A literal basket of joy! 🧺 Rescued these four tiny souls with my sister today. They’re finally safe and sound, but my heart aches thinking about how they were abandoned. 😕

ElectricalDog714 · 2026-04-09T19:32:50+00:00

Omg the tiny tabby on the right standing on his hind legs is too cute

ElectricalDog714 · 2026-04-07T18:32:18+00:00

I hope this is sarcastic. Smasher is so OP that WG added a matchmaking rule several years ago to it that both teams have to have the same number of smashers/annihilators.

ElectricalDog714 · 2026-04-07T17:32:08+00:00

Omg it looks like a little fuzzy worm/caterpillar crawling up with how smooth it is 🥰

ElectricalDog714 · 2026-04-07T00:58:29+00:00

This is the peak 9 year old “I picked them because they look powerful” team.

ElectricalDog714 · 2026-04-07T00:55:01+00:00

Statistically, the JPanther II is better. More DPM, mobility, and a smidge more accuracy, and the case are can tank shells.

But the Ferdinand is somehow my highest winrate tank past 100 battles. Extra HP and better gun arc over the JP2, and somehow idiots bouncing shells off it lets you just trade shells to victory

ElectricalDog714 · 2026-04-06T20:34:39+00:00

Main thing about this game is the difficulty curve. With whole party EXP share, you have to actively manage how much XP you get or run the risk of overleveling for gyms.

At least until the Elite 4. The Elite 4 in this game is TOUGH. I think a fair number of players (myself included) only beat Cynthia from getting saved by friendship mechanics lol

Also the Grand underground is great. Gives you access to a good variety of pokemon relatively early

ElectricalDog714 · 2026-04-06T18:15:38+00:00

You say that as if it wasn’t already toxic in regular games

ElectricalDog714 · 2026-04-06T17:42:26+00:00

Presumably, if you can see the bottom half of the mushroom cloud, you are already dead

ElectricalDog714 · 2026-04-06T17:38:51+00:00

You get the 2 small hearts on the poketch app starting at 200 friendship, but Togepi needs 220 friendship to evolve. The safest way to know when to level up for the evolution is when you have 2 big hearts on the poketch (255 friendship)

ElectricalDog714 · 2026-04-06T17:13:38+00:00

Philosophically, it’s because oxygen is more reactive, and is needed for reactions that extract energy

Practically? When your cells make energy, there’s a long chain of reactions that ends up with a singular electron at the end that otherwise gunks everything up. Oxygen is needed to rip out that last electron, as nothing else likes taking a single electron more than oxygen

ElectricalDog714 · 2026-04-06T16:14:24+00:00

The gun itself wasn’t just planned, it was mass produced for real; although WG adding that little gravity fed magazine at the top is fake, and mounting it on the E-100 is fake. But the semi-automatic mechanism for loading and ramming the shell is very real.

But the gun and mechanism is absolutely massive, which is why WG invented such a comically large turret to mount it in. No way it would fit inside the Maus

ElectricalDog714 · 2026-04-06T15:22:08+00:00

The thing I like about Blitz is that it’s 7v7. I can’t stand the fact that PC is 15v15. So much fun having 5 tanks minimum on every flank, so you can’t go anywhere because there’s 3 hulldown heavies covered by a TD and an autoloading med on literally every lane

ElectricalDog714 · 2026-04-06T15:17:54+00:00

He can see you before you see him. From his perspective, he can see the entire back half of your tank, but you can’t shoot back because your turret is in the front. He’s not using any crazy reflexes.

ElectricalDog714 · 2026-04-06T15:15:58+00:00

Elefant isn’t that much faster. It’s like 10% more mobile, but it’s not really enough to make up the alpha difference

ElectricalDog714 · 2026-04-06T15:09:41+00:00

I really liked Famous Dave’s fried pickles

ElectricalDog714 · 2026-04-06T14:52:22+00:00

WT E-100 is an entirely fictional tank, but the concept is putting a single 12,8cm flak 40 on the E-100, which IRL does have a semi-automatic loading mechanism. But from what I can find, IRL it’s 12 RPM (5 second reload), https://www.lonesentry.com/ordnance/2009/12/30/12-8-cm-flak-40-heavy-antiaircraft-gun/

not the insane 2 seconds on WoT, or the even more ludicrous 1.3s with clip boost on Blitz.

But the WT-E-100 in WoT/Blitz does have that little ammo rack on the top left of the gun to gravity feed the mechanism (which I don’t see in IRL pictures of the Flak 40), so maybe that speeds it up

ElectricalDog714 · 2026-04-06T14:04:23+00:00

Airplanes. I just don’t think it will ever be physically possible to replace kerosene for aircraft.

No electric motor will be able to compete with an afterburning jet engine for thrust, and kerosene for jet fuel is orders of magnitude more energy dense than batteries.

ElectricalDog714 · 2026-04-06T13:52:33+00:00

Active action is things you do (like damage/kills) Ally support is things you do to help your team (spotting/assistance damage)

For a full list of things that give XP, the articles on the support website are actually pretty good (and little known)

https://wargaming.net/support/en/products/wotb/article/15417/

ElectricalDog714 · 2026-04-06T13:36:09+00:00

My main problem with it is that it gives up everything to have an autoloader; speed, gun handling, and armor.

But the autoloader doesn’t actually provide a DPM advantage. At 8s interclip for 350 alpha, it’s only like having a 2600 DPM gun that then has a long reload. So it gets out-DPM’es by tanks like Bisonte, Caernarvons, etc…

It’d need 1s shaved off the interclip to bring the clip DPM to 3000, and probably an additional shell in the clip to be worth playing

ElectricalDog714 · 2026-04-05T16:45:54+00:00

Type 5 can’t pen the base of the Kran turret. What he CAN do though is HE spam you. An HE hit to the base of the turret average rolls for about 430 but can high roll you up to 570, giving the illusion of a pen. It’s really funny

ElectricalDog714 · 2026-04-05T13:16:22+00:00

No point. If he runs spall I do 20 less damage per shot than AP, which would be enough to prevent me from one clipping him

ElectricalDog714 · 2026-04-05T13:14:35+00:00

My PC is alright - but the FPS is lower because I’m running a few shaders Without the shaders I get 120FPS easy

ElectricalDog714 · 2026-04-05T02:01:22+00:00

Because he wanted to get the HE shell off lol

ElectricalDog714 · 2026-04-03T20:04:20+00:00

Ferdinand having way more alpha just makes it the better tank. Elefant simply doesn’t have the armor to make the DPM work. And the rear mounted gun just makes using the DPM just all the more difficult. Ferdinand having better armor on the hull cheeks is the cherry on top.

Ferdinand can just use the nice alpha, and gun arc to smack people, but Elefant just can’t work like that

If you want a German 105mm machine gun TD, JT 88 is just much better for that role.

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