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What is the most powerful flying bug?
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🦋 15 3.71%
🦇 115 28.47%
🪰 12 2.97%
🐦 67 16.58%
dragonfly 94 23.27%
🦟 14 3.47%
🐝 87 21.53%
Total: 404 votes
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Calibanibal
Aug 25, 2015

Dr Kool-AIDS posted:

Biden has extended an olive branch to Russia.

fuckin wormtongue bitch

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Cpt_Obvious
Jun 18, 2007

https://twitter.com/TheGrayzoneNews/status/1592666520509120515

speng31b
May 8, 2010


thats a tomorrow problem. wait poo poo what time is it

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
Joseph Russcist Biden

PhilippAchtel
May 31, 2011

Neurolimal posted:

Can zelensky just skip to the part where he's elected POTUS

Remember when people were speculating idly about how Boris Johnson could theoretically be UK Prime Minister and US President at the same time?

lol lmao

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

Cpt_Obvious posted:

Joe Biden is too sleepy to declare war.

He's starving the people of Afghanistan with sanctions and banking freezes. the laziest way to wage war. big loser energy.

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
https://twitter.com/DecampDave/status/1592715635976724480?t=Xz0T2wZCgz1qpR1PhFIyWA&s=19

Best Friends
Nov 4, 2011


US arms and dollars fueling far right terrorist actions in Italy? hard to believe

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Is anyone even remotely surprised at this point?

razorscooter
Nov 5, 2008


personally i think we should have let the exploding grain silo or whatever turn into the real version of 99 luftballoons

CODChimera
Jan 29, 2009

DancingShade posted:

Is anyone even remotely surprised at this point?

im surprised they were caught

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

CODChimera posted:

im surprised they were caught

Don't worry it won't be reported any further.

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
https://twitter.com/brianlefevre87/status/1592204113366122496

seems a little bit too online

Pooky
Aug 29, 2004

I post fox news so u don't have to 💋
.

Pooky has issued a correction as of 06:36 on Nov 16, 2022

Starsfan
Sep 29, 2007

This is what happens when you disrespect Cam Neely

CODChimera posted:

im surprised they were caught

sounds like they were investigated and caught back in 2021, now that these groups are the heroes of Ukraine you can bet that they'll be moving around a bit more freely in the future.

speng31b
May 8, 2010


yikes

Seatbelts
Mar 29, 2010
https://twitter.com/Ukraine_WarNews/status/1592463587066646529?s=20&t=XcMpTzheG2ysqdmvLw24Dg
Look at this sneaky little guy

Calibanibal
Aug 25, 2015

a cheeky missile

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
Polygon: Playing Nazi Germany against Soviet Russia is a tough sell in the year of our lord 2022

Undaunted: Stalingrad could be the best wargame of the year — just hold your nose
By Charlie Hall
Nov 15, 2022

My own personal collection of board games is divided roughly into two halves. On the one side are the dozens of titles that I have distinct memories of playing with my family and friends. On the other side are all my wargames, and very occasionally, I will dust them. That’s why Undaunted: Stalingrad has me perplexed. It’s a wargame that those closest to me might actually enjoy playing because the mechanics are light, fun, and incredibly fast. But it is absolutely a wargame — a gritty little thing with slick mechanics, the rare tactical gem that requires planning in order to succeed. I simply don’t know which side of my collection it should go on. Maybe in the middle?

Undaunted: Stalingrad is the fourth game in the Undaunted series created by Trevor Benjamin and David Thompson. It uses a deck-building mechanic, whereby players start the game with a short stack of mediocre cards and work to tailor that deck over a number of rounds. The game board itself is made up of a number of tiles, on which sit a number of circular tokens representing military units like riflemen, machine-gun teams, and snipers. Players use the cards in their deck to activate those units, moving them across the map to take objectives and score points in order to win the scenario.

The mechanical system itself is brilliant, one that has been slowly refined since the release of Undaunted: Normandy in 2019. After drawing four cards, players must then use one of those cards to bid on who goes first. The remaining three cards can then be used to activate units. Pull two cards for the same unit, and that unit can both move and fire on your turn. Pull fog of war cards, on the other hand, and your troops will sit in their foxholes while the enemy passes them by. The result is a tense and tactical engagement that lasts anywhere from 30-60 minutes, tops.

