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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:As far as boat euphemisms go, nobody can gently caress with the JMSDF's "helicopter destroyers." Just looked it up and the Izumo-class is approximately the same size as the Hiryu was, and is only a little bit smaller thank the Shokaku-class.
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WoodrowSkillson posted:BF1 is a really really really good battlefield game, and thankfully multiplayer is not a simulation but instead pulls every experimental gun around in 1918 and doles them out so you can have a fun game in the setting. It also does a pretty good job of creating situations analogous to reality. just yesterday me and my friends spent 5 minutes defending a capture point while hunkering in a trench, getting shelled and gassed, and fighting in close with shotguns and melee weapons as the attackers stormed the trench. is the SP not poo poo cause I tried BF3 SP once and it was an awful mistake
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StashAugustine posted:is the SP not poo poo cause I tried BF3 SP once and it was an awful mistake I have not played it yet for the same reasons as you, but my friends who are normally decently levelheaded about games said it was pretty good, like one of the better CoD single players.
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WoodrowSkillson posted:Like one of the better CoD single players. New definition of damning with faint praise here.
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Cyrano4747 posted:New definition of damning with faint praise here. some were abhorrent, some were a decent 6 hours and have a couple good moments.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:Just looked it up and the Izumo-class is approximately the same size as the Hiryu was, and is only a little bit smaller thank the Shokaku-class. But is the damage control any better 
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The SP is good. They even have pretty good stealth options for some levels.
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WW2 Data Before we get to Italian hand grenades, we need to finish up with the projectiles. Specifically, this week's update is about cartridge cases of various different guns in Italian service. We've also got a new marking system that replaces an older system in use. Which rounds have cartridge cases examined today? What is the difference between a normal charge and a flashless charge? What did a number in brackets signify? All that and more at the blog!
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Re: Turtledove, I'm halfway through the latest Hot War book and good GOD does his writing get annoying sometimes (and could he be more ham-fisted with the theme of most Soviet citizens not liking the Soviet Union? It's like every Soviet character is either complaining about the MGB, complaining about how nobody works hard, or fragging their superiors), but it's rather more enjoyable than most of his previous work.
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gradenko_2000 posted:But is the damage control any better Well, it can't possibly be worse!
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StashAugustine posted:4 wasn't bad but it was all downhill from there Yeah, CoD4: Modern Warfare was the pinnacle of modern CoD experience. CoD2 was also good. What's so bad about BF3 SP, aside from QTEs and taking on a VDV brigade singlehandedly?
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It's dumb as hell and flat compared to the bad company games that came before it (420 invade a neutral country for mercenary gold erry day)
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Has a head of state been captured or killed in the heat of battle since Napoleon III?
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Agean90 posted:It's dumb as hell and flat compared to the bad company games that came before it (420 invade a neutral country for mercenary gold erry day) The plot is basically B-grade Tom Clancy wannabie Air Port novels too, with perhaps the dumbest CIA agents I haver seen in fiction (OUR MOLE IS A GOOD MOLE, HE WON'T TURN ON US DESPITE YOUR SO CALLED FACTS!)
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Baron Porkface posted:Has a head of state been captured or killed in the heat of battle since Napoleon III? The Esteemed Brother Colonel Muammar Gaddafi seems to be the most recent case.
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Agean90 posted:invade a neutral country for mercenary gold erry day 
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Agean90 posted:It's dumb as hell and flat compared to the bad company games that came before it (420 invade a neutral country for mercenary gold erry day) This and also it started off in a subway car and got more linear from there
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So after Nazing about for a bit I'm back onto European Tragedy. Right now the runup to the war reminds me a bit of modern politics: issues that are not issues are turned into issues by people choosing to view them in ways that can only poo poo on other people's religious rights. What the hell is Palentine's problem?! A lovely problem in government: when nobles don't have the right leave everything to one person and must instead divide the land among all sons Also some poor Nun / Abbess was put on trial for having a disordered life, WTF
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Nebakenezzer posted:What the hell is Palentine's problem?! *they may also believe the end of the world is coming, etc edit: the elector is also not super bright.
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I still think the original cover is the best one for that.
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Kemper Boyd posted:The Esteemed Brother Colonel Muammar Gaddafi seems to be the most recent case. I thought his name was Moammar Al-Gathafi.
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HEY GAL posted:*the Elector and his wife are very young and believe absolutely that what they are doing is right Also consider the quality of his chief advisor. Dude was a used car salesman for alliances and thought it'd all go fine once everyone realized what he'd done. Put that kind of optimist with a not too bright kid and you're going places only a great leader could win.
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Hey, remember that discussion a while back about a plan to launch V-2s at sea? Someone decided to do something similar! A quote so understated you'll cry posted:While USS Midway was still moored at Norfolk, the carrier’s damage control teams practiced all eventualities of what might possibly go wrong. Based on interviews with German personnel secured during the “Paperclip” operation, it was felt that the worst case scenario was what was termed “IFTC” (Ignition with Failure-To-Clear) when the V-2’s engines would successfully start but, for whatever reason, the missile would not generate sufficient thrust to take off, thumping back down onto the launcher and exploding. The Germans said that this happened numerous times during WWII, usually with negative results to nearby structures or personnel. Anyone who's seen film/video of IFTC V-2 launches is now going  at that "negative results" line. Yeah, that might be a bit negative. If it's true to the Midway's specs, that's 3.5" hardened steel.  Looks like I'm gonna be pissing away a lot of time on this site...
