We're playing the Dawn of Civilization mod for Civilization IV that replicates world history. !g*mers

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We're getting into the Modern era endgame, which typically for Civilization is the point that you've already won and you're just mopping up dudes with longbows with tanks while you listen to John Adams. Dawn of Civilization attempts to avoid this snowball effect and is generally successful unless you've maintained a hueg empire like we have.

I've for sure hit the snowball effect here as I'm an era+ ahead of everyone with near 10x the military of the rest of the world.

We have researched Spaceflight and our vision of Romans on Mars is coming into view.

Mediolanum gets to work on putting our first satellite into space while Rome develops the internet.

Also working on the Empire State Building in Rhegium. Bros the wonder video for this is adorable. It's like 90s FMV I could probably post it here but I'm going to make you install the mod to watch it instead.

We're nearing the end of the tech tree. Now researching Globalism

It's 1838AD so we're 100+ years early.

The AI is generally at their appropriate spot in history, developing railroads and factories and shit. I would slow down research and allow the rest of the world to catch up and resume all this stuff in the 1950s, BUT I'm approaching Legendary culture in a number of cities so if I don't try to win it's possible I'd accidentally hit a Cultural victory instead of a Space victory. That would be lame.

We could pretty well win most of these original victory conditions at this point. I would just need to conquer 5% more of the world for Domination. Russia and America as my vassal provinces are likely going to accomplish a good bit of that on their own just through natural expansion. The United Nations is being built in Greece but I'm not sure about Diplomatic because a lot of the world hates me. Conquest would be tricky too but I'm sure it's doable.

Instead, I'm generously trading away techs to everyone just to make things a lil more interesting.

Some stuff to get out of the way.

Last game Sweden became Communist and we discovered a cosmetic bug where Sweden lacked an official title under communism. I requested something to rename them to.

Communist Sweden will henceforth be known as Bimothy. @BimothyX2 !friendsofbimothy

Portugal has restored itself as a Republic under Maria, top Dawn of Civ waifu next to Cleopatra.

It hurts my vassal Spain a little.

Ethiopia has collapsed, following our nuking of Aksum and conquest RIP bozo

Marrakesh has been my main naval center and since researching flight London has been my primary aviation center. Independent Scotland and Ireland have been hostile to me most of the game and the Scottish have now decided to poke some of my old musket-wielding mine-guarding military with sticks. I promote them to modern infantry and decide to deal with Scotland.

Ireland too. I'll remind you I liberated these ungrateful frickers.

Since these are independent cities I don't think I get any diplomatic penalties. Can't remember if there's something like base game's "Global Warming" effect from excessive nuking. I don't care anywhere, we're about to go to freakin Mars, frick Earth

Ireland reforms as a civilization shortly after getting nuked.

There's another missing String for the modern civilization, so instead of being the Republic of Ireland or whatever it's TXT_KEY_CIV_CELTS_REPUBLIC I'm gonna have to just let this one be.

Good luck with that land

We've hoarded enough Great People and I want to get our space projects moving so I have another Golden Age

With the Eiffel Tower we only spend 3 people max.

A Great Scientist is born during this golden age. Frick it. We'll have another one too.

20 turns of Golden Age now.

We've researched Satellites after putting our first one in space from Medioladum.

Satellites can join a city for a science, commerce, or espionage boost. Rhegium has become our new commerce city with a Central Bank and the Empire State Building while Rome has shifted to Great Person generation, so I'm starting to put satellites there.

With the research of Satellites we reach the Digital Age. Now the end of the tech tree is in sight.

Japan is working on putting our first man into space

The United Nations has been finished in Greece.

We are elected to head over Kangxi of the Great Qing. We don't even get the necessary votes but enough of the world abstained from voting, I guess because they hate both of us.

We can establish a single currency to boost trade.

Kyoto puts a man into space. The japs get to work on a Lunar Landing. Rome is developing an International Space Station.

We begin to experience the consequences of Sid Meier's 90s-early 00s "nuclear bad" environmentalist mentality.

And Global Warming starts to hit in England due to our nuking of the British Isles.

Once we research "Renewable Energy" we can build solar panels onto this Cornish desert.

Canada, the latest spawning unique civilization, appears in the 1860s

Peru enters the game too, but I believe this is just a resurrected Inca civilization. They go to war with Colombia.

