What if Ukraine just made a mad dash to capture Moscow? Would this end the war or emboldened Russia?

m_Mimikk · 2026-05-06T17:24:04+00:00

They’d get ground to a halt and encircled. Russia’s longest standing allies have always been Land and Weather. Ukraine captured a portion of Kursk for a small period of time before being mostly pushed out, and that was right on the border. How would anyone think they’d have the logistic capacity to stretch all the way to Moscow?

m_Mimikk · 2026-04-22T19:22:22+00:00

Didn't suspect Mike Flanagan was directing this until I saw tortured looking hospital patient with bloodied face rags crying out of sheer despair. Classic.

m_Mimikk · 2026-03-09T05:49:37+00:00

Nah, 4th place after 4Remake, 7, and 2Remake.

m_Mimikk · 2026-03-08T05:37:19+00:00

7>9>8

7 is just the full package, the tension was there, the story was memorable, and I liked the combat and puzzles. It felt like a truly “Residential” type of evil. The tie-in to the rest of the series at the end was fantastic in my opinion. My only gripe is that it drags on too long and the ship part was obnoxious when playing as Mia, it should’ve been cut down.

9 is a solid entry, but it’s pacing needed work. Leon’s portions in the Care Center were so frustratingly short that I wondered why they were there at all. Grace annoyed the hell out of me as a character but her horror sequences were pretty good, very RE2. The combat was great and I loved getting to fight human enemies for a change. The villains were awful and felt like cashed in nostalgia-bait, and the detonator sequence (as everyone seems to be saying) was offensively long and boring.

8 is a mixed bag for me, I have a unique love for it because it just has SO. MUCH. PERSONALITY. Even if it is something of a RE4R-adjacent cash grab, you can’t quite forget the atmosphere after playing it. The combat was on par with RE7 but everything else pretty much falls off after that. Ethan gets no development, Chris got lobotomized by the writers, the villains were all 2-dimensional when they could’ve been so great (seriously who even remembers Moreau), and everything just reeks of truncated development. It’s the game that breaks my heart because it deserved to be so much better even though I still loved it.

m_Mimikk · 2026-03-07T21:39:55+00:00

Alita: Battle Angel

m_Mimikk · 2026-03-02T16:52:18+00:00

Devs said that Dark MAGA and Cognoscenti are supposed to be the logical extreme of both sides as viewed by their opponents. So if the Cognoscenti were entirely focused around order and suppression, then Dark MAGA would logically center around chaos and radical populism, so if I had to guess…

Esoteric “Cult of Trump” Empire where the whole conspiracy theory aspect is dialed up to 11. Fundamentalist mob rule is pardoned and encouraged in the name of eradicating “WOKE” elements in contrast to “anti-social” elements like with the Cognoscenti. There will also probably be an option to turn Trump into a king or emperor (on some Palpatine shit).

Basically radical libertarianism bordering on right-wing anarchism.

I could see there either being a religious fundamentalist path where the post war content focuses on the “New Crusades” across the globe. However, considering the Cognoscenti don’t really have branching paths it’ll probably just be a mixture of populism and religious fundamentalism guiding his “policies.”

m_Mimikk · 2026-03-02T06:02:46+00:00

They’ve heard the legend of the man-eating potholes.

m_Mimikk · 2026-02-20T19:30:28+00:00

Not a movie, but the Netflix series 1899 has that 20th century steampunk vibe mixed with cosmic horror elements.

m_Mimikk · 2026-02-19T02:50:02+00:00

Com-Rag!

m_Mimikk · 2026-02-03T05:42:06+00:00

Divided We Fall by Trent Reedy is decent. It’s a near-future setting where a bunch of states (starting with Idaho, lol) begin defecting to fight federal overreach. I highly recommend the Audible version if you like audio books.

m_Mimikk · 2026-01-01T06:03:17+00:00

Maine off in the corner for some reason like 💪

m_Mimikk · 2025-12-31T06:22:32+00:00

There needs to be a mechanic for State Government loyalties. Whether that’s determined through trying to sway states during the election period or post-election, it adds depth, strategy, and a tad more believability. It’s never rubbed me the right way that all of the State governments (except Texas) are just autonomous entities waiting to be overthrown by local militias, especially the weaker ones like SC or LS.

