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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Decolonization is Not a Metaphor ☭ 🌳☭‏ @SableCat2 3 Nov 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @lisaquestions

      My favorite example of this is the mythology of the Tiger tank. In pop culture, it was the most amazingly unbeatable tank of WW2. In reality, it was a piece of trash that would spontaneously catch fire if you drove it backwards down a hill.

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    2. Decolonization is Not a Metaphor ☭ 🌳☭‏ @SableCat2 3 Nov 2020
      Replying to @SableCat2 @arthur_affect @lisaquestions

      It would also easily get stuck in mud, and the transmission would break if a rock got kicked up into the undercarriage, which happened a lot, and couldn't be repaired in the field - unlike Allied tanks, where the transmission could be easily replaced!

      1 reply 2 retweets 27 likes
    3. Decolonization is Not a Metaphor ☭ 🌳☭‏ @SableCat2 3 Nov 2020
      Replying to @SableCat2 @arthur_affect @lisaquestions

      It was too heavy to cross most bridges, which meant any army group containing tigers was severely restricted in its strategic mobility, and it ran out of gas quickly, meaning it needed constant access to refueling to keep operating.

      1 reply 1 retweet 24 likes
    4. Decolonization is Not a Metaphor ☭ 🌳☭‏ @SableCat2 3 Nov 2020
      Replying to @SableCat2 @arthur_affect @lisaquestions

      And on top of all that, it was horrifically expensive to make! Even compared to its performance under ideal conditions, the very thing that leads people to mistakenly rate it so high!

      1 reply 1 retweet 21 likes
    5. Decolonization is Not a Metaphor ☭ 🌳☭‏ @SableCat2 3 Nov 2020
      Replying to @SableCat2 @arthur_affect @lisaquestions

      Only something like 60% of Tigers produced ever actually made it to the battlefield, so many broke down outside it.

      3 replies 1 retweet 28 likes
    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Nov 2020
      Replying to @SableCat2 @lisaquestions

      Hitler's childlike obsession with "secret weapons", although it's one of the things that annoyingly endears the Nazis to wargaming nerds, obviously helped waste their money and lose them the war And is very similar to Trump's childlike glee at the "invisible" F-35

      3 replies 9 retweets 62 likes
    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Nov 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @SableCat2 @lisaquestions

      People like to speculate on unlikely scenarios if everything had gone perfectly for the Nazis and their experiments had paid off - "What if they'd made the first guided missile submarine? What if they'd fielded the first jet fighter air force?"

      3 replies 2 retweets 29 likes
    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Nov 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @SableCat2 @lisaquestions

      The classic LucasArts flight sim Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe was based on the latter scenario (and the Star Wars game TIE Fighter loosely based on that), this movie fantasy of an ultimate strike bomber letting one Knight of the Air win the war by himself

      2 replies 2 retweets 19 likes
    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Nov 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @SableCat2 @lisaquestions

      It leaves a bad taste in my mouth having been a fan of that stuff as a kid But I mean you don't have to worry, Göring was too stupid not to get anyone who would've been competent enough to volunteer for such a role pointlessly killed (which is the plot of TIE Fighter)

      3 replies 2 retweets 26 likes
    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Nov 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @SableCat2 @lisaquestions

      And, like There were ideas that Hitler latched onto that seem like he was looking into the future, like a jet-powered strike bomber There were ones that seem "ambitious but tragically flawed", like the idea of the Tiger "supertank" And some were just completely fucking dumb

      3 replies 3 retweets 20 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Nov 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @SableCat2 @lisaquestions

      Up until the end of the war he kept pushing them to test the idea of a "rifle that shoots around corners" Literally putting a bent barrel on the thing and a periscope so you could see around a corner and shoot someone before they see you The ultimate trump card in urban warfare

      9:30 PM - 3 Nov 2020
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        1. Jeff‏ @jeffbachtel 3 Nov 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @SableCat2 @lisaquestions

          They have those, now! Kinda shit tho tbh because they're pistols

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Nov 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @SableCat2 @lisaquestions

          They *kept on trying to do this* and reporting back to him that because of the basic way a gun works the steepest angle you can bend the barrel is about 20 degrees before the gun blows up in your hand and you can't possibly aim to hit anything that way

          2 replies 2 retweets 19 likes
        3. Amy Veeres‏ @AmyVeeres 3 Nov 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @SableCat2 @lisaquestions

          So even back then, Nazis aspired to be the guy from Wanted.

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