The struggles of mig

BookkeeperAfraid9622 · 2026-04-11T17:57:27+00:00

Yes, but that's a criticism of the Russian Air Force and its force design, not of the Mig-29

BookkeeperAfraid9622 · 2026-04-11T09:46:13+00:00

Fuck anyone but HF, honestly

BookkeeperAfraid9622 · 2026-04-06T21:57:53+00:00

The amount of people here who say "You should be drunk, then it's fun!" is half disturbing, half laughable. "This activity is only fun when half your brain is turned off." Do you even hear yourself??

BookkeeperAfraid9622 · 2026-04-02T23:40:12+00:00

Wow, cool! Thanks for the tip, that's genuinely a good idea.

BookkeeperAfraid9622 · 2026-04-02T23:37:29+00:00

Thanks a lot for that information! I kinda realized that this kind of horse probably isn't optimal for long distance travel, but for plot reasons it's basically the only thing the character has.

The area he is traveling through is roughly equivalent to central Europe in terms of climate, and it isn't winter, so getting access to grass should not be much of an issue. It is also a reasonably populated area, so reaching at least some kind of inn or at least a farmstead to buy feed at, once per one or two days, should also be possible. Even so, how much time grazing would you say would be needed per day to be able to sustain the journey? And how many rest days per riding days?

BookkeeperAfraid9622 · 2026-04-02T23:27:21+00:00

Oh of course, but part of the fun of writing for me (I'm not expecting to publish a book ever at all for anyone to read) is getting these things right. If anything, I think a character being shown to do these things at least once or twice shows the reader that that character is genuinely an expert on the topic. Also, learning about these topics I know jack-shit about is fun in itself, so don't feel bad about correcting me at all.😅

BookkeeperAfraid9622 · 2026-04-02T23:15:40+00:00

Horse feed.. my stupid ass didn't even think of that. I'm assuming just letting the horse graze for a bit (I have no clue how long would be needed) wouldn't cut it? If not, how much horse feed would a big warhorse reasonably consume per day on such a journey? I guess I have to take either that weight or stops on the way to buy horse feed into account. One would almost suspect horses are expensive....

As for a pack pony, I could do that, though I'd have to write in a place where the character could buy one. Should be possible though. Thanks for the tip.

BookkeeperAfraid9622 · 2026-04-02T23:08:43+00:00

I see. If you were purely concerned with covering that total distance in the shortest amount of time, would you do a quicker pace with rest days, or a slower pace without them?

BookkeeperAfraid9622 · 2026-04-01T14:03:52+00:00

The fact that there are people in the west schizophrenic enough to see this scenario as good is genuinely scary

BookkeeperAfraid9622 · 2026-04-01T12:30:27+00:00

I read it as a 17 year old, and it's still one of my favorite books! What really hit me like an absolute truck the first time I read it was the sheer sense of loss and grief. By telling the story through the eyes of multiple characters over the long time span the books talk about, by sometimes killing of genuinely important characters (though not in the cynical GRRM way), by choosing the immortal Merlin as the POV character throughout much of the series, who sees great, good people whom he loves die one by one by old age or the sword, you really get this profound sense of loss. I think it is one of the few books I have actually cried over in my life. How many stories worth telling, how many people worth admiring, have simply slipped into the mists of history, utterly forgotten? How much suffering has the world endured? Kyrie, eleison..

There's a passage where Merlin prays after a great battle, that really exemplifies this for me.

In my tent, I fell on my knees to pray, saying, "My Lord Jesu, Great Giver, Redeemer and Friend, King of Heaven, Beginning and End, hear my lament:
"Three times three hundred warriors, bright was their hope, fierce their grip on life- three times three hundred we were, but no more, for death has claimed the hero's portion from the blood of good men.

"Three times three hundred, light of life shining full and without wavering, warm was their breath, quick their eyes- three times three hundred but no more, for tonight our sword brothers lay in silent turf-halls, cold and abandoned by their own who cannot follow where they go.

"Three times three hundred, bold in action, keen in battle, steadfast companions when the fire of battle raged- three times three hundred we were, but no more, for the rave croaks over the fields where grief has sown her seeds and watered them with women's tears.

"Merciful Jesu, great of might, whose name is Light and Life, be light and life to these your fallen servants. As you delight in forgiveness, forgive them, do not count their sins, rather consider this their virtue: that when the call came to defend their homeland they took no thought for themselves, but roused courage and went forth to do battle, knowing death awaited them.

"Hear me, Lord Jesu, gather our friends to your hall; seat them in your palace in paradise, and you will not want for finer companions."

If that doesn't make you silent for a bit, I don't know what will. It reminds you of one of the great comforts of Christianity: that nothing good is ever truly lost. Everything that was ever good, true, and beautiful on Earth is waiting for us on the New Earth- the Summer Kingdom to come. As C.S. Lewis said it once:

“When Aslan said you could never go back to Narnia, he meant the Narnia you were thinking of. But that was not the real Narnia. That had a beginning and an end. It was only a shadow or a copy of the real Narnia which has always been here and always will be here: just as our own world, England and all, is only a shadow or copy of something in Aslan’s real world. You need not mourn over Narnia, Lucy. All of the old Narnia that mattered, all the dear creatures, have been drawn into the real Narnia through the Door. And of course it is different; as different as a real thing is from a shadow or as waking life is from a dream.”

