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vegai_
·4 tahun yang lalu·discuss
>Hey, someone rediscovered xinetd

With a much better piece of software, exactly.
vegai_
·4 tahun yang lalu·discuss
1. A modern multi-user dungeon game, all text-based, that would be functionally like many LPMuds[0] in almost every sense, but with a high-quality commercial (but non-evil) backing and/or several hundred or thousand players online at every time of the day.

2. Elite: Dangerous with 90% less grind.

3. A million more variations of Dwarf Fortress. It's an amazing concept.

4. CRPGs that could capture lightning in the bottle in the same way that the Ultima series did in the 90s.

5. A civilization simulation with such detail that you could base serious policy decisions on how things work out with different political settings.

[0] https://naga.icesus.org/icesus/ being my personal favourite
vegai_
·4 tahun yang lalu·discuss
That's bleak.
vegai_
·4 tahun yang lalu·discuss
>gorilla warfare

Sorry for being that guy but even though gorilla warfare would be genuinely horrifying, the term is actually guerrilla warfare. Which funnily enough can be translated as "warfare warfare".
vegai_
·4 tahun yang lalu·discuss
>It's we Russians who are fucked for the rest of our lives.

I sincerely hope all this goes away as fast as possible and we all can resume our lives in peace. Including you Russians.

I don't see how that can happen with Putin, but fortunately he is far from being the only person who can lead Russia.
vegai_
·4 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Key differences:

- Ukraine is a democracy (not without its problems but getting better) and part of the west

- Casus belli were 95% lies (ok, this one is similar to some US wars)

- The attacker uses "culture wars" as casus belli (Putin refers to "degenerates" et al)

- The part of the attacker's casus belli that mentions Russian Empire also touches on several other east and north european countries -- perhaps this wasn't intended and the whole thing was just crazy rambling or perhaps there's something there

- The attacker is a crazed dictator who has been in power for 22 years and who might be lashing out due to his own deteriorating health

- The goal is to annex the whole country (there was extensive lying that it wouldn't be, but the actual goal has been revealed several times by video representations and accidentally published documents)

- The leader of the attacking nation has lost all credibility in the world's eyes