JcDent

SomethingAwful goons have hit a fairly good point on why the most annoying redditors and youtubers people keep declaring tanks "obsolete": when you look at recent (~30 years) NATO wars, tanks appear indestructible, so any war where they're lost in numbers seems to signal their obsolescence.

Except, as it's rightly pointed out here, nothing that any army produces is indestructible. Tanks, just like anything else, can and will be blown up.

We barely managed 1,5 episode, nothing to me in: neither funny, nor has any characters I care about, doesn't even raise any interesting topics.

I don't get the hype, the praise...

I went down a Wookiepedia hole and apparently, 150 years of timeline after the original trilogy is nothing but people reinventing the Republic, the Empire, and the Alliance over an over again until they eventually all merge into a single state.

The succession of Empires is an unbelievable project straight out of fanfic's baby-est reaches, with authors doing their damnest to turn it into "Fourth Reich, but we're actually anti-Nazi now" that has both a force-sensitive Emperor and not!Jedi Force Knights.

Just... just let it die already. You don't need to do Empire vs. Rebel Alliance forever!

Today, he told me about his own dad's (great-gramp) military service, including GPW, talked about brawling rules among the peasantry, and other shit. Got real proud talking about his one-two move* for village dance fights (as in, brawls that break out at the dances), and a bit teary eyed when talking about his brothers' signature moves.

His dad's military service was wild. First, an Uhlan in the interwar Lithuanian military.

Then he got drafted into the Red Army.

In the fourth month of the year of Our Lord nineteen fourty-one