The few games I’ve played that had a native linux version either were too light to make a difference (FTL) or actually ran worse (paradox games), which is a shame.

You give him too much credit

Specially on lemmy where there’s no algorithm to begin with

With the amount of 9s and 10s coming out, why would you waste time with a 7? The polarisation is just an effect of the language of clickbait spreading in society, but doesn’t change the fact that average games are probably not worth your time.

There was a window where the AMD 6000 series were cheap and readily available, which was probably your best bet. Now we have to wait the AI bubble to burst. Hopefully.

ARC unfortunately still has a few driver problems. While it’s infinitely better than when it launched, if you went with it most of the time you’d have to wait a few weeks before new games are playable.

Every game that didn’t get made is the greatest game of all time in someone’s head.

A good product, I hope people give it a chance.

Yes, that’s why the US wants european countries to increase defense spending. It inevitably means more money in the pockets of the american MIC

That would’ve have worked in February 2022, but Russia has commited too much to settle for just that.

Like I said: Ukraine has resisted and won many battles, but overall the war is not going their way. Russia has taken a small part of Ukraine, but it’s most of what they’ve claimed as theirs. If anything, the coming catastrophe is more likely to come from the ukrainian side (with all the recruitment difficulties) rather than the russian one.

I’m not sure I understand. The article you have linked concludes with:

Writing for The Bell, Russian economy experts Alexander Kolyandr and Alexandra Prokopenko also disputed what they described as “claims of an imminent catastrophe” for the Russian economy. “In our view, all things being equal, it’s unlikely that the economy will implode soon,” they write. They have a point.

Which just agrees with what I’ve said about sanctions not working.

A lot of news about this conflict has been about what Ukraine would like to be true, rather than the facts.

True, but there are a few things we can glean through the war propaganda. The fact that Ukraine is outgunned to this day on the battlefield isn’t some big state secret.

The evidence for that is tenuous at best.

So you think that if they keep fighting they’ll turn it around sometime in the future?

If they were winning, we’d see russian advances on the battlefield stopping or being reversed, and what we are seeing is the exact opposite.

Maybe they will attack again, but is throwing every last body they have to their deaths somehow going to help?

The only reason they haven’t lowered the age of conscription further is because it’s very unpopular and the current government can’t afford the political hit.

They have resisted to the best of their ability, yes. No one can deny that, but even then they are being pushed back more and more as time goes on. And that is, in fact, losing. Specially in a war of attrition like we are seeing.

Yes, but they very much were not the game changers as touted by western leaders. Russia still very much has air superiority, which has been key for their battlefield results.