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There was a Secret Hitler game in FG&RP a while ago but it died out.

It is more of a mafia game though.

Bugger Lugs is apparently going to start making his announcement in about 15 minutes.

Edit: no announcement yet but he has filed paperwork to run for president.

Bulldogs are another special one ‘cause they have trouble mating and can’t give birth naturally because the puppies’ heads are too big.

Breeders won’t do that though, else these problems wouldn’t occur. They’re either getting many pennies for selling purebred animals, or “prestige” from dog shows, which translates to pennies ‘cause now they have prize winning animals to breed.

Fake edit: Christ that was harder to find than I thought. Robert Schaible was a geneticist who bred Dalmatians, and among the various health issues was high uric acid, potentially fatal in that it can cause crystals to form in the urine and if they aren’t passed or otherwise removed, it is bad juju

He started a breeding project in 1973, breeding a Dalmatian with an English Pointer in order to get a gene to bring the uric acid levels down to normal.

Long story short, despite the project successfully reintroducing the gene into Dalmatians, it took 14 generations and almost four decades before the breed was allowed to be registered as a Dalmatian (with an asterisk!) by the American Kennel Club and UK Kennel Club, much to the chagrin of the British Dalmatian Club.

Related to that chagrin, while I am loathe to promote any type of dog show nonsense, as a consequence of the above, a descendant after 15 generations of Schaible’a project was allowed to compete in UK dog shows, eventually allowed to compete at Crufts (this is like… super top dog show in Britain, often televised) which, despite the dog being 99%+ Dalmatian, upset these fine, upstanding citizens, who evidently prefer their doggies to be prone to potentially deadly issues instead of, you know, not.

TL;DR So yeah. Breeders these days prefer breeding desirous traits even if they serve no purpose beyond the aesthetic and leave the animals with horrible genetic defects.

Get a mutt, from a shelter.

Have you ever seen The Godfather?

Basically what Michael Corleone does to all the other mob bosses. Maths is brutal.

I'm minded of the US chucking its perfectly good evacuation helicopters off the carrier decks as they pulled out of Vietnam (for various reason - not entirely sure they didn't have more missions in them, but they certainly weren't at that time considered as more than liabilitiesanda waste of deck-space). Then there was Kabul, again the US, not so long ago.

If they were tanks awaiting (relatively) trivial repair, I could see them being taken completely out of viable recommissioning under Ukrainean hands. If they were completely Ok, beforehand, and they still had somewhere to take them then it seems stupid. Or a form of militaristic passive resistance by interpretting orders in a not-exactly-mutinous manner.

How about if they were wary of having a bridge still to cross, with relatively trundling vehickles, because of either side's ideas regarding imminent demolition? Cram tank-crews into the next available stolen minibus, get the hell outa there (or go to ground) with the last actsof a few engineers/crewmembers to be putting the stuff permanently out of commission?


...possibilites, and almost all stink of desparation of one kind or another.

Given the reports from earlier in the war of having poor supplies and such, I’d hazard a guess at it being related to that. Not enough fuel or spare parts or something, and not wanting thte equipment to fall into enemy hands.

It could be just as you suggest though, that the Russians have had enough of those poor supplies and are acting out as a consequence. If you’ve spent the better part of a year holding a city not getting enough supplies to do that, and then get told to retreat, I can’t imagine you’d be happy.

Tric I think deserved it because nobody suspected them, and you might have just got lucky but that’s the way things go sometimes.

Trump is announcing something big on the 15th so they don’t have much time if he is announcing his candidacy.