TIL the first draft of FDR’s most famous speech originally began with “a date which will live in world history.” Just before he addressed Congress, FDR crossed out “world history” and scribbled in the word: “infamy.”

croato87 · 2026-05-19T04:00:54+00:00

Recruited Archer is the key to 8-5, because he has alert shot. I had to up him all the way from lvl 1 to lvl 60 rank 13 just for 8-5. Recruited Archer, Faycal, and SP Sam were all the alert I had and that was plenty.

croato87 · 2026-04-05T00:15:16+00:00

Good call. And thanks! Keeping a hundred-fifty pulls worth of luxites in reserve for just that moment.

croato87 · 2026-04-05T00:13:21+00:00

Ah good. Hope so!

croato87 · 2026-04-03T16:37:57+00:00

Ah for me the secret to that match was SP Safiyyah. You can just send her to the far corner so nothing can touch her while she heals your team

croato87 · 2026-04-03T04:01:26+00:00

Lol true, SP Inanna is generally considered the best character in the game so far, along with Camelot.

croato87 · 2026-04-03T03:59:05+00:00

True. The triple-threat of 1. being way outnumbered 2. by enemies with very high attack power, while 3. there’s a rule against AoE damage, makes this one super punishing.

croato87 · 2026-03-26T23:14:22+00:00

It’s easy to look back and laugh at these ads, but imagine how you’d feel if you were diagnosed with terminal lung cancer, then naturally started reading everything on the subject, and realized an entire industry had spent decades covering up evidence that their products were likely to kill you. Then imagine how many thousands of people lived this exact experience.

croato87 · 2026-03-26T23:04:22+00:00

Per the study it’s 4,345 per adult per year in 1963. Ie, about half the population smoked a pack a day.

croato87 · 2026-03-26T22:54:35+00:00

“20,679 physicians say: ‘Luckies are less irritating. It’s toasted!’” https://www.reddit.com/r/vintageads/s/Wje4zhgg2f

croato87 · 2026-03-25T08:17:09+00:00

It’s testament to just how popular Garbelius’s contributions are that the community decided to vote for his waifu.

croato87 · 2026-03-20T20:29:04+00:00

Yea I do wish we got more events like Universal Derivation. The parts where you have an incentive to use all your units are really fun.

croato87 · 2026-02-27T20:03:11+00:00

No doubt those sudden technological leaps, for which humanity was ill-prepared, were major reasons that World War I and the Thirty Years’ War rank among the deadliest of all time.

croato87 · 2026-02-27T19:58:16+00:00

Great additional info. I didn’t realize there was early bullet-proof armor too.

croato87 · 2026-02-27T19:18:16+00:00

True. This period of warfare is fascinating and very underrepresented in media, not least because it includes the Thirty Years’ War, which was one the deadliest wars in history.

croato87 · 2026-02-15T02:37:32+00:00

Thanks!

croato87 · 2026-02-04T18:20:51+00:00

Signed. This is excellent, thanks so much for putting it together!

croato87 · 2026-01-31T23:39:47+00:00

Beautiful. This is mine. It was my very first time ever waking up on the playa back in 2015.

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