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Riot Carol Danvers posted:Didn't Tim Cain very specifically post some YouTube videos recently talking about how good the show was and how much he loved it? Yes and many others about the origin of Fallout, such as how it was mostly made by a bunch of dorks in an office trying to make eachother laugh rather than any form of social commentary. (it is one, for the most part, but no one sat down and said "hmm i want to make an RPG that critiques a thing") Nobody Interesting has a new favorite as of 06:18 on Apr 23, 2024 |
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He just did a little guest spot on How To Drink, and yeah, clearly digs the show.
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fondue posted:Tobile Mametja This was a really dumb post and I feel dumber for posting it. I mean, I wasn't even drunk (that was hours later).
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Apr 23, 2024 06:21
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Why settle for one fascist leader when these two dipshits rode together in an open‐top motorcar in June of 1940?
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So what questions do I ask my drug dealer on the first visit?
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Cloacamazing! posted:So what questions do I ask my drug dealer on the first visit? Ask Ian Miles Cheong about the ants.
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Air Skwirl posted:They've made up a question that most everyone would answer "kill Hitler" then got angry at an imaginary person who got the question wrong. Killing a single figurehead would have done literally nothing to stop the holocaust at this point, if anything you'd have to travel back to way before Hitler's party got elected and then figure out a way to change the entire political landscape of 1930's Germany. So yeah if I could somehow only travel to this specific time period, keeping even a single holocaust victim alive would be a better use of it.
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I think what you really need to do is head off the great depression somehow. Which was, in my limited non-economist understanding, a perfect storm of half a dozen different major issues playing out, so good luck with that.
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I get the impression that if you killed Hitler it would probably improve the axis performance in the war. He made a lot of very stupid decisions based entirely on his own certainty that he knew better than everyone else.
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The thing there is that sane Non-Hitler leader doesn't order all the incredibly risky stuff that leads to their initial successes in the first place.
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Apr 23, 2024 10:33
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Yeah I guess maybe in the opening year he is advantageous to them but basically any time after that probably not.
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Apr 23, 2024 10:38
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I'd kill Rommel in 1939 so people would be less weird about him
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OwlFancier posted:I get the impression that if you killed Hitler it would probably improve the axis performance in the war. As it happens Stephen Fry wrote a book about this exact scenario. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_History_(novel)
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Apr 23, 2024 10:40
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My favorite WWII time travel hypothesis is the comic about a guy who rolls in and brags about stopping Krauss from rising to power, and then goes on to explain that he was a German chancellor who made some terrible economic decisions that led to a decade of depression for Germany and a lot of connected economies. Then, when faced with stunned silence rather than praise, he goes “why, what happened instead?”
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Am I the only one who thinks that tweet is trying to do some kind of thing where Hitler was a trans woman (and in the SS too I guess) and the time traveler "rescued" her and thus found on their return that WWII had never happened and Hitler was unknown to history? Or should I just give myself a 1-hour moratorium on reading SA upon waking up
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Data Graham posted:Am I the only one who thinks that tweet is trying to do some kind of thing where Hitler was a trans woman (and in the SS too I guess) and the time traveler "rescued" her and thus found on their return that WWII had never happened and Hitler was unknown to history? No, that's not it. They're just imagining that someone's first priority would be rescuing a particular victim. This theoretical person somehow doesn't know who Hitler is but is aware of the many demographic groups attacked by the Nazis. It's very stupid.
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Data Graham posted:Am I the only one who thinks that tweet is trying to do some kind of thing where Hitler was a trans woman (and in the SS too I guess) and the time traveler "rescued" her and thus found on their return that WWII had never happened and Hitler was unknown to history? You are trying to grasp a thread of coherent thought that does not exist
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The Nazis were a bunch of infighting jackals. If you kill Hitler in the twenties, maybe someone fills the role reasonably closely to our timeline, but after Hitler takes power, there’s no clear successor, by design. Assassinating him doesn’t end the war in one stroke, but the chaos is bad news for the Nazi military timeline.
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Apr 23, 2024 11:09
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Wasn't there one assassination attempt involving a bomb in a pillar that Hitler made a speech next to every year that if successful would have decapitated the entirety of Nazi command because all the big names were there to listen to the speech? The assassin got unlucky because of a changed train schedule that pushed the time of the speech earlier. I would have told him about the change.
