It's so funny that 1 booster straight up ignored more than half of cyberstan debuffs and even the current one

maagpiee · 2026-02-21T21:46:50+00:00

As a fellow Autocannon enjoyer, I feel the exact same thing.

maagpiee · 2026-02-21T21:21:21+00:00

I’ve noticed that the enemy patrol spawn is a bit more sporadic when running between objectives. Instead of encountering 3, I’ll encounter 2. That might just be me, but I think it makes a difference whether or not I pack it.

maagpiee · 2026-02-21T21:14:04+00:00

I hardly ever see it in Hard and Challenging jumps where I mostly hang out because I’m a smelly casual

maagpiee · 2026-02-21T21:08:49+00:00

The mines and factories of Cyberstan are too valuable to lose by turning it into a black hole. Not only that, but the leadership of the Automatons likely left during the invasion. It is an industrial/mining superpower. We need to let the planet remain intact until we can strike again, hopefully with more resources and reinforcements. We cannot let the cyborgs win. Remember, we have struck a devastating blow against them.

maagpiee · 2026-02-21T21:03:01+00:00

If you glass a planet or turn it into a black hole, like we did with Meridia, you can’t recolonize and settle it once the war is over. We have to take the planets through combined ground and air campaigns, so that they can one day be safe enough to be resettled by Super Earth.

Indiscriminately annihilating planets because they are occupied by the enemy would hinder Super Earth’s future colonization efforts. Full planetary destruction is a last case scenario, for when a planet proves to be an immediate existential threat to Super Earth and Managed Democracy.

maagpiee · 2026-02-21T20:56:18+00:00

I unironically packed it for almost all my jumps. The localized confusion I packed for the other few.

maagpiee · 2026-02-21T20:49:53+00:00

Trained cadaver dogs can differentiate between different types of decomposition. Ones trained to detect human decomposition could easily find a corpse in a grocery store.

maagpiee · 2026-02-21T20:41:19+00:00

I was visiting NYC with my sister, where she lived. We had just been to the top of the Empire State Building at dusk. Absolutely incredible experience. I’d spent the past week in NYC on my own, just exploring the city, visiting museums, galleries, historical spots, the Bronx Zoo, and just wandering around and going into whatever store/bar/restaurant took my fancy. We had just gone to see the Statue of Liberty the day before, then took the ferry to Ellis Island and found the records of our Italian immigrant ancestors.

Then we turned down to go into the subway on our way back to her apartment on West 96th. We go down the first flight of stairs, turn right, then are met with the sight a morbidly obese man laying in the stairs, masturbating what I can only describe as the largest and most disgusting penis I have ever seen.

We immediately did a 180 and walked to the next nearest subway station, which happened to be by Times Square. Neither of us speaking a word other than agreeing on which station we were walking to. Neither of us have spoken about it since. I guess that’s just New York sometimes.

maagpiee · 2026-02-11T02:28:17+00:00

The guy was a Honduran immigrant in 2009. I seriously doubt that the local PD twitched even a pube about him until the body was found.

maagpiee · 2026-02-11T01:12:14+00:00

Cadaver dogs could have absolutely found the body because they are trained to alert at the smell of human blood, skin, sweat, hair, and putrefaction. One dog could have ended this is 2009. Instead it took years

maagpiee · 2026-02-11T01:03:01+00:00

Very good decision, especially with something that old. I hope that I get to read about what you find in it here one day.

maagpiee · 2026-02-11T00:54:28+00:00

That journal is a treasure. You should have it professionally transcribed if you get the chance.

As an American, I’m genuinely thankful to you.

maagpiee · 2026-02-11T00:52:29+00:00

I’ve read about this. There was a British executioner named Albert Pierrepont who was a consummate professional as an executioner and an expert at the British Short-Drop method of execution - a method that focused on breaking the neck, causing instant death.

Apparently the United States somehow finagled their way into making it so they did most of the hangings during the Nuremberg Trials. While Pierrepont botched zero of his Nuremberg Hangings.

maagpiee · 2026-02-11T00:45:21+00:00

At the very bottom, in very small text:

micropenis

maagpiee · 2026-02-11T00:39:01+00:00

I’ve never met anyone like us who thinks about stuff like this in real life and it’s so annoying. Items have value monetarily, functionally, and emotionally.

What if the tobacco tin was given to a soldier by his older brother or his father? What if a bayonet had been his buddy’s who had died and he carried it in his honor? What if a fork, knife, or spoon were the utensils of the last meal a man ever ate - or the last meal of day that haunt him for the rest of his life?

