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Borscht
Jun 4, 2011
That’s just a work of art.

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ninjoatse.cx
Apr 9, 2005

Fun Shoe
I like how it was all sequence just by fuses and gunpowder and it just worked. He have elaborate spark fuses controlled by computers and it fucks up 30% of the time.

Popoto
Oct 21, 2012

miaow

Guy Axlerod posted:

I like how everyone else setting off fireworks nearby stopped to watch.

i mean, that's good value for your money: you pay 0$, and get to watch an 850$ fireworks show!

Booty Pageant
Apr 20, 2012

ninjoatse.cx posted:

I like how it was all sequence just by fuses and gunpowder and it just worked. He have elaborate spark fuses controlled by computers and it fucks up 30% of the time.

china invented gunpowder, you know?

ninjoatse.cx
Apr 9, 2005

Fun Shoe

Booty Pageant posted:

china invented gunpowder, you know?

china invented compass and paper, doesn't make them great with maps

yaffle
Sep 15, 2002

Flapdoodle

ninjoatse.cx posted:

china invented compass and paper, doesn't make them great with maps

I assume the PLA has maps, but they keep them to themselves. You cannot find a topographic map of any part of china on the mainland as far as I can tell.

bob dobbs is dead
Oct 8, 2017

I love peeps
Nap Ghost
literally illegal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restrictions_on_geographic_data_in_China

Jean-Paul Shartre
Jan 16, 2015

this sentence no verb



But China is a map of China? China makes China illegal!

Klyith
Aug 3, 2007

GBS Pledge Week

yaffle posted:

I assume the PLA has maps, but they keep them to themselves. You cannot find a topographic map of any part of china on the mainland as far as I can tell.

lmao, still clinging to that 1960s commie paranoia about enemies having military topo maps in the age when satellites can do 1m-accurate radar elevation

bob dobbs is dead
Oct 8, 2017

I love peeps
Nap Ghost

Klyith posted:

lmao, still clinging to that 1960s commie paranoia about enemies having military topo maps in the age when satellites can do 1m-accurate radar elevation

the prc's general-war-with-the-usa plan, as far as i understand, always includes as one of the first salvoes total satellite destruction. they have the missiles to start it, and kessler syndrome will do the rest. so they go at map-and-compass navigation harder, they always have an option for non-gps stuff in everything they do, etc

Mons Hubris
Aug 29, 2004

fanci flup :)


Well that kind of seems like cutting off your nose to spite your face.

bob dobbs is dead
Oct 8, 2017

I love peeps
Nap Ghost

Mons Hubris posted:

Well that kind of seems like cutting off your nose to spite your face.

there's no prospect of serious general prc-usa war without like 200 million dead and total collapse of both economies. maybe nuclear holocaust too

the satellites being hosed would be the least of it

Xakura
Jan 10, 2019

A safety-conscious little mouse!

Klyith posted:

lmao, still clinging to that 1960s commie paranoia about enemies having military topo maps in the age when satellites can do 1m-accurate radar elevation

bob dobbs is dead posted:

the prc's general-war-with-the-usa plan, as far as i understand, always includes as one of the first salvoes total satellite destruction. they have the missiles to start it, and kessler syndrome will do the rest. so they go at map-and-compass navigation harder, they always have an option for non-gps stuff in everything they do, etc

It's not like USA forgets the topo data they've already collected, shooting down the satellites doesn't help with that.

canyoneer
Sep 13, 2005


I only have canyoneyes for you
Give a LT a map and compass and s/he is going to get somebody lost. It's an unchanging law of warfare

Mr. Fix It
Oct 26, 2000

💀ayyy💀



tag urself. i'm deng xiaoping

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...
more places need to sell char siu pork

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose

Alan Smithee posted:

more places need to sell char siu pork

yaffle
Sep 15, 2002

Flapdoodle

Alan Smithee posted:

more places need to sell char siu pork

My son taught himself to make it in the air fryer over covid, he's pretty good at it now.

Cool Kids Club Soda
Aug 20, 2010
😎❄️🌃🥤🧋🍹👌💯

ninjoatse.cx posted:

china invented compass and paper, doesn't make them great with maps

Just for that slight, they're making it a 10-dash line!

Akratic Method
Mar 9, 2013

It's going to pay off eventually--I'm sure of it.

Any day now.

Mr. Fix It posted:


tag urself. i'm deng xiaoping

I’m the glowering Kruschev(?) attempting to walk off the cover and get away from Stalin

Who’s supposed to be above Gorbachev?

Akratic Method fucked around with this message at 01:39 on Feb 13, 2024

Fur20
Nov 14, 2007

すご▞い!
君は働か░い
フ▙▓ズなんだね!

Mr. Fix It posted:


tag urself. i'm deng xiaoping

im anime... nixon?

