No_one
Underemployed Slav. Likes playing Factorio.
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According to the affidavit FBI submitted to get a warrant for searching the devices of the satanist O9A* affiliated matricide accelerationist Kasap, who was caught less than two weeks after he murdered his mother in early February, was in contact with a number of people and was, among other things
- attempting to purchase a drone to drop some IED to kill or attack Trump
- talking to someone apparently from Ukraine and asking about relocation and exfiltration from the US
- getting advice on how to use repeaters to extend drone range
This is being spun two ways:
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Russians are saying approximately: This is typical SBU work, they find some expendable extremists and give them advice to kill and cause chaos, this is just like the Crocus attack
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media is quiet about the foreign angle now, and probably indefinitely but I imagine later it could be spun as Muscovite trolls seeking out vulnerable teenagers and egging them on to kill to frame the glorious SBU
The real story is probably the budding teenage satanist was
- getting scammed out of crypto by one troll
- getting lies about exfiltration to make him kill by another sadistic troll
Guy may have swapped his plates but was still using the same cell phones so absolutely NGMI tradecraft.
*Order of Nine Angles. Some sort of satanist cult, or more likely by now very loose online group.
No_one
18d ago
Spooks? I find that ridiculous as I left 4chan around '16 after it became clear the site was overrun by various fucked up bots.
No_one
18d ago
But I think the Soviets leapfrogged or sidestepped the US on military tech more often than China has – maybe that's just vibes.
China has made the supercarrier obsolete. Is that not impressive? You know those Iskander missiles that have never been intercepted yet because they evade and allegedly can also drop countermeasures? Well, China has gliding anti-ship versions deliverable across half the planet. Is that not impressive?
No_one
18d ago
- Not game dependant skill, like for instance social deduction games like Among Us reward social skills. This is rare outside of like social or puzzle games.
Social skill is highly important in MMO PvP games, no? Like group size matters, if you can't find a group and keep it, you're dead.
No_one
18d ago
Sure, but if you have better logistics and more weapons you're going to 'win' at that failure state because enemy keeps losing more troops and as he's smllaer, you win the war in the end because the enemy force collapses and then you can claim all the oblasts you require.
it fundamentally sucks for the attacker.
That was the case before drones and artillery combo. It's not true anymore. Now it sucks for both equally, basically. Whether it 'sucks' depends on how good is your recon, camouflage and anti-drone defenses.
No_one
19d ago
Something like that, but I think what could work would be having servers that only open at specific times, for games where you can't segment the world, or having segmented worlds where distant areas can do their turns inside a period.
You can play say, 8 hours a week, whenever, but any travel/attack across a zone border would happen in the next period, with say battles between areas happening at a mutually agreed upon time.
No_one
19d ago
No, they don't, even though they could. There's nothing stopping a good military from making a simulation of a war, sticking officers into dorms rooms for a month and having them wage virtual war 16 hours a day and communicating through monitored, anonymized chat so no cliques possibly, you wouldn't even know who is on the other side.
Officer schools filter out the worst performers, but they don't and can't evaluate the ability to lead people or improvise. In addition, this should be all promotions above a certain level.
In US armed forces it's notorious that any and every position above captain requires being political, having patrons and all that bullshit. That's how you get the level of dysfunction they have now - they stopped being able to build ships, they can't get rid of Houthis, etc. In all likelihood, every capable, disagreeable officer got filtered out by this clique system.
No_one
19d ago
This is just mostly for me so I can feel awkward later.
List of essays I need to write for various reasons
- non-gamer accessible description of huge Ark: Survival clusters and the lessons 24/7 no rules, no safezones PvP has to teach about society/people.
- the idea for an PvP MMO that wouldn't devolve to "the biggest no lifers win"
- essay on how militaries that promote officers on the basis of other qualities than anonymously demonstrated command competence in weeks-long highly stressful immersive simulations are NGMI (kinda superfluous now hat 1st Lt. Skynet is coming but maybe good writing practice)
No_one
19d ago
Killing people is much easier than rapidly maneuvering large forces through heavily surveilled terrain against an adversary.
It's also harder than ever to achieve some big maneuver.
No_one
19d ago
This is not a blow.
