In Australia, WW1 is probably more focused on than any other war. It's really strange.
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In Australia, WW1 is probably more focused on than any other war. It's really strange.
Australia seems to have been pretty involved in that war, so that might be it? It's not like the country was untouched by WW2 either, but still.
Antiwhippy
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Cause ANZAC spirits is all about your mates, sacrifice, mates, indomitable spirits, mateship, fucking 'straya mate.
If you care a little bit, there is a great ongoing youtube series called "The Great War", where they do one episode for every week that happened exactly 100 years ago. Atleast the beginning is worth the watch if you don't want to follow along:
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheGreatWar/
Also available in German and Polish.
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheGreatWar/
Also available in German and Polish.
stump sock
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the US had a stake in WWI, so I'm still willing to chalk up my limited knowledge of it to a failure in the educational system
since we're talking about WWI, I'm going to recommend one of my favorite movies: Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory. so good.
since we're talking about WWI, I'm going to recommend one of my favorite movies: Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory. so good.
Jeevesmeister
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There was a huge push by the British leadership to get as many men as they could from the colonies on the front lines, India and Australia were a huge part of that.
Glitchesarecool
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Yes, because it's not like Nintendo never released shooters before. Maybe not extremely noteworthy ones, but there are a lot of third person or overhead perspective games like Custom Robo and Gotcha Force, going further back with things like Jet Force Gemini.
Unless you're talking about someone who has exclusively played WiiU games and then I'll give you that.
It's a complicated one.
The specific focus is a failed invasion of Turkey called the Gallipoli campaign which is sort of a 'crucible' for the nation for getting absolutely obliterated invading a bunch of people they had no beef with on the over side of the world. It was initially a swan song to foolish militarism, but I'm sort of worried it's developing into a warrior myth that lionizes pointless conflicts.
But yeah, WW2 was objectively a bigger deal. We were fighting the Japanese who, whilst not in our immediate vicinity, were closer than fucking Germany and Turkey. A major city (Darwin) was bombed by the Japanese. Sydney Harbour was attacked by Japanese subs.
There were plans to abandon the north of the continent should the Japanese have invaded. It's kind of a trippy thing learning all this history decades after the fact.
WW2 at least made more sense to to Japanese invasions of islands in pacific.
The idea that England called in troops from India and Australia to fight in Istanbul with the argument of "THEY ARE COMING AFTER YOU" never ceases to amaze me.
I think the Call of Duty games developed by Treyarch on Wii sold quite well.
Jeevesmeister
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Churchill planned to deploy chemical weapons if the Nazis attempted a land invasion, as well. It was a completely terrifying time to be in charge of a nation's future.
Antiwhippy
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WW2 at least made more sense to to Japanese invasions of islands in pacific.
The idea that England called in troops from India and Australia to fight in Istanbul with the argument of "THEY ARE COMING AFTER YOU" never ceases to amaze me.
Those germans have some dope ass hats.
Piston Hyundai
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My point is that there's likely a lot of diehard Nintendo fans that are nowhere near as exposed to shooters as most other gamers. I'm not saying that Nintendo hasn't made any, but you have to admit the landscape of shooters on Nintendo consoles is a far cry (vengence) from most other platforms. The last major Nintendo shooter I can think of was fifteen years ago. There was stuff like the Conduit out there, but I don't really hear good things about it.
WW2 at least made more sense to to Japanese invasions of islands in pacific.
The idea that England called in troops from India and Australia to fight in Istanbul with the argument of "THEY ARE COMING AFTER YOU" never ceases to amaze me.
Well, not to get too political in the Giant Bomb thread, but it's not like Western countries, Australia included, have been particularly resistant to the calls to get involved in the Middle East in some sort of aggressive/pre-emptive self defense in the 21st century.
Yeah it's really, really interesting but also really, really terrifying to read all this stuff and think how it would have been so easy for shit to go monumentally wrong in so many ways.
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Jeevesmeister
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Dan reads this thread and apparently doesn't know anything about wars, which have been in films y'know.
