I thought it was 1868. They had a force of 80 men, and 20 reserves in 1866 during the Austro-Prussian war. That's where the unsubstantiated yet never debunked legend of 80 men leaving for war and coming back with 81 originates from.

Ya know... I honestly think he'd play an amazing Ganon. Maybe not the best Ganon, but of all these suggestions so far this is the only one that I'd give a chance

Even when it's absolutely my fault as the jungler, I still feel everyone else should get a little blame. They failed to rise to the challenge of losing the jungler gap coin flip

Think of my verbosity however you want. I remember getting kicked from squads for not running "the meta" loadout. They introduced new weapons, and it meant nothing as "the meta" loadout was sufficient for destroying any challenge in the game. It was cookie-cutter, easy to use, low skill, low-skill ceiling, and the community punished players for not running it.

Nerfing it was the correct call. The overreaction by the community was proof of the communities immaturity to see big picture.

Where the fuck did I say anything about using out-of-bounds bombardments? Jesus christ if your reading comprehension is this bad it's no wonder you complained so loudly and proudly about the weapons nerf. I have no doubt you struggled catastrophically on anything 7+ after the weapons nerf if it's given you this level of PTSD.

I did level 9s, and solo level 7s during and immediately after the weapons nerf. I bet you never tried using smoke nades, strike, or eagle strike to break line of sight on bugs, did you? I bet you never learned how to properly place turrets to cover retreats so you can then flank a bug nest, did you? I bet you never learned how to draw aggro of breaches away from objectives, then used jump packs to break contact after leading them away, did you?

Seriously... I don't know what to tell you. I did not find the game that difficult before or after the weapons nerf. Bugs are objectively harder now by far than they were then. If you couldn't handle some charger spam like... bruh I'm sorry, I didn't have a problem with it, what do you want me to say? Sorry that I played differently during the supposed dark ages of arrowhead arrogance and agree with the decisions they've made so far?

I have attended protests and continue to do so. Do not take my explanation for the cultural mindset as capitulation towards it. I am only stating what my friends, and family, who have put their heads in the sand have inferred to me.

I have lost friends and family due to my staunch opposition towards their mindsets. I do not partake in the societal malaise that has befallen the zeitgeist.

Said another way, I'm not a fucking liberal.

Think how you want. I don't believe there was any material issue with the game after the weapon nerf. I think the community overreacted to not having a cookie cutter load-out. I think the continued success of Helldivers into a rather stable product is proof enough that they were correct in forcing their players out of their comfort zone. I do not trust any community that has such a stark snap reaction so early into a products life cycle. People had a couple months in the game and acted like they were the pinnacle of wisdom on the subject because the same load-out they had been using the entire time without any variation suddenly no longer worked.

EDIT: Also boiling down my statement to hyperbole and calling it a stealth shooter isn't it. "Run away..." means in this instance don't stand in the same spot getting chained bug breaches back to back to back because you insist on clearing the field so you can collect 2 common samples and your shield pack because you can't accept your losses in the moment and move on to come back later. Every player I came across who complained about the weapons nerf in game was also the first person to staunchly stamp their feet in the ground and refuse to hit another location on the map that has lower enemy presence.

The systemic pursuit and propaganda of the American Dream and the nuclear family has broken down the necessary support structures required for staunch opposition to government. We do not have the social, government safety nets necessary to weather a job layoff without extreme hardship, and there is a tendency to move away from family as a young adult. These factors make protesting, and potentially being arrested, a terrifying prospect when it can result in the loss of everything you had worked for towards that point, your health insurance is tied to your job, and your student loan payments loom for the rest of your life.

The United States has created a stochastic slave system. A slave system bound to unobtainable aspirations.

Run away... clear the map of bug nests in a blitz, don't stay to pointlessly fight breaches in the middle of nowhere, don't get locked into a gamblers fallacy of recovering dropped samples/equipment when you die. Just come back

3 people with ATs is 6 ATs. Chargers and bile titans were 1 hit to the face for a kill. The cooldown was like, what, 70/80 seconds? Missions where you have to defend a location, rocket turrets were highly effective, people just were bad at positioning both the turrets for effective fields of fire and also not clustering around them.

