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Monday morning Hannibal planning

by | May 10, 2021 | Mondays | 7 comments

OFMIM, AGAIN.

Nonetheless, we soldier on – or, in my case, shuffle half-asleep onto a Zoom call. Nonetheless, the Great Mondaydact Browser Smasher is here to make it all a bit more bearable.

Last week we featured one of the greatest TV villains ever, from the classic show, The A-Team. Evidently, The Male Brain and I share the same (rather low) tastes in film and TV, because I grew up watching that show. And this week, the theme (at his suggestion) is all about the hero of the show, George Peppard – aka Col John “Hannibal” Smith.

Take it away, Dawn Pine:

George Peppard, Jr. was born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of building contractor George Peppard, Sr. and opera singer Vernelle Rohrer. He was born October 1st 1928.

Peppard enlisted in the United States Marine Corps July 8, 1946, and rose to the rank of corporal in the 10th Marines, leaving the Corps at the end of his period of enlistment in January 1948. He did not seen any “action”, but this shaped his life afterwards, giving him discipline and familiarity with army life (as we will see later in his career).

During 1948 and 1949, he studied Civil Engineering at Purdue University where he was a member of the Purdue Playmakers theatre troupe and Beta Theta Pi fraternity. He then transferred to Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he earned his bachelor’s degree in 1955. So we can see he took his time. The reason he took his time was that he started to act. Peppard made his stage debut in 1949 at the Pittsburgh Playhouse. After moving to New York City, Peppard enrolled in The Actors Studio, where he studied Method Acting with Lee Strasberg.

He also trained at the Pittsburgh Playhouse. In addition to acting, Peppard was a pilot. He spent a portion of his 1966 honeymoon training to fly his Learjet in Wichita, Kansas. Makes you think that HM Murdock’s position could have been given to himโ€ฆ

Following Broadway and television experience, he made a strong film debut in The Strange One (1957). He started getting noticed when he played Robert Mitchum’s illegitimate son in the popular melodrama Home from the Hill (1960). He then established himself as a leading man, giving arguably his most memorable film performance as Audrey Hepburn’s love interest in Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961). Seen by the studios as a promising young star, Peppard was subsequently cast in some of the major blockbusters of the early/mid-1960s: How the West Was Won (1962), The Victors (1963), The Carpetbaggers (1964) and Operation Crossbow (1965). He reached the peak of his popularity in another such lavish production, The Blue Max (1966), in which he effectively played an obsessively competitive German flying officer during World War I. [Seen it. Very good movie. – Didact]

However, by the late 1960s, he seemed to settle as a tough lead in more average, often hokum, adventures, including House of Cards (1968), Cannon for Cordoba (1970) and The Groundstar Conspiracy (1972). In the early 1970s, his declining popularity was temporarily boosted thanks to the television series Banacek (1972). With his film roles becoming increasingly uninteresting, he acted in, directed and produced the drama Five Days from Home (1978), but the result was rather disappointing. In the mid-1980s, he again obtained success on television as Colonel John “Hannibal” Smith, the cigar-chomping leader of The A-Team (1983).

But before that, he almost became the lead player in Dynasty. Imagine what would have happened to the A-Team.

Oh and what a show he had for us there. He was one of the show’s stars (With Mt. T) playing John Smith, aka Hannibal. John Smith is probably the most American ordinary name (at the time), but there are only 2 Hannibal’s ever (one fake). His nickname at the series was because of his tactical and strategical military geniuses. However, the character had an additional characteristic โ€“ he was always “looking for trouble”. Or as Mr. T put it: “Hannibal is on the jazz”.

The A-Team reunion pictured him as a hard working actor but with issues. He was not nice on the set, would talk indirectly to Mr. T (envy?) and was very rude to the actresses. Marla Heasley told that on her first day he informed her that she is not welcomed.

