@Bro-Drillard @zaitcev @AlbinoMutant From what I understand, in certain parts of the country they have already started with the scorched earth plan, especially in areas where they were retreating in the north, and more recently around Kharkiv. They only have so many members of the Wagner Group to go around though to enact that plan.

@zaitcev @Bro-Drillard @AlbinoMutant There's a defender's advantage as well. All of these combined make aggressive wars of territorial conquest less likely, and hopefully obsolete. China might have enough people to overcome that at least in the short term, but they're quickly converging on their own population crash because of the bill for Mao's incompetence coming due.

@Caernon Yeah, that's one thing that we definitely need to stop doing. Either don't make the promise, or keep it.

@Caernon Help can come in many forms, and providing tools is one of those. Though the confidence that our allies has in us right now in the region is a bit low due to the Scarborough Shoals mess. We negotiated a deal between the Philippines and China, then declined to enforce the deal we negotiated in any way when China didn't follow the agreement.

@Caernon It's probably useful for us to also help defend other democracies as well, such as Taiwan. It's not very useful for us to try and implement democracy on our own elsewhere.

@fribbledom I believed they first showed this stamp off and issued it right around the same week that they sunk the ship.

@requiem I decided to go super low end on the hosting side for my blog. The machinery around it is complex for easy updating, but it can work all the way down to just a dumb webhost with no cgi. The parts that are necessary are Hugo and Git. The nice-to-have parts are GitLab, Cloudflare Pages and Forestry.io. The main way is to edit in forestry, then push to GitLab, which triggers Cloudflare Pages two download the git repo and build the static pages. Backup is vi and rsync.

@binarytango Yes, I used both forums and ran my own dialup BBS before using Fediverse. I still do not use Mastodon.

@Sirsquid I haven't noticed that on new unity games in particular, but I've found that pretty much all unity games have performance issues and long load times on any system I've tried them on.

@Cheeseness @greypilgrim Like that, though it seems to be more of a place for devs to talk to each other and to tool-makers for devs, rather than a place for devs to talk to game players. Same basic idea at a different level.

@Cheeseness @greypilgrim Right, was thinking that it could just be a place for developers to create game specific accounts if they don't want to build their own, rather than it being the only place for developers.

https://monsterhunternation.com/2022/04/27/twitter-we-knew-the-game-was-rigged-but-damn/ Interesting, already some changes.

@avia My son is completely uninterested in jets. His favorites in order of preference are Tiltrotor, Biplanes, Helicopters, then other Prop Driven planes. The last airshow we went to, he bought a Stearman shirt and a V22 patch.

@greypilgrim @Cheeseness That might be a task for a more generalized gaming news site I think, rather than just one developer taking the task on.

@Cheeseness I don't know if it would be useful, but I'm all for people having their own instances. That's the whole reason I use this setup for posting thoughts, because I can run a server all on my own.

@requiem It's certainly noisier than it's been in awhile. A lot of accounts that had tapered off posting are showing back up again on my feeds. But getting over 100 posts per day now where it used to be under 40.

@best_doll Sure. Once Switch and Playstation 5 can post videos and screenshots to Pleroma, I'll stop using Twitter for the last thing I use it for. ;)