RTS isn't a popular genre anymore. Big studios don't care anymore about RTS. I think the last RTS from a big studio/publisher was the Age of Empire definitive editions ? 6 years ago...
Whatever what you say and so, it doesn't change the fact a part of my money is going to end up in an absolutely disgusting political party and other potentially terrible stuff. After so many years, I'm done with Mullvad.
> French auteur Jean-Luc Godard needs no introduction. Starting from the pioneering experiments of the French New Wave in the 1960s, Godard has maintained the momentum of his filmmaking investigations with later works like Goodbye to Language and The Image Book. His works have inspired generations of artists who have fallen in love with his revolutionary approach to the art of cinema.
For this week’s highlighted short film, we have chosen Godard’s 1993 short documentary Je vous salue, Sarajevo. Only two minutes long, it is an incendiary meditation on the brutality of the Bosnian War and the Srebrenica massacre. Through powerful images and devastating commentary, Godard forces the audience to confront humanity’s capacity for inflicting tragedy on the marginalised and the helpless.
Above all else, Je vous salue, Sarajevo is an essay that creates an interesting juxtaposition between silent images of violence and a boisterous commentary on contemporary society. While Godard claimed that he wasn’t familiar with Juan Goytisolo’s work, his Cahier de Sarajevo influenced the short film in many ways and carried a similar momentum as was evident in the film’s cinematic force.
As the narrator of the film, Godard embarks on a remarkable lament: “In a sense, fear is the daughter of God, redeemed on Good Friday. She is not beautiful, mocked, cursed or disowned by all. But don’t be mistaken, she watches over all mortal agony, she intercedes for mankind; for there is a rule and an exception. Culture is the rule, and art is the exception. Everybody speaks the rule; cigarette, computer, t-shirt, television, tourism, war.
He adds, “Nobody speaks the exception. It isn’t spoken, it is written; Flaubert, Dostoyevsky. It is composed; Gershwin, Mozart. It is painted; Cézanne, Vermeer. It is filmed; Antonioni, Vigo. Or it is lived, then it is the art of living; Srebrenica, Mostar, Sarajevo. The rule is to want the death of the exception. So the rule for cultural Europe is to organise the death of the art of living, which still flourishes. When it’s time to close the book, I have no regrets. I’ve seen so many people live so badly, and so many die so well.”
Kiev is something like 100km from the belarussia border, Kharkiv (second biggest ukrainian city) is 20km from the russian border. We're still waiting for Russia victory. No "they just take care about the civilans", we all know it's a lie, they use artilery on civilians zones and commited insane war crimes during the last weeks.
Kharkiv was a mess, russians got destroyed in this city, just take a look at any photos/videos from Kharkiv. Russian bodies and burned armors all over the place, it was a nightmare.
Russia was supposed to be one of the best army on earth for the last 15 years, but they can't enter a city like Kharkiv, Ukraine being one of the poorest european country. Good luck with the "not a botched war" theory.
It was supposed to be a less than a week operation, we are closer to a 2 month war. Russia is already economically on his knees, they need billions to stay in Ukraine and more sanctions are coming...
All they can do is bassicaly blindly destroy cities with artilery and commits war crimes out of frustration until the money runs out.
Russia will probably make ukrainians suffer a lot at least for too many weeks, but they won't win the war. Even China and India aren't going to fully support them, there are a lot of negative signs for Russia, like this one : https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20220316-live-un-security...
Germany and Switzerland broke their neutrality traditions. Sweden and Finland were neutral since the WW2, now they are probably about to join NATO. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/13/finland-and-sw...
Russia basicaly lost everything. Their economy was already stagnant for the last 8 years just with a few sanctions, I bet they'll have a lot of fun during the next 5/10 years.
But they'll have Mariupol (after killing thousand of Mariupol's civilians) and some east countryside, good for them.
It reminds me an interview of the "Groland" creators, the best trash and vulgar comedy tv show in France. They use a lot of elderly actors, playing insane characters, lots of nudity etc...
There was a question about the choice of using so much elderly actors, they said "they can do almost anything, they have nothing to lose". Nailed it.
Well, in some country, you can move to the south, like in France, we have southern France. Eh !
Joke aside. French retirees don't need to leave France to have a good climat, and yet some of them go to Portugal because of tax advantages, others go to Tunisia Tunisia because they can take advantage of the very low wages...
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