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Hyrax Attack! posted:Oh yeah glad that worked out for him, the initial thread was bizarre. CPS takes away your kid and your first action is to post a thread on Something Awful rather than more pressing concerns. I think he lived in a trailer in one of the Dakotas and tried to frame the cops & CPS as unreasonable bullies for the state of the house and got some goon sympathy until he posted photos after “cleaning up” and it was a disgusting mess with a cat hidden in every photo. I think it also emerged that he was impoverished & yet spent student loan money on a gaming rig and then a lot of time gaming rather than having his place not be a terrible place for a kid to live. I have a vague visual memory of the images and yeah, they were horrible and it was really sad. Glad that goon intervention actually worked for once. Also, before we get back on track, I swear I have a memory of a thread of a goon who had a random hole in his bedroom through which he would stick his dick through and just piss into rather than going to the restroom
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my kinda ape posted:I've gone into E/N maybe 10 times since I registered in 2008 and by incredible chance I happened to randomly stumble on that CPS thread in the first few pages and the best part was he was spending $2300 on a gaming PC with a $600 graphics card in 2011 while living in a house where there were spots they wouldn't walk on because the floor was so rotted that there was a danger you might fall through Oh for sure. I’m re-reading, it’s more absurd that I remembered. CPS took both his 5 year old and 9 month old and understandably his wife was a bit stressed, and yet he was still posting photos of his hovel in hopes this would unlock the cheat code for someone to tell him the perfect way to sue CPS for lots of money. Also thought it was acceptable parenting to sleep until 10am on a Sunday until your child wakes you up to request food, as he was up so late for mysterious reasons (Minecraft rig.)
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Just Another Lurker posted:Ditto. the thing that actually got mittani to "resign" was the fact that it came out that he had been defending someone he knew was a pedo for over 10 years, to keep that person in the alliance for ~reasons~
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Fragrag posted:I have a vague visual memory of the images and yeah, they were horrible and it was really sad. Glad that goon intervention actually worked for once. Oh some of the images later in the thread still work: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3453028&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=11
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my kinda ape posted:I've gone into E/N maybe 10 times since I registered in 2008 and by incredible chance I happened to randomly stumble on that CPS thread in the first few pages and the best part was he was spending $2300 on a gaming PC with a $600 graphics card in 2011 while living in a house where there were spots they wouldn't walk on because the floor was so rotted that there was a danger you might fall through one of the few times I've clicked on E/N I saw someone who was one of the loudest and most obnoxious people who does nothing but screech at people about politics complaining about being 35 and having never kissed anyone that's my e/n story
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Ukraine news has been slow. Thread is way off topic. I don’t feel strongly about idiot kinging this back on rails. If anyone participating in the thread is frustrated by the derail, speak up and we’ll move the conversation elsewhere.
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We're generally pretty good at coming back in topic when news drops, so I'd say carry on
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Bringing this back on topic, a whole poo poo ton of Wagners in Soledar got blasted by artillery and lost at least a company's worth of men because they were all in a single file line nuts to butts in a shoulder height trench with no zig-zagging and the whole company was wiped out with 3 shells. If this is indicative of the average mobik unit post-mobilization then this is some truly  level of casualty acceptance and given tomorrow is likely going to be the announcement of another mobik wave with Mobilization 2: Mobik Boogaloo, Russia might seriously damage its demographics more than they already are. They're already in population decline year over year. Wiping out a few % of your younger men isn't going to help that at all.Should be noted that the reason they're in this population demographic Malthusian problem in the first place is because they lost 25 million people in WW2 and that was enough to seriously stunt their population growth for the next ~55 years and to an extent are still feeling it today. 
