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woadge · 1 day
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I am a trans woman who is once again plugging her pngtuber stream and discord
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Also to entice you I offer this image of a lesbian (the ol’ honeypot maneuver). Her name is Falin Touden and she just like me fr.
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lilithism1848 · 2 months
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tumbler-polls · 13 days
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jonasgoonface · 1 year
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maybe consider violence.
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retronator · 9 months
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This post has been 9 months in the making. 1 day for playing the wonderfully-illustrated city builder that is LakeSide by Massive Galaxy Studios, 1 day for trying to capture pixel-perfect GIFs, and 9 months for agonizing over the fact that it's sometimes impossible to capture or post pixel-perfect GIFs, therefore, it's better to not post anything at all until you feel so bad for your blog hiatus that you say enough is enough, get over it, and post this beauty of a game and talk about it because, really, that's what matters. Apologies to Gonçalo Monteiro, the main developer, for waiting this long.
LakeSide is a bit of a rougelite in that you're not building one eternal city over many sessions. Instead, it offers quick turnaround and replayability as you receive different building upgrades each time and experience random events. It's currently in Early Access on Steam ($11 at 25% off right now, Windows-only) with new features coming out regularly, most recently the addition of armies and sieges. Oh, and if you're wondering why the game looks this pretty, it's simple: art is made by @kirokazepixel.
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kemetic-dreams · 9 months
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Melvin Morris became a Green Beret in 1961. Many years later in 2014 he received the Medal of Honor for his heroism in Vietnam when he used a small number of available grenades to repel a larger enemy force. He was shot several times during the encounter, but he survived the war and is currently 79 years old.
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retrocgads · 2 months
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USA 1997
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quotesfrommyreading · 8 months
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Much of the public discussion of Ukraine reveals a tendency to patronize that country and others that escaped Russian rule. As Toomas Ilves, a former president of Estonia, acidly observed, “When I was at university in the mid-1970s, no one referred to Germany as ‘the former Third Reich.’ And yet today, more than 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, we keep on being referred to as ‘former Soviet bloc countries.’” Tropes about Ukrainian corruption abound, not without reason—but one may also legitimately ask why so many members of Congress enter the House or Senate with modest means and leave as multimillionaires, or why the children of U.S. presidents make fortunes off foreign countries, or, for that matter, why building in New York City is so infernally expensive.
The latest, richest example of Western condescension came in a report by German military intelligence that complains that although the Ukrainians are good students in their training courses, they are not following Western doctrine and, worse, are promoting officers on the basis of combat experience rather than theoretical knowledge. Similar, if less cutting, views have leaked out of the Pentagon.
Criticism by the German military of any country’s combat performance may be taken with a grain of salt. After all, the Bundeswehr has not seen serious combat in nearly eight decades. In Afghanistan, Germany was notorious for having considerably fewer than 10 percent of its thousands of in-country troops outside the wire of its forward operating bases at any time. One might further observe that when, long ago, the German army did fight wars, it, too, tended to promote experienced and successful combat leaders, as wartime armies usually do.
American complaints about the pace of Ukraine’s counteroffensive and its failure to achieve rapid breakthroughs are similarly misplaced. The Ukrainians indeed received a diverse array of tanks and armored vehicles, but they have far less mine-clearing equipment than they need. They tried doing it our way—attempting to pierce dense Russian defenses and break out into open territory—and paid a price. After 10 days they decided to take a different approach, more careful and incremental, and better suited to their own capabilities (particularly their precision long-range weapons) and the challenge they faced. That is, by historical standards, fast adaptation. By contrast, the United States Army took a good four years to develop an operational approach to counterinsurgency in Iraq that yielded success in defeating the remnants of the Baathist regime and al-Qaeda-oriented terrorists.
A besetting sin of big militaries, particularly America’s, is to think that their way is either the best way or the only way. As a result of this assumption, the United States builds inferior, mirror-image militaries in smaller allies facing insurgency or external threat. These forces tend to fail because they are unsuited to their environment or simply lack the resources that the U.S. military possesses in plenty. The Vietnamese and, later, the Afghan armies are good examples of this tendency—and Washington’s postwar bad-mouthing of its slaughtered clients, rather than critical self-examination of what it set them up for, is reprehensible.
The Ukrainians are now fighting a slow, patient war in which they are dismantling Russian artillery, ammunition depots, and command posts without weapons such as American ATACMS and German Taurus missiles that would make this sensible approach faster and more effective. They know far more about fighting Russians than anyone in any Western military knows, and they are experiencing a combat environment that no Western military has encountered since World War II. Modesty, never an American strong suit, is in order.
  —  Western Diplomats Need to Stop Whining About Ukraine
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pratchettquotes · 6 months
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Angua felt that she was beginning to understand the way Carrot asked questions. He asked them by not asking them. He simply told people what he thought or suspected, and they found themselves filling in the details in an attempt to keep up. And he never, actually, told lies.
Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms
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technicalgrimoire · 3 months
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Overpowered V3 is out now (and free!)
I'm so proud of the work we've done on Overpowered V3 (our first solo strategy game).
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This new version is much more streamlined, far more satisfying, and compatible with even more adventures. Speedrun your favorite RPG modules FOR FREE!
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escuerzoresucitado · 10 months
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facts-i-just-made-up · 8 months
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What was Napoleon's favorite battle tactic?
There are many encyclopedic analyses of this very question, but all those thousands of pages distill down to one thing- He had his people shoot the other people until he won. The only time he lost, it was because his people didn't shoot the other people enough. Thus, the only important factor of strategy and tactics is to shoot the other people until you win.
Clausewitz and Liddell Hart can suck it.
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henk-heijmans · 4 months
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The spider's strategy, 2006 - by Pierre S., French
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artodynamics · 6 months
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Was it obvious to everybody else
That I'd fallen for a lie?
You were never on my side
Fool me once, fool me twice
Are you death or paradise?
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madcat-world · 1 year
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Athena (1 of 2) - Irina Nordsol Kuzmina
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