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Mike-o posted:Wasn't there incest in one of them or some poo poo? If there was I blocked it out.
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Fart Sandwiches posted:Well the two after that involved magic trees, magic people with OCD, and a love triangle with an old lady and an AI. I think that's all Speaker for the Dead.
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Godholio posted:I think that's all Speaker for the Dead.
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Godholio posted:I think that's all Speaker for the Dead. Speaker for the Dead wasn't too bad, just boring. Xenocide and children of the mind is where it got weird
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I have Xenocide, I just haven't read it. Is it worth it or is weird also bad?
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zombie303 posted:I have Xenocide, I just haven't read it. Is it worth it or is weird also bad? I'd say read them all to resolve the story, just be prepared for weird poo poo. Not like normal sci-fi weird, but like mormon weird.
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Fart Sandwiches posted:I'd say read them all to resolve the story, just be prepared for weird poo poo. Not like normal sci-fi weird, but like mormon weird. Understanding that it's Mormon weird makes it make a lot more sense. "Oh, that's why through all this poo poo everyone's rushing to get married and pop off kids."
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Also incest.
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iyaayas01 posted:IADS, I'm assuming we're conducting strikes in some areas still under the coverage of the rings of whatever SAMs Assad still has. Why wouldn't Assad just lean back and scratch his nutsack while the USAF rocks up the kills? The guy is already on a roll, and has been for some time, I wouldn't mind for sure if somebody lent a hand so he can put those barrel bombs of his out of an Mil-28's hatch to better use again, levelling civilians.
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D&D owns:meristem posted:You know, how to put it... The US destabilised Syria to remove Assad/the Russians from control over Syria's oil. Due to ISIS taking initiative, that oil is now in the hands of ISIS and is smuggled through Turkey; Turkey benefits from ISIS. This, plus Iraqi weakness, made the US turn to the Kurds for Kurdish oil. Are you really sure that the US wants to 'contain ISIS' to prevent murder?
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Eel hovercraft posted:D&D owns: After all it is all about oil. E: Syria is number 32 on the top 100 list of oil producing countries behind the U.S. (#1 baby, we consume approximately triple what we produce daily though), Saudi (3), the loving UK, (19) and really pretty much any loving country in the Middle East. It is literally the last middle eastern country on the list. orange juche fucked around with this message at 10:22 on Sep 23, 2014 |
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Kurdish oil. Are you loving kidding me. That paragraphs reads like it was written by a freshman polysci major or a lobotomy patient.
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EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:Kurdish oil. Are you loving kidding me. That paragraphs reads like it was written by a freshman polysci major or a lobotomy patient. Dropping a few billion in ordinance to get that sweet sweet Syrian (killstreak) oil
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EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:Kurdish oil. Are you loving kidding me. That paragraphs reads like it was written by a freshman polysci major or a lobotomy patient. The two are not mutually exclusive.
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Pretty sure getting a lobotomy counts as an upper division polisci course.
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Godholio posted:Pretty sure getting a lobotomy counts as an upper division polisci course. And a requirement for being an NCO.
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50 Foot Ant posted:And a requirement for being an NCO.  Can I get a VA rating for a lobotomy?
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Godholio posted:Pretty sure getting a lobotomy counts as an upper division polisci course. Well these people want to go into politics, right? An intact frontal lobe is only going to go to waste in a congressman anyway
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Not really politics, more like being the bitch intern of a politician or working for an NGO/nonprofit.
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lol is it really so much of a stretch for these guys to imagine that the US doesn't want a bunch of Hitlers roaming around just as much as it doesn't want the oil market destabilized like you can treat both as cynical american politics if you want
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that isis flames of war video kinda bummed me out cuz they showed a battle where they kicked the poo poo out of some pkk guys 
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Today in one of my classes we talked about the strikes in Syria for most of the period. A lot of the usual college kid bullshit but I gained a tiny bit of hope for humanity when two people in the class referenced the incompetence and uselessness of the indigenous forces in Iraq and Afghanistan as reasons why the area can't stay stable. So even in college some kids are getting at least some accurate info on conflicts.
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Mortabis posted:Not really politics, more like being the bitch intern of a politician or working for an NGO/nonprofit. You speak from experience?
