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15 | 3.71% |
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115 | 28.47% |
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12 | 2.97% |
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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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Frosted Flake posted:e: I think it may have been Reichsführer-SS Brigade, but I would need to read more on Operation Achse, Germany's invasion of Italy. I'll try and track down an excellent paper I read about this. Went into great detail about the enormous economic gain the Germans received as a result of the invasion.
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Nov 17, 2022 23:20
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PoontifexMacksimus posted:But Orcs are made from mud?? this is incorrect, Peter Jackson took some liberties in the films, but canonically orcs love to tunnel in mud, but are not made from it / incubated in it explicitly.
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Nov 17, 2022 23:21
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The Uruk hai in the books were made from breading orcs and humans together
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Nov 17, 2022 23:21
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interestingly it doesn't seem as though that italian group had any serious hardware. i'm holding out for some neo-nazi sect doing a bank robbery with a javelin, personally
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Nov 17, 2022 23:23
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euphronius posted:The Uruk hai in the books were made from breading orcs and humans together lmao did JRR The Passing of the Great Race
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Nov 17, 2022 23:23
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bedpan posted:lmao did JRR The Passing of the Great Race the human-orc breeding program as an origin of the Uruk-hai was speculated about by various characters, but never confirmed canonically.
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Nov 17, 2022 23:31
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it is confirmed in the lord of the rings which is “canon”
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Nov 17, 2022 23:33
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its very clear that russian uruk hai are the result of breeding between true orcs (mongolians) and humans (ukrainians)
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Nov 17, 2022 23:34
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euphronius posted:it is confirmed in the lord of the rings which is “canon” It's not middle-earth canon or Tolkien's canon https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle-earth_canon
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Nov 17, 2022 23:38
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lmao literally quoting Wikipedia at me
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Nov 17, 2022 23:40
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euphronius posted:lmao literally quoting Wikipedia at me thats right
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Nov 17, 2022 23:41
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If anyone is interested in some of the mechanics of how the modern orc arose I have to recommend the following book, it dispels the ‘arisen from mud’ myth and details how “used” bath water was the primary medium used to spawn orcs:
Turtle Watch has issued a correction as of 00:01 on Nov 18, 2022 |
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Nov 17, 2022 23:42
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COH 1 was good but COH 2 may as well have been written by the Stepan Bandera Institute of Anticommunist Studies
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Nov 18, 2022 00:33
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gradenko_2000 posted:COH 1 was good but COH 2 may as well have been written by the Stepan Bandera Institute of Anticommunist Studies 
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Nov 18, 2022 00:36
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move your game company to canada for the tax breaks, stay for the banderite propaganda
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Nov 18, 2022 00:38
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Eagerly awaiting the maple leaf to join the swastika, wolfsangle, and sonnonrad on the list of hate symbols.
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Nov 18, 2022 00:49
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I like Homeworld though.
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Nov 18, 2022 00:58
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Lostconfused posted:I like Homeworld though. I haven't paid close enough attention to the Homeworld lore to know if there were warning signs present.
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Nov 18, 2022 01:01
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Homeworld is definitely dicey since it covers exile, genocide, race traitors, divine destiny, reclaiming the homeland, lots of room for interpretation.
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Nov 18, 2022 01:05
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Pretzel Rod Stewart posted:https://twitter.com/zevshalev/status/1593011063435689984?s=46&t=qRE5bXe930OFnANJywmIKg the vile Russians are simple, no need for intellectual property
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Nov 18, 2022 01:06
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Frosted Flake posted:I haven't paid close enough attention to the Homeworld lore to know if there were warning signs present. A distorted version of Gagarin’s speech was used as a stand in for a speech by the evil space emperor. There is also a bit of a plot hole/issue with what happened to the new imperial population of your homeworld. There is some level of implied “reverse” ethnic cleaning. (Sorry for ruining Homeworld anyone but the ending has got some issues.) Ardennes has issued a correction as of 01:21 on Nov 18, 2022 |
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Nov 18, 2022 01:07
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Ardennes posted:A distorted version of Gagarin’s speech was used as a stand in for a speech by the evil space emperor. What is reverse ethnic cleansing? Forced miscegenation?
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Nov 18, 2022 01:23
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HashtagGirlboss posted:What is reverse ethnic cleansing? Forced miscegenation? They ethnically cleansed you and then you did the same thing to them, eye for an eye.
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Nov 18, 2022 01:24
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Ardennes posted:They ethnically cleansed you and then you did the same thing to them, eye for an eye. Yikes.
