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What is the most powerful flying bug? This poll is closed. |
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15 | 3.71% |
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115 | 28.47% |
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67 | 16.58% |
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94 | 23.27% |
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14 | 3.47% |
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87 | 21.53% |
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I think people need to define what they mean by "imperialist" (or come up with another term). In this content, the term is almost always used to attempt to draw some sort of parallel with the US.
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speng31b posted:yeah, it's almost like dirty bombs aren't real and never have been. makes ya think Oh yeah, then why is pripyat so irradiated?
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Nov 4, 2022 01:24
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speng31b posted:Dirty bomb? Nope You'll find all the dirty bombs you want in tankie pamps
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Nov 4, 2022 01:25
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CODChimera posted:so when is the next russian offensive? how are those conscripts doing? The camera cut away from Russia and has been on the SomethingAwful arc for a while now. Don't expect much development until this gets resolved.
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Nov 4, 2022 01:25
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Ytlaya posted:I think people need to define what they mean by "imperialist" (or come up with another term). In this content, the term is almost always used to attempt to draw some sort of parallel with the US. it's when an empire does something, hth
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Nov 4, 2022 01:28
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Nix Panicus posted:Its very funny to me that Ukraine spent so much effort on destroying all the bridges across the Dnieper and now their counter attack is never going to get off the ground because someone blew up all the bridges across the Dnieper. Really looking forward to the upcoming narrative shift to where it was Russia that blew up the bridges to avoid having to face the might of Ukraine Well, they wouldn't need bridges across the Dnieper, that said, I don't think all of them were destroyed either. That it was also odd that the Russians made a giant panic about the dam being destroyed, to the point of near certainity, and there hasn't been a peep about it for a week. Maybe the Russians were just working off bad intel, but the end, it didn't matter. (That or the Ukrainians had planned a larger assault that now is on hold.) I wonder if it just was the result of the Kerch bridge attack being not what the Ukrainians want and along with everything else, it got put on hiatus. There is chaos in war, but this one is a real odd duck. Also, there has very minimal movements going back and forth for a week.
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Nov 4, 2022 01:29
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can someone make it their gimmick to post D&D battlemaps of orcs vs human paladins with analysis on the war. I always wanted that for the old thread but I'm too poo poo a poster to do it
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Nov 4, 2022 01:30
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speng31b posted:it's when an empire does something, hth How many empires exist in the world right now?
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Nov 4, 2022 01:30
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Ytlaya posted:I think people need to define what they mean by "imperialist" (or come up with another term). In this content, the term is almost always used to attempt to draw some sort of parallel with the US. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fraKCzza0To https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7tHRm8GS8R0 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vhdcnQZf3fo https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv6f3lplUf8 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-kiLApX8FbQ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7EA6zxj2e-U https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oBYVmnMFMtA https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PHew1ozkM1w
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Nov 4, 2022 01:30
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first post
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Nov 4, 2022 01:30
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Dixon Chisholm posted:How many empires exist in the world right now? all of them
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Nov 4, 2022 01:30
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Janitor Ludwich IV posted:can someone make it their gimmick to post D&D battlemaps of orcs vs human paladins with analysis on the war. I always wanted that for the old thread but I'm too poo poo a poster to do it you're not allowed to talk about d&d
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Nov 4, 2022 01:31
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speng31b posted:all of them First sensible post you've made.
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Nov 4, 2022 01:31
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The United States is not an empire lol. Jesus Christ what am I even reading. Uh hello? We literally took no land in Iraq. Or Vietnam. Or anywhere! We never took any land from anyone.
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Nov 4, 2022 01:31
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Imperialism is a state of mind
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Nov 4, 2022 01:31
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speng31b posted:you're not allowed to talk about d&d 5th ed is pretty good E: poo poo!!
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Nov 4, 2022 01:31
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But for real. Russia is an empire.
