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23 Jul, 8 tweets, 2 min read
Heh. Started a Hungary run in HOI4 to finally get the achievements for the Austro-Hungarian restoration...

...and Germany has immediately kicked off the civil war there to restore the Kaiser.

WE'RE GETTING THE BAND BACK TOGETHER LADS!
No idea which way France and Britain have jumped yet (historical focuses are obviously off).

But with Germany going Imperial this run may last longer than anticipated.
Britain's going Fascist!

Half tempted to stream this tomorrow. Should be interesting.
And Brazil/Portuguese Royal union is on!
They're baaaaaack
Like a phoenix from the ashes!
And the nice thing about Germany going Imperial is that they'll license me their aircraft designs...
This guy is going to be my primary Panzer leader because:

1) Armor officer trait
2) MOTHERFUCKING EYE PATCH

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24 Jul
Well this is the plan for Yugoslavia this morning.

Two armies main pressure on their front line across the river, while the armoured and Mountain forces try and hook round through Slovenia.

Cavalry push on the other flank as a possible alternate breakthrough. hoi4 screenshot showing battle plans.
It's kind of working. Managed to break through in the east before the Romanians could take too much ground.

Cavalry are advancing and we're hooking round the Yugoslav front, while 2nd Army has been quickly flipped back to face the Romanians.

If they hold, we'll win this. yugoslavia mostly cut in half. romanians pushing on budapest
BREAKING: There's fighting in the suburbs of Budapest but Yugoslavia has surrendered!

Just the Romanians and the small matter of the French to worry about now.
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John Bull Profile picture
23 Jul
Every time I get sent a press release for a game that promises "a realistic squad-based WW1 combat experience", I wonder how much fun getting shelled in a trench by artillery (the enemy's or sometimes your own) can really be.
"well done lads. We made it to the start line this time before we got shelled into a warm mist."
MULTIKILL!

You were killed by GermanArtilleryman021221 from 2 miles away!
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John Bull Profile picture
22 Jul
I am on the most Teamsiest of Teams meetings ever.
This whole pandemic has been a real exercise in discovering which colleagues thought that getting cheap broadband was a good idea.
Oh cool. The point of the meeting where people act shocked at a thing happening that everyone was warned would happen if people didn't do the things required to avoid it in time.

And people didn't.
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22 Jul
If you've never read the Vindolanda tablets, you need to.

They're a rare insight into everyday life on the Roman frontier in Britain.

Turns out it's mostly arguments about bar bills, and begging letters to mum back in Italy to PLEASE send some warm socks.

They're fascinating.
And they're fascinating precisely because (Latin aside) they could be letters from ANY bunch of soldiers stationed far from home, from any era.

Our image of Rome is shaped by Classics. The Vindolanda tablets blow that image apart.
They also contain exactly the same passive aggressive family drama you see on Facebook and elsewhere today.

"I'm writing to you, despite the fact that you've not written to me in months, because good brothers write to each other. And I am a good brother"

That kind of thing.
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20 Jul
Spend any time working in first-line IT support and you discover pretty quickly that about 30% of humanity is, and always has been, irredeemably unhinged.
Also, that this 30% isn't confined to any gender, class or socio-economic group. The unhingedness doesn't discriminate.

Doing first-line was the point I realised things like Star Trek could never be the future IRL. Because they presuppose a drift to rationality. Never happening
I'd say at any given time an additional 15% of humanity are completely open to being unhinged.

As long as it appears to deliver reasonable outcomes for themselves or family, or the thing people are being unhinged about seems popular.
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16 Jul
Sod it. Have a Friday history thread.

Let's talk about Simon. Ship's cat for HMS Amethyst. Survivor of the 1949 Yangtse Incident and the only cat ever to be awarded the Dickin Medal, the animal equivalent of the Victoria Cross. a very good tuxedo kitty. wearing his medal.
Simon was born on the streets of Hong Kong, most likely sometime in 1947. His early life was spent scavenging for food in the dockyards.

This was how he met 17 year old Ordinary Seaman George Hickinbottom of HMS Amethyst, when the ship stopped there to resupply in early 1948.
Hickinbottom was rather taken with the young malnourished tuxedo kitty, and decided that Amethyst's lack of a ship's cat needed addressing.

To avoid the possibility of disagreement with this plan, Simon was smuggled aboard under his tunic, past the watch.
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