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[–] Skua@kbin.earth 4 points 4 months ago

It gives an example of two British engines right after that, and the UK's jet engines were both independent of Germany's and better than them by the end of the war

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 3 points 4 months ago

"Wehrwolf" would make for an incredible semi-comedy horror movie. It howls at the moon because it's the one white thing in a black night sky. It definitely dies when someone breaks a WWII tank out of storage and shoots it with a silver tank shell

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 19 points 4 months ago (4 children)

As a fan of the odd bit of black metal, I would appreciate the 20% being dealt with

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is a consequence of the advertising market in Ukraine dropping in the first year of Russia's full-scale invasion

Congratulations on citing an article about what happened in 2022 to attempt to disprove my claim about what happened before 2014. Please learn to read dates. This is the third time in this thread that you have either gotten them completely wrong or actively misrepresented them.

[–] Skua@kbin.earth -2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You're retreading the exact same ground that I already went over with Grapho in this same thread

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I wasn't there either, but I do know that on his inaugration he said "Ukraine's integration with the EU remains our strategic aim."

Are you saying that since he was more popular in the east, he must have been against EU integration?

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 10 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Why did they vote in the guy that said “For Ukraine, association with the European Union must become an important stimulus for forming a modern European state,” and that he was going to sign the European Union–Ukraine Association Agreement? That does not seem at all contradictory to me. His sudden U-turn on that was what got the Ukrainian people so pissed at him

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 29 points 4 months ago (12 children)

Ukrainians already wanted to align with the EU. The US didn't need to do a damn thing to influence that, a long history of Russian imperialism did it all for them

America spent fuck all on Ukraine in the entire history of its independence up until Euromaidan (pg 167). They simply did not spend "all that money", because a single digit millions of dollars a year is a rounding error in the US budget. American spending on Ukraine in 2013 was 0.00024% of the federal budget.

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 41 points 4 months ago (16 children)

If America's goal was to put Svoboda in power, they didn't do a very good job of keeping them there, did they?

I have read the Nuland transcript. She's talking about the existing leader of the opposition. Of course she said Yatsenyuk was the guy, he was the goddamn leader of the opposition. He was the one guy avalable with the best democratic mandate at the last election. Yanukovych even offered to make him prime minister at one point.

Russia put troops into Crimea before the referendum, and the referendum was run by the occupying army. Do you normally trust occupying armies to run referendums about whether or not they should get to keep the land they're occupying?

Perhaps if Russia was so concerned about casualties in the Donbas, it should not have invaded and caused hundreds of thousands more casualties.

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 16 points 4 months ago

I did play it! But I found the significantly lower usage of level scaling made it much less of a problem. Like... it is still a car crash of a system, but I don't have to compete with the fact that every enemy in the world is scaled to challenge me if I a) levelled perfectly and b) put every level into combat skills

The random hit chance thing is a separate issue though

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 68 points 4 months ago (18 children)

long before Russia went in

There's a problem with this, because Russia has had troops in Ukraine since early 2014, before Poroshenko's government

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I tried that once, found it too tedious, and just stopped levelling up instead

There is a group that's remaking Morrowind in Skyrim, but I have absolutely no idea how far along they are https://tesrskywind.com/

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