...

But, while the mechanics themselves are first-rate, the theme of this game is one hell of a tough sell. Undaunted: Stalingrad is a faithful re-creation of the historical battle between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia — a fight that lasted more than five months, and resulted in roughly 2 million combat casualties and hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths. Combatants literally crawled through damaged sewer pipes to beat each other to death with their frozen, empty rifles. Many then starved to death.

For wargamers, Stalingrad is hallowed ground. It’s a place we’ve battled over in dozens of different titles, even seen firsthand in video games like Battlefield 1942, IL-2 Sturmovik, and Red Orchestra 2. But while something like Axis & Allies gives players a sense of cool detachment, a gods’-eye view of a massive world at war, everyone gets their hands dirty in Undaunted. And that means fans of traditional board games will have a difficult time choosing between this game’s two utterly deplorable factions. But if players can hold their noses long enough, they’ll find a surprisingly compelling historical narrative and rock-solid strategy gameplay — and a fast-moving campaign that they can easily finish in a single weekend.

Corky Romanovsky
Oct 1, 2006

Soiled Meat

Horizon Burning posted:

yeah, same. people are shook. i told them it may have been a Ukrainian aa missile and it's likely everyone will just forget about it and got told i was repeating kremlin sources :shrug:

The first casualty of war is Horizon Burning's credibility.

Calibanibal
Aug 25, 2015

For wargamers, Stalingrad is hallowed ground

F Stop Fitzgerald
Dec 12, 2010

thee uKKKraine

Clip-On Fedora
Feb 20, 2011


gasp

egads

what a shocker

Best Friends
Nov 4, 2011

https://twitter.com/ZekeJMiller/status/1592746625461460992?s=20&t=5WlcscZQd_pFaTyON0ogcg

Weka
May 5, 2019

That child totally had it coming. Nobody should be able to be out at dusk except cars.

Ardennes posted:

quote:

It marked the first time in the war that Russian weapons have come down on a NATO country.
Uh huh

Wasn't there that cruise missile / extremely old school drone that came down in iirc Romania? Or was that confirmed as Ukrainian?

Raskolnikov38 posted:

they've been sending them to NATO countries to get training. as long as ukraine can continue to mobilize and train soldiers they're not going to suffer the manpower issues that russia is with their refusal to mobilize more than the politically decided bare minimum

Britain is doing about 1400 a month and the EU just announced they'll do 15,000 over the next half a year. Seems like too few.

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

r*p*f*c*
when some of those javelins that got sold on the black market get fired off by some nazi bulgarians into a shopfront im sure we'll get the same "american-produced missile kills roma family of 6" type headlines

OctaMurk
Jun 21, 2013

we need to begin implementing arms control agreements before its too late

OctaMurk has issued a correction as of 06:56 on Nov 16, 2022

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

crepeface posted:

when some of those javelins that got sold on the black market get fired off by some nazi bulgarians into a shopfront im sure we'll get the same "american-produced missile kills roma family of 6" type headlines

Season 3 of Blowback hasn't even finished yet and we're already getting new material

fermun
Nov 4, 2009

regretfully, we accept poland's article 5 request. ukraine must be defeated.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

crepeface posted:

when some of those javelins that got sold on the black market get fired off by some nazi bulgarians into a shopfront im sure we'll get the same "american-produced missile kills roma family of 6" type headlines

Every single incident like that will be an unreported gas leak. Even when there was no gas connection.

Calibanibal
Aug 25, 2015


you are courting death

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


Fun Shoe

sad to see that us officials are on the russian disinformation payroll

Stairmaster
Jun 8, 2012

crepeface posted:

when some of those javelins that got sold on the black market get fired off by some nazi bulgarians into a shopfront im sure we'll get the same "american-produced missile kills roma family of 6" type headlines

This won't happen because they will be used on airplanes taking off and other such things instead.