People crutched on rail strike and shield pack, because both reduced deficiencies in positioning and preparedness. Level 9 helldivers were still getting done by plenty of people without complaint. Your experience is not universal. If you had problems with it back then, and I didn't have problems with it back then, perhaps there was a solution to the supposed problem, but it may not have been corpulent with your play style. Is that a balance issue, a gameplay issue, or a skill issue?

Your call on which. I never had a problem, personally.

I did just fine with my loadout during that time. Jump Pack, expendable ATs, 380, and 500kg was just fine on bugs +7 at that time. The community couldn't grasp maneuver warfare and tactical retreats + flanking. The irony is bugs are now harder than they've ever been.

The failure of the community to not understand flanking and tactics was not a weapons balance issue, it was a git gud issue.

I dunno man, I played during that time and continue to do so.

I think the community was just bad and didn't want to accept that they were bad. The weapon nerf was never as bad as people said it was. People just wanted to use Shieldpack, 500kg, railstrike, and railgun in perpetuity.

Thank you for confirming you're a rape apologist. But you definitely didn't engage in those prostitutes in Bahrain, right? Your retirement plan wouldn't happen to be buying a house Thailand, would it?

Go back and re-read yourself then. Someone did start this sanctimonious bullshit train by saying that, guessing sex trafficking comes from Saudi Arabia across the Causeway was a "terrible guess"

Which, in itself, is a dispute of the connection between the two countries and resulted in a defense of Saudi Arabia. What nation the victims came from matters... how? It was the question in verbatim, but not the question in substance.

Human trafficking requires making the humans disappear. Which means getting them into a country that doesn't know they're there. Which means get them into a country on a legit visa/passport, and then getting them into another country via illegal means. The person who started this sanctimonious bullshit was polite enough to state my point for me. Security at the causeway is lax.

Why is security at the causeway lax? Because it's in the best interest of both countries ruling authorities to keep it lax. If you can get someone into Bahrain on a legit visa, and then get them into Saudi Arabia across a lax security causeway, congratulations you succeeded in making them disappear and entirely dependent upon you for continued survival. You can now move them anywhere, because they can't go to the state authority in which they now exist because they're there illegally, without any ability to prove who they are, with no money or resources. All in a country notoriously bad on respecting womens rights. This exists in the other direction for Bahrain, as well. No industry like this exists without the malcontent actors working together.

Just a little extra,

Why do you presume that those who are human trafficked into Saudi Arabia stay there? Do you just... presume that they live out the rest of their days there? Human Trafficking isn't adoption into a new forever home you ninny. People get continuously moved around. Where do the people who get human trafficked into Saudi Arabia go? Do they just, die there? Or do they potentially get moved to another place and sold off for another reason?

Maybe they get sold and moved to the netherlands, or bahrain, or russia, or the united states? Do you think they get to go home? Do you think the Philipina women who go over to Saudi Arabia to be private sector workers and then disappeared or held against their will just go home one day?

Just like that? They just hop back on a plane to head home? When their passport was taken and now they're considered illegal in the state? Or do they just get passed around for awhile before their usefulness has dried up and they get tossed into the ocean.

Because for all their blustering about "participation" trophies, what they really all want deep down is to get their own participation trophy and be told they're a special little boy who is more important than anyone.

We know Saudi Arabia has a human trafficking problem

We know Saudi Arabia has a sex trafficking problem

We know Bahrain has a human trafficking problem

We know Bahrain has a sex trafficking problem

We know 88% of Bahrains tourism comes from Saudi Arabia.

Nah, no connection at all, the sex tourism is entirely above bored and entirely not connected to Saudi Arabia in any capacity at all. Saudi Arabia totally doesn't use Bahrain as a dirty laundry service for all the laws that go against Islam.

You're the one who came riding in on a white horse to Saudi Arabias defense like the country itself is going to fuck you for being so valiant in its defense. I don't even know what point you're trying to make. I didn't make a declarative statement, I took a guess, and you launched at me with "that's a terrible guess."

Like, okay then, Mr. I got money from Saudi Arabia and went to Bahrain where I "totally" didn't fuck prostitutes of dubious consent towards their situation?

