The resources that Lee's army needed weren't concentrated in Richmond though. It was opposite; everywhere they needed to draw resources from, in order to reconstitute themselves, was elsewhere in the confederacy. So why do you make the claim that losing Richmond would lose the war?
How much traffic/sales does the Discover queue drive? I see it often and feel bad that I don't go through except maybe once every four or five months.
But Grant wasn't the only guy to take high losses. Lee threw away a lot of good men at Gettysburg for absolutely zero gain, even if you set aside Pickett's Charge. It was a battle that was not nearly as close run as people claim and the overall campaign was boondoggle.
To be fair to the the slim margin of truth there, he did take somewhat higher losses but also kept campaigning so those losses were in service to a military goal. Previous generals would take fewer losses but immediately retreat back north, allowing the CSA to recuperate from any damage.
Yeah, he did look good. Still does, really.
It takes a lot of claim Grant "sucked" as a general. As a president, maybe.
Addendum: one of the most cited examples is the Franco-Prussian War, which formally ended surrender of Paris. But the only reason Paris was under siege was loss of the French armies, supporting what @mseraphimsl.bsky.social‬ said.
"of course losing Richmond meant losing the war" Where is this claim coming from? I've seen it before but people treat it as a given, as if real life is one of those strategy games where you occupy a certain point and it instantly declares you the winner. Real wars don't work like that.
I suppose my question is when I'm ever going to look that hard while actually playing Gears of War.
Sorry I didn't hit a Jo-Jo pose.
Dearest Martha, The National Guard stand solemn watch at the Krispy Kreme tonight. I cannot tell if they defend the people from the donuts, or the donuts from the people. Powdered sugar hangs in the air like cannon smoke. Jensen took a hot coffee to the face, he may never recover. Yours in glaze,
It is almost impossible to see any difference here, I hope you realize...
The placement of the shoulder stripe looks like our logo drank too much curaçao. #CarolinaPanthers #NFL #PantherNation #KeepPounding #CarolinaFootball #BlackAndBlue
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Shadowkeeper Before bed warhammer sketch Into the algorithmic void I go wheeeeee
Looks pretty imposing.
1. "Maybe it will happen today." 2. "Today, maybe it will happen." 3. "It will happen today, maybe." I don't know which to go for.
does it feel to anyone else like we're living out a version of The Scorpion and the Frog in which the scorpion doesn't even bother to lie and just says out loud "i am going to sting and kill you"
The President of the United States went on CNBC today and said: He won the 2020 election (he didn’t). He has a 71% approval rating (he doesn’t). The jobs numbers were rigged (they weren’t). I could say something funny here, but I won’t. It’s just so damn dangerous to have him in the White House.
Looks really good!
I already thought this pencil portrait Jack Kirby did of his wife Roz was great but then I read the caption: "A drawing of Mrs. Kirby done, from memory, on the back of a piece of German stationery picked up off a dead enemy soldier." DAAAAMMMMNNN!
In fairness, payment processors have an immense amount of leverage over Steam.
Don't worry, it is a common mistake. We've successfully managed to nationalize politics at every level, so people continuously say things that are completely divorced from context.
It was always impossible. Initial reporting on-the-ground is generally inaccurate, whether in kind or by degrees. The broad strokes are accurate but you literally can't trust the first report for anything deeper.
Mark Hertling was around and interacting with normal posters over on Twitter.
"also where did socialism come in" Where you seemed to be mistaken that I was a tankie. I'm not even a believer of socialism, so what makes you think I'm full-blown devotee to communism, let alone an extremist adherent? Communism wanted to fight the world and couldn't even fight its own demons.
It was even funnier with the mistake, believe me.
I am literally not even a socialist. But /better than Tsarist Russia/ is an incredibly easy bar to clear and the Communists objectively did so. Everything bad about Communist Russia, Tsarist Russia either laid the blueprint, did it worse or usually both.
The Communists didn't invent forced labor in Siberia for political prisoners. But I would be perfectly telling them that Communists doubled the life expectancy for the whole country. That doesn't make them nice, but that (and other things) explains why so many people turned away from religion.
I think I prefer a grindless system with a limited XP amount (fixed no. of encounters) to force choices on how to distrib. XP, wide or focused? If focused, which character? Seems more interesting, personally...
They didn't do it solely by decree; they actually improved people's lives. Almost everything about Russia improved after 1917. They went from a tottering, backwards agrarian empire to a modern industrial state in two decades. Literacy from 25% in 1917 to nearly 90% in 1939. Among other things...
OK, what's that got to do with people dropping religion in the Communist years? You realize that 31 to 72% is a big jump and only happened after the dissolution of the USSR, right? They really did give up on the ROC for social norming and let Communism fill that gap.
"Citizen"? Anyway, it was a question of why people turned away from religion; not entirely but as a social force on its own merits, the ROC suffered a fatal blow in ~1918 and never recovered. It was a zombie puppet worked by the state after that. First USSR, then Rus. Fed.
I'm sure I'm not the only player who has driven 30+ minutes, realized I'd left a mini at home and busted out Ye Olde (Rules Legal) coin.
