[Ukraine] another dawn is breaking in Mosciv and it's still Russian

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BULBASAUR: Apr 6, 2009; Soiled Meat

dieselfruit posted:

I was under the impression that Japan generally thought it was better to surrender to the Americans than the soon-to-invade Soviets

"the countries we beat wanted to surrender to us and not the other guys because we were actually the good guys!" - most history lessons from around the world

# ¿ Nov 19, 2022 01:04

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# ¿ May 12, 2024 17:30

BULBASAUR: Apr 6, 2009; Soiled Meat

Megamissen posted:

fikabr�d

fikau

# ¿ Dec 30, 2022 12:57

BULBASAUR: Apr 6, 2009; Soiled Meat

Megamissen posted:

how did the whole draft thing work out?

the post made it sound a like you didnt live there anymore but have not seen you post a lot so got a bit worried

hey thanks for giving a drat :shobon:

I'm out of the country, have lived abroad most of my life, so the most immediate effect is that I can't visit aging family. Besides this the real concern is if they'll punish expats that draft dodge. I think America did something like this during vietnam so we're dreading something similar being cooked up. I might end up exiled and totally cut off from my european family (and my 'assets' ie apartment etc seized)

This hasn't happened yet, but its a real worry

# ¿ Dec 31, 2022 06:47

BULBASAUR: Apr 6, 2009; Soiled Meat

thanks everyone, happy new year to you'all

Lostconfused posted:

How does someone from America even get to Russia right now besides some really contrived multiple step route through Egypt and Turkiye.

another big issue is that relations are so bad most consulates are closed, so even if you want to visit good luck getting your paperwork in order

or if you're abroad and your passport expires, good luck getting it renewed without having to fly back to the mothercountry

# ¿ Dec 31, 2022 20:37

BULBASAUR: Apr 6, 2009; Soiled Meat

Chamale posted:

The extreme level of alcoholism in Russia

My personal experience is that the Eastern European drug of choice has always been alcohol, since well before imperial times. So far nowhere comes close to the extreme bouts of binge drinking and drunkenness I experienced as a child. Lots of factors here, but a big one was the rapid industrialization of a bunch of peasants. Big cities where almost everyone is poor, gangs of kids roaming streets half a generation past village life. Glue sniffing and just extreme drinking from an early age.

The 90s were particularly bad not just because of the dire socioeconomic situation, but because all the social services were gutted. In soviet times you didn't see as many people passed out drunk in the bushes on your way to school, because they were quickly rounded up and sent into detox centers.

Today other drugs are easier to get, but there is still a big stigma against them. I feel drinking has decreased as the economic situation got better (and neolib style social programs came into effect), but I would say the drinking culture is still pretty serious, just no longer extreme.

# ¿ Jan 21, 2023 05:55

BULBASAUR: Apr 6, 2009; Soiled Meat

Hatebag posted:

Ok, if you get your hundreds of tons of concrete for the sail and probably thousands of nuclear bomblets for the bomb rectum into space then wouldn't you blow up a bunch of nukes in orbit which would send a bunch of radioactive particles to earth? It still doesn't seem ideal to me but i guess if you build it in space it'll just give everything cancer

i have surprising news 4 u about the sun

# ¿ Feb 8, 2023 20:54

BULBASAUR: Apr 6, 2009; Soiled Meat

Futanari Damacy posted:

Sid Meier, Will Wright et al are never making another game again

Sid is a super christian dude that we had to fight in order get the word 'poo poo' into xcom

Will Wright is now into crypto

# ¿ Feb 8, 2023 23:30

BULBASAUR: Apr 6, 2009; Soiled Meat

I'm sorry

# ¿ Feb 8, 2023 23:45

BULBASAUR: Apr 6, 2009; Soiled Meat

fwiw I loved arcade mode biplanes, even in higher tiers I still take biplanes

also yes, play Soviets comarde

# ¿ Feb 16, 2023 04:36

BULBASAUR: Apr 6, 2009; Soiled Meat

V. Illych L. posted:

the reaction to the hersh story is completely bonkers

were his Vietnam and Bush era stories initially received as tepidly?

# ¿ Feb 16, 2023 22:58

BULBASAUR: Apr 6, 2009; Soiled Meat

Goongrats Majorian. Being a mod sucks, I'm glad you can do real baby sitting instead.

