I feel like this is all driven by MS diving full force into AI stuff. Their capex is going to be insane so they’re cutting shit left and right to keep Wall Street happy while they set cash on fire trying to make AI something more than anime profile pic generators.

That game was not good, but I sure did have fun as a teen fucking around with the multiplayer. Those early 360 games were weird

Seems a foregone conclusion at this point that they’re going to brand a PC as an Xbox and allow it to run both Xbox and PC games on it. They may not even bother making the hardware themselves like they’re doing with this partnership on the “Xbox” handheld which is really just a cross branded Asus handheld.

While I agree with you in principle, they didn’t buy the Initiative. It was a studio they founded that hasn’t shipped a single game.

Perfect Dark looked cool though, this is a major bummer.

I have a controller that plugs right into my opener with a magnetic sensor for if the door is open or not. Running Homebridge I can see it and open and close it from anywhere. Did it all the way from Thailand a while back just for shits and giggles. I gotta see if I can configure it to auto shut if it’s still open at night, have had a couple of whoopsies there.

I thought this is all based around a border dispute with Cambodia. What does China have to do with it?

The shelling was aimed at maintaining order

My god this makes my brain hurt from the dissonance. Pigs

That info isn’t public at this time. No motive either.

I’ve always been partial to this one

Negative. I am a meat popsicle

Well, there’s always 686 Ebullient Prism or 2401 Penitent Tangent

I think we need more of cheaper planes that are easily replaceable

Doesn’t Europe have a good number of airframes that fit that need? Rafales, Eurofighters, Gripens come to mind. F18’s too, but I recognize those aren’t domestic.

I look at these F35’s as a the current best solution for SEAD and air dominance roles in a potential conflict. Once that’s taken care of these other less capable platforms could play their part.

Unless Israel has giant pilots to go alongside their space lasers, none have been shot down, to my knowledge. I’ve seen footage of some of their unmanned drones being taken out, so you may be conflating the two?

Oh, and Europe is pretty much solely worried about Russia. They want systems that can suppress Russian air defenses. Iran operates (or at least, they used to) Russian air defense systems such as S-300 and Tor M1 that it appears the F35 has handily dealt with.

Sure, but those domestic manufacturers are going to need to work on developing actual stealth airframes if they want any business. That takes time that Europe isn’t currently comfortable with at the moment

Probably not, although Russia keeps jerking off to fan fiction about nuking a tidal wave across the island.

Considering how well the F35 did against Iran, I expect more F35 purchases from Europe going forward. I’m not aware of any European jets with comparable stealth and radar capabilities.

Was hoping for something halo since it’s #343

HE SAYS IT LIEK IT ISSSSS

Any bets on how long until this repo gets nuked?

I get the impression that the cops are about to hate facial recognition all of the sudden, for no particular reason