Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 2897 - 2901 (16-20 February 2015)
wlewisiii:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 21 Feb 2015, 11:41 ---The second bomb, at least, was certainly unnecessary. My understanding is that it was dropped as an opportunity to test a difference in the technology.
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It was necessary to show the dead enders in the Japanese government that we had more than one bomb. They were still willing to hunker down until the Emperor said NO only after the second bomb.
ReindeerFlotilla:
The United States (And every other nation that's gone to war) has done far worse things than fire nuclear shots in anger.
No no nation has ever done anything as spectacular. That's why those two bombs get all the attention.
wlewisiii:
--- Quote from: Aziraphale on 21 Feb 2015, 15:11 ---it may, however, have been the least terrible.
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This is probaby the best way to consider it. I certainly believe that it was the best possible outcome, all things considered.
Operations Olympic and Coronet were a go right up until Aug 6, 1945. As an aside, we manufactured 500,000 Purple Heart medals for the first wave of the invasion. There are still over 100,000 of them left after all the wars since.
Mlle Germain:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 20 Feb 2015, 06:10 ---Off topic: I've just been over to the Subreddit. There is a long thread criticising Jeph for dissing them on Twitter and they're basically saying saying that he owes them. In fact, some are so angry that they're swearing off of QC because they can't tolerate the artist not liking their opinions. One or two are even trying to work out if a Subreddit-group boycott of QC would ruin Jeph and thus punish him for his disrespect. There was also the usual spiel about the strip having become boring.
Additionally, according to at least two posters, these forums are a moderator-heavy place dominated by sycophants where no seriously discussion of Claireten or the character of Claire is permitted. I actually consider that quite funny.
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I recently stumbled into that subreddit by accident (I don't usually read anything on reddit, but I found it when googling something QC related) and found a thread where people were saying what a toxic place the forum is (apparently citing something from that week; which I'm sure must have been deleted by mods afterwards) and how it was once nearly shut down (referring to the phase after the Marten-Dora break-up) and how it caused Jeph to stab himself in the hand that one time (I know that one is not true). And how Jeph allegedly hates the forums.
On the one hand, I found it very sad that this person had obviously not even tried to get to know the forum community, but was just eager to feel superior on Reddit. On the other hand, seeing that thread in the same subreddit as all the ones complaining about Jeph portraying Claire "too much like a normal person" was just such a complete joke. (A bad one.)
(Just to say, the forum is one of my favourite places on the internet, because you can basically find a (usually) nuanced discussion on almost topic here, as well as tons of educational resources.)
jwhouk:
I have refused to go on Reddit for a long time now. After hearing about all the crapola in the QC subreddit, I refuse to even consider going there.
Meanwhile, we're going to have an interesting week this next week. Jeph's gotta build up his buffer again.
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