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NYT publishing DnD campaign as news (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 22 points 5 months ago (8 children)

I love when they discover something that's been around since the 1950s. Wargaming got big when Tom Clancy played a lot of Harpoon and discovered how the G-I-UK gap was going to be huge in any Hot Cold War scenario. He wrote a whole novel about it, Red Storm Rising.
unfilmable so they did Hunt for Red October instead.

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  • [–] 23 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

    Red Storm Rising

    I know clancy is low hanging fruit but this is some great brainworms: the US stumbled into the dominant position in NATO unlike those dastardly Soviets who intentional took the dominant position in the Warsaw Pact which they did because they're evil and not as a natural consequence of having the largest military of the constituents

    Also a military alliance having a single mutually intelligible language for effective cohesive communication is Authoritarian

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    That's not in the book.
    Must be from one of the lame-ass wargames they made about it. Never ever get a licensed game. people buy it on name recognition, why bother to have a good game?

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  • [–] 16 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    He also wrote a lot about how the next world war would be us v Europe v Russia and china. Obviously Europe is an American puppet but they have been getting feisty lately

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  • [–] 14 points 5 months ago*

    unfilmable so they did Hunt for Red October instead.

    I read the book and was kinda amazed how they made that turd of a book into actually good movie. They had to cut off like 3/4th of anticommunism and russophobia from it lmao. On a side note, if the Annapolis cadets really used that book as a textbook in the 80's, i'm not even surprised how that generation which is now runing US Navy is crashing it to the ground hard.

    Also fun GIUK fact: it played certain hilarious role in Cod Wars

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