https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WGiD5i-p__0

Not my problem.

I want to be scattered at Disneyland (note: I do not wish to be cremated).

I’m not taking advice from an obvious night monster.

If you have black coffee either because you’re out of creamer or doing a non-diary thing, sprinkling a tiny bit of salt into the coffee will take the bitterness out of it without tasting salty.

I figured with it being a military joint project involving both the US Army and Navy, and being a precursor to all US military jets it gets a spot as the great granddaddy.

I’ve been playing Dagger Directive, which isn’t an old game but you wouldn’t know that by looking at it. It’s an intentional throwback to the original Delta Force games. I bought it on some sort of early sale, but even full price it’s only $20.

If you like the original Delta Force or Ghost Recon games, this has a similar vibe with missions where you can select the time of day to start, and are then dropped in wide open maps. I’ve been having a lot of fun turning the HUD off and playing night missions. The game takes into account how night vision goggles interfere with looking down sights, which in turn makes things like IR lasers and dedicated night vision scopes useful. I’ve seen community complaints (some of them more recent than the newest AI update) that suppressors don’t do anything regarding enemy AI, but I’ve had a lot of success with them and think people might be having wrong expectations on how silent the guns are going to be and/or how oblivious enemies are going to be.

The weapon selection is fairly good and getting expanded with updates. The scope system gets some flack, but it is an intentional recreation of the Delta Force scope system.

For the most part I’m ambivalent about it, although now that red dots have been added to the equipment they use the same picture-in-picture window that magnified scopes do, which makes red dots actually kind of useless for close range fast paced fighting (which is the entire IRL point of them), and I’d actually recommend using no attachments or using an IR laser with night vision instead of using a red dot in the game.

The sound design sneaks up on you. Things will be quiet and boring one second, and then your audio is filled with terrifying cracks and whistles of gunfire as an enemy machinegun ambushes you the next.

Gameplaywise, Blacklist is okay. It does fall into the game design trap of allowing players to go through levels with variety of approaches, including guns blazing in many cases, and it often has scripted sequences and setpieces that are combat heavy which dilutes the intent of the original games.

Yes, the new voice and younger look for Sam is jarring and never stops being jarring.

Unless this is a joke I’m not getting, it’s an F-5A.

Stuff like the Type 97 that was available in Canada is modern and would have buyers. There’s also the whole backlog of easily importable stuff like SKS rifles. Their older AKs were quite high quality, and even if the production has degraded, simply having them available would drive insane AK prices down.

I’m genuinely having trouble thinking of a consumer product where the most widely sold brand or version is the “best” (highest quality, most durable, most features, best flavor, or whatever meteoric would be used).

I can think of a number of products where getting the “best” is a case of steep diminishing returns compared to the increasing price, and for the purposes of the “average” person the “best” product isn’t any better for them than the mainstream one. The “best” versions of some products are only better for those with the skills to make use of them or the need for the “best” quality or features.

It is quite nice. I’m trying to figure out what this level could have been. Maybe an early iteration of Flawless Cowboy.

I love the MKV armor with the slick visor and reflective green on the armor.

It’s a whole series. The older videos were even on GameSpot’s channel before they started doing them on their own channel.

I have no way to crop it that doesn’t have the background of where I live in view, so no cat pic here.

I’m pretty sure this is actually my exact crop of the meme (I cropped out an ugly ifunny logo).

https://lemmy.world/post/41780741

But you know, I stole it from somewhere else anyways.