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OwlFancier posted:I think I just built star forts and turtled because fielding large armies is hard. So it's historically accurate then?
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Acebuckeye13 posted:Hey, don't you go badmouthing TFR. That Airpower thread is probably my second favorite thread on the forums, right after this one. The John Ringo Noo thread is also a pro read.
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cheerfullydrab posted:I'm down for everything but I can't believe a thread could actually poo poo-talk D&D while holding up TFR as the paragon of true posting. Completely insane. I can't believe the guy who said this cheerfullydrab posted:I also don't believe my country (the USA) should have been in WW2 at all has managed to come up with an even worse opinion.
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Rodrigo Diaz posted:What if I told you they were crazy because they don't have shotguns I'd wish you the best of luck in your shotgun for every home campaign, then seal myself in a comedy doomsday bunker until the shooting stops.
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cheerfullydrab posted:I'm down for everything but I can't believe a thread could actually poo poo-talk D&D while holding up TFR as the paragon of true posting. Completely insane. edit: this has nothing to do with political opinions. i am talking about basic knowledge of history or the topic of discussion. like the time one of them said that soldiers from the medieval/early modern period were all peasants who were forced to fight, or the guy who said that the mention of the word "slave" in the american national anthem was racist. HEY GUNS fucked around with this message at 14:35 on Sep 25, 2016 |
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HEY GAL posted:edit: this has nothing to do with political opinions. i am talking about basic knowledge of history or the topic of discussion. like the time one of them said that soldiers from the medieval/early modern period were all peasants who were forced to fight, or the guy who said that the mention of the word "slave" in the american national anthem was racist. Yeah. I'm really goddamned pinko about most issues but D&D posters are embarrassing to share beliefs with because of this. And they're really drat proud of their factually incorrect beliefs too. You can correct them on a matter of basic fact and they'll ignore you and ridicule you for it.
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I posted almost exclusively in CE/D&D when I first registered back in 2001 (holy gently caress thats a long time ago) and for years afterwards and it was actually a pretty great forum, then I didn't post/read SA for a couple of years and then came back and it was an absolutely baffling obnoxious terrible place. I have no idea what happened but I think it was related to that weird communist subforum that got the FBIs attention or whatever it was.
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bewbies posted:I posted almost exclusively in CE/D&D when I first registered back in 2001 (holy gently caress thats a long time ago) and for years afterwards and it was actually a pretty great forum, then I didn't post/read SA for a couple of years and then came back and it was an absolutely baffling obnoxious terrible place. I have no idea what happened but I think it was related to that weird communist subforum that got the FBIs attention or whatever it was. Same. I remember lots of decent current events discussion, then it started getting heavily libertarian right before I stopped paying attention for a while. When I finally checked in again it was all insane Maoist third worldism and I kind of regret missing the transition.
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P-Mack posted:Same. I remember lots of decent current events discussion, then it started getting heavily libertarian right before I stopped paying attention for a while. When I finally checked in again it was all insane Maoist third worldism and I kind of regret missing the transition. Over in the UK D&D thread we're all pretty much hard left socialists and have been for years, it generally works out ok.
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feedmegin posted:Over in the UK D&D thread we're all pretty much hard left socialists and have been for years, it generally works out ok. As long as you are a hard left socialist that is.
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What, TFR agreed on 9mm vs. .45 ACP, 5.56mm vs. 7.62mm and, I dunno, Strykers and gun rights? Because at least /k/ is full folks who get misty-eyed about Rhodesia and who are eagerly waiting for a "chimpout", so I wonder how TFR handles that crowd.
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JcDent posted:Because at least /k/ is full folks who get misty-eyed about Rhodesia and who are eagerly waiting for a "chimpout", so I wonder how TFR handles that crowd.
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JcDent posted:What, TFR agreed on 9mm vs. .45 ACP, 5.56mm vs. 7.62mm and, I dunno, Strykers and gun rights? Not as aggressively and assertively as it used to, but better than most every other gun forum that exists. When the POTUS starts talking about gun control, people get real willing to go along with posters who are openly bigots.
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Taerkar posted:The secret is that every subforum other than the one you're currently posting in is terrible.
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bewbies posted:I posted almost exclusively in CE/D&D when I first registered back in 2001 (holy gently caress thats a long time ago) and for years afterwards and it was actually a pretty great forum, then I didn't post/read SA for a couple of years and then came back and it was an absolutely baffling obnoxious terrible place. I have no idea what happened but I think it was related to that weird communist subforum that got the FBIs attention or whatever it was. Haha, communist subforum? I must have missed that. I think it's a demonstration of democracy's failure, really. When reason based refutation means nothing, unwillingness to shut up/ complete lack of shame means everything.
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bewbies posted:I posted almost exclusively in CE/D&D when I first registered back in 2001 (holy gently caress thats a long time ago) and for years afterwards and it was actually a pretty great forum, then I didn't post/read SA for a couple of years and then came back and it was an absolutely baffling obnoxious terrible place. I have no idea what happened but I think it was related to that weird communist subforum that got the FBIs attention or whatever it was. The middle east thread is good (most of the time anyways). For anyone who's interested, the tipping point was actually Ron Paul's candidacy. It lead to a clusterfuck of a megathread full of crazy ancaps, an ever growing number of people dunking on said ancaps, and the singularly most dedicated troll I've ever seen. It got so weird that they opened up a subforum for political shitposting. It started mostly just making fun of libertarians, but there was this reverse /pol/ effect, where if you have a bunch of people pretending to be hateful communists it stops being pretend after a while. Then LF got shut down (cause you know, threats against the president) and D&D got back contaminated. Edit: Hey Trin I'm aware this is first would problems as gently caress, but I've taken the plunge on trying to read your day-by-day blog from the beginning, and it's kind of annoying that there isn't a next button at the bottom of the posts as well as the top. Patrick Spens fucked around with this message at 18:52 on Sep 25, 2016 |
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Patrick Spens posted:Edit: Hey Trin I'm aware this is first would problems as gently caress, but I've taken the plunge on trying to read your day-by-day blog from the beginning, and it's kind of annoying that there isn't a next button at the bottom of the posts as well as the top. Yeah, I've tried to fix this a few times, and each time it breaks and doesn't do what it's supposed to and you end up missing three or four days at a time using the bottom buttons. The book doesn't have this problem, and you get a lot of added material too! e; f, thanks
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Zereth posted:Sadly the fifth edition actually went backwards on a lot of these things, as a design goal. At least we still have 4e (albeit the lack of DDI sucks pretty hard).
