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Psst, RD, edit in a link to this thread into the last post of the previous one.
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Aug 1, 2016 23:04
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P-Mack posted:Is the old thread getting goldmined, or will all those posts be lost forever, like tears in the archives? The latter, most likely.
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Aug 1, 2016 23:37
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bewbies posted:good god, the last one had 45000 posts? and you read them all
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Aug 2, 2016 00:08
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Raenir Salazar posted:Should we go about compiling (a) a list of notable posters and their contributions and (b) a FAQ of commonly asked questions and link them to a reposted answer to that question? That'd break the point of: Rodrigo Diaz posted:If you have a question about military history, ask and someone will answer. They might even know what they're talking about!
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Aug 2, 2016 00:25
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Jamwad Hilder posted:how is it that we have a new thread and I already have 4 pages to catch up on military-industrial complex
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Aug 2, 2016 13:46
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spectralent posted:I remember a lengthy article somewhere about how if the western allies had just invaded Germany during the funny war they'd have probably blown right through them. Wouldn't the German counterpart to the Maginot line (I forgot the name) get in the way of "blowing right through them"?
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Aug 2, 2016 21:09
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Tevery Best posted:I have extracted whatever posts of mine from the old thread I think had value and put them in a Google Doc for easy access. I've even edited some of them. quote:"However, videos can only be linked to – the moderation 
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Aug 2, 2016 21:28
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Tevery Best posted:Whoa, does anyone actually use that? In all my years, I have seen no evidence of it even existing. Yup. In D&D, videos are often posted with no explanation, the expectation being that the title of the video and the preview image will give other posters enough context to decide whether to watch them or not. Also, videos with  and  content are not only marked with those tags but carefully linked in a way that doesn't embed the video in the post. (or not in which case mods happen)That having been said, I found out about the feature the same way you did - I said something that showed my ignorance about its existence, and someone pointed it out to me. Also, seeing as you've used that thread as an example, you should join us on Starship Awful. We could always use more crew. 
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Aug 2, 2016 22:18
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:The Panther is simultaneously overrated and underrated. It's Scroedinger's cat. Yeah, well, history is a bitch.
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Aug 3, 2016 00:05
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Rodrigo Diaz posted:I just went through those memes about the middle ages that were posted on the 2nd-to-last page of the old thread and lol. Though I'm not sure what's funnier, that each of those is wrong in some way or that I've seen people in the threads repeating the bad info. How about you go ahead and tell us what's wrong? Waci posted:You can have rules against asking questions about topics that have been discussed before, or you can have a conscious decision to not point people towards old effortposts in order to encourage future questions on the same topic. You really can't have both. Yeah, pretty much.
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Aug 3, 2016 16:55
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Ataxerxes posted:Servia(spelled this way) It was a pretty standard non-Serbian way to spell Serbia, you can see it being used as late as WW1. No need to add (sic) At least it's not "Ratzians" which was used by Germans and Hungarians to refer to Serbs (though that one was also used to describe the Šokci and the Bunjevci) and is now considered a slur.
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Aug 3, 2016 20:30
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Ah, yes, the "perfectly spherical Roman legions in a vacuum" school.
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Aug 3, 2016 23:28
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Empress Theonora posted:Every time he shows up I'm just like, yikes. Even the funny stories manage to be deeply disturbing.  If there's ever a game about the dude, it's going to have to be made by the crazy Russians who made Pathologic.
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Aug 4, 2016 09:22
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Hey, the place is still standing and with a rather distinct lack of houses on fire. Quite peaceful, indeed.
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Aug 4, 2016 16:16
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The answer to the question "should I post X" is always  unless your username is Keldoclock.
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Aug 4, 2016 20:07
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HEY GAL posted:is that...good? It's significantly heavier than this. It miiiiight be a tad overkill.
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Aug 5, 2016 18:21
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Vegetable posted:Was there ever a battle where people on horseback beat the poo poo out of people in tanks? I don't know about beating the poo poo out of tanks, but horses were still used to improve infantry mobility in WW2, and cavalry had access to anti-tank rifles and stuff. wdarkk posted:It's not quite that bad since you can take the ablative armor off for transport. It's still going to be a huge pain if you have to cross anything while the enemy might be nearby. I don't know much about tanks, so please tell me if I'm wrong here, but wouldn't that basically be begging the enemy to use artillery/airstrikes against tanks in transit? Or is the assumption here that the enemy won't have access to either in areas where the tank is unarmored?
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Aug 5, 2016 19:04
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Xerxes17 posted:We need a :tankchat: emoticon. 
