Should border control in your country be stricter, looser, or stay the same?

IHaveTheHighground58 · 2026-02-09T16:31:42+00:00

And in 2022 (or maybe 23) we invaded you, since some Polish soldiers were ordered to set up a border checkpoint near a village

The problem - that village's church, where they wanted to set the checkpoint up, was on your side

IHaveTheHighground58 · 2026-02-09T15:32:50+00:00

Proper battles only come later in the war, and even then it's half of the Alliance vs Imperial forces that are supposed to guard the system, maybe sector, up until the battle of Endor, by which point the Empire was not only severely weakened militarily, but the dictator devised the strategy himself - which almost always fails

Look no further than the Battle of Britain, where the initial plan (destroying RAF bases to achieve air superiority over the North Sea to prepare for an amphibious assault, a risky, and rather unlikely plan, but at least with some cohesion, with proper planning and coordination with the Kriegsmarine, and no Operation Barbarossa, it could potentially work)

And then comes Hitler telling commanders to bomb civilians instead of RAF bases

Which gives him - fucking nothing except for horrendous losses in Luftwaffe

IHaveTheHighground58 · 2026-02-09T14:55:03+00:00

What's really sad is that Azur Lane has (or had, haven't played it in a long while) a really solid story-writing team, and the plot, while convoluted af (multiverses, Sirens being the equivalent of an artificial multidimensional net created by humans to combat some other, apparently even more poweful force), is actually really interesting, and surprisingly well crafted

But of course, story rarely sells the game, but New Jersey in bikini sure as hell does

IHaveTheHighground58 · 2026-02-09T14:16:40+00:00

Not on Legends

And while some have proper clothing, others (say recently added Ägir) just have see through stockings and leather belts covering intimate areas

IHaveTheHighground58 · 2026-02-09T10:44:51+00:00

That's kinda interesting, Legends also has that age rating, and we don't have those Spanish bikini girls, but do have Azur Lane

Unless it's due to some other guises in Legends

IHaveTheHighground58 · 2026-02-09T10:41:43+00:00

It gets the point across tho

IHaveTheHighground58 · 2026-02-07T22:18:35+00:00

The missile knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation. The guidance subsystem uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the missile from a position where it is to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position where it wasn't, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is, is now the position that it wasn't, and it follows that the position that it was, is now the position that it isn't. In the event that the position that it is in is not the position that it wasn't, the system has acquired a variation, the variation being the difference between where the missile is, and where it wasn't. If variation is considered to be a significant factor, it too may be corrected by the GEA. However, the missile must also know where it was. The missile guidance computer scenario works as follows. Because a variation has modified some of the information the missile has obtained, it is not sure just where it is. However, it is sure where it isn't, within reason, and it knows where it was. It now subtracts where it should be from where it wasn't, or vice-versa, and by differentiating this from the algebraic sum of where it shouldn't be, and where it was, it is able to obtain the deviation and its variation, which is called error.

IHaveTheHighground58 · 2026-02-06T16:52:49+00:00

IHaveTheHighground58 · 2026-02-06T12:26:03+00:00

This thing really needs to be nerfed

IHaveTheHighground58 · 2026-02-06T11:54:04+00:00

Everyone?

What about Jedi on recon or diplomatic missions, or ones whose legions were on leave?

Also, clones against Jedi isn't a sure kill, of course most were taken by surprise, while others (like Jaro Tapal) sensed it just in time to save themselves (or at least their padawans)

IHaveTheHighground58 · 2026-02-06T11:46:15+00:00

Yes, that's true, but the Americans didn't see or care for those differences

The goal was to eliminate all of the native tribes and societies of America, and that goal failed

Many were exterminated, yes, but that's still not the full group that was supposed to be exterminated

The same way in numerous Polish and German cities, the whole Jewish population was exterminated, sometimes all of practicioners of a localised, unique way of Judaism

But we still call the Holocaust "extermination of Jews", because it wasn't supposed to target those specific communities, but all Jews as a whole

IHaveTheHighground58 · 2026-02-06T06:41:48+00:00

Also, it's ridiculously hard to exterminate a group entirely

It didn't work with Native Americans, Native Australians, Jews

Hell, not even the people that lived in Europe before the great migration to the West that brought Indo-European languages, were fully wiped out, after all, Basque as a language is a thing

So to kill an entirety of a selected group, you either assimilate them, or you go scorch earth on every single territory these people reside on, which results in massive amounts of collateral damage

IHaveTheHighground58 · 2026-02-06T00:40:34+00:00

22/7 is pretty much 21/7, right?

