I felt exactly the same way with (combat) flight sims.

Without VR, a lot of it was practicing maneuvers and attitudes as the target or the airfield would be out of my view most of the time. With VR, it just feels right, you can just keep the target in sight and move yourself into position. Your sense of distance and attitude is also 100% better. I can fly altitudes better, dogfight much better and so on.

You also get a much better sense of the whole plane, how big it is, how it moves around, and it also is tons more immersive. I can do 2 hour flights without getting bored easy in VR - not that you don’t get hella tired from that.

Destroy state oversight of corporate oversight of media and communication.

The EC absolutely has the marketing budget to change that though.

Technically the Moskva was the Black Sea Fleet flagship, not the overall flagship of the Russian Navy.

That’s the aircraft carrier Kuznetsov, which can’t even move under its own power, and its air complement couldn’t be replenished since the 80s.

Why invade when they can colonise without invasion?

There is no point doing that as long as the Belt and Road takes over old Russian aligned states’ infrastructure and the kids of the Moscow elite start learning Mandarin, both of which is happening.

I expect when climate change melts the permafrost, the companies exploiting Siberia’s riches will be all Chinese. If Russia is luckier than most, they will at least employ Russians for the more menial jobs. As long as they can speak fluent Mandarin.

They were already importing arillery shells, and they are out of Soviet reserves.

They won’t collapse, but they will drift even more into the Chinese sphere of influence, while they have already lost their own.

Point is, the West and China can keep Ukrainians and Russians killing each other as long as they don’t stop funding either side, which will then collapse pretty much immediately.

In any case, Russia is pretty much done as a world power, and the only two questions is whether the US and the EU will become independent world players after Trump, and when the killing will actually stop.

It’s a purely political question, because both China and the EU can keep this up forever.

That’s just pasta bianca, a valid and well known Italian dish.

That should make you doubt your assessment of who the losers and winners are.

Collaboration and empathy raised us and made us dominant.

Sociopathy is a disease.

You guys are sanctioning the International Criminal Court, just saying

I think they call them customers, to be honest.

It’s pretty normal to need different ID cards to use some services in the EU.

You need student ID for student tickets, on the train if there is a senior or a youth discount they check for ID.

If you are an EU citizen, your ID is valid everywhere in the EU, no passport needed.

Didn’t the US already capitulate?

Putin wasn’t always privileged IIRC. He was a taxi driver at one point, and I also wouldn’t call being a paper-pusher for the KGB a laid back no-stress lifestyle.

I think this is a reserve service, similar to the US national guard as opposed to the army.

Unsurprisingly, the site has nothing on who owns it either

I guess the idea is that humanoid robots ideally require no adjustment to the factory, they can just use the tools made for human workers.

Well, he does want to be first king

It just came out recently that wealthy Americans and Russians came to the Balkans during the Yugoslav war to hunt and kill civilians for fun.

I’m feeling we’ll end up going over it whether we row or not.