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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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Cuttlefush
Jan 15, 2014

gotta have my purp

Tankbuster posted:

Playing arcade mode as the soviets recently I never had players that high up generally. Dumping bombs while watching something on netflix seems chill.

historical/realistic is the way. arcade can be fun, especially in some specific planes, but it homogenizes all the flight models. it has some neat maps sometimes though.

but play RB

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i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

that japanese giant flying boat is the best bomber, you just need a lil escort buddy

Cao Ni Ma
May 25, 2010




Human wave tactics :qq:

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration
Nap Ghost

i say swears online posted:

that japanese giant flying boat is the best bomber, you just need a lil escort buddy

Yeah, best bombers are aesthetics, and the Japanese and Russian flying boats look great.

Frosted Flake
Sep 13, 2011

Semper Shitpost Ubique

Well it comes back to the problem with Warthunder is the game not the simulation or models. It's a loving sorrow and a pity. They just added new transonic effects, realistic wingtip contrails and turbulence... and it's still team death match.

I don't get it.

ughhhh
Oct 17, 2012

Frosted Flake posted:

Well it comes back to the problem with Warthunder is the game not the simulation or models. It's a loving sorrow and a pity. They just added new transonic effects, realistic wingtip contrails and turbulence... and it's still team death match.

I don't get it.

There is the occasional world war mode or PvE events with specific objectives. Old WT had objectives in Air RB that could end the match early, but they were so unbalanced that you immediately knew which side would win if they got said objective.

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

the best maps were the runway cap ones with only 2 runways so it'd stalemate into a war of attrition

Cuttlefush
Jan 15, 2014

gotta have my purp

Penisaurus Sex posted:

Since it's mostly the war/history thread at this point does anyone have any recs on good books about the first and second Congo wars?

good question. could also ask in the marxism thread unless you're very specifically just interested in the military aspects (although even then) https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3967822

everyone has their congo crisis favorites but i don't about the 90s/2000s

Tankbuster
Oct 1, 2021
https://mobile.twitter.com/mcsquared34/status/1631768378007330817

Can't wait for the reconstruction of ukraine under the new marshall plan

30.5 Days
Nov 19, 2006

Budzilla posted:

Humour me for a bit. Let's just say tomorrow a report was released and no matter what, it couldn't be refuted and/or a propaganda campaign to effectively smear it. It was the absolute truth. It stated that 2 million Ukrainians and 2 million Russians have died in the current conflict. Extreme I know. From a political standpoint would these numbers be worse for Russia or Ukraine? It would also cause huge problems in Ukraine since ~5%(vs 1.5) of their population have been slaughtered. However with the towns been turned into dust, relentless assaults, bombing of civilian infrastructure and war crimes in places like Bucha a Ukrainian will probably begrudgingly accept it and a fight for survival. However this number might not be so acceptable for the average Russian especially since it is meant to be a "SMO'. The original point I was trying to make was that human losses are terrible but certain sides in war have a much higher tolerance for casualties. This particularly applies for this war for Ukrainians.

Listen guys, I think we can all agree that if a quarter of ukraine's working age men died right as their infrastructure had been blown up and another quarter of the population had fled, that'd be an unmitigated disaster for russia.

Cuttlefush
Jan 15, 2014

gotta have my purp
unironically yes

HiroProtagonist
May 7, 2007

lol i dont think this kind of identity politics is going to go well for them

Horseshoe theory
Mar 7, 2005

30.5 Days posted:

Listen guys, I think we can all agree that if a quarter of ukraine's working age men died right as their infrastructure had been blown up and another quarter of the population had fled, that'd be an unmitigated disaster for russia.

It would! If it was like the Justice Zone from "Red Dwarf".

