Steven Beynon

@locust9 it's also different authors and types of games so I don't even understand the comparison

what is actually interesting here is to ask why people are offended that a lower reviewed game can sell massive numbers. Hollywood is full of mid reviewed movies that were blockbusters and the outrage isn’t there. You can love pizza and beer and it doesn’t need to be 10/10.

.@RepAdamSmith started this morning's Army budget hearing praising Gen. George and Gen. Hodne for their efforts in modernizing the Army - both were fired by Hegseth without explanation.

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The sudden move to cut a deployment of 4,200 troops to Poland came as some of the unit had already arrived in Europe. - it also comes as the Army has seemingly run out of money. abcnews.com/Politics/penta…

@MarkMaxwellTV local media is significantly more difficult to do

National media loves to treat local reporters like the minor leagues. Network panels argue about ‘the national mood’ for 3 hours and still tell you less than the local reporter who’s covered the same town for 15 years. Big difference between being famous and being informed.

Scoop: The Army is short billions of dollars and is making significant cuts to training amid a series of expanding operations and concerns of fuel costs. abcnews.com/Politics/army-…

The Army is grappling with a sudden budget crunch and scrambling to slash training costs across broad swaths of the force, according to internal documents reviewed by @ABC News and multiple U.S. officials. Read more: abcnews.link/npUrXoL

Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Pentagon will review whether Senator Mark Kelly improperly disclosed classified information when the Arizona Democrat raised concerns about the strain the war with Iran has placed on U.S. weapons stockpiles. abcnews.link/4E5vIWe

@rArmyReddit @TheIOGuy oh...

Crazy showing by the Irish (who have excelled at this category for the last few years) who are basically borrowing a Bradley for this competition. Also whatever the Big Red One is up to…oof

@JakeBaldino that's basically the price of a cocktail

discourse about this game is getting a little spicy, but I think people are overthinking it. It's a 4hr $18 game for people who like story games. I don't like survival games but you don't see me talking about that all day on here.

@Asst_to_the_RM omg

Found on the interwebs 💀

We spent a month investigating ICE — the DoD's official feedback system. The federal government has potentially spent $130M+ on it. The most recent contract had one bidder. Every rated dining facility returns a perfect satisfaction score. Every single one. Here's what we found: ICE catalogued 500 dining facilities across 101 installations. Every facility that received any feedback in the Jan 7, 2026 – Apr 7, 2026 window returned a 100% satisfaction score. The platform has operated under the same vendor for over 13 consecutive years. The current IDIQ — awarded with one bid — carries a $145M ceiling and runs through early 2027. ICE's barracks data is a single undifferentiated national pool (provider sp=148877). No per-installation breakdown exists in the public record. Fort Bragg and Fort Wainwright submit to the same bucket. A two-person bootstrapped app produced 624 barracks reviews across 65 named installations and 721 DFAC reviews with facility-specific star ratings — without a federal contract, a kiosk network, or a decade of DoD mandates.

Trying to put @DuffelBlog out of business

Drone warfare changing how US military looks protect wounded troops via @halbritz, with photos @TamirBenKalifa, edited by @ZachFB @CNN cnn.com/interactive/20…

The dog getting after it

Top U.S. defense officials are making it clear — the U.S. military is full throttle in the race to implement AI despite concerns from some Democratic lawmakers that the military is ignoring critical guardrails for quicker technological advancement. abcnews.link/41HenFN

absolutely not

@PattyNieberg that makes zero sense

Denim Day is an international event based on a 90s rape case in which an Italian court claimed the woman was wearing tight jeans, so she must have given consent. In January, Army HQ said soldiers could participate. I asked Ft Riley why soldiers were told they couldn't. 1ID said:

Hegseth was asked about the four Army colonels whom he blocked from being promoted to one-star general. He said that he anticipated "other officers will be removed also," without offering a rationale. Promotions lists at that level are highly vetted.