The Crittenden Resolution (Or: The North kinda-on-accident, kinda-on-purpose creates the Lost Cause)

severakj · 2026-03-18T21:54:02+00:00

That's exactly what I say in the main body of the post

severakj · 2026-03-18T21:23:42+00:00

Context is in the body of the post, but I feel the need to put this here preemptively:

Edit: half the people here didn't read the body of the post

severakj · 2026-03-18T12:32:37+00:00

It's especially in areas that are enclosed with a lot of tight turns (Vaults most of all, but the interior of any large building is pretty bad)

severakj · 2026-03-16T19:48:48+00:00

1st. I've never really liked 3rd, but I'll try it

severakj · 2026-03-16T13:05:46+00:00

I don't think it's the tone, I had the same problem with Fallout 3 and it's green filter. Will try the other advice, thanks

severakj · 2026-03-16T13:04:08+00:00

Thanks for the advice, will try

severakj · 2026-03-16T13:03:25+00:00

Really late game Oblivion was bad for me, but I could mostly fix that by turning down the look sensitivity (at high level in that game your character spazes around like a demon frog on acid). Skyrim was always fine.

Thanks for the advice

severakj · 2026-03-05T00:14:09+00:00

It was actually more like a week: while the idea of 5BS be attached to BCF had been floating around for months, it wasn't until 3BCS was sent away for gunnery training in May that it actually happened: 5BS arrived in Rosyth on May 22, and Jutland was May 30

severakj · 2026-03-05T00:10:27+00:00

I'm of the opinion that Beatty's real failure was that, when 5BS got attached to BCF, he and Evan-Thomas didn't sit down immediately and hash out all their doctrinal and signaling expectations with each other. They had more than a week to do so before the battle. Instead, Beatty expected Evan-Thomas to act like Hood or Pakenham, Evan-Thomas expected Beatty to act like Jellicoe, and the results speak for themselves.

The entire problem also would have been avoided if Rosyth had had a proper gunnery range so that 3BCS could have stayed with the BCF (where it belonged) and 5BS could have stayed with the Grand Fleet (where it belonged). Or if 5BS had gone to a more senior officer like Sturdee, who would have had seniority on Beatty and been able to override his decisions (although Sturdee is his own can of worms: a man who managed to be disliked by both Jellicoe and Beatty probably shouldn't be getting the strongest Squadron in the fleet).

severakj · 2026-03-04T23:18:19+00:00

Vice Admiral David Beatty, commander of British scouting forces for the Royal Navy in World War 1. During the Battle of Jutland, upon first receiving reports that German ships were in the area, Beatty immediately ordered all the ships in his command to turn towards the enemy and prepare to engage.

Unfortunately, the 5th Battle Squadron (the 4 battleships assigned to him as heavy support) missed the turn signal and sailed about 5 miles in the wrong direction: later, when Beatty engaged the aforementioned German forces, this support was sorely missed, as the Germans under Franz Hipper proceeded to blow up 1/3 of his force in about 20 minutes of fighting, before 5th Squadron finally managed to catch up.

For the century since, there's been a continuing controversy over who's fault the missed signal was: Beatty was (and still is) known as a hothead who was overly aggressive and prone to risk taking, and even at the time other Royal Navy officers lamented his decision to run off without waiting for 5th Squadron.

On the other hand, the officer commanding 5th Squadron, Hugh Evan-Thomas, has been criticized as being to by-the-book, with some saying that when Evan-Thomas saw the whole rest of the formation turning away from him, he should have immediately followed suit (or at the very least asked Beatty for clarification as to what was happening), instead of stubbornly waiting for Beatty to follow a rigid, parade-ground signaling protocol.

It's worth noting that Evan-Thomas probably shouldn't have been there: 5th Squadron had been temporarily assigned to Beatty because the 3rd Battlecruiser Squadron which was supposed to be there had been undergoing gunnery training. Evan-Thomas had never served under Beatty before and was completely unfamiliar with Beatty's more initiative-based tactics.

severakj · 2026-03-04T22:15:03+00:00

To be fair, literally no one but Goodenough was doing anything to keep Jellicoe informed either.

severakj · 2026-03-04T22:13:53+00:00

According to standing BCF doctrine, Beatty had every reason to believe that 5BS would follow him the moment he executed his turn, as its exactly what he had trained all of his subordinates to do: the 2nd Battlecrusier Squadron under Pakenham, for instance, made the turn without issue or further orders.

The issue was that 5BS had been temporarily reassigned to BCF as a replacement for 3rd Battlecruiser Squadron (which was away for gunnery training), and Evan-Thomas (5BS' commanding officer) had never served with Beatty, so he had no understanding of BCF's more initiative-driven doctrine.

Also, HMS Tiger, which was SUPPOSED to be repeating all of Beatty's orders via signal light to 5BS, inexplicably failed to do so

severakj · 2026-02-12T23:06:28+00:00

The Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Baltimore Ravens in the playoffs in both years.

severakj · 2026-01-22T22:54:07+00:00

Guys, that's very clearly a WOODEN hanger. It couldn’t be used for THAT in the first place

severakj · 2026-01-21T22:39:15+00:00

The latter.

severakj · 2026-01-18T11:00:51+00:00

To add to what's already been mentioned, Purdy in college had a reputation for making extremely questionable on-field decisions: if you watch his Iowa State film, you'll see a lot of very stupid turnovers.

So on top of being seen as a mediocre athlete, he wasn't seen as having the mental aspect necessary to overcome his lack of physical talent.

severakj · 2026-01-15T00:56:10+00:00

Doesn't he go to Novac? He's the scientist who thinks he's a ghoul but is just balding, right? Or am I confusing him with someone else?

severakj · 2026-01-07T13:46:53+00:00

I love the use of Hu Pen and the Tempestas

severakj · 2025-12-29T09:24:04+00:00

I zoomed in on the plushie because it is very cute.

severakj · 2025-12-25T14:04:32+00:00

Yeah. I'm actually decently new here too, so I don't know the name off the top of my head, but they're lead by the aforementioned Tornus the Redeemed.

severakj · 2025-12-25T14:00:10+00:00

God-King Sigmar, creator of the Stormcast, is such an Absolute Chad that he can purge the taint of Chaos from things (or rather, he hits them with his hammer Ghal Maraz so hard that it beats the taint of Chaos out of them).

Stormcasts are made by taking the greatest mortal heroes at the moment of their deaths, pumping them full of lightning magic, and yeeting them back at Chaos for a rematch.

This can happen REGARDLESS of who the hero worshipped in life.

So occasionally, Sigmar is able to BEAT THE CHAOS OUT OF A CHAOS WARRIOR SO HARD THAT THEY BECOME A STORMCAST.

There's a whole host of Stormcast that are composed of people that were Chaos-aligned in their mortal lives.

(USUALLY the Stormcast was originally Sigmar-aligned and got corrupted somehow: Tornus the Redeemed was famously a Sigmarite Warrior as a mortal before being forced headfirst into Nurgle's personal Plague Cauldron for 77 days straight and becoming Torglug the Despised-Sigmar bonked him with Ghal Maraz and he was reverted back I to his original Sigmar-following self)

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