A bit curious how that all happened. I listened to some stories about the Nankin massacres but haven’t learned much of the decade or two before hand

Wondering if it’s just a thing like Germany that even though the Japanese had inferior numbers they had superior technology and was a surprise attack

China was always a "inward perfection" kinda nation

Right before the europeans began exploring, they secluded themselves from the world because of a "religions" (not exactly religious) view that only bad influences could come from the outside

hence they became very secluded, very agricultural, etc. They were always lobbied by foreign European powers because CANNONS AND SHIPS vs. pitchforks and fireworks...

Fastforward to WW2, you have a divided China, with Communists in the North led by Mao, and some other northern states breaking off... Japan, however, had already been through a major industrial revolution and outgunned by a huge margin the Chinese army

It was basically only after Japan left China that the Communists took over and so began the glorious leap forward

that led to the death of 60 million people and etc

Ah damn and then even looking at the main land today where people think its ok to poo anywhere

He's basically right except that China did have firearms too. Just not exclusively the way European armies did. And there were certain warlords and factions that refused to use guns.

Also noteworthy is that the National Revolutionary Army outnumbered the Workers and Peasants Red Army by about 5:1

No you cannot shit in the street in China. You might see that in a remote village if a kid does it but it's not appropriate

In WW2 it was the Republic of China, led by the socialist Kuomintang

Or Guomindang depending on how you latinize it

I am not an apologist for the CPC and my own in-laws were mistreated despite fighting for their country, but. In 1927 the KMT broke their alliance with the CPC and withdrew from Comintern. Then they killed up to 10,000 civilians they accused of communist leanings. The KMT fractured, basically a Nazi side and a commie side

Wang Jingwei (president) sided with the left wing of the KMT, but betrayed his country to the Japanese. Close friend of Mao and other founders up until then. He was deposed by a warlord, swore allegiance to the new leader-Chiang Kai Shek

A Methodist socialist with apparent Muslim sympathies since he had Hui generals in his army

Hui are an ethnic group of China who are mostly Muslim, but they're not the same as the Uighur Turks from Xinjiang

They actually have slant eyes etc like everyone else

Wang and Chiang went back and forth. Wang resigned several times, Chiang wouldn't accept his resignation, they became friends again, then fought again etc

Wang felt they were not modernized enough to defeat Japan, Chiang felt they could if given enough time to develop industry. Both were right in a way

Ironically Wang wanted to join the Axis and sign an anticommunist treaty with them, while Chiang wanted peace with the Soviets

They got along well enough to resist Japan. Had the Japanese not been busy fighting China, we may not have been able to beat them. They probably could not conquer all of China though, it's too big and populated

The atrocities of the KMT were enough to provoke a popular revolution to overthrow them. The Japanese were far worse, and they would have stirred up a huge hornet's nest inland

The part of China that Japan didn't get to had twice the population of the US at the time, 3/5ths of the entire country. They already couldn't keep order in the eastern parts

The Chinese did have small arms, but they lacked in artillery, let alone having any tanks at all. Even in World of Tanks, the beginning tiers of the Chinese tank tech tree are either British and American lend lease, or captured Japanese tanks. It was only after Maoist takeover of China that they started to make better tanks, that too which were just Soviet copies.

The Japanese still had a relatively better condition in terms of armour, and since they already had a lot of artillery, Germany broke its alliance with China in 1938 and formed the Tripartite in 1940.

Tanks also aren't good for urban warfare where most of the major battles were

Beginning of the war I think they had like 35 tanks in the entire army.

Small arms were mostly LICENSED copies of German weapons

Still available for purchase now, not in China of course

CAN WE GET BACK TO VIDYA TALK PLS

no

Video game talk belongs in general. Asian politics belongs in Vidya. European and religious history belongs in wakanda

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ya'all read this cancer

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/09/03/trans-representation-in-cyberpunk-2077-matters-but-not-because-its-cyberpunk/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rockpapershotgun%2Fsteam+%28Rock%2C+Paper%2C+Shotgun%3A+Steam+RSS%29

seen it on the news feed for BATTLETECH in my library of all things

http://archive.is/j3of1

archived

comments are full tumblr autism levels

I guess in the BattleTech future this shit has already been eradicated

Aigis, no....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GadvebX3kMo

Not surprised that showed up with Battletech

They planned to have that Matt Perez psycho in the game

https://kiwifarms.net/threads/matt-perez-michelle-perez-rubblewoman-thatwronglove.27407/

Everything you need to know about that refuse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvtmsUMsFWo

It's one if the most aesthetic sounds in video game history

How about you git gud instead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVybGgvGMlk

Finally a new episode

It took him this long to do that game?

I remember that review on Xplay when I was like 14

And Im 30 lmao

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8pABBHw2xs

one of the easiest seasons so far

https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/26/17905146/sony-fortnite-ps4-cross-play-support

Someone finally talked sense into sony. Good.

https://youtu.be/rzZsQQIRJIA

Man that's so fuckin cool

?????

That girl is offensive to fat women

#BOYCOTT

And where are the transgender crippled Muslims?

Haha

Sonya from MK3 was in Playboy

...

It completely slipped my mind that they would have needed to stopp motion Sheeva holy shit

@princeofdolalmroth

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Free Arabian Legion, Arab and black Muslim soldiers for Germany, mostly volunteer

I know it will never happen, but does anyone else want a New Vegas 2?

“Yes”

Preferably with the Mr. House ending as canon

Yes, Obsidian would make it great again

FO4 was a letdown

@fsmetal I actually made my own summery of my favorite Halo games awhile ago. Let me know what you think
https://www.deviantart.com/conn1321/art/Rating-The-Halo-Campaigns-Worst-to-Best-685842849

I will look at it later. I am dead tired and am about to lay down and take a nap

alright.

They need to port halo trilogy to pc....

damn I still have the feels playing them over xbox when I was a kid 😦

I'd love all of them on PC

True, I'm just not that of a fun after bungie left

Halo 3 was the last main game I brought from Halo series. I skipped odst and brought halo wars and I stopped there on halo

Damn still remembering the first time playing Halo 1 when my father brought the first xbox with the duke controllers