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Nov 4, 2022 01:32
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30.5 Days posted:The big thing about it was like, how obvious it was that iraq didn't have WMDs and you'd have people suggesting completely insane ways they could have them. I remember there was a rush limbaugh thing that got really popular in dallas where I lived where people would say saddam had the nukes strapped to donkeys and was moving them around in the desert with a broom tied to their tail to cover their tracks. I think Limbaugh meant it as like a joke about how much iraq sucked or whatever, but two separate people repeated it to me very seriously as an explanation of how they probably had nukes. Remember the mobile weapons lab, or that he shipped them all off to Syria and any number of endless Tom Clancy explanations that were given
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Nov 4, 2022 01:32
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Ardennes posted:Well, they wouldn't need bridges across the Dnieper, that said, I don't think all of them were destroyed either. That it was also odd that the Russians made a giant panic about the dam being destroyed, to the point of near certainity, and there hasn't been a peep about it for a week. Panick is a bit of an exaggeration. Ukrainians have been shooting at it for a while and Russians decided that they weren't going to bother defending it and just take precautions for the possible eventuality of it breaking.
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Nov 4, 2022 01:33
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Dixon Chisholm posted:First sensible post you've made. the thread has had this debate 3 times before and each time, after much hemming and hawwing, has very seriously decided that "imperalism is best defined as when an empire does a bad thing." don't point at me i'm just the lorekeeper here.
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Nov 4, 2022 01:33
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Nix Panicus posted:Its time to intervene on the world stage to stop the next Hitler before he can get started. This is our 1939 moment. Every time we intervene to stop the next Hitler we are stopping the holocaust. 1 million dead in Iraq, more like 9 million saved from Sadam Adolf Hussain, checkmate.
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Nov 4, 2022 01:34
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:5th ed is pretty good mods !!
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Nov 4, 2022 01:34
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BitcoinRockefeller posted:Every time we intervene to stop the next Hitler we are stopping the holocaust. 1 million dead in Iraq, more like 9 million saved from Sadam Adolf Hussain, checkmate. More like Saddam Insane.
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Nov 4, 2022 01:35
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speng31b posted:the thread has had this debate 3 times before and each time, after much hemming and hawwing, has very seriously decided that "imperalism is best defined as when an empire does a bad thing." don't point at me i'm just the lorekeeper here. I was just banting.
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Nov 4, 2022 01:36
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I'm into Saddamism and Maoschism
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Nov 4, 2022 01:36
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That Qusay game too strong
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Nov 4, 2022 01:37
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speng31b posted:the thread has had this debate 3 times before and each time, after much hemming and hawwing, has very seriously decided that "imperalism is best defined as when an empire does a bad thing." don't point at me i'm just the lorekeeper here. begs the question, what is an empire?
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Nov 4, 2022 01:37
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Ytlaya posted:I think people need to define what they mean by "imperialist" (or come up with another term). In this content, the term is almost always used to attempt to draw some sort of parallel with the US. uncop posted:You could slightly oversimplify it as self-perpetuating dependence. You start from a position where dependence relations between nations have become pretty one-sided, there's no equal exchange of favors between them but instead one expects the other to give tribute to it in some form, in exchange for not messing with it in some serious fashion. The favors demanded, in turn, are calculated to perpetuate the existing dependence relation and produce new ones.