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Nov 18, 2022 01:26
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Oh! OK. The lower glacis plate is super canted back in the first pic
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Nov 18, 2022 01:30
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Ukraine should surrender
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Nov 18, 2022 01:42
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Was this thread the one that was talking about GURPS? From the WW2 book on the Red Army: TAKING THE OTHER SIDE Hitler resisted any effort to convert unhappy Soviets to the Nazi cause. He wanted to exterminate, not “liberate.” More practical Germans, however, saw that Stalin’s harsh rule had disaffected millions, creating a vast pool of potential recruits who could tip the scales on the Eastern Front. Given that they usually had to recruit quietly, lest the Führer notice, these German authorities did not mobilize a great number of dissidents, but they had their successes. THE UKRAINIANS Since the 1920s, the Ukrainian regions of Galitsia and Volhyn had fought Polish rule with a substantial right-wing resist- ance that eventually organized as the Organizatsiya Ukrainskikh Natsionalistiv, or OUN. In September 1939, these lands fell under Soviet control under Stalin’s secret pact with Hitler. Communist rule – especially under a regime that had already murdered so many Ukrainians – certainly was no trade up in OUN eyes, though some Polish Ukrainians sincerely felt otherwise. (Exactly how many will never be known, though the Soviets held a referendum and claimed 93% support.) The resistance’s leadership relocated to the German-held Polish territories, where they began discussions with the Third Reich’s officials. At a February 1940 meeting in Krakow, the movement split into factions. The OUN-B under Stefan Ban- dera joined the Nazi camp while the OUN-M kept its distance for the moment. As Barbarossa began, both OUN factions led militarized raiding formations organized by the Germans and called Nachtigall and Roland. These specialized in atrocities against Jews, of a viciousness that often outperformed even hardened SS killers. Eventually, the OUN’s insistence on independence led it to fall out with the Nazis. The leadership was arrested and scattered, but their followers continued to support the German regime, many joining the 14th Galician SS Division or furthering the persecution of Jews. Of all the dissidents described in this section, the Ukraini- ans had the greatest odds of escaping Soviet retribution after the war. Many of them pointed out that, technically, they were Polish citizens, and thus escaped deportation from U.S. or British zones of control as wartime traitors to their country.
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Nov 18, 2022 02:29
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All coh games are garbage.
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Nov 18, 2022 02:33
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GURPS setting the score on the OUN and knowing what's what is why it's the best rpg
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Nov 18, 2022 02:36
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Marzzle posted:the worst AI commander to fight in coh2 is one with an ability to do "propaganda pamphlets" which is basically a UNLIMITED RANGE AoE attack that make any non-mechanized unit retreat to your home base. the AI does them with lightning quick reactions to gently caress you over constantly and it's a huge headache apparently in the world of COH2, not only are the soviets nazi caricatures, but D'Annunzio's flight over Vienna was actually a sound use of resources.
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Nov 18, 2022 02:49
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tearfully begging Zelensky not to ascend to a higher plane of existence until the war is over
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Nov 18, 2022 03:07
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Minenfeld! posted:All coh games are garbage. you would think that, because you've never been in the company of heroes
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Nov 18, 2022 03:08
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Organ Fiend posted:Eagerly awaiting the maple leaf to join the swastika, wolfsangle, and sonnonrad on the list of hate symbols. It's already been established on our 5$ bill that the Maple Leaf is a vile symbol of hate
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Nov 18, 2022 03:15
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homeworld kicks rear end, homeworld: cataclsym was a lot of fun. homeworld 2 was not very good imo, mostly because of unit scaling.
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Nov 18, 2022 03:15
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homeworld remastered also has scaling added to it which imo is a stupid way to "balance" games. if i successfully micro my ships to prevent them from being destroyed and steal a bunch of enemy ships ,i shouldn't be punished by having to face even bigger enemy fleets. just one mans take.
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Nov 18, 2022 03:17
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the Kushans being exiled from their homeworld, and then driving all the way back to reclaim, and then throwing the Taiidans out of the same world, has a lot of The Implication going on
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Nov 18, 2022 03:18
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In masters of Orion 2 I preferred to use orbital weapons to bombard enemy planets into near extinction then ship in my own colonists. By having the absolute minimum of conquered population it decreased the chance of future revolts without having to completely rebuild from scratch. The quicker alternative was to drop in a lot more troopships than you really needed and build a barracks and alien conversion centre immediately.
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Nov 18, 2022 03:37
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DancingShade posted:In masters of Orion 2 I preferred to use orbital weapons to bombard enemy planets into near extinction then ship in my own colonists. By having the absolute minimum of conquered population it decreased the chance of future revolts without having to completely rebuild from scratch. the other way to do this is to take over the planet, and then send over the conquered pops via transport to a planet that's already full on population the planet won't accept them, and they'll die in the atmosphere that way you get to clean house, but you get to keep all the structures already built even a Democracy can do this, which cannot otherwise eliminate pops violently
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Nov 18, 2022 03:50
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lobster shirt posted:homeworld remastered also has scaling added to it which imo is a stupid way to "balance" games. if i successfully micro my ships to prevent them from being destroyed and steal a bunch of enemy ships ,i shouldn't be punished by having to face even bigger enemy fleets. just one mans take. Please tell me it's possible to turn that off, I really want to play it but not if they did bullshit like that to precious space baby. Btw the scaling was unfair against the ai, all you need to do is decommission every ship you've got at the end of the mission, then in three next mission the ai starts with nothing and you start with a dragon hoard of resources you can convert to a huge fleet and crush em.
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gradenko_2000 posted:the Kushans being exiled from their homeworld, and then driving all the way back to reclaim, and then throwing the Taiidans out of the same world, has a lot of The Implication going on The Kushans actually do very little; the Taiidani Empire is at that point in open revolt against an increasingly erratic and despotic emperor, who proceeds to get himself killed trying to play generalissimo, and before the Kushans are wiped out by the converging imperial fleets the Galactic Council steps in and negotiates a settlement which the Taiidani administration accepts. All this galactic politicking goes above the Kushans' heads - with nowhere to return to since Kharak was destroyed, all they have left is a quasi-religious pilgrimage to Hiigara.
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