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Aug 6, 2016 12:22
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Tias posted:I'm apprenticed to the apprentice of a Lakota medicine man, and unless you're being facetious, that's dumb and wrong. Sweat lodges and the sun dance are religious ceremonies, and you don't get high off them as much as it makes you feel really tired and lovely. The express purpose is to suffer in order for the great spirits to take pity on us, and so help the community. Tias, I love your Danish pagan posting, but, er, please read your post again and consider what you just did...
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Aug 6, 2016 13:08
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bewbies posted:I'm just parroting what the maneuver center guys said, I really don't have any other info past that. A shameful post. You're supposed to give us the exact blueprints of the tank, so that our finely tuned tactical minds can evaluate its most important traits like, for example, its ability to shoot down a Tie Fighter if placed in orbit.
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Aug 6, 2016 15:14
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I'm starting to suspect that Loophole 14 is actually the result of the pointlessness and stupidity of the Italian Front crystallizing into a rock with a hole in it. Jesus Christ.
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Aug 7, 2016 13:39
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lenoon posted:My son was killed while laughing at some jest. I'll have to ask my grandmother about it again, but I remember her telling me about a relative of hers, might have been a great-uncle or an uncle (or maybe I'm misremembering it and it was not a relative but a neighbor or something), who was shot by a German sniper while celebrating reunion with the brother he hadn't seen since the Nazi invasion. Death ain't picky about when it strikes.
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Aug 9, 2016 16:31
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What's the measure of how tanky a tank is?
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Aug 10, 2016 20:25
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HEY GAL posted:is it a stalin fan These threads crush kulaks?
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Aug 10, 2016 20:55
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Trin Tragula posted:and Maximilian Mugge has returned to Blighty, to be confronted with...a cliffhanger. *googles the unit* Oh. Ohhhhhh. drat.
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Aug 11, 2016 18:56
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OwlFancier posted:battleships were stupid ... they did not function as expected because people were very shy about actually committing them to battle I stopped playing World of Warships, but I don't think I'll ever stop being salty about cowardly battleship players (who inevitably end up in my team) in that game.
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Aug 11, 2016 23:54
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Fangz posted:Does anyone know how well the square bullets would have worked? I assume 'not very'? I dunno, I imagine it'd be something like discout bin hollow-point ammo if it hits.
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Aug 13, 2016 10:15
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Trin Tragula posted:and the full truth about Maximilian Mugge's new battalion is now well and truly out of the bag. Six paragraphs of incoherent swearing is quite a reasonable reaction.
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Aug 14, 2016 09:29
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Ia Ia Snackbar Fhtaghn!
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Aug 16, 2016 19:44
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HEY GAL posted:the very same Also, notorious backstabber and zealot. During the war with the Ottomans, he betrayed allied Serbian and Wallachian forces under a flimsy excuse and had their commanders assassinated or captured and executed in a creative fashion (Starina Novak was roasted alive for over an hour, for example) followed by persecuting the non-Catholic Christian population in his former allies' lands.
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Aug 17, 2016 19:25
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Disinterested posted:Spanish Blue division description as recorded in von Bock's diary, given by a subordinate: War. War never changes. Fangz posted:So, um, the square bullet version of the Puckle gun might actually work and be reasonably accurate! Huh. Cool.
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Aug 17, 2016 20:02
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Tevery Best posted:The Sejm refused to allow more money for the war. So many Polish (and Lithuanian) troubles begin with "The Sejm refused..."
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Aug 18, 2016 21:56
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Fangz posted:On that topic, I remember watching an old film about some kids scavenging a MG from a downed German bomber during the Battle of Britain. There's this one scene where they hold a cartridge in a vice and hit the primer with a screwdriver and a hammer. In the film there's a ping and the bullet ricochets all over the place. I assume that's unrealistic? I dunno about the balistics involved, but my father witnessed a dude commit suicide-by-idiocy through fiddling with an AA gun round.
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Aug 19, 2016 13:25
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HEY GAL posted:you've got your biggest risk of an accidental discharge when you're ramming heh
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Aug 19, 2016 18:17
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gently caress Extra Credits.
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Aug 19, 2016 18:56
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We need a "HEY GAL posts that dude" counter. You're like, at 8 or so by now.
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Aug 20, 2016 21:29
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And it's not like the Soviets were immune to their own winters.
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Aug 21, 2016 12:19
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Just wanted to say that while I didn't read every part of your naval mine posts (I mostly read the tidbits with interesting sounding titles), they're very well written, and really cool and informative stuff.
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Aug 21, 2016 21:14
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On the bright side, thanks to Gustavus Adolphus' efforts, there's a lot less Swedes in Sweden.
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