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Russia doesn’t have those capabilities, despite what the Kremlin desperately wants you to think. I wasn’t joking with the Iraq comparison. Don’t fall for it.

If the conflict is serious enough then it isn’t an excuse and they’d be mad not to have it on the table. I don’t agree with conscription for the most part but I can see the military logic of it. Don’t overthink it.

Good for him. He’s wrong. Horribly wrong. The tonal and thematic gap between the first Fallout games and Bethesda’s games, let alone the Amazon series, are gaping enough to fit a star system in. Maybe he actually thinks that or there’s corporate he doesn’t want to annoy, but I don’t care...

Your emotional investment in defending this frankly sub-par show is rather baffling.

There’s one very big problem with this argument: Given what we’ve seen in Ukraine, why the fuck would NATO need conscription to crush Russia? The modern Russian military seems to have the capabilities and competence of Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi Army, and they’d probably collapse about as easily...

Statehood? Heh, what gave you that idea? Nah, make it a province, assign a governor, give him carte blanche to apply as much force as needed to hammer the locals into line, and all those lovely natural resources can flow back into the Imperial Centre.

There won’t be a Third World War so to speak. A great clash of Empires in the form of America and China over Taiwan is locked in as far as I’m concerned, but Russia will play little part. They are breaking themselves in Ukraine and will continue to break themselves.

Eh…sort of. Spartan women were expected to be Spartan mothers, but in breeding the Homoioi “master race” only the best broodmares would do. That meant physical and mental fitness in service to Sparta. They weren’t quite the equals of men but they probably enjoyed greater privileges than their...

A tad unfair. The Spartan Army was actually dangerous.

Don’t forget that the Third Reich outright balked at Japanese behaviour in China. I believe they even lodged complaints over Nanjing! And with good reason, as I believe that the Japanese slaughtered some twenty million Chinese civilians during their failed war of genocide and conquest. I am...

There’s a very irritating trend in the historical community of recent years that sets out to rip down the “Spartan Myth” in its entirety. We are now at the point where more than a few historians are convinced that Sparta wasn’t all that impressive militarily speaking. Hell, some even regard the...

Concerning that story I really ought to knuckle down and write at some point, I’ve been having some fun imagining what the main starship in it would look like. This is important, because in Star Wars the ships are characters unto themselves. ISD Warspite is a Venator class Star Destroyer...

When you have one vast Empire ruling over much of the world, whose roads are safe to travel, it’s not impossible you’d see movement of peoples. Merchants stopping by in small villages on a long journey wouldn’t be unheard of. Indeed, the Imperial centre could have a great variety of peoples in...

With Triple AAA running itself into the ground for the past decade, your wish may yet come true. The Indie scene is thriving and it has Steam to thank for it.

This is likely the result of a dispute between Valve and Sony. The former wants assurance that the latter isn’t going to push the PSN nonsense again, and Sony is not providing that assurance right now. Therefore, those games are being kept delisted for the moment so as to avoid a whole load of...

What possessed this man to do this? Of course he was going to get caught in a case as high profile as this.

Being in the Charge of the Light Brigade is one of the most undesirable places to be in all of military history, what are you talking about?

The Russian Bear is bleeding.

Conquest is fun tho and they have some nice natural resources. You could always install a puppet ruler if direct rule isn’t to your taste.

When you say “age of sail in space” and “rule of cool”, would starships in your setting resemble the vessels of Disney’s sci-fi take on Treasure Planet back in 2002?