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So what the gently caress happened that caused the forums powers that be to convulse and self destruct?
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Alaois posted:lowtax decided that the forums are bad now because everybody is too afraid of being punished for offending people I thought it was the opposite and he didn't like how Trump supporters get poo poo on all the time? Or does he think making GBS threads on Trump supporters is too PC or something?
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Jan 20, 2017 05:38
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Dammit Lowtax, trying to revert the forums back to its mid 2000s libertarian slant won't bring back the glory days! Also regarding the Regan comparisons at least people loving hate Trump. He's statistically the least popular incoming president of all time. Reagan on the other hand had his slimy actor persona that made him seem like a nice reasonable human being that made you feel good about yourself. Shimrra Jamaane fucked around with this message at 05:52 on Jan 20, 2017 |
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Jan 20, 2017 05:50
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Jota posted:Now someone needs to recreate all the division threads gently caress that, lets go way back and bring back the individual team threads.
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Jan 20, 2017 05:52
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TheChirurgeon posted:nah man, a subforum for each team, filled with 53 individual player threads What about practice squad players? They deserve a thread too!
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Jan 20, 2017 05:57
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Big Ol Marsh Pussy posted:can all of the cool afc north people just get in the freaking discord so i don't have to make an afc north thread. gently caress discord its people like you causing Lowtax to have a freak out about needing to get the forums busier so he can pay his kids through college.
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Jan 20, 2017 06:01
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Big Ol Marsh Pussy posted:lmao chill dude i just want to talk to my posting friends. I don't understand Discord and it scares me 
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Jan 20, 2017 06:07
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Probably Magic posted:People can post in more than one place, my friend. Just lol if you don't spend hours finely tuning and crafting each and every one of your posts.
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Jan 20, 2017 06:08
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Blitz7x posted:Light the beacons, send riders to gather the good posters Can the beacons be seen all the way from the Appalachians?
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Jan 20, 2017 06:10
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I wonder what the ratio of supporter to protestor will be at the inauguration itself.
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Jan 20, 2017 06:12
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The US seriously lags behind most European countries in organized anti-fa.
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Jan 21, 2017 04:21
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4RingShrimp for mod please.
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Jan 21, 2017 04:43
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If you want to get really academic about the Eastern Front read anything by David Glantz. He is absolutely amazing and basically the authority on the Ostfront in WWII. I recommend reading When Titans Clashed for a general 41-45 overview. If you get really into it read his Stalingrad quadrilogy. That being said unless you are really into thisshit you'll find it a slog to read since its very dry and matter of fact. He also has a book on Kursk, Operation Mars, and a brand new book on operations in Belarus. He somehow still hasn't written a book on Operation Bagration so I hope that's coming someday. Also watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Clz27nghIg If you want something a lot lighter read Ivan's War. It'll make you hate humanity pretty good. For a good in-between Antony Beevor and Robert Citino are great. And there's also an awesome 18 hour documentary series on the Ostfront called Soviet Storm. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A6UWkK2U4s Shimrra Jamaane fucked around with this message at 04:16 on Jan 22, 2017 |
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Jan 22, 2017 04:09
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Read Wages of Destruction by Adam Tooze to see just how shoetring literally everything the German Army did was.
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Jan 22, 2017 04:45
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SHOAH NUFF posted:I ate at least 15 chocolate chip cookies yesterday I've been known to bake an entire roll of cookie dough and eat it all myself. Get on my level.
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Jan 22, 2017 17:11
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I will force history chat onto this forum if I have to. I've been reading non stop Ancient Rome since the summer. Adrian Goldsworthy's biographies of Caesar and Caesar Augusts are fantastic. And I also read Tom Holland (of Rubicon fame) new book Dynasty which was pretty decent. But I need to put a recommendation to Mastering the West by Dexter Hoyos. It's on the Punic Wars and goes into superb detail on the Second Punic War. It's not just about Trebia and Cannae and then a fast forward to Zama like most accounts. It goes into all of the years in between with not only with the Scipios in Spain but the incredible effort by the Romans to defend against and contain Hannibal in Italy itself. At the height of the war the Romans had over half a million citizen and allied troops deployed in the field at one time, a scale of mobilization that would not be matched until Revolutionary France 2,000 years later. And this was after losing over 100,000 troops in the first few disastrous years of the war, most notably about 60k in one single day at Cannae. I would love to write a paper on how the Second Punic War can be considered the first Total War in world history but well  and to what end?tl;dr Scipio Africanus was a loving badass Shimrra Jamaane fucked around with this message at 21:45 on Jan 22, 2017 |
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Jan 22, 2017 21:41
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FizFashizzle posted:cannae sounds loving horrifying The human crush of the Romans trying to desperately fight or just plain run away in the vice like grip of Hannibal's encirclement is disturbing to imagine. The book Ghosts of Cannae goes into detail on the terrifying visceral carnage of ancient warfare and how Cannae was extra horrifying even by the standards of the day.
