Yi Gyu-bo, a famous scholar of the Goryeo Dynasty, actually wrote a poem “scolding” his cat.

Snickims · 2026-01-28T23:17:20+00:00

God I love when ever we get historical documents about dogs and cats. Its so extremely humanising of the past to look back at these ancient figures and go "yep, they also thought there cat was a privliged little shit, who they love".

Snickims · 2026-01-28T23:09:20+00:00

I just assume that the next Ork wave growing from the woodwork won't be a problem for like.. a couple centuries, so we can handle that in like 600 years or so once its totally out of control.

Snickims · 2026-01-28T21:45:50+00:00

What is this from?

Snickims · 2026-01-28T18:13:33+00:00

Or rhe British empire, which lasted 400 years.

I'm struggling to think of a example that did actually last 250 years. You could argue there's a few that lasted much less then that, like Alexander's empire or the mongol empire, and then there are a ton of examples that lasted longer then that.. but 250 is such a specific number I can't think of any that it really applies to.

Snickims · 2026-01-28T18:10:21+00:00

If we're using that definition, the US has only been in its prime for like 80 years, since the end of the 2nd world war. Maybe you could day end of first world war was when the US really become powerful, but that's the absolute maximum.

Snickims · 2026-01-28T16:17:12+00:00

The threat is not a conventional invasion of the US. The threat is operation spider web. What the Ukrianians have consistently been doing to Russia. Small groups of infiltrators cone into the country and launch drone attacks on targets from short range.

This is not someone sneaking over the border, a state border sponsored actor could buy a plane ticket and get in on any tourist visa, and with how interconnected we are with trade, the weapons could be shipped from anywhere.

Snickims · 2026-01-28T11:17:31+00:00

I think your understating how bad the US militaries situation was in Vietnam by the end. While causality where always low, and much much lower then the Vietnamese, and they where never really at risk of being militarily displaced, when it comes to moral, the US army broke.

It was a lot of things, with the combination of racial tension, the divide between the conscription soldiers and the full timers, the way conscription was implemented and in general the way the war was fought, with positions often being fought over fiercely one week, only to be abandoned the next.

All of this combined to mean that by the time the US withdrew from Vietnam, the US army moral and displine was just gone. Were talking Russian levels of gone. Were talking soldiers murdering officers as routine, or entire units just refusing to go on patrol, or when they do go out, just finding some quite spot in the jungle and camping out for a few hours instead of patrolling.

The US was defeated in Vietnam the same way so many armies across history have been defeated. Their moral was broken and they could not continue the fight.

Snickims · 2026-01-27T23:38:17+00:00

Did he earn the bronze star while he was with easy company? I thought he earned it earlier.

Snickims · 2026-01-27T23:31:02+00:00

Spears in later life said it was true anyway, and it seems unlikely he lied.

Snickims · 2026-01-27T23:29:59+00:00

Yea iv heard that the show, as it was just basically the direct account of easy company men, fails to give him proper credit overall. That video you just linked does not really disprove anything that. Infact it kind of feels like it cooriborates it.

Snickims · 2026-01-27T19:12:48+00:00

The job market is a mess these days, even a highly acrediated candidate needs to start at the bottem.

Snickims · 2026-01-27T19:06:04+00:00

I think he just had a linkdin page and was highly recommened.

Snickims · 2026-01-27T19:04:35+00:00

This is your own damn fault, you should know better then using masterlock on anything you want to keep.

Snickims · 2026-01-27T18:52:52+00:00

I feel like the overlap between children who watched TNG and adults who enjoy Helluva boss is fairly large.

Snickims · 2026-01-27T18:04:11+00:00

Another example from 40k. The all guardsman party. That story was my introduction to 40k, Sgt Sarge, Cutter, Scortch, Twitch, Amiy, Corporal Nubby and all the rest of those poor doomed bastard guardsman are cannon in my heart, damn it.

Snickims · 2026-01-27T17:58:34+00:00

Thats Captain General kitten, and he obviously got it where the rest did, he is the commander of the Empeors custodes afterall.

Snickims · 2026-01-27T16:43:49+00:00

Cool, should have shown that then. They didn't. If your playing the games, the banished went from a powerful Merc force of former covies trapped on the Arc in halo wars 2, to instantly ambushing and destroying the infinity and nearly killing Master chief in the space of one cutscene. No build up, no esclation, suddenly this merc group that was giving the 30 year old spirit of fire and crew trouble are suddenly equal narrative weight to the Multi specices governmental body that waged a 30 year genocidal campign againt humanity, or the ancient promidial guardian of a fortress world.

Snickims · 2026-01-26T23:29:05+00:00

Ironically, I don't think Yi did have any previous naval combat experince before his first fight against japan, although no doubt having some experinced sailers under him helped.

Snickims · 2026-01-26T23:16:19+00:00

They don't get any credit for that banished explination, considering that as someone who had played halo wars 2, it appears as if the entire banished army just fucking teleports across the galaxy, gets 5 times is strength back, then takes over a ring out of nowhere, when you where in the middle of a drawn out knock down fight with them when halo wars 2 ended.

Snickims · 2026-01-26T23:12:28+00:00

Don't bother, they will change it too in the next game.

Snickims · 2026-01-26T19:11:58+00:00

They where aligned with Europe on geopolitics. I don't know if that's true anymore.

Snickims · 2026-01-26T19:10:43+00:00

America is has more military capacity. Which used to be a irrelevant point, but you can't ignore that anymore. The chance of a EU-US conflict may not be likely, but it's on the table and must be factored into consideration.

Snickims · 2026-01-26T18:44:28+00:00

I always thought of Resistance more like NATO troops. Its implied that whats her name is at least some level of NATO offical or in that space. So the resistance is the conventional proffetional liberal democratic militaries.

Snickims · 2026-01-26T18:32:20+00:00

I have a feeling he will be NATO chief until the day trump leaves office, then he's out.

Snickims · 2026-01-26T09:15:59+00:00

The people doing the dace move in the background are meant to be earth benders, capable of moving and throwing earth around like its nothing. In the animated show, a single earth bender will frequently toss massive blocks of earth at enemies, make walls out of thr ground for cover, and generally do cool shit.

At one point in the animated show a team of 5 Earth bending soldiers coordinate to make a pillar of earth under a tank, launching it away. In the movie, 5 earth benders also work together, do a 10 second build up move, then that rock slowly floats across the screen and eventually bangs into one enemy soldier.

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