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Pornographic Memory posted:Just reupload pictures to imgur if you're not sure if it's kosher to hotlink them or not. 
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Arquinsiel posted:That's still hotlinking I think the rule on hotlinking is only for preventing things like leeching bandwidth. Imgur intends for its uploaded images to be hotlinked, which is why it provides BBCode for it.
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May 16, 2015 23:51
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chitoryu12 posted:I think the rule on hotlinking is only for preventing things like leeching bandwidth. Imgur intends for its uploaded images to be hotlinked, which is why it provides BBCode for it. The BBCode is for images, not imgur specifically.
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May 17, 2015 00:03
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Jobbo_Fett posted:The BBCode is for images, not imgur specifically. I know, I meant that Imgur provides you with a quick-copy BBcode for the image you've uploaded. They fully intend you to hotlink.
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May 17, 2015 00:06
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edit: beaten, plus this is a derail anyway sorry guys!
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May 17, 2015 00:07
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V. Illych L. posted:from Trin's posts everything they're doing is just so half-arsed, though When your preparations for war are making Luigi Cadorna (a person whose response to trench warfare breaking out everywhere was to buy guidebooks to Trieste and Valona, and to renew his subscription to Cult of the Offensive magazine) look like a good guy who deserves a little sympathy, you're doing it wrong. Mind you, as the future was to show, it probably wouldn't have ended any better if they'd waited to come in until they were absolutely sure they'd picked a winner to throw in with...
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May 17, 2015 00:26
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Didn't it ever occur to them to just, you know, stay out? In much of Latin America WWI and WWII are remembered as a kind of golden age of prosperity and unrivaled growth. Turns out wars can be extremely lucrative, provided they're fought by someone else!
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May 17, 2015 01:06
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So is anyone here unusually knowledgeable about the Taiping rebellion? If not, I was thinking of making a foray into the strange world of effort posting...
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May 17, 2015 01:21
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P-Mack posted:So is anyone here unusually knowledgeable about the Taiping rebellion? If not, I was thinking of making a foray into the strange world of effort posting... Sadly just the basics. Somebody go into depth about it and the War Of The Triple Alliance, both were the big messy 19th century conflicts of their region that had huge effects afterwards.
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May 17, 2015 01:23
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Ramming a tank with another tank is pretty hardcore, right? I just read an award order where a guy rammed another tank while his tank was on fire. 
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May 17, 2015 01:36
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Ensign Expendable posted:Ramming a tank with another tank is pretty hardcore, right? I just read an award order where a guy rammed another tank while his tank was on fire. Well, that's obvious, you want the bonus fire element type damage.
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May 17, 2015 01:48
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Ensign Expendable posted:Ramming a tank with another tank is pretty hardcore, right? I just read an award order where a guy rammed another tank while his tank was on fire. This account or a similar one is mentioned in Ivan's War. Soviet tank on fire rams a German tank, and then explodes. Was it during Kursk?
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May 17, 2015 01:54
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Animal posted:This account or a similar one is mentioned in Ivan's War. Soviet tank on fire rams a German tank, and then explodes. Was it during Kursk? Nope, this was some time later, in 1944. Also the tank didn't explode, as the commander left it and continued fighting in a different tank.
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May 17, 2015 02:40
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Ensign Expendable posted:Nope, this was some time later, in 1944. Also the tank didn't explode, as the commander left it and continued fighting in a different tank.  The motherland allows no slackers eh?
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May 17, 2015 02:43
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P-Mack posted:So is anyone here unusually knowledgeable about the Taiping rebellion? If not, I was thinking of making a foray into the strange world of effort posting... Go for it. I read a book on it in college, so I have a vague recollection of it, but an in depth post never goes amiss. Unless it's about the Bolivian-Atlantean alliance. Same time as the US civil war, but with something like 20 million dead.
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May 17, 2015 03:10
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Ensign Expendable posted:Nope, this was some time later, in 1944. Also the tank didn't explode, as the commander left it and continued fighting in a different tank. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AND1YZSp6YI&t=1268s ?
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May 17, 2015 03:14
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The no leeching rule was from when SA actually had web traffic.
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May 17, 2015 03:37
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I've been probed several times for hotlinking images, so it was a thing at one point.Animal posted:I just finished reading Ivan's War. It was depressing. I need to decide how to internalize it. Is it considered legit? As far as I can tell, yes. It uses access to soviet sources as far as possible, and that does make it hella depressing 
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May 17, 2015 10:38
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P-Mack posted:So is anyone here unusually knowledgeable about the Taiping rebellion? If not, I was thinking of making a foray into the strange world of effort posting... Go for it; Taiping is one of those things that (like many things in Chinese history) are huge in scope of human lives affected, but barely register a blip in the west because it didn't directly relate to us. The only noteworthy thing I remember about it was that the guy instigating the rebellion thought he was the second coming of Jesus.
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May 17, 2015 10:51
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At least the Italian food's good.
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May 17, 2015 11:03
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Antti posted:Go for it; Taiping is one of those things that (like many things in Chinese history) are huge in scope of human lives affected, but barely register a blip in the west because it didn't directly relate to us. The only noteworthy thing I remember about it was that the guy instigating the rebellion thought he was the second coming of Jesus. Close, he thought himself to be Christ's younger brother. The extent to which the Taiping were "truly" Christian or not is kind of a huge  I'll get going once I've finished reading every available book in English on the subject (i.e. all six of them).
