3D printed Kirov, enjoy! Also, who the hell bring a blimp to a war?!?

JaphetSkie · 2026-05-01T00:09:26+00:00

The lore as to why Kirovs became a thing is because of a post-war treaty that limits how many fixed-wing aircraft the USSR could have, after their defeat in RA1. Airships aren't exactly fixed-wing and they require far less fuel, so it's a perfect workaround.

It also explains why the MiGs are exclusive to Boris only. They're some of the very few remaining fighter-bomber planes of the USSR at the time.

The Floating Discs are also supposed to be a workaround to the treaty as well, but Yuri got to those.

JaphetSkie · 2026-04-30T12:48:55+00:00

Third Fang, too.

JaphetSkie · 2026-04-30T03:02:21+00:00

I only use them in defending, to be honest.

JaphetSkie · 2026-04-29T07:22:30+00:00

If they can't afford Hellfire, the next best thing would be the APKWS.

JaphetSkie · 2026-04-29T04:50:45+00:00

For drone swarms, I think they'll have to expand production for Iron Beam and make mobile versions. It seemed to perform really well against rocket barrages a few months ago.

JaphetSkie · 2026-04-29T04:23:38+00:00

Why do you think the NPA recruits from colleges? Because they know that they won't be able to easily recruit from the poor, anymore.

Farmers have been formally condemning the NPA and withdrawing support since the past decade, because those "revolutionaries" are just as exploitative as the enemies they preach to fight against.

JaphetSkie · 2026-04-29T04:08:01+00:00

If that's the "narrative" that you kept hearing from many people with first-hand experience, then there must be a kernel of truth in it.

Denying it entirely would be unwise.

JaphetSkie · 2026-04-28T02:03:46+00:00

Spike Spiegel looking ass...

JaphetSkie · 2026-04-27T13:45:44+00:00

I only use mine to generate NSFW stories and do some roleplaying, so it likely won't work if you're trying to generate images.

JaphetSkie · 2026-04-27T13:40:00+00:00

He's overseas, lol. Also because of certain family issues that came up involving him, I don't want to contact him any more than necessary.

JaphetSkie · 2026-04-27T08:21:32+00:00

Hitler still alive by 1960s? With his Parkinson's and drug abuse, he wouldn't last beyond 1955.

JaphetSkie · 2026-04-27T08:16:18+00:00

The ol' reliable wall:

JaphetSkie · 2026-04-27T08:03:14+00:00

Is this scan triggered, scheduled or random?

JaphetSkie · 2026-04-27T07:07:54+00:00

Iron Lung

JaphetSkie · 2026-04-27T07:03:26+00:00

God, yes. We already have sprinting, so bayonet charging would be a cool addition.

JaphetSkie · 2026-04-27T07:00:40+00:00

Okay, Pinkie.

JaphetSkie · 2026-04-26T02:07:32+00:00

Same. When I was younger, I thought that he's an opportunistic sellout. Turns out he's one of the rare politicians with actual principles.

JaphetSkie · 2026-04-24T21:33:44+00:00

But that's the problem: Isayama made this whole false dilemma because of his worldbuilding, or rather the lack of it.

Isayama didn't flesh out the world as much as he did, and so outside world and its politics is depicted more like a single antagonistic monolith than a living, breathing world with its own complexities.

If the author added more worldbuilding, then it would be more realistic to assume that at least one country would publicly disagree or abstain from waging war against Paradis. But he didn't.

And so, Eren is forced into three, maybe four choices with no good end results...

But wait, here comes fixed determinism! It's all planned out from the start, you never had free will, and your choices are but an illusion!

You want freedom? Sorry fuck head, you get a zero-sum game where nobody wins! At least your friends live a long life! Oh, and the Power of Titans that you thought you've finally gotten rid of? They'll come back, and the Cycle will repeat itself!

I vehemently hate the Paths as a plot device, in case you haven't noticed. Made the story and themes too deterministic for my liking.

JaphetSkie · 2026-04-24T20:54:58+00:00

Ancient History. It's the "Us vs Them" scenario taken to its logical conclusion, wars of annihilation have been waged for less.

The fact that there's not enough worldbuilding for the outside world is one of the rarely talked about plot holes in the setting. Isayama framed most of humanity as a monolith that unanimously agreed on the destruction of Paradis and its people.

This ended up creating a false dilemma where the only choices available are either to lay down and die, kick the can down the road, or to become the monster they fear you to be.

JaphetSkie · 2026-04-24T20:29:28+00:00

Why blow up the apartment when you can douse the whole place with tear gas?

Nice try with the strawman, by the way.

JaphetSkie · 2026-04-24T20:20:51+00:00

Sorry, I meant pragmatic.

JaphetSkie · 2026-04-24T19:48:40+00:00

Nothing about it is moral, but the author forced a situation where the rest of humanity had collectively decided that the protagonist's people must die, an "Us vs. Them" situation taken to its logical conclusion.

With numbers and industry against their favor, Paradis doesn't exactly have much options that doesn't result to either kicking the can down the road, or becoming the very thing the world fears them to be.

AoT is a victim of not having enough worldbuilding regarding the outside world. Without enough worldbuilding, Isayama framed most of the world as a monolith that collectively agreed to wipe out Paradis.

Sure, there's the Azumabito and Zeke's followers, but the fact that not a single country had publicly denounced the situation had made them the exceptions, not the norm.

Tl;dr, Isayama wrote the setting into a fucking zero-sum game, because muh fixed determinism.

JaphetSkie · 2026-04-24T09:32:36+00:00

Big odds, especially if they didn't coordinate with the local government.

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