A Canadian Cat

Well the CM system can actually score something more than zero for the loosing side in a surrender. Surrendering gives the opponent all the occupy objectives. Touch objectives are still earned only. Parameters are still earned only and you can even just give points. So the scoring could be setup for a 2000 point match to straight up give each side 200 points, Then give 300 points for a few parameter objectives and the other 1500 to occupy objectives. Then the guys that completely gets trashed and surrenders gets only 200 points and their opponent gets a full scroe. The ones that surrender but have some forces left and put up a fight get up to 500 and their winning opponent does not get the full 2000. Clearly I'm just picking numbers but the CM scoring system can already handle your objection against surrendering. Assuming of course its setup with that in mind.

"act together", I meant "act together" yeah that's it, that's the ticket. I'm still unclear on why swearing is censored. I mean really, we have videos that show people getting killed for ****s sake and a little colourful language is not allowed. Sheesh. Oops I did it again

Indeed. That somebody (cough Iran cough cough) has wanted that for decades. Honestly, I just don't see it happening. Iran is the only one that actually wants some kind of war with Israel. Even Iran doesn't want to do it directly they are just another rogue state run by a chaos monkey. All they can do is what they are doing. Sure it will rile things up but no other country is going to join in with an attack on Israel and the bad actors that Iran has been supporting are just going to kick up some dirt and die horrible deaths finally finding out there are no virgins. Bringing this back on topic - it might spur some members of the US congress to get their **** together and actually pass some funding that will help both Ukraine and Israel.

Now that was funny. Thanks for the laugh

Second round was already in the air baby

Agreed. Thanks for clarifying.

6 years later. Is there a badge (of shame : - ) for necro'ing the oldest thread? Would @kohlenklau win it? I suspect yes

Cool!

My bold - did you mean the Matrix forum? The trouble is that you can have an account to enter the tournament without having a forum account. This means that there are tournament payers who are not on the forums at all. Add to that lots of players either never check or don't respond to DMs. It's pretty easy to have no way to contact opponents at all let alone a reliable way.

Yes. The installer might force you to install the old Java. But once it's done you can uninstall it and tweak the launch short cut to use your newer version of the JVM. WTII? is fins with running on a different JVM as long as it's J7 or newer.

Oh man. I have worked at a few companies like that. I have no doubt there are dozens and dozens of them where that would be true. I'd go further 2/3 if you really want a boost - you need to get all of those dopes that hold meetings just to hold meetings and create process just to create process and have people reporting to them just so they have more people than the other dope. Then you need to keep the ones that actually define and stick to requirements and clear obstacles for their people. Come to think of it random death would not work - it would leave too many dopes and not enough good managers. Sigh. Would it though? I mean I get that there are bad leaders etc. and some grunts might get a lift knowing that comrade col that ordered the last idiotic thing is dead but there has to be someone ordering forces shift here and there and counter attack away from the main event to distract the AFU. Otherwise nothing would hold together in a seamless coverage of the defensive line. Maybe the AFU just hasn't found the effective HQ yet to blow up

Dang, do you slaughter everyone that you play? Yeah, its freaking annoying

I think the default "Recently Updated" is what you are looking for. This system doesn't have a subscribe based system at all so you are not subscribed to anything.

Same I got one this morning too even though all my games are moving along. Also received at 0903: Well I don't want to be humiliated

You should really write romance novels, or at least fan fiction. Yeah, great writing. This line was the one that really made me laugh out loud:

Hey, aren't you the one that says we can walk and chew gum a the same time

Just to clarify are you playing co op against the AI? If so that's not "using the PBEM system". You can play two vs two (or n vs m) in PBEM using a similar technique though.

They did. They had a deal. McCarthy stabbed everyone in the back and reneged. Why would anyone trust him again? Yes, McCarthy missed an opportunity to do the right thing. He could have put country before party and got the job done a couple of weeks ago but he deiced not to. He got what he deserved. Frankly it looked obvious that he was not going to survive as the speaker no matter what choice he made. I would have thought that would be motivating to do the right thing but he didn't.

Well at least he was honest about it. Kinda feels like he just gave up and rolled the dice. That didn't work out for one of our former PMs either he infamously and flippantly said his strategy for negotiating the Meech Lake Accord "come down to last minute negotiations and that a “roll of the dice” would be necessary" : https://parli.ca/roll-dice/

I'm not saying that is incorrect but I do think it is irrelevant. My guess would be that the Dems looked at McCarthy backing out of the negotiated deal to pass the required spending bills that he himself made with the President and Senate leadership and figured what would be the point in negotiation with McCarthy for anything else?

Correct - as covered by @Brille

This one?

Fair enough and valid concerns and good analysis as usual. Andrei Kozyrev was at the head the foreign office of Russia before Putin came to power but he certainly has some creds on how the Kremlin works and what its likely reactions would be. His opinion is the West has been too cautious and could have moved faster. He is speaking from his view of how the Russian government would have reacted / not reacted. Obviously there are other things to consider.

I just finished listening to a long interview with Andrei Kozyrev, Russia’s first foreign minister from 1990-1996. He was pretty interesting to listen to. Two things that he said are interesting to mention: He actually ordered his staff to search the archives from the previous years looking for any evidence for an agreement or treaty or even a discussion about an agreement or treaty with NATO to prevent or restrict its expansion. No surprise to anyone here, there were none. At the time it was just not seen as a pressing issue to discuss. The story that one existed is made up out of whole cloth. But we knew that. I know that's boring I just thought it was interesting hearing from an insider. He said the West is needlessly tying itself in knots over escalation. Not pushing hard and committing to promises risks escalation. Giving Ukraine what it needs does not. I'm not sure how perfect his analysis of that is but I have to respect his point at least some what. He said we should not back Ukraine for as long as it takes to win but instead back them so they win as soon as possible! It was a super line. His point is that Putin wants the war to drag on and for Western support to waver. Instead we should get more weapons systems in their hands faster and push harder to give the Ukrainians everything they want and need to get this job done as quick as possible. You can listen to the interview here: https://www.aei.org/podcast/the-insiders-perspective-with-minister-andrei-kozyrev/

Me neither so I created a scenario and check to see if it would happen: Spoiler alert - the crew do fire the rear MG at targets on the ground.