Zero Punctuation: Godzilla - God-Awful-Zilla

[Christian Neihart]

With a purposeful grimace and a terrible smile, he destroys the crappy game in his wild style! Helpless fans scream for mercy as he eyes their favorite game! He picks up a bus and throws it back down as he trods through a grey brown sewer hall! Oh no, they say he's got to go, Go Go Yahtzilla!

 

[Jburton9]

Thank you for the review : )

Maybe they should add a game + mode where we get spritely movement and special attacks like the MC Hammer side sliding. *cough* Well maybe not...

Yes that was almost an impulse purchase on my part as well, I kept thinking man, I sure loved Rampage, surely there is no way they could screw this up. Smart phone to the rescue, bad purchase avoided. I think this option has saved me many times the original value of the phone itself.

 

[Ogre]

OK, I had to join to to post. I am most likely older than a lot of you here, seeing as I will hit 50 before the end of the year... Holy crap, I am old.

My father won a Bronze Star in the Battle Of The Bulge. He landed in Italy and I believe Omaha Beach. He told me that he was scared by the thought of invading Japan. This is a man who fell from a church steeple into a parking lot and cleaned up then drove himself home.

The American Government had forecasts of casualties in the millions for both sides if there was an invasion. This most likely would have included civilian losses as well. It was truly believed that dropping the bombs were the best option to end the war. As Xian pointed out, cities with civilians were bombed during the war, by all sides.

Now, with that being said, how do I feel about the bombings? They were a godawful tragedy. There can be no other description. Know what? The same is true for war in general. Were there other political motivations? Could be, it seems all governments have something going on behind the scenes. The truth is we weren't there during this time. We have no idea of the pressures these men were under to save lives, of the fear the soldiers had thinking about Japan.Would the Japanese people have fought to the end during an invasion? No one knows, but at the time the leaders believed they would.

Sorry if this sounds like a lecture. I just wanted to give an older person's point of view.

Peace

 

[Do4600]

the atomic bombings were not war crimes.

Both cities were civilian targets. There is absolutely no way to fit the bombardments into Hague Conventions or any other treaty regulating conduction of warfare. It was a deliberate breaking of all the conventions of civilian immunity.
It can be argued that the bombings were morally justified in the scope of war, which does not however make them legally acceptable actions.

It's not insecurity

Somebody: >Imperialism in Africa and India
British person: Yeah, overall that was a big pile of bad stuff. So?

Somebody: >Holocaust
German person: Sure, our grandfathers were acting out of line there.

Somebody: >Cultural revolution
Chinese person: Yes, that's one big can of worms. And?

Somebody: >Katyn, GULAG
Russian person: Da, that was a bunch of really fucked up shit. Whatever.

Somebody: >Nuclear bombings
American person: How dare you! Explain your accusations at once! Truman did nothing wrong!

It's not insecurity

Nuclear bombings were far better than what the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces had planned for their own citizens, the official Japanese war rhetoric called for ichioku gyokusai, 'the shattering of a hundred million jewels' - the beautiful martyrdom of an entire nation. That was literally part of their defence plan, martyrdom on a national scale.

 

[Xan Krieger]

Nuclear bombings were far better than what the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces had planned for their own citizens, the official Japanese war rhetoric called for ichioku gyokusai, 'the shattering of a hundred million jewels' - the beautiful martyrdom of an entire nation. That was literally part of their defence plan, martyrdom on a national scale.

This ideology did not survive the bombs. What makes everyone so sure it would survive simultaneous invasion by both US and USSR? Do Americans perceive the nukes as some magical devices that turned an entire nation's core ideology 180 degrees overnight, when nothing else could've done it?

And I wasn't even arguing for moral justification in that post. I specifically said that due to cities being civilian targets bombings WERE war crimes. Even if it can be rationalized that they prevented even greater casualties, and were not made just to prevent division of Japan into zones of influence with the USSR like it happened to Germany. And that Americans feel very insecure about it even though there is not much to be insecure about. It was another realpolitik decision which happened to contradict the international law, made among hundreds of others like it quite some time ago. Yet people need to defend it on all directions like it's the defining point of their entire life ideology.

Soviet strategy and japanese strategy would've not worked well against each other, both liked mass charges and it would've been a massive waste of men. Also like I said we bombed plenty of other cities specifically targeting civilians so if there was no legal problem there then why should there be one for the two cities involved in the nuking?

 

[Xan Krieger]

Soviet strategy and japanese strategy would've not worked well against each other, both liked mass charges and it would've been a massive waste of men

Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugh. Always good to meet a fellow historic warfare buff.

Also like I said we bombed plenty of other cities specifically targeting civilians so if there was no legal problem

Who can judge the victors?

No Soviet officer faced a tribunal for the Katyn massacre, so I guess that one is not a military crime either.

And that's why the laws of war fail, nobody fights to lose and only the losers get prosecuted. It's extremely regretful but I don't know how to hold countries accountable.

 

[Torchiest]

Alessandra Ambrosio, if anyone's curious.