Comments on: 31.10.2013

By: Pile of Pooh

Pile of Pooh — Fri, 01 Nov 2013 20:19:07 +0000

I think you misunderstand the level of cultural animosity we’re talking about, here. I’ve traveled extensively in both countries, and the hatred the Koreans harbor for the Japanese is deep and intense, primarily for obvious historical reasons. Many Japanese, on the other hand, consider everyone not of direct and provable Japanese ancestry to be subhuman. That, in fact, is the literal and non-translatable meaning of the common word ‘gaijin.’ It has a much more sinister and racist connotation than most Westerners realize. The concept even has a cultural subset within Japan, wherein natives of Hokkaido are widely considered mentally inferior to inhabitants of the other main islands. I’ve lived with a Hokkaidan family and can assure you it’s not true, but it’s commonly held to be true by a great many of those on Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu. The closest Western cultural comparison would be the attitude of white Americans towards blacks from Reconstruction up through about the 1950s.

By comparison with attitudes in Europe and Eurasia, the Russians and Germans are bosom buddies, and the French and English virtually lovers. Do not conflate Western cultural norms with those in Asia, especially the Pacific Rim area, because they are based on very different ideas and mores.

By: Pile of Pooh

Pile of Pooh — Fri, 01 Nov 2013 20:05:30 +0000

Romaji.

By: medjed

medjed — Fri, 01 Nov 2013 19:18:07 +0000

You can’t know for sure SerB is not doing the same thing occasionally(browsing forums) but i agree that if it was him i think he would just troll the author of the topic with usual how terrible and it would be another whining locked thread :) And you are right this time….i misread it this time…well not actually misread, but until i read whole article i somehow thought it was SerB w/o checking again.

By: Sl8

Sl8 — Fri, 01 Nov 2013 12:59:37 +0000

EU includes many countries that have been pushed back a good few decades back in civilisation evolution terms because of the Stalinist influence.

Maybe not France and the UK very much but almost all other states.

By: Sl8

Sl8 — Fri, 01 Nov 2013 12:57:21 +0000

- T-44-85 will not come out in 0.9.0

Damn it, damn it, damn it.
They announced the thing since at least 8.6. They postponed it in 8.8. They released it for testing in 8.9 with that historical but WoT unbalanced gun. They actually needed a public test to see that 126 pen at tier 7 is a joke ? And now they postpone it until next year at least.
Either they are searching for a historical prototype that had a more powerful 85mm gun, which I think there wasn’t, or they simply don’t have the manpower to simply fantasy buff the ZiS-S-54 like they did with other guns to a more acceptable level for this fantasy tank game.
I at least hope someone in the marketing department is tearing their hear out. A viable high(ish) tier prem that is an actual medium tank would have been a really good product to have in the store just in time for Christmas.

By: Sl8

Sl8 — Fri, 01 Nov 2013 12:49:39 +0000

You mean, besides him typing Cyrillic in public chat ?

By: Sl8

Sl8 — Fri, 01 Nov 2013 12:46:04 +0000

On the other hand they did host that World Cup in whatwasit …2004 ?
I didn’t hear of any events that would point to a tense relationship between the two nations. Maybe someone is overreacting ? Or maybe the police control during the WC was that good ?

By: Sl8

Sl8 — Fri, 01 Nov 2013 12:35:57 +0000

You get to play there, not make transactions. Your client is still EU.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 01 Nov 2013 06:06:35 +0000

“company I work for has whole manufacturing campus in china…and technology we deal with, closely related to medicine, cost millions of dollars” – no one gives a shit, stop with this “mightier than thou” attitude of yours. It’s nothing more than an appeal to authority argument.

If you want to discuss about computer games here, do it properly. We’re all on an equal footing, and nobody needs your stupid “hurr I work for an important company” nonsense.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 01 Nov 2013 06:04:28 +0000

Yeah. Mao and Khrushchev had a fallout, and it all went downhill from there. It eventually ended up to the point where the USSR had more detailed nuclear strike and invasion plans for China than for the United States. When China invaded Vietnam (a pro-Soviet state) in 1979, they received diplomatic support from the United States.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Soviet_split