Peppard was married five times, and was the father of three children:
Helen Davies (1954โ€“1964): two children, Bradford and Julie;
Elizabeth Ashley (1966โ€“1972), his co-star in The Carpetbaggers: one son, Christian;
Sherry Boucher-Lytle (1975โ€“1979), originally from Springhill in northern Webster Parish, Louisiana;
Alexis Adams (1984โ€“1986);
Laura Taylor (1992โ€“till his death in 1994), a licensed mental health counselor in Lake Worth, Florida;

Peppard overcame a serious alcohol problem in 1978, and subsequently became deeply involved in helping other alcoholics. He had smoked three packs of cigarettes a day for most of his life until he quit after being diagnosed with lung cancer in 1992.

Despite health problems in his later years, he continued acting. In 1994, shortly before his death, Peppard completed a pilot with Tracy Nelson for a new series called The P.I. It aired as an episode of Matlock and was to be spun off into a new television series, with Peppard playing an aging detective and Nelson his daughter/sidekick.

He died on May 8, 1994 at the age of 65.

The Male Brain sent over lots of videos and memes and pics for this most momentous occasion too:

If you’ve never watched The Blue Max, you’re missing out – it’s a GREAT fim:

And someone actually took the time to gather Hannibal’s cigar moments too – whoever it was, deserves a freakin’ Nobel Prize:

Pics shall follow down below. Buckle up and enjoy the ride, boys – because, as Hannibal would say, “I love it when a plan comes together”. And the Great Mondaydact Browser Smasher is nothing if not a culmination of a weekly plan – when yer very ‘eavy, very ‘umble servant is indeed “on the jazz”.


His Most Illustrious, Noble, August, Benevolent, and Legendary Celestial Majesty, the God-Emperor of Mankind, Donaldus Triumphus Magnus Astra, the First of His Name, the Lion of Midnight, may the Lord bless him and preserve him, has, in fact, started up his own social media site, called “From the Desk of Donald Trump” – which, of course, the whorenalists and presstitutes are desperately trying to ignore:

Former US president Donald Trump is back online… sort of. Months after being banned by most social media giants, he is now using a โ€œdeskโ€ run through his campaign website to post content resembling his trademark tweets.

โ€œFrom the desk of Donald J. Trump,โ€ revealed on Tuesday, is a page that looks very much like the 45th presidentโ€™s Twitter account โ€“ from which he was banned in January. A promotional video pinned to the top of the feed declares it a โ€œbeacon of freedomโ€ and a โ€œplace to speak freely and safely.โ€

From that description, one might think the โ€œdeskโ€ is a social media platform for Americans purged by Big Tech โ€“ except itโ€™s not. Currently, only Trump can use it to post comments, images and videos. It already contains the archive of statements he has issued since leaving office in January.

Posts from the โ€œdeskโ€ can be shared on Twitter and Facebook, but there is no option to create oneโ€™s own account or leave a comment or reply. It is unclear whether this is what Trump adviser Jason Miller had in mind when he told reporters in March that the former president would return online โ€œwith his own platformโ€ that would โ€œcompletely redefine the game.โ€

โ€œThis is just a one-way communicationโ€ that โ€œallows Trump to communicate with his followers,โ€ a source familiar with the space told Fox News, stating the obvious.

Trumpโ€™s personal Twitter account had enabled him to bypass the legacy media in the 2016 election and take his campaign directly to the American public. It had over 88 million followers at one point during his presidency, and was declared a โ€œdesignated public squareโ€ by a federal judge in May 2018, as part of a lawsuit by his critics to force the sitting president to unblock them. That did not stop Twitter from โ€œpermanently suspendingโ€ โ€“ i.e. banning โ€“ the sitting president in January 2021.

It’s still a bit bare-bones and I can’t embed any of the posts (well, to put it more accurately, I can’t be arsed to figure out how, at least not yet), but the God-Emperor clearly understands the core importance of building your own platforms. Here’s a screenshot of the feed:

Assuming that the God-Emperor hasn’t hired the RNC’s IT team to manage it, and has actually bothered to create his own true platform, I imagine we can expect to see significant improvements to this over the coming days and weeks.


#BasedTucker is based:


Mark Dice unmasks Benny “The Littlest Chickenhawk” Shapiru as the Neo-Palestinian asshat that the really is:

Shapiru took the ticket. Make no mistake and do not doubt that. He is VERY MUCH a Promethean seeking to mislead us on the Right and keep us on the reservation.


