Profile of dpfarce

I generally agree that in the current crisis, Nuclear Weapons would have helped little in military terms. I also agree that Ukraine lacked a proper conventional army that was capable of sending conventional forces to Crimea, or even a chain of command to control the forces that were garrisoned in Crimea.

I remember seeing a few videos of Ukrainian officers, who were using youtube videos in an attempt to contact their commanders in Kiev.

This sort of command structure would, among other things, be simply unable to use nukes even if they had them. Likely they would have fallen into the hands of the Rebels, depending on where they were stationed.


But on the other hand, I still also believe nukes to be a strong deterrent. Even the 0.00001% chance that some Ukranian maniac might set off a nuke, either through an act of terrorism or insanity in parliament, would seriously deter Russian intervention.

There is also the 'prestige' factor of having a nuclear weapon, in the same way that China is trying to get a functional aircraft carrier over 70 years after the end of WW2, when the USA had 132(?) aircraft carriers at Leyte Gulf. Invading a country with a nuke is like invading a country that is currently holding the Olympic Games. It may not actually act as a military deterrent, but it's just something you don't do.

Meanwhile, Greece is looking like a nice holiday destination this summer.

Being in Germany, I'm honestly surprised at how much open hostility I have seen among some circles in German towards the Greeks atm.

Many Greeks, even before Syriza, were working 40 hour weeks for only 1000 Euros per month, hardly enough to live on when you need to pay weekly rent.

Even if they could somehow afford food, their children, etc will have no chance for any savings or inheritance.

Syriza may not necessarily be doing anything right, but they are doing something different. And when so many Greeks have been struggling to literally survive in the past two years, even with slight economic growth figures under New Democracy, their recent defiance against the EU is hardly surprising.

I honestly and earnestly recommend to every north European who believes that Greece must "be responsible" and "stop overspending on luxuries while being lazy and unemployed" to visit the streets of Attica or walk around Thessaloniki for a week. You very much have the right to feel annoyed that the Greeks won't pay you back, but surely you will understand that they simply cannot pay you back.

In the mean time, direct your anger to your national governments who kept giving Greece bailouts this whole time despite it being increasingly clear that Greece was a terriblyrisky investment

i STRONGLY believe rank-faceplates will just cause 90% of players to quit the game before it begins.

For the 6-7 months that League of Legends allowed free queue-dodging (leaving a game before everyone picks their champions), the number of people who queue-dodged because somebody picked their favourite champion or somebody picked a champion they thought was shit jumped from approximately 0% (because the penalties were the same as losing a game, so why not give it a shot?) to every single fucking game.

Since Coh2 has no penalty if an entire team leaves the game before 5 minutes (?), I can see this being strongly abused to prevent rank loss ala League of Legends.

I personally don't think this is a terrible change.

I strongly disagree with the belief that OST should be inherently better than garrisoning 99% of buildings than Sov, simply because they have Grenadiers. How effective a faction was at using garrisons could hardly have been factored in when designing a faction's unit sizes.

Flamers should be given more priority so that they don't get teleported by models without flamers, just like an MG has priority.

OKW Officer "Target Them" ability says it makes opponent units fight harder, but that's a lie. It just increases their received accuracy by 50% for 20 seconds which is not particularly useful with high accuracy okw units except when enemy is in yellow/green cover in which case it is a straight up 50% boost to DPS against that squad.

How did relic manage to fk this up??