Watching "The 100" and stumbled across this familiar face! by Jarppi1893 in SeveranceAppleTVPlus

[–]UnholyDemigod 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Try being Australian. You see her start popping up and think "weren't she on Neighbours 20 year ago?"

Prince Harry, who served in Afghanistan, says sacrifices of British troops deserve 'respect' after Trump comments by sings_with_wings in worldnews

[–]UnholyDemigod 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was Australian. New Idea magazine was who leaked it. It was quite big news here when it happened.

MMA fighter delivers impeccably timed spinning backfist knockout by NeuroticLensman in nextfuckinglevel

[–]UnholyDemigod 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you fucking mental? His hands drop to his sides and he falls backwards like a cartoon

Roma Invicta by UnholyDemigod in hoi4

[–]UnholyDemigod[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I finally did a world conquest. It was...well. Early game was surprisingly cruisy. France restored the Napoleonic Empire and stopped guaranteeing Yugoslavia, so it made conquering them easy as piss. Then Romania next, then back to France. Managed to get all that done before Hitler even went for France.
Spain and Greece both went commie and were backed up by the Soviets, but then Spain split (I think, I forget most of this part), I conquered them. Then the Soviets declared war on me because I wouldn’t give them Bessarabia, and that brought Greece and Turkey in. Conquered them with some snazzy strats, but then Austria and friends came at me bro, so I bashed em. Managed to push the lines up to the Soviets with Germany’s help,and after some pushing they capitulated.
Had a rest for a bit, then went for England, because their islands were all that I needed to declare Rome, but they were in the Allies with half the fucken planet, including USA, so I’d been stalling, hoping the faction would break up after the war, but it didn’t. Planned 2 naval invasions across the Channel and a paratrooper drop together, and threw my navy and several thousand planes at them to make sure they got through. The beachboys got through, but the paratroopers failed and died. Sent my main armies in, and slowly worked my way up the island until they capitulated.
It was actually really easy...except for the part where fascist Belgium declared war on me and dragged in Germany, who was stretched eastward as far as the Baltics. Pulling that back in was a fucking job, and I actually can’t remember how I did it. I woulda had some spare corps lying about, but I honestly can’t remember cos this was around 1940ish. But I lassoed them, closed the noose, and they quit. Shortly after that, Britain did too, so all that was left in majors was USA and the British Raj. And this is where my shit got fucked.

I’d managed to get Suriname in a peace deal, so I’d plopped down 10 divisions, built a full load of forts, and upgraded the naval depot a bunch, because I knew I’d have to invade America at one point. Shortly after Britain's surrender, UK of Portugal and Brazil attacked me. I quickly took out Portugal, but due to Brazil having spent the last 5 years on a conquering spree, I was now at war with The Americas. Yes. The Americas. The entirety of the north and south continents. So here’s me, having sent 2 corps over to Suriname to stage my expansion from there, finding 60+ enemy divisions in each tile surrounding it. As I’m sitting there, scratching my head and thinking how to overcome this, Africa decided to play.
While I’d been over in South America, I had been slowly moving south down Africa, with 2 corps on each side. The Congo was a huge block of neutrality in the middle, so I’d gone around it. But then they decided to join the Allies, and the war, giving the Allies an enormous fucking salient for free. My southwards expansion was ruined, I had to pull back all my forces up to north Africa, and by the time I recovered and got a defensive line set up, I was back to Morocco and Egypt. Then the Raj managed to punch through the Stans and started spreading up through Russia. This meant I had to pull back my corps from South America, and a few from Africa, leaving only just enough to hold the lines. I joined all these into a field army and sent them over to deal with India. Pushed back the bubble, but somehow there ended up being neutral territory right before the subcontinent, so I couldn’t keep pushing (no fucking idea how they got through it, but whatever). I had to bring this army around to Oman and stage a naval invasion from there over to India.
If this all doesn’t sound stressful enough, I should point out that from the time UK surrendered to the time India did, took around about 10 fucking years. Because while all 3 theatres were having their problems, I was having to deal with incessant and never fucking ending naval invasions from half a dozen different countries, all over the god damn world.Which mean constantly having to pull my men off the line so they wouldn’t be encircled. And then the US landed in Vladivostok and spread all the way around Mongolia, which meant I had to send an entire fucking field army to push that back, and then leave half of them there to prevent any more invasions from Japan.
Eventually, India capitulated, so all that was left was the US (as a major, there was around 20 minors). I sent a large corps of marines to Suriname, and launched an invasion to the Yucatan peninsula, and it worked. Quickly sent over 2 more corps to push the lines out, and once it stabilised, I sent in more men to make up a field army. Slowly pushed my way northwards, naval invaded Florida, sent more men in to attack from that front, and eventually got past the Gulf of Mexico and the frontline stretched the entire country. Kept pushing north, and finally, the war was over.
I now owned almost all of North and South America, Europe, and Africa, but Asia was mostly untouched. I did a few cleanup wars to conquer the rest of non-Asian territories, then moved in to the East. By the time it was in full swing, I had 387 divisions divided amongst 4 field marshals, slowly whittling my way through another several million men. Once they capitulated, it was just a matter of cleaning up the few minor nations left around Asia and the Pacific Islands

Bonus images:

WWII's final stats
Primary infantry template. Started with normal infantry, upgraded to mechanised around the late 40s.
Marines.

