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Kurieg
Jul 19, 2012

RIP Lutri: 5/19/20-4/2/20
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Didn't you already stay what it was going to be in Shadow of Mordor thread?

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Kurieg
Jul 19, 2012

RIP Lutri: 5/19/20-4/2/20
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I think with Bj it's more that he looks suitably aryan enough to get him past the front lines. The point is that other people do the spying, he's more infiltration and extraction.

Kurieg
Jul 19, 2012

RIP Lutri: 5/19/20-4/2/20
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Does the Laying/Lying joke even work the same way in German that it does in English?

Kurieg
Jul 19, 2012

RIP Lutri: 5/19/20-4/2/20
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gschmidl posted:

Only if the guy trying to tell the story is a complete and utter dumbass. So, not really.

Also, I could swear that grammar Nazi is a famous German voice actor but cannot find his credit anywhere.

It works in english because our language doesn't really have a set pattern for tenses like the romance languages do. The past tense of lie is lay. Where as the present tense of laid is lay. I have no idea how german conjugation works normally, but from my brief wiki trolling it looks like the infinitives are similar but the conjugations are very different.

Kurieg
Jul 19, 2012

RIP Lutri: 5/19/20-4/2/20
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wiegieman posted:

And if you think the Nazis were bad, the Soviets were worse. Consider this: the Soviets knew that there were no spacefaring aliens, because such a technologically advanced species would obviously have achieved perfect communism well before leaving their world and would already have arrived to annihilate the capitalists. Since this had not happened, the Soviet union was therefore the first and wisest example of the revolution in, not just the world, but the universe.

It's almost exactly like how the Catholic church reacted to science they didn't like. As long as you could line your words (however ridiculous) up with the orthodoxy, you would be hailed as a revolutionary genius. See: "vernalization", the idea that submerging seeds in ice water could vastly increase crop yields, and the obviously communist idea that all the genetic research ever was wrong because there's no such thing as heredity what are you a monarchist comrade?

It helps that orthodox figures just lied about their numbers.

The soviets had their own scientific purge in Lysenkoism, in which anyone who didn't believe in Lamarckian inheritance was executed or sent to work camps. Lysenkoism also took hold in the agriculture industry and led to at least one of the USSR's famines because they were basically pulling an Idiocracy and refusing to acknowledge that the plants weren't growing despite their advanced scientific knowledge.

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