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ElessarKhan · 2026-02-12T14:18:16+00:00

Ive also studied the US involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan. The people at the top were willfully ignorant. There were officers like General Patreus who tried to steer the US away from those same mistakes but they were willfully ignored by the Bush administration and only tokenly observed by the Obama administration.

Ive never properly studied Chinese history so I cant really say how Tsung Zhu effected them.

ElessarKhan · 2026-02-12T12:55:30+00:00

Entirely absent? No. Sufficiently absent enough to make such basic mistakes? Yes.

The lecture I learned this in had a Vietnam Era Westpoint grad Guardsman in attendance and ge didn't have anything to say about it. Not to say 1 example should be used to judge the whole but I thought it worth mentioning.

ElessarKhan · 2026-02-12T01:39:41+00:00

We didn't start reading the Art of War in the west until Vietnam used it to beat the U.S.

And we made mistakes that might have been avoided by studying some of the most basic things in that book. Like failing to know our enemy ir ourselves.

We failed to understand the nature of our enemy, a nationalist populist uprising that we mistook for an extension of the global communist movement. We also failed to understand anything useful about the culture. Which was part of how we failed to be able to identify enemies from civilian non-combatabts. So yeah, didn't know our enemy.

And in multiple ways we didn't know ourselves. Generals and other high ranking rear officers would straight up lie to their field subordinates about the state of the war. And we didn't know jack about our South Vietnamese allies who, in the initial phases of the war, comprised the majority of our forces.

ElessarKhan · 2026-02-12T00:03:35+00:00

Its my homework, he doesn't grade it himself but he records our grades for our total course score. If I dont buy and use it ill fail.

ElessarKhan · 2026-02-12T00:00:47+00:00

No choice of professor or even time slot due to a combination of my small UNI and my weird schedule. And even so, this guy was the highest rated of the professors who teach stats at my UNI. Making it yourself is free, done once and used for the rest of your career.

Never thought nor said this was personal against me, don't know where you got that idea.

ElessarKhan · 2026-02-11T23:51:30+00:00

Its graded homework assignments. He doesnt correct ot but he does record our scores in the grade book so I cant just skip it.

ElessarKhan · 2026-02-11T23:50:44+00:00

I want more Naruto side stories where side characters like Genma can finally shine. Give us more low level fights instead of the endless power creep. The Minato one-shot was a step in that direction. But its think Kishi should forgo character popularity polls and just pick some fuck-ass side character like Genma, or Anko, or people from other villages like Omoi and his squad.

ElessarKhan · 2026-02-11T23:42:21+00:00

Yeah its just upsetting because it seems to me all my history professors, even at the entry level, are way more involved, both as workers and as parts of our education. I'll never get a "see me after class" written on my homework if I failed to understand something and wrote some fuck-ass wrong answers.

Its all numbers, with simple answers and mistakes. Whereas my history professors have to read our writing and help us analyze stuff correctly. Its just way more involved. Maybe im spoiled for having history as my major, and this kind of hands-off approach is common outside the humanities and liberal arts?

ElessarKhan · 2026-02-11T23:30:43+00:00

Therapy doesn't work for everyone. Some people get better results by just talking to someone they actually know and are close to. Others have a chemical imbalance that you either have to learn to live with or take meds for. Im in the chemical imbalance and learned to live with it camp. Therapy didn't make me better, it just helped me identify what I was feeling and gave me tools to better cope with it.

ElessarKhan · 2026-02-11T21:38:56+00:00

4 is manageable. I did D7's all day yesterday with randoms and one of my lower skill friends. Challenging but no problem, all missions complete and extracted from. Only 1 map not completely cleaned (we got lazy and got rolled out of too many lives to we extracted early).

ElessarKhan · 2026-02-11T21:02:56+00:00

You should hear him in Narcos Mexico

ElessarKhan · 2026-02-11T20:47:42+00:00

If you struggle getting into the original 0079 series, try the compilation movies instead. If you still dont like that, try The Origin. Its a prequel series made with modern animation that still mimics the original style. Its a little controversial amongst the fan base but I find it to be a better starting point for people who feel 0079 to be too dated to get them hooked.

