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Jobbo_Fett posted:Not that I know of, but I picked up a fairly cheap dvd on dogfighting "Above the clouds" or somesuch and I was skipping through most of it for shits and giggles since I don't have time to sit and watch and spotted that sequence. That's an I-153 or its a pigeon. The Ki-43 is nimble for a monoplane, but it just can't keep up in a turn fight. The Chaika is in trouble though, the Oscar can keep extending and coming in for firing passes since it's about 90 knots faster at maximum. Neat; IL-2 and War Thunder didn't lie to me about biplanes versus monos !
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Phobophilia posted:That's the thing that really makes the south stand out. Even in other slave societies, if you became a freedman, that's it, you were free. Heck, children of slaves could even inherit from the father. I have a gut feeling that some US history wants to play up how terrible other societies with slavery were historically to make american slavery look better or at least not as bad as it was.
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This ugly thing showed up on my Facebook feed today. It implies that (white) Confederate sympathizers are the only real Southerners.
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SimonCat posted:This ugly thing showed up on my Facebook feed today. It implies that (white) Confederate sympathizers are the only real Southerners. So post a video of the Saddam statue getting pulled down and mourn the death of the proud Iraqi heritage.
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SimonCat posted:This ugly thing showed up on my Facebook feed today. It implies that (white) Confederate sympathizers are the only real Southerners. To be fair, I'm white and from the American South and I'm comfortable drawing a line between that and being a Southerner.
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SimonCat posted:This ugly thing showed up on my Facebook feed today. It implies that (white) Confederate sympathizers are the only real Southerners. Looks like it was Photoshopped, btw. Also, y'know, my wife is a Southerner and I'm pretty sure she's down with removing the white supremacist statue seeing as she's black. feedmegin fucked around with this message at 12:27 on Apr 26, 2017 |
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A minor victory in the "not honouring racists" line: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/apr/26/bristol-colston-hall-to-drop-name-of-slave-trader-after-protests Edit: on reflection "racist" is probably putting it a bit mildly.
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That should have been done years ago, and the whole PR brand talk leaves a sour taste in my mouth. Obviously they knew for years and have been waiting for the last of his family to not give a gently caress/have local influence to make a big stink about it. Anywho, It is time to say farewell to Rose as this will be the last series of entries in his diaries. Lets hope the poor fellow spent the last few years of his career in the Depot training recruits and wasn't involved at all with the up coming Great War. Part 1: Arriving in South Africa Part 2: The Reality of Combat/Getting Stuck In/WATERSPORTS! Part 3: March Marching Madness/Trench Sniping/CANADIANS! Part 4: Boer Guns, Hunger Marches and Bloody Charges With The Gordon Highlanders Part 5: Occupying Pretoria, Rest And Christmas In South Africa. Part 6: Signal Flags, Skirmishes and South African train rides Part 7: Final Duties, Crossing the Ocean and Epilogue. quote:
I tracked down one of the former curators of the musuem at work the other day and this and a series of other diaries and memoirs were all written up by a small group of previous volunteers in the mid ninties, which explains the decimal system slip up in earlier entries. So yeah, that was a small slice of the Boer War through the eyes of a common soldier. I'll try and post another soldiers diary in the future if I can, big thanks to the goons who posted over diaries and made the big effort posts that inspired me to do it.
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SeanBeansShako posted:So yeah, that was a small slice of the Boer War through the eyes of a common soldier. I'll try and post another soldiers diary in the future if I can, big thanks to the goons who posted over diaries and made the big effort posts that inspired me to do it. The Boer War: Marching, Starving, and Ostriches.
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I fought in the Boer War and I got was this lousy tin of hot chocolate. The Boer War: Free pair of trousers, slightly used.
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"Grandpa, what's your most exciting story from fighting the Boers?" "Well, I went to camp to check on some blankets that were being shipped to us. When I tried to walk back, I got lost for 4 hours and nearly crossed enemy lines."
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I like to think somewhere in Birmingham there was a small short lived pub in the early 20th century called The Lost Parrot.
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It's always cool to read people's firsthand view of history, especially from on the ground. I want to hear some soldier's diary of the Emu War. For too long the voices of this forgotten war have been lost!
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What's the first recorded instance of the "more like Boer-ing War" quip?
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Yvonmukluk posted:It's always cool to read people's firsthand view of history, especially from on the ground. "I can't hit those loving birds Bert!"
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Yvonmukluk posted:I want to hear some soldier's diary of the Emu War. For too long the voices of this forgotten war have been lost! August 14th: *Squawk*
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Still mad Wikipedia removed "Casualties: Dignity".
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SeanBeansShako posted:I tracked down one of the former curators of the musuem at work the other day and this and a series of other diaries and memoirs were all written up by a small group of previous volunteers in the mid ninties, which explains the decimal system slip up in earlier entries.