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HonorableTB posted:Bringing this back on topic, a whole poo poo ton of Wagners in Soledar got blasted by artillery and lost at least a company's worth of men because they were all in a single file line nuts to butts in a shoulder height trench with no zig-zagging and the whole company was wiped out with 3 shells. If this is indicative of the average mobik unit post-mobilization then this is some truly I sure have been seeing a lot of stories lately that make me think "they're not doing human wave attacks, they're just having a lot of casualties from poor training and equipment" isn't as true as it might have been. Last week I saw a drone video of a crater-ridden plain with zero cover littered with over 60 bodies, all tightly grouped. Tiny Timbs fucked around with this message at 21:27 on Jan 17, 2023 |
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Hekk posted:Ukraine news has been slow. Thread is way off topic. I don’t feel strongly about idiot kinging this back on rails. If anyone participating in the thread is frustrated by the derail, speak up and we’ll move the conversation elsewhere. I might wander off a bit but the several Ukraine threads here on SA are my main source regarding the war (even get to hear stuff before mainstream news  ). -------------------------------- HonorableTB posted:Bringing this back on topic, a whole poo poo ton of Wagners in Soledar got blasted by artillery and lost at least a company's worth of men because they were all in a single file line nuts to butts in a shoulder height trench with no zig-zagging and the whole company was wiped out with 3 shells. If this is indicative of the average mobik unit post-mobilization then this is some truly A lot of the trench was about 1m in depth by the looks of things, no training or laziness, it was all just so bad.
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Tiny Timbs posted:I sure have been seeing a lot of stories lately that make me think "they're not doing human wave attacks, they're just having a lot of casualties from poor training and equipment" isn't as true as it might have been. Last week I saw a drone video of a crater-ridden plain with zero cover it littered with over 60 bodies, all tightly grouped. Those videos have become extremely normal on telegram - I monitor a lot of Z and UKR channels for reporting and videos of mobiks getting annihilated in groups like that is more commonplace than any other kind of combat footage lately except for drone grenade drops. They're zerg rushing mobiks into prepared defensive lines and they just melt away
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I'm kind of enjoying the karmic symmetry of this thread organically turning into PYF forums sagas for a while since the nominal PYF sagas thread is temporarily the replacement for QCS
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yeah it's a nice break before the inevitable storm on a topical note: Zaluzhny met with Milley for the first time https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/01/17/milley-zaluzhny-poland-ukraine-russia/
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HonorableTB posted:Bringing this back on topic, a whole poo poo ton of Wagners in Soledar got blasted by artillery and lost at least a company's worth of men because they were all in a single file line nuts to butts in a shoulder height trench with no zig-zagging and the whole company was wiped out with 3 shells. If this is indicative of the average mobik unit post-mobilization then this is some truly
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bird food bathtub posted:The effect of demographics on Russian society are being turbo charged above and beyond just the numbers. Brain drain is a real thing and that poo poo went to ludicrous speed when this all kicked off. Between war dead and those that fled abroad and are unlikely to return after the mobilization was announced, I wonder what the overall cost in missing males will be for Russian society?
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If you agree with Peter Zeihan, Russian demographics were already doomed to start with and were a likely cause of the war to begin with. If his assessments are true, Russia/Putin have no other options other than to win this war. With the probable (still have not read anything from Russian sources) second mobilization Russia could have something towards a million men on the frontlines come spring/early summer for an offensive, how they will equip/feed/train them is another thing. But it makes sense with NATOs current seeming urgency to equip Ukraine with more armor/patriots which will come into play around that time as well. In regards to mobiks in shallow trenches, welcome to digging during the winter. Even if the ground is not totally frozen, it has been cold enough around there to make it difficult.
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Tiny Timbs posted:I sure have been seeing a lot of stories lately that make me think "they're not doing human wave attacks, they're just having a lot of casualties from poor training and equipment" isn't as true as it might have been. Last week I saw a drone video of a crater-ridden plain with zero cover littered with over 60 bodies, all tightly grouped. What are human wave attacks if not a way of compensating for a lack of trained personnel and equipment.
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bird food bathtub posted:The effect of demographics on Russian society are being turbo charged above and beyond just the numbers. Brain drain is a real thing and that poo poo went to ludicrous speed when this all kicked off. Have they implemented anything similar to the Berlin Wall to keep their young and well educated from leaving? I guess aside from the draft?
