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The Pit / Re: Communists in GOIO

« on: February 12, 2015, 07:41:12 pm »

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Still, c-ponter. Before you start discussing beliefs etc, try checking both sides. That's why I own Mein Kampf and Manifesto of Polish United Worker Party. Less people will want your head on the silver plate.

I felt I had, which is why I was willing to put my opinion forward, having read Mein Kampf and many of Stalin's speeches, maybe I have written it off too much towards their personal interests and been slightly too accepting towards the political ideals  themselves.
But yes, I will tread more carefully in future, especially about issues as sensitive as this

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The Pit / Re: Communists in GOIO

« on: February 12, 2015, 07:25:03 pm »

Ponter, I liked you. Please don't defend the Nazis. I get wanting to play devil's advocate, but the Nazis in WWII Era did a bunch of terrible things and Nazis today are awful people. They're less genocidal now and more white supremacist,  and all terrible and need no defense. Please can we stop with this nonsense.

as I said, I do not feel I am defending them, just haveing discussion about their beliefs.
Though I can see that I have caused some upset and apologize for this, so I will no longer comment on this as I feel many are taking it in a way I did not intend to come across as me defending the actions that these ideals have caused.
(Also its 1:30am and I am tired but do not want people to think I'm running away if I stop replying)

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The Pit / Re: Communists in GOIO

« on: February 12, 2015, 07:21:38 pm »

I cannot give a source now as I am on mobile but will post one here or pm you whichever you prefer once I have access to a computer.As for the Aaryan master race that part of Nazism is...flawed to say the least, if not downright stupid though they did not actually persecute everyone who did not fit their master race ideal, they were just kind of ignored for the most part, but I don't doubt Hitler would have 'solved that problem' as he saw it after he had won the war, if he had done so.
Though the part about women being forced to reproduce with men is not entirely true, they were strongly encouraged but not forced, though admittedly there probably were many that felt forced to do so.(I can provide a source to that as well if you like)
but for the record I would like to clarify that most of what Hitler did was not Nazi, it was his own personal belief (look to Mein Kampf, before Hitler gained control of the Nazi party they weren't nearly as extreme) and I do not agree with what he did at all.

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The Pit / Re: Communists in GOIO

« on: February 12, 2015, 07:01:16 pm »

Mr disaster while I agree that those events were horrific and should be treated as such, by that theory Christianity should be illegal due to the crusades, Muslims should be punished for their countless Jihads over the years, Egyptians should be persecuted for their enslavement of the Jews ect... Though none of these events are justifiable in any way shape or form in my opinion there is no point dwelling on what a symbol or ideology was used to represent by one or several prominent members, as a general rule every ideology would work in theory but none of them can in reality, there will always be people who  use and exploit religion or politics to justify their actions, but does that really mean all religion and politics should be outlawed?

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The Pit / Re: Communists in GOIO

« on: February 12, 2015, 06:44:29 pm »

Mein kampf is an autobiography written by Hitler in which he even states that his view is extreme, historically speaking it is so biased it cannot be used on its own to gain a balanced opinion. And I did say I do not agree with the way he went about enforcing the ideology.
At no point did I say all were volunteers, just a larger percentage than people realized.
Finally my  great grandfather also survived a WW2 Labour camp (though Japanese, not Russian or German) so plz don't try pulling  family.
I sincerely apologize if I offended you, I was simply stating facts as I believe them about two political  ideologies, in no way was I defending the monsters who used them to justify their actions and am sorry if it came across that way.
I cannot comment on current ISIS events as I know very little about them, but to the best of my knowledge they are Islamic terrorists using the Islamic religion as a cover up for the crimes they commit

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The Pit / Re: Communists in GOIO

« on: February 12, 2015, 06:18:07 pm »

The symbol stood for Nazism, an ideology explicitly involving eugenics and murder.

Any chance you c ould link /give me the name of a source or 2  claiming  this? As I previously stated I am rather interested in the debate in this area and as far as I was aware the Nazi ideology itself did not permit murder/persecution, this was just a tool used by many of its famous representatives that has given the ideology a bad name. I would like to know if I was mis-lead about this but every source I can find either supports my view or more often ignores the ideology  completely in order to focus on the negative connotations surrounding Hitler and other leaders

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The Pit / Re: Communists in GOIO

« on: February 12, 2015, 05:58:55 pm »

I agree that a game is not the place for promoting political ideals or beliefs, however I also do not see the need to persecute others for said beliefs. Obviously I do not agree with the way that many communist countries have gone about reaching those ideals (Russian Stalin being the prime example) but at the same time he did not commit nearly as many murders as he is given credit for, many of his apparent 'slaves' were a actually normal Russian citizens who volunteered to work in camps in the hope of a better Russia at the end of it all. Personally I agree with the communist ideals that all are equal and everything is divided among all, unfortunately they are just ideals and cannot happen in reality. I would almost say Stalin did succeed in that he did turn Russia from one of the most backwards countries in the world to a great superpower in roughly 10 years, an achievement which has only been recently matched ( that I am aware of, and I realize this will not be a popular statement) by Hitler. The Nazi idea in itself does not persecute Jews or any other religious or ethnic groups, Hitler simply used them as a political tool to gain power and for those not persecute d in both Russia and Germany under said leaders life generally was a huge improvement.
I guess what I mean to say is I dont think they should use political symbols for a clan tag but ar the same time I dint have anything against it, if they are abusing the perception of what communism is then report them but until that point I don't see any real reason to do so.
Of course all of what I have just said us void of there is a rule I missed about political links In clan names XD
(Disclaimer: nearly all of what I have just said is out of history textbooks from school so if you do disagree and have sources feel free to link them/state what they claim, I am always up for a discussion on this rather interesting topic)