I think you missed out on the craze; I recall a few years back there were a lot of people with stories set in Canopus (think Caribbean Vegas matriarchy w/ advanced medical tech even for the setting) features trans characters. The amount of smut varied but there were more than a few that were raunchy
"Everyone" "forgot" because the ROC had sold to them a vision of life that was deeply unpleasant. Then the Communists came with a different vision and delivered something better. Communist Russia was markedly better than Tsarist Russia at its best.
are you tired of being brainwashed by the mainstream media?
Innocent people don’t pardon criminals to protect themselves.
It is impossible to judge sincerity but the people criticizing the move wouldn't be happier if he was.
More like "most." Black political organizing also has roots in the church community. Not unusual to have church officers /also/ double as campaign staff, the voter mobilization team, event organizers and more, on top of being influential members of the community itself. Organized and it shows.
Pepperridge Farm is old enough to remember back when everyone called the History Channel "the Hitler Channel."
Carrying an aggressively anti-Christian message in a place where 70% of people identify as Christian is the sort of thing you do while the business end of your crack pipe is hot to touch.
I think it is pretty crazy that PGI didn't just do a MW2 remake as a DLC for MW5C. Or maybe they have something with the Refusal War planned for later, once the MW5M's DLC is out.
Yeah, like most democrats are either mum (because they don't give a fuck about NYC) or supportive. It's like four who aren't lol
I've never cheated on my wife, so I think that qualifies.
One thing not brought up is that some games do still sell for 90s-era prices or closer to it. Successful (and that's rare) service games or the DLC farm titles like with Paradox. They manage to get full price /and then some/ out of the market.
Pretty simple reason: gamers as a whole now expect more content at a lower price because they fundamentally do not consider the labor to add any value to /their/ experience. Devs spending years working on a product are frequently /wasting their time/ in a literal sense.
Not to interject myself into the wider discussion (not educated for it) but wtf are students doing if learning the /concept/ of infantry platoon operations is difficult? I knew 19 year olds who probably read at the 6th grade level who could explain it clearly, in detail, with examples.
You really think the US has /350 million children/ in it? Like, is being dumb a genetic legacy thing, a distinguished lineage of dumbasses dating back to the 17th century? Or is it lifetime of hard work and dedication to being this stupid? Or maybe it is just love of the game?
"drug and sex slave MORE KIDS than all the slaves America ever had...by far" That would be like every child in America right now, you dipshit.
That is a fortunate feeling. My typical response to old writing is 🤢
Strategy games are supposed to be mostly immune to that effect though. The entertaining bit isn't on moment-to-moment decision-making and expression of skill but instead thoughtful reasoning in order to defeat the other player, over the long-term.
It surprises me just how many Napoleonic and ACW games get artillery /wrong/ for their respective eras. Napoleonics have a better, more playable combined-arms relationship between branches but even in an era or more or less single-arm dominance like the ACW, game developers still miss, consistently!
That certainly relieves most of my concerns.
Darklands! It really representing a sort of RPG that was wildly outside the norm in its era AND today. On a pure mechanical level, it did so much with so little, hundreds of quests, dozens of locations, historical immersion AND non-Tolkien fantasy based on medieval Christianity.
Not sure how I feel about this DLC to be honest. It is good to see more MW5 being developed but watching PGI go /back/ to MW5M is not only jarring but gives me bad feelings about any potential future DLC for MW5C. And more broadly what happens if MW5C is a dead-end?
One question I that might come up is just how different do they need? Because in some fantasy works, you don't have that many different states and each occupies a certain niche. You have the traders, the haughty royals, the pseudo-barbarians (north/cold), the pseudo-barbarians (east/horse) etc.
This is just insulting the intelligence of every American, whether they voted for the President or not.
Everyone hates that fucking battle.
Before I go under, I demand to watch every surgeon put a straw in their Capri Sun
The one thing that would've saved them was central and western Europe not having anywhere near enough pasture for their herds.
They know *exactly* what it is like to be a victim. And they will still roast you for doing something perceived as leading to your victimization.
I can't emphasize enough that these people *are frequent victims as well.* These neighborhoods have crime rates high enough that virtually *everyone* has been victimized at some point. Empathy won't work because it isn't a lack driving this.
This is pretty good.
Sure, but if you didn't lock your door, people in high-crime neighborhoods will absolutely shred you for it and lose most any sympathy they had. Same with going down the wrong alley or wear expensive stuff on the wrong corner. Blame and very little sympathy for victims in those cases.
They aren't saying they are guilty -- only that they bear responsibility. "Lock your doors." "Don't use that alley." "Stay off the corner." I don't know what manner of change would be effective in shifting attitudes, because it's deep-seated beliefs by people who deal with crime daily.
Give this guy a medal
I've spent my entire life hearing about how mainstream music is increasingly homogenized, only to have the artists derided as "derivative" be cited by the next generation as genuinely authentic and inspirational.
Obviously it depends on where you grew up and live. But as someone from a high-crime area? Victims get blamed all the time -- for being assaulted, for being robbed, for being murdered, etc. Rape really isn't different.
