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15 | 3.71% |
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115 | 28.47% |
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67 | 16.58% |
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94 | 23.27% |
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14 | 3.47% |
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87 | 21.53% |
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Egypt secretly planned to supply rockets to Russia, leaked U.S. document says President Abdel Fatah El-Sisi in February planned to produce 40,000 rockets for Russia and instructed officials to keep production and shipment secret ‘to avoid problems with the West’ U.S. doubts Ukraine counteroffensive will yield big gains, leaked document says Ukraine’s challenges in massing troops, ammunition and equipment could cause its military to fall “well short” of Kyiv’s original goals for an anticipated counteroffensive aimed at retaking Russian-occupied areas this spring, according to U.S. intelligence assessments contained in a growing leak of classified documents revealing Washington’s misgivings about the state of the war. OctaMurk has issued a correction as of 00:40 on Apr 11, 2023 |
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OctaMurk posted:Egypt secretly planned to supply rockets to Russia, leaked U.S. document says "well short" is code for "we're even out of shovels at this point"
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Apr 11, 2023 00:41
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genericnick posted:Good post and certainly an important pathway. I guess there's also the surplus recycling mechanism of allowing comprador elites to park their loot in high return paper assets in the imperial core, which obviously breaks down if you cut off a country from the international banking system. One of the main reasons why western banking institutions have US state blessing to use tax avoidance centers like Panama and banks like Credit Suisse/Deutsche Bank/CityBank have huge percentages of criminal capital is actually because our banking system rely on it. Criminals are highly liquid since they can’t invest their money into visible property, so they need an invisibly way to store their money. We figured out in the 60s that we could benefit from this by allowing criminals and other high liquid individuals to indirectly invest in US Treasury Bonds, propping up the dollar and giving us the means to fund our domestic programs, by letting them park their money in places like the Bahamas or the British Virgin Islands. Contrary to what politicians say, this is actually a very integral and important part of our economic system. We not only have leverage over these individuals, but we make sure we encourage all criminal capital to convert their money from their local currency to USD as a safe investment, indirectly also causing the balance sheets of each offshore financial center to secure their liability (the criminal actually storing their capital there) against US T bills. This was heavily encouraged after 1991 in post-Soviet states. Both Russia and Ukraine privatized their state infrastructure and sold it to individuals for pennies on the dollar. The governments were largely naive, and the non-experienced former communists believed that market efficiencies simply meant having privatization, not realizing that the west would indirectly have leverage over their states as the people we now call oligarchs needed a safe place to store their paper returns. They largely used OFCs, and converted their wealth from their local currency and parked it in dollars offshore. However, they became too bold and started potentially talking of selling stakes and ownership to western financiers and investment banks, which causes Putin to crack down on them, the most prolific being Kadorkovsky. However, Putin for whatever reason encouraged the use of storing wealth overseas in dollars. He himself is terminally neoliberal, being a protege of Yeltsin, so it’s quite possible he himself didn’t really understand that this caused Russias stagnation by allowing the Americans to siphon away the wealth of their country and its productive capacity to be reinvested. In Ukraine, it was the same story. Zelensky and his inner circle is represented in the Panama Papers in order to take advantage of this. https://www.occrp.org/en/the-pandora-papers/pandora-papers-reveal-offshore-holdings-of-ukrainian-president-and-his-inner-circle quote:Actor Volodymyr Zelensky stormed to the Ukrainian presidency in 2019 on a wave of public anger against the country’s political class, including previous leaders who used secret companies to stash their wealth overseas. This is not at all surprising. But now, with the US sanctioning high net worth Russian criminals and oligarchs - the use of dollar bases OFCs actually doesn’t make much sense anymore. Inadvertantly, we’ve forced a type of mutual agreement between the oligarchs and the government, since their fate is now aligned. Putin famously turned a blind eye to their pillaging of Russia as long as they didn’t meddle with politics, but sanctions are doing what Russia couldnt muster on its own to clean up its act. I don’t really know if they’ll be able to make it work - however, if they start socializing again by having the state become centralized and strong enough to keep its investments in the country, then who knows. They have a blueprint right next door via China to do things differently, anyway.
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Apr 11, 2023 00:41
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It kills me that "realistic" games are still doing Borg spotting.
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Apr 11, 2023 00:52
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Frosted Flake posted:It kills me that "realistic" games are still doing Borg spotting. Borg spotting?
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Apr 11, 2023 00:57
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Organ Fiend posted:Borg spotting? New Borg spotted!
