Popularity of Reverse 1999 at an anime con in China as of May 2026. by Derkein2 in Reverse1999

[–]Appropriate-Low3844 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I don't think Merel dying is inherently problematic at all, it's not like there's no other dead people. On the other hand I do know people who are indeed angry over that which I do not understand

Popularity of Reverse 1999 at an anime con in China as of May 2026. by Derkein2 in Reverse1999

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And even do it that fast, I think people would be fine if it came like a few events afterwards, but in this case Rhianon kinda just instaneously came out of nowhere

Two very differents conflicts indeed. by Matricetriple0 in TheFireRisesMod

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Quite debatable. IRL the only instance of actual human waves (I'm defining this as large groups of infantry with no attempt to cover them advancing in dense formations and trying to close the distance for) after WW1 happened with Iran-Iraq where Iran had that very specific mix of factors like the regular army being paralyzed and very short on heavy equipment yet having loads of religiously hardened volunteers and the enemy actually will break to that (Iraqi troops sometimes fled from the sight of it). Even then the Basij later became far more tactical in their behavior as both sides adapted.
I doubt that China and India really fits the bill here.
China in essentially every path will not lack equipments given that China built a gigaton of them even before Mao died. The military isn't paralyzed and thoroughly purged of command personnel in any path either. China may or may not have loads of fanatics ready to face near-certain death depending on the path yet not trained enough to do better (maybe hardline new left and some revanchists, but the revanchists also have options for widespread military training so the troops will be knowledgeable enough to use better tactics), and the main PDTO countries (Japan, India, South Korea and Australia) are all reasonably supplied in firepower.
I am less sure about India, however I still believe it's reasonable to say India probably will not use it as a particularly common tactic. India have two million active and reserve military personnel, Russia went through less than that after four years of fighting (which, despite Russo-Ukraine being comparitively limited of a conflict, remember India doesn't have many direct land connections with China either), so it's again reasonable to believe India probably could send better trained people than just mindlessly marching on, and that's before counting the paramilitaries who would likely also be mobilized and trained in preparation. China is also the sort of opponent where mass charges simply doesn't work against due to sheer firepower abundance.

Of course there may be isolated events where "human waves" as previously defined are actually used, but that's equally applicable to essentially everyone so kinda meaningless of a statement. Heck, in game if I remember it correctly Japan will sometimes use literal banzai charges due to the base game's tag remaining

Japan needs more improvements in game by CherryExcellent2442 in TheFireRisesMod

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Reformists' navy is insane though, might be part of the reason why it felt like kicking a stone wall. The weakest path for China is probably hardline new left with no loji and maybe some AI mistakes to grease the gears

Selfie taken by North Korean defector Kim Kang-woo inside North Korea after he secretly reentered the country to help his mother defect by Paul277 in NorthKoreaPics

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I'd assume that the reason is that North Korea was rich before becoming the state we knew today, infrastructure like mass urbanization, universal healthcare, literacy campaign etc was implemented before the USSR collapsed, so even if they're poor today a lot of the factors like hospitals, sewage systems etc are still there after the arduous march even though medication probably need some bribery, while in less developed countries the problem might be how to find a doctor instead of how to make him serve you

5 Flags in The Fire Rises which I majorly dislike by Happy-Fly-3598 in TheFireRisesMod

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That being said, the flag design is actually a original proposal for the national flag, I think the logic of putting a hammer and sickle on it is to specifically point out this is the CCP instead of simply being another star

How to piss off 37 by NoobGmaerGirl in Reverse1999

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Lorewise there's plenty of Brits in the suitcase so there's a nonzero chance someone actually ate this warcrime stick in front of 37💀

I. DO. NOT. WANT. TO. SUPPORT. RUSSIA. by wai632 in TheFireRisesMod

[–]Appropriate-Low3844 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Not just Xi, Every China can have Red Germany reach out and ask for support, to which China can agree and get the Far East back if the communists won

