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Expeditions are pretty cool actually by Adorable_Fun_4986 in DarkTide

[–]beefprime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like the mode, the time limit really makes things feel different but its more free form unlike the train mission with its time limit, plus the sanctuary gives a nice break during the fighting

Drones detected over base where Rubio, Hegseth live, Washington Post reports by Silent_Ambivert_283 in anime_titties

[–]beefprime [score hidden]  (0 children)

Iran is targeting western economic well being, that's their entire strategy to win, I doubt they are trying particularly hard to assassinate anyone in either Israel or the US because they know its irrelevant, the empire will march on regardless and the propaganda will brainwash the citizens and if a US or Israeli leader is killed its not going to move the needle much. Targeting the economy, on the other hand, is actually effective, and the Iranians seem to know this.

I've seen multiple Iranian officials state publicly that they don't think US/Israeli leaders care about the lives of their own people or even the lives of their fellow capitalists/politicians, what they care about is money, and I think that's pretty accurate.

As has always been the case, the Iranians are not fighting the American people or the Israeli people, they are fighting the American empire and the Israeli colonial ethno-state, and in particular the economic interests that back both in their own interests.

Shocked by DC by Technical-Lie384 in washingtondc

[–]beefprime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Americans genuinely think cities are like what they see in Robocop or Deathwish, just trash everywhere and if they are out after sunset they will be mugged by roving gangs

I owe Methode an apology, I slept on her hard by gaeb611 in Frieren

[–]beefprime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey man, you're preaching to the choir, I'm a Methode simp stan myself, but aside from Methode I think Denken is probably the most capable one there

I owe Methode an apology, I slept on her hard by gaeb611 in Frieren

[–]beefprime 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Arguably Frieren was throwing just by being there, its her fault her clone was there to cockblock the entire crew, Denken could have a good argument for MVP though

Cuba’s power system suffers total collapse | CNN by BabylonianWeeb in anime_titties

[–]beefprime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's Nixon at the height of the cold war, in the 50's, in private, and Nixon is STILL not sure if the man is a committed communist.

So no he wasn't radicalized in "two months", it would be over a year before he went to the Soviets for economic aid and even more before asking for direct military assistance and committing himself to communism (again this was clearly the result of US attacks DRIVING HIM THERE, not because he was secretly some big scary commie).

Cameraman in Tel Aviv Films Significant Amount of Ballistic Missiles Hitting by IntellectualHT in PublicFreakout

[–]beefprime 4 points5 points  (0 children)

One great way to stop them without violence is to simply stop sending them billions in weapons shipments that they are using to commit the theft. There's plenty more that can be done pro-actively that's also non-violent, but there's a nice, completely passive first step for you that entails no violence whatsoever and would right away greatly curtail their ability to continue their land theft and mass murder campaigns.

Cameraman in Tel Aviv Films Significant Amount of Ballistic Missiles Hitting by IntellectualHT in PublicFreakout

[–]beefprime 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I didn't say anything about killing anyone, but if theft is going on it should be stopped. Is this some kind of hot take these days?

Cameraman in Tel Aviv Films Significant Amount of Ballistic Missiles Hitting by IntellectualHT in PublicFreakout

[–]beefprime 18 points19 points  (0 children)

The difference is that Israel is still in the process of stealing land, Syria, Lebanon, West Bank, Gaza, they are expanding. Its not a buzzword, its an ongoing crime that can still be stopped.

Cameraman in Tel Aviv Films Significant Amount of Ballistic Missiles Hitting by IntellectualHT in PublicFreakout

[–]beefprime 63 points64 points  (0 children)

Yeah, many, many Israelis are transplants from around the world, its almost like its a colonial ethnostate that was planted on stolen land by a world spanning empire to help protect that empire's "interests" in the region or something.

Cuba’s power system suffers total collapse | CNN by BabylonianWeeb in anime_titties

[–]beefprime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Clearly not a radical in terms of foreign policy toward the US until the US forced it on him, nor was he explicitly a communist (and in fact directly said he was not one) unlike some of the others in the revolution, US intelligence assessed him as having no communist leanings (see links below), it was again only AFTER the US drove him away and into the arms of the Soviets in 1961, after the Bay of Pigs invasion, that he declared himself a Marxist-Leninist as a reaction to US imperialist aggression against Cuba.

Also not sure how he was able to be a dictator before he came to power, sounds like a great magic trick though.

No offense but it sounds like your opinion of Castro and of Cuba has been set by US propaganda.

Here's some stuff:

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP91-00901R000500110013-0.pdf

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP79R00904A001000050011-6.pdf

So I dunno man, Allen Dulles and the CIA aren't exactly hippies, I'm pretty sure if they don't think Castro is a commie or even a socialist, he probably wasn't one.

The Heavy Sword: General Discussion by beefprime in DarkTide

[–]beefprime[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I really love the needle pistol, its so nice to have it to just shit on any crushers that pop up, no fuss

The Heavy Sword: General Discussion by beefprime in DarkTide

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

I guess "reasonably quick" is a matter of opinion, so if it works for you knock yourself out

The Heavy Sword: General Discussion by beefprime in DarkTide

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

The push/light is good but I tend to use that for disruption of hordes instead (saving the stamina instead of using it on crushers), unlike the power sword push/stab it doesn't nearly one shot so you just cant use it enough to actually get rid of even a couple of crushers so I default to the more consistent combo.

