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Attempting to Fulfill the Plan MNKh Edition
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Cocaine is counterrevolutionary comrade.
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- Mid-Atlantic
When you have one lane each way and it's gravel, wanting one more lane is perhaps not unreasonable.
This is anti train activity and as such treason against the Soviet Union. I will be reporting this treasonous activity to the NKVD.
Our roads are perfectly fine, to say otherwise, it means you are a wrecker and saboteur.
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- Mid-Atlantic
I found this joke funny the first ten or twenty times I heard it.
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- Mid-Atlantic
It's also just that we've all heard the joke too many times. A joke that requires zero effort to produce because you can just imitate the last 50 people to say it is generally not going to land as well as a joke that's original.
Next 5YP will include the following goal:
Increase comedic valuation of "Roads = Bad" jokes by 80%
Greatly behind moving target
But comrade, Quantity has a quality all its own! /s
But for real, I do see where you're coming from and you make a fair point and I did only reply due to seeing an excellent to make the classic Quantity-Quality joke.
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- Mid-Atlantic
Oh, the quantity-quality joke is legit funny!
Meta-jokes about MNKh Quest road jokes are still funny. It's just that the base joke itself is...
...This.
I actually think it gets funnier every time it is said, we just need to be more strategic about when and where the joke is deployed. If it directly lands on a pain point then it is obvious that it is going to grate on the nerves, but if the pain point is resolved, then the joke can serve purpose as a self referential comedy, the classic "in joke". By focusing on roads heavily for the next 5 year plan I predict that it will regain its funny nature by as early as the end of that plan and will be viable for mass deployment within 3 plans.
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- Mid-Atlantic
I mean, that may actually be true.
It's just that we've got people taking the jokes at face value and going "the Discordburo is fanatically opposed to all road construction," and when things get that tiresome I kind of think we need to ease off and just, like, uncomplicatedly build roads and not be drama queens about it.
Our current humor situation is absurd. Clearly we need to create joint venture with the British.
Nah they are firmly in the American sphere so the USSR is stuck with a partnership with German humor.
We have already applied the thin edge of the wedge, we should strike while the opportunity remains and modernize comedic forces in our country in cooperation with Japan. The era of the Soviet 2koma is upon us.
Now I'm imagining that this universes Yakuza games will have a recurring joke character Soviet guy who keeps on giving bad jokes that fly past the casts heads or misunderstand them.
Hmm...
Maybe quantity doesn't always have a quality of its own
- Location
- The great frozen north
On less joke-y topic, regarding the coming dice gain I consider Chemical Industry to be something in desperate need of them. In this era of gas heating, fossil fuel vehicles, and plastics, the chemical industry is a really big deal. Yet our department currently has only six base dice, compared to the 10 of Heavy Industry and 14 of Infra. Without a focus we're barely treading water on fuel prices. And taking said focus would be non-ideal given it'll contribute to bad oil habits and risks dropping the general labor price. Two dice at least, but I would prefer to give it 4 to round it up to 10 like HI has.
Main thing I'm uncertain about is whether to also give Infra 4+ more, or to just give them two (or none) more and take an infra focus next plan in hopes that after roads and river reversal are done we'll have breathing room.
Main thing I'm uncertain about is whether to also give Infra 4+ more, or to just give them two (or none) more and take an infra focus next plan in hopes that after roads and river reversal are done we'll have breathing room.
- Location
- The great frozen north
Because those two departments have the smallest use of General Labor, which will send the price crashing when we're already hard-pressed to keep General Labor prices level to avoid stagflation.
Cannon Omake: The paragon of proletarian internationalism: In memory of Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (1906-1981)
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As something to read while waiting for the next update, here's a new obituary omake from me. It's called "The paragon of proletarian internationalism: In memory of Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (1906-1981)". I hope you will enjoy it.
On November 10, 1981, Lieutenant General Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev died of old age, having worked tirelessly to fulfill the Party's internationalist duty. This worthy proletarian son of a Russian metallurgist was born in Kamenskoye. Under the auspices of the Party, he received a technical education in land management and metallurgy. After graduating, he became an engineer in the eastern Ukrainian metallurgical industry. In 1923, he joined the Communist Party's youth organization, the Komsomol, then the Party itself in 1931.
In 1935-1936, he did his compulsory military service. Initially enlisted in an armored corps, he took courses on tanks, thanks to the Party's voluntarist policy of training proletarian cadres.
During the Great Patriotic War, faced with the sneak attack of the German fascists and their lackeys, he answered the call of the Motherland in Danger by being assigned to the defense of the southern front with the rank of brigade political clerk.
