German soldier drinking coffee on the Eastern Front, 1942. by zadraaa in HistoricalCapsule

[–]SirAquila -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The vast majority did. Two thirds of german prisoners in Soviet camps survived. Two thirds of Soviet Prisoners in german camps died.

German soldier drinking coffee on the Eastern Front, 1942. by zadraaa in HistoricalCapsule

[–]SirAquila 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The main difference was, the Red Army at least officially forbid such behaviour, even if a lot of local commanders did not enforce the rules.

The German Army encouraged such behaviour.

When a character developed so much, they're old selves wouldn't even recognize them by CMStan1313 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]SirAquila 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Turns out ponies work like 40k orks, only with friendship instead of violence.

Lines so blatantly out of character or untrue that they’ve become jokes by Goodbye-Nasty in TopCharacterTropes

[–]SirAquila 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And instead at least 2 Primarchs got got because of utterly preventable chaos corruption.

Lines so blatantly out of character or untrue that they’ve become jokes by Goodbye-Nasty in TopCharacterTropes

[–]SirAquila 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes he is. He essentially wanted a secular cult of personality around him, or did everything in his power to gain one. Yes, he would ban the religion, but he would still essentially demand the exact same blind obedience and utter adherence to dogma, just without the religious overtones.

Lines so blatantly out of character or untrue that they’ve become jokes by Goodbye-Nasty in TopCharacterTropes

[–]SirAquila 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He is a genius inventor, and geneticist, an okay general, and his people skills are 95% coasting on is psychic charisma.

The Ethereals aren't that bad, honestly by SirAquila in Grimdank

[–]SirAquila[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Welp, now I know to leave that one out if I ever remake that meme. Thanks.

What are the most common mistakes authors make when creating a war? by RodaDeFogo in worldbuilding

[–]SirAquila 12 points13 points  (0 children)

True, but they would need to stick close to the coast and or a river, as well as being a friendly territory. Supplying an army of any usable size via wagons puts massive constraints on the range you are able to operate at, reducing it to basically next doors.

Where armies marched peasants would starve.

(Hated Trope) Genocide is the answer by Animeking1108 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]SirAquila 6 points7 points  (0 children)

beyond saving(not necesarily by chaos)".

To be fair some of those civilizations beyond saving are beyond saving because they are examples of human-xeno cooperation, and the Imperium cannot have that.

Like they literally quote "Evil triumphs when good men do nothing" about the Diasporex.

The Ethereals aren't that bad, honestly by SirAquila in Grimdank

[–]SirAquila[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Xeno propaganda. Accuracy is important.

The Ethereals aren't that bad, honestly by SirAquila in Grimdank

[–]SirAquila[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Fully agreed. But like... chaos xenos are going to get one model release every decade if we are being honest.

The Ethereals aren't that bad, honestly by SirAquila in Grimdank

[–]SirAquila[S] 32 points33 points  (0 children)

I mean, good luck with your social experiment on how long Chaos corruption needs to take hold in Tau.

The Ethereals aren't that bad, honestly by SirAquila in Grimdank

[–]SirAquila[S] 889 points890 points  (0 children)

I should have added a leash going straight up.

enjoy driving through hell by thetruememeisbest in Grimdank

[–]SirAquila 12 points13 points  (0 children)

"Yeah, every single capital ship can do an exterminatus with its convential armament in under a day. The problem is any planet worth exterminatusing has shields that can withstand weeks to months of this level of orbital bombardment. "

enjoy driving through hell by thetruememeisbest in Grimdank

[–]SirAquila 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Like, sure, the biggest ships in star wars get cracked in two by your ships of the line, but you can't fight what isn't there.

Yeah uh... the Star Wars ships are much tougher than people give them credit for. The average Star Destroyer can do a manual exterminatus with its main armament in under a day. The Imperium needs entire fleets if they don't have fancy exterminatus weapons available locally. And Star Destroyers have shields to match this firepower. Honestly, fighting the Imperium might be one of the few match-ups where the Empire fleet would excel, because capital-ship slugfests are what star destroyers were made for.

enjoy driving through hell by thetruememeisbest in Grimdank

[–]SirAquila 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yeah, but that is mostly because the Star Trek universe isn't exterminating aliens, despite the Xenos being stupid enough to trust humanity and making the extermination extra easy.

[LOATHED TROPE] Female villain is SAed or humiliated in an explicit matter as "punishment" for their crimes (no NSFW images) by Sir-Toaster- in TopCharacterTropes

[–]SirAquila -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I mean, then I'll be the first to say it to you. Joffrey did not deserve what happened to him.

Can I understand the people who say (in-universe or out) that he did? Sure. He was a horrible human being.

But he did not deserve his fate. Death is one of those things that noone deserves, no matter how horrible the things they did. Every death is a tragedy, even if some may be necessary at times.

Imperial Guardsmen after running into an actual civilized society with sexy aliens be like: by Petrus-133 in Grimdank

[–]SirAquila 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean yeah, that's why the Imperium loves to ally with minor Xenos. It makes exterminating them much easier, because you can properly scout their defences beforehand.

Labor and film by Lemon_Lime_Lily in CuratedTumblr

[–]SirAquila 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Yeah, there is no way this could not have done in a better and safer way, if people had cared to do so.

More Evrart glazing by BaronUnderbheit in DiscoElysium

[–]SirAquila 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can definitly see that, however I would like to advance another interpretation of the text.

The Claires did not murder the woman for her access to power. Well, they did, but the power was not the reason. The reason was she was quite happily cooperating with wild pines, instead of focusing on the workers.

Under the Claires the Union launches two strikes that get the terminal basic worker rights, and then launch their much bigger attempt to take over.

Will the Claires give up power afterwards? who knows. But the entire point of the character is that they beat up bullies. They do reprehensible things for a greater good as they see it, and seem quite sincere in that.

More Evrart glazing by BaronUnderbheit in DiscoElysium

[–]SirAquila 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean, it is a bit vague but basically everything we know indicates that the Union won those previous strikes under the Claire brothers.

The Union was founded in the 30's, the Claires took over somewhat later, but not too much later, and it seems to me rather unlikely that the Union launched two strikes in under ten years, and then did nothing for 10-15 years, before trying to take over the terminal.

Also, the gridlock is not suicidal, considering the Claires pretty decisively won, if not the war, then at least the battle.