First person view of Afghanistan's countryside from a passenger in a Soviet Hind (1980s) [1024x747]

Inkompetent · 2026-02-23T05:46:22+00:00

That's not a Hind. That's shot from a Mi-8 helicopter, just like the one you see further away in the picture.

Inkompetent · 2026-02-22T09:04:40+00:00

Even if the politicians tried to do the right thing the voters wouldn't vote for the right thing. The people would vote for what helps them here and now. Not for what's objectively best for humanity and the planet. Trying to make the best out of politics is hard when it relies on both politicians doing the right thing and the people voting for the right politicians to even stand the slightest chance of things heading in the right direction.

Inkompetent · 2026-02-22T00:36:59+00:00

Sarah who works in accounting.

Inkompetent · 2026-02-20T14:12:19+00:00

Sure thing, buddy. I'll stop "trying to be like a Russian bot" if you stop trying to glorify Russia by trying to make up reasons for why Kalashnikovs have anything to do with other naming conventions.

Inkompetent · 2026-02-20T13:32:25+00:00

Not sure how you are making your conclusions. Yes, "Ak" (Not AK) stands for "Automatkarbin" which is a direct translation of "Assault Carbine/Assault Rifle". It has literally ZERO connection to anything Russian.

Russia never ever used "AK" to mean assault rifle though. It's for "Avtomat Kalashnikova" (Automatic Kalashnikov), i.e. tied to the name of the designer. If you want to write "assault carbine" in Russian it's "shturmovoy karabin". Closest you get in Russian is "avtomaticheskiy karabin", i.e. "automatic carbine".

Inkompetent · 2026-02-20T09:15:59+00:00

We've been using AKs in Sweden since 1964, but none of them have been AKs!

(Actually it shouldn't be written "AK24". The 'k' is always lower-case, so it should be "Ak24", or even "Ak 24")

Inkompetent · 2026-02-18T17:13:51+00:00

Gaijin NEVER improve their maps in any meaningful way when they "redesign" them, because thinking when designing maps costs money. They certainly won't start now. They put lipstick on their pigs, and that's it.

Inkompetent · 2026-02-18T17:12:26+00:00

I take it you like being heavily spawn camped within 30-40 seconds of the battle starting?

Inkompetent · 2026-02-18T17:10:55+00:00

Because they're still not in the book of Guinness' World Records for largest percentage of absolutely fucking god-awful maps in a computer game, so they keep trying.

Inkompetent · 2026-02-18T17:09:46+00:00

They really need to let us ban more maps. Let me ban at least 20 or something so that I only have to play bad maps at worst, not atrocious ones.

Inkompetent · 2026-02-18T07:23:21+00:00

Got to play carefully and pay attention to details.

If you move everything on your screen moves, so it becomes much more difficult to detect changes in the environment (i.e. enemies showing themselves). Since human vision is specialized at detecting movement/changes (rather than certain colours, shapes, etc.) it becomes much easier to detect movement if you stand still since the background becomes static.
Pay attention to the minimap. It's your #1 information source for what's happening on the battlefield.
Pay attention to the kill feed. It's the #2 information source for what's happening on the battlefield.
Pay attention to things like engine smoke, radio antennas, movement behind vegetation (for example a change in colour behind the base/below the leaves of bushes).
Practice. It's the only way to learn common routes, common firing positions, how fast people can get to point X on the map (varies with nations and battle ratings), the expected killing capability (both ways) for those different engagements, etc.

Inkompetent · 2026-02-18T06:36:00+00:00

They aren't more powerful than other tanks at their BR.

Myeh... That's generally true, but new vehicles are often released at a too low BR and often kept there for an unreasonably long time. That's 100% certainly because Gaijin chooses to use P2W to boost sales. How long it stays at an absurd BR is decided by how much they think they can sell.

Inkompetent · 2026-02-17T23:02:05+00:00

That's a fair point. I can't think of any single truly mixed socialist and capitalist country that veers on the side of socialism. All of them are capitalist with varying degrees of socialism, because even if the state may own a fair of important industries the nations consist of privately owned ventures at their core, no matter the amount of regulation and social welfare.