After many heroic deeds over the following years, and a steely resolve in the face of enemy fire that earned him the Order of the Red Flag, the Order of the Red Star and the Order of Alexander Nevsky for holding his position in the face of a local counter-attack by a German tank group, it was with the Fourth Ukrainian Front that he and his unit entered Prague after the German surrender. In recognition of his exemplary conduct during the war, he was awarded the rank of Colonel and the decoration of Hero of the Soviet Union in August 1946.
After the war, he was stationed in Prague among the units responsible for the military occupation and denazification of this former territory of the fascist Reich. After the proclamation of a socialist Czechoslovak government in 1947, he helped reorganize the country's military forces in terms of equipment, doctrine and unit organization.
On the strength of his military combat experience, his experience in military training and his facility with foreign languages - during his stay in Czechoslovakia, he learned the language of his country of posting - he was assigned, along with other Soviet counterparts committed to fulfilling the Soviet Union's internationalist duty as proclaimed by Lenin, to the training and organization, from 1954 onwards, of the maquis of the fledgling Armée de Libération Nationale (National Liberation Army) fighting against the French occupiers. After Algerian independence in 1962, he continued this work with the newly-created People's National Army (L'Armée nationale populaire), training its officers in Soviet equipment and concepts of warfare to make it an army capable of standing up to the French imperialist government's army eager for revenge. It was during this mission that he was able to add Arabic to his repertoire of spoken languages.
In recognition of his work in fortifying a new ally in the socialist camp, Leonid Ilyich was promoted to lieutenant-general in 1965, before being assigned to head the newly-created 165 training camp until his retirement from the Soviet armed forces in 1975. Under his supervision, tens of thousands of professional fighters were trained and formed the backbone of the national liberation armies of Third World countries, making a major contribution to the advancement and future victory of international socialism and the Soviet Union over capitalism.
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev will be remembered by his compatriots, his brothers-in-arms and the anti-imperialist fighters who knew him as a paragon of proletarian internationalism, endowed with unfailing courage, whose achievements are a credit to the Soviet armed forces and will serve as an example to future generations of soldiers defending socialism and the proletariat.
Obituary published by the military newspaper "The Red Star"
In 1935-1936, he did his compulsory military service. Initially enlisted in an armored corps, he took courses on tanks, thanks to the Party's voluntarist policy of training proletarian cadres.
During the Great Patriotic War, faced with the sneak attack of the German fascists and their lackeys, he answered the call of the Motherland in Danger by being assigned to the defense of the southern front with the rank of brigade political clerk.
After many heroic deeds over the following years, and a steely resolve in the face of enemy fire that earned him the Order of the Red Flag, the Order of the Red Star and the Order of Alexander Nevsky for holding his position in the face of a local counter-attack by a German tank group, it was with the Fourth Ukrainian Front that he and his unit entered Prague after the German surrender. In recognition of his exemplary conduct during the war, he was awarded the rank of Colonel and the decoration of Hero of the Soviet Union in August 1946.
After the war, he was stationed in Prague among the units responsible for the military occupation and denazification of this former territory of the fascist Reich. After the proclamation of a socialist Czechoslovak government in 1947, he helped reorganize the country's military forces in terms of equipment, doctrine and unit organization.
On the strength of his military combat experience, his experience in military training and his facility with foreign languages - during his stay in Czechoslovakia, he learned the language of his country of posting - he was assigned, along with other Soviet counterparts committed to fulfilling the Soviet Union's internationalist duty as proclaimed by Lenin, to the training and organization, from 1954 onwards, of the maquis of the fledgling Armée de Libération Nationale (National Liberation Army) fighting against the French occupiers. After Algerian independence in 1962, he continued this work with the newly-created People's National Army (L'Armée nationale populaire), training its officers in Soviet equipment and concepts of warfare to make it an army capable of standing up to the French imperialist government's army eager for revenge. It was during this mission that he was able to add Arabic to his repertoire of spoken languages.
In recognition of his work in fortifying a new ally in the socialist camp, Leonid Ilyich was promoted to lieutenant-general in 1965, before being assigned to head the newly-created 165 training camp until his retirement from the Soviet armed forces in 1975. Under his supervision, tens of thousands of professional fighters were trained and formed the backbone of the national liberation armies of Third World countries, making a major contribution to the advancement and future victory of international socialism and the Soviet Union over capitalism.
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev will be remembered by his compatriots, his brothers-in-arms and the anti-imperialist fighters who knew him as a paragon of proletarian internationalism, endowed with unfailing courage, whose achievements are a credit to the Soviet armed forces and will serve as an example to future generations of soldiers defending socialism and the proletariat.
Obituary published by the military newspaper "The Red Star"
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- The great frozen north
TTL will remember Brezhnev much more fondly I see. He's better at training armies than running a country.