GreenMetalSun posted:

The Canadian military, lol, and additionally, lmao.

TheDiceMustRoll posted:

According to /btg/, the plot is:

RIPPED FROM TODAY'S HEADLINES!!!!

JMBosch posted:

I think they're contracted through 2023. Though it would be nice if they at least threatened to move elsewhere once that's over with.

TheDiceMustRoll posted:

theres this whole thing about canadians and masturbating aggressively to the fact that some canadians fought WWI by uh, planning assaults and not just "hit with artillery a bunch then proceed with swarming waves of men through no-mans-lands" so now canadians basically view themselves as a tiny crack core of super-elite soldiers. And don't you dare bring up the Dieppe raid!

GreenMetalSun posted:

I am Canadian and I once drove into a highly restricted military base because no one bothered to close, or guard, the gate. They eventually asked me politely to leave.

These are the guys who are going to overthrow the US.

JMBosch posted:

I think they're contracted through 2023. Though it would be nice if they at least threatened to move elsewhere once that's over with.

joylessdivision posted:

So he just rewrote "The Turner Diaries" but made it slightly less openly racist?

Halloween Jack posted:

Oh, you can count on me to do a F&F of this, though I don't know when I'll get around to it. I got banned for digging up the guy's criminal record, may as well have fun with it.

joylessdivision posted:

So he just rewrote "The Turner Diaries" but made it slightly less openly racist?

TheDiceMustRoll posted:

Probably. It's funny he edited a picture, boomer-email-chain style, to show AOC demanding his book be banned - it is always AOC - which is something she would not waste political capital on. lol

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Maxwell Lord posted:

Also the official twitter page features a lot of cheesecake, and apparently in the Patreon he identifies himself as a "Col. Maj" in the armed forces, which is a rank that I cannot confirm exists.

Halloween Jack posted:

NEURO WAR posted:

Please note that I have bought the rights for the Infantry Hybrid Media Universe from my older brother Del, once a known at these forums. To update you he won a lawsuit against several psychiatrists and in separate news was shot and wounded while fighting as a serviceman in a Big Topical Warzone last year. He is fine. I will not discuss the family.

Improbable Lobster posted:

Big Tropical Warzone is my favourite WWII simulator

Cessna posted:

Just lol.

(The uniform is fantasy, and ribbons don't work like that.)

homullus posted:

If you have the leverage in traditional games to negotiate a contract with a morality clause (something akin to "if [suspect party] publishes statements which might reasonably be considered to negatively affect the reputation of Organization, Organization shall have the right to terminate this contract" ), consider doing so. These are the clauses that end athletes' endorsement deals, for example. Have a lawyer in your jurisdiction help you with the wording if at all feasible. These clauses can be written so that the offending party has a window of time to retract/clarify, if going directly to cancellation troubles you.

Xiahou Dun posted:

Could you expand?

Not cause I doubt you or nothing ; I know you're knowledgable and I'm interested.

Halloween Jack posted:

Leperflesh posted:

since I misread it at first, I'll note for my fellow sight-readers that this says "topical" warzone, not "tropical." Although I find that nearly as vague.

Xiahou Dun posted:

Could you expand?

Cessna posted:

I do not give the slightest of fucks if you wear any kind of medal or uniform, but if you're going to do it, put some effort into it.

Cessna posted:

I do not give the slightest of fucks if you wear any kind of medal or uniform, but if you're going to do it, put some effort into it.

Dawgstar posted:

Like the guy who claimed Mike Pondsmith was using a pseudonym so he could steal art that the guy himself claimed to have made (despite the pseudonym being a very real not-Mike person) and in one of the weird lists of accolades claimed to have either served as or under a 'Colonel Major.'

thatbastardken posted:

It's not...impossible?