Canada eventually pledges loyalty to the great Dragon along with Austria. Korea falls under the protection of Iran. My Mandebros accept fascism and become the "Military Committee of Mali". Bimothy is Bimothy.

Japan succeeds with the Lunar Landing and we're treated to another lovely FMV

It triggers ANOTHER Golden Age. Three consecutive so far! Japan is doing well enough that they can get to work on the Mars Mission as well. It will only be an issue if they suddenly declare independence.

Dorylaion in Turkey can get to work on sending the Golden Record

>Roma celebrates "We Love the Dictator Day"!!!

Once the japs make it to Mars we can start the real Space Race.

Similar to Base Game, we have to build a bunch of different components. The more we build the higher chance of success.

We're going to start building the Framing components in Australia, since it's not at risk of secession.

We're starting the Power Sources in the Italian mainland for similar reasons. Rome is working on a Lunar Colony, which will speed all of these projects up.

To quote once again:

For all of the money we are spending, NASA should NOT be talking about going to the Moon - We did that 50 years ago. They should be focused on the much bigger things we are doing, including Mars (of which the Moon is a part), Defense and Science!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 7, 2019

More Great People born in Rome. We're able to trigger another Golden Age.

Croatia and our West Iberian cities are also safe, Spain doesn't mind us having them. These cities get to work on Mars Laboratories while Rome works on the second most expensive part, the Excavator.

Actually, we're gonna pause the Excavator for a minute. One more Golden Age from the Interstellar Probe will push us through to the end.

We get an incredible late game event. Sorry lolbertarians

-25% inflation is AMAZING in a game this long.

~500 gold per turn slashed like that We can (kinda) afford to fund science 100% now

The five habitats begin construction in 'Straya

Hydroponics centers start in mainland Italy. Even our dedicated military center Padua is repurposed

We're facing aggressive espionage harassment at this point. Buildings keep blowing up. There's a Great Firewall wonder we could build but our Mars projects are the priority.

Scottish r-slurs are throwing bombs at us now.

We're just gonna have to conquer them to get them to stop annoying us.

We've completed the tech tree. Transhumanism functions the same as "Future Tech" in the base game, spreading happiness and health. We can continue researching it to further improve the empire.

In Civ5 this improves your score. Who the frick cares about score? That game sucks balls, seriously.

Roma completes the Interstellar Probe, giving a final Golden Age. The extractor is built and we get to work on the final component, the Mars Control Center.

One more Great Statesman is born in Roma. We can use Diocletianus for a final government change.

We're going back to a Bureaucracy and embracing Multilateralism to speed up construction in our capital. It has poor stability compatibility with fascism but we're about to establish a new government on Mars. Don't care.

We are however sticking to unrepentant capitalism. Despite a large Capitalism Bad penalty from corporations, we have enough happiness to offset it.

^{I think the OH YEAH! is from Transhumanism}

The production boost will allow us to complete the Control Center just as the golden age concludes.

We are ousted from our position as head of the U.N.

The rest of the world will regret this.

The golden age ends and our control center is complete.

We're going to space neighbors

13 turns left on this gay planet. The cucks stuck on Earth aren't gonna let us get away that easy. Morocco attempts to secede again. This may have been the fault of our government change dropping us from Solid stability. Luckily we didn't build any ICBMs here. ICBMs can't be moved from cities and I think they could have fallen into the hands of the secessionists

Our first real modern conflict

The Qing emperor attempts to frick us up by calling a vote to liberate Arabia

They fail.

These fools are going on a list:

Later they try to take capitalism away from us

Again, failed.

Often in base civ when you're close to victory everyone will declare war on you. They aren't doing that, maybe because I so obviously could destroy everyone, but they are annoying me with spies. Right before mission completion I complete the great firewall

Neat Would be cooler if we weren't already 2 turns to victory

I get to watch the history of my world now

Just one more turn. I have some unfinished business.

Nuking Canada

Nuking China

Nuking India

Nuking Iran

Nuking Bimothy

Nuking Brazil

Thank you all for reading!!!

Since some people seem to enjoy these I may make more condensed posts on individual games/civilizations in the future but this daily post thing will get old fast and this was more to show off this mod in honor of Civilization 4 week

Now I seriously need to touch grass

I love this subreddit so much. The OP alone is incredible. Get evicted and quit your job to bash the fash.