V. Illych L. posted:

i don't know, but at least in norway that really would surprise me. as late as 2003 you had mainstream comedy panel shows openly mocking colin powell. even 2011 with libya was nowhere near this level of message discipline here - there was a real opposition to the government position, and it was given at least some measure of a hearing (this did not prevent the more jingoistic segments of the press from running with the insanely racist "black mercenaries given viagra" story, but you know).

I can't speak for Norway, but I have Swedish family and have watched their politics drift closer in the direction of the US which they kinda always favored anyway.

Like that twitter thread from a few pages ago its sad seeing common people back government actions mostly against their interests. Gotta maintain close ties with the US despite the US clearly making a play to sacrifice Europe in order to stay afloat a bit longer economically.

# ¿ Feb 16, 2023 23:20

BULBASAUR: Apr 6, 2009; Soiled Meat

sad I missed the heavy metal page

# ¿ Feb 17, 2023 23:19

BULBASAUR: Apr 6, 2009; Soiled Meat

those damned darvos m8

# ¿ Feb 21, 2023 22:00

BULBASAUR: Apr 6, 2009; Soiled Meat

Frosted Flake posted:

Because the Queen's Cipher is on there, we don't write on any artillery pieces.

lol

# ¿ Feb 23, 2023 06:29

BULBASAUR: Apr 6, 2009; Soiled Meat

Danann posted:

_{(from t.me/milinfolive/97282, via tgsa)}

let 100 technicals bloom

cumrade this is tachanka

# ¿ Feb 24, 2023 01:52

BULBASAUR: Apr 6, 2009; Soiled Meat

welcum gbs refugees

# ¿ Feb 26, 2023 23:10

BULBASAUR: Apr 6, 2009; Soiled Meat

Al-Saqr you should at least play the good warhammer gam e

# ¿ Feb 28, 2023 06:49

BULBASAUR: Apr 6, 2009; Soiled Meat

capital is chaos biden is horus and we all know who the emperor is

:trump:

# ¿ Feb 28, 2023 06:54

BULBASAUR: Apr 6, 2009; Soiled Meat

16-bit Butt-Head posted:

this thread loves atomic hearts and has collected all the achievements

atomic hearts? warhammer? lemme what I got

# ¿ Feb 28, 2023 07:10

BULBASAUR: Apr 6, 2009; Soiled Meat

Frosted Flake posted:

lol does the US not have their hands full?

What the gently caress is going on in their foreign policy establishment? Are there factions each pushing for Russia, China and Iran or something?

the mega-recession is looming and they need blood for number

*protoss voice* my life for number

BULBASAUR has issued a correction as of 23:48 on Feb 28, 2023

# ¿ Feb 28, 2023 23:44

BULBASAUR: Apr 6, 2009; Soiled Meat

Cpt_Obvious posted:

Is there some reason I shouldn't believe Newsweek is it a conservative rag?

# ¿ Feb 28, 2023 23:57

BULBASAUR: Apr 6, 2009; Soiled Meat

Frosted Flake posted:

The belief that doing so could be done without social and political consequences, specifically the Roman ruling class blocking the expansion of citizenship and other rights and privileges to allied people and cities, led to the Social War which really and truly came close to destroying Rome. Only the eleventh hour decision to surrender to the political demands of the coalition assembled against them averted catastrophe. This was a recurring theme in Roman history, and earlier the Athenians too. Acting as if all's well that ends well, that the status quo can be maintained regardless of circumstances, is as dangerous as losing the war.

Oh cool, so its the same poo poo today, and the only cure is violence

# ¿ Mar 7, 2023 18:55

BULBASAUR: Apr 6, 2009; Soiled Meat

dk2m posted:

When China was first admitted to the WTO in 2001, the ruling class thought that China would become like Japan - we would benefit from cheap labor and cheap goods, but just like the Plaza Accords has kept Japan in stagflation since the 90s after their exports became too competitive with our industry, we would eventually be able to influence a newly liberalized China into a similarly weak position.

Instead of the state weakening as free market forces flooded, they simply re-organized the relationship between capital and state. Capital was always subordinate to the state and nowhere is that more apparent in the fact that their central bank is state owned. This largely prevented a financialized economy from taking shape, which we in the west call a �service economy�. China has also deliberately has kept their billionaire class in check by periodically cracking down on them.

This has completely shocked the West, in which we are so used to a financial oligarchy being the #1 priority, especially after they got bailed out in 2008. The average Chinese therefore supports their government, and the dreams of neoliberals like Bill Clinton never materialized - there was never a moment where we had enough economic leverage over China to force them into a position like Japan in the 90s and Germany/EU now.

