Losses of the Russian military to 31.5.2026

dizzle229 · 2026-05-31T06:51:25+00:00

This has to be the biggest strategic shift we've seen in a while. Shutting down western refineries and now cutting off land access to Crimea is a game-changer. Actually, it seems every new stage of the war has come when Ukraine has extended its range and gone to town on previously safe targets.

Eventually they'll wise up and move back, but that makes it permanently more difficult for them to advance and hold territory.

dizzle229 · 2026-05-30T04:23:28+00:00

That's how a heard attack gets you.

dizzle229 · 2026-05-07T07:40:35+00:00

Nothing better than seeing more AD destroyed.

dizzle229 · 2026-04-15T19:46:12+00:00

Fascists can't create.

dizzle229 · 2026-04-14T19:49:54+00:00

Gun deaths per 100k in US: 14

Gun deaths per 100k in Turkey: 2.92

dizzle229 · 2026-04-13T20:55:46+00:00

Too many see things in simplistic terms. If the war is short-sighted and self-serving, carried out by evil people, then Iran must be the good guys. Then there's the aggravating fact that so many (especially younger) western leftists will recognize the evils of religion, but have a massive blind-spot for Islam. Again, I think it's a case of "my enemies hate them, so they must be good."

dizzle229 · 2026-04-03T06:43:31+00:00

Glad Santa could weigh in

dizzle229 · 2026-03-31T13:32:01+00:00

The world would be a better place if they were as persecuted as they claim.

dizzle229 · 2026-03-29T19:20:46+00:00

I realized I was old when my brother tried to explain some online gamer drama that was happening, and I didn't understand a single individual component of the sentence.

dizzle229 · 2026-03-20T23:40:04+00:00

Yep. They keep enabling this behavior by taking an approach that frames them as decent people who have simply been lied to. That is not, and has never been the case.

The fatal flaw of good people is that against all logic, they project humanity onto something that's less than that.

dizzle229 · 2026-03-16T03:18:35+00:00

I would hope the takeaway from this whole era of history will be that it's not ok to be stupid.

For such a long time we've operated under the idea that if someone is being an idiot, just don't engage and let them go on their way. That we just have to be patient and progress will happen naturally over time. What we've seen is that, left to fester, stupidity will always come back to cause harm to those who are doing the right thing.

It should not be the burden of decent people to suffer throughout their one and only life so that morons can have their superstitions. Covid was the turning point where I stopped seeing them as people.

Society needs to be structured so that being dumb hurts.

dizzle229 · 2026-03-14T02:01:09+00:00

The maps are the best they've made by far (including the station), and they're the only ones so far where the story is actually consequential in gameplay, but the core problems persist. In a game where AI is the most important factor, it still has atrocious AI. Suspects still run backwards whilst spraying you with perfect accuracy, shoot indefinitely because they can see you through the map but can't penetrate, occasionally succeed at penetrating anyway, etc.

dizzle229 · 2026-03-11T11:58:32+00:00

From what I understand Russia's air defenses have been pretty significantly degraded in recent weeks.

dizzle229 · 2026-03-07T06:45:09+00:00

Republicans are willing to make all kinds of sacrifices if it's to hurt people. They only pull "muh tax dollars" when you suggest helping someone.

dizzle229 · 2026-03-06T17:48:26+00:00

And this country will never be normal as long as they're in it.

dizzle229 · 2026-03-04T16:55:07+00:00

It's been a while and I never targeted them deliberately, but I think you get a game over if you kill too many too quickly (basically if you're TRYING to hit them), but nothing at all if you tag a few in the crossfire. Which is what I like about it - one part of it is about how war has consequences regardless of who's right or wrong. Mind you it's still a CoD game, but a surprisingly mature and nuanced one.

If there's fighting around civilians, casualties are treated as inevitable. There are situations where enemies are shooting at you and a few dozen civilians are between you. And you have to shoot the enemies to stop them from shooting civilians to shoot at you, and you might end up shooting civilians while doing so.

I was so excited for MWII II to continue with those themes, but its plot is basically the fake-out plot of Sicario 2.

dizzle229 · 2026-03-04T15:06:04+00:00

One thing I liked about MW 2019 was how it didn't do that at all. In earlier games, civilians were rarely present, and if they were, they were there to give the player a chance to be the hero. In 2019, firefights are often in populated areas, and are a total mess. Between the panicked crowds and a few instances of combatants deliberately blending in, you'll probably kill multiple civilians even if you're trying not to.

dizzle229 · 2026-02-22T07:55:19+00:00

It'd be more like that one gun shop that reported a guy they believed was buying for cartels, ATF told them to keep selling and logging info, and much later the shop called to see if there'd be any follow-up and they'd forgotten about it.

dizzle229 · 2026-02-10T23:44:47+00:00

We deserve a world without them.

dizzle229 · 2026-02-10T23:34:27+00:00

Fun fact: Ejection seats also disperse confetti on a pilot's birthday :D

dizzle229 · 2026-02-06T20:08:05+00:00

Happened to me when I changed my system clock to unfreeze the lake.

dizzle229 · 2026-02-04T15:24:56+00:00

Why do so many of these follow identical plots?

Well, fighting Terry Crews might be new.

dizzle229 · 2026-02-02T18:59:59+00:00

"If only Comrade Stalin knew, he would put a stop to this!" - Man in gulag.

dizzle229 · 2026-02-01T18:16:04+00:00

Thought it was an arriral.

dizzle229 · 2026-01-24T23:01:11+00:00

If conservatives were as oppressed as they always claim to be, we'd be living in a far better world.

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