Gaius Marius
Oct 9, 2012

Wait, is that Kissinger

Mr. Fix It
Oct 26, 2000

💀ayyy💀


Akratic Method posted:

I’m the glowering Kruschev(?) attempting to walk off the cover and get away from Stalin

Who’s supposed to be above Yeltsin?
do you mean who's above gorbachev? not sure. looks like a meaty truman
edit: kissinger seems possible and he should probably be on there, but not a strong resemblence.

Fur20 posted:

im anime... nixon?

i think nixon and brezhnev did the dbz fusion dance

Akratic Method
Mar 9, 2013

It's going to pay off eventually--I'm sure of it.

Any day now.

Mr. Fix It posted:

do you mean who's above gorbachev?

Yes! Thank you, my brain was just like “head spot, that was the USSR/Russia change era……. yeltsin?”

Stink Billyums
Jul 7, 2006

MAGNUM
yeah I'm guessing the non-obvious ones are krushchev and truman

BrigadierSensible
Feb 16, 2012

I've got a pocket full of cheese🧀, and a garden full of trees🌴.

No Leonid Breshnev. 2/10

Cool Kids Club Soda
Aug 20, 2010
😎❄️🌃🥤🧋🍹👌💯

Mr. Fix It posted:


tag urself. i'm deng xiaoping

I'm nikolai yezhov

Grand Fromage
Jan 30, 2006

L-l-look at you bar-bartender, a-a pa-pathetic creature of meat and bone, un-underestimating my l-l-liver's ability to metab-meTABolize t-toxins. How can you p-poison a perfect, immortal alcohOLIC?


BrigadierSensible posted:

No Leonid Breshnev. 2/10

Wouldn't be enough room on the page for his eyebrows.

ThisIsJohnWayne
Feb 23, 2007
Ooo! Look at me! NO DON'T LOOK AT ME!



Cool Kids Club Soda posted:

I'm nikolai yezhov

Isn't that Jiang Qing?

The Moon Monster
Dec 30, 2005

Xakura posted:

It's not like USA forgets the topo data they've already collected, shooting down the satellites doesn't help with that.

Destroying all satellites would completely cripple any modern military so I guess it stops an invasion of China at the cost of loving up everything else too.

Darkest Auer
Dec 30, 2006

They're silly

Ramrod XTreme

Mr. Fix It posted:


tag urself. i'm deng xiaoping

Old Garak is not looking good there

Ugly In The Morning
Jul 1, 2010
Pillbug
lol the chinese new year party has lead to me and the host having a sparring throw down in the park when the snow is gone.

I’m pretty sure that’s also Bruce lee’s origin story. I’ll go JKD instead of KM for it

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...

ThisIsJohnWayne posted:

Isn't that Jiang Qing?

you are correct comrade

there was never a yezhov

Ugly In The Morning
Jul 1, 2010
Pillbug
The narration of the trailer is so bad

https://youtu.be/1RxrwqLWnyg?si=iDvSpMabwdDt9_CZ

But I will fistfight anyone who says this is not one of the best Kung fu movies ever made.

Megillah Gorilla
Sep 22, 2003

If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.



Bread Liar

The Moon Monster posted:

Destroying all satellites would completely cripple any modern military so I guess it stops an invasion of China at the cost of loving up everything else too.

Can't those planes with the frisbee on top act like satellites?

Coxswain Balls
Jun 4, 2001

Megillah Gorilla posted:

Can't those planes with the frisbee on top act like satellites?

As communications relays yes, but replacing GPS would be a lot harder.

ThisIsJohnWayne
Feb 23, 2007
Ooo! Look at me! NO DON'T LOOK AT ME!



Alan Smithee posted:

you are correct comrade

there was never a yezhov

I was reeducated well

Xakura
Jan 10, 2019

A safety-conscious little mouse!

The Moon Monster posted:

Destroying all satellites would completely cripple any modern military so I guess it stops an invasion of China at the cost of loving up everything else too.

Again, not what was argued. China loving with their own maps doesn't matter when satellites have been mapping them for years.

Running a modern military without gps would suck poo poo, but it's not like maps and compass is an unknown technology, INS doesn't work, or that nobody in the entire us mil haven't thought about what they would do in a gps denied environment.

Nenonen
Oct 22, 2009

Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

Mr. Fix It posted:

do you mean who's above gorbachev? not sure. looks like a meaty truman
edit: kissinger seems possible and he should probably be on there, but not a strong resemblence.

Kissinger would be redundant when Nixon is already there?

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King Hong Kong
Nov 6, 2009

For we'll fight with a vim
that is dead sure to win.

Stink Billyums posted:

yeah I'm guessing the non-obvious ones are krushchev and truman

Yeah, I’m pretty sure that’s meant to be Truman. Small chance it’s Andropov but the hairline is for sure wrong.

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