ItsPequod [he/him]

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Cake day: July 30th, 2020

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  • Ooh this one is easy, Red Dead Redemption is a tight action game with a solid if sterotypical cowboy story about the end of the Wild West. Red Dead Remption 2, despite it’s technical improvements in basically every way failed to draw me in even after hours of trying. I dunno what it is, maybe I just really am not interested in “the Gang in it’s heyday” prequel hook, or maybe it’s just how much Rockstar decided to try and make the game into a weird simulator instead of a video game. Played a ton of the MP with friends, as our own little posse rocking around, I made a cool half-native looking dude with a top hat and that was fun, but then we ran into the problem of Rockstar just giving up on wrapping any of the live stories they developed so that’s a half-dead game right there. Hard to sell infinite money cards with the cowboy game I suppose.

    Evil Genius is a pretty fun little strategy game from like 2004 that was an homage to old bond movies and the cold war, it was buggy as hell but it had some really neat ideas and charm to it and I really liked playing it. Evil Genius 2 is the over-polished sequel that utterly failed to live up to any of the first games energy, the art style got all the weird edges sanded off and has no character of it’s own, and I feel like the new team just didn’t really vibe with the classic’s idea. I dunno maybe I should give it another go but it just rubbed me the wrong way.














  • The various failures of the UNOC mission during 1961, including the assassination of Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba and the death toll of Operation Morthor, led elements of the UN to downplay attention to the Siege of Jadotville.[65]

    Only in 2005 did the Irish Army pardon Company A for their surrender,[66] and until the early 21st century, the Irish state did not give much recognition to the battle of Jadotville either. The term “Jadotville Jack” was sometimes applied as a term of derision about the Irish Defence Forces. After the incident no Irish soldier received any decoration for his actions at Jadotville, although Commandant Quinlan recommended a number of his men for the Military Medal for Gallantry (MMG), Ireland’s highest award for military valour, for their actions during the battle.[67]

    Although “A” Company, 35th Battalion had tactically defeated a vastly larger enemy force at Jadotville, the Irish Defence Forces’ leadership did not overtly acknowledge the battle. There may have been perceived shame that “A” Company had surrendered, or because of political and strategic errors demonstrated at higher levels.[48]

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