It�s not widely understood how the trade surplus affects this as well - Russia, for example, had a trade surplus with the US as they are an export nation due to their rich natural resources. Sanctions work because they prevent countries from obtaining US dollars to their central bank, which ultimately affects their currency and therefore their consumer spending. By seizing Russias foreign reserves, it was thought that it could completely cripple them for that reason. What has ended up happening is that we now are understanding that sanctions work on heavily financialized or debt burdened economies.

Because Russia has prepared for this day since the first sanction in 2008, they had collected vast gold storages and quickly moved to back any trade deficits with gold, preventing a shock. After it stabilized their currency, they went back to their regime of commodity exports and it has completely strengthened their currency. What this now shows is that we�ve entered an age where raw production, commodities, and goods are more valuable than foreign reserves.

This is a lesson we�re unprepared on how to deal with. For the first time, American economic might has not dealt a death blow - Venezuela, Iran, Cuba and North Korea all fell victim. We�ve now shown all the world our cards, and China can confidently project power because not only has the trade war sanctions backfired (Huawei exited the consumer market and has made huge shares in the industrial market), but our sanctions simply won�t work on a natural resource and goods/commodity based economy like China.

40 years of neoliberalism has not prepared any of our leaders, let alone everyday people, to contemplate this new reality. Therefore, our only way to intimidate China is now militarily. It seems that neoliberalism as an economic theory is really over - financialized economies are weak because they have no industry and cannot withstand shocks like a pandemic, nor can they be valuable allies as they have no natural resources or goods of their own to trade. Neoliberal and financialized countries like the UK and Canada are in real trouble because atleast we have a formidable military.

ty for this good post

# ¿ Mar 8, 2023 07:49

BULBASAUR: Apr 6, 2009; Soiled Meat

Since we're sharing cross cultural experiences.

Moscow during and after the collapse, the late 80s and 90s, was a wild place. It reminded me more of what I thought life would be like in china or india than anything european, or even western, as a young boy coming from the US. It felt like a truly alien place, even though it was my home and my entire family was there. Village life, in particular, was pretty incredible to experience- no running water or electricity. Contributing to the dilapidation was this fall of rome feeling that hug in the air, from abandoned mega projects, to drunks laying in the streets, to incomplete infrastructure rotting away in the snow. Grotesque privatization ontop of it all. Nothing new was affordable and all the old stuff was under new management so you couldn't trust it. Villages that were supposed to get power and electricity, but were just a few months late, had to bribe people for years after to complete a project.

Going back around 2020, it was a completely different country. Clean, contemporary, modernized. I realized this when I came back. I felt like I had gone a decade ahead when I was there, and when I came back the dilapidation was obviously stateside. When I shared with my friends its natural that they didn't want to believe it.

# ¿ Mar 8, 2023 22:30

BULBASAUR: Apr 6, 2009; Soiled Meat

if its really the biggest missile attack going down, I wonder if that's the start of the spring offensive

Tankbuster posted:

lol that my dad said the same thing when he came to visit me while I was in the US. He took the greyhound bus because there were no trains and he didn't want to fly. Said he passed through areas that looked significantly worse than rural maharashtra; let alone kerala.

The US has miles of tent cities and broken down infrastructure everywhere, its a god damned disgrace

Ardennes posted:

I mean the cost of living in Portland is literally like 3-4 times Moscow at this point, so they weren�t expecting they would have to make 3-4 times what they made in Moscow to have the same quality of life (probably more factoring in a car and health care etc). They moved to a place with a worse work to life balance.

They didn�t think Mexicans would be in Oregon because it is a �white state� and they wanted to escape the horrors of Moscow where there would be non-white Russian citizens on the metro minding their own business.

