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I have never seen anyone call Constellation 'Connie'. I've only seen that nickname used for Constitution.

(Hello, New Ironsides-the-fic)
 
Selonianth said:
They are not wrong. I was about to reply and go "You... do realise Constitution and Old Ironsides are the same boat right?"
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I'd think the fact that I posted pictures of two different sailing frigates would be a pretty decent indication of the fact that I am aware that Constitution is "Old Ironsides".

Admittedly, telling sailing frigates apart isn't always the easiest thing in the world. The easiest way to tell is that Constellation's bowspirit is much closer to the horizontal than Constitution's.
 
So yeah we're having the 501st legion on board Iowa for May 4. Wear your Star Wars costume for a discount!
 
Night said:
Minotaur wouldn't even know what punch cards were.
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Not invented until decades after WWII. Before punch-cards you had to re-wire the computer to program it. Before that, you had to design a whole new computer to if you wanted a different algorithm on it - that is what ship girls would have installed on them and their planes.
 
Doomsough said:
Not invented until decades after WWII. Before punch-cards you had to re-wire the computer to program it. Before that, you had to design a whole new computer to if you wanted a different algorithm on it - that is what ship girls would have installed on them and their planes.
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Punch cards were used far before WWII. Charles Babbage used them on his machines, and punch card tabulators were used in the 1890 US census.
Jacquard, working in France around 1810, originated the idea of using holes punched in cardstock to control the pattern a loom weaves. Many Jacquard looms remain in use to this day, and you can occasionally find strings of Jaquard cards for sale.

The use of punched cards in the Jacquard loom also influenced Charles Babbage, who decided to use punched cards to control the sequence of computations in his proposed analytical engine. Unlike Hollerith's cards of 50 years later, which were handled in decks like playing cards, Babbage's punched cards were to be strung together like Jaquard's. Despite this and the fact that he never actually built an analytical engine, Babbage's proposed use of cards played a crucial role in later years, providing a precedent that prevented Hollerith's company from claiming patent rights on the very idea of storing data on punched cards.
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Additional fun fact: Hollerith's company kept working with punch cards after the 1890 Census, and eventually changed it's name to...
International Business Machines. That's right: IBM got it's start as a punch card company.
 
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Té Rowan said:
Had a poser of a puzzle of wonder… What will Internet life be like after the Abyssal Uprising?
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Well, many Shipgirls will end up on social media. That much is a given, alongside whatever shitstorms come their way because they or someone else said/did something and somewhere there's a dogpile. New content may end up slowing down. Many creators (I don't really have a ballpark percentage) live on the coasts and risk being killed or displaced. Videos of Abyssal attacks and Shipgirls fighting against them probably go viral. Pictures of memorials and reconstruction flood the web.

There's probably more than a few interviews from late-night talk shows and mainstream news networks uploaded. The most likely interviewees are Enterprise, Hood, Yamato, Bismarck, Kaga/Akagi (they do almost everything together, after all), Kongou (and possibly her sisters), Warspite, Nagato, Arizona, Naka, and a few others (notice a trend?).

The current political shitstorms probably end up taking a backseat to the fact that there's a war for the survival of the Human race, so there's little audience to listen how a given group is completely terrible for merely existing. The battlefields from those are little more than smoldering wastelands by the time the last Abyssals are put down, but are hot enough to be reignited. Other shitstorms rage on, though the ones surrounding anime end up in victory for Weebs given that Anime is Now Real.

Everywhere else, life continues on. Eventually a new normal settles in. Will it be a better normal? Maybe, maybe not. But the Internet becomes just a little more colorful regardless, given that there's Shipgirls roaming around.
 
CompassJimbo said:
The current political shitstorms probably end up taking a backseat to the fact that there's a war for the survival of the Human race, so there's little audience to listen how a given group is completely terrible for merely existing. The battlefields from those are little more than smoldering wastelands by the time the last Abyssals are put down, but are hot enough to be reignited. Other shitstorms rage on, though the ones surrounding anime end up in victory for Weebs given that Anime is Now Real.
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Nah. People being people, they'll manage to fight both fights at once just fine.
 
It would be hard to argue that politics didn't play a role in WW2, after all Congress in 1941 was heavily Democratic. With 68 Senate seats and 267 House seats plus a Democratic executive this leaves only the judicial branch and Democratic defections being the main check on the party's ability to create and execute legislation. The Stone Court was described by Wikipedia as "upholding [the] broad war-time powers for the government," and that it was more independent in matters of civil liberty. (On the other hand it also gave us Korematsu). The Democratic party then won the presidential, house, and senate elections in 1944 pretty handily which can be interpreted as pretty damn good political unity after 3 years of war.

