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What is the most powerful flying bug?
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🦋 15 3.71%
🦇 115 28.47%
🪰 12 2.97%
🐦 67 16.58%
dragonfly 94 23.27%
🦟 14 3.47%
🐝 87 21.53%
Total: 404 votes
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Phobos Anomaly
Jul 23, 2018

Look at her facial expression change when Duss brings up targetting noncombatant populations, and then when he mentions terrorism. And then she perks up again when Duss starts making GBS threads on the governments in question.

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Weka
May 5, 2019

That child totally had it coming. Nobody should be able to be out at dusk except cars.

fits my needs posted:

https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/1632169048883757057?s=20



hmm there's an encyclopedia of ukraine's neo-nazi batallions? lol

Добробати
https://www.yakaboo.ua/ua/dobrobati-1580108.html

It's on libgen.

Cuttlefush
Jan 15, 2014

gotta have my purp

Phobos Anomaly posted:

Look at her facial expression change when Duss brings up targetting noncombatant populations, and then when he mentions terrorism. And then she perks up again when Duss starts making GBS threads on the governments in question.

Horseshoe theory
Mar 7, 2005

quote:

Former president Donald Trump gripped the CPAC lectern as he workshopped a new sales pitch: “I stand here today, and I’m the only candidate who can make this promise: I will prevent—and very easily—World War III.” (Wild applause.) “And you’re gonna have World War III, by the way.” (Confused applause.)

*Mutters* Thank God.

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

Throatwarbler posted:

Those pictures all look fake as gently caress, but the turrents are 25mm mounts from a PT-boat or fast attack craft.

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https://shushpanzer-ru.livejournal.com/3668192.html

quote:

MT-LB of the Russian forces with the old shipboard anti-aircraft machine guns - 14.5-mm twin 2M-7, 12.7-mm twin 2M-1 and 12.7-mm DWKM



Danann
Aug 4, 2013

https://twitter.com/LeftwardSwing/status/1631804298123427841

arma 3 is now war porn

Cuttlefush
Jan 15, 2014

gotta have my purp
someone's using blastcore

CODChimera
Jan 29, 2009

wonder what the jet was doing

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

https://twitter.com/jaccocharite/status/1629901686318718977

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

Cuttlefush
Jan 15, 2014

gotta have my purp

CODChimera posted:

wonder what the jet was doing

getting lucky and eating manpads, which does happen a lot even vanilla. that looks like it was probably using rhs or cup assets and those can be worse. especially if you toss on ACE and forget the compatibility patches.

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

c l o u d k i t t e n
Grimey Drawer
i only really play those games single player and i modded them with all the ACE and RHS stuff and then i realised that unless you sitdown and fully script all the tanks and poo poo, the AI is absolutely brain dead. The tanks I gave a waypoint to proceeded to turn their turrets 180 and drive backwards into battle. Maybe they just harvested combat tactics from war thunder.

All these years and the out of box AI is still trash. All the better mission creators are scripting everything.

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

r*p*f*c*
more reporting that Ukraine is severely outgunned

https://english.elpais.com/international/2023-03-01/ukraine-outgunned-10-to-1-in-massive-artillery-battle-with-russia.html

quote:

According to data from the European Commission to which EL PAÍS has had access, Russia fires between 40,000 and 50,000 artillery shells per day, compared to 5,000-6,000 Ukrainian forces expend. The Estonian government, which has been one of largest contributors to Kyiv’s war effort, puts the average use of artillery at between 20,000 and 60,000 Russian shells per day, and 2,000 to 7,000 Ukrainian rounds, according to a document sent to EU Member States by Tallinn, to which this newspaper has had access. These numbers equate to between 600,000 and 1.8 million Russian shells fired per month, compared to between 60,000 and 210,000 by Ukrainian artillery.

nomad2020
Jan 30, 2007

Regarde Aduck posted:

i only really play those games single player and i modded them with all the ACE and RHS stuff and then i realised that unless you sitdown and fully script all the tanks and poo poo, the AI is absolutely brain dead. The tanks I gave a waypoint to proceeded to turn their turrets 180 and drive backwards into battle. Maybe they just harvested combat tactics from war thunder.

All these years and the out of box AI is still trash. All the better mission creators are scripting everything.

Wonder if they ever fixed the pathing so that your NPCs can navigate a road without dodging into the grass for every third pebble.

fizzy
Dec 2, 2022

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Sounds bad for the Russians if Ukraine is able to hold them to a draw in Bakhmut despite Russia being so much more wasteful and inefficient in shell expenditure.

Cuttlefush
Jan 15, 2014

gotta have my purp

Regarde Aduck posted:

i only really play those games single player and i modded them with all the ACE and RHS stuff and then i realised that unless you sitdown and fully script all the tanks and poo poo, the AI is absolutely brain dead. The tanks I gave a waypoint to proceeded to turn their turrets 180 and drive backwards into battle. Maybe they just harvested combat tactics from war thunder.