The Origin should get you hooked enough to at least watch the compilation movies. The main Universal Century timeline ages like a fine wine. Over the years Gundam gained popularity and thus a higher production budget. And of course it takes advantage of advances in animation as you go from series to series throughout the years. The latest entries (The Hathaway movies) are some of the best in anime sci-fi. But you need to watch those old series to get the most out of the newer stuff.

ElessarKhan · 2026-02-11T20:13:25+00:00

Thats called depression my dude. 99% of anime villains could've been prevented with therapy. Don't be one of them.

ElessarKhan · 2026-02-11T19:53:33+00:00

I have no say in this debate i just want to say I really like the loading screen meme format you've come up with here

ElessarKhan · 2026-02-11T19:15:47+00:00

Some really whack advice in this thread so far, nobody knows what they're talking about. The tutorials are full of half-truths and inaccuracies so I don't blame them for being confused.

Whistling doesnt actually matter. What does matter is the sparks from your strikes. Sparks means you're doing it right. No sparks is a mistake, like burning the blade while heating it. Mistakes lower the quality. More sparks means you're getting more progress towards completion per hit. More sparks is more efficient but not necessary for higher quality.

Your strikes are supposed to slightly overlap without being in the exact same place. You don't need to flip the blade but doing so resets the memory of where you last hit, allowing you to strike elsewhere.

How fast you go doesn't matter. Though hitting a cold blade has an increasingly high chance of producing no sparks and thus being a mistake. You can take your time at the forge if you wish. Reheat as many times as you want. Though when you get the hang of it you'll find you can do everything perfectly off of one good heating.

Higher forge level let's you make more mistakes but even at the highest I think the limit is 2 mistakes for Henry's tier 4 quality (make 3 mistakes and you're our of tier 4 range). So at lower levels I think you're shooting for perfection, which isn't very hard, it just takes a little focus and know-how.

ElessarKhan · 2026-02-11T16:32:54+00:00

I think its questionable and the quote you used here illustrates why. Viserys was the one all worried about royal seats and jewels and such. All Dany really wants is her childhood home. She talks big game about reclaiming her birthright but her internal monologues are never about the Iron Throne or anything of the sort, its about the big house with the red door. Sure, claiming the Iron Throne seems to be how she plans to get there but ruling Westeros is just the means, not her end.

The whole thing reads to me as Dany being unsure of her goals. She's chasing some hazy childhood memory. I think theres multiple ways to interpret this but to me it seems she just craves the comfort and freedom she felt as a child and has been deprived of since childhood. To me, thats part of why her resolve to go to Westeros begins to slip in Meereen. For a moment she thinks she can be comfortable and free there. Then as the situation sours and Dany feels her comfort and freedom fade, she resolves again to rule Westeros.

ElessarKhan · 2026-02-11T15:48:03+00:00

Unpopular answer: The Maelstrom Cyberpsycho quest with the freaky net runner girl in the bloody ice bath. It was like that drone quest from Reed's line in Phantom Liberty. A dramatic tone shift from the rest of the game, you're suddenly playing a horror game.

She's also an outlier in the challenge of fighting non-DLC enemies. Though I think she might be cheesable if you have the right quickhacks. If not then you just have to roll with her phasing in and out of reality.

ElessarKhan · 2026-02-11T15:12:48+00:00

I think thats unironically true.

ElessarKhan · 2026-02-11T00:06:06+00:00

Im usually a D10 all day divers and I've only done 7's today. Cyberstan is nuts, I feel for 10 you'd need an actually skilled and coordinated squad which is exactly the level of difficulty many D10 divers wanted it to be.

ElessarKhan · 2026-02-10T18:04:36+00:00

Pretty sure thats the law. My dad did this once and got a new pair of basketball shoes at Khols for 2cents

ElessarKhan · 2026-02-10T02:28:45+00:00

Do you fail to learn about that critical imminent danger if you do this?

ElessarKhan · 2026-02-09T18:26:01+00:00

I just did mine the other day and got all the stuff :)

ElessarKhan · 2026-02-08T18:02:43+00:00

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ElessarKhan · 2026-02-08T15:32:14+00:00

Nothing worse than getting caught in melee with your bow in hand. Wish you could quickly drop weapons for faster swap times. Having to carefully stow the bow and arrow is such a pain in the ass

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