That’s the weird part: they only list a small number of specific events, but they date them in accordance to roughly when they happened in the real world, which would connect the events to everything else going on in the real world at that time.

Napoleon must have lost his army at Russia to have been defeated at Waterloo; with the British (and as far as I can tell, most of Europe) having been defeated, there’s no other explanation that can be inferred.

The short answer is that the Napoleonic wars occurred during the Jefferson Administration/War of 1812, so the British navy would have had plenty of time to both sail back to Britian as well as rebuild or repair ships.

The history of Code Geass is such a confusing mess: Rome lost to a Celtic barbarian who created his own kingdom, the Americans lost at Yorktown, Napoleon conquered Europe but still lost against Russia, Einstein is a batshit crazy high school girl who was born in America, and the Middle East is a united country with…

Not just high-tech prototypes, mind: Kallen’s machine was both created and adjusted by the two greatest (known) scientists on the planet, while Suzako had the benefit of both one of those scientists and his Geass power being boosted by the person who gave the command to him in the first place, who is himself the most…

Sad, but true.

I kind of like how it’s possible to tell which leaders were favored by the devs through the screens: Kamehameha, Harald, Gustavos, and Sejong are all rather poetic, while unfavoured ones are basically all variations of, “We lost? Welp.”

It doesn’t help that epicnamebro just finished an LP of the first Dark Souls that covers almost everything; if anyone wants to know what the game is all about, it’s pretty much all there now.

The best part is how you can just barely see the guys on the top ship still standing perfectly straight as they reload the cannons, despite both the impact and the angle of the ship.

5% still means you’ll miss every 20th shot, with the odds going in favor of missing after the 10th shot.

Sadly, that isn’t how it works: when the kids get older, they’ll claim that they did the country a service by ‘revealing’ the failures of the system, and then they’ll say the police should be able to tell what’s a prank and what isn’t without sending any officers to investigate. In fact, they’ll say, we should be thank…

Try doing things like that with War in the East/War in the Pacific: I tried to copy the American strategy for the Pacific theater (although I started about a year and a half early) and had to stop around Iwo Jima because the Japanese nearly killed enough marines to end the war early.

Even then, this plan won’t work: people don’t negotiate in Monopoly. Ever. The second this plan mentioned, “convince someone”, it failed.

On a slighlty related note, Creative Assembly didn’t/don’t hire any of the modders of their games (particularly the Darthmod guy), and they seem to keep making the same mistakes with their games over and over...

In fairness, AKB48 has a ton of people in it; wikipedia claims over 130. Then you add in all the behind-the-scenes people needed to make the group “work” and you’ve got a crazy number of people to pay, and an equal number of relationships to balance.

But Columbus DID know how to use maps; his main problem was that he believed the world to be 33% smaller than it actually is, and that he had a poor understanding of celestial navigation. If he couldn’t work a map, he probably wouldn’t have reached America at all, and he certainly wouldn’t have been able to return to…

This is a very weird situation: Parallax Software is listed as defunct, but that doesn’t mean anything by itself: for example, is still incorporated? If it isn’t, it may have no remedies worth hiring lawyers for; it’s also possible that Interplay has already convinced a judge at some point to essentially void the…

Yeah, I don’t think most of the people complaining actually remember just how much whacky shit actually happens in the series:

Their own people presumably volunteered to die fighting for freedom when they joined, just like the player, so it’s hard to see that as a betrayl. As for everyone else, they would almost certainly react violently to an army of synths suddenly being freed, so that’s still a logical choice.

A few of them seem pretty funny: I like “You’re worth less than a Steam trading card” and “Did the cat walk on your keyboard again?”