More like Battlefield VAGINA! Doofuses attack imaginary video game ladies by all making the same dumb joke

And something that will burn the OP’s shorts:

A Night Witches Game!! – by Bully Pulpit Games

bullypulpitgames.com/games/night-witches/
Night Witches is a tabletop role-playing game about women at war. As a member of the 588th Night Bomber Regiment, you’ll answer the call of your Motherland.

*cackles*

Bombing in Mississauga restaurant. 15 injured, but so far no fatalities: https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2018/05/24/multiple-people-sent-to-hospital-after-explosion-at-mississauga-restaurant.html

Huh, the Star also has this article on Kermit J. Peterson… from the guy who got him his job: https://www.thestar.com/opinion/2018/05/25/i-was-jordan-petersons-strongest-supporter-now-i-think-hes-dangerous.html

Headline says it all… kind of a terrifying read at places. Peterson seems to be on the verge of megalomania the way he talks about “five minutes to midnight.”

Seriously, getting more than a few Jim Jones vibes about him.

@Katamount AND there’s been another school shooting, this time in Indiana. 😛 Fortunately, no deaths.

Too many shitheads in this world. :/

http://abc7chicago.com/indiana-middle-school-shooting-leaves-2-injured;-suspect-in-custody/3520607/

@Katamount Thank you for the Bob Rae link! I’ve been looking for something like that to post in rebuttal whenever I see comments about how horrible the NDP is when they get in power. (Yes, sometimes it’s true, but then, that’s true for all parties.)

I read recently about Operation Hannibal. When the Red Army advanced into Prussia in late 1944, the Courland Peninsula (in Latvia) was cut off from rest of German-controlled territory. A massive evacuation by sea was begun, bringing as many civilians and troops to Kiel as possible. The two greatest maritime disasters in history occurred when two of the ships were sunk by Soviet submarines. The survivors made it to Germany in time to surrender to British troops.

Hardly anyone outside Germany knows about it, but it was three times bigger than Dunkirk. All of those terrified people crossing the Baltic under constant attack from the air and sea, and the best they hope for was becoming a POW in the West instead of the East. Over half of them were civilians.

Stories like this make me realize why post-war Europeans would have thought, “here’s an idea – let’s never do this again.” For Americans, war is a foreign country; you go there, most of you come back.

@ Victorious Parasol:

On a similar but slightly less tragic note, I learned a few weeks ago that the first commercial aircraft to circumnavigate the globe was a Pan-Am Clipper whose crew, in the first week of December of 1941, were doing their regular flight down to New Zealand and heard about Pearl Harbour shortly before reaching Aukland.

Their emergency instructions in the event of war were to consider themselves and their plane on loan to the US Navy, so they contacted them after landing and were told to strip off anything that identified them as an American craft and try to get back to US territory without being captured by any members of the Axis. This ultimately required them to plot a new flight path, around the other side of the globe.

They made it back by early January of 1942.

Yup. The franchise basically a bunch of cartoon superheroes crouch-running around a Very Serious Battleplace.

I saw some of those clips on Twitter last night and honestly, I got more realism out of the 1990 Red Baron game.

Marvel as you go from a plane that handles like a shopping cart with a bad wheel to a plane that handles shopping cart with a good wheel!

Thrill as you stall out every eight seconds trying to gain altitude on your opponent!

Be amazed at the realism of your single machine gun jamming after firing it for more than two straight seconds!

Lose yourself (and the bombers you’re escorting) in stunning 8-bit landscapes!

Fly shit aircraft as the Entente gets eaten for lunch by the Fokker Scourge until 1916.

Get killed by the greatest aces ever to take the skies as they outmaneuver your Sopwith Snipe with their Fokker Eindeckers, after they’ve brought wingmen to a duel they promised to fly solo (yes, they cheat!).

Am I selling this game right? 😀

(Actually, the game itself is pretty fun. It’s customizable, so you can actually turn off the realism factors like gun jams and fuel depletion and just enjoy mowing down hapless enemies as you rack up victories en route to promotion, medals and your own custom plane! There’s very little more satisfying than seeing the screen read “You’ve just killed Manfred von Richthofen! Save recording?” Yes, yes I would like to record it!)

Katamount:

Headline says it all… kind of a terrifying read at places. Peterson seems to be on the verge of megalomania the way he talks about “five minutes to midnight.”

Wow, thanks for that article. Holy shit. That’s… that’s quite something. Wouldn’t surprise me if his followers start wearing brown shirts.

There is an old adage that “History is written by the victors,” so it seems likely that wars are won by historians.

having a game where both sides are assholes might be difficult to sell?

Warhammer 40k has been going strong since the 80s AFAIK.

Robert Walker-Smith wrote

Stories like this make me realize why post-war Europeans would have thought, “here’s an idea – let’s never do this again.” For Americans, war is a foreign country; you go there, most of you come back.

It’s a shame people exspecially in my homecountry didn’t learn that after the first world war.
I think what played a role also was the total loss, no one could denie it this time.
A horror about everythink that happened during the time of the dictatorship (not to tricker filters) played hopfully a role, too for never again.

Surplus to Requirements, Observer of the Vast Blight-Wing Enstupidation wrote:

The historical record shows that they are typically won by the side with superior logistics, unless there’s a very huge tech disparity (on the order of conquistadores vs. Incas).

There are historians that are sure that WWII was basicly lost shortly after it started. You can’t win if you atack a enemy whit way superior numbers in an area that is unknown to you.
Numbers are a huge factor in the war, if you have a similar technological level.
And the quality of the leadership plays a role, too.
Motivation of soldiers…

Holding the Incan Emperor hostage helped out Pizzaro a lot as well.