#PrayForUkraine
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Sublime.

In terms of intensity—yes.

If we were, however, to adopt a utilitarian POV, scaled to the reach of post-WWII Moscow, even this reduced intensity casts a grim evaluation on the liberty and happiness of central Europe under Soviet rule/influence, compared to the times of the Czars.

Even if those means fall short of a wide-front ground invasion and occupation of more European countries.

Without making sure that European NATO allies can defend and deter against a threat like that (meaning a credible capacity for counterstrikes to destroy production and launch facilities), Moscow will be in a position to enforce its policy through military means.

Areas of Ukraine that never saw Russian ground troop occupation still have seen devastation from air and drone strikes. Is Europe prepared or even able to deal with, say, a couple thousand UAVs lobbed at Estonia or Lithuania over the course of a week?

The tanks are cute as hell. Indulge further.

The pretty clear-cut laws ruling out holding elections in wartime were passed decades before any of the current members of the political elite took power. No matter how hard I try to find an argument for this being democratic backsliding, I come up short.

I agree the "Ukraine is a democracy and the U.S. isn't" conclusion is at the very least premature, but given the reason for why general elections were not held there on schedule, suggesting the country is less democratic than it would have been otherwise is wrong.