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The "Nord Stream 1" was blown, not "Nord Stream 2".

"Nord Stream 2" was completed, but blocked by sanctions (as a result of Ukrainian War). "Nord Stream 1" was operational, but Gazprom (Russia) halted delivery at least a month before the sabotage.

So you could very easily twist the argument and say that blowing NS1 was an attempt (by Russia) to force NS2 approval and put more pressure on Germany to break sanctions. Note that immediately after that event gas prices went up, even though NS1 was not delivering gas at that time. If the winter was not mild, it could end in very favorable outcome for Russia.

I think that Supreme Commander has the best UI in the RTS world.

This is the only game where I saw things like queing tasks for all units (whole construction schemes), estimated time of finishing each task, unrestricted zoom (from map view to the single unit) and multiple minor utility functions, like patrols of engineers (that can help creating units) or "help" function for factories (queued units in one factory and the other ones helping it).

Those functions greatly reduced cognitive load and micromanagement of most task, allowing the player to focus on the grand strategy.

I really hope that next AAA RTS game will be greatly inspired by this UI.

Exactly this. I compared it to Samsung S10e and in terms of size new iPhone SE and Samsung S10e are really close:

(HxWxD in mm)

S10e: 142.2 x 69.9 x 7.9; mass 150g; screen 5.8"

SE: 138.4 x 67.3 x 7.3; mass 148g; screen 4.7"

I am mostly dropping reddit as well. 90% of the time spent there was in the public transport. It was basically 5 min of reddit, 5 min reading news, 5 min of email checking etc. Dropping reddit from my mix is trivial.

I think that this would be not enjoyable. In multiplayer FPS, it would be enough to reach high hitrate. For example, players' hitrates are rarely higher than 10% (only in special cases). And it is hard for human to do better, because all players are constantly moving and players do not have such level of agility. However, I believe that AI could do much better. And AI reaching something like 80% hitrate would cause players to think that they are facing a cheater.

In single player environment things are even more complicated. Usually AI has massive advantage there (multiple controlled entities) and to be fun it has to be a bit dumb. Of course it cannot just stand in the middle but rather try to trick player into thinking that it is aware of an enemy nearby. Looking clever but stupid inside.

I think you are heavily underestimating the size of VW. For example Audi (a VW brand) is the direct competitor to BMW and Mercedes, while Porsche (and Bentley, Lamborghini) are aiming even higher.

The only problematic brands are the ones like Skoda that try to build much cheaper versions of VW cars (so for them EV might double the end price).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Group

So now imagine that you would like to add <button>.

Well... Good luck with shady VML tricks!

https://buttons.cm/

> Give it a few years after die-shrinks

There is no guarantee that after shrinking the transistor it will be possible to reach 5Ghz.

For example Intel has multiple problems with 10nm process and newer CPUs have lower clocks.

I think that the strategy of focusing on multiplayer is failing. There are multiple recent examples of AAA games that created backlash, eg. Anthem, Destiny, Fallout 76.

The problem is that after those 10 years new technology could differ so much that all efforts put in optimization would be pointless.

Things like that already happened - for example slow HDDs are now replaced by very fast SSDs. There is Intel Optane that is only 1 order of magnitude slower than RAM and Intel Opate DIMM is closing gap even further.

Last major update for IE11 was like 6 years ago? Supporting anything related to this browser is painful and is blocking multiple new web features (or even not so new).

I would love to use CSS Grid without thinking whether it will work however it happens that IE11 has only partial (and buggy) support for it.

I believe that supporting IE11 blocks innovation.

What is surprising to me is that adding the shadow of an element (ie. where exactly it will land) made the game more difficult to me because I constantly felt like running out of time.

Since I am in a process of upgrading my house I thought that this could be quite useful. However, I was unable to use this service.

I tried to sign up, but the Sign up page does not work. I entered email (not allowing copy paste is a bit annoying) and then clicking 'Sign up!' button resulted in nothing and clicking more times showed error 'uncaught exception: null' in the console...

Moreover, there is 'Hurry up! 100% free', but no information about any prices. This looks shady for me.