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If I was the Russians I'd be making the most of this golden opportunity to find all kinds of salacious stuff, kinda sad that the going got tough and they apparently forgot about all that stuff they were hyping up like show me the biolap with a hunter biden's special crack den room next to the admin office instead the moron Russian FSB operation groups are spreading fake rumors that the Ukranians sunk another Russian ship to, I guess, make people doubt pro-Ukranian rumors? or something? Herstory Begins Now fucked around with this message at 03:36 on May 9, 2022 |
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mlmp08 posted:I don't think we can really turst these coerced videos. The video starts with the interrogator making the Soldier reveal his full name and his HOME ADDRESS back in Russia. Later the interrogator catches on that the soldier has said a few times that there are lots of good, Russian-speaking, Slavic people in Ukraine, and the interrogator gets pissed and starts lecturing on how it's not only the Russian-speaking people who are good, etc. I hadn't thought of that - appreciate you pointing that out.
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May 9, 2022 03:38
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It's probably par for the course for interrogators to do all those things. To me, it's on the captured conscript not knowing any goddamn better than name, number and unit only. Anything else and he's playing along with a good cop/bad cop routine.
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Pikehead posted:I hadn't thought of that - appreciate you pointing that out. is it as hosed as dropping artillery on cities?
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i would assume literally any pow videos are just the person saying and doing whatever they think has the lowest chance of getting them tortured.
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May 9, 2022 03:46
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Herstory Begins Now posted:i would assume literally any pow videos are just the person saying and doing whatever they think has the lowest chance of getting them tortured.  blaze it
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May 9, 2022 03:49
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It may have changed, but before the Iraq Invasion, Intelligence gave us a brief about actions on capture. "There is no reason to get tortured for a Google search. Any publicly available information can be used to build rapport between you and the captor, and can be utilized as resources." I agree it's a hosed up video, but given the world today, it's been kinda the thing for like 20 years.
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May 9, 2022 03:56
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I have been dying laughing after learning that The Big Helmet is constructed of three independent plates that don't interlock and that nylon & shoestring cover is actually load-bearing, and the Soviets made this out of titanium and issued it. Groverhelm.
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May 9, 2022 03:59
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shame on an IGA posted:I have been dying laughing after learning that The Big Helmet is constructed of three independent plates that don't interlock and that nylon & shoestring cover is actually load-bearing, and the Soviets made this out of titanium and issued it. to go with the VDV zipline and crowdfunded Doobaofeng radios for truckers
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May 9, 2022 04:07
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https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1523477886669180930?s=20
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maybe im biased by pre-2014 reputation of ukranian ministry of internal affairs, but they are on the short lists of organizations I would most not want to be the hostile prisoner of. Hopefully that has changed since then. Probably has to some extent, but idk how much I'd trust that culture to change in a decade.
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Herstory Begins Now posted:maybe im biased by pre-2014 reputation of ukranian ministry of internal affairs, but they are on the short lists of organizations I would most not want to be the hostile prisoner of. Hopefully that has changed since then. Probably has to some extent, but idk how much I'd trust that culture to change in a decade. Well there’s a sure fire way to not get on that list.
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Crab Dad posted:Well there’s a sure fire way to not get on that list. NATO made me do it 
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Crab Dad posted:Well there’s a sure fire way to not get on that list. Yeah it's funny how that works
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May 9, 2022 05:08
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Russia well on its way to losing more vehicles in 6 months than we lost servicemen in all of GWOT.
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May 9, 2022 05:10
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World in Conflict looking like a must-replay I think
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Crab Dad posted:Well there’s a sure fire way to not get on that list.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:World in Conflict looking like a must-replay I think Man I wish they made a sequel I came we’re just leave my sidequel. It was such a good game and you could even become kind of involved with the characters and the story. It’s so well done, it makes you forget, how ridiculous the scenario proposed is. Granted the Alec Baldwin narrations are a bit weird on the replay now.
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Marshal Prolapse posted:Granted the Alec Baldwin narrations are a bit weird on the replay now. Why? The game climaxes with a friendly fire incident.
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May 9, 2022 05:23
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:Why? The game climaxes with a friendly fire incident. 