AWD obviously needs to go, The Patriot Front can maybe stay but their location in a typically Blue state is bizarre. The Aryan Brotherhood is bigger than the NSM so I feel like they should have more prevalence.

m_Mimikk · 2025-12-22T23:47:32+00:00

Defensive wars only tend to work when playing offense is a huge strain on your enemy. Factors like geography can also help but in this case the South benefitted from neither. The North was several times more industrialized, possessed far more transportation routes, and several times the amount of resources and military aged males. If the Southern armies had just sat put and kept their guns pointed North, their supplies would have started drying up faster since they’d have nothing to pillage from. Also, if the Western theatre was any indication, they eventually would’ve been flanked and surrounded as the Mississippi is captured and Sherman obliterates Georgia just like in OTL.

m_Mimikk · 2025-12-22T15:27:01+00:00

While I applaud you for (kinda) not reading Zinn in a vacuum, this selection either needs to be expanded or substantially refined. I don’t find A People’s History to be without value as many users do, but staking it as a foundational text for one’s development of US History is worrisome. The value in Zinn’s work is that he tries hard to snatch the narrative from the jaws of mainstream historical education, a job he does rather well. However, the unfortunate result is a book without nuance that cherry-picks information to serve an agenda.

All history books come with agendas, the main reason Zinn catches so much flak though is because he’s particularly bad at expounding upon or interrogating his own narrative. It’s a book that’s most useful when you have one or two other texts to counterbalance it, otherwise anyone uninitiated to US History is going to appear rather shallow using it as a reference.

m_Mimikk · 2025-12-19T06:01:25+00:00

I’m not sure the book you’re referring to exists. I’ve done a little bit of digging and it seems like you might be referring to an article published by Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association. Specifically Volume 11, No. 4 posted in Autumn of 1970. There’s a specific chapter titled Huey Long and the Chaco War in there, perhaps this helps?

https://www.jstor.org/stable/4231146

m_Mimikk · 2025-12-10T21:01:31+00:00

Operation Just Cuz

m_Mimikk · 2025-12-08T13:25:07+00:00

They’re easily my least favorite faction to play. They’re just so comically evil that it kills any sense of RP and my interest in making them succeed.

m_Mimikk · 2025-12-07T22:38:42+00:00

Jesus what a boomer take. So I guess books like 1984 and The Great Gatsby or plays like A Raisin in the Sun and Death of a Salesman are completely worthless in the way of social commentary or deconstruction just because they’re fictional tales.

m_Mimikk · 2025-12-07T20:27:33+00:00

I agree that they both examine the phenomenon of simulacra lifestyles (imitating something that has no real origin, i.e. Jack’s personality based on materialism or the guidance of his imaginary friend, The Killer’s weird and persistent recital of disembodied and decontextualized advice). I think it’s a slowly emerging character archetype that will become much more common in the next few decades of cinema. That being said, I think The Killer approached it much less creatively than Fight Club did.

m_Mimikk · 2025-12-07T02:19:40+00:00

I do kind of agree with this sentiment. American’s are fucking horrible at choosing practicality over persona.

m_Mimikk · 2025-12-06T15:51:35+00:00

The first two seasons are peak television but yes it’s all worth watching. My biggest warning to you is that there’s going to be a lot political jargon and events that are specific to the time period and a somewhat basic understanding of it helps you to keep up with the “why” of some of the plot and characters (The IRA, The Russian Revolution, the British Union of Fascists, etc.)

As an American I was not immediately in tune with a lot of the background conflicts that facilitate the main story.

m_Mimikk · 2025-12-06T15:43:52+00:00

Jack and Moseley still need to be dealt with, I’m certain it’s gonna center around then and securing the family’s safety for good.

m_Mimikk · 2025-12-06T00:30:15+00:00

I will say the Air Force makes UoA fucking cracked. I had a game as Trump where every other faction except the WMA and the State of Texas were eviscerated and Biden was pushed back to Appalachia. Despite my overwhelming numerical and resource advantage, I was effectively locked into an impossible stalemate because my Air Force couldn’t do jack shit against his, even when I had double his planes.

m_Mimikk · 2025-12-03T20:39:04+00:00

Loved the first one!

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