Jason from Blue Collar Logic has some wise words for the Clownipornians who still live in that hellhole:


Bill Whittle and Alfonzo Rachel have no patience for the neoclown Liz Cheney’s continued warmongering and stupidity, and neither do the rest of us:

The neoclowns are nothing more than unreconstructed Jewish Trotskyites. That is to say, they are of the Globalist LEFT – quite literally. The reason why the Ukrainian Jew, Leon Trotsky, was chased out of Russia, is because he advocated for global revolution, while Lenin and especially Stalin understood quite well that Russia simply was not capable of sustaining such a thing.

It is also worth remembering that Trotskyite philosophy ends very, very badly – just like its creator. Trotsky ended up with an ice-pick through his eye in Mexico. That is the metaphorical endpoint of neoclowning too – except that the awful results end up affecting entire countries and continents, not just one or two people.


Plenty of good stuff from The Male Brain this week. We start with – ironically enough – a video from the Neo-Palestinians at Prager U about a “convert” away from the Pantifags:

Dawn Pine himself points out two big problems with the video, and I think he’s right:

  1. “Judaeo-Christian” values – we know that this is nonsense, there is no such thing as “Judaeo-Christ”. Dennis Prager and his crew plainly like spreading this lie, and that shit really needs to STOP.
  2. Supposedly, this Leftist “peacefully converted”. Dawn Pine‘s response to that is: “Some people change when they see the light, others – when they feel the heat.” Most people do indeed need pain to change, and that’s exactly what happened in this case.

Nonetheless, it is rapidbly becoming clear to all but the most genuinely dense idiots that the Pantifags are dyscivic morons intent on tearing down civilisation. Those who stay with that ideology are the enemies of civilisation – quite literally.

Moving on – Sidney Watson offers up her signature sarcastic take on the rank hypocrisy of YooToobz – fair warning, though, there are things in this video that WILL horrify you:

The mad geniuses at Flashgitz explore what “special ed” classes might look like at Hogwart’s:

The great Dr. Thomas Sowell points out a few uncomfortable but true facts about colonisation that they simply will not tell you in school:

The truth is that the colonial powers did a great deal of good as well as evil. I’ve said so repeatedly, and wrote a long post on the subject a while back. And the reality is that the world wouldn’t have civilisation if it were not for Christian Europeans.


Paul Ramsey points out a few inconvenient facts about the supposedly “fair” trial that Derek Chauvin the sacrificial lamb received:


The lovely and charming Dr. Sam Bailey has a new video up about the Kung Flu and the concept of “asymptomatic transmission” which directly challenges the government, uh, “wisdom” on the subject:

Unfortunately, because of the YooToobz censors, the full video cannot be seen there. You have to go to Odysee to watch it, and that site doesn’t play well with WordPress embedding, for some reason. Make sure you watch that video, though – it is superb and will wake you up in a big hurry.


The Dizzle makes a glorious return to YooToobz on his buddy Apostate Prophet‘s channel:


Dr. Jay Smith from PfanderFilms posted up a brilliant 3-part series of live sermons, in which he simply destroys Islam’s entire basis using polemical arguments:


Al-Fadi from CIRA International and Rob Christian unpack the truth about the idol-worshipping realities of Islam:


Dr. Frank Turek from Cross Examined examines a rather odd tautology:


China Uncensored takes a close look at just how badly China’s one-child policy has failed:

A lot of people are dumb enough to think that China’s system is to be emulated. (See: neoclown Trotskyites above.) The reality of big governments is that they ruin societies through insane social engineering experiments, and then try to undo the damage through EVEN MORE INSANE experiments.


America Uncovered looks at the unfolding civil war within the Republicuck Party:

Let’s just be very clear about this. Anyone who thinks that a mentally ill ex-Olympian, who voluntarily turned his penis into a fake vagina, would make a better Goobernor of Clownipornia than Gavin Nuisance, is a deluded MORON.

Not only that, but such a person is actually helping the Great Enemy – maybe not willingly, but that doesn’t really make a difference.


