honestly with the production line closed and so few hours on it the parts are worth more than keeping it airborne. Those parts can be used to keep other workhorse aircraft flying which have a greater impact on the global economy.

No, corruption and grift are standard operating procedure in Russia. Roskosmos started succumbing to cut corners with a string of failures for thier Proton rockets. Quality control doesn’t really exist anymore. 

It was definitely intended to be difficult. It’s just some of the mechanics were clunky is all. I think the falling over was the thing that irritated me the most, really upsets the flow of combat, you could avert it with the dash pedal but that uses more fuel. The narrow field of view in some of the VT’s was annoying…

I owned Steel Battalion. About half the buttons only had a function in the mech (VT) start-up process and you’d only need to touch them again if your mech stalled. You could toggle them off once you started the engine to no ill effect making restart slightly faster. The game itself was kind of clunky. The pitiful fuel…

I wonder if they’ll bring back PLOW much to the chagrin of the hardcore AC players? Human Plus was the neatest little easter egg in the first game. For those unaware if you ended up with like -20000 credits in debt you’d get a “game over” cutscene with doctors ostensibly performing surgery on you. Then the game would…

I’m curious about how they’ll deal with mecha speed. The games were always slow and plodding. I wonder if they’ll speed things up to fit with the times? 

You really have to math out your designs for most effectiveness. Like the Soulsborne games the story isn’t explicitly laid out. You have to piece it together from the mission briefs and events, it came out at. Interestingly looking back you can see the story concept of ending repeating cycles that would form the…

i mean Trump did offer Bout for Whelan in 2019 but “changed his mind” after discussing it with Putin. Whelan is a more valuable as political tool for Putin. 

Facebook was opened to non .edu emails the same year Bout was arrested. The entire illicit trade system is completely different now.  Silk Road came into existence and died during that time period. He’s out of his element now.  

Whelan is still in prison because he’s become a political wedge issue to split the Republican and Democrats. 

I should note there is an exception for the pallet of d6's I use for Shadowrun. they are wild and unruly and exist in thier own Crown Royal bag. Thier entire existence is cursed and nothing is fixing that.

Mostly I assign roles for the dice that way they all have something to look forward to. It’s a team effort and if the dice know what their role is they can be better prepared for fulfilling thier duty. While I do administer dice jail when necessary and well performing dice get to ride outside the dice bag. I think…

You do realize the US has offered Bout for Whelan several times? The Russian’s weren’t willing to part with Whelan for him. The Russian’s want something the US doesn’t have.

You do realize the US has offered Bout for Whelan several times? The Russian’s weren’t willing to part with Whelan for him. The Russian’s want something the US doesn’t have.  

Not really, Bout’s sentence only has a few years left on it anyway. So he’ll be getting out in a few years regardless. The Russian’s aren’t willing to part with Whelan for anything less than a Russian national in prison for espionage. What this does is get Bout out of the US and get’s Griner back in the US.

Bout’s…

While I don’t typically follow specifics apparently Twitter is already cracking down on certain posts critical of the Kingdom. 

I’m saying he’ll prioritize keeping his Saudi investors happy so he doesn’t get Khashoggi’d.  He’s likely already forking over journalist meta-data to them. 

yes and who do you think wields the banhammer now?

Yes because pissing off your Saudi investors is a consequence free action. 

The good news is since it is so involved with the Dod Musk himself can’t interfere with it much.