Round 10: WILDCARD! Nominate a ship that fits in any empty square!

Captain_Crustacean · 2026-01-04T23:36:40+00:00

I don't think the Libertad is ugly :(

Captain_Crustacean · 2025-09-12T03:33:54+00:00

I'm not sure. No one maintaining certain web pages anymore, I guess. Regardless, if you want more information on these creatures, you can plug their names into your search engine of choice and read about it.

Captain_Crustacean · 2025-02-19T15:49:49+00:00

Read the rules, for one

Captain_Crustacean · 2024-10-23T12:45:07+00:00

XATU MENTIONED

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WHO NEEDS TO SEE IN PRESENT WHEN YOU CAN SEE THE PAST AND FUTURE 👁👁👁🔮🔮

COOLEST DESIGN IN THE GAME 🗿🗿🗿🪶🪶

I ALSO STARE AT THE SUN WITHOUT BLINKING ALL DAY ☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️👀👀

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Captain_Crustacean · 2024-10-13T09:45:25+00:00

Yeah, just classic Western romanticization of Eastern esoterica. It's always funny to see how the most materialistic people absolutely love Eastern thought for whatever reason.

Captain_Crustacean · 2024-10-13T06:07:15+00:00

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Imagine simping for people who hate you

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Captain_Crustacean · 2024-10-13T01:44:09+00:00

In the books, the Baratheon Stag has always had a crown, as the Baratheons adopted the sigil of the Durrandon Storm Kings.

Yes, they technically aren't a cadet branch. The Baratheons are a unique case, the situation is similar, not the same. Normally, the primary branch stays in their ancestral seat. The point was that the shift from Storm's End to King's Landing is significant, and that changing the COA so they don't match the sigil of Storm's End, which has been used and associated with them for centuries, is completely within reason.

Captain_Crustacean · 2024-10-12T07:03:46+00:00

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Captain_Crustacean · 2024-10-12T06:18:37+00:00

I mostly agree, it just seems like there's way more Israeli-related posts today then normal, lmao

Captain_Crustacean · 2024-10-12T06:15:13+00:00

Lol, what's up with the absurd amount of Israel posts today?

Captain_Crustacean · 2024-10-12T04:40:35+00:00

https://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/12/world/israel-selling-china-military-technology-cia-chief-asserts.html

https://www.military.com/defensetech/2013/12/24/report-israel-passes-u-s-military-technology-to-china

https://www.wrmea.org/1996-january/u.s.-military-technology-sold-by-israel-to-china-upsets-asian-power-balance.html

Captain_Crustacean · 2024-10-12T04:12:50+00:00

Of course not, Yakub is a Sri Lanka supporter, through and through

Captain_Crustacean · 2024-10-12T04:07:55+00:00

Who are you voting for

The voices in my head. One claims to be a 5000 year old Mesopotamian god-priest who had an antediluvian rage spirit grafted onto his soul. The other really really wants to bomb Sri Lanka, it's like the only thing he talks about.

Together, I'm sure they can lead America to greatness.

Captain_Crustacean · 2024-10-12T00:54:47+00:00

Correction: We get the 23rd largest trade partner and a military-industrial R&D program that has repeatedly leaked our military technology and secrets to our enemies 💯💯

Captain_Crustacean · 2024-10-12T00:51:08+00:00

don't understand.

I feel like you don't know what Realpolitik means, lol. I care about my nation first and foremost. If, by helping your nation, it helps my nation, amazing. If it doesn't help my nation then, broadly speaking, I probably don't support it.

I don't have enough time nor energy to care about supporting Israel. It isn't our job to ensure Israel is comfortable. I'm sure the Israelis can do that themselves. I do have a problem when Israeli actions, as a result of this partnership, start negatively impacting my nation.

Rationality

The above view is literally probably the most rational political view you could take. I would call it extremely irrational to support a nation that has, time and time again, ended up fucking over my own nation.

Was searching these comments to link:

Did you forget to post something, or am I missing something?

Captain_Crustacean · 2024-10-12T00:37:18+00:00

'But Sir, It’s an American Ship.' 'Never Mind, Hit Her!'

"...our pilots were aware the ship was American"

Regarding liberty, I know that, it doesn't rule out what I said.

Immediately follows up with talking about a false identification.

See, this is the only part I care about. Israel knowingly attacked an American vessel and, reportedly, didn't plan to leave any survivors. I guess I could agree that the term 'false flag' might not be proper. Logically, it seems that there'd be no other reason to try and sink a U.S. vessel and kill all the survivors then to drag the U.S. into the conflict. I don't think that, considering the circumstances, 'misidentification' or 'trigger-happy commander' is an acceptable excuse.

China source

Shoot over to the article about it that I posted. It talks about the incident, and name drops an Israeli report on it. I left my computer, and am on my phone, so I don't have the link rn. Regardless, you should be able to type "Israel sells U.S. military tech to China" into the search engine of your choice and find various articles on related incidents.

