Well, I definitely could live without a PS2 game that could be better implemented on PC with more powerful hardware. Sometimes it's better to either use more powerful hardware or scale back on your requirements so that you wouldn't need to push the capabilities of hardware too much. Then you don't need hacks or architecture compromises dictated by silly hardware quirks. After all games are made not by pushing hardware to its limit but by well-designed gameplay. No matter how powerful hardware gets game programmers always find a way to create new difficulties for themselves. It definitely doesn't come from desire to make a good game, but from desire to play with hardware. Project requirements are artificially inflated to make a challenge for programmer and create more opportunities for hacks.

There's no way Putin could want non-Western Ukraine because term West lost its past meaning as countries opposed to Soviet Union. Russia has re-aligned with cold war West now and can arguably be considered part of it. Besides, Ukrainian and Russian are off-shoot of same original people. There's no way Europe and US wouldn't treat them as another kind of Russian since it's kinda true. There would be no point for them to take a side here other than to troll Soviet Union, which doesn't exist anymore.

Then it must with Tatarstan and not Ukraine :P

Don't worry. It's only matter of time before average salary and working conditions will become even worse than in most other countries and immigration stops. It's a self-regulating process, you see :P

Besides, cost of living in US is higher so it's only matter of time before those immigrants figure out that they're being ripped off and will become as demanding as the rest of americans.

Maybe, but several thousands years has passed and culture of original Egyptian was destroyed by multitude of invaders. For example, they lost their original language and are mostly Muslim due to being conquered by Arabs at some point. A minority of them are Christian and only to Christian Egyptians the word 'Copt' applies. Neither of those are original Egyptian religions obviously. And probably they can't claim ancestry either due to thousand of years of interbreeding with said invaders. That's assuming ancestry matters even. On the other hand Egypt due to being ancient world power have influenced to some degree pretty much all other nations. It's just too selfish of those very distant relatives of original Egyptians to monopolize this topic of research. It goes against the interest of Humanity as the whole.

It's more to do with game development culture than windows. Game developers are traditionally inclined to use every complicated hack or undocumented api for minuscule performance gains, or just to feel clever. They consider games to be a separate kind of software with its own set of rules requiring different development and packaging practices than any other software. In practice those rules amount to being a cowboy coder and feeling good about it. I think they subconsciously their work 'just a game' and thus not serious software which justifies any amount of NIH and hacks in their eyes.

Over its history Egypt changed hands so much that whatever people ended up there in modern time may end up being related to Tutankhamun even to lesser degree than, say, British.

Calling them pro-west is meaningless. There are many definitions of 'west'. More properly they're nationalists and they're not afraid to use force, even against local law enforcement.

And at the time of Russian Empire too! In fact russians, ukrainians and tatars all are invaders there.

Defacing websites isn't war. It's a joke. Nobody in his right mind would hold anything of remotely strategic value accessible from internet and attackable. Only official websites can be targeted which is a waste of time strategically.

Not countries themselves but only their leadership. That's all theater to paint Russia as old soviet bogeyman to justify their positions of power. EU and NATO are not in strict opposition to Russia, it's not Soviet Union ffs, just another post-soviet state. It could as well end up in NATO eventually. I just think that we could be better off with only one post-soviet state rather than several ones like we did. There were many horrible things done as part by Soviet regime, but it not in any way can be considered purely Russian. Personnel from all republics participated. Stalin for example is ethnic Georgian. Communism transcends nationalities.

The thing is that most of them weren't. Some originally joined Russian Empire completely voluntarily like Georgia. Some didn't even have a state when those territories were colonized and have them now simply because they weren't exterminated like American natives. Some are failed conquerors of Russia themselves, like Poland and Lithuania. Most post soviet countries are artificial. Some of peoples that stayed within Russian Federation have more claims to sovereignty than those states. Making them independent was pointless. Many of them got even worse regimes than the past soviet one. Russian Federation happens to be one of more democratic ones. I think all of them would be better off staying in the same state and building their post-soviet future together.

That's a cute theory based on complete ignorance of current situation. Just look at the consequence: Georgia is still independent and many Ossetians were saved from getting killed. I'd say Russia did a better job at avoiding being imperialist than, say, US. Honestly, I'm a world citizen, and I'm for complete abolition of separate states. For now I think the less separate states there is the better. Especially those run by petty national radicals like Georgia and Ukraine. Partition of Soviet Union was a joke, most of its people was against it.

Well, as a Russian citizen I don't consider the government to be in any way imperialist. Both Ukraine and Georgia issues are started by blatant cases of cultural imperialism. There was outright attempt of genocide in Ossetia. Ukraine isn't better. All former soviet republic countries are ruled by former soviet statesmen who want to justify their positions by encouraging local nationalism. Country borders are in many ways artificial because they were set during soviet times when there was no plans to make them independent states. Crimea itself was part of Russian 'Soviet Republic' in the past and later was passed to Ukraine to make the map look more beautiful or something. All ethnic russian people that ended up on territory of Ukraine due to those shenanigans are target of 'ukrainization' efforts by ukrainian nationalists. There's no other way to stop those radicals than armed force it seems.

It's a myth that IDEs increase productivity. Maybe they can allow you to pump out code faster, but you want to write as few code as possible anyway. Most of time you should spend thinking on how to write as few code to accomplish your objective as possible, not actually writing code.