SergeantMatt

17 hours ago, Sturgeon said:

 

Don't be crass. These are annexation fantasies.

I believe you mean liberation fantasies.

This is all proof that the time has come for the US to liberate Britain from the tyrannical Queen Elizabeth II and add England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland as the 51st-54th states.

10 hours ago, Bronezhilet said:

I find it interesting that a lot of people, especially in the EU, seem to forget/ignore just how gigantic the USA actually is. For me a one hour drive is a long drive because that means I'm either halfway across the country, or I've driven into Germany.

Please, for us Rhode Islanders a 30 minute drive is a long drive.

3 hours ago, LostCosmonaut said:

Pretty bad dam collapse in Laos today; https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/24/laos-dam-collapse-hundreds-missing

 

Now's the part where I'm an asshole and make a political point out of this; what's the total number killed by dam failures / accidents vs nuclear accidents? 

Nuclear plants are a couple hundred IIRC, where there are individual hydroelectric dam failures that have killed 20,000+, so... a lot more on the dam failure side.

14 hours ago, Donward said:

 

It is completely asinine and there is no logical reason for those values other than idiots haven't learned from the last real estate bubble.

At least it's not the Bay Area, they block any new development so the median price of a single family home is like $1,000,000.

You could buy 4 houses in my state's capital, Providence, for that price.

11 hours ago, roguetechie said:

Reading the YouTube comments on BF5 Official reveal reaction videos would likely cause the heads of several members of this site to explode.

 

Like the guy who identified the US GI star sporting and OD green kettenkrad as a Churchill class universal carrier...

 

I get that the wolverine claw prosthetic traumatized some people, but damn!

 

Also what was up with that LMG? 

 

It looked kinda like an mg45 with ppsh-43 brake and a pistol grip from a STEN mk ii as a foregrip.

 

I liked it personally, but it sure was strange.

They said that in multiplayer you'll be able to customize a bunch of parts of your gun, so that's probably exactly what it is.

...Excuse me?

I just wish they'd make new ideas instead of pure nostalgia bait. I'd ask Tarantino to make a Star Wars movie that's just some criminal scumbags doing crime that happens to be in the Star Wars setting.

24 minutes ago, Toxn said:

Ah, but who programs the AI? Because that person will be your king.

I'll do it, I guess. $10,000 and I'll make the AI give you a tax break.

Well shit.

I just hope the next one doesn't have high winds, I don't usually lose power from any amount of snowfall but the wind knocks trees down onto power lines every time.

5 hours ago, Alzoc said:

 

Obviously we have the right to defend ourselves, we simply don't want for everybody and his mother to carry lethal tools around all the time.

If you can't carry a gun, you don't have the right or ability to defend yourself. Guns make people equal, without them only the strong can defend themselves. How is an elderly person or some little 5'0" 100 lb woman supposed to defend themselves from an attack without a gun?

I think the idea of still having a monarch, just some person who came out of the right uterus, as your head of state when it's been demonstrated that republics work fine is so absurd that it's almost comical. Baffling that the states where the monarchs have been reduced to figureheads won't finish the job. At least catch up with America circa 1776.

Some tweaks are required in that war exhaustion currently ticks too fast, so large scale wars are basically a rush to conquer the territory you want before war exhaustion ends the war even if you have an overwhelming military advantage, but it would be very easy to mod it to slow it down and there's enough complaints about it that I'd expect Paradox to patch it quickly.

The new Stellaris DLC + patch are fantastic. War has been overhauled and is now based around claims and war exhaustion so you can actually wage limited wars for a few systems instead of every war being a 20 year war of annihilation. FTL is now hyperdrive only so there's an actual sense of galactic terrain instead of warp and wormhole empires ignoring everything, static defenses are now actually useful, especially once you unlock FTL inhibitors. Fleets now have size caps that expand with tech so the optimal strategy is not doomstacks, and ships now have a chance of escaping battle when damaged enough so it's not a guaranteed stackwipe when you lose.

Oh and you can blow up planets now.

26 minutes ago, Sturgeon said:

It is, in my opinion, the single best work of superhero fiction ever published, leading the rest by a very wide margin.

Seconded. If you have not read it, read it.

5 hours ago, Scolopax said:

I saw something earlier saying that part of this is due in part to prolonged military activity in Syria, Iraq, and Yemen.  Never really thought of the public opinion there on the matter, but I didn't think it would really be that negative.

I've heard the same, the Iranian people are sick of Iran wasting money on foreign adventures.

1 hour ago, Walter_Sobchak said:

Or they could get more votes.  Oh wait, they did that in the last election, just not in all the right places.  Perhaps they will run someone not as terrible as Hillary Clinton.  But knowing the Democrats, that's a very big "if".

Can you even imagine if they ran Hillary again.

I'm rooting for the chaos of the war to cause the Saoshyant to emerge, lead a Zoroastrian Revolution, and restore the Sasanian Empire.

He had a very successful podcast with Dick Masterson, The Biggest Problem in the Universe, and threw it all away because Dick went home with an ex-girlfriend of his. Now Dick's new podcast is kicking the living shit out of Maddox's shitty new one.

The worst English is clearly spoken by chavs in Britain.

Isn't that pretty close to the makeup of the general public?

http://news.gallup.com/poll/15370/party-affiliation.aspx

Gallup has 31% of Americans being Democrats, 24% Republican, 42% Independent.

Dems and Dem-leaning independents just don't bother actually, you know, voting.

The writing is also atrocious, as expected from a Bethesda game. Some benevolent billionaire needs to buy the rights to Fallout from Bethesda and return them to Obsidian, where they belong.

4 minutes ago, Donward said:

Do the Dems even have anyone to run in 2020?

#LincolnChafeeWouldHaveWon

25 minutes ago, Jeeps_Guns_Tanks said:

 

 

Does this mean we could really possibly have Trump V Hillary 2.0?

If anybody is stupid enough to run Hillary again, it's the Democratic Party establishment.

It's like they want everyone who isn't a hardcore Clintonite to say fuck it and all vote third party or stay home.