Jared Taylor from American Renaissance points to hopeful signs of a “White Awakening”:


Terrence Popp has some very sensible and straightforward advice about single mothers – namely, STOP GIVING THEM MONEY AND PRIZES and you’ll do away with the plague of single motherhood:


Midnight’s Edge breaks down the latest rumours about Gina Carano’s potential return to the House of the Devil Mouse:

I do hope that “Crush” sees sense and stays the F**K away from Lucasfarts. Returning to the Devil Mouse, after the way they treated her, would be a huge mistake – unless she does it for free, or gives away the money to a Christian charity. That would be the biggest middle finger to the assholes who persecuted her. But I don’t see much of a point in doing it, even so. After all, the Devil Mouse will try to corrupt her even then.


Overlord Dicktor Van Doomcock felt GOOD on Star Wars Day:


Gary from Nerdrotic points out that Marvel is happily digging its own grave with its upcoming content, which has gone full-on WOKETARD:


The Drinker offers up a nuanced take on a very NON-nuanced film reboot of Mortal Kombat:

I haven’t watched the movie yet – which I TOTES downloaded LEGIT, because OF COURSE I did – but if you have, then stick your opinion about it down in the comments.


Your “Science is F***ING WEIRD” moment of the week is from The Male Brain, and concerns a rather odd creature that can regenerate itself even when cut three ways:

Extensive regenerative ability is a common trait of animals capable of asexual development. The current study reveals the extraordinary regeneration abilities of the solitary ascidian Polycarpa mytiligera. Dissection of a single individual into separate fragments along two body axes resulted in the complete regeneration of each fragment into an independent, functional individual. The ability of a solitary ascidian, incapable of asexual development, to achieve bidirectional regeneration and fully regenerate all body structures and organs is described here for the first time. Amputation initiated cell proliferation in proximity to the amputation line. Phylogenetic analysis demonstrated the close affinity of P. mytiligera to colonial species. This evolutionary proximity suggests the ability for regeneration as an exaptation feature for colonial lifestyle. P. mytiligeraโ€™s exceptional regenerative abilities and phylogenetic position highlight its potential to serve as a new comparative system for studies seeking to uncover the evolution of regeneration and coloniality among the chordates.


Your long read of the week is the article that I highlighted in yesterday’s podcast from Laurent Guyenot, about the historical revisionism of Viktor Suvorov:

Suvorovโ€™s thesis can be summed up as follows: on June 22, 1941, Stalin was about to launch a massive offensive on Germany and her allies, within days or weeks. Preparations had started in 1939, just after the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, and had accelerated at the end of 1940, with the first divisions deployed to the new expanded Soviet borders, opposite the German Reich and Romania, in February 1941. On May 5, Stalin announced to an audience of two thousand military academy graduates flanked by generals and party luminaries that the time had come to โ€œswitch from the defensive to the offensive.โ€ Days later, he had a special directive sent to all command posts to โ€œbe prepared on a signal from General Headquarters to launch lightning strikes to rout the enemy, move military operations to his territory and seize key objectives.โ€[6] New armies were being raised in all the districts, with mobilization now reaching 5.7 million, a gigantic army impossible to sustain for long in peacetime. Close to one million parachutistsโ€”troops useful only for invasionโ€”had been trained. Hundreds of aerodromes were built near the Western border. From June 13, an incessant movement of night trains transported thousands of tanks, millions of soldiers, and hundreds of thousands of tons of ammunition and fuel to the border.

According to Suvorov, if Hitler had not attacked first, the gigantic military power that Stalin had accumulated on the border would have enabled him to reach Berlin without major difficulty and then, in the context of the war, to take control of the continent. Only Hitlerโ€™s decision to preempt Stalinโ€™s offensive deprived him of these resources by piercing and disrupting his lines and destroying or seizing about 65% of all his weaponry, some of it still in trains.


Linkage is good for you:

And some more from Dawn Pine:


The Neo-Tsar celebrated Victory Day in Russia yesterday, along with his people:

As I said in my podcast yesterday, Russia, not the USA or the UK, truly won WWII. And they paid a truly HIDEOUS toll in blood in the process of bleeding Nazi Germany dry on the Eastern Front.

