#and Operations Market

[mabaris]

like i know of course the games industry is fucked and EA will continue to make money with impunity but i just. continue to wonder how the fuck they operate as a business if they keep getting caught setting people up to fail on purpose. from a logistical standpoint, do you not want to make money on every product you develop so it’s not a “waste of resources”? do you not understand market research and what appeals to consumers?

like we keep hearing about how they wanted to turn the franchise into something else and the fact that it “”failed to meet expectations”” because they couldn’t adequately course-correct, but i am so baffled how those expectations got set in the first place. how are you a video game company who doesn’t understand the concept of a target audience. why do you keep trying to broaden your appeal when time and again it’s proven that just alienates the people you already had. someone who plays overwatch is never going to come to dragon age for the same thing. the devs who work on it are never going to be able to make something comparable because it’s not the kind of thing they’re used to doing. like who let them think this was a reasonable thing to expect would just. happen

[demons]

Dutch girls write slogans of welcome on tanks after the liberation of Breda by Polish troops, 1944

[captain-price-unofficially]

Filling up the Shermans is a time honored part of the annual Market Garden memorial parade.

[theworldatwar]

British soldiers keep a look out in a flooded area of forest - Operation Market Garden, Arnhem, Holland, Sept 1944

[sgtgrunt0331-3]

Pictured above: Brig. Gen. Anthony C. Mcauliffe, commander of the 101st Airborne Division, gives his various glider pilots last-minute instructions in England before the take-off on September 17, 1944 for Operation market Garden.

Today marks the 80th anniversary of Operation Market Garden. Its objective was to create a 64 mile salient into German territory with a bridgehead over the Nederrijn (Lower Rhine River), creating an Allied invasion route into northern Germany.

In the end, Market Garden was one of the costliest Allied failures of WWII, but remains a remarkable feat of arms. This is not because of its strategic ambition, but because of the determination and courage shown by Allied airborne troops and the units that tried to reach them.

It did however, lead to the liberation of a large part of the Netherlands at a time when many Dutch people were close to starvation.

(Photo courtesy of U.S. Air Force archives)

[schoolhater]

mahmoud abu hamam is a web designer currently working on a website to share the beauty of palestine with the world. please check it out and offer comments/critiques/requests for more features in the tags if you want. he's trying to gauge public interest in a project like this so feedback is super helpful.

also, he is fundraising for daily survival in gaza. the fundraiser and website are completely separate but i wanted to include it in this post because it's important. living costs continue to surge in gaza, with a bag of flour costing upwards of $600 USD. mahmoud and his family have been unable to afford food. he is doing this project at the risk of his own survival so it would mean a lot to me, personally, if he was supported during this process.

his paypal / his gfm / vetted

[sk-yay-sk]

I don't like any of the maps I've seen for HTTYD so i'm playing a puzzle game w all the locations. This is the 3rd version so far

[thegreatyin]

Genuine question because I'm considering getting into arknights, are there like...any black characters or is it a standard gacha situation

im afraid it's very much a standard gacha situation 😔 there are a few notable black operators (certainly more than genshin has) but for the most part it's pale city over here

[alwaysbewoke]

honestly, FUCK ISRAEL!!

[communistkenobi]

It’s so funny reading any overview of American economics scholarship because all of them are like “yeah all their base assumptions are wrong and none of what they describe about the economy or labour market is true”

[demons]

Paratroopers of the 101st Airborne seated in a Waco CG-4 glider on their way to Market-Garden

[captain-price-unofficially]

C-47 of the 315th Troop Carrier Group, dropping 41 sticks of the 1st Polish Airborne Brigade into DZ "O" near Grave, southwest of Nijmegen in Holland, September 23, 1944

[theworldatwar]

British soldiers lay in wait guarding the road from Eindhoven to Nijmegen (nicknamed Hell’s Highway) during Operation Market Garden - Netherlands, Sept 1944

[sgtgrunt0331-3]

From the movie "A Bridge Too Far," Robert Redford, as Major Julian Cook, leads his men of the 82nd Airborne on the assault of the Nijmegen bridge during Operation Market Garden.

(Video courtesy of A Bridge Too Far, 1977)

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[sublux]

with the way i've quite literally turned my health into a full time career as a professional patient i maybe should consider going into case management or patient advocacy. i'm honestly having the time of my life