@PaulTassi Honestly? Good.
Leadership especially NEEDS to get gone from Bungie. They created the mess in the first place.
Hopefully Sony comes down hard on them and forces a turnaround, otherwise the studio is probably toast.
@Dexerto The people who think that what the people want has any effect on politicians, when it doesn't benefit those politicians financially or in optics to do it, are insane.
Called them bots, then forced Spirit to OT on every single map. 9z took that personal and made Donk work for it. Good on 'em.
Humbled Vitality and then humbled the power player. @9zTeam might be the dark horse of this major.
Feels like every other chapter this monster appears.
One Piece might be in the final throws, but if it slows down so much, it'll still take 10 more years to finish
@Halo Bros what... what the fuck is even this?
Tone down the quips on Johnson and redo his model. He looks wrong. So does Cortana?
I don't know why Halo is such a difficult concept for these Microsoft devs, but holy hell it's been long enough. Get it together bois.
More American soldiers died rehearsing for D-Day than died storming the actual beach. And the U.S. Army spent forty years pretending it never happened.
April 28, 1944. Slapton Sands, on the south coast of England. A stretch of Devon shoreline chosen because it looked almost exactly like a beach in Normandy nobody was allowed to name yet: Utah.
30,000 men. Nearly 300 ships. A full dress rehearsal for the largest invasion in human history, now just weeks away. Live ammunition, real naval bombardment, everything as close to the real thing as the brass could make it. That was the whole point. Harden the men before the real beach tried to kill them.
It went wrong twice in one night.
First, the friendly fire. A live-shell bombardment meant to simulate combat was mistimed against the troops coming ashore. Men were cut down by their own navy on a practice beach, in a war they hadn't reached yet.
Then, out in the dark of Lyme Bay, the real enemy arrived. Nine German E-boats, fast attack craft hunting out of occupied France, slipped straight into the convoy. The Americans never saw them coming. Radio frequencies were mismatched. A British escort ship had gone back to port for repairs and nobody covered the gap.
Torpedoes hit LST-507 and LST-531. Both went down. A third was crippled.
Most of the men did not die from the explosions. They drowned. They had never been properly trained to wear their life belts, so they clipped them around their waists instead of their chests. When they jumped, the weight of their packs flipped them face-down in the water and held them there. Hundreds floated in the freezing Channel, upside down, kept afloat by the very thing meant to save them. The rest died of hypothermia, waiting for a rescue that arrived too slowly.
749 men gone in a few hours. For comparison, the assault on Utah Beach on D-Day itself cost around 200.
But here is the part that nearly stopped D-Day cold.
Aboard those ships were ten officers with BIGOT clearance. The highest tier of secrecy in the war. These men knew the real plan: the beaches, the timing, the whole shape of the Normandy invasion. And after the attack, all ten were missing.
Eisenhower was told the invasion might have to be called off entirely. If even one of those officers had been pulled alive from the water by a German crew, the most important secret on earth was blown. The search of the Channel was frantic. They were not looking for survivors anymore. They were counting bodies, and they could not rest until all ten were found and confirmed dead. Eventually, every one was recovered. The secret held.
And then they buried the whole thing. Survivors were ordered to silence under threat of court-martial. The families were told almost nothing. It vanished from the official story so completely that for decades the men who died here had no monument, no mention, nothing.
Until a local Englishman named Ken Small started finding their gear washing up on the beach in the 1970s. He bought the rights to a Sherman tank still sitting on the seabed where it sank that night, dragged it up out of the water, and made it the memorial the world's most powerful army had refused to build. It still stands there today, rusted and pointing inland, the only honest headstone for hundreds of men who died for a beach that was never real.
They drowned rehearsing the most famous day of the 20th century. And almost nobody remembers their names.
@ESLCS@BIGCLANgg And this is why EVERY pro (even their own players!) put them as a "maybe" on their pick lists lol NRG is so hot/cold is actually insane to watch
@MeichaFox Having a "cute and soft" voice would just put you ina big lump with like... 99% of other vtubers. Yours actually has some personality to it, despite how much we all joke at you about your accent etc.