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Ainsley McTree posted:Want to read the sci fi book where instead of carriers, naval war fare is all launching boarding parties out of cannons https://youtu.be/viB3clUX1Ao#t=4m50s
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:am i the only person in this thread without sleep paralysis 
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:am i the only person in this thread without sleep paralysis No, thank god.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:am i the only person in this thread without sleep paralysis I've never had it. I do typically recognize when I'm dreaming, though, and can make myself wake up. Handy if you're prone to nightmares like I am.
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 Pharmaskittle posted:My sleep paralysis is real weird. I'll be struggling to get across the room and out the door, wriggle off the bed and onto and across the floor, then realize I haven't actually moved at all. It's bizarre and uncomfortable at the time, but I've learned to kinda recognize when it's happening so it's not like, traumatic. Nowhere near as lovely as yours sounds. This is often my experience too but then sometimes there's some malevolent something or someone in the room and it inspires an absolute mortal panic and doesn't go away until I force myself awake... right into a false awakening in which the presence returns. It's scary poo poo Milo and POTUS fucked around with this message at 01:00 on Nov 21, 2017 |
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:am i the only person in this thread without sleep paralysis No I don't sleep
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ive never had sleep paralysis, but ive punched things and been hit in dreams and it always snaps me up
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I also have aphantasia, which means I don't see anything when I dream. For the rare dreams I remember, it's a narrative, not something I'm seeing, which makes them more than a little less immersive.
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JcDent posted:Clearly I need to affix an AK to a pike! So, I did study the Romanian army in some detail, and basically- they couldn't handle it at a very intense rate. It was a very disorganized process that generally was done in an ad hoc way. After the disaster at Stalingrad, most of the Romanian Army had to be withdrawn for refitting, replacement, and retraining. This was a process that took about a year and a half to create a force that really wasn't up to standing up to the Red Army of 1944 anyway. World War 2 was not the kind of war for small countries.
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No sleep paralysis but three different times I have woken up with a crick in my neck that made movement extremely painful until it finally eased up.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:am i the only person in this thread without sleep paralysis Sleep paralysis is like asmr, in that it's fairly common, but only internet dwellers know what it is called.
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Do you mean using railguns to fire missiles at things, or launching missiles with railguns on the front so that can fire as they close?
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The Lone Badger posted:Do you mean using railguns to fire missiles at things, or launching missiles with railguns on the front so that can fire as they close? Yes.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:am i the only person in this thread without sleep paralysis I don't have sleep paralysis(and also barely ever dream) but I mostly lurk
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I've had sleep paralysis a couple times, and each time its manifested as the hallucination that a very large predatory cat is standing on me and slowly working its way up so it can sink its fangs into my throat, while I desperately struggle to move so I can try to shove it away from me or at least call out for help.
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this is a weird question, but where did the coloring of red for labor/socialist movements and white for monarchists/reactionaries come from?
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Red is the color of blood, and thus the color of revolution.
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White is for purity/nobility (which for some strange reason aristocrats think they possess), and is an expensive pain the in rear end to keep clean and bright. Also, wearing white clothes parades the fact that you're incapable of doing honest work.
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GotLag posted:Also, wearing white clothes parades the fact that you're incapable of doing honest work. That's strange I always figured it meant they were unwilling
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A lot of painters' uniforms are white for some reason. Never figured out why because it doesn't stay that way long.
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Probably the least likely to discolour the surfaces they're painting Edit: also the solvents and bleach they'd use to clean their uniforms would gently caress any colour right up
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my great great great grandpap and his friends went into a village and murdered all the women and children and the king gave him land and serfs which is why im a superior breed of human being
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Speaking of white clothing, how did the soldiers who wore white uniforms back in the Napoleonic era keep them that way?
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Red symbolizes a lot of things. The blood of angry men, a world about to dawn, a soul set on fire, the color of desire, etc. Contrast with the dark of ages past or the color of despair.
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GotLag posted:Also, wearing white clothes parades the fact that you're incapable of doing honest work. Not always true. White is the traditional color of Korean peasant clothes.