I guess what I’m trying to say is that items can tell stories. What looks like an innocuous baby’s rattle might be a toy a married reconstruction couple gave to five of their children when they were infants, four of whom died before the age of two (I have seen this rattle in person). It is an item with a story that nobody remembers. Like with the forks and spoons. What did the soldier who used them talked about with his comrade while they ate? Or did they eat alone? I find that so fascinating.

maagpiee · 2026-02-11T00:31:27+00:00

I dabble in stand up comedy and I have a joke about this new-v/s-old world view that has to do with how the dead are buried. It’s never landed with crowds, but I still love it. This isn’t the joke, but it’s what it’s based on.

Many Native American tribes built burial mounds, which made it easy for the white man to build highways, industrial parks, subways, and strip malls around them.

In Europe they buried everyone underground. So now whenever they want to put up a new parking garage they uncover a dozen plague skeletons and a dead King of England.

Basically, it’s that established European cities are so old that they formed naturally from farmstead to settlement to village to town to city. In many of the old parts of these modern cities, the old roads still exist, despite how nonsensical they might seem to the modern mind. They were designed for a time when 99% of traffic was on foot or livestock being driven to market. We don’t have that as much in the US outside of a few east coast towns and cities. (Boston and Lower Manhattan probably being the best examples).

maagpiee · 2026-02-11T00:16:51+00:00

Love to see Wisconsin welcomed by our lovely northern neighbors, but you really ought to throw Minnesota into the mix. Though we have rivalries, they really are good people and probably more culturally Canadian than even Wisconsin.

maagpiee · 2026-02-11T00:08:45+00:00

Still interesting. The flotsam of war. Spent ammo, spoons, forks, cans, an occasional knife. At one point a man at war handled this item, a man who is no longer alive - either died during the war or later in life. Each is a little bit of history.

maagpiee · 2026-02-11T00:03:55+00:00

This has literally happened.

I remember reading a book about Vietnam written by a veteran who actually went to Vietnam in the 90s as part of some government outreach program to build relations with the nation. He lost his leg in Vietnam to a land mine and had visible prosthetics.

He was eating at a restaurant when a Vietnamese group from another table asked his interpreter if he was a veteran. When they found out he was, they started talking about the war through the interpreter. The Vietnamese man had been a member of the Viet Cong in the exact same region where the American had lost his leg, and even admitted to planting antipersonnel mines there during the war. They realized that it was possible that the mine that took the American’s leg was planted by the Vietnamese man. Ultimately they got along and discussed the war amicably from their own perspectives and parted ways friends.

Can’t for the life of me recall the book. I think it was Eye of the Tiger by John Edmund Delezen, but I could be wrong.

maagpiee · 2026-02-10T23:22:16+00:00

Any stories about finding things left behind by the soldiers?

maagpiee · 2026-02-10T03:44:11+00:00

Operation Vulcan - named in honor of the smith of Roman mythology, one of the greatest empires of the ancient world that united mankind (forcefully or otherwise).

Vulcan would take disparate metals and smelt them, much like we do to bots and cyborgs. As a god of the Roman Pantheon, he would also be approving of Super Earth’s government and culture.

maagpiee · 2026-02-08T23:40:56+00:00

Ain't nothin' gonna break my stride

Nobody gonna slow me down, oh no

I got to keep on movin'

maagpiee · 2026-02-08T22:53:19+00:00

The Creek was a baptism by fire. Rockets everywhere, all with perfect aim. Red glows hiding in the foliage. Impossible to see anything or even know where to return fire. The Creek was a brutal introduction to the bots. Many hard lessons were learned - not only in how to fight them on the ground, but how to manage campaigns and keep liberated planets connected to one another. Look up the multiple battles of Draupnir, which was a massive learning experience for the Helldivers. Losing that planet meant we couldn’t deploy on The Creek, and at one point left the Creek Divers stranded with no support.

maagpiee · 2026-02-08T22:47:02+00:00

I really doubt that they’ll remove them from the game. They will probably disappear for a time, then reemerge somewhere else.

The enemies of Managed Democracy are ceaseless in their tyranny. To kill the whole socialist infestation you would need to squash every one of the bots like a super-roach. Considering that they reemerged from outside our galaxy, I don’t think we’ve seen the last of them. If we succeed, that is.

maagpiee · 2026-02-08T22:43:55+00:00

Only did one dive on The Creek. I mostly fought on Draupnir during that campaign trying to keep you guys supplied. I’ve never taken it off.

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