• CJOtheReal@ani.social
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      Not just radioactive soil, literally in the red zone of Chernobyl in a forest, you cant get more radioactive unless you dig a trench in the Elefants foot directly.

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          I love that with the new lemmy update you can block instances if your instance doesn’t defederate, and it’s hilarious to me that the blocked instance still sees your content, but you don’t see theirs.

          So every time I make fun of them, I know I’m getting a ton of replies, but I don’t have to see any of them. They’re screaming into the wind and they get so angry when you point this out, I’ve had people swap to a new instance just to copy and paste comments like I’m not just going to ignore that too.

          Tankies can get fucked

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              Without going into too much detail as my memory is a bit shit, they were going around doing hexbear things and collectively we just kinda told them no and ignored them. This upset them and they defederated and we just went “ok.”

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    The Soviet Union’s brutality is what won the war. Russia’s current brutality is what will cost them the war. These two countries are not the same and these two historical events are not the same. The Soviet Union had to take desperate measures or be considered by the Nazis. Putin is the aggressor that’s trying to expand his empire and use Ukraine as a proxy war with the West.

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    1 year ago

    Well I guess they haven’t used nuclear attacks yet ( yes I am using that wording because I doubt their nukes work)

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          Posadists can finally test their theory of communism, i can get to play Fallout. Hopefully Bethesda fixes the bugs until i get nuked

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        I mean I think they aren’t working because they are continuing to attack zaporizhzhia nuclear plant.

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        everybody parrots this old wifes tale “yes but even one bla bla bla” like it’s true. a fizzle would just give you yet another superfund site… there’s a bunch of those out there, some maybe near you…

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            It’s not any real amount of damage. You are wincing at a fight cos somebody might get your shoe a bit dirty. Then you wonder why russia and china salami slice you. It’s because you are a wimp. This panicky attitude hidden behind a veneer of “being reasonable” is fear that you do not need to live your life with.

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              What? I see a word salad about how a superfund site won’t cause damage for decades.

              Then I see you make some sort of weird statement saying ruzzia’s capabilities like it isn’t the second best army in Ukraine.

              Ruzzia isn’t a boogeyman anymore. Don’t know why China was brought in.

              It’s not ‘being reasonable’ it understanding reality.

              I hesitate to call you a tankie because you’re not spouting weird communist theroy, but you are bootlicking authoritarian regimes apparently .

  • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
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    Ah man Company of Heroes. That’s a community of a kind. Used to be involved with patching and mapmaking. Lelic.

    As I remember it the issue with CoH2 that BadComedian (and others who groaned at Relics attempts to make a campaign) had was more that the Soviet campaign focused a little too much on the Soviet Union being bad and not enough on the whole Nazi Germany invading.

    Which was an awkward thing because the CoH series was pretty politically whitewashed as far as WW2 can go.

    So when you have this sort of sanitized germany invading, and the campaign is all “grr atrocities under Stalin” it just felt off. Whatever merits the story might’ve had, it just didn’t work for a series that easily could’ve stamped a “patriotic defense of the nation from an invader” on the campaign and then put much needed time on fixing the design flaws with the commander system.

    (Tl:dr the campaign was garbage anyway and the devs shouldve focused on multiplayer)

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    It’s not even all that needed to go back all the way to Soviet Union for learning about such behavior; they were doing those things with all the recentish wars like in Afghanistan in the 80s or the “anti-terrorist action” in Chechnya in 2000s. Or Kursk in 2000. Those are some of the countless examples of absolute insanity that is Russian military or Defence Department.

    " In Russia army is a closed system akin to prison. No one goes to that army or prison, unless those in change decide they are supposed to be there. And when you get there, your life will be that of a slave. " Anna Politkowska, 2004 (my translation)

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    Some of the Soviet stuff is urban myth from movies like Enemy at the Gates, like shooting retreaters and stuff. They were mostly caught and reassigned, although some incidents did occur. The charge was desertion or not obeying commands. “No step back!” Was a rallying call and they did engage in strategic retreats. Most armies employ “barrier troops” in some fashion to charge deserters, US included. Speers as famously depicted in Band of Brothers is portrayed as a hero and actually shot a private for cowering in battle.

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    Maybe it was a self fulfilling prophecy from being marginalized on majority of fiction prices for the past 70 years…

    Im sure someone thinks exactly this non ironically out there.