Recent content by Demetrious

Sadly, you seem to be the exception to the rule. And that's an observation drawn from several forums, IRC chatrooms, and other places; not just here. It might seem overly harsh to so freely paint "Europeans" with such a wide brush, but after I heard that European newspapers- and their letter...

Yeah, about that. Saddam Hussein was, ah, an unpleasant person. Rape, murder, mass slaughter of ethnic minorities with poison gas shells, shooting at NATO aircraft patrolling the No Fly Zone, threatening the UN, US, NATO, and everybody else, paying thousands of dollars to families of suicide...

Ah, I see! So it's not Americans who are nutty, fanatical, deluded lunatics. Just anybody who owns a gun is automatically a nutty, fanatical, deluded lunatic. Thanks for clearing that up! It's good to know that only a particular kind of American is subject to your blatant stereotyping. See...

Here, ladies and gentlemen, we have a brief, concise display of the typical open-minded respect that most Americans receive from Europeans. "American" is used in a derogatory fashion several times, a random feminist theory + picture suggesting that guns are just an extention of brutal male power...

Of course I am disparaging your character: that's because the only other place I have seen such outlandish claims leveled against America in the context of World War II is the one time I browsed the forums of stormfront.org, which is the major neo-nazi group in North America. The claim that...

The geopolitical situation that made America an ally of Germany- namely, the presence of the Soviet Union- is barely fifteen years dead. That really isn't all that long- my own parents, who are not exactly old-timers, remember the days when they were sure the Berlin Wall would never fall in...

Which is precisely why you'd expect us turning around and saving their lives to be rather memorable, no? In fact, the Berlin Airlift is often credited as the reason that modern German-American relations even exist. I literally cannot fucking believe that you could be such an absolute...

I know, right? You'd figure that saving their lives with the biggest, most amazing logistical feat of the century- the Berlin Airlift- would have convinced them that our goals were benevolent.

Because all America ever did for Berlin was keep half the city from being starved to death by the Soviets. Sometimes, I wonder why we bothered.

"Put him in power?" I don't recall the US swooping in and installing Saddam as our pet dictator. That picture is a lasting testament to the wily awesomeness of Reagan's foreign policy: we helped one scary bizzaro regime gut another insane bizzaro regime with a highly destructive war. Iran...

Says the man who administrates a Fallout forum. :D

Aaah, was encounter difficulty also boosted in Killaps' patch, not just encounter rate? That's interesting. Usually, I would not complain about having more things to kill, but around the Den area, at level 10-11, with a hunting rifle and Sulik packing an SMG... the random encounters...

Not really. The Russians' got our huge stock of obsolete aircraft, like P-39 Aerocobras and P-40 Warhawks. Considering that the P-51 Mustang had the highest kill ratio of any aircraft in the European theater... no, it doesn't really say anything. The Spitfire was a great plane and all...

:clap: Indeed. Germany came within an ace of defeating Russia and wouldn't have suffered nearly as many setbacks in Russia if not for Hitler's fanatical mismanagement of his troops. Other things, like Hitler's insistence on making the ME-262 into a "terror bomber;" instead of a fighter...

And yet despite all that, operation Barbarossa steamrolled through Russia like a freight train, and the Germans came within an ace of capturing Moscow itself. If it hadn't been for the massive material assistance via Lend-Lease, and the added complication of the destruction of the German war...