Let's have a look at some highlights in the comments:

https://old.reddit.com/r/somethingiswrong2024/comments/1i6jh96/comment/m8cnoer/?context=8

68 agreeable replies to this one saying the masses are this close to forcing Trump to resign I wonder what they have to say?

https://old.reddit.com/r/somethingiswrong2024/comments/1i6jh96/comment/m8d7xdi/?context=8

We The People are going to stand up to the popular and electoral vote winner and install Kamala

https://old.reddit.com/r/somethingiswrong2024/comments/1i6jh96/comment/m8cw0bb/?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/somethingiswrong2024/comments/1i6jh96/comment/m8dhh3c/?context=8

Other options besides violent revolution include signing up for a website that says you pinky promise to go on strike at some point and this will overturn the election

https://old.reddit.com/r/somethingiswrong2024/comments/1i6jh96/comment/m8cpliv/?context=8

Redditors are a big fan of that!

https://old.reddit.com/r/somethingiswrong2024/comments/1i6jh96/comment/m8cvlo6/?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/somethingiswrong2024/comments/1i6jh96/comment/m8cw900/?context=8

And this tactical mastermind correctly observes that the Big Tech Fascism industry is going to censor this powerful website and stickers are the solution

https://old.reddit.com/r/somethingiswrong2024/comments/1i6jh96/comment/m8cslp1/?context=8

Further downthread we find Big Action being taken like closing all half of your social media accounts

https://old.reddit.com/r/somethingiswrong2024/comments/1i6jh96/comment/m8cuwh1/?context=8

Antisemitic remarks meet reddit communism later

https://old.reddit.com/r/somethingiswrong2024/comments/1i6jh96/comment/m8cyvfc/?context=8

I keep seeing them say WE THE PEOPLE today and yesterday it was endless "so this is how democracy dies hehehe starwars" repeated forever and mass firmware updates seem less like a meme every day

https://old.reddit.com/r/somethingiswrong2024/comments/1i6jh96/comment/m8d5aiz/?context=8

Schizo substack if anyone wants to follow it. I don't

https://old.reddit.com/r/somethingiswrong2024/comments/1i6jh96/comment/m8dx6kg/?context=8

In closing, remember the nonviolent French Revolution built on peaceful protests and /r/maliciouscompliance

https://old.reddit.com/r/somethingiswrong2024/comments/1i6jh96/comment/m8dqi3n/?context=8

Also /u/when-octopi-attack fricks kids

They're still seething

so... you were able to do it in an hour, you're just used to it taking ten to twelve weeks

just 16 hours! give these poor babies some slack

DHS spooks parked at the little TSA booths

Also

>CDC

>entire 70+ member team has been fully remote since 2000

How can blurmpf expect elite government functionaries to work in these compliant but outdated spaces

>do not comply

>stay and do our jobs

If they're so critical, why are "data calls" needed to determine who and where the frick your employees are

/u/el-corneador don't let the door hit your culo on the way out esé

We banned their app, now they hate us

Bonus content

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskWomenOver40/comments/1i7v7g3/what_are_we_going_to_do_about_this/

>women over 40

>plan b

https://old.reddit.com/r/somethingiswrong2024/comments/1i7vhdw/what_groups_will_this_affect_and_what_do_you/

Last but not least, the smartest pooner:

https://old.reddit.com/r/transplace/comments/1i7v2e7/what_does_the_executive_order_about_trans_people/

>Ok, do you know about changing the f to a m tho? If that's still ok

"no"

>That's gonna suckkkk

So masculine

Important poll !chuds !nooticers

Basically there is a group of people who are fans of a morrowind mod called tamriel rebuilt which adds the mainland of morrowind to the game and they're mad at supposed general modding corruption and at another mod called project tamriel which adds the rest of the elder scrolls mainland to morrowind. These mods share a common asset base and everyone involved is extremely neurodivergent

Now some fans are calling themselves a watchdog group and found a modder for fallout new vegas (another neurodivergent bethesda game) making a Mexico mod who is in America illegally. Obviously they did the natural thing and reported him to ICE

There's some other nonsense as well going on with the Mexico modders stealing assets and sending viruses to other modders and other stuff but idk

Now they're threatening to ICE the other morrowind modders

https://xcancel.com/TR_Watchdog/status/1884499507012067403#m

Big "drain the swamp!" type people and some xitter users are immediately pulling out the comparisons

its over

So long and short I enjoy watching Alone, a "survival" show where a bunch of off-grid r-slurs starve themselves to win a couple of bucks. They're "Alone" in the sense they after they are dropped off they have no communication but a radio to say "halp, I am dying, please come get me" and random medical check-ups that I'm sure some insurance guy was like "yeah you need that."

