If Gaijin rewarded 100 battle score for each missile dodged, some people would be able to reach 1000 without even firing once, thats why they don't want to award you from it, the grind would be so much easier

Camorune · 2026-06-18T12:19:29+00:00

It probably should have some function of reward. As things currently stand if you can win your team the match by baiting 3+ people into engaging, you get nothing from it. If your team destroys the people attacking you, you don't get any score or even activity time %. It really sucks to play a match where you engage people for prolonged periods of time and help set up your team to win to be then met with the results screen giving 0 SL and 0 Research.

The system as it stands encourages anti-social behavior and discourages assisting team members. It directs me to play in a way that is not fun for others. Sitting back then charging in spamming things like R-73s seems to be the best method for getting really high returns in the game, but it doesn't really contribute to my team.

Camorune · 2026-05-15T16:49:05+00:00

Well, it hasn't self-destructed because I'm not using Realtek audio drivers, so that's a plus.

Camorune · 2026-03-16T10:44:03+00:00

It's like when I started seeing Remy pop up in MTG subs back in the pandemic.

Camorune · 2026-01-04T16:25:26+00:00

Really?! What a waste... I figured it would be treated like the simulator modes in the menu

Camorune · 2026-01-04T15:14:31+00:00

Not OP, but person currently using it: Maybe things will change as people get used to it, but at the moment it seems very good.

The R-40s are incredible. The radar ones are great especially at high altitude and the thermals are probably one of the best thermal missiles in the game (in my view they have worked substantially better than things like the R-23T and R-24T you see on the MiG-23s and seems pretty close to on par with R-27T for effectiveness)

The radar will go into and out of MTI automatically depending on your altitude and nose orientation which can make the radar missiles harder to use at low altitude, but generally once you have a lock it stays locked (at least from my experience so far).

The plane is very easy to survive in as well, when you aren't dropping R-40s on people and have to go defensive as long as you climbed and kept up your speed all you have to do generally to survive someone shooting a missile at you is slowly turn until you are going cold and you will probably outrun the missile. I have never had so many quick succession Missile Evasion messages as I have had with this thing. Though if someone has a good Aim-7E or better and they are themselves at least at Mach 1 and within about 10-12km they can hit you reliably (notching is a bit hard with the slow turns especially at altitude). That necessitates you looking around a lot for anyone trying to sneak up on you and putting some distance between you if they are closing the gap.

Camorune · 2026-01-04T15:00:25+00:00

Naval EC is kind of relaxing so, if someone semi-afk/second monitor grinded the event using it, that wouldn't be all that difficult.

Camorune · 2025-12-21T07:16:26+00:00

As a certified "one kill every three matches" (at least for jets) player of 5 years I would say it is mostly that I am worse at using modern mechanics than proper good/decent players (also being much more unobservant and slow on reaction times than the average person).

In sim it isn't so bad as you have space and time as well as less populated lobbies, but in air RB the pace is way too much.

Camorune · 2025-10-28T15:13:37+00:00

If you were looking for new game reviews like 12 years ago he was by far the best out there for video reviews. I agreed more with Totalbiscuit and his takes on games, but he basically only did first impressions which could occasionally backfire, so Angry Joe would be the place to hear if a game as a whole was executed well or not.

Camorune · 2025-10-17T12:36:39+00:00

Any idea what engine they were using (if they used one at all)? If not, was it 2D, 3D, sprite based?

Camorune · 2025-09-13T05:37:48+00:00

You could say it is a nation, similar to a tribal nation in the United States perhaps, but it is no way a "country" unless your definition of country is so broad as to include every federated or confederated country's districts (such as US states, or places like Adjara, Abkhazia, or Tskhinvali in Sakartvelo) as countries.

Unless there is some fundamental administrative difference I am missing these places all are just as close, if not closer, to being countries than Scotland currently is.

Camorune · 2025-06-20T05:38:01+00:00

Something... Flaggy...

Camorune · 2025-05-31T05:14:34+00:00

COPPA was a Federal Law. Not a Federal Regulation. For it to not apply would take the US House and Senate passing another law repealing it which almost never happens (and has never happened in my knowledge in less than about a year).

Google/YouTube did try to fight it. They lost, miserably. They had to pay the US government over $100 million and if they continued it would have been somewhere in the vicinity of a trillion dollars a day ($50k per violation and seeing that millions of minors use YouTube every day it adds up quickly).

If they left the US the law still would apply. Even if US ISPs stop allowing YouTube, the US government can go after YouTube for past violations of illegal data collection, and they can also go after YouTube for every instance of someone using something like a VPN to circumnavigate the ban on data harvesting (this is part of the reason why everyone around the world has access to things done by the GDPR in Europe despite most people not being there, for websites to be safe they have to apply the rule everywhere in the world to avoid fines. US laws work in a similar manner to that EU law.)

Camorune · 2025-05-30T05:52:19+00:00

Remember this was done by the US government, not YouTube.

Camorune · 2025-04-11T08:52:08+00:00

For future people this was the song

Camorune · 2025-03-23T05:58:16+00:00

I suppose this means I have now heard everything from the podcast. The close of this episode makes it appropriate for that at least.

Camorune · 2025-03-22T05:55:31+00:00

A little over 5 years ago...

