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Post by B. Hieronymus Da on Sept 18, 2023 17:30:25 GMT
Italy got their stuff to North Afrika by not being at war with Britain. Malta first? ...eh. Italy did get help from Germany. Still didn't succeed. I think you're missing what it's like to fight RN. It doesn't matter how much you hurt them. It doesn't matter how much stronger your units are. They'll just keep coming at you at every opportunity. And ultimately their navy is bigger and better. Capturing Malta? Certainly, Germany would be helped by the conflict between Britain and Italy, just as they would be helped by the conflict between Japan and USA. But only if they weren't involved, by alliances that couldn't gain them anything. To Germany, the key is to not be at war with Britain and USA.
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Post by ScumbagShepurd on Sept 19, 2023 12:18:27 GMT
They would've needed some serious German help, but after Crete, that was not going to happen. Naval invasions were still rare and untested in june 1940, there were 5 infantry battalions on Malta, less than 4000 men and virtually no aircraft. Italians absolutely could take the island on their own at that time. Early war, and on paper, I'm inclined to agree. Later, not a chance. this is basically what im saying. I think you're missing what it's like to fight RN. It doesn't matter how much you hurt them. It doesn't matter how much stronger your units are. They'll just keep coming at you at every opportunity. And ultimately their navy is bigger and better. Capturing Malta? this is an unfounded belief in the might of the RN no matter what, not dissimilar to magical thinking. in reality, Brits themselves considered Malta undefendable in 1939-1940. And the whole fate of the Allied Mediterranean was on the brink of collapse when Malta was subjected to the most severe bombardments and could not launch offensive raids on the Axis convoys in 1942: (from "THE STRATEGIC EMPLOYMENT OF ALLIED FORCES IN THE MEDITERRANEAN DURING WORLD WAR II" by R.C.Mangrum published in "Naval War College Information Service for Officers", Vol. 3, No. 10 (June, 1951), pp. 25-50) this is just the consequences of neutralizing Malta via bombardments for a short time. The result of capturing Malta would be even more devastating. p.s. what's interesting in that bit is that, again, it points to the fatal flaw in the Axis planning in the Mediterranean: the lack of strategic unity of purpose. Basically, the more successful Rommel was in Lybia and Egypt, the less likely the invasion of Malta was - basically, two tasks (capturing the Suez and capturing Malta) were at odds with each other. but that flaw was not irremovable. It was absolutely possible for the Axis to create a conscious plan that wouldn't hamper one task for another. Making a hierarchy of tasks (first, we capture Malta, THEN we capture Egypt) was absolutely possible, only Italo-German stupidity prevented that.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2023 11:14:49 GMT
-Dark City was better than Matrix [and I mean the first movie] -'Count Zero' was better than Cyberpunk2077 and the whole TTRPG, and what followed it. -People don't get bored by Starfield Gameplay, but having a Hard Sci-Fi setting is boreville. [only good one is Hyperion Cantos]
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Post by B. Hieronymus Da on Sept 29, 2023 23:05:17 GMT
I think you're missing what it's like to fight RN. It doesn't matter how much you hurt them. It doesn't matter how much stronger your units are. They'll just keep coming at you at every opportunity. And ultimately their navy is bigger and better. Capturing Malta? this is an unfounded belief in the might of the RN no matter what, not dissimilar to magical thinking. You must surely be aware of Narvik, River Plate, Calabria, Taranto, Cape Matapan, so I'm disappointed that you don't seem to see the tactical and strategic dynamics involved in fighting the Royal Navy? It doesn't matter if you have superior force, or even if you do well temporarily. You cannot intimidate, dominate, control the situation or have peace to reap any rewards, because the British will keep attacking. At the end of it, you'll have lost more than you can afford. The RN will not. The brutal success of many of these British victories is ultimately due to reckless, pure stubbornness, even in the face of mistakes, setbacks and inferior strength. And that was the British tradition of insanity, ever since Sir Richard Grenville. The British did not believe Malta was undefendable. Someone at the staff may have thought so, but Churchill certainly didn't. The Italian air force was completely worthless against the Royal Navy. The British had radar. The Italians didn't even know what it was. Mussolini's Italians? No, I don't think they could have taken Malta by themselves. But never mind. The problem with these "What If", is that from the point of changed input, the process becomes only increasingly unpredictable. Which is why we're here, and not in 'History'. My original point was and is, that if Germany was ever to be able to gain anything from going to war, they must avoid war with Britain and USA. That may not have been obvious at the time, Britain and USA not mobilized, but was still the case, IMO.
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Post by mousestalker on Oct 1, 2023 17:05:46 GMT
Canada should ditch "Oh, Canada" as it's national song and replace it with Stan Rogers' "Northwest Passage". "Northwest Passage" tells a good story and has an inspiring moral. "Oh Canada" is really rather dull;. It reads like it was written by a committee and, oddly enough, it was (and re-written). One additional benefit is that they made the official version the one done by 'Unleash the Archers', no one would ever fall asleep at ceremonies.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2023 17:17:29 GMT
Canada should ditch "Oh, Canada" as it's national song and replace it with Stan Rogers' "Northwest Passage". "Northwest Passage" tells a good story and has an inspiring moral. "Oh Canada" is really rather dull;. It reads like it was written by a committee and, oddly enough, it was (and re-written). One additional benefit is that they made the official version the one done by 'Unleash the Archers', no one would ever fall asleep at ceremonies. My ex would agree with you. For some arcane reason she liked national anthems and thought ours was a bit lacklustre.
