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So can we use this thread to organize a Twilight 2000 game? 
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Apr 30, 2022 20:01
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Marshal Prolapse posted:So can we use this thread to organize a Twilight 2000 game? "World War III that never was" Just wait
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Apr 30, 2022 20:44
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i want a high yield thermonuclear warhead to hit my dick+balls so my dick gets disintegrated from matter into high energy gamma rays and then i can be like "haha my dick rays penetrated you, youre gay now"
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Apr 30, 2022 22:10
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Is The Road actually explicitly about a post-nuclear wasteland? I recall the writing being extremely vague, or even leaning in the direction of some sort of geological event.
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Apr 30, 2022 22:10
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Mister Speaker posted:Is The Road actually explicitly about a post-nuclear wasteland? I recall the writing being extremely vague, or even leaning in the direction of some sort of geological event. I thought it was just a general hodgepodge of end of the world stuff. Also viewing time. This is pretty much how SAC felt a nuclear war would play out. This is the late bomber very early missile era. It’s incredibly well-made and the best part is it feels like a fly on the wall documentary with no extraneous personal character threads. https://youtu.be/jbSI6Tyc6AQ Here is a slightly similar one. https://youtu.be/KPy6EhKg2vw These other two do have that. These two kind of follow the news broadcast format that you’ve seen in a lot of fake news edits for movies or other entertainment. https://youtu.be/q1m7opOGSmQ https://youtu.be/knSSUEdLcvg Anyway I’ll try and keep posting some fun content in between the poo poo posting.
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Apr 30, 2022 22:16
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Doctor Dogballs posted:GWB also got his Bachelor's from Yale and his Master's from Harvard, he definitely didnt think he was "sticking it to the elites," he was downplaying his own eliteness to "stick it" to his voter base (idiots) Even though he came from that part of society GWB never felt a part of it, being disaffected from his Yale contemporaries. As campus' were moving to the anti-war left, Bush did see them as elitists. He lost his first run for congress because his opponent labeled him as an out of touch north easterner. From then on out he leaned into the Texas identity. A man of the people, albeit one who owned oil companies and baseball teams. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/choice2004/bush/yale.html Jimmie Carter, on the other hand, was a on hand for one of the world's first nuclear melt downs. quote:"We all went out on the tennis court, and they had an exact duplicate of the reactor on the tennis court. We would run out there with our wrenches and we'd check off so many bolts and nuts and they'd put them back on," Carter told Canadian journalist and author Arthur Milnes. https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-jimmy-carter-stop-nuclear-reactor-ottawa-canada-1660067
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Apr 30, 2022 22:20
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Automatic Slim posted:Even though he came from that part of society GWB never felt a part of it, being disaffected from his Yale contemporaries. As campus' were moving to the anti-war left, Bush did see them as elitists. He lost his first run for congress because his opponent labeled him as an out of touch north easterner. From then on out he leaned into the Texas identity. A man of the people, albeit one who owned oil companies and baseball teams. Peanut President will always be my favorite
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Apr 30, 2022 22:37
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Marshal Prolapse posted:We now have the nuclear war and weapons thread. I have tons of good poo poo to post later but I’m also kind of sick with Covid currently…so sorry for a poo poo OP. I was born in August 1985 and if nuclear war happened then you wouldn't get to read my posts OP think about that
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Apr 30, 2022 23:05
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Hazo posted:I was born in August 1985 and if nuclear war happened then you wouldn't get to read my posts OP I'd rather not
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Apr 30, 2022 23:11
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Mister Speaker posted:Is The Road actually explicitly about a post-nuclear wasteland? I recall the writing being extremely vague, or even leaning in the direction of some sort of geological event. It is. it opens with him seeing the flashes and begins to fill his bathtub up with water.
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May 1, 2022 00:21
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Twigand Berries posted:It is. it opens with him seeing the flashes and begins to fill his bathtub up with water. look at this nerd who reads books
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May 1, 2022 00:28
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:What if a nuke came flying towards us and instead of exploding as we scream in terror and fear it just makes the loudest fart sound you've ever heard and your ears are ringing for a week afterwards i tell my wife this to cover up some shockers i’ve emitted, it works pretty well as long as you time it with current world events
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May 1, 2022 00:30
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I got the impression it was an asteroid impact(s). Not that it matters at all in the story.
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May 1, 2022 00:30
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It's not completely explicit but given that the guy was at the ready with the bathtub filling thing when he saw a flash, he was clearly anticipating something. i guess people could've been anticipating an asteroid impact but that just seems less likely than war and nukes. the asteroid wouldn't have been a surprise. he'd have filled the bathtub ahead of time.
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May 1, 2022 02:56
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I will not stand for this Miracle Mile erasure! SPOILER:Goose dies all over again
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May 1, 2022 04:27
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good point
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May 1, 2022 04:27
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Marshal Prolapse posted:So can we use this thread to organize a Twilight 2000 game? I'd be down for that
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May 1, 2022 04:28
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Marshal Prolapse posted:So can we use this thread to organize a Twilight 2000 game?  I would like to play your nuclear game
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May 1, 2022 04:40
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but seriously, forget The Day After, forget Threads, the most chilling piece of cold war media I've ever seen was the time Thames Television actually built all of the fallout shelters in Protect And Survive (UK Crown, 1980) and concluded "Oi, yer fooked m8" (content starts at 11:48) https://youtu.be/9GJttnC8PoA
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May 1, 2022 04:42
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shame on an IGA posted:but seriously, forget The Day After, forget Threads, the most chilling piece of cold war media I've ever seen was the time Thames Television actually built all of the fallout shelters in Protect And Survive (UK Crown, 1980) and concluded "Oi, yer fooked m8" I've watched this, it's very good and very scary in the way a doctor showing you a picture of a brain tumor would be. Just the facts, here's how you'll die
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May 1, 2022 04:59
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search engine posted:It's not completely explicit but given that the guy was at the ready with the bathtub filling thing when he saw a flash, he was clearly anticipating something. i guess people could've been anticipating an asteroid impact but that just seems less likely than war and nukes. the asteroid wouldn't have been a surprise. he'd have filled the bathtub ahead of time. His wife was like "what are you doing?" so his filling the bathtub was more conveying he was the kind of guy who wasn't about to stand around worrying about the end of the world. He was going to take a bath.
