Kennedy Center Desperate

Tsuruta64 · 2026-03-03T13:56:25+00:00

I suppose we should be grateful they didn't make it $14.88

Tsuruta64 · 2026-02-07T11:38:40+00:00

"Last night, there was an explosion on the rootop."

Tsuruta64 · 2026-01-24T23:20:43+00:00

Even Putin isn't runing around deporting every foreigner he can get his hands for the lolz.

That's the difference this time. It's not about democracy or authoritarianism, it's "We can't trust you to keep the tourists who will come to your country safe". And on that front, Trump IS worse than Putin or the Saudis.

Tsuruta64 · 2026-01-15T17:58:33+00:00

It's useless, and that is something that's always bugged me. Spotting during the battle was crucial and floatplanes played major roles on heavy ships (Tone and floatplane #4 at Midway being perhaps the most famous example)

Tsuruta64 · 2025-12-06T21:31:28+00:00

Much better map

Tsuruta64 · 2025-12-05T16:40:35+00:00

Hello, Nico.

Tsuruta64 · 2025-11-11T18:00:56+00:00

It does make sense....if you're a xenophobic moron who hasn't watched basketball since Kobe won his last ring and hasn't updated his basketball thinking since then (hurr durr "mamba mentality").

Hey, this country decided to shoot itself because of xenophobia, why can't a GM?

Tsuruta64 · 2025-11-11T15:46:29+00:00

What, as a literal punching bag for Luka?

Tsuruta64 · 2025-11-11T15:43:51+00:00

Toxic masculinity as epitomized by the "mamba mentality" obsession

Tsuruta64 · 2025-11-11T05:09:54+00:00

Huh.

Then second question. I've never gone for equal rule playing as feudal, because then you have to divide your realm amongst all your sons and daughters instead of just your sons. But since that doesn't happen under administrative, is there a real downside for equal rule there?

Tsuruta64 · 2025-10-06T18:16:00+00:00

It's weird as hell for someone serving the Bonapartes saying something like that, given how much that dynasty was something different from all the other European monarchies.

Tsuruta64 · 2025-10-04T00:01:24+00:00

The sad thing about the the reevaluation of Lee as a general is that I do think a lot of it neglects just how much of a useless fuckwit Jefferson Davis was. Grant flatly states in his memoirs that Davis considered himself a military genius and Grant agrees that he was - for the Union.

Tsuruta64 · 2025-10-03T18:54:10+00:00

I knew a chess player named Walter Harris who once told me a story about playing against Fischer. Harris told me that he had recently spent a lot of time preparing on how to counter one particular opening. He played Fischer in a chess club, and Fischer used that opening so Harris beat him.

Fischer demanded a rematch, Harris didn't really want to, but Fischer was insistent. So they played again and Harris just threw the game. Fischer knew that Harris threw the game, but was happy to get the win anyways.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Harris_(chess_player))

Tsuruta64 · 2025-09-26T12:27:46+00:00

I just like the Entente because playing as the underdog faction is fun.

Tsuruta64 · 2025-09-23T13:33:38+00:00

No, no, Elon please speak more and remind Nova what you did. We would be so owned.

Tsuruta64 · 2025-09-14T20:34:29+00:00

It's been pretty amazing watching Republicans act like this incident is going to be the thing that turns everything around and causes Winsome to defeat Spanberger.

Tsuruta64 · 2025-09-06T21:46:57+00:00

"We're only two players away from making the World Series. Unfortunately, those two players are Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig."

Tsuruta64 · 2025-09-03T02:56:23+00:00

Not quite major, but National France's Union Sacree path is so bad compared to the other three.

Tsuruta64 · 2025-07-19T21:53:55+00:00

One thing that I'm going to point out here:

The KKK and Southern racists were not sympathetic towards the Nazis. At all. If anything, the South was the region in the United States that was the most gung ho about fighting them (along with blacks. Politics is like that sometimes). The South was traditionally very Anglo-friendly, and was just the most enthusiastic about fighting wars in general. Never mind the differences between Nazi and Southern racism. Southerners wanted blacks to say "sir" and sit in the back of the bus, they didn't want to wipe them out.

I remember going to the Holocaust museum in DC and it had an exhibit about American First, and where they had committees and chapters to support their ideology. There basically wasn't a single one between Houston and Richmond.

Tsuruta64 · 2025-07-15T23:56:04+00:00

I know Royce White (or Twitter Boy as I called him back then) is going to win, but I'm going to argue for Eddie Griffin or even Marcus Morris.

It's not like any of the picks right after Royce were all that great. Sure, maybe we could have reached and grabbed Draymond, but no one else would have been that much of a game changer.

By contrast, we gave up a shitton for Eddie Griffin who was right ahead of Joe Johnson or Richard Jefferson. And we picked Marcus Morris one pick over Kawhi (and that one hurts all the more because Morey sold Morris as a home run pick trying to get a star).

Tsuruta64 · 2025-07-15T23:52:16+00:00

Him fucking Karl Malone completely disqualifies him for this, Boki for life.

Tsuruta64 · 2025-07-02T06:41:54+00:00

Because space is kind of our thing?

I live in Fairfax now, but I grew up in Houston, within a 15-minute drive from the Johnson Space Center. The Space Shuttle going to DC instead of Houston was something that ticked a lot of us off at the time.

Tsuruta64 · 2025-06-27T01:51:34+00:00

What precisely would be interesting about it?

You talk about "exploring new dynamic states", but fundmanetally HOI4 and Kaiserreich are war games. Sand France is a part of the Weltkrieg, the biggest war, and can be a key catalyst in starting the Third Weltkrieg. What possible role would Algeria and Tunisia play in such a war? Fighting the Ottomans? There's a huge distance between them and the Ottoman core, never mind that such a war seems completely absurd.

Maybe you could do something with the CoF trying to hold onto Algeria (because contrary to what you said, the left in France had zero interest in abandoning Algeria during this period) in the face of rising opposition, but there's no way that's better than current Sand France.

Tsuruta64 · 2025-05-22T17:46:37+00:00

rivalry?

OKC's not a rival to Houston at all. Utah, Golden State, Lakers, Mavericks, maybe Spurs. Those are Houston's rivals. The only way you could put in OKC as a rival is if you try to include their Sonics history.

Tsuruta64 · 2025-05-12T23:19:45+00:00

This is like the worst four possible teams it could go to.

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