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  • VKB stick is what kept me playing for much longer since i lost interest. Pure joy of fine controls (and my progression is from ps4 controller to whatever hotas is available for it, then switched to PC and used X56, until finally got the VKB). Wish I had it back in the days when i really enjoyed the grind and mining was the thing.

    For the OP - a pity you missed the targ war - that was a great opportunity for open play cooperation, to hone your piloting skills and a lot of pretty sights in maelstroms. It was also the closest thing we had for a campaign.

    I wonder if Frontier has what it takes to do something of the same scale again. The game is still too niche to justify investment, and that is unfortunate.










  • Bought my place from a family of Hindu fixer-uppers. The house ticked almost all the boxes for us, so totally no regrets (after spending a lot on redoing things,but that is another matter).

    There still is one quirk left that I cannot explain though. The guys built an extension, adding roughly 15sqm to the living room. That was actually one of the major selling points for us as we did not want to do such a big project on our own from day one.

    BUT. They somehow thought that would be a grand idea to put 14 ceiling lights there. Almost 1 per sqm. My eyes bleed if all are on! Luckily, they split it into 2 groups, so I can use only 6 - and that is bright enough.




  • It is, as usual, a bit more complicated than that. Of course there are hard-boiled imperialists there, as anywhere. But it is unlikely that even Putin himself is one, he just has his own agenda.

    Russians are a nation with too dark a history in the last couple centuries (and of course before). They were oppressed by their own, killed by their many neighbours in millions, and the memory of this lives deep in them. The major driver for many of them is to avoid harm first of all, powered with fear of their own government and instilled fear of “foreign malign forces” (definition changes by the day, rather easily, driven by propaganda). It is not safe to be against the war, so naturally the majority goes with the flow.

    Do they want to actually conquer neighbours? In a way, there is a sense of pride in belonging to the strongest gang in the hood. As in, it is better to be a part of said gang than be chased by it.

    Source: am russian-born, with a lot of contacts in the country.