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    Sadly, I had to uninstall the game recently due to some problems running other games on my computer. However, I will try getting a new account and re-download the game.

    However, I do have one condition: we have to make a lemming train on a Tier 10 server with light tanks.
    I shall bring Mauses to their knees with AMX-38s! It'll be such an idiotic tactic that they'll have no counter!
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    I shall bring Mauses to their knees with AMX-38s! It'll be such an idiotic tactic that they'll have no counter!
    Except the Maus can just... touch you and cause 500000 HP damage.
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    Except the Maus can just... touch you and cause 500000 HP damage.
    That and I don't think there's any point on the Maus where the AMX-38 can penetrate with any of it's guns. But it'll cause a few laughs to be sure.
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    That and I don't think there's any point on the Maus where the AMX-38 can penetrate with any of it's guns. But it'll cause a few laughs to be sure.
    Imagine if the AMX 40 bounced a shell from the Maus. What a heroic duck!
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    Imagine if the AMX 40 bounced a shell from the Maus. What a heroic duck!
    The duck always gets the last quack.

    I have a lot of respect for the Matilda and AMX 40. To some extent, the Valentine too, that is if I ever actually saw the damn thing.
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    I like this guy. Welcome.
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    Yes welcome to this forum dude, you seem like a pretty cool cat!

    But you should seriously get rid of the amx 38. God I can't stand that hunk of junk. The D2 and the french heavy line is a much sexier alternative anyways

    I don't play WOT too much anymore because my poor old laptop can't handle it, but I was a pretty slick character back in the day (and by that I mean I just trolled the whole time) But yeah you seem to have a good taste in tanks, and I hope you'll continue to enjoy the game in the future. Btw dat WOT subculture is where it's at, get acquainted with it. #MightyJingles4Lyfe
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    Yes welcome to this forum dude, you seem like a pretty cool cat!

    But you should seriously get rid of the amx 38. God I can't stand that hunk of junk. The D2 and the french heavy line is a much sexier alternative anyways

    I don't play WOT too much anymore because my poor old laptop can't handle it, but I was a pretty slick character back in the day (and by that I mean I just trolled the whole time) But yeah you seem to have a good taste in tanks, and I hope you'll continue to enjoy the game in the future. Btw dat WOT subculture is where it's at, get acquainted with it. #MightyJingles4Lyfe
    Yeah the AMX is only really fun when you're the highest tier tank around. Still, I'm trying to get into light tanks. That being said if the AMX 40 proves to be as miserable as the AMX 38 I'm likely to try other French vehicles. I've had enough suffering through Tier IV in the T-28.

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    Yeah the AMX is only really fun when you're the highest tier tank around. Still, I'm trying to get into light tanks. That being said if the AMX 40 proves to be as miserable as the AMX 38 I'm likely to try other French vehicles. I've had enough suffering through Tier IV in the T-28.

    When tier IVs and Vs are playing you may as well close your eyes and prepare for a beat down.
    It is as miserable... but the PRIZE. So worth it. All this talk is making me anticipate WOT again. The tank gameplay still beats WarThunder.
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    It is as miserable... but the PRIZE. So worth it. All this talk is making me anticipate WOT again. The tank gameplay still beats WarThunder.
    The community in WarThunder is LoL level terrible.

    And that's quite the accomplishment.
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    The community in WarThunder is LoL level terrible.

    And that's quite the accomplishment.
    LoLoLoL. I enjoyed DOTA 2. What about you?
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    LoLoLoL. I enjoyed DOTA 2. What about you?
    Haven't really gotten into the MOBA scene. Are the people in DOTA as easily triggered into violent frothing rages if you're anything less than the perfect player as in LoL?
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    Haven't really gotten into the MOBA scene. Are the people in DOTA as easily triggered into violent frothing rages if you're anything less than the perfect player as in LoL?
    No thankfully. I went in as a newb, got the hang of things soon enough and no one complained. I'm not big on that scene to be honest. FPS/TPS or RTS is more my style.
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    No thankfully. I went in as a newb, got the hang of things soon enough and no one complained. I'm not big on that scene to be honest. FPS/TPS or RTS is more my style.
    What? Dota 2 community is literally the worst. Although, Dota community before that was little bit worse, I suppose.
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    No thankfully. I went in as a newb, got the hang of things soon enough and no one complained. I'm not big on that scene to be honest. FPS/TPS or RTS is more my style.
    Thank goodness, I'm tired of people who try to play at "one man army" and then swear up a storm whenever their team doesn't support them. Even if it was readily apparent that their plan was essentially tactical suicide. Or them blaming anyone they can for losing with the longest stream of hurtful epithets you've seen.

