The_Terrible_Humbaba

The romance was the worst part of BG3, imo.

Too forced, every dialogue option is either slightly flirty (at least) or just telling them "fuck you and die".

Even when you say you just want friendship and avoid the most flirty options, it won't stop the game from trying to throw you in a romance. I hated that.

Kotor 2 had the far superior story compared to Kotor 1.

This is obviously subjective, but I highly disagree. They are both very different with very different themes, but the story of the first one is a classic that brought us Revan, who probably has the coolest story of any Star Wars character. The second is very different from any other Star Wars media and great in own right, but I didn't enjoy it as much as the first.

Maybe it's also about expectations: Kotor 1 feels a lot like a Star Wars but with (IMO) superior story and lore to the movies; whereas Kotor 2 barely felt like Star Wars at times, which can dampen enjoyment if you are expecting something that feels like Star Wars.

Sean Lock had a similar thought.

He suggested calling it "Nazi Island", but as one commenter mentioned "Isle Hitler" is probably a better name.

The British example goes straight against what you are saying, because at the time of both world wars, and especially the first, the British had plenty of war experience. And not just the British, but every empire at the time had plenty of war experience, but the war did not go at all like most were expecting it to. For a modern example of that with the US, just look at the war in Vietnam and in Iraq.

But more importantly than all of this, you are working under the assumption that the US is being led by extremely qualified people, and that every soldier would fall in line; however not only has the current US government been firing extremely qualified top officials because of "DEI", but I doubt everyone in the military would happily invade a NATO member - with whom they've been allied and trained side by side for years - without even blinking an eye. Military experience does nothing to prevent a civil war, because one thing has nothing to do with the other. The military is made up of people too, who like I said before are a lot more connected with the rest of the world than they used to be.

Finally, even if it's true that the US would somehow be immune to a civil war, that would still not mean the majority of countries would not fall into a civil war. To give just one example, Germany has a very big nazi far-right party that has been directly supported by Musk and Vance; if Germany went to war with the US, those people might take up arms against their own country.

But many countries have been running simulations for the scenarios since before electricity.

Right, I was gonna make that point, but it seems you made it for me. Because despite doing that, most wars in recent history, especially the world wars, did not go at all as predicted. Both world wars played out very different from previous wars and from what was to be expected. A standout example is British strategy for both world wars: in the first they made shitty trenches because they didn't realize they'd be used so much; in the second they made much better and more comfortable trenches because they had learned from the first war, and they turned out to be mostly useless because the trenches used were no longer static.

Spain even had a civil war as a prelude to the second world war, then during WW2 you even had Vichy France and the French Resistance fighting each other, and recently we had the Syrian civil war. Right now, it seems the USA might be on the brink of civil war as well. Not sure what makes you so sure WW3 wouldn't devolve into several civil wars when people are so much more connected with people from other countries nowadays.

Europe’s, who look down on rampant American capitalism and Trump?

Unfortunately, there are still plenty of fascist Europeans. Anecdotally, my mom recently told me her friend likes Trump, and that same person votes for our own far-right party whose leader has essentially been trying to emulate Trump.

One of my biggest fears that I think not enough people have though about, is that - due to how much more connect the world is with the internet - WW3 would devolve into a bunch of civil wars. WW2 was extremely different from WW1 and already had its far share of in fighting in some countries, this time it could be worse and happen in basically every country involved.

Those guys are haters.

Do you not know what tankies are? Do you not know what nazis are? Are they just "haters" to you? I hope you're a teenager, because no fucking adult should be saying this shit.

You’re the one calling for hate and insulting me my guy.

I'm the one calling for hate? Again, I'm assuming you don't know what nazis and tankies are; and as for insulting you, you literally just told me I'm "no better than" nazis and tankies after I made a pretty civil reply to you - not to mention well before I showed up to this post you were the one telling a tankie "Wtf are you saying, bot?"

Did you forget that? Are you perhaps a bot?

Once again, go fuck yourself. I'm not gonna waste more time with you.

What do you mean by two comments deep? That was my first reply to you, if that's what you mean. And I wasn't telling you to hate anyone, I was adding some perspective to a conversation; my comment literally starts with "fair enough", meaning "I'm fine with your stance".

How are you better? Lmao

Than tankies and nazis? The people I'm calling out? Tankies and nazis? You're asking how am I better than them for calling them out and saying "if you use their platforms you are being complicit"? I'm not better than those guys? Yeah, ok champ, go fuck yourself.

Russia is a capitalist gangster state guilty of all the things they claim hate

I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of them were just pretending.

Fair enough, but keep in mind that .ml users are like people who chose to own and drive Teslas. They weren't born that way, they made that decision. No one made them. And in the case of .ml they are known for having a very large number of tankies, including mods and admins, and it's easier to change instance than to change your car.

It could also be compared to Twitter users: if you don't agree with the nazis/tankies, why are you still on there? There are alternatives.

we’re pinched for energy and dependent on the US for it unless we diversify our imports (russia) or produce our own (nuclear)

From what I heard, the EU is replacing Russian energy dependency with imports from the US and Norway, and I'm sure there would be other options if we cut off the US as well. Also, plenty of European countries have nuclear plants, and some are building more (UK, for one at least) as well as increasing renewable production.

Whats even harder to fix is the brain-drain with most academics leaving for US

From what I've been hearing, academia in the US is kinda fucked - probably even more now with ~~Republicans~~ Nazis in charge - so I'd need a source for that. In fact, starting a few months to a year ago, YouTube keeps recommending me videos of (American) people talking about why they left academia.

Ferdinand was just an excuse, the Germans had been planning and getting ready to invade France for at least a decade, meanwhile the French were also making their own plans and chomping at the bit to recover territory lost in 1870. The Assassination was essentially just an excuse to kick things off.