All these years and the out of box AI is still trash. All the better mission creators are scripting everything.

antistasi is decent single player, some versions more than others. it's a dynamic campaign kinda thing where you get to kill nato and russia at the same time as a plucky insurgent.

nomad2020 posted:

Wonder if they ever fixed the pathing so that your NPCs can navigate a road without dodging into the grass for every third pebble.

there are various fixes. most good dynamic campaigns have scripts to unfuck stuff but ai can still eitehr pull some brilliant driving or just crash into poo poo, which uh, kinda realistic. it's also really map dependent. generally the scripted AI will drive pretty wekll but the dudes you command can be hosed up goofs. for reasons

Weka
May 5, 2019

That child totally had it coming. Nobody should be able to be out at dusk except cars.

Regarde Aduck posted:

i guess they did have to run out of missiles for real at one point or another

I'd guess saving them for the spring offensive.

Turtle Watch
Jul 30, 2010

by Games Forum

fizzy posted:

Sounds bad for the Russians if Ukraine is able to hold them to a draw in Bakhmut despite Russia being so much more wasteful and inefficient in shell expenditure.

HiroProtagonist
May 7, 2007

Horseshoe theory posted:

So only you're CATO wife? :thunk:

i can still fix her

Neurolimal
Nov 3, 2012
Keep in mind a good 60% of those russian shells are empty casings, buckets filled with cement, spare pipes, branches, and a couple especially large acorns. They only become dangerous because the orruks think they're dangerous

Cuttlefush
Jan 15, 2014

gotta have my purp
some of them are just poor grots

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005


omg

CODChimera
Jan 29, 2009

how have they not retreated from bakhmut yet?? they really dont want to give that one up

HiroProtagonist
May 7, 2007

lmao it keeps happening

Cuttlefush
Jan 15, 2014

gotta have my purp

:pray:

Cuttlefush
Jan 15, 2014

gotta have my purp
lol @ flag twitter though

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

c l o u d k i t t e n
Grimey Drawer

CODChimera posted:

how have they not retreated from bakhmut yet?? they really dont want to give that one up

Ukraine is either really bad at this or really good

Russia is bad at this but may or may not be even baderer
:thunk:

can't wait for what the history books make of it

fizzy
Dec 2, 2022

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

CODChimera posted:

how have they not retreated from bakhmut yet?? they really dont want to give that one up

Yeah, it's puzzling why the Russians haven't retreated from Bakhmut yet after the crushing losses they have suffered there.

Weka
May 5, 2019

That child totally had it coming. Nobody should be able to be out at dusk except cars.

Cuttlefush posted:

some of them are just poor grots

IMO the Orcs shot adopt communism and use rich grots.

Turtle Watch
Jul 30, 2010

by Games Forum
they probably got lost, and it is safer to stay in one spot until rescue can find you

The Voice of Labor
Apr 8, 2020

CODChimera posted:

wonder what the jet was doing

45 in a residential zone. that's why it had to be shot down

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

Now that ekranoplans are back I've changed my mind because putin clearly is rebuilding the ussr

Megamissen
Jul 19, 2022

any post can be a kannapost
if you want it to be


there are a lot of political ukrainian-canadians on wikipedia

Megamissen has issued a correction as of 10:27 on Mar 5, 2023

genericnick
Dec 26, 2012

Raskolnikov38 posted:

why did we take our boots off the german's neck again??

That's actually what the boot looks like in practice.

Nix Panicus
Feb 25, 2007


The Russian orcs must have delved deeply into Soviet stockpiles full of moldy shells to keep their war going, but soon they will run out because everyone knows orcs are too dumb to manufacture shells.

I have been saying this since April of last year, so eventually I will be correct

Nonsense posted:

Chechen warlord Ramzan Kadyrov – a close ally of Vladimir Putin – is reported to be seriously ill with kidney problems amid fears of ‘poisoning’.

Isnt this another care of predicting Putin, Kadyrov, or whoever is secretly sick and on the verge of death every day since spring of 2022?

Nix Panicus
Feb 25, 2007


Why would Russia do this?

stephenthinkpad
Jan 2, 2020
Ground effect planes belong in a MGS opening cut scene. Have the Russians ever used them in actual military operations?

Gibson used it in one of his novel endings because they are so cool.

tristeham
Jul 31, 2022

F Stop Fitzgerald posted:

germans are a disgusting and drunken pig people. i can't believe anyone let them believe they are a serious country AGAIN

Cuttlefush
Jan 15, 2014

gotta have my purp

stephenthinkpad posted:

Ground effect planes belong in a MGS opening cut scene. Have the Russians ever used them in actual military operations?

Gibson used it in one of his novel endings because they are so cool.

what, ending cutscenes arent good enough?

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Not So Fast
Dec 27, 2007


https://twitter.com/reshetz/status/1632130084608901122?t=vypnI4hwIu_5YeF9beu93A&s=19

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