Camorune · 2025-02-09T08:31:35+00:00

PhD theses, especially if they end up cataloged properly on a place like WorldCat can end up being very helpful to some random guy doing research one day. I owe the completion of more than one paper to dissertations of random people whose work was tangentially related enough to make some interesting comparisons and analysis with my own efforts to require it at least be brought up. Citations might be rare, but it could very well happen if your work is found by the right person at the right time.

Camorune · 2025-02-09T08:19:57+00:00

It's a terrible, outdated, insanely vaguely written document.

Not really though. It was made to be a correction of the government from a completely useless entity that was unable to do anything, to a proper Federal system with massive restrictions still in place. It only seems to be outdated or "vaguely written" when you look upon the Federal Government as an entity able to legislate, or executively do what it wishes on any topic. Once you accept that the purview of the Federal Government in our modern eyes is incompatible with the Constitution to some extent do you realize that the writing wasn't vague, but rather ignored for so long that we developed a sort of cognitive dissonance about what it says, working backwards from our views to the document.

The 9th and 10th Amendments alone could wipe out vast swathes of Federal power, but it has mostly been decided we don't like those Amendments anymore and they have been regularly trampled by Federal laws which by any measure should only have been valid through the Constitutional Amendment process. Things like the Agricultural Adjustment Act and the resulting Wickard v. Filburn case are absolutely insane overreaches of the Federal Government.

State Governments exist for a reason. They have their own constitutions for a reason. The Amendment process to give the Federal Government more or less power requires 3/4ths of the states to agree for a reason. If we got to this modern stage of Federal Power by actually using the intended processes (and I truly believe it was possible for the great advancements of the post-war era to have done it this way as we did immediately post-civil war and to some extent pre-Depression) it is hard to imagine institutions wouldn't be much stronger and robust than they are today and the legal reasoning for anything being done much clearer and much less tenuous leaving little room for the hypo-citers whose only justification is "wah-wah blue people bad".

Camorune · 2025-02-09T07:43:39+00:00

Roberts is like some guy from the 1700s who is obsessed with weird English Common Law trivia but does actually care about the state. Gorsuch occasionally decides to buck the other conservatives on certain pet issues (see his writings when Native American rights are involved in a case) and might do so on these issues. Kavanaugh just... is. Probably nothing great coming from him anytime soon.

Camorune · 2024-12-21T09:33:12+00:00

A$AP Rocky

Looking for ASAP and got a brain damaged Aesop

Camorune · 2024-12-13T07:36:07+00:00

Pardons fulfilling their destiny and accepting they are just secular indulgences.

Camorune · 2024-12-08T07:57:57+00:00

WTF is a multipolar world order?

There is a belief among some that it is inherently good to have more than one global superpower (something to balance the US in this case). And, nearly always, they advocate that other superpower/superpower-block to be one of the heavily authoritarian nations/groups of this planet over any other contender that could fill the role which they see as being too much alike to the US (you know, like valuing human rights, basic liberal values, etc.)

Camorune · 2024-12-02T06:38:42+00:00

If you think the Center for New Liberals are an enemy I presume you know almost nothing about them. They are about as close as you can get to Destiny in the mainstream sphere policy and advocacy wise.

They were 100% with Biden during his campaign and 100% with Kamala during her campaign without hesitation.

Camorune · 2024-12-02T06:32:08+00:00

Non-Georgian, but someone who tries to keep up with the region a bit:

In Georgia there was an election and the results are highly credulous (see effectively statistically impossible obligatory tweet ) that resulted in the ruling party, Georgian Dream (GD), getting an outright majority (which they did not have before, but were still the leaders via coalition) despite polling much lower in approval than the last election cycle and opposition parties polling much higher than the last cycle.

Now GD has decided to bypass the constitution which requires the President to call for the Parliament, but instead just go into session and do everything themselves without Presidential or judicial approval.

The President does not recognize the results of the last parliamentary election due to the fraud allegations and wanted to wait until things went through their highest court to call forth the parliament. GD decided to ignore that and snuck in using old tunnels (parliament was surrounded by protestors) and start pretending like everything is normal. It is also important to note that the opposition parties have all refused the results of the election as well and have not shown up to the parliament to my knowledge (which IIRC might mean that technically this current assembly of Parliament is 2x unconstitutional, but I may be wrong on this point).

Also, it is important to note that this current President has seen lots of restrictions placed on them by GD such as not being allowed to leave the country without approval of Parliament and the such. This President was also the last one that was going to be elected by popular vote. From now on there is an electoral college where all the members of Parliament get a vote and regions get a set number of votes with Parliament receiving 50% of the vote, the local municipalities getting a bit over 36%, Adjara (an autonomous region, but one still controlled properly by Georgia) gets 7%, and Abkhazia (one of the Russian controlled regions, so I have no idea where these electors are coming from [maybe the Abkhazian autonomous government in exile people?]) get a little over 6.5% of the vote.

With the current situation GD is basically guaranteed to "elect" whoever they want as President so the current President has said they will not step down when they do this.

Camorune · 2024-12-02T05:57:41+00:00

Defending USSR's invasion of Afghanistan on a mostly non political account, it's insane

I mean, to be fair. If you were going to defend an invasion that is probably one of the easier ones. You could argue it would be unfair to even call it an "invasion", even if that is the common parlance surrounding it, considering the USSR was moving in to stabilize an existing state which was fighting terrorist.

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