Tervell

Henry Morgenthau was a US politician who proposed a plan to essentially neutralize Germany after WW2 - split it up in several smaller states, and deindustrialize it to prevent any future rearmament. This plan was rejected though, along with Soviet attempts to turn Germany into a neutral (and demilitarized) buffer state between them and the Western Allies, so we eventually got the Federal Republic of Germany, complete with the Wehrmacht being essentially reactivated and significant propaganda effort being put into convincing people that they really weren't that bad and it was only the SS who did all the war crimes. All in the name of anti-communism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgenthau_Plan

I think usually you'd have a separate grenade sight, which can be folded down when not in use

(although on some older rifles you'd actually just have to read a chart and calculate angles and ranges yourself)

I assume here the grenade sight just happens to be right next to the regular front sight, and has been folded up in the picture so it obscures the normal sight. I'd guess this bit right here must be the folding mechanism?

So there's probably a normal front sight right behind it, at the height it should be, it's just not visible at this angle

Are "arm pistols" one of those "ackshully it's a brace, not a stock" loophole things?

Not in this case - the idea was to be a very compact PDW, originally for shot-down pilots, who don't have a lot of space in the cockpit to fit in a full rifle, and have historically relied on pistols or janky survival rifles. It didn't pan out (although eventually the USAF would adopt a rifle, but a special AR-15 that can be broken down easily rather than a bullpup:

), and so attempts were made to sell it on the civilian market, but it doesn't seem to have been very popular, since it's ergonomically pretty bad (there isn't even a proper stock to shoulder or any space for your supporting hand to grip it, you're actually supposed to shoot it one-handed as a pistol, which in a rifle cartridge is a dubious proposition).

CK2 did have the Shattered World setting, which can setup a game where each county starts out as an independent ruler. I assume actually trying to play it as a multiplayer game with a decent quantity of players would run into netcode issues though, Paradox games seem to struggle pretty bad with crashes and desyncs when the player count goes up (and besides, even if they didn't, you're probably going to struggle to find several dozen other map sickos to play with you for hours each day )

once again, is the harm-reduction candidate, somehow

We're a site of barely a thousand users, and I remember it used to be a lot less, more like 500-600 daily, I assume after federation there was some growth. And of course only a small portion of those users post regularly, which is pretty normal for social-media-esque websites.

So there's just too many over-specialized comms, that the userbase isn't really large enough to support. Like, we probably don't need to have /c/games, /c/ttrpg, /c/tabletop & /c/gamedev as all separate things.

No, I think these were actually Australian - made for the civilian market (before the gun bans). I assume the idea was to use an existing design (Lee-Enfields were of course used by the other Commonwealth countries too, not just Britain) to make a simple and cheap carbine, and chamber it in 7.62x39 since it's a pretty widely-available cartridge.

It's Jules' gun, so the "say WHAT again" one. Vincent has a proper M1911A1 (although also with a nickel finish & pearl grips, so it looks very similar)

https://xcancel.com/JesseJenkins/status/1840773225070158215

critical support to the US in reducing carbon emissions by de-electrifying itself

gommunism no food? capitalism no power!

heading for the "American STALKER/Metro" timeline

Bingo! Rockdale County chemical fire: Biolab has a history of fires at facility

Apparently that's just the name of the company, which rather than having anything to do with biological research, is actually "the swimming pool and spa water care division of Lawrenceville, Georgia-based KIK Consumer Products" (which I guess explains the chlorine).

Now, why the hell would you name your swimming pool sanitation company "BioLab" is beyond me, like genuinely who thought that one up.