Enthused_Llama

Civ 5 tournament

With more time to spare

I can't think of a game that takes more consecutive hours than Civilization "Why Did the Retard AI Found a City There?" 5...

I'd like to piggyback on this - most problems do not have a closed-form solution. I dare say a majority of things that have been designed in the history of ever have used heavy iteration. Basically everything is some level of technical 'throwing shit at the wall until something sticks.'

Is it possible that Russia's primary purpose is to protect their military interests in Crimea? I wouldn't be surprised if the endgame is for Ukraine (or at least part of it, perhaps going the way of Czechoslovakia) to be part of Russia again...but in one of my rare optimistic moments I'm hoping that Russia is mainly trying to protect its port (If I recall my Russian history correctly, they're very protective of their ports, especially since most of them freeze over) and has no larger intentions towards the sovereignty of Ukraine?

As an American with friends and family in the military (and probably me if not for a knee injury) we're tired of war (that with the debt is probably a large amount of the US's hesitation to intervene, although this is certainly a conflict that it would be less ambiguous to intervene in because freedom). A war with Russia is the last thing I want to happen, so I'm really hoping that they're just protecting their port (Which, let's be honest, the US would do the exact same thing in the given situation). I sincerely hope this conflict does not grow further. Was the Berkut (беркут? I only sort of speak Russian, taking it in college atm, and I understand it is a little different from Ukrainian) the primary group for shooting protesters in the legs and then shooting the medics who have no gone over to the Russian side?

Shepard.

I should go.