    CoD players calling you a mexican jew lizard is mostly amusing, LoL players seem to get much more personal with their insults.
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    Thank goodness, I'm tired of people who try to play at "one man army" and then swear up a storm whenever their team doesn't support them. Even if it was readily apparent that their plan was essentially tactical suicide. Or them blaming anyone they can for losing with the longest stream of hurtful epithets you've seen.

    CoD players calling you a mexican jew lizard is mostly amusing, LoL players seem to get much more personal with their insults.
    Maybe I just played well though, for a newb...

    Haha CoD don't get me started.

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    Maybe I just played well though, for a newb...

    Haha CoD don't get me started.

    "I'm sorry, your father was 720 tomahawked."
    And let's not forget the increasingly ridiculous unintentional parody of the technothriller genre it's plots have become.

    I suppose the Russians after fighting a devastating civil war and annexing the former soviet republics, using only the ultranationalistic parts of their nation, just teleported millions of troops and heavy vehicles into the United States (they certainly didn't take any route that obeyed logistical considerations, early warning radar networks, or the laws of spacetime) and after losing this invasion force, just grew several million more soldiers out of the dirt to simultaneously attack and invade every capital in the E.U.

    I also suppose that the long fractious and often staunchly nationalistic nations of Latin America also all just decided to sit down and form into this giant swarthy peril out to threaten good honest United States citizens. Invading Texas no less. And that the United States has such poor grasp of network security as to allow their orbital WMD system to be rather easily hacked.

    Come on now, this search for enemies without resorting to the supernormal is just getting silly.
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    If you're curious about the above, it's the ironic nickname I've been given by some friends online.

    My interest in the left started in a rather off the cuff place. Though my Father was an ex-Soviet Combat Engineer and my Mother an East German secretary, what really sparked my interest was well...Red Alert 2, which was my first ever video game that I played on my brother's lap as a three year old (and apparently sucked at).

    I greatly preferred to play as the Soviets with their mighty apocalypse tanks, kirovs, and dreadnoughts and then actually decided to try and learn more about them. When I learned about the ideologies of eglitarianism that founded the USSR I was hooked, though later I learned the harsh realities of that regime in particular.

    Now eleven years later I've traveled through many countries, the U.S, Sweden, U.K, Germany, South Africa, and Russia (in no particular order). With a family of six siblings I can't exactly say we've been showered with wealth (my oldest brother *still* cannot move out of the house due to being unable to afford both higher education and a house of his own) while I've often had to wonder why some people get to fly around private planes and fire mini-guns at hapless range targets while others lived in mud huts and starved.

    I was also raised in an anti-corporatist household. And while I can't ignore my parents and siblings' contribution to my viewpoint I did try to do some research into the rampant assholery allowed by the world today because the big guy has more money and firepower than the common man. A world where Shell can bribe the Nigerian military to machine gun protestors or a dam company can be partially responsible for a landslide that killed thousands and get away with a "whoopsie-doo" because they are at this point supplanting any sort of people derived power is not a just world. And to my viewpoints, that's just not gonna fly. Supplementing this are my own social views, I suppose me being a generation Z kid makes me unable to see just why some people get their knickers in a twist about the LGBT community, feminism, just treatment of minorities in media, and the like espoused by a depressing number of the post-war generation. Where's the justice in preaching about how we defeated regimes built on hate when hate is still a rampant problem?

    My other big interest of course is Science. I don't quite have the head for numbers to really have a hope to pursue a career in the STEM fields so highly sought in today's world, but I've tried to keep abreast of the human pursuit of knowledge and stay highly self educated. It's not that I don't trust the school system, as I've managed to remain rather free of awful teachers (though I have had very interesting teachers, like my history teacher last year was the biggest hippie girl you've ever seen, Howard Zinn fan, too left for the Democrat party, obsessive millenial tumblr user and more surprisingly also a Homestuck fan like me, which lead me to personally befriend her), but that I feel that the coverage of subjects I enjoy is generally too shallow.

    But perhaps one of my biggest passions is fiction in all media. I love stories, I love to make them, I love to play them (role playing is a huge hobby of mine), I love to watch them, I love to read them, and hell I love to world build! But perhaps my least enjoyable time was in English classes due to the academic astablishment's incredible bias against speculative fiction. Why? Are randroid rags really more valid literature than the hobbit? Do I really have to be looked down on for bringing in Harry Turtledove's worldwar or the Culture? I can't stand the teachers dirty looks when I bring out a Ciaphas Cain novel. And marking me down on an open writing prompt for writing a science fiction story is bull.

    I suppose overall I've become a radicalized social justice warrior in my short time on the third rock from the sun. And I hope to find more likeminded new friends.

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    What? Dota 2 community is literally the worst. Although, Dota community before that was little bit worse, I suppose.
    I remember trying to play that game once. A person tried to ban me because I was a "noob". I idmediatly uninstalled the game.
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