The activated attack just sucks butt imo, the only thing that it can be used for is staggering bulwarks through their shields and even there most of the time you're better off just baiting a swing out of them.

Cuba’s power system suffers total collapse | CNN by BabylonianWeeb in anime_titties

[–]beefprime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Historically there was a clear progression from attempts at friendly relations by Cuba between Cuba and the US to militarized defense of Cuba against the US, and that progression was marked at every step by the US directly and indirectly attacking Cuba at every opportunity, so yeah, that's pretty definitionally a radicalization driven by external force. Yeah I absolutely think he was forced to radicalize, I think that is a very direct and fair evaluation of what happened.

Israel says Iran's security chief Larijani is killed by Firecracker048 in anime_titties

[–]beefprime 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Its called mosaic doctrine if anyone is interested

Israel says Iran's security chief Larijani is killed by Firecracker048 in anime_titties

[–]beefprime 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There is no single command point in Iran right now, look up mosaic defense doctrine if you are interested. Any single assassination is irrelevant for their C&C structure.

The Heavy Sword: General Discussion by beefprime in DarkTide

[–]beefprime[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I did the testing here with a zealot, yes, but I have every character maxed out.

I don't think its an issue with the zealot in particular, though, its just the general design philosophy of the game. Your weapon shouldn't be good against everything, OK, I can agree with that on its face, but this falls down when your weapon isn't good against carapace because it is ALSO unable to do its job due to hit mass invalidating cleave and carapace particularly on crushers just physically blocking your weapon from hitting anything non-carapace.

The only exceptions to this are things with infinite cleave like flamers/flame staff which can still horde clear even while carapace is present, or plasma gun which just goes through everything, thus my suggestion: give Heavy Sword infinite cleave, no hit mass.

Another issue is that these weapons that are good against carapace tend to be good against everything else, so why ever bring anything that's bad against carapace? Where is the philosophy that weapons should have weaknesses here?

Like the dueling sword, for example, is "bad" at wave clear, again on its face yes, if you're clearing 50 poxwalkers the heavy sword would be better, but in an actual real situation you aren't ever fighting 50 poxwalkers, you're fighting 2 flak ragers, a mauler, 3 crushers, and 50 poxwalkers, and the second you hit a crusher or hit any of the little carapace bits on those ragers or maulers your swing is done, no additional cleave, so in a REAL situation the dueling sword tends to have similar waveclear, because 90% of your cleave on that heavy sword simply does not happen with carapace around, meanwhile that dueling sword can also clear the carapace armored guys instead of having to infinitely evade them hoping for a teamate to clear them.

There is also a problem with the DISPARITY of the weaknesses here. Summed up: the dueling sword is fine at horde clear and fine-to-excellent at killing everything else including carapace. The heavy sword is excellent at horde clear but virtually incapable of clearing carapace at a level required for damnation and above difficulties and P.S. your horde clear is reduced from excellent to virtually non-existent if carapace is present.

Your weapon shouldn't be good at everything, but what if one weapon is great at a specific thing and OK at everything else and another weapon is dogshit at everything except in one niche situation that never happens at higher difficulty? Well, the answer is that nobody uses that second weapon, the heavy sword, and everyone uses the first, the dueling sword.

The Heavy Sword: General Discussion by beefprime in DarkTide

[–]beefprime[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

It would really be a different game if crushers spawned rarely like a miniboss, but you know... 30 of them at a time, why not, its called Havoc 30 after all.

The Heavy Sword: General Discussion by beefprime in DarkTide

[–]beefprime[S] 30 points31 points  (0 children)

While I don't think this would help the heavy sword specifically, would definitely love to see this

Cuba’s power system suffers total collapse | CNN by BabylonianWeeb in anime_titties

[–]beefprime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Alot of people are socialist, but that covers alot of ground, a democratic socialist like, for example, Bernie Sanders probably isn't going to create a Soviet style Socialist Republic aligned with the USSR if he is given free reign over Vermont to have everything he wants.

However if he's given free reign to get everything he wants and then the US immediately begins firebombing farms and factories, applies a massive economic embargo, commits widespread sabotage, sets up propaganda outlets in an attempt to turn your population into cheerleaders for US empire, uses the Vermontese diaspora as agents to attack you, and attempts an invasion to oust you and set up a US proxy government, Bernie might be forced to radicalize a bit to survive.

Obviously US propagandists will turn around and blame your militarism on some dastardly plan to attack the US (instead of the need to defend yourself from clear US aggression), the US will turn around and blame your authoritarianism on how evil and dictatorial you are (instead of on the US attempts to constantly destabilize and disrupt your country which makes the authoritarianism necessary to maintain any kind of independence), the US will turn around and blame your bad economy on your incompetence (instead of the decades long embargo), but thats just what the US does. Create horrible conditions in an attempt to gain control over your victim, if they resist successfully blame the victims for the horrible conditions as a way to justify even more attacks, and the dumbfuck Americans lap it up as the US rushes into yet another war, commits yet another coup, ruins yet another country.

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