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SeanBeansShako posted:I still think the original cover is the best one for that. Agreed and not only because The Shako is featured
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Nebakenezzer posted:Also some poor Nun / Abbess was put on trial for having a disordered life, WTF Early modernity was HUGE on order. It was probably the most important thing in their entire worldview, to the point where laws weren't so much made to solve problems but to restore a previous state of good order that has been abandoned, as evidenced by the fact that problems exist. There is a huge body of works as to how good order is best achieved, what the monarch should and shouldn't do (mostly things he should do). Order was something handed down from God Himself, with the monarch/authority tasked with implementing it. If order is not present, God will literally rain fire down on your cities and poo poo. Remember that city one day down the road? Burned down because they allowed their women to wear wolf pelts. They were asking for it, really. That poo poo just don't fly. In a more concrete sense, the entire society only works because everyone knows his place instantly and knows how to act according to his status. For that to work, your status has to be instantly visible. In that age, soft power and hard power are very closely related - you are the king because everyone treats you as the king. That's not a tautology, when the Hohenzollers managed to become Kings in Prussia they were super eager to make everyone aware of that fact and the Habsburg Emperors were always insisting on putting them on the kids table with the other markgraves/electors rather than letting them sit with the full kings. This poo poo mattered. So an Abbess having a disorderly life was a big loving deal because a) it directly threatened her community with divine wrath and b) it undermined the very fabric of society because she acted different than what her status demanded.
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ArchangeI posted:For that to work, your status has to be instantly visible. In that age, soft power and hard power are very closely related - you are the king because everyone treats you as the king. That's not a tautology, when the Hohenzollers managed to become Kings in Prussia they were super eager to make everyone aware of that fact and the Habsburg Emperors were always insisting on putting them on the kids table with the other markgraves/electors rather than letting them sit with the full kings. This poo poo mattered.
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Status/society question: How widespread was impersonation of high ranking dudes like kings and wallensteins? I mean there's no twitter so how do you make sure whomever is standing in front of is who he says he is?
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Boiled Water posted:Status/society question: How widespread was impersonation of high ranking dudes like kings and wallensteins? I mean there's no twitter so how do you make sure whomever is standing in front of is who he says he is?
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Zamboni Apocalypse posted:Yeah, that might be a bit negative. If it's true to the Midway's specs, that's 3.5" hardened steel. Just reading that article, I had no idea there was a USS Kentucky, an half completed Iowa class battleship which they launched after World War 2, and then waffled with it unfinished about for a decade because they were all "maybe we could make a battleship that fires ballistic missiles?!" HEY GAL posted:it's why wallenstein started minting his own money despite that being financially not a good idea--he wanted to say that he could, which would mean that he had leveled up, politically Sounds like bling: "I demonstrate this level of wealth and taste, and am TF worthy of this level of political power." Even Kanye West never minted his own currency ArchangeI posted:So an Abbess having a disorderly life was a big loving deal because a) it directly threatened her community with divine wrath and b) it undermined the very fabric of society because she acted different than what her status demanded. It sorta sounds like that old Monty Python Sketch where the people are living in imaginary tower blocks that only work because the tenants believe in them
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Nebakenezzer posted:Just reading that article, I had no idea there was a USS Kentucky, an half completed Iowa class battleship which they launched after World War 2, and then waffled with it unfinished about for a decade because they were all "maybe we could make a battleship that fires ballistic missiles?!" Kentucky-Fired Kitchen.
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Nebakenezzer posted:Sounds like bling: "I demonstrate this level of wealth and taste, and am TF worthy of this level of political power." Excuse me, I need to go inform Kanye West about something.
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VanSandman posted:Excuse me, I need to go inform Kanye West about something. And he'd be all "Well WALLENSTIEN never made a video game about his dead mom ascending to heaven!"
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Nebakenezzer posted:And he'd be all "Well WALLENSTIEN never made a video game about his dead mom ascending to heaven!" in a heartbeat edit: paying for sumptuous and pompous things memorializing the people who die before you was a favorite, so in the parallel universe where these people have video games that would have been a thriving subgenre. and then you donate the money you make from selling the thing to charity or something HEY GUNS fucked around with this message at 02:10 on Oct 25, 2016 |
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chitoryu12 posted:I thought his name was Moammar Al-Gathafi. 
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Mo'ammer El Khudhdhaffy has got to be the stupidest way to spell it imaginable (maybe tied with Kudhdhazzy)
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WoodrowSkillson posted:I have not played it yet for the same reasons as you, but my friends who are normally decently levelheaded about games said it was pretty good, like one of the better CoD single players. Having played through the SP campaign I can say it's a hell of a lot better than any prior BF game and fairly engrossing in its own right, though only like one "level" has to deal with the trench fighting/being overrun stuff. Upside being that that particular level is designed so that you die, numerous times, and immediately "respawn" in taking the controls of another entente soldier while showing you a name and DOB-DKIA. Between 'lives' the narrator explains how war is basically hell and everyone thought it was a grand adventure etc. The death part is literally a way of progressing the narrative through that part of the game and the game tells you that straight up front with a title card saying "What follows is front line combat. You are not expected to survive." The game later goes to some crazy stuntman bullshit in another storyline but i'd say it's overall a standout effort for merging narrative with the thoroughly-worn military FPS game style. The Italian part really hits that mark.
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PittTheElder posted:I haven't played it, but I hear there's also a level where you play as a messenger pigeon. Can confirm. The way they lead into it is pretty well done, too, though if you have much background knowledge in how just blindingly pointless the war was on a human scale then you'd know what message that bird was carrying despite the game being intent on making you think it's asking for reinforcements. e: Here's a video of someone playing through the aforementioned infantry level. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhhvs4FJRxM <- SPOILERS BE HERE IF YOU BELIEVE IN GAMEPLAY FOOTAGE BEING SPOILERS FAUXTON fucked around with this message at 06:07 on Oct 25, 2016 |
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