Why are you so defensive about sex tourism in Bahrain from Saudi Arabia, Mr Icefisher who gambles on Kalshi? Is having someone call out where they likely came from giving you a guilty conscience? Are you starting to doubt now whether that girl you chatted up at the bar wasn't actually 18?

Also, thanks for proving my point for me. Your employer put you on a 30-day visa and you went to Bahrain...

Imagine if you were a young, migrant woman with little knowledge of the countries rules, a skin tone and gender that don't ingratiate you to international scrutiny if you go missing, and your employer telling you to go to Bahrain for a month and then you can come back.

Except you don't come back, and suddenly no one remembers you, and you're all alone without a visa or passport. What then?

The state deparment disagrees

https://www.state.gov/reports/2021-trafficking-in-persons-report/bahrain/

"While the government maintained regulatory authority over recruitment agencies, some migrant workers arrive in Bahrain independent of regulated agencies. Many laborers are paired with employers through intermediaries in Bahrain and unlicensed recruiters in their respective countries of origin; back-and-forth movement between Saudi Arabia and Bahrain via the King Fahad Causeway also contributes to this vulnerability, as Saudi nationals are able to sponsor foreign workers in Bahrain."

EDIT: If your argument boils down to "Well they didn't start in Saudi Arabia, so Saudi Arabia didn't engage in human trafficking" then you're missing the entire forest for the trees. We know, conclusively, Saudi Arabia is a hub for human trafficking due to laws that are ripe for exploitation. To say that Bahrain doesn't have human trafficking using the causeway as a source of ingress is being intentionally obtuse.

https://www.state.gov/reports/2021-trafficking-in-persons-report/bahrain/

Then how about this report that explicitly states the following from 2021

"While the government maintained regulatory authority over recruitment agencies, some migrant workers arrive in Bahrain independent of regulated agencies. Many laborers are paired with employers through intermediaries in Bahrain and unlicensed recruiters in their respective countries of origin; back-and-forth movement between Saudi Arabia and Bahrain via the King Fahad Causeway also contributes to this vulnerability, as Saudi nationals are able to sponsor foreign workers in Bahrain."

Are you really going to argue that no one ever gets brought to Saudi Arabia as a migrant worker and is then sold off and smuggled over the causeway to Bahrain? If the government of Bahrain maintains authority over recruitment agencies, and might ask questions about why a disturbing amount of women recruited suddenly go missing, wouldn't an easy solution be to instead smuggle them from Saudi Arabia? A country much, much larger and not a bloody island? Bahrain is 300 square miles. Bahrain may be the sex trafficking final destination in that region, but do you think they're arriving in the country by plane? Or the one physical land bridge in and off the island. There's not even a ferry from UAE or Saudi Arabia, it's car, bus, or plane. Planes are much harder to smuggle people in on.

Migrant workers accounted for 80% of the private sector workforce in 2022. The law there, until just recently, allowed employers to hold the migrant workers passport.

That system is ripe for abuse. Take the passport, force them into a vehicle under threat, and tell the authorities they ran away if anyone comes knocking.

I'm only going off of what the state department had to say in 2023. https://www.state.gov/reports/2023-trafficking-in-persons-report/saudi-arabia/

I'm no expert, but I'll make a guess on conjecture and easily checked info. Please elucidate me if you have info to the contrary, as I am open to information.

I hate to break it to you, but

"it's like saying wheel chair ramps are unfair to people who can walk"

This is entirely accurate for their ideology. My mom got lost to this nonsense, and she was always the kindest soul I had known. When asked about it, what I pulled out was, in essence, "No one in my life has ever helped me, why should anyone else get help?"

Her hatred was never directed at any minority specifically, just a hatred for society and systems that failed her spectacularly.

She reached a point of pain that she would rather everyone else hurt as well. but, she can't step through that pain to acknowledge other people feel it as well, and probably worse.

It's deeply pathetic how accurately all this nonsense can be summed up as "You told me I couldn't be racist anymore, so now I'll gleefully destroy everything in retribution."

They would rather burn down the field and take their bat and ball home than let others play on it with them. And they'll tell you it's your fault for pushing them to do this.

Russia has good data on how well nets work

Still electric in humans down deep enough. The nervous system is electric and controls the muscles. Seems like this, from a design standpoint, is letting the nervous system be the muscles? Just thinking out loud.