Vilageidiotx

B!tchfest: a healthy release for our non-roleplay annoyances.

Gonna take a detour from the previous topics.

I am seriously pissed off by how sensitive we seem to be nowadays. Recently I heard on the radio that a school in Wisconsin has banned the use of the words "Air Ball" whenever someone misses, as well as a few other words so that the kids don't feel bad. I mean, REALLY? Have we become so sensitive like that that we have to make sure we don't make anyone cry? Grow a pair and get over it.

So the kids feel bad about themselves, they'll get over it. It's healthy to feel bad about yourself, get embarrassed, etc. When you grow up, you'll have a greater threshold to get through those circumstances where people will try to make you feel bad. If we try to limit this, the kids will grow up not knowing how to handle these situations.

That may be going to the extreme, but I am sick of how PG we have to be nowadays, lest we insult someone. Too bad, I'll say whatever I feel. My opinions are just that, MY opinions. If you don't like them, great, you're entitled to that. Instead of whining about how it made you feel bad, strap on a pair, build a bridge over your river of tears, and get over it!

*deep breaths*

Ok, that felt good.

@FantasyChic

I agree. The zero tolerance thing in schools is unhealthy. I think the problem is that we've let the middle class parent become the cultural zeitgeist in a lot of places, and the really isn't anything less soul-dead in this world. Of course the nice thing about it is that, with the internet age making it so easy to communicate, you can find your own people and swim out of all that relatively easily. And once you are an adult you won't have to deal with the BS in schools. It is only the BS in the workplace you have to deal with then, and since the entire point of work is to have the life sucked out of you for cash, bland formality is just par for the course there.

On the other hand though, I have to say that I've always found the entire "It's my opinion, i'm entitled to it, fuck off if you don't like it." attitude sort of funny. That's cool if that is what you want to do, but it gets silly when those same people start bitching about how people get offended by them. You mean you go around being a dick to other people and they got annoyed? Who would have thunk it?

Once upon a time...

I think anyone who is young enough to have been a child during the advent of internet communities has heard that sort of shit from their parents in some form or another.

@TheMadAsshatter

Back in the days when the internet was new and scary.

And really, it wasn't just the early advent of internet communities. It was the common line of thought right up until grandparents started joining facebook. Now everything has went to the other extreme and it is considered anti-social to not put all your information out there through social media.

Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

I wanted to make a Wiki page for the battle of Djibouti, and the only detail I may need from Vilage and Googer are casualty reports from either side. But after that I should probably go in and re-review the First North American War page to accomodate for the extended conflict with the revised Florida, the Republic of Dixie. So when I do that I should probably pull Byrd aside so we can work on it together.

@Dinh AaronMk

Casualty reports are difficult to work out because I don't really know how large the Ethiopian military should be. The old Military Reform Bill from way way back in the old days of the MCF has the entire Ethiopian military numbering at 360,000, with 95,000 men per Sefari. With This is probably peacetime numbers though. Either way, Hassan is commanding the seventh and fourth Sefaris, with some parts of the fourth being stationed in Mogadishu and Mombasa to put up a fight should the Spanish try to occupy those cities. Hassan did not command all of his available forces at Djibouti though, because Djibouti is an isolated city in the hottest desert on the planet and the logistics of a large army in that desert wouldn't be worth defending an undefendable city. So I'm guessing probably dealing with only about ~40,000 Africans involved in Djibouti. This number gets complicated by the involvement of Harari shiftas and the Afar, but they probably couldn't be accurately accounted for anyway.

So for casualties, for Ethiopia most of these would have accrued late in the battle. The first phase of the battle, fought at night, would have seen a very low African military casualty rate, but a terribly high civilian casualty rate with the bombardment of Djibouti taking place with probably ~20,000 people still in the city. Most of those people would have tried to flee, but the city purposely set up to burn so the Spanish couldn't get it, we're still looking at probably ~10,000 or more dead civilians. This is also the phase where the Spanish would have taken heavy losses. Ethiopia's ground troops spent the battle watching from the sidelines and skirmishing with what few Spaniards managed to clear the inferno. The Ethiopian airforce only had that one jet as a significant threat, so their losses were negligible.

The next few days of the battle involved the African forces being pushed away from the city, and this is where military casualties would start to mount for them. If we are looking at ~40,000 troops on the field, and Hassan purposely slipping his forces backward to minimize casualties at the cost of losing the battle, I'd say we're looking at probably an Ethiopia casualty rate of roughly 15%. So lets go with ~1000 Ethiopian dead, ~5000 Ethiopian wounded or missing, and ~10,000 Civilian dead.

Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

Pretty sure the West Canadians, who were independent, were moving in an Atlantic fleet to get involved in that battle.

@Pepperm1nts

I actually reread a bunch of it back when I was digging up those posts for suggestions. It's a bitch to keep track of exactly what is going on in that fight because it goes so quickly and with so little relative detail.

Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

I gotta say as much as I enjoy this game and reading about the lore and everyone's posts... it's fucking weird. I say it with nothing but complete love and affection, you fucking weirdos.

@Byrd Man

QUEST pocket (Here to ruin everything again!)

>Show mysterious liquid to ghost
>Equip ghost's opinion about the liquid

I'm getting married!

Was it forged in the fires of Mount Doom? Because it sort of looks like that is what is going on there.

I'm an idiot, because hank is a mod

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The same reason why super pacs exist.

@The

Are you saying Hank is a Koch brother?

My father is concerned that I am "conforming to the world"

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dude but really tho

just beehive it up

@Azarthes

get some pointy horn-rimmed glasses and listen to The Supremes.

B!tchfest: a healthy release for our non-roleplay annoyances.

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Well shit I don't know if I can top that. how gross can this get

"I'll only take you to the theater if you swallow and wear this squirrel suit."

@AuntFlavia

"I was double-fisted by the entire Republican caucus."

what are we doing again?