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EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:Kurdish oil. Are you loving kidding me. That paragraphs reads like it was written by a freshman polysci major or a lobotomy patient. Lol, that would be the Kurdish oil that the US govt was (half-heartedly) black-listing because the Kurds trying to sell it themselves pissed off Baghdad something fierce.
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Mortabis posted:Not really politics, more like being the bitch intern of a politician or working for an NGO/nonprofit. Please go on about what it is like working for an NGO/nonprofit 
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:Please go on about what it is like working for an NGO/nonprofit Shots fired. Don't provoke dumb college kids.
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orange juche posted:Shots fired. Don't provoke dumb college kids.  ???
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My dad knew one of the people who got iced at Kent State. Said he was a total dick so lol 
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Helldump Immunity. posted:My dad knew one of the people who got iced at Kent State. Said he was a total dick so lol cool dad
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Helldump Immunity. posted:My dad knew one of the people who got iced at Kent State. Said he was a total dick so lol My mom was eating in one of the dining halls nearby when it went down.
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My was in Thailand and said they busted out the booze and celebrated because "Those loving hippies got what was coming to them." Edit: I want to say that was the same deployment where my dad was living with some Thai girl saying he was going to marry her and then had to spend the last 6 months confined to base because he told the girl "lol jk I'm not marrying some [racial slur]" and her family put a Yakuza hit on him. My old man was enlisted as gently caress. Nostalgia4Infinity fucked around with this message at 03:20 on Sep 25, 2014 |
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My Dad's Nam stories were just how he wanted to go kill Charlie, his boss wouldn't let him go to river boat duty and said "You'll thank me one day", a bunch of his friends from home got waxed and he got out disillusioned and pissed off and smoked a poo poo ton of weed and boozed it up for a couple decades. Thankfully he's still pro killing the jihadis but is bummed our government keeps loving up doing it right. I really feel like I have learned a lot from him.
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My dad was posted in Bangkok from 68-70 doing nothing but setting up telecommunications gear and working on those old code machines that they had back then. He basically spent his entire tour drunk, high, or hung over.
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Mike-o posted:
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My dad spent Vietnam fixing RWRs and other electric poo poo on A-4s aboard the Coral Sea and then at a few smaller airfields by fire bases on the border. Said they kept voodoo dolls of shithead pilots that made them do dumb poo poo, a few of them even got shot down so they'd make booze and porn sacrifices to the dolls in thanks. Now he's super Catholic and asks the priest to forgive him of that every few months.
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Booblord Zagats posted:My dad spent Vietnam fixing RWRs and other electric poo poo on A-4s aboard the Coral Sea and then at a few smaller airfields by fire bases on the border. Said they kept voodoo dolls of shithead pilots that made them do dumb poo poo, a few of them even got shot down so they'd make booze and porn sacrifices to the dolls in thanks. Now he's super Catholic and asks the priest to forgive him of that every few months. When I was at my squadron I used to fantasize constantly about chinese fighter jets shooting down our gay helos, killing all those shitheel nerd pilots, so your dad's enlistment sounds amazing to me
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Pops spent Nam driving spooks around in the jungle and setting up their generator when they decided they wanted to stop and turn on the mics and listen to... I guess monkeys fuckin or what ever lives in the viet cong trees. When he got back to the states the Army Security Agency dumped him off on the Air Force working on the Fat Albert project. Which was a blimp surveillance program. Gramps spent WW2 dusting krauts and remodeling Europe with ordnance from the Nav or bombardier seat of a B17, then reserved it up to retirement as a Lt Col. Before that the family military history is pretty much ransacking Scotland and hating the Saxons.
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DownByTheWooter posted:When I was at my squadron I used to fantasize constantly about chinese fighter jets shooting down our gay helos, killing all those shitheel nerd pilots, so your dad's enlistment sounds amazing to me I liked all the pilots in my unit I had to deal with. I still poo poo talk my old XO in emails every month or so.
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Nam Dad Chat- My father was an Officer doing Brown Water Navy poo poo, but says he never got to do anything cool but mag dump Thompsons into the jungle. Apparently, he was Officer as gently caress and didn't go out much.
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bulletsponge13 posted:Nam Dad Chat- My father was an Officer doing Brown Water Navy poo poo, but says he never got to do anything cool but mag dump Thompsons into the jungle. Apparently, he was Officer as gently caress and didn't go out much. I wish I had done that in the Navy
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