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General Discussion / Re: Sheb's European Megathread: Remove Feta!
« on: July 28, 2015, 01:07:47 am »
Umm, actually, yeah, see this one:



Still, I wonder what it was doing there. Sweden was not a participant in WWI either.

edit: I've personally all but given up on analysing what Kremlin says or doesnt say.

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General Discussion / Re: Sheb's European Megathread: Remove Feta!
« on: July 28, 2015, 12:12:26 am »
Wrecks survive well in the Baltics because(at least a good part of) the bacteria that eats iron apparently does not survive well in saltless water.

Heres how well an actual WW I era submarine has survived the years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl5OA-MN-9s

Considering how small this new wreck is, only 20 meters in length, I'm willing to put my bet on USSR.
Yes, it crashed. In Baltic Sea. Same place where this "russian minisub" has been found, ya know.

There's a pretty dumb story behind how it got crashed, too. Got run over by a Sweden steamship while in submerged position.

It was never recovered, since there's no indication of that anywhere; ships are, by default, not recovered if possible. Especially considering the time period we're speaking about.

Yeh usually they just get declared as graves even if they are in shallow waters and recoverable. Subs getting run over by ships isnt all that silly... Theres at least one incident from the 90s where a Finnish cargo ship collided with a Swedish submarine. I couldnt find the pictures of the event right now but I've seen them in a blog, taken by the cargo ship crew. From what I recall Sweden even paid the repair bill.

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General Discussion / Re: Sheb's European Megathread: Remove Feta!
« on: July 27, 2015, 02:33:47 pm »
Its a midget sub; definitely not WW2 era. From the 1980s at most. We need better pics to be able to ID it...

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General Discussion / Re: Sheb's European Megathread: Remove Feta!
« on: July 27, 2015, 02:03:06 pm »
Link to the news article, with photos: http://www.expressen.se/nyheter/frammande-ubat-hittad-i-svenskt-vatten/


edit: looks like something is perhaps growing on the submarine(the picture with the (perhaps cyrillic) letters). Maybe. So it may not be from the last year's incident.

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Other Games / Re: World of Warships! Now in Open Beta!
« on: July 22, 2015, 02:02:33 am »
Yeah there could be/should be separate CL lines. Even if they'd need to skip tiers. I want the Agano...

Another idea could be a "seaplane cruiser" line combining cruiser and CV properties to incorporate some more historical ships. Akitshushima, Chitose/Nisshin/Chioyda, Agano class, Chikuma, converted after battle damage Mogami, maybe even the hybrid BBs. edit: and of course the Ōydo too!


To me the game runs much smoother than WoT; the engine is clearly superior. Theres no stuttering or freezes whatsoever.

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Other Games / Re: World of Warships! Now in Open Beta!
« on: July 21, 2015, 12:13:39 pm »
Urrrghh the Kawachi really is a hell. It looks like the 2 following ones are rather good compared to their USN counterparts, though.

The ranges and speeds in this game are... odd. Apparently both ship dimensions and time are scaled up by 2,5 to make the gameplay quicker.

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General Discussion / Re: Sheb's European Megathread: Remove Feta!
« on: July 08, 2015, 01:11:03 pm »
Greece + China --> OMX Helsinki has fallen ~4% during the last week, although climbed a bit today. I need to monitor my few stocks' prices now more often.

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General Discussion / Re: Sheb's European Megathread: Remove Feta!
« on: July 02, 2015, 07:05:25 am »
Ummm yeah, although personally I dont think dropping flares is hostile. Silly, but not hostile, it's not like they'd help at all should a Flygvapnet or NATO interceptor actually open fire. They belong to aerobatic shows...

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General Discussion / Re: Sheb's European Megathread: Remove Feta!
« on: July 02, 2015, 04:52:36 am »
In the meanwhile Russia is very very super angry about Finland not letting 6 people, who happen to be on the EU sanctions black list and are not allowed to enter EU, of the dozen-ish people Russia had assigned to its party participating in OSCE's council meeting in Helsinki. Russia has now canceled its participation. Russia considers this "an openly hostile act" as it was put to the Finnish ambassador in Moscow, Himanen, by Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs yesterday.

edit: I guess it would have been an impossibility to just use people who are allowed to travel to EU... But then again Russia has been long reluctant to participate in negotiations and making decisions in basically any international organizations. Divide and conquer I suppose; much more comfortable to just directly influence convenient targets partners.

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Other Games / Re: Europa Universalis IV
« on: July 02, 2015, 12:56:16 am »
Unless I go for colonies early or play a large country(which is rarely) or go for early colonies/migrate to Caribbean, I usually pick first either Defensive or Offensive. Those leader pip bonuses of Offensive especially are great if the nation is a Republic as that means theres a free general(the head of the state) every 3 to 5 years and one never needs to fight a battle without one.

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I couldn't find the actual debt % but from 1945 onwards in just 8 years Finland had an additional "debt" of about 70-ish % of GDP in war reparations to USSR, while rebuilding country and relocating/building new homes to 1/4 of the population(refugees from lost territories). While still paying back old debts to the US mainly. No haircuts or Marshall Plan either. That hurt a lot but what helped afterwards was that the reparations were paid in material, machines and other physical products and the exports of those to the USSR kept going with little to no competition for decades after. The centralized program to pay the reparations founded many nowadays large companies (most no longer state-owned) and expanded areas of industry that probably would not have happened in similar scale otherwise. By 80s it was the USSR that was in debt.

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Other Games / Re: Europa Universalis IV
« on: June 27, 2015, 09:21:15 am »
Brunswick 1444 start. Now 1460. Stole a province from Cologne, another from East Frisia that somehow conquered Münster with Pomeriania's help and I have Lüneburg and Verde as my vassals(so that I can later annex them and form Hannover), Brandenburg, Madgeburg, Cleves and Hansa as my allies. My rivals are Cologne, Hesse and Anhalt, enemies being the same plus Denmark. The rival-ally networks around me prevent me from expanding easily right now but at least my own allies are also in check and cant eat each other unless they end up on opposite sides through Polish-Bohemian war or something. I can still snatch a province from Cologne although I cant do it without getting Illegal Territory thing... So I guess I need to wait, annex subjects and finish off East Frisia.

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A global empire has nothing to do with Europe. In fact, Europe exists outside reality. Not to mention OUR political leaders are lovers of peace and of the working class, and definitely not deceptive. Nor are they in a rush to join NATO, which is definitely not run by the US.

Enough irony to give me poisoning.

Interesting how its possible to consider the very nations that share EU and its monetary union membership with us our allies in that context but minions of evil warmongering USA as NATO members. Not that its atypical around here...

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Baku is in Azerbaijan... I guess it could be Russia Funny Accent & More Arm Hair edition if their arch rival Armenia wasn't Russia's pawn.

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Sure it doesn't. It just happens that the nation currently being proactive in doing evil shit happens to be Russia.

Similarly, most of us probably do condemn Iraqi Freedom(although it wasn't an annexation but blowing things up to get oil and to sell arms, concrete and hospital equipment afterwards while the people who decided on things were either major stock holders of Locheed-Martin and Raytheon at least or were otherwise greedy basterds), or China assimilating Tibet/Xinjiang(happening right now) etc. We have discussed this before. Someone else having done shit before doesnt make it right or acceptable for anyone else to do more of it.

I wonder how Finno-Ugric languages do in Russia that totally isnt russifying the peoples with their own distinctive cultures that speak those languages? Oh yeah, soon theres none that speaks them, many only have speakers in the thousands at most and most of them are 50 years old or older.

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