Homeless Friend
Jul 16, 2007

gradenko_2000 posted:



seems a little bit too online

https://twitter.com/leftistbeard/status/1592600042963349505

Homeless Friend
Jul 16, 2007

we’re gonna need to send them missile defense for our missile defense

16-bit Butt-Head
Dec 25, 2014
dork brandon

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

r*p*f*c*

DancingShade posted:

Every single incident like that will be an unreported gas leak. Even when there was no gas connection.

well yeah, US submarines took out the gas connection already!!

Neurolimal
Nov 3, 2012
Condolences to Poland during this time of unprovoked aggression against its people

Ytlaya
Nov 13, 2005

gradenko_2000 posted:

Polygon: Playing Nazi Germany against Soviet Russia is a tough sell in the year of our lord 2022

And that means fans of traditional board games will have a difficult time choosing between this game’s two utterly deplorable factions.

lol jesus christ

edit: I feel like the internet and visibility of socialists/communists in more contemporary times has made this sort of liberal even worse than they were in the past, because now they feel this compulsion to prove that they're the reasonable sort of liberal/leftist who realizes that the USSR was evil and the double genocide theory is true. In the past the left was just completely invisible, but now these people see them on Twitter occasionally and have made it a personal mission to destroy The Tankies for the crime of corrupting the (eminently reasonable) dream of left-liberals everywhere.

Ytlaya has issued a correction as of 07:59 on Nov 16, 2022

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Al-Saqr
Nov 11, 2007

One Day I Will Return To Your Side.

gradenko_2000 posted:

Polygon: Playing Nazi Germany against Soviet Russia is a tough sell in the year of our lord 2022

Undaunted: Stalingrad could be the best wargame of the year — just hold your nose
By Charlie Hall
Nov 15, 2022

My own personal collection of board games is divided roughly into two halves. On the one side are the dozens of titles that I have distinct memories of playing with my family and friends. On the other side are all my wargames, and very occasionally, I will dust them. That’s why Undaunted: Stalingrad has me perplexed. It’s a wargame that those closest to me might actually enjoy playing because the mechanics are light, fun, and incredibly fast. But it is absolutely a wargame — a gritty little thing with slick mechanics, the rare tactical gem that requires planning in order to succeed. I simply don’t know which side of my collection it should go on. Maybe in the middle?

Undaunted: Stalingrad is the fourth game in the Undaunted series created by Trevor Benjamin and David Thompson. It uses a deck-building mechanic, whereby players start the game with a short stack of mediocre cards and work to tailor that deck over a number of rounds. The game board itself is made up of a number of tiles, on which sit a number of circular tokens representing military units like riflemen, machine-gun teams, and snipers. Players use the cards in their deck to activate those units, moving them across the map to take objectives and score points in order to win the scenario.

The mechanical system itself is brilliant, one that has been slowly refined since the release of Undaunted: Normandy in 2019. After drawing four cards, players must then use one of those cards to bid on who goes first. The remaining three cards can then be used to activate units. Pull two cards for the same unit, and that unit can both move and fire on your turn. Pull fog of war cards, on the other hand, and your troops will sit in their foxholes while the enemy passes them by. The result is a tense and tactical engagement that lasts anywhere from 30-60 minutes, tops.

...

But, while the mechanics themselves are first-rate, the theme of this game is one hell of a tough sell. Undaunted: Stalingrad is a faithful re-creation of the historical battle between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia — a fight that lasted more than five months, and resulted in roughly 2 million combat casualties and hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths. Combatants literally crawled through damaged sewer pipes to beat each other to death with their frozen, empty rifles. Many then starved to death.

For wargamers, Stalingrad is hallowed ground. It’s a place we’ve battled over in dozens of different titles, even seen firsthand in video games like Battlefield 1942, IL-2 Sturmovik, and Red Orchestra 2. But while something like Axis & Allies gives players a sense of cool detachment, a gods’-eye view of a massive world at war, everyone gets their hands dirty in Undaunted. And that means fans of traditional board games will have a difficult time choosing between this game’s two utterly deplorable factions. But if players can hold their noses long enough, they’ll find a surprisingly compelling historical narrative and rock-solid strategy gameplay — and a fast-moving campaign that they can easily finish in a single weekend.

God I am not asking much but please launch all the nukes humanity is too stupid to let live without just punishment.

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