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Pentagon Press Sec did a press conference, links below, I've cut out everything that is not about Ukraine, as this is a general press conference covering topics beyond the scope of Ukraine. Not much today. Link: https://www.defense.gov/News/Transc...n-camera-press/ Highlights: -US Patriot training ongoing. Plan is for one tranche of training one battery-ish worth of people. The US is not conducting training in support of the German pledge of their own Patriot Battery. Patriot training will last for months. I cut out a lot of questions about doing press coverage/video of it, but the press wants to go see it and the DOD is being a bit noncommittal. -No details on the Russian missile strike on an apartment building in Dnipro. -Maybe more details after the next contact group meeting (multiple countries getting together to discuss collective pledges, way ahead for support to Ukraine, etc) quote:BRIGADIER GENERAL PAT RYDER: Good afternoon, everyone.
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Oleksiy Arestovych just resigned as presidential adviser to Zelensky, apparently because of some remarks he made about the apartment block that was just demolished in Dnipro. I think he may have suggested that the Russian cruise missile was clipped by Ukrainian air defense which caused it to slam into the building. Not sure if he's going to carry on with his daily updates. I found them to be pretty informative, although back when I had a twitter account I did see several Ukrainians on there say that he's a major rear end in a top hat.
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Nuclear Tourist posted:Not sure if he's going to carry on with his daily updates. I found them to be pretty informative, although back when I had a twitter account I did see several Ukrainians on there say that he's a major rear end in a top hat. a major rear end in a top hat that deflects Russian cruise missile casualties on Ukrainian defenses, what are the odds
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Ironically it's more or less a messaging friendly fire thing. Dude has been one of the central voices of Ukrainian messaging since day 1 and has been pretty skillful at it as far as I can tell. In this case he mentioned that the missile that hit the building in Dnipro had been intercepted (which afaik actually was true?) but the entire messaging apparatus had spun up around using it as an example of Russian terrorism targeted at civilians (which tbf is true whether they intentionally blew up an apartment building or unintentionally blew up an apartment building), but it caused an absolute firestorm in pro-Ukraine social media as this was viewed as a tragic but golden opportunity to amplify the attack for some extremely timely sympathy ahead of some very important meetings happening wrt future support for Ukraine.Nuclear Tourist posted:Oleksiy Arestovych just resigned as presidential adviser to Zelensky, apparently because of some remarks he made about the apartment block that was just demolished in Dnipro. I think he may have suggested that the Russian cruise missile was clipped by Ukrainian air defense which caused it to slam into the building. accepted resignation or just offered it? I saw that he'd offered to resign earlier Herstory Begins Now fucked around with this message at 10:32 on Jan 18, 2023 |
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Just watched a video of a Ukrainian drone picking up an encrypted russian radio. Lol. I'll link instead of embed, because the next video in the aggregate is russians collecting artillery to the face. https://youtu.be/kCqViNSuG5I
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Have they implemented anything similar to the Berlin Wall to keep their young and well educated from leaving? I guess aside from the draft? From the D&D thread, emigration in general is just plain difficult at this point both due to border checks and more importantly due to other nations being currently reluctant to take Russian refugees, especially border countries concerned that Russian will use the existence of those refugees as justification for future invasion. The brain drain is happening anyways, and as far as I know the Russian government has been belatedly trying to use the carrot instead of the stick to keep programmers from leaving - exemption from mobilization, economic benefits, etc. Don't think it's been terribly successful but hey. Edit: They've also tried using advertisements to shame those who are leaving. I leave it to you to judge how successful that might be. Tomn fucked around with this message at 01:46 on Jan 18, 2023 |
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Tomn posted:From the D&D thread, emigration in general is just plain difficult at this point both due to border checks and more importantly due to other nations being currently reluctant to take Russian refugees, especially border countries concerned that Russian will use the existence of those refugees as justification for future invasion. The brain drain is happening anyways, and as far as I know the Russian government has been belatedly trying to use the carrot instead of the stick to keep programmers from leaving - exemption from mobilization, economic benefits, etc. Don't think it's been terribly successful but hey. Ah interesting thanks for info, I had heard of there being a long history of people not being allowed to leave including the Refuseniks, didn’t know that was still an issue. Is anyone following the German defense minister being replaced? Sounds like the previous person wasn’t really a wartime leader so hopefully will be an improvement.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Ah interesting thanks for info, I had heard of there being a long history of people not being allowed to leave including the Refuseniks, didn’t know that was still an issue. From my understanding the replacement is even less so a wartime leader because the Ministry of Defense is a dumping pool without as much power as you'd expect. People get sent there to be set up for blame for Scholtz's decisions.