The Russians take deep patriotic pride in their country and its glories. As, indeed, they should. Would that Western nations did the same!


History lessons of the week, which ties in nicely to the fact that yesterday was V-E Day:

Do not fall for the lie that the USA and the UK won WWII. They didn’t. The RUSSIANS won it – with the blood of 20 MILLION of their people.


Your Great Man of the Week is Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington (aka “Nosey”):

If you haven’t watched the Sharpe series, in which Wellington makes a number of appearances, WATCH THAT SHIT RIGHT NOW. It’s GREAT.


LRFotS MrUNIVAC sent over a quite fascinating video about the ways in which the Master Chief and the Ur-Didact mirror each other in HALO 4:

I actually really love HALO 4. It is a great game. And time, plus 343i/Microsoft’s appallingly bad follow-up to it, HALO 5: Guardians, has shown just how good it is. The power of the game lies in its character relationships and gameplay, both of which I have come to love. The parallels between the Ur-Didact and the Master Chief are well illustrated in that video. The two plainly share some strong character similarities, and the Ur-Didact represents the broken war machine that the Chief was in danger of becoming.

Of course, 343i and Brian Reed had to go and ruin all of that good stuff by completely wrecking previously established canon about SPARTAN Team Black and the Didact’s death with their godawful comic series. But then, what do you expect from a talentless asshat like Brian Reed – who also ruined the character of Conan the Barbarian, by the way?

Now that 343i is trying to correct its mistakes with HALO Infinite, they are releasing a bunch of cool new toys from Jazwares to hype up excitement:

Let’s wrap up with yet more videos of Mint Blitz completely BORKING the HALO physics engine:


Wazzocks gonna wazzock:

And for those of you who are a bit late to the party and wondering why we call them “wazzocks”:

And here’s the clip that started it all:


Kitchen Nightmares with the Angry Scot:


Comedy hour:


Pics, guns, girls, starting with the promised George Peppard memes, along with Dawn Pine‘s captions:

Truly classic, never improved upon
He already thought about it
True. The plots were dumb. Nobody cares.
Yep – the only one who could relate to Murdock, was Hannibal
Damn straight!
TRUTH.

By the way, I always thought that Liam Neeson did not get the respect that he deserved after that film dropped (and bombed). He actually did a great job of playing the character.

And some immortal quotes:

On a separate note, Dawn Pine sent over a rather amusing story about the girl behind the “Disaster Girl” meme. It’s well worth reading – apparently she used Non-Fungible Tokens to claim ownership over that meme, and is now QUITE rich because of it. Looks like we’ll need some new memes now – so here they are:

One more from The Male Brain about the true nature of LinkedIn:

CAN. CONFIRM.

Onward:

Apparently that picture has been making the rounds through teh innarwebz, and it’s not hard to see why. DAFUQ happened to Jiminy the Idiot Peanut Farmer and his wife?!? They look like freakin’ mannequins!!!

Supposedly the theory is that old people get smaller as they age. Well, that’s true, they do. But I remember my grandpa at age 92, about 5 months before he died. He wasn’t THAT much smaller than I remembered him from my misspent yoof. Despite the fact that he’d long ago lost his marbles, he was still reasonably tall.

The only rational conclusion is that someone took a fake picture of the Fake President, next to the Worst President (of the 20th Century – and that’s a hotly contested title, given FDR and LBJ.)

Naturally, the memes that came out of that visit by the Fake President to the Weak President were pretty savage – like this one:

And on we go:

Eugh. That truly IS torture.

You know his sister used to be a high school teacher? True story, bro.

Headlines of the week indicate that we will all die from mutated mosquito bites:

Oh yeah, that’s going to go REALLY well…

Your “Everything is RAAACISS!!!” moment of the week:

Your “Fabulous Fail” moment of the week:

Your “NO SHIT, SHERLOCK!” moment of the week:

Your “Barrel of Blind Monkeys” moment of the week:

Your “Warm Beer” moment of the week:

Your “Shut Up and Make Me a Sammich” moment of the week:

It would appear that Floriduh Man has some serious competition now, thanks to these two geniuses from Arkansas:

Actually, given that it’s the Fake Pope here, he’ll just end up spraying stupidity juice.