Also, now it's going to be stuck in my head all day.
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Post by Andraste_Reborn on Oct 1, 2023 22:29:50 GMT
Canada should ditch "Oh, Canada" as it's national song and replace it with Stan Rogers' "Northwest Passage". "Northwest Passage" tells a good story and has an inspiring moral. "Oh Canada" is really rather dull;. It reads like it was written by a committee and, oddly enough, it was (and re-written). Australia also has a boring national anthem it should change! I'd be happy with Waltzing Matilda or (if people don't want our anthem to be about sheep theft and suicide for whatever reason) we could go with I Am Australian. I would also like to suggest Arrogant Worms' Canada's Really Big for the Canadian national anthem. Really gets to the heart of what's great about Canada .
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Post by rewindbutton on Jan 10, 2024 12:09:35 GMT
A Hot lover is like the Quick Quote button; She may not be around much, but when she is, it's all worth while again. Me, obviously
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2024 23:04:31 GMT
A Hot lover is like the Quick Quote button; She may not be around much, but when she is, it's all worth while again. Me, obviously Reminds me of a guy talking about sex way back on Waryammer.
"It only matters when you're not getting any."
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2024 3:17:22 GMT
I vastly prefer dubs over subs.
Subtitles distract from the viewing experience. There's no two ways around it. Doesn't matter how fast you read, and yes I am a fast reader, it's forcing you to look away from where you want. Sometimes if a scene is particularly interesting I'll even replay it and ignore what's being said, which is pretty irritating at times It's not just foreign language films or anime either. A lot of sci-fi and fantasy use made up languages with subs to try be different, but what I respect are the ones that go, "and here's why you can understand WTF they're saying" and wave the problem away. Avatar Way of Water did this, thank fuck we weren't reading Navi for 2.5 hrs.
I have earballs, let me use them. If I want to read a book, I'll read a book. (Or play a cRPG.)
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2024 10:31:34 GMT
Original language + subtitles is the only proper way to watch a film.
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Post by ScumbagShepurd on Jul 1, 2024 5:37:40 GMT
triband flags (vertical like France or horizontal like the Netherlands) that have two bands of the same color are basically wasting the already not-so-great potential of that design. And what for? lets say your first red band symbolizes blood of the patriots or whatever and your second red band symbolizes...the same? Why not put a band of different color with different meaning?
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Post by B. Hieronymus Da on Jul 15, 2024 22:51:42 GMT
Disclaimer: While I did start on this train of thought because of the assassination attempt on Trump, I certainly do not in any way equate Trump with "Hitler". Quite the contrary, I think that those who spread all these lies about Trump,.. But this is just a disclaimer I felt was necessary at this time, not about politics. A common hypothetical question is: If you could go back in time, would you assassinate Hitler before he came into power? The idea has some merits. However, personally, I would have been much more interested in stopping WW1. But despite the fact that there weren't really any reasons to fight WW1, for any of the participants, you find a lot of problems when you start to figure how you could possibly stop WW1. Because everyone wanted to go to war. But a world history without Hitler, without Bolsheviks, without Lenin, Stalin, Mao, sure looks tempting..? ...But what would be instead? That caution is IMO even more significant when it comes to Hitler. Because what people seem to forget, or have never learned, is that it's not particularly true that Hitler started WW2. He had his hand in it of course, but he was one of the last. Soviet, Japan and Italy had already started. And are we so sure that Germany's path would have been completely different? The first danger is that without Hitler, Germany might have won "WW2", because they'd probably be more prepared and competent. Or, if not, Soviet may have won "WW2". And at this point it may be diligent to remind of that Stalin murdered more people than Hitler. What would he have done with Europe? Yes, I know that neither Germany nor Soviet were yet prepared for a major war against developed nations. But who says they would hurry things up the way that Hitler did? Why wouldn't they wait until they were ready? Then we have Japan. I see no hope for Japan. USA would have clobbered their imperialist ambitions in much the same way as it happened. We would have to go farther back, kill Lenin, Mussolini, a bunch of Japanese generals... And we are approaching the point in history I started with: Stop WW1. It's all fine and well to dream about peaceful developments in unravaged Britain, France, China, Germany, Poland, Tzarist Russia. I would have no problems with giving up aviation progress, TV, computers, space rockets... I'd be so happy with trains and passenger ships, and afternoon tea in the garden. But would that actually be what we would have had? I suspect that instead there would have been a continuous stream of other people that we would have had to assassinate, with increasing desperation.