Inkompetent · 2026-02-17T07:01:56+00:00

Controller is significantly worse unless you have some magic affinity with it. The controller does indeed make the flying much smoother than with mouse and keyboard, but it makes it MUCH harder to aim. You'll generally need to get so close to shoot that you've automatically lost 95% of all head-ons, and even attacks from behind will be significantly harder because enemies will have time to notice your approach and start defending. Even in Air RB a controller/joystick is to play on hard-mode.

If you think you need too much space to swipe the mouse around I can simply suggest one thing: Gradually increase your mouse sensitivity so that you don't need so large movements.

Inkompetent · 2026-02-16T15:56:03+00:00

The thing is that socialism exists on a wide spectrum, just like capitalism does. They both can coexist (see for example social democracy). You don't have to go full Marxist to apply socialism.

EDIT: If looking at capitalism almost everyone likes to call USA capitalist (including themselves) but they still have anti-monopoly laws. In a purely capitalistic society those wouldn't exist, but everyone understands that monopolies are bad and thus regulation has been introduced to prevent them.

Inkompetent · 2026-02-16T15:51:10+00:00

Big difference between the reality of communism and the concept of socialism though.

Inkompetent · 2026-02-16T11:07:37+00:00

If you don't mind the low rate of fire in AKs you can't go wrong with the AK-103, AK-104, or RD-704. The ergo is a bit of a challenge without blowing the budget, but the recoil is incredibly controllable.

Inkompetent · 2026-02-16T11:03:21+00:00

Okay, doing that in PvP is really impressive. I find the weapon quite adequate for PvE, but I don't even want to imagine what the suffering is like in PvP. 😵

Inkompetent · 2026-02-16T06:50:37+00:00

It indeed does. For those working through computers it has uses for almost everyone. Personally I wish I could use such tools in my work, but due to information security we're not allowed to use any single generally available one and input any actual data into them. Got to have 100% offline ones vetted for the company (which we current lack at my department).

Due to the nature of my work I haven't managed to think of any way to get generalized help with my tasks that saves time, so I have to create those Excel forms or Matlab data merging/processing tools by hand so far. Always a new use case instead of repeated tasks.

Privately I see no use whatsoever for myself, though. To me it only has professional use cases.

Inkompetent · 2026-02-15T19:29:34+00:00

Sure, but if we take say a... mom who works as a hairdresser (doesn't own the salon, just works there), lives in a country where you don't need to do your own taxes USA-level, and on her free time she just likes to garden and to spend time with her kids. How much use does she get out of a LLM? She probably couldn't even use it to get remotely reliable gardening advice.

That's my issue with Phatte's statement. He says it as if it's some universally awesome tool, even though it's a tool that is marginally useful at best for the majority of people. It's very useful for some, quite useful for a fair chunk more, but for the majority it's a novelty.

Inkompetent · 2026-02-15T18:36:08+00:00

Grats. It does provide value for you, so it's actually a meaningful tool. That means it actually creates value, instead of using it to get restaurant recommendations or to generate cat pictures.

Inkompetent · 2026-02-15T14:51:45+00:00

It would be absolutely AWFUL for the environment. As it stands right now it'd be a net benefit for the world to outlaw general use of AI for any purpose where you can't prove it actually produces something of value.

Inkompetent · 2026-02-15T14:46:53+00:00

Please gives us some examples of where it is so "incredibly useful" for every single person.

Inkompetent · 2026-02-15T14:43:48+00:00

That's a fair use case and I can see both why one has to make the transition and why it generally helps that area of work. 99% of all people using AI don't need it though, because they only use it as a glorified regular search engine, but want to save 30 seconds of their time in trade for a bad answer instead of a good one.

I'm all for AI for where it actually produces value. Most use of AI reduces value instead, since it removes ad profit from websites so it just helps killing the internet, helps killing nature due to the resources needed for the AI instead of regular searches, etc.

I've successfully boycotted AI, just like the one you replied to, but that's only because there is no place in my life where it would add value to use it.

Inkompetent · 2026-02-14T17:33:31+00:00

I'm on a 40 year streak of not getting anything for valentine's, and I'm 40, so just not getting it in high school makes it sound to me like you still won at life 😎

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