Have you ever drunk so much that you ended up naked in a field being chased by an enraged hippo?

Normally, I think that golf is the most idiotic Boomersport in the world. But I would personally give $100 to any man who would take this shot:

CAN. RELATE.

You will never be able to un-see this next one:

They also drive Lamborghinis. Whatever the Italians are smoking, it’s some SERIOUSLY strong shit.

Amen.

Damn straight, Skippy. You should have seen me at the NRA Firearms Museum a few years ago – I was like a kid at Christmas.


Your Dog of the Week is the Valley Bulldog:

Valley Bulldog | Paws N Pups

Your aminules are adorkable moment of the week:

And also your animals are absolute DICKS moment of the week, to balance things out:


Gym beast props this week go to China’s amazing Olympic weightlifter, Lu Xiaojun:


Buakaw Beatdown of the Week:


Jesus loves knockouts:


This, on the other hand, has to be one of the weirdest TKOs in history:

I’m not exactly sure what happened, but as far as anyone can tell, the Belarussian guy didn’t actually hit the African dude in the throat. He swung, missed, and the Black dude flopped onto the floor like a European football player.


Related – I generally dislike WMMA, but I make a conspicuous exception for Valentina “Bullet” Shevchenko:

She really is astonishingly talented. She speaks at least 3 languages, dances in multiple styles, is a black belt or equivalent in at least 3 different martial arts, shoots guns, drives fast cars and rides fast bikes, has insane skills in the cage, and is apparently about the nicest person you could hope to meet.


Shufflin’ keeps things groovin’ – this one is at Dawn Pine‘s suggestion, so any resulting earworms are HIS fault:

On the plus side… the boobage in that video mash-up is just awesome.

You can blame The Male Brain and me for a lot of things, but our taste in hot chicks is not really one of them. (With some exceptions, obviously – everyone makes mistakes.)


#AltarOfTheGun

You know how most metalheads used to think that “girl drummer” was a joke in bad taste?

Not anymore. She’s better than most of the male death metal drummers out there.

Seeing as how it was Victory Day in Russia yesterday – to any of my Slavic readers, ะก ะ”ะะะœ ะŸะžะ‘ะ•ะ”ะซ!!!


And now to round (heh) things off, here is your Monday Instathot. Her name is Allie Auton, age 26, from Brisbane, Australia – nice place, I’ve been there twice (I think). Quite a lot about her is very obviously fake – hair, teeth, and possibly the airbags and bumpers – and if you read her posts, you’ll come away with the impression that she doesn’t actually speak English.

This, of course, makes her quite thoroughly Australia – or at least, a thoroughly modern young Australian woman. Members of the older generations of Aussies, such as our good friend Adam Piggott, are formidable folks. Modern Aussies… maybe not so much.

By the way, if you’ve never been to the Gold Coast in the Land Down Under, it’s worth the trip. Just be careful. Remember that, in Australia, EVERYTHING WANTS TO KILL YOU AND USE YOUR EYEBALLS FOR JUJUBEES!

That is NOT an exaggeration, either. Even those stupid little quokka thingies are bitey little bastards – don’t let their goofy grinning faces fool you, they will MURDERISE you if you give them half a chance.

I’m telling you, there is a REASON why Australia is a giant-ass island kept far away from everything and everyone else. It is for precisely that same reason that the Brits sent their convicts to it – because it was so bloody dangerous. Of course, being not-very-nice-people to begin with, the convicts who arrived there managed to out-asshole the deadly critters running around the place, and today Australia is a thriving economy full of green and gentle things.

Actually, that’s a complete lie – today Australia is a shattered multicultural diversitopia run by a bunch of power-mad autocratic arsewipes who think that they have the right to imprison pregnant women simply for disagreeing with them about the Chinese Mumps and imprison and bankrupt their own citizens just for the “sin” of visiting India.

