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Cake day: July 11th, 2023

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  • I agree that the 600K figure is a mis-read of the article; however:

    According to figures from Ukraine's General Staff, Russia has lost 217,440 troops since Jan. 1, 2025.
    
    The discrepancy tallies with Western analysis of Russia's staggering losses.
    
    "They lose somewhere in the ballpark of 35,000 to 45,000 people per month, and perhaps they recruit a little bit north of that number," George Barros, Russia team lead at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), told the Kyiv Independent earlier this month.
    

    I am generally inclined to believe Ukraine’s official figures of over 1 million dead, injured or captured Russian soldiers so far in this “3 day special military operation”.



  • In a world where games are scored across a full spectrum 0-or-1 to 10, then yes - anything 4-6 would be considered middle of the road.

    However, due to a number of factors - that’s unfortunately not the reality we find ourselves in.

    Firstly, “mid” is hard to define as it can mean anything from ‘mediocre’ to ‘fine, but forgettable’.

    Secondly, ratings/scores tend to skew upward as people tend to reserve 1s for outright scams, broken games and review bombs. With 2 & 3 often used for ‘asset flips’ and similar non-games - so we end up grading on a curve from 4-10.

    This also works well for mainstream outlets as it keeps advertisers happy, due to arbitrarily inflated scores.

    Lastly, in a world of cumulative media (new releases don’t cause older ones to stop existing) - even ostensibly good games will fall by the wayside as players have access to 10/10 titles from previous years.

    So all things considered, a 7/10 is well and truly “mid” in this topsy-turvey IGN-eque world













  • Consider this an opportunity to take the money you could have put towards buying this game, and instead use it to purchase stock in Konami.

    Not only as an investor will you have the ability to voice your concerns during meetings, if enough gamers were to do this - they could eventually wrestle controls of the company away from those that seek to monetise every single goddamn thing, while shitting on the creatives that created the work they are now trying to leech off of.