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Ensign Expendable posted:TFR got me into World of Tanks which directed me down the path of Russian archives and butthurt wehraboos. How often do you run into the Soviet or Allied equivalent of wehraboos? Like, people who are so incredibly into a myth about some Soviet tank's/ship's/weapon's quality that they go frothing at the mouth at the mere mention of one of its flaws? Patrick Spens posted:The middle east thread is good (most of the time anyways). I unbookmarked it after reading one too many "genocide is OK if it's being done to people I don't like" post for my sanity to endure. So I'll have to disagree. my dad fucked around with this message at 19:04 on Sep 25, 2016 |
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I remember bewbies' armyposting. And Laissez Faire was loving magical. I had no idea what was going on most all of the time. Plenty of primo weirdos, wonder what dudes like Toblerone Triangular and Infrateal are doing now. A lot of dudes developed a highly specialized communications/worldview package in that forum that I don't think really translates into anything but yelling at passersby to stop gangstalking you. e: it wasn't communism, it was maoism-third-worldism with a shitload of modern theory gobbledegook thrown in. Deleuze/Guattari etc. Rhizomes everywhere. aphid_licker fucked around with this message at 19:04 on Sep 25, 2016 |
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I don't understand the quirky forums to this day. Maybe I'll never be a true shitposter, just a poser. my dad posted:How often do you run into the Soviet or Allied equivalent of wehraboos? Like, people who are so incredibly into a myth about some Soviet tank's/ship's/weapon's quality that they go frothing at the mouth at the mere mention of one of its flaws? I have seen the soviet-boo bingo card at least one, I think. I went to check /pol/ on a lark and yeah, it's poo poo through-and-through
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P-Mack posted:I can't believe the guy who said this My own words... used against me?
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my dad posted:How often do you run into the Soviet or Allied equivalent of wehraboos? Like, people who are so incredibly into a myth about some Soviet tank's/ship's/weapon's quality that they go frothing at the mouth at the mere mention of one of its flaws? From playing the Wargame series, it seems like you get that about the Soviets all the time. There's this weird thing with the Soviets in online communities (in my experience) where people go gaga for Nazi stuff and think everything Soviet during WW2 was terrible, but as soon as you transition into the Cold War it flips to Soviet stuff being the best ever.
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my dad posted:How often do you run into the Soviet or Allied equivalent of wehraboos? Like, people who are so incredibly into a myth about some Soviet tank's/ship's/weapon's quality that they go frothing at the mouth at the mere mention of one of its flaws? Do you count the devs? RUSSIAN BIAS!  I'm still not over the Royal Navy being introduced after both the KM and the Soviet navy in world of warships.
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That was the brackets, yeah. Koramei posted:buy his ebook and it's a lot easier to navigate That's a good idea, I'll do that.
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Koramei posted:From playing the Wargame series, it seems like you get that about the Soviets all the time. You don't have Nazis in the Cold War, I'd say. And Cold War was the time when the Soviet capability was being touted all the time (why else would you need to spend so much money to beat them), plus, sometimes you just get tired of American toys. EDIT: Wargame is going to be releasing Israel as a non-affiliated (non-BLUEFOR or REDFOR) faction, it's going to be wonderful for the chat.
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Patrick Spens posted:That was the brackets, yeah. No, the brackets imply that this is something that rarely happens, while in actuality it permeates almost every page of that thread. Polyakov posted:I'm still not over the Royal Navy being introduced after both the KM and the Soviet navy in world of warships. I loved the KM cruiser line while I was still playing World of Warships more than anything else except maybe that slow-rear end low-tier US carrier.  Not very good, mind you, the amazing AP doesn't make up for the paper-thin armor, but the playstyle is really drat fun, especially if you get in the zone and just keep landing citadel shots on the enemy.
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JcDent posted:You don't have Nazis in the Cold War, I'd say. And Cold War was the time when the Soviet capability was being touted all the time (why else would you need to spend so much money to beat them), plus, sometimes you just get tired of American toys. Yeah, remember how the Japanese/Germans were hyped up as being possibly-world-conquering supermen to sell war bonds? That continued after 1945, but with the Soviets. So Soviet military stuff after WW2 has the same sort of appeal to the same kind of people
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cheerfullydrab posted:Yeah, remember how the Japanese/Germans were hyped up as being possibly-world-conquering supermen to sell war bonds? That continued after 1945, but with the Soviets. So Soviet military stuff after WW2 has the same sort of appeal to the same kind of people
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JcDent posted:I have seen the soviet-boo bingo card at least one, I think. That was a combination of wherabingo and wheraboos inabilty to muster an original thought though. Koramei posted:From playing the Wargame series, it seems like you get that about the Soviets all the time. Kind of, although the german nationalist conspiracy in the Wargame series was loving ludicrous.
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