Whoa, whoa, whoa people will absolutely blame you for parking a BMW in the projects or wearing an expensive chain to the wrong house party.
I mean, I know lots of dudes beaten because they were dudes -- being a man isn't free reign to do w/e. In a lot of places, you have to perform. And that means setting yourself up to get your ass beat sometimes.
3. Lethal aid to Ukraine itself. Effectively policy as of now (might change v. shortly w/ new govt), with SK "backfills" allowing other nations to distribute lethal to Ukraine. Problem being Ukr mil has little incentive to exclusively tgt NK forces on an inactive front.
2. Attacking NK forces in NK. Better suited, SK mil has limited expeditionary reach but much ability to push forces to DMZ + weapons to reach deeper, sea-based assets, advantage in air. Still would not likely do much to dent the lessons learned while also being a shooting war with NK.
Different situation, different government, what could be done to limit the acquisition and dissemination of modern methods to NK mil? 1. Direct intervention in Ukraine, on Kursk front, to kill NK. Likely ineffective, likely will give them the experience. Backfire.
And this in turn informs SK resp.; SK mil unafraid of NK correlation at present, even with NK units at 100%. Improvements in skill are hard-bounded -- Ukr War example is bit less than 2:1. SK maintains v.large field forces, full range of capabilities, massive reserve system and hardened border.
Bit of a mixed historical metaphor since Germans didn't breakthrough Maginot Line (Ger agreed it worked!) and there's no Ardennes equiv the Kor peninsula. Consensuses have been wrong but noone sees risk of NK invasion. Isn't their posture, isn't their capability. They aren't even building it yet.
They did get rid of that at some point. Either setting the game to Easy difficult or a checkbox. Unfortunate reality that one thing game designers truly fear about their game is someone online calling it "easy."
Eh, it has been intel consensus for decades now that NK doesn't have designs for a SK invasion; view shared by US and SK. So neither side assumes a showdown just NK mil gets better options for posturing and deterrence against SK or US-align provocation. Real threat is NK export of same.
There is nothing to be done. Right now, the SK govt is VERY anti-aid and looking to buttress their relations w/ Russia and China. NK troops are still in Kursk, not in Ukr itself. SK has no lever to pull that wouldn't nuke their domestic politics or counter NK deployment.
I assume they have their computers up on shelves because I can't imagine they ever sit being that buttblasted.
It's like learning to be an MD. You're gonna be uncomfortable with some of it. But there's an obligation to work through because it's the only way you'll understand the things you need. Before ppl get all gassed up to send other people's kids to war, they should have some grounding in it.
I think the bigger problem is modern surveillance techniques work much better and, when paired with computerized analysis, produce 80-90% solutions faster than any historical revolution ever had to deal with.
Hope isn't a strategy, but neither is pretending you're going to be the insurgency without preparation, training and planning. (The first step of which is not talking like this on open platforms)
Getting mani-pedis together?
That's not actually true for SD and what this tweet is complaining about.
One of the greatest opening lines in all of science fiction. From William Gibson's cyberpunk epic, Neuromancer.
Zarna all geared up in her elemental suit in Mechwarrior 5 Clans Ghost Bear Flash Storm
Scars always tell a story.
Los Angeles school worker shares frustration over parents having to leave their children’s graduation ceremony because ICE raided an elementary school’s graduation today
It feels like, in a lot of cases, like it lends some sort of moral weight in favor the game. Or even not games; I remember in college professors would emphasize they'd worked in small teams on technical projects. No bearing on the quality of the instruction but they just felt the need to mention it.
I remember building an absolute shitshow of a high industrial era Smogtown in SimCity 4 while sharing a region with other players. My sewage spilled out into the river and ran downstream into another player's city, so they were screaming at me to fix it. But I was drawing in so much industry idgaf
A conservative news outlet deliberately shivving the "This is about dangerous gang members" narrative with quotes from Miller that make it transparent this is, in fact, preferentially about the "good ones" indicates that internal institutional support is collapsing, BTW.
A person who voted for Trump who says oh I didn’t know he was actually going to do the things, is either so dishonest that they cannot participate in adult society, or so defective in their faculties that they cannot participate in adult society. Either way,
Some people would rather be criminals than do crime.
"The average surface temperature is about -60°C. There’s no breathable air, but there are planetwide dust storms and a layer of toxic dust on the ground. Leaving a 2°C warmer Earth for Mars would be like leaving a messy room so you can live in a toxic waste dump." -from "A City on Mars"
Mainstream Dems were still pushing immigrant reform and limited amnesty as late as 2023; that vibe just got them nuked at the polls in 2024.
Bannerlord?
Obviously, more organized groups (not "random, wanton") do better but even inside America, the prospect of openly confronting numbers of armed individuals is daunting enough for police that they take a more measured, reconciliatory approach. Because nobody really wants to get shot over a traphouse.
This isn't to say it is always positive, however. Frequently these small groups are seeking to advantage themselves against a more equitable distribution of political power -- essentially holding the system hostage... at gunpoint. "X is what we deserve but give us X+n or else the war continues."