So I'm browsing Netflix and I see Alone: Australia and I'm legit and decide to tune in. The last several seasons of Alone have been up in northern Canada so I'm like "cool, change of scenery, win win"

Well I'm half way thru the third episode and 3 of the 10 people have already quit. It's DAY 3.

Why did the people call to quit?

1. I miss my ugly wife and kid.

2. I can't start a fire boo fricking who

3. I'm 22 and I got covid!

Yes, that is right, in their little med-kit designated for if you chop into your leg with an ax they have Covid tests. This season was from 2023.

Other things of how cucked Australia and this version of the show is.

Some lesbo PhD felt bad about having to hook a worm to go fishing, and states "i wouldn't mind not catching a fish."

Multiple people are already dizzy from lack of food.

If they cast a line for fishing they have to sit and watch it incase they hook a platypus because it might drown and they must save it.

They can't hunt with a bow.

Told NOT to eat any forgeable mushrooms incase they misidentify

In disbelief I scrolled through to the end and at the end of this episode another cuck fricker leaves.

This isn't in the middle of the outback either, but on Tasmania, where it rains like, 200 days a year or some shit. And it's a little chilly. And plenty of trees. And nobody has mentioned a croc so probably no fricking crocs.

This season is 11 episodes plus a reunion. I don't think I can make it bros.

I just want to watch my hecko outdoor survival shit why must those down-under cute twinks be so fricking lame

Aussies explain yourselves

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Interested, or just curious? Take the survey below! pic.twitter.com/XjeMqIyVlB

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We NEED as many dramatards as possible filling this out. If you're a lonely virgin then THIS IS YOUR FRICKING CHANCE !personalarmy !incels @lankyhands

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I don't know about y'all, but I sure as heck didn't come down from the goddarn Smoky Mountains, cross five thousand miles of water, fight my way through half of Sicily and jump out of a frickin' air-o-plane to teach the Nazis lessons in humanity. Nazi ain't got no humanity. They're the foot soldiers of a Jew-hatin', mass murderin' maniac and they need to be dee-stroyed. That's why any and every son of a b-word we find wearin' a Nazi uniform, they're gonna die. Now, I'm the direct descendant of the mountain man Jim Bridger. That means I got a little Injun in me. And our battle plan will be that of an Apache resistance. We will be cruel to the Nazis, and through our cruelty they will know who we are. And they will find the evidence of our cruelty in the disemboweled, dismembered, and disfigured bodies of their brothers we leave behind us. And the Nazi won't be able to help themselves but to imagine the cruelty their brothers endured at our hands, and our boot heels, and the edge of our ... (4069)

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Department of Education is (soon) kill!?

I was talking to a irl maga person a month ago and they were like:

...what? It doesn't matter who gets appointed to head the DOE because Trump will dismantle it. He literally said so lol

And I was like

pshhh that will never happen...

she is the only thing that makes me happy 🙂

just click the lil 3 dots by a comment or thread and then click votes

find out who has the right takes and fall in love with them

find out who doesnt and is too afraid to say so outright and call that snake OUT

Thread full of women who never watch the superbowl talk about how they're boycotting the superbowl to protest orange man.

Can't breed

Here's a bunch of statistics I made up in my head why its always foids fault

You don't understand, I just CANNOT take a shower and maybe a nice haircut and not walk around in the smelliest most unfashionable pants in existence. It's LITERALLY everyone else who's wrong

Weird thing is some women will still go after the guy for financial stability and still cheat. We live in a world where majority of people want their cake and eat it too.

Foids bad m'kay

I had to fact-check the "no civilization if not MONOGAMOUS" thing.

Well... turns out he is correct for the most part.

Many consider the first human civilization to have been the Sumerians, in Mesopotamia, 4000-3500B.C.