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Post by skekSil on Jul 15, 2024 23:59:06 GMT
It's all fine and well to dream about peaceful developments in unravaged Britain, France, China, Germany, Poland, Tzarist Russia. I would have no problems with giving up aviation progress, TV, computers, space rockets... There was no Poland pre-WWI
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Post by B. Hieronymus Da on Jul 16, 2024 8:16:49 GMT
It's all fine and well to dream about peaceful developments in unravaged Britain, France, China, Germany, Poland, Tzarist Russia. I would have no problems with giving up aviation progress, TV, computers, space rockets... There was no Poland pre-WWI - Ah, of course. I forgot about that. ...But there was a Poland before WW1. Just not as an independent state, in the century before WW1.
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Post by skekSil on Jul 16, 2024 9:00:48 GMT
...But there was a Poland before WW1. Just not as an independent state, in the century before WW1. But could Poland and other new independent countries get their independence without major political disturbance that was WWI? Same thing about WW2, without it African countries, India, other Asian countries could still be colonies to their respective empires. Also, WW2 has brought to peoples attention the atrocities of racist regimes like Nazi Germany and Japanese Empire, without these revelations as well as decline of colonial empires and the shift of political power to USA and USSR (which led to Cold War) would our society undergo the same change as we did, or would we still live where apartheid, segregation, disregard of national minorities and careless exploitation of colonies continue?
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Post by B. Hieronymus Da on Jul 16, 2024 22:17:24 GMT
...But there was a Poland before WW1. Just not as an independent state, in the century before WW1. But could Poland and other new independent countries get their independence without major political disturbance that was WWI? Same thing about WW2, without it African countries, India, other Asian countries could still be colonies to their respective empires. Also, WW2 has brought to peoples attention the atrocities of racist regimes like Nazi Germany and Japanese Empire, without these revelations as well as decline of colonial empires and the shift of political power to USA and USSR (which led to Cold War) would our society undergo the same change as we did, or would we still live where apartheid, segregation, disregard of national minorities and careless exploitation of colonies continue? There are wins and losses. We can't know what would happen, which is what I alluded to in my post. Now, I'm not so sure you have so good points though. First of all, Germany releasing Lenin on Russia, the rise of communism in Russia and then China, Korea, Cuba, Vietnam, is a colossal human catastrophe, hundreds of millions dead, billions of lives ruined. There's really not anything that weighs up that. But yeah, even without the changes WW1 brought on, Japan, Italy, Germany would still be horny to get themselves some colonies. That's why WW1 is so difficult to avoid. "Everyone" wanted war. You don't just go and assassinate somebody and everything changes. I don't think there would have been any Nazi party without WW1, so that point of yours is moot. However, we'd still have a German powerhouse... Maybe more dangerous than Hitler's Germany, with or without WW1. No, Poland wouldn't have become an independent nation. And a country like Finland would not have been able to break away from Russia without the Russian revolution. But Soviet compensated for that by raping, digesting and enslaving much bigger nations. Hardly a plus for the world. Colonialism? Yeah, I think economically stronger France and The Netherlands would have been able to hang on to their colonies a bit longer. Same with Britain. International law and human rights developments would have been slower, if not driven by a desire to avoid another big destructive war. However, they had been a continuous development in Europe, particularly North Western Europe for centuries, so I don't think you would have looked at an absence of developments. Those things weren't caused by WW2. Colonies were also very expensive. They stimulate the economy, and in some cases provided oil, but most of the value that is generated to make people rich and pad taxes, comes from the colonial power itself, or other developed trading partners, not so much the colony. So, I'm kinda doubtful colonies would have been economically viable in the long run, even if the colonial powers hadn't been ruined by a devastating WW2.
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Everyone should put the TL;DR at the beginning of a post/reply, not the end.
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Legend of the Seeker is the best medieval fantasy show ever made alongside GOT
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Post by LawBringerSR2 on Sept 18, 2024 20:46:34 GMT
The Crow 2024 is not a bad film and the negative reviews are undeserved
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Post by bierkrug on Sept 22, 2024 19:48:42 GMT
The Crow 2024 is not a bad film and the negative reviews are undeserved Wait, is that film already out? I thought they postponed the entire project several times.
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Post by LawBringerSR2 on Sept 23, 2024 18:32:31 GMT
The Crow 2024 is not a bad film and the negative reviews are undeserved Wait, is that film already out? I thought they postponed the entire project several times. It came out on summer I believe. It was panned by critics but while it isn't perfect I wouldn't call it a bad film
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Post by B. Hieronymus Da on Sept 23, 2024 19:22:17 GMT
Wait, is that film already out? I thought they postponed the entire project several times. It came out on summer I believe. It was panned by critics but while it isn't perfect I wouldn't call it a bad film Am I the only one that thinks "It was panned by critics" smells like an indicator of a potentially great movie?
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Post by B. Hieronymus Da on Sept 24, 2024 21:23:06 GMT
I will absolutely not buy 'Dragon Age: Veilguard'.
I have no power to make it fail (I do want it to fail), but I won't support it with my money. I drew my line in the sand years ago.
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Post by Giant Ambush Beetle on Sept 25, 2024 19:55:44 GMT
I will absolutely not buy 'Dragon Age: Veilguard'. I have no power to make it fail (I do want it to fail), but I won't support it with my money. I drew my line in the sand years ago. I thought this was the unpopular opinion thread.
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