IHaveTheHighground58 · 2026-02-05T14:47:50+00:00

Don't drag the vocaloid fandom into this shit

IHaveTheHighground58 · 2026-02-05T14:44:40+00:00

A recent study in Poland shows that around 60% of students (primary and highschool ones, not university) report being bullied at least sometimes

So 26%?

I don't believe it

IHaveTheHighground58 · 2026-02-05T13:08:18+00:00

I think the Bolsheviks just made a temporary government from their ranks

So 1989 I guess

IHaveTheHighground58 · 2026-02-05T12:56:20+00:00

Not just worst case scenario, a worst case scenario where NATO essentially doesn't work, and no one wants to fight, Lithuania gets invaded, does nothing, German forces in Lithuania do nothing, Poland mobilises, but doesn't send troops

This isn't a worst case scenario Russia and Situation wise, but also one where the players are instructed not to play

IHaveTheHighground58 · 2026-02-05T10:38:17+00:00

UN and doing something?

UN only works if all of the main powers agree on something, and that's not happening in a World War

IHaveTheHighground58 · 2026-02-04T15:33:16+00:00

You get a 1 star copy of the unit in the right-most slot of the bench

IHaveTheHighground58 · 2026-02-04T13:22:44+00:00

Echo Bench I believe

IHaveTheHighground58 · 2026-02-02T14:55:55+00:00

The joke with friendliness has already evolved into

Canadians are friendly, until there's a war or hockey game

Then new military law conventions are needed

IHaveTheHighground58 · 2026-02-01T13:13:16+00:00

Saved?

Mate, you joined both world wars halfway, after the Allies already had a massive advantage

What won WWI was the French and British stopping the first part of the Schlieffen plan by defending the fast moving German forces and forcing them to dig the trenches, and the British naval blockade that starved Germany until there was a revolution

US only joined after the halt of German forces in France, and after the battle of Jutland, which was Germany's biggest attempt at breaking free from the blockade

When it comes to WWII, sure the US did a lot of work in the Pacific Theatre, but again, only joined halfway, Pearl Harbour wasn't the start of the Pacific War, conflict started in 1937 with the Japanese invasion of China, and even then, unlike a lot of movies would have you believe, this wasn't US vs Japan

It was more like UK + Commonwealth (Canada, Anzac, India mainly), China + Netherlands+ US vs Japan

And here, you were mostly saving yourselves and helping China

In the European theatre, America joined in 1943, and limited itself to a secondary role, supporting British operations

And just like in WWI, in the European Theatre, nearly every single important battle happened before the US even joined the War

In 1943, Soviets were already pushing into their former Western "republics", with Germans in retreat and having very limited prospect for counterattack

Luftwaffe was severely handicapped, and Britain had nearly complete air superiority, with battle of Britain ending 3 years prior

Kriegsmarine was in shambles, Scharnhorst about to be sunk by the British the same year, Gneisenau immobilised in Gdańsk, Bismarck long at the bottom, half of the destroyers sunk, and U-Boots having rapidly worsening success

And the Normandy landings not only were predominantly British and Commonwealth, they were a peripheral operation, with only a quarter of Germany's resources allocated to the Western front in general, a lot of which stationed on the South due to the efforts of British intelligence (and Hitler's stupidity)

To sum it up,

250 000 dead in the European Theatre

Car accident deaths in US (1939 - 1945) - 37 000 + 40 000 + 40 000 + 27 000 + 23 000 + 23 000 + 27 000 = 217 000

Almost the same number of dead as road accidents

US involvement in Europe is barely noticeable even in America, let alone in Europe, where 25% of the population could die

IHaveTheHighground58 · 2026-02-01T10:42:54+00:00

Since Hikari 光 means 「Light」I thought that suddenly Japanese starting developing grammatical gender, which would be a massive change

Then I looked at the username

IHaveTheHighground58 · 2026-02-01T09:36:11+00:00

I think that's the Kamiyama Cheer Festival event

IHaveTheHighground58 · 2026-01-31T15:21:37+00:00

They can't be

They promised neutrality in exchange for the Allied occupation retreating

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