TheSalamander

Could you cease using bad AI-generated artworks, please? The sexy ones with Doku's armour sets were really nice, the new ones are... So desperate looking.

As much as I have years of emotional attachment to Cobalt, for example, I will never use the Cobalt veteran banner because it's so soulless.

Have you started on class and weapon auraxes yet? xD

"Americans can always be trusted to do the right thing, once all other possibilities have been exhausted"

We're patient. We can wait. Again.

I will say it LOOKS really weird, but its got that kind of depth and 'war simulation' teamwork thing that PS1 had going on. Just the camera angle is strange to most people. I avoided playing it for a couple of years cos of that, but quickly got used to it when I started.

Despite it's age, Planetside 2 is still giving some epic fights, but the learning curve is so fucking steep. If anyone wants a hand up it, now is a great time!

#FPS #CommunityGaming #Planetside2

Yeah, but the Nothing Special guns are all fuckin boring.

If you're looking for something like PS1, maybe try foxhole (If you haven't already). It's more of the same vibe.

"They all look the same" - Generally said by people who don't even know the lorica hamata exists.

Also, does Ironlily legion get auxiliaries?

< keep going and we'll make it.

Unironically still one of the best times in human history.

This isn't said in support of ANY of the shit that's happening, just to point out how absolutely fucking awful most of the last 10'000 years has been.

In case anyone is tempted to give up - This is a blip; things generally get better >

Anyway, sorry for the rant and feel free to disagree with any of this. It's not nice to think about, but you said you didn't know much about it so I thought some explanation of why it was challenging would help.

< Russia and China

We have a network of friends on all continents. Ghana and Kenya in Africa, Japan, South Korea and of course the Ozzies and Kiwis in APAC, Guyana in Latin America, and others, but they're scattered and under constant targeting by our adversaries

The world is pretty dark right now

< like the UAE directly supplying and possibly directing genocide in Sudan.

Asia is a little better, India is still a functioning democracy, though I think Modi's ambitions put him more similar to Putin than his supporters would like to think. But most nations in central Asia are at the mercy of >

< economy is capable of paying it back, whereas China is happy for them to fall into infinite debt as long as it's debt owed to China.

The Middle East will do business with us as long as we pay through the nose, and don't say anything about our human rights abuses, but then you have countries >

< various internal enemies ranging from jihadis to their own oppressed peoples - where western security advisors won't.

Several countries in Latin America have decided that borrowing Chinese money is better, because western institutions expect them to undergo economic reform to make sure their >

Mostly, we're struggling to find positive diplomatic relations outside Europe because it's hard to find countries that live up to our standards. Several governments in Africa have sided with Russia because Russian mercenaries will commit war crimes, atrocities and massacres on their behalf against >

< alliance of not war hungry nations, that means that if any war hungry nation wants to invade one of them, all they have to do is convince the public in the others that the victim IS war hungry, get them kicked out, swallow them, then on to the next.

Aggressors always find an excuse.

I appreciate your point, but let's be honest, Ireland only gets away with neutrality because of Britain's history with it. If it weren't next to a guilty feeling larger neighbour, it would likely have fallen victim to some form of hybrid warfare by now.

And the thing is, let's say you make an >

< need to understand that they have grown up in very easy times by the standards of the human race, that times can change and when they do change you need to refer to history to understand how to change to fit them.

We are moving into a time of power vacuums, and times like that in history are always the most violent and debased.

I really hope by some miracle we break the cycle, but I seriously doubt it.

I don't want to sound like that 'soft men, hard times' alpha bullshit, but I think that people like this >

I'm also curious who you think we should be improving diplomatic relations with?

Historically, neutrality without an eye-watering investment in armed forces is a 'please invade here' sign. It will always be cheaper for three countries to all protect each other than for one to protect itself.

Maybe the human race will improve, and that will change, but I won't hold my breath.

Stalin had to at least do fucking show trials.

I can think of no better way to cripple the US military than letting Trump fire whoever he wants. I mean, we remember the Talvisota, right? That's what happens when you politically purge your officers.

Looking closer at the faces I do love how many of them just look confused.

What with how people think - yes.

Are you looking for 'with people irl' or 'with people including online' or 'with specific people'?

Because Roll20 used to have a looking for group thing on the website, might help.

I'd be up for resurrecting Kerrang, but quite frankly, they'd find a way to do it with excessive human rights violations.

Night Watch, the first Discworld book I read. It led me on through Sir Terry's world and gave me a framework to form a lot of my worldview.

Smacks of "Everyone redeploy to warpgate, we need to do beacon training"

Maybe EZdan is kegsbreath with a voicechanger? This and other conspiracy theories!

< got absolutely massacred, including by civilians, until the airforce was able to suppress the defenders by flying in so many ground attack planes that they could finally regroup. After that Nazi Germany gave up on parachute drops for pretty much the rest of the war, at least on that scale.