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Karma Monkey: Sep 6, 2005; I MAKE BAD POSTING DECISIONS

Delivery McGee posted:

Spoilers, innit?

Also no, that's not a record, CSS Hunley killed her entire crew THREE times over. You thought the Nazi u-boats with their 75% loss rate were bad? The OG submarine had a loss rate of 300%. Not three-quarters, not three dead, the fuckin' thing sank with all hands lost THREE GODDAMN TIMES and was raise and re-crewed TWICE. Two in trials, the last when shaken asunder by the boom of her own torpedo/bomb lance, which did sink a Yankee warship, so in terms of Rebels vs. Yanks killed, it was successful. Ish.

Oh I've been assigned to this boat that's already sank twice? AWOL time, bitches!

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Karma Monkey: Sep 6, 2005; I MAKE BAD POSTING DECISIONS

Lampsacus posted:

I was going to add this one. That long form is incredible - I was just recommending it to a co worker today!

Agreed. Every time the link is posted somewhere, I click it and then go, "Oh yea I've read this one before" and then I end up rereading the whole thing because it's loving excellent. That long form was also the one that led me to a survive <catastrophic events> long form and documentary binge. The scary thing for me was/is the way dumb luck, coincidence, and snap decisions (some which even post-event will sound insanely counter-intuitive) is the thing that puts you in the survivor category.

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