Sumerian civilization had monogamous marriages, but if wife could not have children, you could take another spouse with 1st spouse remaining at higher rank.

Keeps fricking going for another 10 or 12ish wordswordswords

who ever downrated this is a morron and cant handle the truth

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Ni-ga okite mo kibun wa heno-heno kappa

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Mune ga pachi-pachi suru hodo

Sawagu Genki-Dama...Sparking

Hey neighbor! Since I am one of the only normal people on this site I thought I would give you guys a quick reality check on current affairs.

1. Mexico is more important than Canada. At least Mexicans have Mexican food. All Canadians have is bad driving and false sense of superiority and endless amounts of Chinese bug people.

2. Canada is a not a serious country to us. Canada is and will always be a joke to America. You are irrelevant 20th century leftovers that only get to live in Canada because nobody else wants to. Its a frozen wasteland filled with mountainous terrain.

3. Canada is a complete shit hole. You might have teenagers fooled on Reddit, but the rest of us have made the unfortunate mistake of visiting your cursed land of mediocre socialism. Your food sucks, your music sucks, your drinks suck, your venues fricking suck, your roads suck, your drivers are the worst. Canada is purgatory realized. Even the fricking orange juice tastes like shit.

So please I know reddit has blown up that off-brand europoor ego of yours, but trust me, it's not reality.

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They lost 250.000 troops, and 900 tanks for this village thats not even important.

— Phillip Hansen (@PhillipHansenS) January 12, 2025

Triple cope

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/01/12/7493165/index

Khohols reached such point that even republicans asking them to throw the 18 year olds.

Mike Waltz, Donald Trump's incoming National Security Adviser, believes that Ukraine should lower the draft age to attract hundreds of thousands of new troops and stabilise the frontline.

Their draft age right now is 26 years old [it is in reality 25 - ed.], not 18. I don't think a lot of people realise that they could generate hundreds of thousands of new soldiers.

He is coping a bit since most 18 year olds were 15 when it all started so they runaway already and who is left also running away

🇺🇦🇪🇺‼️🚨 Ukranian boys aged 16 - 20 are leaving Ukraine in masses, buses full drive to Europe daily!

There are even organized tours for the boys to leave!

The upcoming lowering of the mobilization age to 18 scared people! pic.twitter.com/ut97L1DfXW

— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) January 11, 2025

On top of unreal high desertion

Ukrainian soldier that was busified run away from army base to capture that guy that busified him to bussyfie that guy

A story of "figurative and literal"

Republicans need to stop Russian progress because otherwise there won't be an argument for Russian to stop and Russian now attacking at angles that Ukraine didn't expected

The Ukr. army remains unable to stop the Russian advance on the western riverside of the Oskil in Kharkiv oblast, despite Russians needing to cross the river with every soldier, weapon, ammunition and piece of equipment.
Simply not understandable to me. Thought it was a priority. pic.twitter.com/17eluyoJ76

— Julian Röpcke🇺🇦 (@JulianRoepcke) January 10, 2025

This mb looks like nothing but it gives Russian opportunity to take this all

And neutralise Ukrainian only success in this conflict the "Kharkov counteroffensive 2022"

Not counting Vovchansk that place has around 9k people so barely nothing at such massive territory. It's around 4700km.

If Russian reaches Burluck Ukraine will lose possibility support that area and we will finally understand why Russian attacked Kharkiv.

This bridge also doesn't look impressive but it gives Russian opportunity to strike the choke point Zarizhne from back and directly strike Lyman

That will give them opportunity to easily bomb Sloviansk

Russian are also almost done with Chasiv Yar and they decided to not go after Konstiantynivka but after Mikiolaivka and Sloviansk, because they now don't have to worry that Ukrainian will attack their flanks (Chasiv Yar and then Ivaniske) since if Ukrainian in Konstiantynivka try it Russian will attack that city from Toretsk.

Russian also will enter Dniper oblast soon.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/01/11/ukraine-russia-kursk-counterattack/

Ukrainian troops launched a counterattack in the region last weekend, attempting to retake some of the territory it first seized last summer and then lost — with the head of President Volodymyr Zelensky's office boasting on social media that Russia was "getting what it deserves."

But almost a week into the new operation in Kursk, little progress appears to have been made

There is big difference between "little progress" and not progress and decline. Because the conclusion of that offensive was a decline.