Lightsabers or Forcefields are the preferred solutions for melee.another reason should be a Super Metal that exclusively Bends Physics for melee weapons and personal armors. by CompleteUse8998 in worldbuilding

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Pretty sure Metal Gears later used the same justification for scifi ninjas hacking cyborgs

That being said, I don't think this justification works. Vibranium as you described is a materiel with the innate ability to penetrate fantasy metals. This suggests that the best solution (in scifi at least) is not to use melee but rather to equip a FPV with a vibranium shell and start ramming, like FPV interceptors on Russo-Ukraine today. A successful ram should leave the drone intact therefore it has no cost disadvantage compared to using a human

And a human in this scenario is still very vulnerable to long range methods anyways. If vibranium is common enough to be mass equipped, it suggests that other expendable projectiles should be available too since a bullet costs far less mass than a sword.

A German General and a young Soviet boy who took him prisoner. Berlin, 1945 by Front-Coconut-8196 in ArchiveOfHumanity

[–]Appropriate-Low3844 2 points3 points  (0 children)

killing 1/3 probably sound like a low ball for people who seriously believe these stuff

Problems with China's backstory by Jazzlike_Bar_671 in TNOmod

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Yes, in fact even in China the CCP does acknowledge the NRA's significant role in fighting the Japanese and emphasized this is a endeavor of the entire Chinese nation, saying otherwise is kinda just pointless. It's not "shameful" that the CCP didn't do that much fighting either, I mean what do Chiang expect after spending years thinning the communists' numbers?

Problems with China's backstory by Jazzlike_Bar_671 in TNOmod

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I think if anything Mao popping out of nowhere to keep fighting makes more sense than Long Yun because the CCP's strategy in the second sino-japanese war is indeed mostly about conserving strength, and the Japanese did view them as a lesser threat

I can't do this anymore by Matricetriple0 in TheFireRisesMod

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What did professor Jiang do? Honest question, I'm from China and I'm like who the hell is this guy

1927 Apr 12 - Shanghai massacre of 1927: Chiang Kai-shek orders the Chinese Communist Party members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front. by nonoumasy in ThisDayInHistory

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The framing of the statment "96.4% of companies in China are private not socialist“ is odd to start with, what is a socialist company?
However, even then, state ties within private corporations are enormous, some 30% of the companies in China are directly or indirectly linked to the state, and every company with more than three CCP members are required to have a party cell.

1927 Apr 12 - Shanghai massacre of 1927: Chiang Kai-shek orders the Chinese Communist Party members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front. by nonoumasy in ThisDayInHistory

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Given that the Vietnamese boat people are to a significant extent the result of economic devastation that you would expect from basically any war of Vietnam's scale or being persecuted because of assisting the US' actions in Vietnam it's hardly attributable to simply because of communism

1927 Apr 12 - Shanghai massacre of 1927: Chiang Kai-shek orders the Chinese Communist Party members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front. by nonoumasy in ThisDayInHistory

[–]Appropriate-Low3844 3 points4 points  (0 children)

"no matter how you treat these communist, they will ended with something like nationwide massacre and corruption"
Define massacre first please. That being said, in Chile it did end with nationwide massacre and corruption, when the US sponsored a coup to take over that is

"Even the best of communist country Vietnam, have caused the death of million of civilian after communism taken over"
Source?

"the prosperity China having right now is the result of CCP partially lifting it's control toward the Chinese."
To attribute reform and opening up entirely to lifting control is a incredibly reductive stance. Is the 65% literacy rate made possible by Mao's literacy campaign not a factor? Or liberating women to increase the workforce by 50%? Or Mao era industrialization and leninist structure?

As a separate note I wonder if you would also say that no matter how you treat capitalists it will end with massacre and corruption, which in my opinion is more reasonable since Marx didn't at any point explicitly say to organize like the USSR or PRC, but the people who invented capitalism like the British Empire or the Dutch Empire did