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Itchy_Grundle posted:I just mixed up the videos, it was however the funniest thing that DPPH created. I think they were the ones that somehow actually summoned a porn star to register an account, whereupon GBS and FYAD tore her to pieces in pretty short order. Since the thread got back on track, I will too; if Russia is determined to drown the Ukrainian front line in corpses, and it actually works, do they have the maneuver assets to actually follow up and exploit it? Or are we looking at the Somme v2.0?
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GD_American posted:I think they were the ones that somehow actually summoned a porn star to register an account, whereupon GBS and FYAD tore her to pieces in pretty short order. They're dragging T-55s out of storage, so probably not. They lack armored cavalry for screening operations, so even if they manage to break through, it will probably result in a pocket that Ukraine can use to envelop them just like they did around Kyiv. Except this time they won't even have armored vehicles to protect themselves from Ukraine's newly-supplied western artillery. I'm also not sure how they would supply an extended push, particularly with HIMARS targeting every rear-echelon unit. Right now the front lines are close enough to Russia/pre-2022 occupied territory that logistics isn't as much of an issue. psydude fucked around with this message at 09:33 on Jan 18, 2023 |
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Curiously there've been far, far fewer russian vehicles filmed in use recently (or even shown not in use) and while that appears to be mostly an adaptation to Ukraine firing PGMs at every tank they see within range, I do wonder to what extent the attrition is taking its toll. I don't believe there's any sign that they're so short on vehicles that they're incapable of maneuver. They do seem to be considerably lower on their more modern vehicles though mostly I think they're just storing everything inside or under significant cover if at all possible, eg https://twitter.com/TheDeadDistrict/status/1615322533233819649 (some graphic stuff on that timeline, scroll with care, nothing graphic in that clip though) presumably much of the recent vehicle call up is for new units that they're working to equip, too.
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https://twitter.com/AJEnglish/status/1615636653183221761Al Jazeera’s Natacha Butler reporting from Kyiv posted:“This is Ukraine’s interior minister, one of the highest posts in the country; his deputy,” Butler said. Sheeeees.
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Laughing Zealot posted:https://twitter.com/AJEnglish/status/1615636653183221761 Helicopters, man. Helicopters.
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Itchy_Grundle posted:It's hard to tell from the clip, but that looks like maybe a company's worth of tanks in what seems to be an indoor (unheated) motor pool. I can't say whether it's improvised or not, but that looks like a brush guard.
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Stultus Maximus posted:Helicopters, man. Helicopters. you could probably get me to ride once. Probably have to pay me to ride twice
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Alan Smithee posted:you could probably get me to ride once. Probably have to pay me to ride twice Once is enough, really. I mean, in Afghanistan it was preferable to driving along at 25 mph between FOBs in a Convoy, but I'm in no hurry to get back inside of one. e: My first flight in-country was in an old HH-3 operated by a civilian contract crew. On the way down, oil or some other lubricant started leaking from the engine into the passenger area. I flagged down the crew chief to point it out, and his reply (yelled over the noise, of course) was: "As long as it keeps dripping, we're fine!" psydude fucked around with this message at 14:49 on Jan 18, 2023 |
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Alan Smithee posted:you could probably get me to ride once. Probably have to pay me to ride twice I’ve been paid to ride in several but any time I could choose I went with small boat.
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Alan Smithee posted:you could probably get me to ride once. Probably have to pay me to ride twice My first deployment involved every aircraft I stepped foot on getting shot at in some way/shape/form. Every single one. Even the C-130 into Anaconda at the very beginning. Technically, there was one helicopter I didn't get shot at, but I immediately stepped off it since they cancelled the flight. And the helicopter was deadlined. I like to think that is the trip where I avoided death.
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