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Ibblebibble posted:Wasn't there one assassination attempt involving a bomb in a pillar that Hitler made a speech next to every year that if successful would have decapitated the entirety of Nazi command because all the big names were there to listen to the speech? The assassin got unlucky because of a changed train schedule that pushed the time of the speech earlier. I would have told him about the change. I don't remember that one, but there was one with a bomb underneath a meeting table: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20_July_plot quote:The leader of the conspiracy, Claus von Stauffenberg, planned to kill Hitler by detonating an explosive hidden in a briefcase. However, due to the location of the bomb at the time of detonation, the blast only dealt Hitler minor injuries. Meanwhile, in actual idiocy posted online...
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Ibblebibble posted:Wasn't there one assassination attempt involving a bomb in a pillar that Hitler made a speech next to every year that if successful would have decapitated the entirety of Nazi command because all the big names were there to listen to the speech? The assassin got unlucky because of a changed train schedule that pushed the time of the speech earlier. I would have told him about the change. That was the work of Georg Elser. His attempt was made at the Munich beer hall on 8 November 1939. Had he set the timer fifteen minutes earlier, Hitler may well have died that day.
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Platystemon posted:The Nazis were a bunch of infighting jackals. PurpleXVI posted:I don't remember that one, but there was one with a bomb underneath a meeting table: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20_July_plot
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Lemniscate Blue posted:There's a relatively small number of especially crazy right-wingers (and some masquerading as lefties, such as Caleb Maupin's "Patriotic Socialists") who believe that the Nazi party leadership was all LGBTQ+, and the reason they burned Hirschfeld's Institute was because he had files on all of them. *nodding thoughtfully* Yes this is definitely a new low in the insane right wing galaxy brain theory barrel.
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Air Skwirl posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvh6NLqKRfs
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Zulily Zoetrope posted:My favorite WWII time travel hypothesis is the comic about a guy who rolls in and brags about stopping Krauss from rising to power, and then goes on to explain that he was a German chancellor who made some terrible economic decisions that led to a decade of depression for Germany and a lot of connected economies. Then, when faced with stunned silence rather than praise, he goes “why, what happened instead?”  zach weinersmith is very hit-or-miss imo but when he hits he hits
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There's no such thing as "free football". The government doesn't have its own football so, if they're saying they'll give you free football, they have to take it from someone else first
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Data Graham posted:Am I the only one who thinks that tweet is trying to do some kind of thing where Hitler was a trans woman (and in the SS too I guess) and the time traveler "rescued" her and thus found on their return that WWII had never happened and Hitler was unknown to history? It’s just envisioning a monkey’s paw type scenario “You can time travel back to 1939-45, what do you do?” “I save a trans woman” “The trans woman you saved was actually a member of the SS! Idiot! Buffoon! I bet you feel stupid now, huh!” It’s extremely juvenile
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In these scenarios I don’t know how I, an untrained dude with no special abilities, am supposed to be able to access and kill the head of state like anyone could have just walked up to him and snapped his neck.
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You're supposed to get to him with modern advances in technology. Namely, sissy hypno porn.
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Data Graham posted:Am I the only one who thinks that tweet is trying to do some kind of thing where Hitler was a trans woman (and in the SS too I guess) and the time traveler "rescued" her and thus found on their return that WWII had never happened and Hitler was unknown to history? fwiu it's referring to the terf "gotcha" that was made up as a cope when jk rowling was doing holocaust denial. claiming that trans women were actually aligned with the nazis because there's some pictures of nazis crossdressing. just ignore that big book burning it didn't mean anything
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EL BROMANCE posted:In these scenarios I don’t know how I, an untrained dude with no special abilities, am supposed to be able to access and kill the head of state like anyone could have just walked up to him and snapped his neck. Well, you don't need to walk up to him. You have a time machine. You look up where he was at a particular time, get yourself a weapon, go there, then time travel.
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I would assassinate Hugo Boss so the Nazis no longer get fashionable designer uniforms.
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Just set the time machine to land on him You don't even have to go yourself, just fire and forget
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Telefragging Hitler
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Data Graham posted:Just set the time machine to land on him Good job leaving a time machine lying around in the past where anyone can get their hands on it. And what if you missed? Now Hitler's got a time machine. That's pretty much the worst case scenario.
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DACK FAYDEN posted:zach weinersmith is very hit-or-miss imo but when he hits he hits That is the one I was thinking of! Thanks, I dunno where I got the “Krauss” name, no wonder I could never find it on google. It is a good comic.
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The research has already been done, the best point to kill Hitler is when he's released from prison in Landsberg, Germany, 1924.
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Tiggum posted:Good job leaving a time machine lying around in the past where anyone can get their hands on it. Even if you don't miss the other nazis can just use the time machine to save Hitler.
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Byzantine posted:The research has already been done, the best point to kill Hitler is when he's released from prison in Landsberg, Germany, 1924. That just leads to hyper-stalin!
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