The Gripen has already had one engine replacement as well, the Gripen E has a different one from prior versions. That's actually part of the problem - the old one was an American design built on licence in Sweden, but the new one is just American

Well hey, Monday is forecast to only be regular levels of unpleasant, we're getting a break!

Eyy, a fellow racing sim fan in here! Understandable that soulslikes aren't your thing, but I'll add my perspective to Druid's: while some people do just like the boss fights, many of these games (and especially From Software's ones) are excellent for just having interesting environments to explore as well. To take Elden Ring as an example, some of my absolute favourite moments are just the reveals of areas you've discovered. The original Dark Souls is quite famous for people unlocking shortcuts and going "oh holy shit, this door leads back to the hub area?"

The boss fights definitely are a big part of the joy, I'm not pretending otherwise. But I can at least promise that there's other fun stuff in there (for people that those other bits appeal to, of course, which is still not going to be everyone and probably isn't you)

I had to git gud twice, because I spent too long not playing soulslikes. DS1 was the first time - specifically, the Capra Demon - and then it was Margit's Stormveil appearance in Elden Ring that made me re-git, In both cases they're pretty notorious wake-up bosses, and in both cases finally cracking it reminded me why I like this kind of challenge. Although it should be noted that I never gitted that gud, only just enough to do what I wanted to do

No soulslikes for me this weekend because I'm playtesting a racing game, but I grabbed Death's Door and am excited to try it out at some point

It's bloody miserable here so I'm hiding indoors with my cat, but that's okay because I'm learning some music and playtesting a game

Edit: I'm stupid, didn't realise that the video actually mentions this specifically. Although I think that comparing the afterburning thrust is a bit off without also mentioning that the non-afterburning thrust, the one used most of the time, is actually higher for the Eurojet

While I do not mean to imply that military fighter jet engines can just be trivially hotswapped, I wonder if the Eurofighter's engine could be adapted as a replacement? The Eurofighter itself has two because it's a much larger aircraft, but the individual engines are actually pretty close in dimensions, weight, and performance

There are some very minor differences, but they're broadly similar. 2 has a few things like dropping the "f" sound from "of" and using a "v" sound for the last consonant of "with" which I would guess are tinges of a London accent

It should probably also be noted that the M777 is a towed piece that weighs literally a tenth of what the self-propelled M-1978 does, they're not really the same sort of equipment besides being howitzers. A more comparable NATO piece would be the PzH 2000

It'd be funny if someone just totally ignored all the nonsense the host spouts about the "strategy" of picking boxes and just went 1-20 in order until they got an offer they liked

It has a active protection system which can handle incoming missiles, that will be a solid defence against drones too. Russia has developed an APS which they've used successfully in the invasion, but they only had it ready a few months before their full-scale invasion started, so it's only on newly-built or fully-refurbished tanks. It also has the drawback that it was initially designed to deal with missiles; Ukraine figured out that it could eventually be overwhelmed by just sending enough drones at it to drain its relatively limited ammo, something that would be impractical with expensive missiles, but until then it apparently handles incoming drones pretty effectively. The Challenger's one has the benefits of being designed with the knowledge of what drone warfare looks like

It's also worth noting that nobody publishes videos of drone attacks failing. A cheap little quadcopter with a grenade strapped to it is, ultimately, jut a way to throw a grenade unusually far. A tank like this can shrug off a grenade. Attacking them requires bigger, heavier, more expensive drones carrying bigger, heavier, more expensive munitions. Or you use the drone to sight artillery. But the point remains that even in the age of drone warfare, tanks are still harder to kill. There's a reason both sides are still using them

Single malt as a label is a bit of an odd thing. There's no particular reason that doing everything on one site should necessarily improve the result. Nonetheless, since it has become a point of prestige, it now means that almost anyone making a high-quality whisky will make it a single malt

Also yeah that definition for an English single malt is fucking stupid

Yeah, it was nice to see them get more creative with it! Not 100% sure how I feel about the gameplay shift forced by the giant roving basilisk eyes specifically, but I respect the willingness to experiment. Also I like fighting the death knights, and the bigmouth imps are hilarious

I think that the actual design of ER's dungeons is generally fine, it's just that many of them are basically the exact same experience. This is fine if you know which ones have stuff you want in them, but that requires you to either a) have done them all a whole bunch, or b) have some out-of-game resource like a wiki available. If you only need to worry about the quarter or so of them that have something you actually want or a boss you enjoy fighting, then they're fine; if you are trying to do all of them and get everything, they get dull.

Some of the catacombs are interesting. Auriza Side Tomb, Sainted Hero's Grave, and Leyndell Catacombs stand out, I think. Not sure if the fact that those are all in Altus means anything. Whoever made the Giant's Mountaintop Catacombs is a a fucking sadist though

It has to be him. I couldn't name a more universally beloved choice

I think it's a fake, but I cannot fathom why it would be. There's a tumblr post from a totally separate user with the exact same text barring the weird t, and the @randomuser profiles on twitter and bluesky don't look anything like this one

It is remaining available on streaming, so it's not quite as big a shift as might be interpreted from the headline alone. The actual production is staying, at least

They should have made a Nox boss that uses a mimic tear as a second phase

That's such incredibly deep black fur. She's the platonic ideal of a black cat

Which one do you reckon is talking?

I took some time to learn a whole bunch of consonants from different West African languages for the sake of getting names right while running a D&D game. This one gave me, as a native English speaker, even more trouble than the double-articulated ones