It’s a cognitive dissonance thing for collectors. They want the preserved, playable copy but they don’t ever want to break the seal because that lowers the value.
I bet there are a bunch of collectors out there in possession of empty game boxes (with placebo weights) that have been expertly resealed and then submitted to grading companies for a seal of approval.
Yes, though then we’ll have to test your blood to make sure.
This really baffles me. What does Germany want with a bunch of obsolete Leopard 1s anyway? I guess they could break them down for parts and then send parts they already had to Ukraine, allowing Ukraine to repair some of their damaged Leopard 1s.
Most of the games I buy today are less than $10 anyway. What I want from games has really changed, and a lot of the time I’m just playing free Roguelikes rather than commercial games.
We didn’t buy most games when I was a kid, we rented them. There were countless games we paid $5 to rent for a week and that was plenty of time to finish the whole game and return it.
I only had one rich friend who had like a hundred games he owned. He let me borrow some of them but most of them I had already rented and finished myself. There were only a few games I ended up owning myself, such as Tecmo Super Bowl and the Legend of Zelda.
Some games could also be bought used for a lot less than full price (at stores such as The Games Exchange). They also bought games back from you when you were done with them!
If I could time travel to live back then as an adult I would rent everything and only buy a game if I foresaw wanting to play it long after a week was up.
They’re never going to capture Russia on foot. The way they win the war is by destroying Russian oil and gas infrastructure, their weapons facilities, and their command and control infrastructure. They win when Russia can no longer continue the fight, not by occupying Moscow (which they don’t want anyway).
Do you have computer or electronics skills? Ukraine needs tons of people with those skills to help build and set up drones. That’s what is winning them this war.
I love Zelda 2’s map. It’s quite large but doesn’t take too long to traverse due to the overworld movement. The forced encounter zones as you get further away from Hyrule Castle make it feel very epic though and getting to the Great Palace feels like a big achievement!
Unlike Russia, Ukraine’s military knows how to fight a war: defeat your enemy’s physical capability to continue the fight.
Russia has wasted so many reassures attacking civilians in Ukraine thinking it will shatter their resolve when it has only strengthened it. This sort of “strategic” terror bombing was proven not to work all the way back in World War 2 for the exact same reason it’s not working against Ukraine: killing civilians makes the survivors angry and determined to win.
Yes and that’s such an important part of returning home: reuniting with your family.
Yes though it seems some formerly friendly to Ukraine countries are becoming less friendly and turning a cynical eye towards Ukrainian refugees. Maybe some of those will return to Ukraine and help in the war effort (or even just help contribute to the economy which helps the war effort indirectly).
Yes and Russia is losing 100 soldiers per square km (2000 casualties per day). By 2057 they will have lost 23 million soldiers!
Russia’s been an imperialist culture for centuries. They’ve never gotten over it.
I think people are forgetting Putin’s personality. He’s a brutal tyrant, yes, but he’s also a narcissist who cannot stand any sort of disloyalty or defiance. Long ago he committed himself (in writing) to the ideology that Ukrainians are Russian. He believes that Ukrainian people BELONG to HIM. So every day that the war continues and Ukrainians fight and die and above all else defy him, he takes as a grave insult that he cannot abide.
That’s why he will not stop until he is deposed or dead. He’s more determined than a pitbull to force Ukraine to bend the knee. He’s like a villain from Game of Thrones.
I don’t think so. Ukraine has been gearing up its domestic arms industry all war long. They may suffer a big setback if the US withdraws all support but I think Europe has shown a lot of indications that they will step up. Ukraine is digging in for the long war.
I also think it’s possible that Trump may get impatient with Putin if he’s unwilling to compromise (and all indications are that he will). Furthermore, the domestic problems that drove Putin to invade in the first place have not gone away. If anything, they’re worse than ever. If Russia finds itself without a war then domestic disputes between different factions will begin to heat up again.
A bit confusing to read. The points are placed on the y-axis using ordinals rather than cardinals. This means if you were to extend the plotting (say, up to 200) it would cause the existing data points to move around. That’s not usually what we expect when plotting data.
Edit: actually, the problem is more severe than I initially thought. If the y-axis were plotted with cardinals (the way we usually plot data) then the German case would show 10 horizontal lines, immediately revealing a pattern in the data (caused by Germans speaking the ones digit before the tens digit).
What’s stopping Russia from importing gray market gaming devices and repurposing them for drones? How are these embargoes even supposed to work?