Albert Lee

Tom Clancy's The Division 2 does the wet and green part pretty well

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It's got its moments of competence thanks to Schogol, but generally they're TWZ if you replaced that site's conviction in their wisdom with a need to not offend their target audience, as well as a clickbaity YouTube channel responsible for a lot of the hatred towards the brand

hell I just got told that a certain racist whose writing still sucks after 3 years is roaming the AUSA floor, but I can't exactly tell everyone on bsky also at AUSA to find him and give him a wedgie now, can I? bsky.app/profile/albe...

also it is strictly speaking 3.5% defense spend + 1.5% on critical infrastructure and dual use stuff, but fit that in your headline or under character limits

Trump threatens tough trade deal for Spain after it refuses to meet NATO defense spending target "We're negotiating with Spain on a trade deal and we're going to make them pay twice as much," Trump said after the country refused to meet the spending target.

I recall some journo putting the question about the Spanish PM saying "no, we're not gonna do 5% GDP spend on NATO as we can reach capability obligations without it" to Trump, and then it just sort of joined the roster of obsessions he cycles in and out of www.cnbc.com/2025/06/25/t...

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With the report on the deficiencies in their C2 prototpes you better believe this is a risk. Lifted viciously from: x.com/EXCEL__/stat...

There is one specific Coastie I would like to see get a specific "don't pay him" cutout, but based on my last interactions with the dweeb he probably landed on the "out" side of "up or out" a while ago

Well when you mention it it's more protracted than my preference

We just try to teach media literacy while access to disinformation that reinforces your beliefs gets easier

But any attempts to "play the game" that aren't Voice of America or the BBC World Service that become public knowledge is viewed as a betrayal of democratic principles

Since I've already ranted on a similar topic already today, I'd argue that there is definitely a perception problem in the civilian space where hostile influence campaigns that are already ongoing are just something we're expected to accept because we're free societies that don't censor

I am not exaggerating when I say that my parents will only eat non-Chinese food that aren't curried whatevers from a handful of chain establishments for very special occasions, and their opinions on people who are not 100% Pure Han are definitely unpleasant

This guy I know through friends of friends will absolutely not stop using ChatGPT to render backgrounds for models he built years ago

also as pointed out Gunpla is wildly popular

"Mervyn's inability to perform 'the classics' with flair was more than compensated for by his ability to gently persuade anyone that he was never there"

Some very serious people can argue why Delhi is needed in the Quad, but their influence campaigns supporting the Anglosphere reactionary right will keep corroding democratic norms the way they already have at home if there are no consequences

and the people they're boosting still hate Indians

The closest thing you will get to me ranting about psyops is that the Indian press is not suddenly rocketing up to the top of search results for international news stories not because of some newfound curiosity, but because Modi's government is doubling down on its influence gamble with MAGA

Happy birthday Sarah!

Do you think he will be on the podcast circuit this time next year to make rent?

That said a lot of artists went to Misskey first even before BlueSky's own controversy over NSFW content. Makes it a bit dicey over whether the Misskey post is just marked adult because the artist felt that way or I'm about to be flashbanged by their insanely niche fetish

Japanese Twitter until relatively recently (thanks, Indian/Turkish bot campaigns) was fairly insulated from the Anglosphere stuff and so broad takeup has not materialised. Even with artists who are upset over increasingly random shadowbans and their work feeding Grok

The default Pax Armata getups have subtle lime green hex patterns on flat dark earth gear like holsters and helmets over dark uniforms. Haven't really made progress on unlocking the alternate skins, but the PlayStation reward for playing the open beta was blue... goggle straps.

Who funds this stuff, since if you gave me its budget to blow on something of dubious artistic merits it almost certainly can't be this offensively bad

It was in fact referring to you, but I didn't want to add to the disaster zone your notifications are these days with a tag

I'm guessing laser pointers are about to become to the rest of us what "this one weird trick for tear gas exposure does not work and makes things worse" is to this guy I know, who has now had several months of weekends ruined by "tear gas tips" posts going viral

What's waiting in the wings is hardly going to be better, since far more people are going to start reading and sharing SEO hacked garbage from an implausibly deniable BJP influence campaign before they start giving Meidas Touch the time of day

The backlash against how the US media handled the ages of the 2024 prez candidates might just be the tipping point for the rest of society over how members of the prestige press' first response to *any* criticism is to circle wagons and insist they're just little birthday boys and girls

Asides from the obvious go to reason of "leadership has (inadvertently) set the culture by tolerating it", I do not think the media industry as a whole is ready for the rest of US and western intelligentsia coming to the same conclusion as MAGA did about the industry being insular elitists

14 years into wishing someone other than Criterion and Ghost Games would develop Need for Speed, and then they found out "nobody will" is a perfectly valid answer to that

If EA leadership was huffing the Need for Speed Reddit half as hard as they claim to have been doing for r/Battlefield it would be an entirely justifiable decision to pull the plug, since its median user has been playing the same game for 20 years and will until the day they die