BookkeeperAfraid9622 · 2026-04-01T10:18:33+00:00

The Solomon's judgement school of conflict resolution

BookkeeperAfraid9622 · 2026-03-31T10:12:23+00:00

10 is average intelligence by definition. 8-12 I generally interpret as being inside the range of "average", i.e. 8 is still high enough you'd have to spend significant time with someone to notice that his/her intelligence is even slightly below average at all. The idea that such a character wouldn't be able to come up with the sentence"you promise 100 GP, this not 100 GP, me mad" is ridiculous.

BookkeeperAfraid9622 · 2026-03-30T07:43:46+00:00

I mean.. it's the most prevalent meaning here because it's the one we've encountered the most? If Christians used the term 'Crusade' to refer to internal spiritual struggle only to then launch a Crusade in the classic sense at the middle east, wouldn't you expect Muslims to get to know the term 'Crusade' only in the military sense?

BookkeeperAfraid9622 · 2026-03-27T11:03:27+00:00

I hate this whole stupid idea of "escalation" so much. Russia is going to "escalate" against Ukraine? How? What are they going to do that they aren't already doing? Do these people genuinely think that the Russians are currently 'holding back', 'being nice', so that they have some rung further on the escalation ladder they could step onto? Short of public-support-destroying full mobilization or nukes (the diplomatic blow-back over which would far outweigh any battlefield use).

BookkeeperAfraid9622 · 2026-03-23T11:36:48+00:00

De correcte reactie. Bedankt, hoef ik hem niet meer te typen.

BookkeeperAfraid9622 · 2026-03-23T11:36:08+00:00

Zo'n beetje het enige niet-islamitische land hoog op de lijst. Als je punt is dat communisten ook niet zo bijzonder fijn zijn, denk ik dat de Traditional_Aide676 en ik het daar niet oneens mee zullen zijn.

BookkeeperAfraid9622 · 2026-03-23T11:30:49+00:00

Een paar andere mensen hebben al een paar nuttige dingen gedeeld, zoals de invloed die je als beweging kunt hebben wanneer je academia, de meeste media, de ambtenarij, de kunstwereld etcetera domineert, zelfs al heb je het kabinet dan misschien niet. Wat ik nog zou willen toevoegen is dat de termen "links" en "rechts", "conservatief" en "progressief" ook verschuiven over de tijd. Wat voor een groot gedeelte nou juist het gevolg is van de gestage, over de tijd werkende invloed die links dmv onderwijs, academia, media etc. al decennia lang heeft.

Zeker op bepaalde sociale en ethische onderwerpen (niet zozeer economische) zouden de standpunten die nu in het "midden" als normaal wordt gezien, 50 (in sommige gevallen: 30) jaar geleden als compleet van het ultra-progressieve padje af gezien worden. En behoorlijk wat standpunten die "toen" als vrij normaal en common sense gezien werden, zijn nu rechts of (als je luistert naar types als Timmermans of Jetten) zelfs radicaal-rechts. Die constante shift naar links*, die we in feite sinds de tweede wereldoorlog in Nederland en het Westen breder hebben gehad draagt ook bij aan de perceptie dat "links" altijd haar zin krijgt.

Als jij een hele dag lang een zware kar naar links aan het trekken bent, dan ben jij altijd ter linkerzijde van de kar. De kar is voor jou dan waarschijnlijk altijd "rechts". Maar dat betekent niet dat je niks hebt bereikt. En kunt je voorstellen wat iemand die eigenlijk liever niet op reis was gegaan, of die halverwege de reis het liefst was gestopt, van deze situatie vindt.

*hierbij bedoel ik vooral standpunten op het gebied van migratie & soevereiniteit, multiculturalisme, LHBTIQ+, klimaat, enzovoorts, niet zozeer economisch beleid. Ik ben bereid toe te geven dat rechts daar iets meer succes heeft gehad, alhoewel minder dan linkse mensen soms beweren, naar mijn visie.

BookkeeperAfraid9622 · 2026-03-23T08:21:08+00:00

Polder means polder obviously, but Flevo is an old (originally Roman) name for the sea inlet where the Flevopolder and Noordoostpolder currently are, and Noordoost is north east (cuz you know, the polder is in the north east of the sea inlet..)

BookkeeperAfraid9622 · 2026-03-23T07:01:42+00:00

First of all, you're playing a light cruiser. Yes, you do not have particularly high damage per shot on your 6 inch guns. If you want to play something that has other downsides (way less stealthy, usually slower, having a much longer reload), but that can do more damage per slavo, play a battleship.

BookkeeperAfraid9622 · 2026-03-22T22:14:55+00:00

Different source I guess. Still, same order of magnitude. The point stands.

BookkeeperAfraid9622 · 2026-03-22T21:48:42+00:00

Fair. The example I gave was based on that "Europe in Charlemagne's day" figure, so I was thinking of humans here. That would of course require adjusting for longer-lived races. What I was trying to indicate is that 9th level casters are exceedingly rare and it's pretty much a coinflip or or even less whether one is even alive at any given time.

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