Besides being a sign of popular support, it does have tangible effects on production, extraction, and mobilization of resources. A mutually hostile Congress and executive in 1941 could for example be squabbling over the legality of 24-hour workshifts which can translate into lost potential production if the factories stick with the status-quo because that is the safest way to proceed. It could be dragged out until it reaches SCOTUS where the Judiciary can rule in favor of Congress or the executive. This can translate into many months worth of production being lost if the 24-hour workshift cannot be legalized. And of course it is ignoring grassroots effort, most noticeably the threat of or actual execution of a strike followed by the repercussions and fallout of dealing with the threat or execution of a strike.

As for its relevance in the present day with regards to the US, there is the incredible polarization of politics to consider. While a declaration of war could be settled on, the way to prosecute that war would likely be heavily disputed on the state and federal level even before the specter of strikes come into play. In that regard, my two cents would be that the politics of the US in the present and near future would be resembling that of the French Third Republic rather than the relatively united Democratic government in America or Churchill's coalition in the UK.

Granted political concerns will most likely be hand-waved away to irrelevancy since there is a dearth of authors who want to feature it in their fics; but authors who do want to feature it should take into account that it does translate into tangible war material even if one only wants to consider "how xyz will affect the real world."
 
To do politics right requires working knowledge of politics. It's just the same there as with other things. It's much easier to write about being in a storm at sea if you have been in a few.
 
Being as my major is history and government, I've got more than a working knowledge of politics.

I don't write it because it's always going to be a controversial topic. I don't even look forward to teaching it, leave alone sticking it in my fiction writing.

Destiny aside, but that's historical. Not modern.
 
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Té Rowan said:
To do politics right requires working knowledge of politics. It's just the same there as with other things. It's much easier to write about being in a storm at sea if you have been in a few.
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Politics is a sensitive subject since a lot of it can physically and directly affect people.

Lots of folks naturally care about that.


I do agree 'write what you know' is a popular saying, and I agree in some ways. But it isn't like there is a single objective 'right' way to write.

One thing I've seen some writing teachers say, is that you sometimes might want to write to audience expectations.
Don't always need to write what is knowledgeable about or even real. Reality is unrealistic sometimes, and audience might have different suspension of disbelief or expectations.

So sometimes it is a different style to write something you are unfamiliar with, but know what your audience will accept if you know your audience.
If not, you can have lead up to shape the audience suspension of disbelief, or even if it is a dramatic break from suspension of disbelief, make your lead up writing lead to a path so the audience wants such a thing to happen or expects it, so they don't care about breaking suspension of disbelief.


"Write what you know" is also hard to apply to politics since it is subjective, and different people have different belief, priority, focus, and more.


Gangut is probably getting added in game.
The Russian WW2 navy is fairly small, but it does include a few old capital ships.

Besides capitals, including auxiliary ships and other smaller boats, you can easily add 100s of ships from just that single new navy of Russia.

The IJN and other Japanese forces from WW2 still have more to add as well.
There's over 100 Japanese destroyers in game, but there's still about 50 more to add. Even more if you include the older classes and class not in game like Matsu destroyers.
And even more if you add new auxiliary, small boats, frigates, destroyer escorts, patrol ships, and support ships and more.

Of the classes in the game, there aren't Japanese capital ships left, but escort carriers should add about 20 more ships.

And then there's submarines. The Japanese never made 1000s of subs like the Germans, but there still are 200 subs that the game can add, and that's not counting midget subs and manned torpedoes. Midget subs are already in the game as gear equipment, and manned torpedoes I've heard will not be added because the developers find them offensive and shameful.
 
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So the new ships for this event are out. We definitely have Gangut, and it seems like they're releasing escort carriers and Kaibokan-esque ships in earnest now.





So we have Gangut, apparently she's Hibiki's artist's first non-DD. I'm sure all yall can see the resemblance.

We're also seeing the first carrier going for "falconry launch", but as "Taiyou" I guess it does make sense. This is a pretty escort heavy lineup too, with 2 Shimushu-classes. And Hayasui has company now! Kamoi is a fleet oiler too. Seems to be a baker motif here.
 
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Actually if memory serves, Kamoi was built as a collier (in the US!); the square structure on her back is part of her original coal derricks, and spent only a short time after conversion to a tanker, before being converted again into a seaplane carrier.

Her seaplane carrier conversion had a very distinctive rear ramp structure for recovery.
 
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