Part of it, I think, comes from the period when Moscow was the most expensive city in the world. Its still a huge expensive city, but boy have prices throughout the entire USA caught up since then

# ¿ Mar 9, 2023 06:23

BULBASAUR: Apr 6, 2009; Soiled Meat

he's referring to the industrial infrastructure being destroyed

# ¿ Mar 10, 2023 23:58

BULBASAUR: Apr 6, 2009; Soiled Meat

mlmp08 posted:

The music from this war loving sucks.

typical western chauvinism

# ¿ Mar 11, 2023 01:42

BULBASAUR: Apr 6, 2009; Soiled Meat

we've learned that in a situation of a near-peer proxy war, the west is extremely cheap, and doesn't have an exit plan besides indefinite attrition

# ¿ Mar 16, 2023 09:06

BULBASAUR: Apr 6, 2009; Soiled Meat

they mean inside Ukraine

# ¿ Mar 16, 2023 09:27

BULBASAUR: Apr 6, 2009; Soiled Meat

hail australian satan

# ¿ Mar 17, 2023 00:29

BULBASAUR: Apr 6, 2009; Soiled Meat

Al-Saqr posted:

has there ever been any conflict Russia's ever been involved in where everything went great for them from start to finish and they accomplished their goals perfectly without shooting every bullet they have into their feet first.

Not really, and we still ended up with Alexander Suvorov, one of histories undefeated generals

# ¿ Mar 28, 2023 20:59

BULBASAUR: Apr 6, 2009; Soiled Meat

paul_soccer12 posted:

https://twitter.com/KitKlarenberg/status/1641103994817765376

quote:

The United States is losing influence catastrophically by underestimating Russia. It doesn�t have the industrial capacity to provide artillery ammunition to Ukraine. The best policy is an immediate ceasefire, I argued.

That would be a humiliation for the United States, but a salutary one. In the 1970s, Vietnam did the US a favor by humiliating it before Russia did. The Vietnam debacle made possible a complete rethinking of US defense strategy, and America�s ultimate victory in the Cold War. Putin may thus be doing the US a favor by humiliating it now.

# ¿ Mar 29, 2023 23:59

BULBASAUR: Apr 6, 2009; Soiled Meat

its tough existing as a writer in the games biz, as its not often stable work. because of that a lotta the time the work gets contracted out to script writers from hollywood / netflix / whatever

good games writing is also tough because of how it sits in the overall pipeline of work, its extremely expensive to do re-writes and iterate (this is also often the only way to make it good)

one of the reasons bethesda loving sucks at narrative were cheap agreements to use hollywood talent for the work instead of paying union labor to do it. the acquisition with MS might raise the bar but who knows

# ¿ Apr 3, 2023 05:23

BULBASAUR: Apr 6, 2009; Soiled Meat

Tankbuster posted:

Bethesda does very good level design to make up for it. Like there's a neat little story laid out in the first skyrim mine where an orc is trying to turn iron into gold to supplement his bandit gang's mammoth trapping operation.

yep. studios tend to have strengths and weaknesses

# ¿ Apr 3, 2023 05:53

BULBASAUR: Apr 6, 2009; Soiled Meat

Vomik posted:

I thought Hollywood writers actually had a pretty strong union? what is the alternative writers Union?

Hollywood does have a strong writers union. In Bethesda's case, they had direct agreements with hollywood talent through zenimax and some personal connections.

If you ever wondered why many of the voice actors were the same people in their games, that's one of the reason why.

# ¿ Apr 3, 2023 07:05

BULBASAUR: Apr 6, 2009; Soiled Meat

SplitSoul posted:

Fallout 2 > Fallout > Fallout: New Vegas > Fallout: Tactics > Fallout 76 > Fallout 4 > Fallout 3 > Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel

I'd swap tatics with new vegas

I thought 76 was dogshit tho?

# ¿ Apr 3, 2023 17:55

BULBASAUR: Apr 6, 2009; Soiled Meat

yeah the always online gimmick pretty much sealed the deal for me

# ¿ Apr 3, 2023 18:04

BULBASAUR: Apr 6, 2009; Soiled Meat

ah yes, star wars world building

wait till you see how the good guys win this time!

# ¿ Apr 3, 2023 20:55

BULBASAUR: Apr 6, 2009; Soiled Meat

Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3 posted:

where did the emperor get the crews for all of those star destroyers in the last movie? were they also in the ground, or were they recruited after? where from? who made their uniforms? where did they get their food?

the super super super super star destroyer, which looks almost identical to the others, but somehow performs even worse

yet another victim of the for profit military industrial complex

# ¿ Apr 3, 2023 21:12

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# ¿ May 12, 2024 17:30

BULBASAUR: Apr 6, 2009; Soiled Meat

Lostconfused posted:

Have you considered that you are a crank? And that everyone else actually wants to hoot and holler as they watch things and people blown up on their screens?

I am the TV. Tragedy fills me

# ¿ Apr 5, 2023 03:54

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