TheChurn

American hegemony was a conscious American policy choice. We didn’t want the Euros having an independent foreign policy, we wanted them reliant on American military protection. This was how the US kept those bits of its empire in line.

Notice how the only Western European country that even pays lip service to independent action is France, the one Western European country with a military capable of independent operation. And then we get “Freedom Fries” and all that shit whenever they don’t do whatever the current US admin wants.

The single biggest thing Trump fucked up for the US was pushing NATO countries to spend more on defence. This will drastically reduce US influence over the continent in the coming decades, speeding up America’s worsening diplomatic isolation.

Therapy might help with the childhood trauma but it imparts the poverty trauma.

Which one is better depends on the build you’re going for and whether you want to recruit all companions and get the true ending or are fine with the neutral.

Sun Tzu isn’t in that story, it is a tale about Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi from the Three Kingdoms period.

I’m not sure I’d trust modern CA to do Med3 justice. The new style of Total War is just a different beast from the sublime RTW/Med2 era.

Lots of little things changed, and it just ‘hits different’. Probably the biggest difference is just that every single fight after the first 20 turns will be a 20 stack vs a 20 stack, and every single battle is life or death for that army. It makes the campaign much faster paced - declare war, wipe stack, capture cities for 3 turns until the AI magics up another 20 stack.

In the original Med2, since there wasn’t automatic replenishment, there were often battles between smaller stacks, even in late game, as they were sent from the backline to reinforce the large armies on the front. Led to some of my greatest memories trying to keep some random crossbowmen and cavalry alive against some ambushing enemy infantry they wandered into. The need for manual reinforcement led to natural pauses in wars and gave the losing side a chance to regroup without relying on the insane AI bonuses of the modern TW games - and I do mean insane; they’ll have multiple full stacks supplied from a single settlement.

enough men exhibit predatory behaviour to the extent that a decently large percentage of women fear the average man more than the average bear.

Women should fear the average man far more than the average bear because they will almost certainly never encounter the average bear, but will encounter thousands of men.

That said, the entire argument belies a deep misunderstanding of statistics. Many women, perhaps most women, have experienced trauma at the hands of men. Many men, perhaps most men, have not been perpetrators of that trauma. There is not a 1-1 relationship between victimized women and guilty men - there is a minority of men who negatively affect many women.

The entire thing has become flamebait and it is impossible to have an actual discussion about it. The point is to start a conversation about how women feel unsafe in society - not to talk about bear attacks and incels.

https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/support/account/age-verification-faq/

In the UK, you have the choice between giving them a picture of your ID or doing a facial scan to complete the age verification requirement.

Lolz just give them a fake email…

I think this is from Berserk, but it’s been years and I can’t quite tell.

While Finland lost, the difficulty the Soviets encountered during their offensive was noted by the powers at the time. It was another factor convincing the Nazis that invading the Soviet Union wasn’t as terrible and idea as the balance of resources and forces would suggest.

Historians still debate whether the Soviets intended to conquer all of Finland at the onset of the war. While the eventual peace treaty left Finland ceding more territory than the initial Soviet ultimatum demanded, Finland retained its sovereignty, which was incredible given the disparity in military power and the existence of a puppet Finnish communist government.

It looks much better than elden ring in that all the models are much higher quality. Elden Ring was designed around relatively modest assets, and does wonders with what it has, but there is no comparison, DD2 wins hands-down.

As for art direction, that is subjective. Plenty of reasons to prefer looking at ER.

The Witcher 3 is almost a decade old at this point

There will be more options, sure, but the fundamental limits on the performance of a handheld PC haven’t really changed since the steam deck launched 2 years ago.

We need either a big battery breakthrough or a big architecture breakthrough to actually push the space forward.

There are plenty of interesting games to play that don’t need super-powerful hardware, but the Deck doesn’t even handle all of those flawlessly. Case in point the Persona 3 remake that had very noticeable frame rate drops on the Deck.

The OG Crysis wanted hardware that still doesn’t exist. They built the game and engine under the assumption that clock speeds would keep increasing, and instead we moved to high core counts.

Even today, at 4K and max settings, the original (2007) release can drop below 100 fps on the best possible hardware.

It’s almost like the law doesn’t protect equally

1. Hans has admitted to cheating in the past
2. Hans played a near-perfect game as black against the best player in the world who hadn’t lost as white in years
3. Hans made some suspiciously good moves quickly, without much time passing
4. Magnus played a very rare opening that Hans was somehow able to perfectly respond to without skipping a beat

From these, many people think he cheated. The vibrating butt plug is unlikely, but what is more likely is that Magnus’ prep got leaked and Hans was able to hyper-prepare for a specific line of play.

You can fly in space towards the planets you can see. When you get there, you won’t be able to land and will be able to fly straight through the planet itself.

Planets outside of the fast travel menu aren’t really planets

Context does not matter is exactly what you’re saying

No, what I am saying is you can’t blame every bad thing about the Korean peninsula on the US. Did the US recognize the PRK? Nope, they suppressed it. Should they have recognized it? Probably.

Did the Soviets recognize the PRK? Nope, they usurped it. Should they have recognized it? Probably.

Did the existence of the PRK change the trajectory of the peninsula towards separation and civil war? No, it was hardly a speed bump to the imperial power of the USSR and US.

The PRK is an interesting historical anecdote, but it is irrelevant when discussing the Korean War.

Interesting how you ignore how the US did not recognize the goverment installed by the people of korea (PRK)

The brief existence of the PRK has essentially no bearing on the civil war. It existed less than a year, and was dismantled in both the South and the North by the actions of the US and Soviet Union.

Neither power cared to entertain what the people of Korea wanted in the Post-War period.

I wonder what half-truth or outright lie y’all will respond with next to paint the US and SK as Satan next to the Angelic Soviet Union and DPRK.

No power were the ‘good guys’. None had the moral high ground. All deserve blame for what happened. The history of the period is one of tragedy and ambition.

None of that changes the fact that North Korea, backed by the Soviets and later China, started the shooting war by invading the South.

The comment I replied to said this:

This was the instigating event behind the civil war.

Dictionary.com says this for the word “instigating”

Causing, initiating, responsible for

Please explain how an event that occured after the invasion was the cause or initiator of the war.

If you cannot, then admit you didn’t read the thread and just came in here to muddy the waters.

If you are too proud to admit that, just ghost.

Japanese occupation –> Separate US and Soviet Occupation Zones –> Two different governments of ‘Korea’.

Not all that complicated.

Well, that’s a refreshing take to see. But that doesn’t make the event mentioned here not problematic or not a further motivator of the war

Did you miss the part where the first such event didn’t take place until after the invasion by the North?