People also are increasingly realizing that Ubisoft games are all very bland and...the same. People enjoyed it the first time, but why buy a new AC game when you already have essentially the same thing in you library already?

Ah, the good 'ol: you have three options, choose two!

Though, not paying annually for multiplayer access certainly helps with the financial ruin problem. ;p

Highly, highly recommend using GOG. Buying is owning. There is no DRM and they even provide offline installers for the games you buy.

But they updated the terms of use and apparently now, stating that buying is not owning

This has always been the case for Steam and every other service that isn't GOG.

'Whelp, guess it's that time'

Jump over to PC and choose both 140fps and quality. ;p

I'm at least happy we are past the era of 'the human eye can only see 30fps'.

Biden needs to green-light the Ukrainian use of western weapons on targets inside Russia. The US is still tying Ukraine's hands in the third year of this war! If Russia didn't want to be shot at, they should not have invaded. This has gone on for much too long.

How dare Ukrainians not want to checks notes be genocided by their much larger neighbor!

SK has mostly kept from supplying Ukraine. Closest they have gotten is selling shells to the US to open up more US shells to go to Ukraine. I could see SK changing their stance about supplying Ukraine over this.

Yep! Basically everyone is up with the exception of Russia and Switzerland. Russia has no spare capacity for exports and Switzerland immolated their military sector when they informed their partners they cannot send Swiss military equipment to war.

Perun did a great video on this: Global Arms Exports - Winners, losers & trends in the race to rearm

There are jobs that take weeks to learn, jobs that take years to learn, and there are even jobs that take a decade+ to learn. You ain’t putting the three-week old newbie in the latter two roles.

looks at the ever dwindling Soviet stockpiles and hundreds of thousands of Russian casualties

Well, I'm not confident enough to say Ukraine is winning, but Russia sure as fuck isn't either.

It amazes me at the start of the war, me and just about everyone else thought Russia had this in the bag. Crimean invasion 2.0. Now Russia is struggling to dislodge Ukrainians from Russian territory and shit deep inside Russia blows up on the regular.

I'm damn happy to support Ukraine and am doubly happy my government is supporting them as well.

My guess is they will be compartmentalized to their own unit(s), with dual speakers coordinating with Russian units/leadership. Though, like you say, there probably aren't very many of those, so these units will be particularly at risk if their rare dual speaker gets taken out. They could probably mitigate this a bit by having dual speakers in safer locations one tier up the command chain.

This all assumes they will be in front-line roles. It is possible they will get assigned to safer duties, freeing up Russian soldiers to go to the front.

It's good these are being made. One of the big downsides of the traditional cruise missile are they are expensive. Which means making them at industrial scale burns though quite a few resources. In many cases, having 10x-20x lower capability drones will do the job better.

Obviously you still want the high-capability cruise missiles for more difficult targets. But it's very good the west is producing the cheaper ones in volume too!

This is really more of a [email protected] question. But, to answer it, no, you will need a friend willing to trade with you or an exchange service to do an exchange. Side note, they want ID info from you because there are tax implications when you sell capital goods. After a threshold, they report those capital sales to your government's tax office.

Which part? B2 strikes on the Houthis happened this week.

$42,000 per homeless individual

Woof. As a point of comparison, the average salary in the US is $59k.

The US has been hitting any Houthi poking their head above ground for the last year. Their available munitions and fighters are drastically reduced. You don't see them landing helicopters on civilian tankers anymore, no, now you see B2 bombers blowing up their hideouts.

Hezbollah is even worse off. Israel compromised their supply lines and blew up huge portions of their leadership up and down the chain. They then were forced to meet in person, where even more of their leadership exploded via air-dropped bombs. No, they won't recover for years. And this is while Israel launched a ground invasion destroying even more of their capability.

It certainly felt very tacked on. I never enjoyed having to interact with it, nor did it add anything to the story.

Those leaders are falling like flies; Iran's entire proxy network has been systematically dismantled over the last year. Hamas, Hezbollah, and Houthis are all a shadow of what they were very recently.

NCOs and local autonomy is OP. The soldier with the most info is the one with a gun in his hand. The closer the command structure is to that information source, the better everything runs.