So the USA is now admitting that troops are dying during these attacks.
yeah, this is the actual news here more than the attack - that they finally either want to start saying deaths are happening, or they can't hide them anymore for some reason. US soldiers have been dying for months
I really liked Horizon Zero Dawn but the story hook of the game is way too far in IMO, and the story is probably the only reason I finished it. Like, I was trying to find reasons to like the game and failing and about to give up before you encounter the big metal door, and then I was like "Huh, maybe this is actually an interesting game after all." It just starts off really slow unless you're really into quasi father-daughter dynamics, which I can't say I particularly am. It is fundamentally a Ubisoft towers skinner box game with a Gamer Vision scanning thing and "Hm, guess I should go into that cave!" murmurs, and some of the enemies being metal versions of real-life creatures is really interesting for... a few hours, and then it just kinda isn't, and some of them are too tanky for no particular reason.
Horizon Forbidden West kinda just felt like the same game as the first but in a different setting and with different metal creatures. It similarly takes a little while to get to the actual story hook - finding HADES - and once again I really liked the story, but once again it's a Ubisoft towers skinner box with Gamer Vision. It's actually really embarrassing for the game that the main gameplay hook (at least, as I saw it), being able to ride flying monsters and fly around the map, was introduced virtually at the end of the game and has very few uses in the game. I mean, I guess you have a... glider... that is really just a parachute. And underwater sections, sometimes.
The end of Forbidden West actually pissed me off. Like, I was planning on finishing up the rest of the game's map and doing the rest of the quests and collectibles and stuff, just to get my money's worth I suppose, but I finished the main quest and decided that I couldn't really be assed. I really hate when game endings aren't self-contained. It was just "Oh, we're DEFINITELY getting a sequel to this, so we're leaving you on a cliffhanger and not actually giving you any closure at all." This kinda happened in the first game but like, the series could have ended there and you would have felt 95% satisfied. For this game, it was like 10% satisfied.
I'll... probably play the third game simply because I'm invested in the game's story at this point, but the gameplay loop simply isn't going to get better and I'm not looking forward to once again climbing up those towers and once again entering Gamer Vision and once again firing dozens of arrows into machines while in Slow Motion Aiming Gamer Mode.
The thing I'm a little bewildered by is: can't the runways just be hit? Or the planes struck when they have to land and refuel/rearm?
In Ukraine this seemed to be what Russia did, but the sheer size of the country meant that Ukraine could inevitably find a different place to land their planes, and much of the country was out of range of a lot of Russian missiles (though Russia could hit anywhere with their longer-range missiles as they've proven with strikes on Lvov etc). Israel does not have the advantage of size or considerable depth.
Finally, an intelligent take in this god-forsaken megathread. If the Yemeni proletariat merely joined hands with the Palestinian and Israeli proletariat and overthrew their respective bourgeoisie, we could have peace throughout the Middle East. But instead, these people insist on continuing cycles of violence
(/s just to be sure)
every day I bounce between "there's no way Israel is so profoundly stupid that they'd try and attack Hezbollah again" and "nope, the Israeli leadership is actually that stupid"
next step is for a journalist to say "pig poop balls"
the krav maga dude literally trains you to stand your ground and face the general direction of incoming, draw your firearm, aim in the general direction of the incoming fire, begin returning fire blindly in the general direction of incoming fire, and then advance on the enemy.
Critical support to this dipshit for getting Western soldiers and cops killed
Wrong about the beginning of events, but correct about their trajectory once they have begun
But often only because we go "No, that won't happen, that would be stupid and counterproductive for the West" but then they just do the thing anyway and so we just go "...okay, well, they're gonna lose then"
I literally cannot stress enough that if you don't want your oil tankers to be set on fire, you simply have to not go through the Red Sea
From the Rio Grande to the sea, Texas shall be free
And by free I mean "returned to Mexico and indigneous groups"
me misplacing my keys this morning delaying me for five minutes was Putin's message to my household and I will respond accordingly and with equal scale. my agents are hiding his wallet in a particularly obscure location in his house as we speak