Profile of somenbjorn

Napalm hard at work:

For a guy who works in IT he should know better then to have an outdated OS.

This is why the Eastern front in particular and the emergence of the USSR is such a bitch to have an historical interest in.

You either have people who bring in too much nationalist emotion trying to downplay the crimes and problems of the soviet system, or you have westerners with no historical understanding/knowledge whatsoever belittling an entire nation.


Both sides gives me nothing but headaches, and both sides should pick up a book.

Thank you voort for giving me some hope in humanity.

Meeh I don't know. Sure there is historical merit to it. But to discuss these things you need to keep them seperate.

As in don't discuss atrocities of different nations in the same thread. When you do that all you'll get is people comparing which atrocites are worst. Auschwitz vs. Vorkota vs. Dresden vs. Hiroshima vs. Nanking and so on.

All these things are ok topics for historical discussion but a list just gives you nothing.


However a list of good books or articles would be nice to have.

Blue uniform is NKVD's right? Althought I don't quite understand true meaning of the joke (my bad), but it seems funny .

About Yulian Semyonov i even read his second novel about Maxim Isaev "The order to live" (which 17 Moments of Spring was the first), a brilliant book. The feeling you get when Soviet artillery rained down Berlin and ODESSA began their escaping operation - it's the end but also the beginning - was just so great!

Yeah the Soviet (and now russian) police (militsya) wore blue uniforms.
Joke is, he thinks the is either Isaev or von Stierlitz but in reality the actor just got black out drunk.

One of the things that got me interested in russia in the first place was its literature. Man as an equally depressed swede the realism that the russian language can put on paper is amazing.

4v4 are very entertaining to watch. But casting is another matter, Me and Ashman have tried streaming 4s on a couple of occasions for no particular reason but to see how it is.

Truth is it just doesn't work. There is too much going on at any given moment. It is really hard to try and keep any red thread throughout a game without neglecting at least area of the map.
Casters will interrupt eachother all the time because there are almost always interesting engagements going on.
So you'll either only see half the battle or casters will be jumping all over the place all the time and that is neither fun to watch nor cast.

You need some lulls in the combat in order to expand and talk about strats, units and builds for a cast to be interesting, 1v1 are awesome for this, 2v2s are still good but more than that and it is a clusterfuck.


There used to be a 4v4 ladder that was played but not casted, that however never really worked because there where like 2 teams out of like 12 that made the effort to play games and all the others kinda just waited for someone to challenge them.
Also getting even 2 players to face eachother sometime within a timeperiod is already a pain in the ass, 4 more so. Getting 8... don't get me started.

Id like to see another 4v4 ladder, I had fun in the last one, fuck I'll even host it, but that means a lot of work just nagging people to fucking play their games.
Too many people sign up for tournies/ladders, having the information available from the start and still somehow fail to use that information to get a simple game up.
And that kinda puts you off it.