JoeA64

Three…no FOUR very BOAR-ing battles for the better ~ Battles of the American Revolution Tri-Pack II https://armchairdragoons.com/rev-boar-tri2/

Tokugawa himself used to serve one of Oda Nobunaga's rivals as a young (teenage!) daimyo, but switched sides himself.

I have a couple of #boardwargames about the crucial Battle of Sekigahara (1600) and the designers not only write about how the changing of sides of Ishida Mitsunari's vassals/allies was to Tokugawa Ieyasu's victory, but incorporate it as a key game mechanic.

Thanks for that. It's kind of hard to tell at times, with some of the DOOM-filled narrative I've seen not only here but elsewhere. Also useful to remember that That Man in the White House changes his mind with dizzying and abrupt frequency depending on who last talked to him.

...by *cutting off his own head*. *In the middle of a battle". *On horseback*. I've seen a period woodcut of the incident where other samurai of both sides are so astounded that they appear to be running away in a mixture of terror and astonishment.

That's true, but seppuku, as I'm given to understand it's properly called ("hara-kiri" appears to be a bit of a vulgarism) is a tradition going back centuries. There's a particularly famous example where, during one of the major battles of the Sengoku Jidai (1500's), a samurai performed seppuku...

...regarding a then-hypothetical struggle for control of the Pacific between America & Japan, he made a point of noting that the fictional Japanese military behaved properly in handling American prisoners when they captured the Philippines.

I've read that during the Russo-Japanese War, the IJA had won widespread praise from foreign observers for its strict adherence to international laws and norms regarding war, as well as in World War I. When journalist Hector Bywater wrote his 1920's predictive book, "The Great Pacific War"...

It would have been more accurate of the postermakers to point out that the real problem was that the straitjacket of the command economy made it difficult if not impossible to get a coat on demand, as it were, no matter how many man-hours you had to work to earn the price of one.

The great paradox of the OP's point about the Internet's role in promoting the avoidance of individual interaction is that, in the early days, the idealists who dominated Internet intercourse ceaselessly touted it as a new way of building communities and fostering links among individuals & groups.

Also, we KNOW already what Gollum was doing; he was trying to track down Bilbo and get the Ring back (and, one would assume, take a vicious, sanguinary revenge on Bilbo in so doing). Aragorn and Gandalf told the story at the Council and I don't think it's one I need or want to see on the screen.

...very real, very serious decline in universally accepted standards of manners and etiquette - which, as the grease which enables distinct and often contradictory social groups to cooperate and coexist, are to be strictly distinguished from precepts of morals - over at least the past thirty years.

It's been noted for centuries by perceptive observers that the normalization of crude, uncouth, disrespectful, discourteous behavior is one of the signs of general societal decay. Everyone tends to think the younger generation is more ill-mannered than theirs, but I think there's been a...

TBH I don't miss Flash that much. I wasn't all that terribly impressed with the examples I saw and IIRC it had some real security issues.

It all comes down to the same thing; Comfortable, otherwise well-meaning and liberal, people have forgotten how to confront bullies and stand up to them.

This has a Volkssturm feel to me, and the Germans recruited old men into the Volkssturm in 1945 for the same reason (lack of manpower). I'm hearing elsewhere that ICE is so far having real trouble recruiting people to the extent that DHS is now becoming toxic to other Fed employees.

It's a measure of the utter cluelessness of a lot of people today that some people, even in the comments to this thread, actually took the article ("Helena Handcart"?) seriously & reacted one way or the other.

I’ve observed this since the days when web-based forums were dominant. The longstanding truism was that 10% or so of users were responsible for most of the activity.

It's cold comfort that he'll probably flip (yet) again as soon as he talks to someone else with the opposite ideas, as he always listens, like Nicholas II, to whoever was the last to speak to him on any given topic.

Make that two sandwiches. I'm feeling a bit peckish at the moment.

...with the server and the manager that they went through trying to point out that bacon *already* cost extra so there was no need to add an additional surcharge. It...did not end successfully.

For some peculiar reason, I flashed back to a hilarious anecdote someone told on another site about how they could order a cheeseburger for $10 or a bacon cheeseburger for $12, chose the latter, and then was told adding bacon would cost another $2, and the positively surrealistic argument...

The 3-layer baked ham and cheese with chocolate ice cream soda.

Was any reason ever advanced as to why they were withdrawn?

TIL that Lean Pockets had been discontinued; they'd been in the frozen-food section so long that I literally hadn't noticed they'd disappeared.

The broccoli is undoubtedly why I never had one. I despise broccoli and all other cruciform vegetables.

The cemetery incident is one thing, and I will say it serves dramatic purpose in showing just how insane Heathcliff's obsession with Catherine had gotten. But the hanging incident? And getting a nun involved too? I have NEVER been a fan of "epatez les bourgeoisie" (shock the bourgeois).

Well. I stand corrected. I see here (consulting search results) that Heathcliff wanted to "merge" with Cathy, which reminds me unsettlingly of the 1980's horror flick "Society".

I confess to never having read "Wuthering Heights" - not being into either the Brontë sisters or early-19th-century Gothic literature, which Jane Austen so brilliantly skewered in "Northanger Abbey" - but even from what little I do recall about the plot, I don't think necrophilia was in it.

The physical components are as high-quality as I've ever seen in a wargame; beautiful graphics (not just the map), mounted mapboards, large-size counters and hexes, and so on. The game system is designed to present large battles with a reasonably small rules footprint. #americancivilwar #gettysburg