Fights now at outskirts of Sudzha and Ukrainian launching offensive east out of Sudzha with goal of capturing a town 80km from Sudzha that is connected with only one road that goes from Sudzha. Also Zelenskyy was claiming Ukraine controlled like 1500km^2 in Kursk and now official Ukrainian army map says 424km

Ukraine's continued focus on Kursk indicates how important Kyiv believes it is to hold on to the territory, especially as Trump's impending arrival could increase pressure for both sides to come to the negotiating table. Ukrainian officials have also warned that if their troops were to retreat back across the border, the 60,000 troops Kyiv says Russia has deployed would follow them into Ukraine and occupy more land.

It's a war of attrition, Ukraine the side that barely has AD and artillery moves into Russian rural area with no fortifications. So they picked enemy turf to do there defence

Russia, meanwhile, is eager to retake the territory, but has still maintained much of its military might in Ukraine's east, where Russian forces said they captured the Ukrainian town of Kurakhove this week. Ukrainian officials denied those accounts and described the battle as ongoing.

As Trump's inauguration approaches, Moscow, which has the upper hand in manpower and resources, has fewer reasons than Ukraine to see his taking office as an immediate game changer.

"There has been a long-running narrative since the election that both sides are going to try to substantially improve their positions ahead of Jan. 20," Kofman said, describing it as a "fixation" that encourages "short-term thinking" about the war.

I been writing since forever that Trump won't stop it in 24 hours and he just made it official this week by saying he will have a meeting with Putin in 6 or so months.

So did Russian planned to enter Sumy or not now doesn't matter since they ain't going to lose such opportunity so Ukraine GENIUS plan to trade Russian Kursk territory for something would end up giving Ukraine Kursk territory back and some Sumy territory.

"There are signs of a Russian interest to meet with Trump, but that should not be confused with a willingness to negotiate. It's unclear why Moscow would negotiate right now, given the trajectory of the war," he said.

Ukrainian soldiers don't understand why would Russian even accept any negotiation. That's how hard Ukraine is winning.

Oleh said. Ukraine, meanwhile, has taken advantage of communication challenges between Russian and North Korean troops to retake some positions in Kursk, as what Oleh described as confusion between the two groups appears to have slowed Russian efforts to stabilize territory after assaults.

Some news from parallel universe, you won't find those "retaken positions in Kursk" in our universe.

So on top of all other sectors Ukraine also now will need to think what to do with Sumy.

Toretsk was favouriting defenders a lot since look how many industrial areas (triangles) that place had. Only Donetsk city had more. Ukraine losing it faster than Avdiivka shows they have serious problems.

Ukrainian geniuses also didn't build any fortifications in the rare and were stealing like no tomorrow

And it was Kharkiv where some fights were going on all those years since Russian never really kicked Russian out of Kharkiv. Sumy has no fortification and are in such positions that if the retreat Russian will just follow them same roads so no time to mine them.

And Dniper they only now started building something

The geniuses didn't even finished building defence line 1.0

And Russian went in 2024 from 0 defence like to 0,5 > 1.0 > 2.0 > 3.0 > 4.0 and now breaking the unfinished first defence line of Dneper

In 2024 Russian took most of Ukrainian Donbas defence lines and the rest they now can attack from rare or through those defence lines.

They lost 250.000 troops, and 900 tanks for this village thats not even important.

Donbas is also Ukraine most populated region and its main industry

It cost for Ukraine also 4 working man to support one soldier

And when you consider also this

We are past Ukrainian winning arc, we are now at arc of how to persuade Putin to agree for peace and do a goodwill tin

Fun part that now Putin has so many arguments to b-word about. He can point that he steeped out of Kiev and Kharkiv as goodwill tin and that west betrayed him later and when this talks happens Putin will have a huge chunk that Ukrainian "Kharkiv counteroffensive" got. He can point on all Zelenskyy hate speech towards Russia

🇷🇺🇺🇦 “I do not respect either the leader of today's Russia or the Russian people” — Zelensky, President of Ukraine

Well that’s nice. pic.twitter.com/Cr6UqINi9f

— HOT SPOT (@HotSpotHotSpot) January 5, 2025

He can point at Zelenskyy not being elected. At US missiles targeting Russian soil when Biden told no offensive weapons for Ukraine

How Biden warned Putin if Putin uses nukes that Ukraine will receive tanks, jets long range missiles and target black fleet

And attack on Russian soil what was this ?

