TechnoUnionTypeBeat [he/him, they/them]

I am against all war, all killing, but I’m a nobody and can’t fix any of this.

“And so I will throw my support behind a candidate who could be in a position to fix it and instead uses that position to commit genocide”

Get your head out your ass, you genocidal fuck

by the end of the game’s lifespan I was one of the very few Mesmer primary players, and the only one in my guild. But with drip that good I couldn’t not play it as primary class

All total war games since shogun 2 are bad.

3K isn’t fantastic but damned if I don’t absolutely love it. A good mix of historical themes and over the top gameplay in Romance mode, and the unique diplomacy system only for 3K absolutely rules

It took me being physically unable to play Destiny 2 for several months due to hip surgery to break the FOMO that game instilled in me. I thought I was stronger but damn do they know how to prey on the neurodivergent

The game is incredible the first time. I want to replay it, but the thought of needing to play over a dozen hours of slow railroaded cutscenes/shooting galleries during the mountain prologue, and then the exceptionally long Guarma chapter, just throws me off ever wanting to replay it fully

I’m in the same boat, GW1 was my favourite as a kid, I put truly staggering hours into it and ruined my development probably

But GW2 just has zero charm. The Mesmer was my jam in GW1, with its broad build variety from high DPS to caster shutdown, whereas GW2 has them as a clunky melee/ranged hybrid

If the majority of airline pilots are white men, I also think that’s a good thing because it’s in everyone’s interests that planes don’t crash.

I wonder if the writer would like to elaborate on this statement because I may be wrong but this strongly seems to imply that only can fly?

For shits and giggles I went to check out his successors as head of the Bundeswehr

It took until 1986 for them to get a leader that wasn’t a Nazi

It’s old disgusting chud tier memes from the early 00s

The unspoken implication is that the average liberal hears “Afghanistan” and immediately begins imagining muezzin calls and images of women in burqas being leered at by dangerous, swarthy men with AKs and turbans, and that Afghanistan looks this (incredibly racist stereotypical) way because of religious fundamentalism, and this image is from “pre fundamentalist” Afghanistan , and that if Republicans (also religious fundamentalists) win they’ll do the same to the US

It’s a deeply racist and orientalist “meme” that’s indistinguishable from early 00s chudposting

It’s been almost ten fucking years

When the piss tape was relevant and newsworthy, Vines were still the dominant memes and people were playing the waning days of Pokemon Go. I wasn’t even a communist yet and even then, at my peak liberal, I was starting to realize the piss tape/Steele dossier was absolutely meaningless

How are there still people clinging to this?

Imagine if the rest of Europe was as revanchist about each other as Finland is to Russia

They fought one short border war in the lead up to WW2, but to hear the Finns talk about it they make it seem like Russia was personally massacring every single civilian they could for fun on their way to burn down Helsinki

Imagine if France still held out a deep mistrust and hatred of the Germans for two world wars, or the Belgians for the Franco-Flemish war. One war a century ago and Finland can’t get the fuck over it

Canada got by for a long time by an international reputation for being apologetic and polite, but if you want to see how bad it can get here, ask the average Canadian their feelings about first nations or immigrants. I would easily say 3/4 of this country believes immigrants are the reason for the intense cost of living crisis no matter how much proof or arguments to the contrary

running out of older Soviet era chassis

It struck me recently that what’s implied by the use of “Soviet era” and the reality are two different things

Like even though the USSR collapsed in 1991, I feel that the use of “Soviet era” always implies to people some out of date clunky 1960s tech, and fails to properly contextualize that basically everything the west has sent to Ukraine has also been “Soviet era”. The M1 Abrams, Leopard 1, the F-16, all of these are 1960s-1980s, they’re as old as the “Soviet era” stuff. Hell most countries haven’t adopted anything new since the early 2000s

It would be like calling US equipment “Gulf War era” or something, it’s fucking meaningless

Over/under on this being the US’ handiwork?

I didn’t know this before

IT WAS FUCKING 11 ?

Until well into the 1970s, the entire Bundeswehr and NATO’s West Germany leadership were Nazis. I don’t mean they were nationalists voting for whatever the proto AfD was, I mean that they were all actual card carrying Nazis who, prior to gaining their posts in 1945, had been shooting Allied troops and committing genocide, yet somehow avoided Nuremberg

For 30 years post war, the Bundeswehr was essentially just the Wehrmacht all over again in all but name

Jesus this is grim they’re resorting to tactics they haven’t used since Vietnam.

I can’t say for sure how they’re using it - a bomber that big can carry fewer, larger weapons, after all - but it’s more to say that the B-2 isn’t a small tactical bomber, like an Su-34 or something. It can absolutely be used to level an entire neighbourhood in a single pass, if the US willed it

The B-2 is one of the last remaining “carpet bomb” style bombers left in the US arsenal. If you imagine bombing in your head as just a plane dropping a massive torrent of bombs over a large area, that’s the B-2. The US still has the B-52 of course, but it’s ancient in comparison, so that leaves this. One of them can drop 80 500kg bombs on a civilian population in a single pass

They’re using it not for the stealth value, but the pure terror value of carpet bombing civilians. It being stealthy is just ensuring they can’t be reprised against

This is unfortunately not a parody. I know a significant amount of people who truly, deeply believe this. They truly believe that Russia is simultaneously the puppetmaster behind all the world’s evil and suffering and yet so incompetent as to be a failing state and laughing stock

Plenty of people I know personally believe Russia actually ordered the attacks on Israel specifically to distract the US and redirect weaponry from Ukraine to Israel

What makes me legitimately mad about -phobes trying that is that the singular “they” is natural language. Every fucking -phobe uses it because it just flows absolutely naturally in the English language and fucking everybody uses it without ever thinking about it

But the moment they’re asked to do it for an enby, they act as if we’ve asked them to choose one of their own limbs to sacrifice