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Jan 22, 2017 21:50
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I want to see Cato taking a poo poo while meeting with the delegates from some Eastern Client Kingdom.
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Jan 22, 2017 22:21
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Chichevache posted:Mary Beard's SPQR is a pretty good place to start. This. I read it two months ago during my current blitzkrieg through the subject and its a great place to start from ground zero. It's a fantastic overview of Roman history, society, and culture. Rubicon is a fantastic book but its a narrative focused on one era of Roman history rather than a general overview.
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Jan 22, 2017 23:37
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Chichevache posted:I didn't know you switched to power lifting. hahahaha
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Jan 22, 2017 23:54
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achillesforever6 posted:I'd recommend the Ancient Rome A&T thread which also has a bunch of cool ancient history facts; also the occasional quack who believes in Atlantis and Romans coming to America Helpful hint for everyone starting to read this awesome thread. Ignore literally everything Agesilaus posts.
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Jan 23, 2017 00:46
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In The Name of Rome by Goldsworthy is a great compilation of mini biographies of the biggest names in Roman history.
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Jan 23, 2017 01:08
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Jiminy Christmas! Shoes! posted:My cousin worked in pickle factory. So that's why they taste so good.
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Jan 24, 2017 02:59
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CharlestheHammer posted:The Star Wars prequels are actually the best movies as its all plot. Oh god the Cinema Discusso Star Wars thread is invading!
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Jan 24, 2017 17:59
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Fiz probably knows a decent amount about Indian food.
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Jan 24, 2017 18:40
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Man I need this thread. I keep making the mistake of posting in D&D arguing that maybe the US can withstand the disaster of a Trump Presidency and not fall into a literal dictatorship. This of course makes me a closet Trump supporter.
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Jan 24, 2017 19:46
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corn on the cop posted:round peg hits square hole I subconsciously hate myself and can't help it.
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Jan 24, 2017 19:52
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That's mean, I even complemented you on your avatar.
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Jan 24, 2017 19:59
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My standard Civ strategy is to build every single wonder before anyone else drat the practicalities.
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Jan 24, 2017 20:07
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Chichevache posted:So is Civ 6 worth it? I just bought 5 on a crazy rear end steam sale. General consensus is wait for the expansion. And probably the 2nd one too. That's usually how the series goes.
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Jan 24, 2017 20:09
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What is it with strategy games and it being wise to wait for the first expansion/major patch before buying it? It's the law for Civ, Paradox, Total War, etc.
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Jan 24, 2017 20:14
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Salvor_Hardin posted:Once it was made clear that they can outsource the tuning of the game engine to modders that became the norm. Also, programming a complex AI is hard. I blame Bethesda for that poo poo.
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Jan 24, 2017 20:20
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Kalli posted:You need to let the nutters bang on it for thousands of hours to figure out the balance changes you actually need to make. Remember when public BETAs were more than just some 3 day publicity event? Now they are just long enough for people to have fun but short enough that no one discovers the huge flaws.
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Jan 24, 2017 20:22
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Alaois posted:I don't know about the others but Paradox games are loving ridiculously complex, you can playtest the poo poo out of those things as much as is financially feasible and still miss 90% of the bugs that are gonna pop up when millions of people start playing it I'll say that Paradox games are much better at launch than in the EU 3 days. Crusader Kings 2 was a real turning point.
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Jan 24, 2017 20:29
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Kalli posted:Other forums for those paradox games were where I realized just how prominent nazis were becoming on the internet. "No but we just want a Holocaust mod for HoI because of historical immersion!"
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Jan 24, 2017 20:36
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WoW Goon stories are nothing compared to EVE Goon stories. BobFromMarketing trying to reach an agreement with the parents of a 14 year old Icelandic girl that would allow him to gently caress her comes to mind. Or anything to do with Ramedial.
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Jan 24, 2017 20:53
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Alaois posted:Was BobFromMarketing also an EVE Goon, I mostly remember the drama around that whole thing involving an ArcheAge guild, and the members of said guild being very blase about him being a pedo because he was good at fishing or some poo poo Bob was a fleet commander in GoonSwarm for quite a while.
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Jan 24, 2017 20:58
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CharlestheHammer posted:Reach an agreement? Honestly I forget the exact details but it was just as disturbing as it sounds. Like negotiating over a reverse dowry.
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Jan 24, 2017 21:02
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Dude then went to jail because he used his position as a real estate legal guy (I don't know what that's officially called, not a realtor) to scam the elderly out of hundreds of thousands of dollars in phony mortgages. After he got out he joined the army. In EVE Goons are really close to several Russian guilds which are vaguely backed by legit super rich oligarchs. Which have used IRL intimidation of opponents to gain advantage in game. Eve is a loving crazy rear end "game." Shimrra Jamaane fucked around with this message at 21:10 on Jan 24, 2017 |
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I spent 2 years reading all the front page articles and content like Photoshop Friday, Comedy Goldmine, and Fashion Swat before I even figured out that a forum existed. Somehow I never really questioned where all that content came from.
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