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Apr 11, 2023 00:58
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Organ Fiend posted:Borg spotting? no actual fog of war, miscommunication, misidentification of units, etc. accurate information gets communicated instantaneously to all units in play in an unrealistic fashion, as if they were all in the borg hivemind together
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Apr 11, 2023 00:59
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Cuttlefush posted:no actual fog of war, miscommunication, misidentification of units, etc. accurate information gets communicated instantaneously to all units in play in an unrealistic fashion, as if they were all in the borg hivemind together Ah yeah. This. Don't a lot of these games also have third person perspective?
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Apr 11, 2023 01:03
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A realistic game would be really boring cause you'd basically be doing office work, talking to people on the radio and reading garbled reports and poo poo the whole time
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Apr 11, 2023 01:08
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Organ Fiend posted:Ah yeah. This. You basically have the view of a drone looking at the battlefield -- in fact it's pretty much the perspective of the drone videos of the current war Slavvy posted:A realistic game would be really boring cause you'd basically be doing office work, talking to people on the radio and reading garbled reports and poo poo the whole time It'd be awesome because I'd just be posting on SomethingAwful
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Apr 11, 2023 01:09
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I think the WW1 LP (the posters name escapes me atm) that took place a few years ago was really demonstrative in how command structures muddy the waters and make it really hard to get anything done compared to the godlike omnipotent single deity system of the average strategy game. You had people literally talking to each other in the same thread and still making mistakes and creating a disorganized mess with thousands of casualties and iirc there wasn't even a particularly strong fog of war effect in place.
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Apr 11, 2023 01:13
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Can't wait to play the new UKR/RUS War game where you play as a Russian mobile bakery cook and have to knock out 300 loaves a day under HIMARS fire
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Apr 11, 2023 01:15
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Slavvy posted:I think the WW1 LP (the posters name escapes me atm) that took place a few years ago was really demonstrative in how command structure muddy the waters and make it really hard to get anything done compared to the godlike omnipotent single deity system of the average strategy game. You had people literally talking to each other in the same thread and still making mistakes and creating a disorganized mess with thousands of casualties and iirc there wasn't even a particularly strong fog off war effect in place. In that same line, several years ago there was another thread like this, don't remember the war it was simulating, but things very quickly got off to a bad start because no one thought to stagger the arrival times of all the units so 50,000 soldiers plus all the gear and equipment tried to use the same one lane dirt road at the same time
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Apr 11, 2023 01:16
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There's the Radio General games, one set in Vietnam and the other in WW2 (as Canadians!). There's a few levels of realism, but in all of them your only view of the battlefield is getting radio reports from your units and having to manually put down markers for where you think your guys and the bad guys are. There was also a much more grognardy Cold-War-gone-hot kind of game that simulated communication delays and fog of war, but it forget it's name. Flashpoint Something I think.
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Apr 11, 2023 01:17
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1stGear posted:There's the Radio General games, one set in Vietnam and the other in WW2 (as Canadians!). There's a few levels of realism, but in all of them your only view of the battlefield is getting radio reports from your units and having to manually put down markers for where you think your guys and the bad guys are. Flashpoint Campaigns: Red Storm I think Armored Brigade also does this? bedpan posted:In that same line, several years ago there was another thread like this, don't remember the war it was simulating, but things very quickly got off to a bad start because no one thought to stagger the arrival times of all the units so 50,000 soldiers plus all the gear and equipment tried to use the same one lane dirt road at the same time Logistics is loving lame and for nerds
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Apr 11, 2023 01:18
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Slavvy posted:A realistic game would be really boring cause you'd basically be doing office work, talking to people on the radio and reading garbled reports and poo poo the whole time https://store.steampowered.com/app/871530/Radio_Commander/ I wonder how bad this one is since you don't seem to have real direct control on stuff. EDIT : They are makign a sequel for the Pacific campaign. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1621910/Radio_Commander_Pacific_Campaign/ supersnowman has issued a correction as of 01:26 on Apr 11, 2023 |
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Apr 11, 2023 01:18
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Frosted Flake posted:How long will it take for the Ukraine war to work its way into video games and what will the effect be? Call of Duty: Warzone came out in 2020 and was set in the fictional city of Verdansk which was very heavily inspired by Donetsk. Here's a video comparing locations in the game with locations in Donetsk and some other parts of Ukraine
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Apr 11, 2023 01:21
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BearsBearsBears posted:Call of Duty: Warzone came out in 2020 and was set in the fictional city of Verdansk which was very heavily inspired by Donetsk. can't have a game in ambiguously slavic industrial hellscape without a decrepit Ferris wheel
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Apr 11, 2023 01:25
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Slavvy posted:A realistic game would be really boring cause you'd basically be doing office work, talking to people on the radio and reading garbled reports and poo poo the whole time Yes, a Canadian made it, and it rules. Radio General. Also, I get nostalgic for the CP. e: COMMAND POST, just to be clear what CP I have fond memories of.
