[-] skulblaka@startrek.website 14 points 6 months ago

Brought to us by the same people that claimed Russia was fighting with WWII shovels, end of war is near, sanctions will kill the Russian economy, etc.

Hence why they're now pressing students and immigrants into emergency armed service. Because they're getting their asses beat. This all checks out. A stable country with a well functioning modern military doesn't extend a 3 day operation into 3 years, lose half a million troops, and then press-gang their students into the draft. These are signs of failure.

[-] skulblaka@startrek.website 13 points 6 months ago

If that was his plan he should have sent them in first before he lost 470,000 registered soldiers. This is a desperation move, and if not that, then it is one of absolutely colossal foolishness. Neither is a good look for Putin.

[-] skulblaka@startrek.website 13 points 6 months ago

It's "technically" a combat vehicle

[-] skulblaka@startrek.website 13 points 9 months ago

It's not really a backdoor. It's an Emergency Broadcast System. Nobody can access your phone through it, they just blast data out to everyone in a preconfigured way that your phone knows to receive and relay to you.

It's not really any different than receiving a text message except that the text message comes with its own dedicated sound so that you know an emergency is happening.

[-] skulblaka@startrek.website 13 points 10 months ago

In what ways? Genuinely curious, I've been using Firefox as my daily driver for most of a decade and haven't even looked at other browsers recently because it's never given me a problem or lacked a feature.

[-] skulblaka@startrek.website 12 points 10 months ago

It's vulnerable to dispelling, and I'd argue anything else that Wall of Force is also vulnerable to, i.e. Disintegrate.

Still busted, but it's not immortal.

And yes, rules as written you can fire arrows through it so long as those arrows are inside the area of the Hut when you cast it.

[-] skulblaka@startrek.website 13 points 10 months ago

what AI outputs is what I think a majority of the people want anyways. They want an answer to something in most cases.

When I ask a question I want a correct answer, not one that is merely statistically likely. Using an AI and not fact checking it means you will never know if the answer given to your question is true. The AI tells you what it thinks you want to hear, not what it knows is true, because it doesn't know anything, it's a pattern matcher.

[-] skulblaka@startrek.website 13 points 11 months ago

It works well for zebras, who travel in herds. Their stripe pattern, similar to dazzle, makes it difficult to differentiate individuals from the group and isolate a single one. For an army in marching formation, or otherwise on the move in a group, it could serve to make it difficult to tell exactly how many soldiers are in your group. But it isn't going to work as classic "camo", of course, nobody is going to not see you.

[-] skulblaka@startrek.website 14 points 11 months ago

The Service Weapon was awesome. It's got an intense sort of gravity around it. Hell, the first interaction with it is fighting a battle of wills in order to not shoot yourself in the head with it. The gun itself doesn't look all that impressive but I do think it's neat enough, and if you look at it from the perspective of the Service Weapon being a character in the story of Control, it's really, really cool.

[-] skulblaka@startrek.website 12 points 11 months ago

Reminds me of OpenMW for Morrowind being listed as "OpenMicrowave" on the Google app store

[-] skulblaka@startrek.website 12 points 11 months ago

Damn, I haven't been reminded of BOFH in a while. Those are due for another read through, along with maybe the Jargon Files too.

[-] skulblaka@startrek.website 14 points 11 months ago

Red pill, buy bitcoin, easy win

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