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

god the d&d eu thread sucks poo poo

Ferdinand Bardamu
Apr 30, 2013

Tankbuster posted:

https://mobile.twitter.com/mcsquared34/status/1631768378007330817

Can't wait for the reconstruction of ukraine under the new marshall plan

:actually:

https://twitter.com/superlorna69/status/1632042192066813952

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

Cuttlefush posted:

unironically yes

Ferdinand Bardamu
Apr 30, 2013

i say swears online posted:

god the d&d eu thread sucks poo poo

chairface
Oct 28, 2007

No matter what you believe, I don't believe in you.

i say swears online posted:

the best maps were the runway cap ones with only 2 runways so it'd stalemate into a war of attrition

legit love the 3 runway capture maps. having to do touch-and-goes to cap the airfield during a firefight really teaches you the speed at which the tires catch on fire for various craft. and it makes you value poo poo like stukas with fixed gear cuz you can land much rougher on fixed gear and get away with it. also pubbies think stukas are just dive bombers and constantly forget about the one with dual 37mm bloop guns lobbing he shells

Doktor Avalanche
Dec 30, 2008

i say swears online posted:

god the d&d eu thread sucks poo poo

lol of course it does, it's d&d

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

https://twitter.com/nyuszami/status/1632056513085808640

in retrospect we should have been more suspicious when putin briefly started unbombing ukraine in 2014

Mister Bates
Aug 4, 2010

Eastern European nations, such as Canada

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

Mister Bates posted:

Eastern European nations, such as Canada

American Galicia.

yellowcar
Feb 14, 2010

Mister Bates posted:

Eastern European nations, such as Canada

canada loves collecting fascist exiles like pokemon cards

tristeham
Jul 31, 2022

i say swears online posted:

god the d&d eu thread sucks poo poo

oh word

Comrade Koba
Jul 2, 2007

Penisaurus Sex posted:

Since it's mostly the war/history thread at this point does anyone have any recs on good books about the first and second Congo wars?

i really liked Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa

it’s loving insane how the second congo war is the deadliest conflict since WW2 and 99% of people know gently caress all about it

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018
Probation
Can't post for 4 hours!

Comrade Koba posted:

i really liked Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa

it’s loving insane how the second congo war is the deadliest conflict since WW2 and 99% of people know gently caress all about it

no one cares about wars like that if they dont effect white people

fits my needs
Jan 1, 2011

Grimey Drawer

AnimeIsTrash posted:

no one cares about wars like that if they dont effect white people

Death By The Blues
Oct 30, 2011

Huh the guy quoted here is a member of Svoboda, wonder what that is...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svoboda_(political_party)

Jonah Galtberg
Feb 11, 2009

affect* :spergin:

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

https://twitter.com/TaaviRoivas/status/1632080851025395713

wow i had no idea that estonia has one of the most democratic governments in the world

Cuttlefush
Jan 15, 2014

gotta have my purp

yeah but it's so fuckin dumb that your affect can be affected by effects. who the gently caress effected that

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1631995609795141632

hes right i dont believe it

Private Cumshoe
Feb 15, 2019

AAAAAAAGAGHAAHGGAH

nice trait, if you can get it

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

https://twitter.com/officejjsmart/status/1632079416154021889

my god putin is trying to kill this man by force feeding him cheeseburgers

Vomik
Jul 29, 2003

This post is dedicated to the brave Mujahideen fighters of Afghanistan

Some Guy TT posted:

https://twitter.com/TaaviRoivas/status/1632080851025395713

wow i had no idea that estonia has one of the most democratic governments in the world

Estonia is a more racist Montana

lobster shirt
Jun 14, 2021

Some Guy TT posted:

https://twitter.com/TaaviRoivas/status/1632080851025395713

wow i had no idea that estonia has one of the most democratic governments in the world

lol at the turnout

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

https://twitter.com/TVietor08/status/1631794165175689216

very encouraging to hear that all the best most beloved figures in american politics approve of bidens ukraine policy

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

lobster shirt posted:

lol at the turnout

seems dece for early voting??

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

https://twitter.com/apmassaro3/status/1632028427015389184

wow what a wrong post that im only calling attention to so that people can see how wrong it is

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i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

:vince: yes i know he's misusing the word

https://twitter.com/uncle_authority/status/1632044757647085570

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