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May 17, 2015 12:31
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So if Beevor is a hack, what are some good recent books that look at the Eastern Front in WWII, or that refute his allegations directly? Actually what are good books on the Eastern Front in general.
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May 17, 2015 13:54
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Yvonmukluk posted:Actually what are good books on the Eastern Front in general. Probably anything by David Glantz? I haven't gotten around to reading anything of his yet, however.
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Yvonmukluk posted:So if Beevor is a hack, what are some good recent books that look at the Eastern Front in WWII, or that refute his allegations directly? Take people's recommendations with a grain of salt, because this thread slants pretty pro-Soviet.
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May 17, 2015 15:16
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Yvonmukluk posted:So if Beevor is a hack, what are some good recent books that look at the Eastern Front in WWII, or that refute his allegations directly?
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May 17, 2015 15:48
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cheerfullydrab posted:Take people's recommendations with a grain of salt, because this thread slants pretty pro-Soviet. I don't think this thread slants any particular way. Maybe some posters do a bit, but if you feel like there's some pushing back to be done feel free to do so. e: but please do so in a way that is a bit more connected to reality than "the Soviets raped and pillaged Bornholm!!!!" 
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May 17, 2015 17:40
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cheerfullydrab posted:Take people's recommendations with a grain of salt, because this thread slants pretty pro-Soviet. I'm sorry, what?
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May 17, 2015 18:49
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my dad posted:I'm sorry, what? If a serbian thinks a thread is neutral it means the thread actually slants heavily pro-russia/soviet.
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May 17, 2015 19:04
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Yvonmukluk posted:So if Beevor is a hack, what are some good recent books that look at the Eastern Front in WWII, or that refute his allegations directly? Glantz, _When Titans Clashed_. Erickson, _Road to Stalingrad_. Everything prior was cut off from primary sources and is either propaganda, mythmaking, whitewashing, or disinformation, German or Soviet. Ziemke tried hard not to be, but again, without direct access to the Soviet archives for a brief window in the 90s, there was only so much he could do.
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May 17, 2015 19:15
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cheerfullydrab posted:Take people's recommendations with a grain of salt, because this thread slants pretty pro-Soviet. Why wouldn't people root for the allies!? No one's saying the soviet government wasn't atrocious, but it's what they had to work with.
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May 17, 2015 19:23
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Phanatic posted:Glantz, _When Titans Clashed_. Erickson, _Road to Stalingrad_. Everything prior was cut off from primary sources and is either propaganda, mythmaking, whitewashing, or disinformation, German or Soviet. Ziemke tried hard not to be, but again, without direct access to the Soviet archives for a brief window in the 90s, there was only so much he could do. Erickson's Road to Stalingrad and Road to Berlin is Loooooong and dry. Be warned. Its a lot of pages of xx division fought against xx. there were x# of casualties.
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Saint Celestine posted:Erickson's Road to Stalingrad and Road to Berlin is Loooooong and dry. Be warned. Its a lot of pages of xx division fought against xx. there were x# of casualties. So's Glantz. Bone-dry. Definitely not the most pleasant thing to read, but it's solid.
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May 17, 2015 19:57
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False Flag Rape posted:If a serbian thinks a thread is neutral it means the thread actually slants heavily pro-russia/soviet. You racist little poo poo.
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May 17, 2015 20:01
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quote:Take people's recommendations with a grain of salt, because this thread slants pretty pro-Soviet. When eight of eleven German casualties were caused by the Red Army it might be sensible to say history slants pro-Soviet.
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May 17, 2015 20:16
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my dad posted:You racist little poo poo. Looks like a parachute account for someone who likes to troll with racist poo poo to me, don't rise to the bait imo.
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May 17, 2015 20:19
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Hi all, I'm working on a pet project of mine, a tabletop card game/board game hybrid that focuses on the free companies of Italy circa 1400-1500. Kindof wars in Lombardy era up until the French invasion. I'm trying to find maps of Italy during this period of time, like actual maps drawn up during that era. http://www.oldmapsonline.org/ has been amazing but the only maps actually dating back that far in their databases seem to be world maps, not maps that focus on northern Italy proper. With all the military geniuses stomping around that part of the world I would think that detailed maps of mountain passes and roads would be abundant but apparently just not online? Any help would be appreciated.
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May 17, 2015 20:26
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False Flag Rape posted:If a serbian thinks a thread is neutral it means the thread actually slants heavily pro-russia/soviet. Rodnik posted:Hi all, I bet the closest you're going to get is maps of particular cities or fortified places, or architects' plans for those fortifications. For that you want art historians--for instance, check this out and see if this book has either any nice architectural drawings for Sienese fortifications or if their bibliography has any further information. HEY GUNS fucked around with this message at 00:06 on May 18, 2015 |
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May 17, 2015 23:59
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I love reading about the way people think in completely different ways about supposedly commonplace things.
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May 18, 2015 00:43
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HEY GAL posted:lol 2edgy4u The term you are looking for is "mental maps", i.e. how people create a picture of the world in their heads. The modern equivalent is knowing which road to take to work, without necessarily knowing or caring if that road runs south or west.
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Delving further into munitions...   Also, I learned of the existence of a Russian AT Rifle Grenade produced in 1941 which, sadly, I don't think is identified in my manual. 
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