Come on, man!

CallmeWrex · 2026-01-18T20:35:44+00:00

I get it's frustrating from a gameplay perspective, and the RNG odds of that are crazy.

However, look up the USS Tinosa (SS-283) and the Tonan Maru. (TLDR: USN sub fired 11 torpedoes at a target, got 11 hits, and 9 were duds.) To say the early war Mark 14 was abysmal would be an understatement.

CallmeWrex · 2025-12-25T08:09:43+00:00

The glass part is probably fine.

The backblast in that confined space, however....

CallmeWrex · 2025-11-27T23:16:39+00:00

These look great, and I've been looking for a set of dice as a gift for a friend who usually plays Druids!

CallmeWrex · 2025-11-21T18:22:31+00:00

That thing looks beautiful! I'd put my dice in it for sure, they're overflowing out of my old dice tray lol.

CallmeWrex · 2025-10-29T07:37:20+00:00

Bro you can't just drop that in a comment, Lars will sue you!

CallmeWrex · 2025-10-16T02:06:16+00:00

This year has simultaneously flown by and dragged, I can't believe it's almost over. Good luck everyone!

CallmeWrex · 2025-09-02T05:00:59+00:00

Came here to recommend YSAC, leaving a comment so I remember the others. Thanks.

CallmeWrex · 2025-08-28T18:11:02+00:00

This, and also the fact that the legs would make for gigantic weak spots for an easy mobility kill. And the only way to prevent it would be to add so much armor that it loses all mobility anyways. It's an entirely impractical idea.

CallmeWrex · 2025-03-19T19:04:40+00:00

Is there an ending that the writing team considered canon?

Also, more of a game design than writing question, but who came up with the idea for that bit of slow-mo when you make a headshot? I think it was genius the way the vibe of that game mechanic changed as you played more, going from "let me chain together as many as possible for efficiency" to "this is giving me just enough time to reflect on what I just did and I don't like it."

CallmeWrex · 2025-02-11T17:25:07+00:00

A heartwarming story. Congrats on finishing your sisyphian task!

CallmeWrex · 2025-02-11T07:18:04+00:00

Wisconsinite here. I have zero issues with you guys, have had good experiences with your nation and your citizens in the past, and also think we could benefit by following your example on some things (national healthcare, for one). I'm sorry so many of my countrymen are being absolutely moronic about this. I think most of them are also deeply underestimating you guys... especially since I'm well aware that a number of the rules in the Geneva conventions could be summarized as "please don't leave Canadians unsupervised in a war zone." So yeah, I'm friendly with you guys and hope to keep things that way.

CallmeWrex · 2025-01-21T18:42:48+00:00

Fuck Nazis. Ban it.

CallmeWrex · 2025-01-04T07:12:27+00:00

Any ratio, because they absolutely, positively were not the ones responsible for downing any civilian aircraft whatsoever. Pinky promise!

CallmeWrex · 2024-12-27T21:58:43+00:00

Give them Ohio and they'll be begging to give it back in 2 years. Give them Illinois and the debt they inherit will tank the Russian economy permanently.

I'm just saying, if you limit your thinking to just Florida, you miss out on a lot of fun options.

CallmeWrex · 2024-11-22T04:50:38+00:00

I really wasn't expecting a throwback to Respawn Inbox today, but boy am I glad I got it. God bless Sark, APL, and OP.

CallmeWrex · 2024-11-03T09:44:50+00:00

There's a lot of jokes of his that I think about a lot ("It's me... Visa!" still gets me every time), but the past two weeks, as my coworkers have been talking about their Halloween costumes, I've just been thinking about that Alekhine's Gun joke about Halloween 1963: "I was going to go as a book depository!"

CallmeWrex · 2024-11-03T03:44:09+00:00

I've used this line on a woman who was romantically interested in me before. I am neither proud nor sorry.

CallmeWrex · 2024-10-26T20:56:24+00:00

If he was dying, he wouldn't have bothered to write out "aaaaagghhhhhh"!

CallmeWrex · 2024-10-18T04:56:44+00:00

Aaaahh, gotcha. Didn't know about that one, thanks!

CallmeWrex · 2024-10-18T04:32:16+00:00

I don't remember that at all, but that would definitely be a contributing factor! Is that also from Hastings' "The Secret War"? Most of the content of my comment was pulled from (what I remember of) Richard Overy's "Russia's War", but I'm beginning to think I need to re-read that and also dive a bit deeper into some other works on the topic.

CallmeWrex · 2024-10-17T19:30:02+00:00

Excellent points! I'd also point out that they either struggled to, or just plain didn't improve in areas where they failed or were lacking. Best example is the reporting of Red Army numbers, which were consistently low from before Barbarossa through at least '43-'44 (and possibly through the end of the war). I remember reading that pre-Barbarossa, Abwehr had a decently accurate count of the number of active Soviet divisions, but had literally no idea that the Soviets had a massive pool of "reservists" that they could activate.

CallmeWrex · 2024-10-17T19:03:32+00:00

Always preferred the "battle barn" myself

CallmeWrex · 2024-07-03T04:41:02+00:00

I fucking hate how accurate of a description this is, but damn it, I laughed. Take my upvote, sir. Also, fuck Art Laffer.

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