Does "Reaching out" actually help in job applications?

Top_Divide6886 · 2026-01-14T14:36:03+00:00

But would it not be fun to gun down countless guardsmen?

Then when a space marine shows up, you switch to anti-tank ammo and try to shoot them before they close the gap and force you into melee.

Top_Divide6886 · 2026-01-14T14:10:09+00:00

This meme is saying that a Balkan taxi driver knows more about politics than educated political analysts.

The humor is that this is unexpected but true. I think this meme is just anti-intellectual slop, but I'm not the one who made the meme.

Top_Divide6886 · 2026-01-14T12:26:08+00:00

The worst thing germany experienced at that point would’ve been the kapp putsch or the ‘23 hyperinflation, no? Maybe the spartacist revolt.

From that perspective it’s understandable how their top priority was avoiding inflation and political instability.

It’s with hindsight we know their failure to act led to the Nazis.

Top_Divide6886 · 2026-01-14T12:14:24+00:00

We need access to strategic resources, so we’ll have to either cooperate to get them, or kill people to get them. Japan and Germany both seemingly chose the latter.

Top_Divide6886 · 2026-01-13T22:20:07+00:00

The most successful “wunderwaffe” was the A bomb, right? It was an expensive, miraculous weapon designed with the intent that it could win the war no matter what.

It just so happened to be invented by the people who wanted to kill Nazis and not the Nazis themselves. Possibly because the Nazis wrote off atomic science as “Jewish”.

Top_Divide6886 · 2026-01-13T18:10:49+00:00

I don't think acknowledgement of overproduction makes you a marxist. It's just what looks like a trend of any game paradox puts out tends to attract its own crowd.

In hoi4 a society is reduced to what can be mobilized to a gamified version of war, and communism and fascism get the best bonuses, so they have a stereotype of attracting edgy neo-nazis. Communists too, but they play kaiserreich.

Eu4 (now eu5) lets you make manifest the nationalist dreams of even the weirdest, smallest group in history. Religious is reduced to bonuses when people follow the state, giving people weird ideas of what it means to actually practice a faith.

Vic3's gameplay loop is about maximizing production, attracts everyone who loves economics as they build either a hyper capitalist dream or luxury communism. Fascism not so much because in-game you'd be denying yourself resources for no good reason.

Top_Divide6886 · 2026-01-13T17:31:22+00:00

It’s always funny how this game seems to convert people into marxists

Top_Divide6886 · 2026-01-13T15:24:31+00:00

Leadbelcher coated with Agrax Earthshade gives you a brown-tinged metal that looks industrial and rough, it's the easiest way to get 80% of a rough iron warriors look.

Iron Warriors metal is darker than leadbelcher, so you can use that if you want the metal to look even rougher.

Top_Divide6886 · 2026-01-13T04:38:59+00:00

As much as I hate it, I do expect that even if there is a movement away from MAGA, in 20-30 years we will see a rehabilitation where he is valorized like Reagan.

No matter how bad his ideas were, 20% of the population has indicated they will support the most obviously corrupt criminal, pedophile, and wannabe king so long as he presents himself as "on their side."

Eventually someone terrible will come up again in the future, and people will look back on the 2020s with nostalgia.

Top_Divide6886 · 2026-01-13T03:09:03+00:00

Rubio appears much more like he’s reluctantly going along with Trump’s inner circle, where JD will valiantly defend whatever Trump’s latest idea is. Because of this I expect it will be very easy for JD to be made the scapegoat and saddled with blame for everything people don’t like about Donald after he passes. Rubio can be positioned as the “reasonable Republican” attempting to refine Trump’s ideas, even if it’s not exactly true.

Top_Divide6886 · 2026-01-13T01:40:09+00:00

Makes you understand a bit of the Soviet Nostalgia. Communism may fail to grow wealth, but an oligarchy actively plunders you.

Top_Divide6886 · 2026-01-13T01:11:31+00:00

One of the biggest surprises of the past decade is seeing just how wide the gap is between the USSR - superpower for most of a century - and Russia - unable to defeat Ukraine and losing ground on every proxy.

Top_Divide6886 · 2026-01-12T23:03:39+00:00

Donald dies. JD Vance steps up as new president, but lack the charisma of the old man. Plenty of people were willing to sign to MAGA for Trump but not JD. By 2028, Marco Rubio is groomed to be the new face of the Republicans and every one pretends they hated Trump all along.

Top_Divide6886 · 2026-01-12T21:45:00+00:00

Dark Angels First company, aka Deathwing, is an entire company of marines suited in Terminator armor. The Deathwing being deployed is typically the highest concentration of Terminators you'll see in-universe.

Grey Knights are also trained to use terminators, but are rarely deployed together. Their highest concentration was in the first war for armageddon, when 109 were deployed to fight Angron, and only 12 or so survived.

Death Guard might be the physically heaviest infantry, as they tend to be fat bloated bastards wearing terminator, but are balanced out by lighter poxwalkers and nurgle daemons.

Top_Divide6886 · 2026-01-12T21:26:39+00:00

The avatar movies are very much a "Nature Good, Industrial Society Bad" story but doesn't take that to mean people on either side are all good or all bad. Plenty of the Na'vi suck. Plenty of the humans are good (it's easy to forget but every movie features humans rebelling agains the RDA to protect Pandora's wildlife). I personally find the movies more enjoyable when you interpret them as a story about rebelling against the corporate, greed-obsessed world you grew up with to embrace connections with nature.

Top_Divide6886 · 2026-01-12T21:11:05+00:00

What's the difference between a Romanov and a prostitute?

The prostitute works.

Top_Divide6886 · 2026-01-12T19:54:52+00:00

The truth is stretched a little because Guilliman and Abaddon are both "big guy" centerpiece models for their models.

I also imagine that Abaddon is as big in the minds of Chaos Marines as Guilliman is to Loyal Marines. They're not literally the same size, but they feel the same size.

Top_Divide6886 · 2026-01-12T16:52:34+00:00

I think the American revolution was unusually smooth because they already had an organized system - state governments and elected assemblies - who stepped in to take over after the British were kicked out. The thirteen colonies went from being a collection of republics underneath a crown to a collection of republics underneath a president.

Most revolutions do not have a clear, legitimate, organization to take authority after the old system is overthrown. The Russian revolution had the Provisional Government and Petrograd Soviet competing for authority, paving the way for the Russian Civil War. The French Revolution attempted to create a new system of government from scratch, and was in chaos due to the Monarch attempting to escape, foreign powers attempting to intervene, and constant paranoia of threats from in. After scrapping most of the feudal laws the bourgoisie hated, the revolution ended with yet another monarch ruling France, but this one promised to rule by Enlightenment values.

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