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Nov 4, 2022 01:37
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reading the godawful QCS thread (rather, it started it out good, but then descended into the exact kind of moralistic slapfighting it was meant to address) I was suddenly reminded of Thucydides' Melian Dialogue. It looks to me that what I'd vaguely describe as the anti-Ukranians, of which this thread is a decent example, resembles the Athenian, 'realist' position that understands politics and warfare as fundamentally determined by raw, naked power, while the moralistic Melian position - preferring death in defeat over life in negotiated surrender - can be recognised in the more loud voices in the Western pro-Ukrainians (not to mention the Ukrainians themselves, once you've found yourselves in an existential life-or-death struggle you can hardly interpret the conflict in any other manner). Interesting to know what you all think. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNzHOqjMHwY oscarthewilde has issued a correction as of 01:51 on Nov 4, 2022 |
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Nov 4, 2022 01:38
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im going to start syqing d&d monster manual, players handbook, all of it. that'll show em
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Nov 4, 2022 01:39
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Also it's actually a Russian false flag https://twitter.com/ukraine_world/status/1587785651277144067
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Nov 4, 2022 01:39
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Imperialism is when a country coups the democratically elected leadership of a different country, installs fascists, then takes advantage of an ethnic minority noping out of the sudden shift to fascism to stoke nationalism and paranoia as a lead up to expanding a military alliance in order to have a better vantage point to harass a geopolitical rival Imperialism is when you take actions to defend an ethnic enclave that has been under siege for eight years in violation of international treaty and to stop the expansion of a hostile military alliance into a neighboring country Imperialism is also when you way the gently caress overshoot that goal and decide first on some nebulous 'regime change' and then on as much land as you can grab with the plan for how to govern that territory to be determined later. Imperialism is *not* when a geopolitical power uses its influence and control over the international banking system to try and force its rivals into compliance Imperialism *is* when a nation uses control over its own natural resources as a bargaining chip to try and force its rivals into compliance. In short, imperialism is very complicated.
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Nov 4, 2022 01:41
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speng31b posted:you're not allowed to talk about d&d GURPS is OK though
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Nov 4, 2022 01:42
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oscarthewilde posted:reading the godawful QCS thread (rather, it started it out good, but then descended into the exact kind of moralistic slapfighting it was meant to address) I was suddenly reminded of Thucydides' Melian Dialogue. It looks to me that CSPAM has taken the Athenian, 'realist' position that understands politics and warfare as fundamentally determined by raw, naked power, while the moralistic Melian position - preferring death in defeat over life in negotiated surrender - can be recognised in the more loud voices in GBS and DND. Interesting to know what you all think. It's an interesting question, and I appreciate you posting the video - but remember, we're not talking about GBS or another other forum in this thread! 
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Nov 4, 2022 01:42
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Lostconfused posted:Panick is a bit of an exaggeration. Ukrainians have been shooting at it for a while and Russians decided that they weren't going to bother defending it and just take precautions for the possible eventuality of it breaking. They supposedly gave up on it at one point, but it is unclear if they actually stopped trying to repair it or not. There are also other bridges/pontoons/ferries etc, and it seems the Russians are able to get in and out enough to bring in pre-fab bunkers. It may simply be that the gamble didn't work out as hope and there were simply too many interlocking factors: from the Kerch bridge still being up, a change of the weather, the Russians being well entrenched, infrastructure damage to transportation etc etc that it didn't pencil out. On the other hand, there hasn't been much movement if not at all from the Russians. No real clear sign of an offensive on their part. Basically, it is back and forth trading, people are dying but there isn't much territory trading hands.
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Nov 4, 2022 01:43
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Corky Romanovsky posted:GURPS is OK though The GURPS historical books are annoyingly well researched and written for a game not intended for anyone to play.
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Nov 4, 2022 01:44
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Corky Romanovsky posted:GURPS is OK though Roll 3 times on table 164-3c: War Crime Accusations, and take the highest result.
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Nov 4, 2022 01:45
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I don't remember if it was GURPS or not but I found a campaign module set during the Fall of Constantinople. That was pretty fun.
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Nov 4, 2022 01:46
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Anyone excited about the fact that world war 3 has started? Because it has.
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D&D: Out of the QCS the home of horrific monsters that have never seen the light of day. It is here that the dark admin Jeffrey of YOSPOS, Arch admin of the dead and gay casts a foul spell meant to suppress the magical energy that suffuses the subforums and tears open portals to the demonic leper's colony. What posts through surprises even him, and from that moment on, the insanity that pervades the somethingawful escalates and threatens to shake the forums to its foundations. Stop the posting war before it consumes you!
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