netstack
Texas is freedom land
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netstack
Texas is freedom land
2d ago
No; what gave you that impression?
I figured it was something like this explanation. But I’ve been blissfully ignorant of this particular Main Character of Twitter.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
3d ago
it would be very symbolic
How do you mean? I find it hard to see the parallels between invading Ukraine and bombing Iran, other than both being terrible ideas. Russia’s invasion is of no particular historical significance to either US or Iran.
It is fascinating to see how something that was absolute NO in traditional rules of war "Generals do not take pot shots at each other" became normalized in the rules based order.
I doubt that Yamamoto or Nelson saw it that way. Decapitation strikes were historically limited more by capability than by “traditional rules.”
The rest of your links feel more like shotgun-spread booing. Wow, those outgroup members sure are icky today!
netstack
Texas is freedom land
3d ago
I’d say a combination of 1, 3 and 4. Social media does make otherwise-invisible relationships a matter of public record. Conversely, the plural of “tweet” is not “data”, and the existence of a story is itself invisible until it hits some critical mass.
Then again, I hate and resent this topic for a different reason, so maybe I’m just extrapolating.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
3d ago
Guards is great. Men at Arms is even stronger, IMO. Unlike some of the other sub-series, they transition pretty smoothly into more complex novels as the cast matures, so basically all of them are worth reading.
I’m personally fond of the Moist von Lipwig novels, where a con man is placed in charge of the postal service and then the central bank. But it’s been a long time.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
3d ago
Well, I finished A Canticle for Liebowitz. I was not expecting the mutant murder wasteland sections to be the least bleak parts.
I am very glad that we don’t live under the same pall of nuclear holocaust.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
3d ago
Shit, I’d say I’m unusually interested in linguistics, and I don’t think I understand formal grammar.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
3d ago
willing to notice what she actually wants
Our culture is so fixated on individualism that the contrarian pseudoreactionaries are reinventing women’s lib. Respect.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
4d ago
netstack
Texas is freedom land
5d ago
If that was trivial, we'd already be living in the singularity and/or matrix.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6d ago
Oh, yeah. My first run I skipped the tutorial and didn’t realize that SLs were either vehicle or infantry, no overlap. I picked 4 inf. Got butchered in the first mission, and thought “this is tough but it’ll be worth it when I find an APC or two.” Oof.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6d ago
Applying modern tabletop wargaming to an xcomlike is such a good concept that it outruns its supply lines. There’s just not enough content to explore the whole idea. I want air support and field engineers and Foxhole levels of bespoke armor variants. I want faction cooperation that goes beyond the stuff you bolt on your ship. I want the Menace not to show their whole hand in their first mission, and I want their campaign presence to add the kind of decision-making you get from leaving countries to burn in XCOM. It’s not there yet, and that’s a shame, but I still had a lot of fun with my one campaign.
It’s iconic, but I can no longer hear the line as anything other tha
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