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GotLag posted:Speaking of white clothing, how did the soldiers who wore white uniforms back in the Napoleonic era keep them that way? They didn't.
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The Lone Badger posted:Do you mean using railguns to fire missiles at things, or launching missiles with railguns on the front so that can fire as they close? one day they're going to work out how to make a bomb pumped laser or a casaba howitzer and its going to poo poo over all our assumptions about how space battleships work
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StashAugustine posted:this is a weird question, but where did the coloring of red for labor/socialist movements and white for monarchists/reactionaries come from? Bourbon soldiery wore a lot of white uniforms, as did the Austrian Empire. And red for blood.
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StashAugustine posted:this is a weird question, but where did the coloring of red for labor/socialist movements and white for monarchists/reactionaries come from? I always assumed it was because of the colors in the October Revolution and resulting civil war - is this where it came from, or were thise colors picked because of pre-existing preferences?
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Milo and POTUS posted:sometimes there's some malevolent something or someone in the room and it inspires an absolute mortal panic and doesn't go away until I force myself awake... right into a false awakening in which the presence returns. It's scary poo poo I get that ocassionally. More often, though, I have dreams/nightmares in which somethimg happens that's so fuckin' stupid it wakes me up. Like, last night I dreamed that a box of LEGO pooped its contents onto the floor, and was scrambling to pick up all the pieces, and then I remembered that it comes in sealed plastic bags inside the box so that scenario is impossible. As for battleship/shore-bombardment chat, wasn't there a USN concept/prototype back around the turn of the century that was basically Kirov Lite? Stealthy light cruiser/big DD with a fuckton of VLS TLAMs? Hmm... I'm thinking something Iowa-sized, with just two turrets Mounting four 8" guns per, and the rest of the deck is VLS tubes.
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Red as a color of revolution, particularly leftist revolution, dates back at least as far back as 1787, in association with Revolutionary France. It became the color of international Socialism in 1848. The color was chosen to signify the blood of the martyred heroes of the struggle. As far as I can tell, the White Russians chose the color as a symbol of unity, as the Whites were a "everybody except the Reds" association.
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I had a dream that I was driving my car in New York City, and I left it and came back to it and someone had stolen the battery I've never been to New York City
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Mantis42 posted:Red symbolizes a lot of things. The blood of angry men, a world about to dawn, a soul set on fire, the color of desire, etc. Contrast with the dark of ages past or the color of despair. Literally the reason I asked is bc I wondered if the red and black in that son is related to the anarchist symbol
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Disinterested posted:Bourbon soldiery wore a lot of white uniforms, as did the Austrian Empire. I should add therefore, by extension, the restored Bourbon monarchy.
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Nebakenezzer posted:I had a dream that I was driving my car in New York City, and I left it and came back to it and someone had stolen the battery I dreamed I stole a car battery in New York City once.
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Gnoman posted:As far as I can tell, the White Russians chose the color as a symbol of unity, as the Whites were a "everybody except the Reds" association. Then shouldn't they be the Cyan Russians?
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Jeb Bush 2012 posted:mine mysteriously disappeared in my early 20s, along with my immunity to hangovers Nothing mysterious about that, most people permanently stop having SP after their teens. Us permanent sufferers are comparatively pretty rare.
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Beginning to wonder if sleep paralysis/night terrors are comorbid with the study of history.
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StashAugustine posted:Literally the reason I asked is bc I wondered if the red and black in that son is related to the anarchist symbol Also the red phrygian caps went out of style for some reason so it was boiled down to the red blood of martyrs by the Jacobins. Completely unrelated but during the battle of the Alamo, General Santa Ana flew a red flag as a symbol of "no mercy, no quarter", according to legend. I want to believe it's true but only because Santa Ana was an rear end in a top hat who would totally do something like that.
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13th KRRC War Diary, 21st Nov 1917 posted:Another prisoner, (2nd. Bav. Regt)., taken on Right Front, (B Company) about 7 p.m. He had lost his way on patrol. Nobody in the battalion had sleep paralysis today.
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