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Apr 11, 2023 01:25
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Frosted Flake posted:Yes, a Canadian made it, and it rules. Radio Commander. Also, I get nostalgic for the CP. rephrase
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Apr 11, 2023 01:25
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Frosted Flake posted:Yes, a Canadian made it, and it rules. Radio Commander. Also, I get nostalgic for the CP. hmm. didn't expect you to just come right out and say it
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Apr 11, 2023 01:26
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Cuttlefush posted:no actual fog of war, miscommunication, misidentification of units, etc. accurate information gets communicated instantaneously to all units in play in an unrealistic fashion, as if they were all in the borg hivemind together It takes more effort to program in all those things, so instead you get red alert 1 level AI scripting.
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Apr 11, 2023 01:27
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*updates Frosted Flake Bio Google Doc and then starts dialing the Mounties*
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Apr 11, 2023 01:28
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https://twitter.com/nkulw/status/1645583253833932800?s=20 lol it really does look like goatse
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Apr 11, 2023 01:29
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Godlessdonut posted:https://twitter.com/nkulw/status/1645583253833932800?s=20 the moment bellingcat chimed in I became certain it's probably a US/UK info op of some sort lol
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Apr 11, 2023 01:32
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  Surprisingly hard to find good GIS results for an artillery CP. e: lol I realize in context guys huddling around a laptop with a blurred screen in a dark space looks bad, but you know
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Apr 11, 2023 01:34
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Frosted Flake posted:
I think GIS must try pretty hard not to show much of anything if you're searching for terms like that.
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Apr 11, 2023 01:38
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Cuttlefush posted:no actual fog of war, miscommunication, misidentification of units, etc. accurate information gets communicated instantaneously to all units in play in an unrealistic fashion, as if they were all in the borg hivemind together Slavvy posted:I think the WW1 LP (the posters name escapes me atm) that took place a few years ago was really demonstrative in how command structures muddy the waters and make it really hard to get anything done compared to the godlike omnipotent single deity system of the average strategy game. You had people literally talking to each other in the same thread and still making mistakes and creating a disorganized mess with thousands of casualties and iirc there wasn't even a particularly strong fog of war effect in place. That's why in Victoria 3 none of the political poo poo really works. You're a tide of history moving things forward instead of a person working some kind of a political agenda.
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Apr 11, 2023 01:46
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Frosted Flake posted:
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They all look the same
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Apr 11, 2023 01:55
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Still training on WinXP at that academy
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Apr 11, 2023 02:03
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drat, based russian army sticking with the best version of windows
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Apr 11, 2023 02:05
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Al! posted:drat, based russian army sticking with the best version of windows i mean even the good things in the aero UI can be chalked to aesthetical than technical
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Apr 11, 2023 02:08
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Al! posted:drat, based russian army sticking with the best version of windows i miss windows 2000
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Apr 11, 2023 02:10
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Frosted Flake posted:Yes, a Canadian made it, and it rules. Radio General. Also, I get nostalgic for the CP. Gonna play this
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Apr 11, 2023 02:20
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Slavvy posted:Gonna play this It has a Dieppe scenario, which is great because you can see how the chaos made adjusting the plan for the raid on the fly incredibly difficult.  What do you mean the port is heavily defended? What seawall? The tanks are stuck on the beach?
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Apr 11, 2023 02:33
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Frosted Flake posted:The Americans had a theory called "Open Warfare" that was basically predicated on a belief that Europeans were all cowards without the American Can-Do Spirit to break the deadlock, much to the despair of their French trainers. When they arrived on the western front, they suffered 1914 level casualties as this theory proved... less than accurate. However, during the Hundred Days it worked out really well for them, they were fantastic at fighting once out of the trenches. when your french trainers are telling you "whoa now that's too much élan"
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Apr 11, 2023 02:41
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Frosted Flake posted:Yes, a Canadian made it, and it rules. Radio General. Also, I get nostalgic for the CP. be really careful about how you spell C-SPAM
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Apr 11, 2023 02:56
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FF typing out a post:
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Just google AFATDS if you want US army artillery command pics, dont know what they call it in canada
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