At any rate, on such a happy note, here’s your Instathot for this dreary Monday. Enjoy.

Now get your butts back to work, or else the Limeys might just decide to ship you off to Australia.

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7 Comments

  1. Luke

    “today Australia is a shattered multicultural diversitopia run by a bunch of power-mad autocratic arsewipes who think that they have the right to imprison pregnant women simply for disagreeing with them about the Chinese Mumps and imprison and bankrupt their own citizens just for the โ€œsinโ€ of visiting India.”

    Agreed. As a citizen of said prison island I can also say that there is no longer any reward for effort, only more taxes and more regulation.

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    • Didact

      Yeah. Australia has devolved a long way from what it was when I lived there. It’s gone from a happy place of considerable opportunity, to a literal land of convicts – who locked themselves up at the behest of their own government.

      Reply
  2. JohnC911

    Hey Didactic what do you think would of happen in WW2 if the Nazi and Soviet stayed peaceful (ie no one declares war between the 2 nations)?

    It would be interesting to think if the British Empire could stay on fighting or if the Usa could make a Naval invasion without the conflict in the East going on

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    • Didact

      Hey Didactic what do you think would of happen in WW2 if the Nazi and Soviet stayed peaceful (ie no one declares war between the 2 nations)?

      Such a peace would not have lasted. Stalin very clearly intended to march into Europe and conquer it. And Hitler very clearly wanted to march into Eastern Europe, exterminate or enslave many of the Slavic peoples, and expand the Reich.

      But, suppose for the sake of argument that the two superpowers had decided to stay put and not go to war with each other. The likely outcome would have been a significant Cold War, of sorts, between two strains of socialism that were virulently opposed to each other. There would have been no way to sort out their differences. Communists hate Fascists, and vice versa, even though both are expressions of socialist thinking. Their irreconcilable difference lies in the way that they divide up society through identity.

      Communism divides peoples along class identities. Fascism divides people along national identities. These two approaches are fundamentally incompatible.

      Projecting further ahead, beyond the 1940s, the likely outcome would have been the economic collapse, utter impoverishment, and complete de-Christianisation of Europe and the FSU.

      But, the final collapse of socialism probably would have happened a lot sooner, because there would not have been much incentive for America to support the Soviet Union financially. That is one of the dirty little secrets of the Cold War – the major reason why the Soviet Union lasted as long as it did, is because the West, and specifically the USA, gave it so much “humanitarian” aid and currency support. Without that nonsense, the USSR would have collapsed before the 1970s.

      It would be interesting to think if the British Empire could stay on fighting or if the Usa could make a Naval invasion without the conflict in the East going on

      Yeah, but the problem is that by the time WWII rolled around, the British Empire was already fatally weakened and the British could no longer support it financially or logistically. And the USA would have had no reason to intervene in Europe and could have concentrated its entire military machine on Japan.

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  3. MrUNIVAC

    I get why the fans hate Halo 4, but I disagree with them. I really like the story even if my headcanon says that the Forerunners were supposed to be humans, and the art direction is so great that a casual observer could mistake it for a new game.

    The only thing I hate is that the sandbox is very limited compared to the other games. What makes Halo great is that every encounter can play out differently thanks to the superb AI. However, every encounter with Knights plays out exactly the same. You either:

    1) Rush them with a Scattershot, or
    2) Empty an entire clip of DMR or BR ammo at range and pray that you both take down their shields AND hit their incredibly tiny head, or
    3) They teleport right next to you and kill you instantly.

    Any other strategy will get you killed quickly on Legendary.

    Also, if a Watcher shows up, you better drop everything and kill it because of how ridiculously overpowered they are.

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    • Didact

      Also, if a Watcher shows up, you better drop everything and kill it because of how ridiculously overpowered they are.

      Exactly. I learned VERY early on that Watchers must always be swatted down first. Those bastards are ANNOYING. Not quite Drones-with-Plasma-Pistols or Jackals-with-Beam-Rifles annoying – or, hell, not all of freakin’ HALO 2 annoying – but still really irritating nonetheless.

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