So goood luck convincing Russian not to finish off Ukrainians who now begging for 2022 March deals

Trump just need some stability to even start the talk since if front constantly moving in one direction you can't start discussing about where to freeze it. But at this point mobilisation won't help it and in worst case for Russian they going to do their own mobilisation

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1ih184w/comment/matgzke/?context=8

Pft heckin idiot

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1ih184w/comment/matfkge/?context=8

Our allies are fricking gone forever

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1ih184w/comment/mateyr6/?context=8

HEY WHO STOPPED THE FRICKING CIRCLE SPANK MUSIC??

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1ih184w/comment/matikfh/?context=8

"Yeah Canada bent the fricking knee, but not very far!"

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1ih184w/comment/mav1x86/?context=8

Canada fooled drumpfler, motherlover!

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1ih184w/comment/matklp7/?context=8

"He didn't have to threaten us!!!"

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1ih184w/comment/maufbe7/?context=8

Last but not least, lmao bongs

https://screenrant.com/matrix-sequels-tank-marcus-chong-not-return-reason/

After playing such an integral role in The Matrix, Tank (Marcus Chong, adopted son of Tommy Chong) didn't appear in either of the sequels, The Matrix Reloaded or The Matrix Revolutions, with many viewers wondering why. As the operator of the Nebuchadnezzar, Tank plays a pretty crucial role on the team in the first movie, making his disappearance surprising. That's especially true due to the fact Tank was one of the few Nebuchadnezzar crew members to even survive Cypher's betrayal of his comrades. In 2003's The Matrix Reloaded and Revolutions, Tank is instead replaced by his brother-in-law, Link (Harold Perrineau Jr).

It's explained in-universe that Tank died sometime after the first Matrix movie, though no cause is given. It's a simple explanation hiding a complicated behind-the-scenes story. The real reason Tank didn't come back for the admittedly quite divisive Matrix sequels was a conflict between actor Marcus Chong and the producers. Said conflict got incredibly heated, leading to legal battles, and Chong making shocking allegations against his former colleagues and bosses. Needless to say, Chong's career has never truly recovered.

TLDR for the original matrix he got paid $75k (in 1999 is worth approx. $142k today) and for the sequel demanded the same pay as the other 3 or 4 main characters who actually survived the first matrix movie too lol who were all offered like a million ( approx. $1.9 million today) but they refused to pay him more than 400k (approx. $757k today)

While Tank died in the canon The Matrix timeline, there was a behind-the-scenes reason for this creative decision. In 2003, Chong filed a lawsuit against Warner Bros/AOL Time Warner, claiming that there was a verbal agreement from 1998 and a contract signed in 2000 that guaranteed him a place in the sequel movies. Warner offered him $400,000 for The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions, and he wanted to get $1 million, and Chong wouldn't budge (via entertainment.ie).

The lawsuit included claims of defamation, stating that the producers tried to paint him as a terrorist. In October 2000, Chong was arrested for making threatening phone calls to Warner Bros and writer-directors the Wachowskis over his being written out of the movie. He even went as far as claiming he was being blackballed in the industry by the producers. Chong hasn't been in many movies since The Matrix — which may hint that he is difficult to work with.

Beyond all of this was a website I never heard of probably made by Chong and is a goldmine of sneed lmao

www.boycottthematrix.com

https://web.archive.org/web/20020608185811/http://www.boycottthematrix.com/index.htm

As a result of all this drama, Chong's last real feature film was in "The Crow: Wicked Prayer" starring washed up actors Edward Furlong (John Conner T2), Tara Reid (American Pie), and David Boreanaz (Buffy TV show)

(Despite being a fan of the original "The Crow" Brandon Lee movie, I have never even heard of this crow movie until now but I will give every dramatard 1 gold award who has suffered through it and educates me on how terrible it is)

Anyway I have no idea wtf this r-slur has been doing for 15 years after sperging out, but I found his youtube account were he paints a crazy picture and if you skip to the last few seconds claims The Whack-out-ski Sister threatened to transition him, to the grave.

Now that you have seen all the evidence

Please judge, who was right here: