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Mar 31, 2023 17:10
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StoryTime posted:Oh man, I still remember the massive strategy gaming forums flamewars about spearmen defeating tanks in Sid Meier's Civilization, back in the day. All kinds of wild scenarios were postulated to explain how the wily Aztecs managed to destroy rampaging modern armor. Digging huge holes and tricking the tanks into driving in was absolutely one of them. I think the closest thing to this in reality is during the Spanish conquest of Tenerife, where the local Guanches who were living in an essentially stone-age society, armed with literal rocks and hardened wood spears, were attacked by 1100 Spaniards who had horses, guns, crossbows and plate armor, but who were led by an arrogant noble who got just a little too overconfident in his technological superiority and managed to lead his force into a ravine where the locals killed 80%+ of them by throwing rocks down from the sides in the first battle of Acentejo. Sadly, the noble managed to escape, and six months later came back with a similar force but with the arrogance dialed down a bit and conquered and enslaved the locals. If someone believes that they are absolutely going to win because of superior equipment and has nothing but contempt on the abilities of their enemies, a smart adversary can defeat them. Regardless of the equipment.
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Mar 31, 2023 17:10
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zone posted:https://twitter.com/Mike_Eckel/status/1641716943576088578 This is just the regular bi-annual conscription call up, and the numbers aren't anything extraordinary. Now, what happens to the current outgoing intake is another story, they can go from being conscripts who can't fight unless a war is declared, to being mobilised as soon as they are discharged from their compulsory service. As for the poo poo Erdogan is pulling, initially he demanded Sweden extradite some alleged PKK and YPG etc. members and supporters. After some Russian funded wanker burnt a Koran, Erdogan added dozens of names to the list of people he wanted extradited, including people accused simply of 'insulting the president' for criticising his rule.
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Mar 31, 2023 17:18
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Tuna-Fish posted:I think the closest thing to this in reality is during the Spanish conquest of Tenerife, where the local Guanches who were living in an essentially stone-age society, armed with literal rocks and hardened wood spears, were attacked by 1100 Spaniards who had horses, guns, crossbows and plate armor, but who were led by an arrogant noble who got just a little too overconfident in his technological superiority and managed to lead his force into a ravine where the locals killed 80%+ of them by throwing rocks down from the sides in the first battle of Acentejo. yeah remember the ewoks took out stormtroopers and AT-STs using logs and some clever net traps at endor
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Mar 31, 2023 17:19
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HonorableTB posted:yeah remember the ewoks took out stormtroopers and AT-STs using logs and some clever net traps at endor I still cant believe how Joe Biden forced the empire to destroy Alderaan
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Mar 31, 2023 17:26
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mobby_6kl posted:
Untitled Goose Game sequel lookin' good.
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Mar 31, 2023 17:27
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deadly Ukrainian bioweapon in action
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The Ukrainian foreign minister is asking for the UK government to deny visas for Russian tennis players at Wimbledon since sports has been a fairly hot topic for whatever reason lately. https://twitter.com/DmytroKuleba/status/1641789759356907527?cxt=HHwWjsC9pc3F58gtAAAA The top reply is uh certainly something, wow. https://twitter.com/GabeZZOZZ/status/1641790704799084550
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Mar 31, 2023 17:46
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zone posted:https://twitter.com/Mike_Eckel/status/1641716943576088578 Of course not, they'll just be pressed really, really hard into signing contracts so they can be deployed on the front lines.
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Mar 31, 2023 17:50
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Hungary deposited its ratification papers today, so their part is done vis-a-vis Finland's accession. Hopefully Turkey does the same next week. https://twitter.com/_SzabolcsTakacs/status/1641821972303687681
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Mar 31, 2023 17:54
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How many goose gifs have there been? I can think of three.
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Mar 31, 2023 17:56
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ZogrimAteMyHamster posted:Every time I see anything related to the 2nd Pacific Squadron I just mouth "Kamchatka" and start giggling. That loving boat and its crew were way ahead of the Battlefield 2 "ENEMY BOAT SPOTTED"-style griefing. Yeah for those who don't know, the Kamchatka was a Russian supply ship on the Voyage of the Damned, who nearly started a war with the United Kingdom. Off the coast of England the Kamchatka decided she had spotted Japanese torpedo boats (OFF THE COAST OF ENGLAND. JAPANESE. TORPEDO BOATS) and started firing at them. They were British fishing trawlers. In the ensuing fire fight the Russians managed to kill one British sailor, but also one Russian sailor and a Russian chaplain, therefore managing to lose a naval battle against a handful of unarmored fishers. After repeated similar incidents even the Russian fleet had had enough of the Kamchatka and told her to fall back to the rear of the formation and stop trying to start world wars. And this isn't even the dumbest thing about the Voyage of the Damned.
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Mar 31, 2023 18:10
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:Yeah for those who don't know, the Kamchatka was a Russian supply ship on the Voyage of the Damned, who nearly started a war with the United Kingdom. Off the coast of England the Kamchatka decided she had spotted Japanese torpedo boats (OFF THE COAST OF ENGLAND. JAPANESE. TORPEDO BOATS) and started firing at them. They were British fishing trawlers. In the ensuing fire fight the Russians managed to kill one British sailor, but also one Russian sailor and a Russian chaplain, therefore managing to lose a naval battle against a handful of unarmored fishers. Was posted in earlier iterations of the thread, but still worth a watch if you haven't seen it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzGqp3R4Mx4
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Mar 31, 2023 18:15
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erdogan is a petty goof
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Mar 31, 2023 18:16
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Our call up of 147k new conscripts will not result in them being sent to combat. Also, it's only a coincidence that you can't reach your son, he's, uh, training, with no cell signal.
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Mar 31, 2023 18:26
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WarpedLichen posted:The Ukrainian foreign minister is asking for the UK government to deny visas for Russian tennis players at Wimbledon since sports has been a fairly hot topic for whatever reason lately. edit by Toxic Mental: I'm gonna go the safe route and un-embed this one that shows historical black and white bodies https://twitter.com/GabeZZOZZ/status/1641825459007619072 Be allowed to post poo poo by subscribing blue! Somebody fucked around with this message at 19:01 on Mar 31, 2023 |
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Mar 31, 2023 18:33
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Tai posted:Be allowed to post poo poo by subscribing blue! Thanks for the inline corpses.
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Mar 31, 2023 18:49
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:Yeah for those who don't know, the Kamchatka was a Russian supply ship on the Voyage of the Damned, who nearly started a war with the United Kingdom. Off the coast of England the Kamchatka decided she had spotted Japanese torpedo boats (OFF THE COAST OF ENGLAND. JAPANESE. TORPEDO BOATS) and started firing at them. They were British fishing trawlers. In the ensuing fire fight the Russians managed to kill one British sailor, but also one Russian sailor and a Russian chaplain, therefore managing to lose a naval battle against a handful of unarmored fishers. "The ship is also known in popular media for its habit of transmitting the query "Do you see torpedo boats?" in situations where enemy torpedo boats could not possibly have been present, nevertheless causing panic aboard other ships of her squadron" loving lol (from Wikipedia) Edit: holy poo poo "After navigating a non-existent minefield, the Russian fleet sailed into the North Sea." ""the captain of the supply ship Kamchatka (Камчатка), which was last in the Russian line, took a passing Swedish ship for a Japanese torpedo boat and radioed that he was being attacked." "Later that night, during fog, the officers on duty sighted the British trawlers, interpreted their signals incorrectly and classified them as Japanese torpedo boats although they were more than 20,000 miles (30,000 km) from Japan." " During the pandemonium, several Russian ships signalled torpedoes had hit them, and on board the battleship Borodino, rumours spread that the ship was being boarded by the Japanese, with some crews donning life vests and lying prone on the deck and others drawing cutlasses. More serious losses to both sides were avoided only because of the extremely low quality of Russian gunnery, with the battleship Oryol reportedly firing more than 500 shells without hitting anything.[9]" Just spectacular stuff. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogger_Bank_incident Edit2: it just keeps going "The Kamchatka eventually rejoined the fleet and claimed that she had engaged three Japanese warships and fired over 300 shells. The ships she had actually fired at were a Swedish merchantman, a German trawler, and a French schooner. As the fleet left Tangiers, one ship accidentally severed the city's underwater telegraph cable with her anchor, preventing communications with Europe for four days.[9]" Roblo fucked around with this message at 19:06 on Mar 31, 2023 |
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Mar 31, 2023 19:01
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Roblo posted:loving lol (from Wikipedia) It's absolutely astonishing stuff. If I didn't know it was real, it would be hard to believe it was true.
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Mar 31, 2023 19:23
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kamchatka is where wrex the krogan is from
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Mar 31, 2023 19:32
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In the I hope it's true department, some combat video out there today with some DPR guys slinging the ole garbage rod as a DMR. Wonder if we're ever going to see what the Russian equivalent of the Krag was. We just need to get the T-34's out of storage and they can truly reenact WW2.
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Mar 31, 2023 19:33
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It reminds me of the time Liechtenstein's army returned home from war with more men than it left withquote:Today, Liechtenstein is a small country – the fourth smallest state in Europe and sixth smallest in the world. It rests on the banks of the Rhine between Switzerland and Austria. It was named after the Princes of Lichtenstein, who united the County of Vaduz and the lands of Schellenberg in 1719, forming their small but charming Principality of Liechtenstein.
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Mar 31, 2023 19:33
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https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1641774999416520706
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Mar 31, 2023 21:35
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HonorableTB posted:It reminds me of the time Liechtenstein's army returned home from war with more men than it left with Equally bizarre is how Lichtenstein is named after the Princess of Lichtenstein.
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Mar 31, 2023 21:48
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:Yeah for those who don't know, the Kamchatka was a Russian supply ship on the Voyage of the Damned, who nearly started a war with the United Kingdom. Off the coast of England the Kamchatka decided she had spotted Japanese torpedo boats (OFF THE COAST OF ENGLAND. JAPANESE. TORPEDO BOATS) and started firing at them. They were British fishing trawlers. In the ensuing fire fight the Russians managed to kill one British sailor, but also one Russian sailor and a Russian chaplain, therefore managing to lose a naval battle against a handful of unarmored fishers. The best part of the whole thing is when they finally made it to the final stretch of their journey right next to Japan in the Tsushima Strait they mis-identified the Japanese fleet as Russian, identified themselves, and promptly got sunk.
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Mar 31, 2023 22:31
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HonorableTB posted:
Half the casualties of the average day on match. Interesting. Why? The assaults aren't more effective so there must be a rampdown or the dream is fading for these offensives to the point that they don't have 1000 people to send and lose.
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Mar 31, 2023 22:34
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Warbadger posted:The best part of the whole thing is when they finally made it to the final stretch of their journey right next to Japan in the Tsushima Strait they mis-identified the Japanese fleet as Russian, identified themselves, and promptly got sunk. Identified themselves and sent their entire battle plan to the Japanese ship.
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Mar 31, 2023 22:51
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WarpedLichen posted:The Ukrainian foreign minister is asking for the UK government to deny visas for Russian tennis players at Wimbledon since sports has been a fairly hot topic for whatever reason lately. How long till Musk realizes his blue checkmark policies are the dumbest God damned thing ever?
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Mar 31, 2023 23:03
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Lammasu posted:How long till Musk realizes his blue checkmark policies are the dumbest God damned thing ever? How long until the world realizes Musk bought twitter to saddle with a bunch of debt then fire into the sun. That’ll show those ‘pedophiles’
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Mar 31, 2023 23:14
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Half the casualties of the average day on match. It appears in line with the ISW reports, intelligence assessments, and OSINT community, as well as from the Ukrainian military themselves, about the news that in the last three or four days the number of attacks across the front line have gone down by more than half due to the possible culmination of their winter offensive and are primarily focused around Bakhmut and Avdiivka.
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Mar 31, 2023 23:15
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I'm blocked by whoever that other Gabe twitter account is so I dunno what it said but if they blocked me it was probably some really dumb poo poo anyway so no big loss
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Mar 31, 2023 23:43
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WarpedLichen posted:The top reply is uh certainly something, wow. the russian flag version of that is even worse 
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Mar 31, 2023 23:50
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https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1641894463374086165 I wonder what's coming in this package?
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Apr 1, 2023 00:10
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:Yeah for those who don't know, the Kamchatka was a Russian supply ship on the Voyage of the Damned, who nearly started a war with the United Kingdom. Off the coast of England the Kamchatka decided she had spotted Japanese torpedo boats (OFF THE COAST OF ENGLAND. JAPANESE. TORPEDO BOATS) This isn't quite as outlandish as you might think. The UK was a not-quite-ally of Japan and had been building ships for the Japanese for a number of years. It wasn't impossible that Japan could have commissioned torpedo boats from British shipyards and had crews there to take command of them.
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Apr 1, 2023 01:10
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zone posted:https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1641894463374086165 Code book filled HIMARS Rounds to stop Russian aggression at once
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Apr 1, 2023 01:11
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HonorableTB posted:I'm blocked by whoever that other Gabe twitter account is so I dunno what it said but if they blocked me it was probably some really dumb poo poo anyway so no big loss yeah same, weird lol. thanks musk i guess.
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Apr 1, 2023 01:44
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HonorableTB posted:I'm blocked by whoever that other Gabe twitter account is so I dunno what it said but if they blocked me it was probably some really dumb poo poo anyway so no big loss appropriatemetaphor posted:yeah same, weird lol. thanks musk i guess. Well, I preserved it for you, but it's pretty disgusting. Click to see, not hotlinking.  Tag for anti-Ukranian hot garbage image.https://www.magetower.com/pics/NaziShitheadTweet.jpg
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Apr 1, 2023 01:55
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Half the casualties of the average day on match. One: it snowed. A lot. Two: those numbers mean nothing. It's just a propaganda number. Perun did a far better job of explaining why so I'm not going to even try
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Apr 1, 2023 02:00
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zone posted:https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1641894463374086165 A single B2 and enough flight hours to see things to a finish, hopefully.
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Apr 1, 2023 02:59
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HonorableTB posted:I'm blocked by whoever that other Gabe twitter account is so I dunno what it said but if they blocked me it was probably some really dumb poo poo anyway so no big loss account registered in Feb 2022, generic truck dude profile pic, literally only posts about one thing, contributes nothing to anyone
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Huh. I'm sorry you went through the effort of uploading that, Locator. What a waste of bandwidth
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