AWKWARD ZOMBIE

I don't absolutely hate Hot Topic. They at least have some shirts that I wouldn't mind buying.

Also I like Blue decks in MtG.

I've seen cute stuff there but I ain't spending $20 on a t-shirt that feels like it should be $8 at the most

I think male, white, stubbled men in video games are like marshmallows. One or two are good, but when you have to eat a whole bag of them you start to think they're more boring and bland then anything, and you start to feel sick to your stomach because there's just to many to handle.

Things would have gone so much better if we had taken the Germans' side a hundred years ago.

I don't think you can say things like that without a lot of people being very offended. Especially without any explanation.

The first world war?

Germany was given all of the blame for WWI, even though it was more or less everyone's fault. They were made to pay reparitions and their economy was devastated. Everything was so terrible and the Germans were angry about being "blamed" for everything that when someone stepped up and said, "No, Germany is awesome, let's take back everything those guys took from us" there was a huge amount of support. (Simplified version of events, of course.)

I think what Barabba means is that if Germany didn't get the short stick in WWI, there would not have been the impetus for WWII.

That's how I read it as well yeah.

We wouldn't have even had to send one footsoldier over to Europe, we would have helped just fine by attacking Canada, one of the Allied Powers' suppliers, and we could have even subjugated Canada or annexed it. Or install puppet officials. We could have also helped Germany by sending it supplies exclusively. Helping the Allied Powers proved more costly in both men lost and potential territory lost.

Now, I'm not much of a history buff, but the US's participation in WWI wasn't as conclusive as it was in WWII. "what if" 's are always guesswork, but Germany was close to starvation in 1918 thanks partly to the British blockade. It doesn't seem inconceivable that the Allied powers would have won eventually regardless of American intervention, but obviously at much greater cost. In the case of the US actively waging war on the Allied forces, that would have been a completely different story. However, one must consider the context. Until 1917, America stayed neutral and tried to avoid participation in the war. But, because of continued German attacks on American merchant ships, they were practically forced to retaliate (source). The US never became a formal member of the Allied Powers though, they were a self-styled "Associated Power". So you see, it's less that the US choose to ally with one side or the other, it's more that they retaliated after being unwillingly dragged into the war that spanned the globe.

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As mentioned in one of the sources above, the US traded with both parties (for it's own profit), and both parties tried to prevent this for the other by creating a blockade. The British were more tactful and succesful about this though, avoiding to spill too much American blood lest it incurred the US's wrath. This probably ended up being one of the major deciding factors of the war.

Bionicles got kinda shitty, didn't they? The first few sets of Toas and Bohroks were awesome as all hell, with their gear mechanisms and head-butting powers, but then it got like this, and it was shit. Frankly, I don't see why people are getting excited over the new Bionicles if it's just going to have more Light-Up swords and Ball Launchers.

I dislike the Temple stage in Smash.