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Arquinsiel posted:If it's anything like here then post decimalisation the Shilling coins were still legal tender valued at 5p for a while. Ours lasted until the Euro replaced the Punt entirely. That's why I was talking about New Shillings upthread; that was what the 5p piece was also called on decimalisation, hence the archivists' confusion. Old shilling coins were legal tender into the 90s.
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Does anyone know a book that's a good introduction to the various Turko-Mongolian steppe groups/culture, whether it's the Xiongnu, Gokturks, Avars, Khazars, or others? If that's too broad, does anyone know of a good work on one of them? I've been reading some stuff and listening to podcasts on the period roughly between 600-1000 and I'm realizing that I know absolutely nothing about them and they seem pretty significant.
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Elyv posted:Does anyone know a book that's a good introduction to the various Turko-Mongolian steppe groups/culture, whether it's the Xiongnu, Gokturks, Avars, Khazars, or others? If that's too broad, does anyone know of a good work on one of them? I've been reading some stuff and listening to podcasts on the period roughly between 600-1000 and I'm realizing that I know absolutely nothing about them and they seem pretty significant. I read "Empires of the Silk Road" a couple of years ago: https://www.amazon.com/Empires-Silk-Road-History-Central/dp/0691150346 It might not be exactly what you're looking for, and I didn't really agree with some of the conclusions he ended up at, but overall it was a decent read.
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Christ, Call of Duty: WWII is going to be bad. I just listened to an hour of these people babbling about 'authenticity' and the example they keep going back to is the ping of the M1 Garand. Fangz fucked around with this message at 19:22 on Apr 26, 2017 |
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I can remember when all the CoD games were about WWII. And they were awesome and I loved them.
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zoux posted:I can remember when all the CoD games were about WWII. CoD2 was the poo poo when I was in HS. My friends and I played split screen religiously.
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CoD2 was really good and didn't even gently caress up the Soviet campaign too badly. Edit: no wait I just remembered that they managed to completely gently caress up the tanks in the game. Apparently the PzII was a fearsome opponent with a long range single shot gun and thick armour that could only be penetrated from the back.
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Mr Luxury Yacht posted:August 14th: The greatest fighting force ever!
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Ensign Expendable posted:CoD2 was really good and didn't even gently caress up the Soviet campaign too badly. Good news, there will be no Soviet campaign in this game.
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Fangz posted:Good news, there will be no Soviet campaign in this game. Pathetic.
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Can anyone point me to an effortpost about helicopter gunships in this thread, or the predecessor thread?
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Fangz posted:Good news, there will be no Soviet campaign in this game. Did they put Russia in Battlefield 1 yet?
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Ensign Expendable posted:Did they put Russia in Battlefield 1 yet? Not yet but they have announced it: quote:The other three planned expansions for Battlefield 1 are called In the Name of the Tsar, Turning Tides and Apocalypse.
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Ensign Expendable posted:CoD2 was really good and didn't even gently caress up the Soviet campaign too badly. It was weirdly accurate for the devs to feature Panzer IIs and Crusaders in the North Africa stuff, those are pretty dang obscure afvs for a video game. zoux posted:I can remember when all the CoD games were about WWII. And they were awesome and I loved them. I remember playing CoD 2 at a friends house and dying to get it myself. I was a dumb idiot and was not aware that certain consoles do not have certain games, so I bought CoD 2: Big Red One for the PS2 and got really confused when it didn't look anything like what I played. Fangz posted:The other three planned expansions for Battlefield 1 are called In the Name of the Tsar, Turning Tides and Apocalypse. Nah, that's just the Bulgarian expansion. All three of them.
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Slim Jim Pickens posted:It was weirdly accurate for the devs to feature Panzer IIs and Crusaders in the North Africa stuff, those are pretty dang obscure afvs for a video game. It really feels like they wanted to put in a Tiger, but the model was swapped at the last second and everything else remained the same.
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Fangz posted:Not yet but they have announced it: So Russia, Japan, Zombies
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I think it's Brusilov Offensive, Gallipoli, and the Somme.
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Fangz posted:I think it's Brusilov Offensive, Gallipoli, and the Somme. Or that
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Jobbo_Fett posted:Zombies That's a creative interpretation of the Attack of the Dead.
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The Russian campaign in United Offensive and CoD2 were my favorite things about Call of Duty and my disappointment in the newer modern CoD games didn't get resolved until Battlefield (3?) released a game with non-evil Russians.
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feedmegin posted:That's why I was talking about New Shillings upthread; that was what the 5p piece was also called on decimalisation, hence the archivists' confusion. Old shilling coins were legal tender into the 90s.  Ensign Expendable posted:It really feels like they wanted to put in a Tiger, but the model was swapped at the last second and everything else remained the same.
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