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Feedback and Suggestions / Re: Emergency/Distress Balloons- Pilot tool

« on: February 11, 2015, 04:58:49 pm »

Indreams I agree with practically everything you have just said, which is the whole point in it imo. As you said used well chem completely negates any fire, but its quite hard to use well, this is what takes practice to learn and differentiates between an good or great engi. Let's be honest, if chem was easy to use well, it would be OP.
As for the handling of the ship I can't comment much (look at my pilot lvl XD) but at the end of the day everything needs a downside.

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The Docks / Re: The Gentlemen Are Recruiting!

« on: February 11, 2015, 01:08:52 pm »

Just bumping the glorious and respected (non-biased) clan that is the Gents
(by which I mean all the other clans are getting bumped and I started to feel left out )

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General Discussion / Re: Killing the community, one game at a time.

« on: February 10, 2015, 05:45:53 pm »

You could try that with a novice player on your crew as well, that way (as long as they are willing to co-operate) they would ask questions as you go and by answering his/her questions you are likely to answer the questions of anybody watching.
Or have a full crew spectating and each commenting on their respective equivalent on the ship(though this would miss out on the on-ship chat which I guess was the main point of this :/) but it would mean you could comment on the crew of any ship in the game, not just the ship you're on.
ps:if you need a semi-competent main engi to help with this feel free to pm me here or in-game.

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General Discussion / Re: Killing the community, one game at a time.

« on: February 10, 2015, 05:33:54 am »

It's clear that something is killing the community but it a not the novices, its this thread and others like it that have descended into personal arguments.
Granted I am not the oldest player, but in my time playing guns I have gained massive respect for most of the playerbase, even those I have never played with before simply because I can't remember a single bad experience with anybody lvl 15+ ( or there abouts).
Never have I seen so many cheap and unnecessary comments of 'I respect the noobs more' and worse taking pot shots at other players.
Yes, you are entitled to your opinion on people, obviously you won't like everyone, but there is no need to vent it on a public forum in some attempt to name and shame somebody you personally don't get along with. It's really not that hard to either just block said player and don't play with them or actually just talk to them in a private message, if you really take so much offence from somebody over the internet you never have and likely never will meet, in my opinion you are not too well suited to be on the internet.
It a bit of a harsh way of looking at it I know, but not as harsh as some of the petty comments on here.

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Feedback and Suggestions / Re: Balloons with Health

« on: February 09, 2015, 06:45:58 am »

I may have misunderstood slightly, but what your saying there is that a blender can just grind and there is no way to come back.
There are several reasons I do not agree with this
1: most good gunners know when facing a blender the main priority is to disable the Carro, from that point on it is easy to gain and hold the upper hand.
2: yes, once you are grounding out and have been disabled it is extremely hard to come back, the easiest solution to this is simple, don't. Just tank, save every single bit of permahull HP possible, and wait. Blender s are a kill, but a very slow one, the kill depends on your teammate winning against the other ship, if the teammate of the ship grounding out wins, or ignores the other ship to focus the blender it's entirely possible to come back. It just needs slightly more teamwork to counter than most other builds imo

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General Discussion / Re: Killing the community, one game at a time.

« on: February 08, 2015, 08:36:07 am »

From my point of view what does more damage to the player base is public lobby stomping.

Veterans see the opposition is really and mean really out-classed but do they offer to help or balance it? No they just stomp for the XP and leave.

Ok a few matches here and there but relentlessly pub stomping.... Well chaps where is your honour when a lvl 40+ pilot has a pyra and the match is so unbalanced then why does the pilot proceed with caution?

Pity the poor low players and a spanner in your engines to all who just pub stomp.

while I agree with this for the most part, from my experience if a team Is truly stompin, it is not uncommon for teams to split and even the game slightly.  It was just yesterday I came up against a full SREP team, and being the only player on my team over lvl 15, we got slaughtered, though I was surprised that after that match SREP were kind enough to just say 'GG' and completely swapped the teams to make for a really close second match. I have seen things like this happen fairly regularly but this is just an example.
After all pub stomping is no fun for anyone, stomper or the stomped

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Community Events / Re: League of Assistance

« on: February 07, 2015, 01:23:17 pm »

Ty for that, every time converter I can find goes off of cities, so I just stare at it like 'I don't know which cities EST applies to, y u do dis internets?! '

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Community Events / Re: League of Assistance

« on: February 07, 2015, 05:51:42 am »

I'm up for showing some newer players the best ways to play main engi and  some tricks of the trade.
I am not 100% sure what time this is in my timezon but I will probably be online anyway so send me a msg in-game through the Gent clan if you do have a ship in need of a well practiced spanner.