Calcharger

Calcharger, 10 months ago

VTOL VR is my absolute favorite VR game. All you need is a chair, a headset, and two paddles. You don't need to walk around. You are in the cockpit of a fighter jet with a watered town cockpit. It's a lot more approachable than DCS.

If you want your breath to be absolutely taken away, and you've got a top tier gaming rig, Kayak VR will make you cry.

tal, 10 months ago

I get the need for the cluster munitions

I liked the way Michael Kofman put it some months back -- that using cluster munitions is a way to compensate for a lack of standard HE munitions being available, and if we could provide Ukraine with sufficient HE munitions, they wouldn't need to use cluster munitions -- and that would be preferable. I think that he made a good point -- obviously, given the options, Ukraine would prefer not to deal with UXO cleanup. But, apparently Ukraine didn't consider the available HE munitions to be adequate.

And I have difficulty second-guessing Ukraine's position. It's them that have the most skin in the game on this decision. As long as we've given them as much information as we can on the costs of the munitions, so they understand what they're dealing with, then I think that Ukraine should be the one to make the call.

it really is going to make the southeast of Ukraine extraordinarily dangerous

I mean, there have already been a bunch of cluster munitions used in the war, not to mention a shit-ton of landmines laid. Hell, naval mines even. And even non-cluster munitions do have a dud rate, though it's less of an issue than with cluster munitions.

I mean, there's going to be a very considerable amount of UXO cleanup work to do after the war regardless.

tal, 10 months ago

Well, it's not a war crime regardless, as countries need to sign up to a treaty to prohibit cluster munitions. While a number of countries have done so, none of Russia, Ukraine, or the US have signed up to said treaty:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_on_Cluster_Munitions

So they can't be violating said treaty.

There's no customary international law prohibition on cluster munitions, so absent membership in a treaty, countries can't be violating international law.

That being said, I think that the main issue isn't one of legality, but an ethical position. It's a question of "people are probably going to die down the road from these, and it will take the expenditure of money to make the use of that land safe; is the tradeoff there a reasonable one". On one hand, I get that the child or grandchild of someone in Ukraine might be killed. On the other hand...if their grandparent dies in the current war because they lacked sufficient weight of artillery fire to suppress opposing forces during an assault, that child isn't going to be around either, so...

Drusas, 10 months ago

Conventions are planned a year+ out. It's entirely possible that they don't want to hold it in Florida but it was too late to switch.

aDuckk, 10 months ago

Fucking loved these games back in the day. Such a shame that they were instantly forgotten and that style of RTS died. Total War comes closest

themoonisacheese, 10 months ago

THERE WILL BE BLOOD

themoonisacheese, 10 months ago

THE MAN IN THE MIRROR NODS HIS HEAD

SpicyPeaSoup, 10 months ago

SHED

SpicyPeaSoup, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

We must fight back. PACEM, PARA BELLUM.

the_thunder_god, 10 months ago

I disagree that the admin of an instance doesn't have the right to moderate it how they wish. By joining the server you agree to let that admin control what content you see on your instance. That's how instances work. It's still on you to agree/disagree with the admin and how they run the server. That's why other servers exist and you have the complete right to associate with who you wish, or even run your own instance and run it how you like.

I do not agree with the people wanting to control other servers by trying to force defederating from threads. Independent admins running their own server is what the Fediverse is built upon.

breadsmasher, 10 months ago

Ah gotcha. Thought you meant the contents of the post specifically.

Not going to bother checking reddit myself - not a user anymore. But what are the other posts averaging for upvotes in comparison? Just curious

BaroqueInMind, 10 months ago

Please keep up the momentum. I love seeing NCD shit in my kbin front page.

SpicyPeaSoup, 10 months ago

I am but one humble servant of my mental illness(es).