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f1r3lemon Duty First from All aboard the fun train Since: Nov, 2014 Relationship Status: Get out of here, STALKER
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#452701: Sep 30th 2015 at 10:33:49 AM

the name gave it away

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Azure Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Fist from The World Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: We finish each other's sandwiches
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#452702: Sep 30th 2015 at 10:37:55 AM

Wacky, you are making it worse.

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WackyPancake from My computer. Since: May, 2011
#452703: Sep 30th 2015 at 10:54:17 AM

all i'm saying is

it's just an indie rpg

it's really nothing anybody should be getting angry over

famine

war

poverty

that's somethign you should be getting angry over

an rpg?

nah

so please before you end up blowing up like that again

think about what you are blowing up over first

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#452704: Sep 30th 2015 at 10:57:59 AM

New topic: Bindi Irwin is now apparently a beautiful young lady and I am super fucking old.

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MobileLeprechaun (: from Grayrock, TX Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
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#452706: Sep 30th 2015 at 11:01:29 AM

Steve Irwin's daughter. I saw a picture of her today on a magazine in the store. Jesus, she looks so much like her dad...

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thespacephantom Jamais vu from the smallest church in Saint-Saëns Since: Oct, 2009
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#452707: Sep 30th 2015 at 11:02:34 AM

-googles-

yeah no kidding

the resembelance is actually uncanny there

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#452709: Sep 30th 2015 at 11:06:53 AM

I think it's a combination of Steve's rugged features showing through and maybe her getting a bit much of that Aussie sun.

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megarockman from The Sixth Borough (Experienced Trainee)
#452710: Sep 30th 2015 at 11:16:43 AM

The fighting was American (mainly - wiki states a good chunk of the soldiers enlisted were Irish and German with around another 60,000+ from the UK and Canada and smaller numbers from France, Scandinavia, Hungary, Mexico, and even East Asia; the Union had by far the larger chunk.)

A bigger reason Britain and the rest of Europe largely stayed out was because while the South grew cotton, the North had corn (and there were, from the South's perspective, very untimely crop failures in 1860-62, which made trade with the North much more critical). Also, the Union made it clear any move to recognize the Confederacy would mean war - for Britain, that would almost certainly mean losing Canada.

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thespacephantom Jamais vu from the smallest church in Saint-Saëns Since: Oct, 2009
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#452711: Sep 30th 2015 at 11:18:55 AM

is it more a matter of the union being able to fight a war on two fronts

or canada just not being super well defended?

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megarockman from The Sixth Borough (Experienced Trainee)
#452712: Sep 30th 2015 at 11:26:03 AM

Canada didn't have any where near even just the Union's manpower or (more importantly by my judgement) industrial capability. Also, Britain's strength was in its navy, which isn't much help when the enemy only needs to defend a river crossing.

Amusingly enough, in the 1930's there was a Canadian Defense Scheme No. 1 and a US War Plan Red which dealt with a hypothetical US-Canadian war. Canada's plan was to aggressively (at that time they would be outnumbered roughly 10 to 1) counter attack in Washington State, Minnesota, New York State, and I think Maine long enough to destroy bridgeheads before retreating back and hold out long enough for reinforcements from the UK...reinforcements which would never come because the Royal Navy at that time concluded that it would be pointless to try to defend Canada.

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ramuf Electric Heart from the Shining Throne Since: Jan, 2013
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#452713: Sep 30th 2015 at 11:28:19 AM

See that, Seer.

America > Canada.

thespacephantom Jamais vu from the smallest church in Saint-Saëns Since: Oct, 2009
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#452714: Sep 30th 2015 at 11:28:48 AM

holy shit

aahahahahaha

poor canada

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megarockman from The Sixth Borough (Experienced Trainee)
#452716: Sep 30th 2015 at 11:38:53 AM

To be fair, what other options do you have when 90% of the population lives within 50 miles of the border?

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ramuf Electric Heart from the Shining Throne Since: Jan, 2013
megarockman from The Sixth Borough (Experienced Trainee)
#452718: Sep 30th 2015 at 11:40:23 AM

You fool, that leads to the fucking Draka.

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thespacephantom Jamais vu from the smallest church in Saint-Saëns Since: Oct, 2009
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#452719: Sep 30th 2015 at 11:41:11 AM

whats a draka

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Bcom Since: Jun, 2014
#452720: Sep 30th 2015 at 11:42:18 AM

oh i know those guys, they're from that alternate history where remnants of the confederacy flee to some island, then some bull shit that involves failing biology happens and you end up with nazi lizard people taking over the world

edited 30th Sep '15 11:42:31 AM by Bcom

f1r3lemon Duty First from All aboard the fun train Since: Nov, 2014 Relationship Status: Get out of here, STALKER
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#452721: Sep 30th 2015 at 11:43:02 AM

thats way more entertaining

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megarockman from The Sixth Borough (Experienced Trainee)
#452722: Sep 30th 2015 at 11:43:31 AM

These jerks. They are literally worse than Nazis. In both meanings of the term - the storyline has a Draka-Nazi war where the Nazis become the (relative) good guys because they are not as bad as the Draka.

[up][up]The POD is the Americans winning the 1775 campaign in Canada coupled with the Dutch losing the nascent Cape Colony to the British, which meant all those United Empire Loyalists which historically moved from the United States to Ontario and New Brunswick instead move to present day South Africa, along with their slaves.

edited 30th Sep '15 11:52:27 AM by megarockman

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WackyPancake from My computer. Since: May, 2011
f1r3lemon Duty First from All aboard the fun train Since: Nov, 2014 Relationship Status: Get out of here, STALKER
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#452724: Sep 30th 2015 at 12:09:13 PM

Yes

I also want to try it out

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thespacephantom Jamais vu from the smallest church in Saint-Saëns Since: Oct, 2009
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#452725: Sep 30th 2015 at 12:13:08 PM

it looks rad

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