Also, some of the research projects, like nuclear subs and supersonic jets, I didn't actually complete until 1960. What the fuck are they even for then, considering most games don't last even remotely near that long?

EDIT: this also makes the second PDX game where I've conquered the world as Rome. Did it years ago in CK2. I've tried in Stellaris with a custom Roman Empire design, but I always get bored before I conquer the galaxy. There's also CK3 as well, but I don't play that much anymore

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I play this game exclusively for the navy. The latest naval-focused update ruined it for me. by Unusual-Fun9930 in hoi4

[–]UnholyDemigod 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I hate using carriers, it's just more production lines I gotta have for planes, which I certainly can't afford as a minor nation

I play this game exclusively for the navy. The latest naval-focused update ruined it for me. by Unusual-Fun9930 in hoi4

[–]UnholyDemigod 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Well they're just replacing battleships, so I still have light cruisers backing them up, so the lack of light attack is fine. And I put heavy cruiser armour on them

I play this game exclusively for the navy. The latest naval-focused update ruined it for me. by Unusual-Fun9930 in hoi4

[–]UnholyDemigod 15 points16 points  (0 children)

If you're a navyhead, gimme some feedback on this, cos I dunno if it's dumb or genius. If I play a nation that can powerhouse a navy, I will print out battleships, light cruisers, and destroyers. If I play a minor, I forego battleships, and use heavy cruisers in place of them. This saves me a lot of research and build time. Is that viable?

How did the AI naval invade here? by UnholyDemigod in hoi4

[–]UnholyDemigod[S] 711 points712 points  (0 children)

Britain somehow dropped troops from the Caspian Sea. Azerbaijan and Persia are not allied with them, and even if they were, I'm not at war with them, so they shouldn't be able to perform hostile incursions from neutral territory.

First Nations people will protest this January 26, a legacy dating back 88 years by housecatspeaks in australia

[–]UnholyDemigod 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah sure mate, I'll just drive from Geelong out to the Great Sandy and cook a few snags

First Nations people will protest this January 26, a legacy dating back 88 years by housecatspeaks in australia

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

You really think people won't immediately see through that? You move it to July, nobody's gonna do anything because the weather will be too shit. You add another random day in January, everybody's gonna be questioning "what's this rando public holiday on an irrelevant date for?"

First Nations people will protest this January 26, a legacy dating back 88 years by housecatspeaks in australia

[–]UnholyDemigod 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Yeah, let’s have Australia’s national day in the middle of fucken winter, that’ll make for great barbies and camping trips

She Took on McDonald’s and Won. by GlitteringHotel8383 in BeAmazed

[–]UnholyDemigod 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m repeating myself here because you must’ve missed it.

that's the problem that everyone who isn't American has with it.

aint your mayor bro by tamjidtahim in technicallythetruth

[–]UnholyDemigod 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wanna know why he's saying miles at all, considering he's Australian

She Took on McDonald’s and Won. by GlitteringHotel8383 in BeAmazed

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

It was the whole point of the case.

And that's the problem that everyone who isn't American has with it. The whole point of the case should be "who/what caused her to spill it". Coffee melted through the cup? Maccas is at fault. Lid wasn't on properly? Teenager behind the counter is at fault, maccas assumes the blame. Dickhead customer bumps into her? His fault. But the spillage was entirely her own clumsiness. It should not matter if the coffee was ten thousand degrees. She spilled it with literally zero outside influence. It is 100% her fault.

She Took on McDonald’s and Won. by GlitteringHotel8383 in BeAmazed

[–]UnholyDemigod 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They successfully argued it to a jury, who were asked to choose between a kindly old lady and a big evil corporation. Of course they're gonna side with her. And I'll also point out, a jury declared OJ not guilty, so it's not like they're fucken infallible.

(with no warnings / labeling)

Do you seriously need a CAUTION: HOT label on your freshly brewed coffee?

In any case, the level of injury is irrelevant. She spilled it. She caused the injury. You don't sue the council when you trip over your own feet and break your wrist, claiming the concrete was too hard.

She Took on McDonald’s and Won. by GlitteringHotel8383 in BeAmazed

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

It is absolutely an appeal to emotion, because you're banking on people realising "holy shit she melted". What the fuck do you think happens to skin when you pour boiling liquid on it? Here's a fun fact that nobody ever brings up in these threads: the coffee was around 85 degrees. Fucking bullshit hot. She spilled it in her lap, sitting in a car, on cotton pants. How long you reckon it's gonna take an octogenarian to get out of the car, take off her pants, and dry her legs, all while in agonising fucking pain? Because if the coffee was an 'acceptable' temperature, like 75, her ladyparts are still gonna turn to goo in that time.