I haven’t played it yet, but in a similar vein, Squad 22: ZOV is a recent Russian game that depicts the Ukraine war. The American response was also quite predictable. Although it is heartening to see a number of steam reviewers calling them out for review bombing it.

Immigration opponents say the crackdown will translate into more and better-paying jobs for native-born Americans.

As a native born of Turtle Island, I would like to wish all these native-born Americans a nice big “Fuck you.”

Odd. It works fine for me on Android and Desktop Linux Firefox. Perhaps Apple specific?

On the Ukraine front, Russia is definitely still winning. You can check the maps yourself for the high level. I’m not sure where these 10s of miles are that they advancing, but I don’t see it on a map of Ukraine.

On the lower level, the Ukrainian armed forces appears to just barely be holding on. Most of their true believers are dead, and they are increasingly relying on people that they kidnapped. They are taking massive disproportionate casualties, and as we can clearly observe from NATO panic, Russia is winning in the materiel war as well. This is a war of attrition, and Russia is decisively winning. Hell, even the messaging from on high has changed from saying that Ukraine is winning to Ukraine can still win if NATO just sanctions a bit more and sends more guns. This is also not working, and NATO knows that they cannot keep up with even their existing pace forever.

I’m honestly not sure that there is a plan. It’s just racism with a side of exceptionalism. The idea is that the great and powerful US military can bomb anyone they want with impunity, so long as they aren’t a nuclear power. And with the meerest hint of possibility that Iran might become a nuclear power soon, it’s a good time to go bombing again. They’ve been talking for years about how much they wanted to.

Is this how the Israelis feel? Tense?

I work with one. She whined about being afraid to the whole company.

Trump wants them to stop fighting and allow the US to start digging for Ukrainian minerals. The Russians keep winning in clear defiance of this goal.

Americans don’t know that there’s a world outside of the US. They genuinely believe that the world will cease to function without them.

Chinese Spy submarine.

I’ve been playing the communist birds in Stellaris. I haven’t played in a few years, and a big new patch is coming soon. I had a hankering for a 4X game, and figured it would be a good time to play a game. The patch will probably take a while to stabilise, and I also wanted to see what had happened to the game in the last couple of years before the rework. I’ve also been dabbling a bit with The Pale Beyond and SpaceVenture. I’m not that far in SpaceVenture yet, but it seems like a solid rebirth of Space Quest. The Pale Beyond is like a choose your own adventure version of The Terror Season 1. I’m also not too far in that one, but I can see it getting really bleak really fast. I like it so far.

I liked the Nintendo Direct. The hardware seems solid, if entirely too big. It’ll probably just sit plugged into my TV though, like my Switch, so it’s not the worst thing in the world. And I have some excitement about maybe getting to play Bayonetta 3 at full speed. I’m surprised that the only big 1st party launch title seems to be Mario Kart World though. I’ll probably pick that up, and maybe the upgrade pack for Tears of the Kingdom, which I still haven’t finished. I’m less than pleased about paid upgrades and the pricing in general, but I’ll live with it.

I’m honestly not sure what you’re trying to imply in the first paragraph. Russia shouldn’t have mobilised their troops before attacking? They shouldn’t have given Zelensky one last try to make things right? 8 years was too short of a time for negotiations? Zelensky needed to go to war so he could look tough? WTF?

The second paragraph is more clear, but just seems to be liberal talking points. Which is fair, because I posted liberal sources, but the primary complaint seems to be that liberals don’t support the Russian SMO, so I shouldn’t? The war crimes thing is just fluff based on liberal propaganda. I still support the US’ entry into World War 2. Despite them being most enthusiastic committer of war crimes on the planet, committing the most horrifying attack on civilians in human history.

In regards to one of his slaves who refused to work, and was whipped for it:

“Your treatment of Charlotte was very proper—and if she, or any other—of the Servants will not do their duty by fair means—or are impertinent, correction (as the only alternative) must be administered.”

– George Washington, slave owner and racist.

First of all, congratulations on opening your eyes and being willing to listen. That’s not a small step. Please start with cfgaussian’s post, as it’s comprehensive and detailed. But I like to keep these two links handy for my liberal friends who call anything written by non-western people propaganda. They both basically say the same thing, but the first is more historical, and the second is more geopolitical. The second one is written by a former assistant secretary general of the UN who “escaped” the USSR.

https://archive.is/20250319094957/https://thehill.com/opinion/5198022-ukraine-conflict-disinformation/

https://www.meer.com/en/74782-will-the-ukraine-war-be-the-undoing-for-the-european-union

Personally, I’m entirely on board with the Russian “invasion”, and my support for it is uncritical. The war should never have happened, but now that it’s here, Russia needs to see it through to the end. They were left with no other choice.

That was the line that irritated me the most too. Imagine travelling halfway around the world to kill people who don’t share your values. Assholes.

Is “The Hill” going to be labelled as a Russian asset now? The article does indeed contain a shocking amount of truth, and completely contradicts the western narrative for the last 3 years.

I’m not watching a 20 minute YouTube video. But I did a quick search, and I’m guessing it’s about Box64, which does static recompilation. I’m still going to say that it’s not going to be perfect or even good enough in many cases (and their website indicates as much). You can’t always directly translate what happens on one CPU to another. Neon/SSE for example. You can do some translation, but some things will need emulating in software, and that’s going to be slow. Even memory access is different. I’m sure any programmer who’s tried writing a lockless queue is going to know that what works on x86 probably doesn’t work on ARM without a lot of futzing with memory barriers and atomic flags. It’s hard. And it’s hard because in order to be fast, it has to be the right code for the job. If you just slap a memory barrier after every instruction, it’ll run correctly, but too slow to matter.

This is why emulators exist, and continue to exist.

I’m a bit out of the loop in the emulation scene. But the last time I was really involved, dynarec proved trickier than expected. I have my doubts that it’s that it’s working well enough to recompile an entire game without a whole lot of hand holding.

One day I really hope to make your dream a reality. There’s just never enough time in a day.

I lost family to the American Holocaust.

Yes, but the software has to be compiled for your architecture, or you have to emulate it. That’s fine for new games that want to market in China, but emulating every other game is going to get old really fast. Hell, I have an x86 Chromebook that I’m strongly considering dual booting Linux.