Cool that the conversation turned to WW1, I've been listening to Dan Carlin's Hardcore History series on WW1 and I'm in love with them. Some people already mentioned his stuff here, but here's the link in case anyone's interested: http://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-series/ the WW1 series is called "Blueprint for Armageddon".
Absolutely, 100% recommended. The guy's addictive as hell to listen to, and he REALLY knows his stuff. I've learned more about WW1 these past few weeks than I probably have about WW2 or any other period of history in my life. I love how he constantly mixes in actual personal accounts from people experiencing the war with his own opinion and chronology.
Absolutely, 100% recommended. The guy's addictive as hell to listen to, and he REALLY knows his stuff. I've learned more about WW1 these past few weeks than I probably have about WW2 or any other period of history in my life. I love how he constantly mixes in actual personal accounts from people experiencing the war with his own opinion and chronology.
EmCeeGramr
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what the fuck are you people talking about
Piston Hyundai
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to be fair, it's a pretty shitty article
comes off as really disrespectful to the people working on the game
Haunted
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Hardcore History is really neat. I think Drew mentioned on a Bombcast recently he's a fan?
WWI game Quick Look happened
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Dan and Drew's knowledge of the first world war is pitiful lol
Edit: Should have read the thread, guess I'm behind.
Edit: Should have read the thread, guess I'm behind.
In fact, until a bit after WWII, all European superpowers were pretty shitty.
Haunted
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if Jeff were a WWI general, which one would he be
Erich Friedrich Wilhelm Ludendorff
Douglas Haig
Svetozar Boroević
Joseph Joffre
Glitchesarecool
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Is this the Polygon article where the guy was super bored and couldn't help driving home how he was so bored and uninterested with two sentence paragraphs?
I didn't like it just because the writing was bad.
stump sock
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this is what happens when GB talks about world history
War has changed enough where you aren't fighting an organized nation with key people who want to stay in power so much as you are fighting religious extremists whose only goal is promoting their beliefs.
Plus the weapons that people have access to and the penchant for civilian targets as apposed to military or economic targets makes it hard for conflicts to have a target and even an end goal.
Aside from trying to completely rebuild struggling nations and getting the poor to not be likely to join well funded extremist groups there isn't really going to be a way to end religious attacks.
Jeff is a cool guy so John Monash.
#Itshappening
Huh, and we were all just talking in this thread about how war never changes.
Antiwhippy
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Most countries with any developement and military power were pretty shitty honestly. Everyone trying to grab as much land as they can.
Even smaller nations still have their warlords and territory disputes.
The british were just the most successful at it.
Did Dietrich Bonhoeffer dip Oreos in nacho cheese?
funkystudent
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Every 2 years or so I learn what WWI was about but then I quickly forget everything about it.
I dont know why but for whatever reason info about that war just doesnt stick with me.
If only Blackadder goes Forth went into greater detail about the political situation of the war!
I dont know why but for whatever reason info about that war just doesnt stick with me.
If only Blackadder goes Forth went into greater detail about the political situation of the war!
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Glitchesarecool
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It's so far removed from us that we don't realize what an impact it had on the course of human history, which is really sad. Younger generations are starting to have this problem with WWII as more vets and survivors pass away.
sproutella
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Yup just learned that firsthand while traveling to Istanbul in April, happened to coincide with ANZAC day. Met a bunch of cool ozzies and kiwis though!
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If ever there was a war that was about nothing, it's WWI.
nobodyshero
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Can anyone point me to the Bombcast around the Wii U launch (or possibly reveal) when Jeff was making the analogy about how there was "the chosen one" who would be the person to fix all of Nintendo's silly policies? They made a bunch of references to The Matrix, and Jeff commented on how this person was only just now being born.
It's hard to explain, but it made me laugh pretty hard.
It's hard to explain, but it made me laugh pretty hard.
sproutella
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Wonder when/if we get a Heroes of the Storm QL or bombcast discussion (with its real 'release'), I'd really like to hear Drew and Brad's take on it. I wish I could play DOTA, but can't commit to the game lengths anymore. HOTS seems like a decent alternative.
NumberThree
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Verdun's online structure seems really weird, with the persistent (?) squads and all.
#Itshappening
I'm sure it won't be janky and broken. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
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