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Marshal Prolapse posted:Man I wish they made a sequel I came we’re just leave my sidequel. It was such a good game and you could even become kind of involved with the characters and the story. It’s so well done, it makes you forget, how ridiculous the scenario proposed is. Oh for sure and they didn’t phone it in for the Seattle missions, I liked how the Kingdome got leveled by artillery and the city skyline had a lot of recognizable buildings, and I liked the mission in the San Juan Islands. Excellent story as well, was glad they bothered to give the Soviets characterization and their plan had some coherence. For a mostly forgotten game they were giving Blizzard a run for their money in CGI cutscene quality. Some of my favorites: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCtQEuwNyBI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnV5K6rULm0 And this one was odd: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF79U0B_ze0 it looks great but DC is never attacked in the game and it seems bizarre they’d spend a lot of time/money for a cutscene that isn’t in the final release. Kinda wonder if stuff like that meant big cost overruns so no sequel.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:Why? The game climaxes with a friendly fire incident. 
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:World in Conflict looking like a must-replay I think I got the collector's edition of World in Conflict shortly after it was released and it came with an actual piece of the Berlin Wall in the box. Pretty cool as far as video game memorabilia goes, and I think one of the last physical video games I got before I said gently caress it and just got everything off Steam.
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May 9, 2022 06:01
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cool my World of Warships came with the True Cross
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Nuclear Tourist posted:I got the collector's edition of World in Conflict shortly after it was released and it came with an actual piece of the Berlin Wall in the box. Pretty cool as far as video game memorabilia goes, and I think one of the last physical video games I got before I said gently caress it and just got everything off Steam. Multiplayer WiC was the poo poo when you were coordinating with friends. Especially a triple nuke strike.
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WiC is possibly one of the best PC games ever made, and I'm sad that they never released another. e: The single player story thread about the national guard soldier arguing with DFAS still cracks me up
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May 9, 2022 06:37
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World in Conflict was amazing and sadly they just recently killed the official multiplayer online servers forever. TBH, the game was incredibly ambitious for what it was trying to achieve in 2011 and it saddens me to no end that we won't see something like that again.
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Looks like it's 2.49 on GOG so I guess I'm buying it
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I'm heading to work in Brussels and my girlfriend is in Lithuania on a cultural exchange. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a tiny bit anxious at what today will bring, irrational as it may be.
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A Festivus Miracle posted:World in Conflict was amazing and sadly they just recently killed the official multiplayer online servers forever. It was great but it was a pretty natural evolution from Ground Control 1 and 2 - nothing that groundbreaking about it. Now Ground Control is the game I'd like another sequel to.
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Fragrag posted:I'm heading to work in Brussels and my girlfriend is in Lithuania on a cultural exchange. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a tiny bit anxious at what today will bring, irrational as it may be. I live within the cooking radius of several strategic military targets in Germany, so I'm right there with yah.
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No big announcement from Pooty Poot today, just the usual line about blaming the west blah blah blah.
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The air shows over most cities have been cancelled too.
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So much victory
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TEE FOURTEEN TEE FOURTEEN I want the spanish armata
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I know it's supposed to be a feelgood story, but all I can think about is how hosed up it is that children have a real, pressing need to learn about mine safety 
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DAAAAA DA DA DA DA DAAAAAAA DA DAAAAAAAAAAAAA DAAAAA DA DA DA DA DAAAAA DA DAAAAAAAAA DAAAAAAAAAAA DA DA DA DA DAAAA DA DAAAAAA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5fenjzeh7g
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May 9, 2022 10:29
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Alan Smithee posted:DAAAAA DA DA DA DA DAAAAAAA DA DAAAAAAAAAAAAA Pro- click right here. Actually made me cry.
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I like how in the lead-up to this, there was rampant speculation about what Putin would do - from declaring victory and throwing in the towel, to declaring nuclear war on NATO. And in the end, he decided to just ignore it and continue on as if nothing was wrong.
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Alan Smithee posted:DAAAAA DA DA DA DA DAAAAAAA DA DAAAAAAAAAAAAA From the comments: "When the 2nd best army in the world turns into the 2nd best army in Ukraine"
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