I dunno. I don’t think it was in any of the Call Of Duty games.
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Yes, he’s very famous for exaggerated fantasy art.
4·2 days agoThis is true that crossposting is messy, but I think it is the best current solution. Crossposting means it is more likely to show up on the feed of somebody only subscribed to one of the communities, which might remind them that the community exists. Crossposting also means that when somebody stumbles upon a community it at least has the appearance of a pulse.
There are certainly plenty of communities that aren’t dedicated to doomscrolling. They do need more activity though, plain and simple. I can’t single handedly solve the issue of the All feed having so much of that, but I do try to regularly contribute to communities that are more varied, and I suggest to you and other users to do the same. Lemmy is a much smaller userbase and can’t rely on the same proportion of users to contribute content like reddit.
Here are just a few communities I like to visit regularly, and contribute to any time I have a good contribution that aren’t full of doomscrolling content.
!imaginarywarhammer@lemmy.world
This is true. During the big migration wave to Lemmy about 3 years ago, a lot of people came over and started niche within niche communities with the idea of making straight up 1 for 1 copies of very niche subreddits. I’ve even inherited moderation on some of them.
I think the best way forward is to try and backfill by posting a majority of content to some of the more main communities, and then crossposting to the more niche ones. This makes the more general and I think more important foundational communities active, and it gives a trickle of content to the already existing niches. Not being afraid of crossposting and then in general posting more is a good answer.
While pomp and circumstance is materially wasteful, it is just part of the game. I’m sure visitors to the Vatican expected to be impressed.
7·2 days agoThe text is from the display for the piece at the Art Institute of Chicago.
The strap is part of the reins, being held in George’s left hand.
You’ve got the right spirit, though I do question some of the finer details.
Muskets were also cartoonishly inaccurate, they had ~30% chance of the bullet rattling around in the barrel and landing in the dirt if you were aiming for something 30 yards out
I question where this number came from. Not impossible, I’ve just never seen a 30% chance of missing ascribed at 30 yards.
From the writings of Colonel George Hanger published in 1808:
“A soldier’s musket is not exceedingly ill-bored (as many are), will strike the figure of a man at 80 yards, perhaps even at 100; but a soldier must be very unfortunate indeed who shall be wounded by a common musket at 150 yards, provided his antagonist aims at him; and as for firing at a man at 200 yards with a common musket, you might just as well fire at the moon and have the same hope of hitting your object. I do maintain and will prove, whenever called on, that no man was ever killed at 200 yards by a common soldier’s musket by the person who aimed at him.”
Muskets then being inaccurate by the accounts of the time, but I question if your numbers are an exaggeration.
Napoleon and the US civil war did the same things, but that was after rifling was invented and bullets usually [went] where you pointed the loud end of the gun.
I’m trying to parse this sentence and not make too many assumptions. Rifling existed in the Revolutionary war. Kentucky Long Rifles are famous examples. These were by no means the standard and smoothbore were much more common, but that is also true of the Napoleonic Wars. The smoothbore Modèle 1777 musket was the standard French military arm for example.
This seems to be teetering on the idea that the British forces were completely befuddled by the idea of skirmish tactics. Roger’s Rangers were an example of a well established and valued scout unit under the Crown’s command through the French & Indian War and revived during the Revolution. The British were well aware of the capabilities.
Conventional line infantry played a completely different role than scout units, and for the time and tactics, camouflage was less valuable than clear uniformity. On a battlefield between standing armies using slow loading muskets, military units worked as a whole and camouflage didn’t play a large role.
For the Americans, the short version is that while hit and run tactics played a part, the real turning point of the war for the military was the support of France, and for a specific example Baron von Steuben’s training of US troops. The US military didn’t win through irregular tactics overcoming the British military, but through transforming into a standing military that fought from a similar handbook as the British.
Stargate SG1 - It’s like Star Trek with machineguns.
FarScape - It’s like Star Trek but the main cast are fugitives, there’s lots of muppets, and watching it makes you feel like you’re on drugs.
The Righteous Gemstones - Danny McBride made comedy farce about a horrible, vain, and stupid megachurch family.
Batman Beyond - Cyberpunk batman with an unparalleled intro sequence.
Jericho - Post apocalyptic show with a conspiracy mystery bent and heavy GWB GWOT flavor.
Kings - A sort of adaption of the story of King David in a modern setting.
OPR skirmish is the easiest to talk people into since it uses GW minis they probably already own. All it needs is people reading the free rules and making a list. It feels like a proper skirmish game instead of the strange hero battle game modern Kill Team is. This is doable if a store has a Discord or something to do barebones meetup planning even with strangers.
A little more difficult, but doable if you’ve eased people into alternate ideas is getting people to agree to an older 40k edition. It requires buying or, uh, finding the rules and codexes, but it sidesteps the problem of constant rules changes. My preference is 3e (I have very little personal interest in Primaris marines) which is much less bloated than modern armies of the same points value.
I am no longer asking for your oats.
Meanwhile in Gamma World.
Yes, tabletop gaming is so much bigger and more varied than GW’s games. I love 40k and Warhammer fantasy, but just as one part of the hobby.
The high pricing and FOMO churning is pretty perfected by GW. It is easy to fall into just thinking and buying GW products at MSRP. There are many ways to avoid it and play for much cheaper, but it means breaking out of the GW exclusive ecosystem. (I have many specific suggestions how to do this btw.)
I can’t stand the modern tournament culture which has this sort of e-sports stink on it.
As a mild piece of good news OnePageRules seems to have decent traction and isn’t too difficult to find groups who play in stores. It has its shortcomings, but at least the rules aren’t subject to the constant market driven churning updates.
When I was in elementary school one of my classrooms had Stratego among the board games meant for bad weather days or waiting after school.
I had previously played Stratego and liked it, but every single other kid in this classroom read that the ‘Spy’ piece could kill the ‘General’ (the most powerful) piece and concluded that the ‘Spy’ could therefore kill any piece on the board. I was shouted down by everyone for pointing out the actual wording of the rules and that a ‘Spy’ is called that because it’s obviously supposed to be a sneaky piece.
Nobody agreed and just played the game with the ‘Spy’ as a rampaging super piece killing everything. That was pretty miserable.