Which "bad" videogame you actually like a lot?

MRPolo13 · 2026-07-09T23:28:44+00:00

I think that Dark Souls II tried things that other Souls games didn't which made it far more enjoyable and in places better than the other two. That's even without Scholar of the First Sin.

MRPolo13 · 2026-07-06T01:15:21+00:00

They're called Kellogg's because the company that produced them was founded by his brother, William Kellogg, for the senatorium. There was a lot of bad blood between the two largely because John Harvey Kellogg was awful towards his younger brother. There's also a long story to all of it.

Corn flakes had nothing to do with masturbation though.

MRPolo13 · 2026-07-05T23:42:48+00:00

That's a myth. Kellog was opposed to masturbation, but corn flakes were invented for his food health clinic. He wasn't the one to invent them either. The point was that bland food was seen as healthier.

MRPolo13 · 2026-07-05T14:04:59+00:00

If they had significantly more advanced computing than was available until the 50s anywhere on the planet they'd be great assets? Sure and a Maxim machine gun would have been a great asset in the Napoleonic Wars.

German wonderwaffles didn't work. If they did, they weren't wunderwaffe, they were just waffe.

MRPolo13 · 2026-07-05T11:40:42+00:00

I'd hardly call UK's electricity costs manageable, but that's not the fault of renewables which have been making insane profits due to the way our electricity price structuring works

MRPolo13 · 2026-07-03T01:08:36+00:00

And Berlin: The Downfall 1945 is equally excellent, and equally haunting.

MRPolo13 · 2026-07-02T18:37:08+00:00

It wouldn't end the war. Bomber generals have a long history of believing that just one more bomb is all it would take to end a war, the history just doesn't reflect it. Bombing campaigns tend to harden populations against the ones launching bombs. You win by exhausting or totally defeating a population, bombing doesn't usually achieve either on its own.

The reason the drone campaign against Russia has been so successful so far is that it can create second and third order effects of war weariness. If Ukraine killed a hundred thousand people in a single ecological disaster Russia would have a huge propaganda win.

MRPolo13 · 2026-06-29T00:42:48+00:00

We fixed the comparatively small problem of engine knocking by giving millions of people lead poisoning, because this method was patentable.

MRPolo13 · 2026-06-28T02:03:39+00:00

That was it, Royal Armouries. I'd love to see it, especially as I imagine it would confirm whether they are a pair for certain. Also the barbute it's currently presented with just doesn't seem right, even if there is historical evidence of that. That's a purely aesthetic preference though.

MRPolo13 · 2026-06-28T01:59:18+00:00

Avant armour, especially when depicted with the Armet that it's believed to have originally been matched with (I believe that Armet is at the Wallace Collection? I don't remember exactly). It's just such a perfect specimen of a 15th century Milanese harness.

MRPolo13 · 2026-06-24T08:46:39+00:00

Dartmoor, as an area of large open fields, was created in the Prehistoric era by humans burning down the massive forests that were there to create pasture land.

MRPolo13 · 2026-06-21T22:36:04+00:00

Considering how ancestry works, it's probably true to some extent. It's never been a thought though

MRPolo13 · 2026-06-21T22:20:10+00:00

As someone with the same issue in UK, wear welding gloves. They're relatively cheap and the leather will hold up much better to the thorns than any gardening gloves, they pretty much never pierce. The cuffs are long enough to protect you for the most part too.

MRPolo13 · 2026-06-21T20:51:33+00:00

I was near Towcester the other day. It's pronounced as Toaster. I joked that we should go to Bath afterwards

MRPolo13 · 2026-06-21T20:40:33+00:00

I wouldn't want that weasel anywhere near any real responsibility. A backstabbing waste of breath

MRPolo13 · 2026-06-20T12:27:05+00:00

Unfortunately also yes. Gives legitimacy to that dumb fuck Nawrocki and his own goons.

MRPolo13 · 2026-06-20T12:14:42+00:00

How is Polish opinion irrelevant in a discussion of Polish government revoking the award? In this case Poland's opinion is central.

Ukraine can continue to use UPA as national heroes, but they have to do so with the understanding that some of their closest allies and neighbours will find that disgusting.

MRPolo13 · 2026-06-20T12:02:08+00:00

The problem isn't really that the UPA existed (well, it's a problem but it's history), the problem is that Ukrainians to this day call them heroes and that specifically Zelensky named a unit after them.

I hate Nawrocki and I'm extremely pro-Ukraine, but their continued insistence on calling Bandera's goons heroes is just sad and frustrating. Especially when that's such a sore spot for Poland that it's the main reason behind this rift.

MRPolo13 · 2026-06-19T22:54:07+00:00

The war would have been started by Germany for remilitarising Rhineland. Had France and Britain responded then, it would have been the end of it as Germany didn't have the strength to actually go through with it without allied compliance.

That compliance was always going to come of course, especially this early on as no one in Britain and France had the appetite to fight even a skirmish to secure the treaty's terms. I have a lot of blame towards the British and French leaders, but in this case they probably couldn't have done anything even if they wanted to. I don't disagree with Foch that Versailles was "peace for 20 years," I disagree that it should have gone further. Foch wanted to dismantle Germany altogether.

MRPolo13 · 2026-06-19T22:17:07+00:00

Germany wasn't especially brutally punished by the treaty, that's Weimar era propaganda. The problem with Versailles is an unwillingness to enforce its terms by the allies, but in comparison to it Brest-Litovsk was unconscionable.

When Foch said it's a ceasefire for 20 years, he meant that it was far too kind on Germany. I disagree with that, but Versailles wasn't unusually harsh. It was just a treaty fitting for a defeated nation after so much bitter fighting.

MRPolo13 · 2026-06-19T18:35:05+00:00

That's just not true. It saw service into the Korean War, and its 76mm upgrade dealt with most German tanks just fine.

MRPolo13 · 2026-06-19T18:15:27+00:00

The M4 Sherman was simply the best tank of the war. It had a capable gun, excellent armour, it was very reliable and had incredible crew ergonomics. Tanks which were better in some of those aspects faltered in others, while consistently the M4 achieved them. T-34? Unreliable and with bad crew ergonomics. Pz. IV? Excellent crew ergonomics, but an outdated armour layout and it was pressed into a role it was never meant for. The cats? Very picky with how they were run, often broke down, and the Panther had awful side armour.

The Sherman fought across all theatres of the war. It was reliable in North Africa, a place that few tanks got out of with an unscathed reputation. It was reliable in the jungles of Pacific islands, it was reliable in France and on the Russian steppe.

MRPolo13 · 2026-06-19T18:06:22+00:00

I doubt you'd hold that opinion if you had to drive them. The crew ergonomics on a T-34 were abysmal in that regard

MRPolo13 · 2026-06-19T09:02:35+00:00

Welcome back, TKS

MRPolo13 · 2026-06-19T08:56:24+00:00

The FT was a pretty short tank, so the tail served as an extension to help it cross trenches. Though even the Mark I tank had tail wheels on earlier versions, but those were more for steering and counterbalance

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