Losing weight through cold exposure is a well known trick. Cold exposure also leads to an increase in brown fat which can burn white fat for energy, making it easier to lose weight.
No_one
19d ago
Probably at least 2:1 in favor of Russians. Might be more depending on how good / bad their artillery has been throughout the conflict. Remember 2% of people in this war die to bullets. Rest is artillery and drones. Some say it's more than 5:1 but I doubt it.
Russians also did clever and unscrupulous things like lightly training their criminals and then expending them in Bakhmut against the better Ukrainian forces. They'd use drones to direct these guys close - Ukrainians who revealed themselves by fighting would get blasted. Most of the convicts died but that was okay - they paid their debt to society that way. The kill ratio wasn't too bad, it was maybe 1-2 convicts pre one Ukrainian soldier.
No_one
20d ago
imagining they can just go to relatives in e.g. Norway (surely, only the US has immigration laws!)
If US was really vanning protesters and sending native born US lefists to Salvador they'd probably get asylum in European gerontocracies.
No_one
20d ago
Can't you today simply seal the steel parts in an oxygen free environment when not in storage? Like welding argon is really cheap, with some good plastic bags you could get rid of all the oxygen and keep it from rusting easily.
No_one
20d ago
This is a topic that would probably reduce the more sensitive officers to tears if alcohol were involved.
Or do I gather from the complaints. Cutbacks in force, morale wrecked, pgm weapon edge eroded... it's a clear picture of decline.
No_one
20d ago
Russia had nothing like the air power US had then. Force densities were way lower too. Competence level also a lot lower on both sides, likely.
Ah, ok, I get it. You called Iran/Iraq war the 'First Gulf War' ..that's not that common.
No_one
20d ago
Do you really think commercial interests are eager to go up against spicy nationalist types who have spent the last ~6 years at war or have seen all their friends die and have drone building and piloting skills ?
It only takes one team of fanatics to kill you dead, and when they can do it over a 3g network from the other side of a country ..
No_one
20d ago
Ukrainian OSINT guys counting memorials and such info claim RU KIA is 100k based on memorial messages and 165k based on probate data.
https://en.zona.media/article/2025/03/28/casualties_eng-trl
No_one
20d ago
One again, hard pounding this, gentleman, we shall see who pounds the longest.
Analysts claim that Russians (the citizens) believe it's going to be over soon because there's a big wave of people signing up for the bonuses who, are doing it bc they think their front-line experience is not going to be too long..
Anyway, a long and slow wrestling match between a big guy and a small guy where both are equally invested into the outcome could only ever have gone one way. I've maintained that idea since the start of the war. And Russian supply of PGMs and glide bombs seems way more ample - ATACMS managed a few attacks but it's not nearly as modern a missile as Iskander.
No_one
20d ago
About women.. well girls.
There were 'historical fencing' groups around my city when I was in high school and I heard that they all had too many chicks and too few boys is what I heard. Maybe I definitely should have switched my focus from tanks to swords bc. There were few girls in my class at school and they were all homely, and the girls in those historical fencing outfits mostly got into swords from reading fantasy crap so probably the better kind of girl out there.
I heard about HEMA as a kid from my cousins, (the coloquial term was 'plechárna' , 'plech = blech' and had much respect for it bc what I heard is that your hands and fingers and arms are gonna suffer a lot and I have an unfortunate tendency of getting carried away while fighting. I broke every single wooden sword I ever had as a kid or teen. You probably have something to say about that kind of people.
No_one
20d ago
Why'd Germans be not able to afford a full suit of plate armor ? It's only like what, €3-4k euro ? People blow that on electric bikes or foreign holidays routinely. Oh, I guess if they were students..
No_one
20d ago
I mean this would be functional programming or some sort of combination of priorities etc.. not typical pin-headed BS you deal with normally..
No_one
20d ago
all else equal, the guy who’s entrenched has an advantage Both are entrenched. The war is mostly hammering enemy till he gives up with remote weapons, then taking over the position.
Actually, I suspect the First Gulf War would provide a lot of insight into the Ukraine invasion, but I’d need to do a more careful reading.
No? Incomparable.
This is some quality lore on wikipedia. Science-Fiction literature and its consequences can be rather darkly funny. If you're not related to any of the victims of course.
There's a rather hefty list of crimes supposedly involving these guys.
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