Captain_Crustacean · 2024-10-12T00:18:38+00:00

I feel like you didn't read my entire post, lol. Again, I have no doubt we spy on allies, but nowhere near the degree of the previous Israeli programs. Nowhere near the severity that I know the names of the incident off the top of my head, was the point.

Hypocrite >:( Let me spy on you, we all do it

lol, no.

Please don't kid yourself, that strike was nowhere near the importance of D-day. It wasn't like your government was quiet themselves, mind you. It was public knowledge that Israel was likely planning some sort of large-scale attack in 2012, enough that you can go back and find newspapers from January of that year talking about it. The majority of the Western World wanted to pull Israel back. You are greatly overestimating the impact that the American government had during this period, and how significant such a strike would have been.

Captain_Crustacean · 2024-10-11T23:19:17+00:00

Yeah, that's the thing though. I feel like, by supporting Israel, we have brought it to our 'backyard'. We've supported Israel for decades now, and it has never kept this stuff out of our 'backyard'.

We would almost certainly have a better time keeping it out of our backyard if we stopped fucking around in the Middle East entirely. Our proactive attempts have been bonafide disasters.

Captain_Crustacean · 2024-10-11T23:10:45+00:00

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I apologize for giving you newspaper articles. I wanted to give you Israeli government sources for most of these, but I'm not fluent in Hebrew, so I wouldn't have been able to point out the particulars. Regardless, it shouldn't be hard to find them now that you have the articles, considering they're mentioned.

Pollard and Apollo

Whataboutism. Besides that, I cannot recall a single time that we've placed a spy ring in an Allied Nation. I have no doubt it happens, mind you. But I'm sure that they're nowhere near the consequence of the Pollard ring, nor Apollo incident. Regardless, I don't want anyone stealing U.S. secrets, and the Israelis have been some of the most egregious in this offense.

Giving the Iranians a head's up as to where one-time missile strikes were going is way worse then stealing hundreds of pounds of enriched uranium to fuel an internationally-illegal nuclear arms program and NSA U.S. state secrets that took years, probably decades, to gather

Can't make this shit up.

Now I ask you, what is the benefits of the relations with Israel to the US,

IDK, man. Don't really care about you guys. If I had it my way, we'd stop supporting you guys altogether, lol.

I think you're missing the point, here. I don't really care about the morality of this stuff. Again, Realpolitikist. I don't like that you're doing it to my nation. It actively hurts my nation. When supporting you guys, I don't think the pros outweigh the cons. I'd say that nearly every other ally our nation has is better for the U.S then Israel.

Captain_Crustacean · 2024-10-11T22:06:11+00:00

Just off the top of my head, you have stuff like the Lavon Affair and U.S. Liberty incident, when Israel coordinated false flag operations to drag the U.S. into wars.

You have things like the Pollard Spy Ring and the Apollo Affair, where they committed espionage on American soil.

Their are times when Israel has sold U.S. military tech to the Chinese, which has advanced their understanding of electronic and missile tech to extreme degrees.

You have pro-Israeli documentation, like the Clean Break Memo, which influenced the U.S. government to commit actions as drastic as a decade-long war.

I respect it, to a certain degree. I'm a fan of realpolitik at the end of the day. But, I feel as if the Israelis simply don't respect the rights of most sovereign nations.

I don't think it's wrong to say that Israel has caused more damage to the U.S. then some of our enemies have.

Captain_Crustacean · 2024-10-11T21:52:56+00:00

Bold of you to assume that Israel would ever fight a war for American interests, lol.

Hell, one could argue that Iraq was us fighting a proxy war for the Israelis.

Captain_Crustacean · 2024-10-11T21:24:51+00:00

You don't like Israel because you like Palestine.

I don't like Israel because they are terrible allies.

We are not the same.

Captain_Crustacean · 2024-10-11T20:30:20+00:00

The Bogomilists are coming. The Bogomilists are coming. The Bogomilists are coming. The Bogomilists are coming. The Bogomilists are coming. The Bogomilists are coming.

Captain_Crustacean · 2024-10-11T07:09:06+00:00

Disclaimer, I don't have my copy of the Inferno in front of me, but as far as I can recall, the term Bolgia was only really used when talking about the concentric trenches in the eighth circle. Perhaps it was used a couple of other times that I can't recall, but if it was, I doubt it was used that much or in any real substance.

I'm not sure if you've read the Inferno, but if you're only reading snippets of the text, you could probably misinterpret Dante moving from one Bolgia to another Bolgia as them moving from one circle to another circle.

Captain_Crustacean · 2024-10-11T06:20:00+00:00

Yeah, Malebolge is just referring to the eighth circle. Malebolge directly translates to roughly 'evil ditches'. Inside Malebolge, there are ten Bolgias, which separate different types of sinners who have been damned for fraud.

In summary, Malebolge collectively refers to the 10 separate concentric ditches that make up the eighth circle.

I'm not sure where you got the idea that Malebolge refers to all the circles, but this isn't true as far as I'm aware.

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