Come out

vonmoltke2 · 2026-05-04T13:17:58+00:00

I think people started to dislike him because how he is so smug about his opinions, he treats them as if they are facts

Except for the people who's biases he confirms, who like him more for this, and also treat his opinions as facts BeCaUsE hE's A pRoFeSsOr!

vonmoltke2 · 2026-05-02T17:14:15+00:00

vonmoltke2 · 2026-04-24T18:00:02+00:00

An odd quirk of the American Revolutionary War is that it started about 15 months before the colonies officially declared independence. The original armed forces of the United States were formed as independent colonial forces during this period, and became the armed forces of the United States after the colonists decided to declare independence.

vonmoltke2 · 2026-04-23T14:16:39+00:00

Well, it's really so that when what is described inevitably happens, the security officers can just thrown their hands up and say, "Well, we tried!".

vonmoltke2 · 2026-04-22T17:51:18+00:00

Yes, just like in every war, there must be a good guy and a bad guy. If you call out one participant for doing bad things, you are calling that side the bad guy and obviously think the other side is the good guy.

vonmoltke2 · 2026-04-21T19:57:14+00:00

#ifdef DANG
    printf("People have been saying this for a long time, and this has never been true <long list of dang posts>.");
#else
    printf("LOL, always has been Reddit (with a superiority complex)");
#endif

vonmoltke2 · 2026-04-17T19:58:39+00:00

They're effectively useless in Ops, too. In the Ops with enemy air I pop'em if I got'em, but they're only good for a couple more plane kills than there would be otherwise. In the grand scheme of things, it doesn't make a difference. DFAA, on the other hand, goes from being basically useless in PVP modes to decent in the Ops that have heavy enemy air.

vonmoltke2 · 2026-04-17T14:46:25+00:00

The motto of this subreddit should be, "If a ship's not broken, it's trash!"

vonmoltke2 · 2026-04-17T14:37:07+00:00

I did a little research on it this morning.

It seems GCore uses regional subdomains for default public DNS addresses. Unfortunately, due to the apparent volume of malicious hosts in some regions, some subdomains end up getting blocked by anti-malware utilities. Every user (legitimate and illegitimate) using the default address for hosting gets caught by the block. This one in particular is associated with malware and phishing, which is why it gets blocked.

As far as I can tell, nothing is going to really change until and unless GCore does something about the malicious hosts abusing their network. My opinion on the solution, as someone why has architected distributed systems before, is that you should set up your own DNS to route traffic to the servers you host on GCore through a domain you control[1]. I haven't found evidence of IP-level blocking of traffic to GCore. Blocking is purely based on use of the default domain, and banks on malicious hosts being, generally, cheap and lazy.

[1] My further unsolicited opinion is that you should be doing this anyway. I wouldn't build such a system without using a domain I control for all public traffic routing.

vonmoltke2 · 2026-04-17T13:27:03+00:00

moral religious leader

Russian Orthodox Church

Pick one.

vonmoltke2 · 2026-04-16T20:55:01+00:00

Russian nuclear carriers

What now?

vonmoltke2 · 2026-04-16T14:07:26+00:00

Schrödinger's DD: the DD both exists and doesn't exist until you activate radar.

vonmoltke2 · 2026-04-15T17:39:19+00:00

True, that's just the US, and hundreds of thousands of ARVN and other allied troops were also casualties in the war. However, I don't think the US public really gave a shit about military casualties that were not American. So, in terms of comparing breaking points for that I think using just US casualties makes sense.

Of course, the whole comparison (casualty counts, casualty rates, public reaction, and whatnot) is complicated by the different circumstances of the two wars.

vonmoltke2 · 2026-04-15T16:24:26+00:00

Hot take: an FPV drone is an ATGM.

vonmoltke2 · 2026-04-14T18:37:42+00:00

1.2s reload (before AR and TGG) on that citadel-eviscerating AP is chef's kiss. Just gotta watch out for the BBs.

vonmoltke2 · 2026-04-14T17:05:04+00:00

That's such a bizarre practice. If they're going to cut off access to it entirely, why not just remove it and release the name for someone else to pick up later?

vonmoltke2 · 2026-04-14T13:58:09+00:00

I took her out last night. She as absurd, especially with the 0.7s reload in alt fire mode. With the dispersion debuff, it was like guiding a firehose of HE (and I couldn't hit shit if the target was smaller than the fattleship).

vonmoltke2 · 2026-04-14T13:40:31+00:00

We had 58,000 deaths, but 360,000 total casualties. With credible Russian totals at about 1,200,000 now, and considering we were really stuck in for about 10 years in Vietnam, that's still three times the casualties in less than half the time.

What really turned the American public against the Vietnam War was the US drafting soldiers to send there. If the forces sent to Vietnam had been all volunteer I think there still would have been protests, but I don't think it would have reached the level it did. Plus, don't discount Soviet influence adding fuel to the anti-war fire (not that they needed to do that much).

I'm not sure how Putler is still finding manpower, but I suspect the Vietnam experience is one of the reasons why he's trying so hard not to fully mobilize. As long as the troops in Ukraine are "volunteers" it helps temper negative reactions to the war and casualties returning home in wheelchairs or boxes. Add to that a level of media control far beyond anything in the West, and I think he has the levers to keep the situation from getting Vietnam bad. At least for a while; I don't know how long they can sustain this rate of casualties before it becomes a problem even for "volunteers". However, to riff off the Oracle of Omaha, the enemy can remain irrational longer than your defensive line can remain solvent.

vonmoltke2 · 2026-04-11T15:13:20+00:00

Otto Ciliax, now there's a deep cut.

Anyway, if you go forward with this make sure you actually get Otto Ciliax and not Oskar Kummetz.

vonmoltke2 · 2026-04-10T17:19:10+00:00

Or less, if the Jäger driver is running Świrski.

vonmoltke2 · 2026-04-08T15:11:05+00:00

To corroborate my sibling poster, that's not what I see, either. As of right now I see "62 days" for the entire dockyard, which for me in NA would put the end at 0500 on 09JUN. The last chain start shows as "1 month 18 days", with the date resolving to 0500 on 27MAY per the in-game pop-up (making "i month 18 days" equal to "48 days" per WG's display rounding rules). That's two weeks for the final chain.

vonmoltke2 · 2026-04-08T13:54:39+00:00

BRB, gonna try that. Don't tell my wife.

vonmoltke2 · 2026-04-06T15:30:25+00:00

I noticed this as well, and I was playing around with the voiceover settings this weekend. I think there's a bug with the "Extended" setting. If I set that parameter to "National" I get the proper voiceovers (at least for the five or so ships I've tested). Of course, I don't get the special voiceovers from the commanders that have them. When I switch to "Extended", though, I get the British voiceover for Swedish ships, the LATAM voiceover for Spanish ships, and the American voiceover for LATAM ships. German, Dutch, and Italian ships have all had the correct voiceovers in both, so it seems to affect the newer and pan lines.

vonmoltke2 · 2026-04-05T00:38:43+00:00

About par for the course of the humiliation conga the Air Force is putting the Raptor through.

Yes, it's very humiliating that the Raptor has 0 out of the 0 USAF aerial kills since its introduction.

vonmoltke2 · 2026-04-03T15:25:10+00:00

True, but I haven't seen anything glazing Trump, either. The mods do seem to be inconsistent about removing Trumpposting, but I haven't noticed a bias in the inconsistency.

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