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May 1, 2022 05:18
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when the forums go down for maintenance in two hours, it will be a good simulation of what it would be like in a nuclear strike
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May 1, 2022 05:27
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Are you saying we ought to launch an immediate retaliation strike on SA HQ
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May 1, 2022 06:10
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shame on an IGA posted:but seriously, forget The Day After, forget Threads, the most chilling piece of cold war media I've ever seen was the time Thames Television actually built all of the fallout shelters in Protect And Survive (UK Crown, 1980) and concluded "Oi, yer fooked m8" goddamn the pumpkin poo poo right before your timestap... maybe nuclear war isn't as cool as i thought it was. Colonel Cancer posted:Are you saying we ought to launch an immediate retaliation strike on SA HQ decapitation strike 
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May 1, 2022 06:15
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Colonel Cancer posted:Are you saying we ought to launch an immediate retaliation strike on SA HQ We should launch a preemptive strike if anything
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May 1, 2022 06:18
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Drop a few warheads on ebaumsworld and 9gag while you're at it
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May 1, 2022 06:20
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What nuke was it that very nearly exploded near an American city and could never be retrieved from the ground?
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May 1, 2022 08:29
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By popular demand posted:What nuke was it that very nearly exploded near an American city and could never be retrieved from the ground? https://www.atomicarchive.com/almanac/broken-arrows/index.html there's 6 of them just kinda hanging out somewhere
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May 1, 2022 08:32
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Fun nuke toy. Nuke map! Find out how hosed you are.
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May 1, 2022 08:39
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MrQwerty posted:https://www.atomicarchive.com/almanac/broken-arrows/index.html there's 6 of them just kinda hanging out somewhere Well that is comforting. 
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May 1, 2022 08:39
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By popular demand posted:Well that is comforting. the saving grace is that the core is made of the heaviest naturally and non-naturally occurring elements readily available so they're sinking into the core of the Earth edit: also they didn't explode so they're permanently dudded out at this point, also nobody knows where the gently caress they are anyway
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May 1, 2022 08:42
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Marshal Prolapse posted:So can we use this thread to organize a Twilight 2000 game? how about Twilight Struggle
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May 1, 2022 09:03
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Linux Pirate posted:Fun nuke toy. Nuke map! Find out how hosed you are. this one will simulate a full exchange https://nuclearwarmap.com/map01.html Turns out I might be far enough south of norfolk/hampton to survive w/ broken windows and third degree burns in a house on fire for up to an hour before the second volley starts hitting civilian targets
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May 1, 2022 12:51
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Hey that's U.S. Only! I know that I definitely won't survive a nuclear war but how will I know just how wide the atoms constituting my body will spread?
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May 1, 2022 13:07
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poverty goat posted:this one will simulate a full exchange https://nuclearwarmap.com/map01.html And here I am sitting in the darkest red oval on the map No big no big
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May 1, 2022 13:46
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This thread needs more Julie McDowall She’s a synesthete who told me my name smells like old leather and she has a delightful Scottish accent that you’ll love hearing on her podcast about nuclear warfare in the 20th century, The Atomic Hobo “Episodes are twenty-minute helpings of nuclear horror and absurdity as I produce findings from my archive research, interviews, reading and travels. Topics include plans to dispose of the dead; a walk around a Hungarian bunker; the Four Minute Warning, and the NHS after nuclear war.” The latest episode is about the Azovstal plant and Soviet civil defense. http://www.juliemcdowall.com/index.php/podcast/
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May 1, 2022 14:13
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Vampire Panties posted:
Mycroft Holmes posted:I'd be down for that Sweet, now to just figure out how to do it. One idea someone posted was setting the game in the Escape From NY Timeline. The novelization actually expands on it. I have a PDF of it laying around. https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/what-we-learned-from-the-escape-from-new-york-novelization/ Here is a link with the oop book and more info. http://www.theefnylapage.com/pressefnymovietieinnovel.htm Marshal Prolapse fucked around with this message at 15:53 on May 1, 2022 |
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May 1, 2022 15:51
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poverty goat posted:this one will simulate a full exchange https://nuclearwarmap.com/map01.html This makes it look like I'd maybe live through a full exchange even if I did nothing, but my chances of having nothing happen to me(in the initial exchange at least) go up drastically if I drive west as soon as the bombs start dropping since the nearest city is a low priority target and I'm right on the edge of the danger zone.  I wonder how far along ICBM defense systems are. Missile wise, it's not too different than an anti-satellite missile. However, the difficulty appears to be in guidance and targeting. In 2020 the US successfully intercepted an ICBM with a missile launched from a cruiser, but since it's fairly new I'm guessing the system would be overwhelmed with hundreds of missiles in a full exchange. wilderthanmild fucked around with this message at 17:14 on May 3, 2022 |
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May 3, 2022 17:10
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I have lightly considered taking a trip to somewhere less populated for the next few weeks. Just in case my city is one of the nuke targets.
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Why? the living will envy the dead.
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