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>>40143472
>egg

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Shoukaku nods. “In one of them, she got caught between two Abyssal torpedo bomber squadrons – caught her in a perfect pincer. The first thing I remember...” she shrugs. “Not the first, I mean, I remember the day I was launched, and the day I sank, but... it's confusing. I just felt this flash of terror through my heart, my core – 'it's happening again'. And before I knew it I was launching fighters, trying to build boiler pressure – I didn't want to be hundreds of miles away again, when they needed me there.”

“... is it strange?”

“Not at first,” Shoukaku replies. “I mean, we know people – we were crewed by them, so of course we know people – and we know what we are, what we were built to do. We don't have to worry about religion or purpose. But after a while, it... it does get strange. I didn't even know what sleep was, at first. When they first gave me a bed, I just bounced around on it for a bit like a little girl – I knew what a berth was, but that was so... so bouncy.” A smile at the memory, but it soon fades. “A lot of the girls – even the ones who arrived early – they haven't really adapted yet. Developed hobbies, or friends.”

“Do you have any?”

“Friends?”

“Hobbies.”

“Well,” she says shyly, picking at her shirtsleeve. “I know it sounds terribly airheaded, but I like clothes shopping. It's like being able to repaint yourself any time you want, you know? I go through fashion magazines and try to put together good outfits.” She flushes slightly. “It... sometimes looks silly to other people, but sometimes they like what I make, too.”

Something as simple as putting on clothing – a whole new world, for a returned ship spirit.

“Shoukaku, mind if I ask you something about work?”

“Not at all.”

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Might want to update your twitter too.

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>>40143496

“My boss told me I should pick a secretary ship – to help with the paperwork, and... because I need a bodyguard, apparently.”

“Oh,” she says. “After the incident with Kaga-”

“Indeed. But...” you shrug. “I know Arizona and Hornet would guard me if I asked, but I don't want them to be stuck with that all day every day. And I'm thinking it might help close the diplomatic gap if I asked a Japanese ship to do the job.”

“Well, there's no shortage of candidates,” Shoukaku admits. “But I can tell you this much; the job is largely about mediating between other ships during spats. So you want someone level-headed and fair, or at least good at defusing tense situations.” A shadow flits over her face. “Like that incident with Kaga. I didn't handle that very well. And someone that's comfortable with paperwork and writing e-mails and such, so the more energetic gung-ho types probably wouldn't be a good fit. Honestly, I think Arizona would be good at it, from what I hear.”

“True... but if I wanted a Japanese ship?”

“No shortage of candidates, like I said, but have you considered Naka?”

You raise your eyebrows. “Naka?”

“It's very hard to carry on an argument when she starts getting cute,” Shoukaku points out. You recall the way she shut down Hit'Em Again Harder with about five seconds of innuendo and a little leg flashing.

“Good point,” you admit. “Does a secretary ship not deploy?”

“There's no rule against it, or anything,” Shoukaku says. “We're pretty much making this up as we go along, after all. But it's partially useful for giving a ship who's underemployed something to do so they don't go stir-crazy.”

“Speaking of...” you cut your eyes each way dramatically - “who's Goto's secretary ship?”

Shoukaku avoids your eyes as she wrings at her napkin nervously. “I'm not supposed to tell...”

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I'm just imagining O'Bannon as a red-headed Irish girl that has potato rations hiding around.

>>40143496
>Something as simple as putting on clothing – a whole new world, for a returned ship spirit.
Well, now we know what to get her for her commissioning day.

>>40143496
>And before I knew it I was launching fighters, trying to build boiler pressure – I didn't want to be hundreds of miles away again, when they needed me there.

Shame the IJN didn't have that attitude in 1942 huh?

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“Goto swore you to secrecy? That monster's covered every angle, hasn't he?”

“No no, it really is a secret,” Shoukaku tells you. “Everyone knows her, but nobody's supposed to talk about her.”

“Heh,” you reply with amusement. “She launched eighty years ago, guys, we all know you built a really big battleship, you can drop the veil of Asian mysticism now.”

Shoukaku blushes slightly and wrings her napkin so hard the paper tears.

“.... you have got to be shitting me,” you mutter as cool realization seeps through your bones.

Shoukaku shakes her head, biting her lip. “Everyone's worried about the nationalists,” she says sotto-voice.

Now you understand why Shoukaku was surprised to hear about Space Battleship Yamato. “Yes, but-”

“They don't tell me this, directly,” Shoukaku whispers, “but... you pick it up, after a while. I know people are scared of us.”

You open your mouth to object, but she presses a dainty finger to your lips. “That's understandable, it's no surprise. But Japan's an island nation with a tiny navy, and nobody knows if the Chinese are too busy with the Abyssals themselves to worry about us, or if they hope to take advantage while the Americans are occupied.”

THAT much you know is true – it's been the talk of USN wardrooms as well for months now. You heard from an Annapolis friend of yours, another Burke skipper, that he was ordered to load nuclear-tipped missiles on his ship not long ago, and not long after rumors had circulated that China had almost attacked Taiwan and only backed down under 'severe threat.'

“Japan isn't unstable,” Shoukaku whispers. “Not at all, but there's enough fear – people worry they might take their chances, just like on 2-26. So please keep it secret!”

You nod silently, and Shoukaku sits back in her chair, looking relieved. “A-and don't let Goto know I-”

“Of course not,” you promise.

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Just then, your phone starts buzzing angrily in your pocket. You fish it out to see Hate's number on the screen. “Just a sec, it's the Corporal.”

“Of course.”

You swipe your thumb across the green phone icon and press it to your ear. “Hello, Hate.”

“The hell did you sneak off to?” Hate grumps. “I'm hungry.”

“Sorry,” you say, not feeling very sorry. “It looked like you found your meal already, last I saw.”

“Har-dee har fucking har,” he grouses. “Seriously, where.”

“It's right next to the station,” you tell him. “You can't miss it.”

“.... the Gundam cafe?”

“Yep.”

“... you stupid cockmunching son of a bitch,” he breathes with true horror. “If your powerlevel was any lower you'd need a fucking pacemaker to tock your ticker, you screaming retard. What have you done?”

“... what?”

You hear the muffled sounds of Hate's phone being manhandled. “Oh fuck, you're already on twitter. Get out of there. Get out of there now, you stupid son of a bitch!”

>Fuck that. You're finally having a nice night, and you ain't going anywhere. Stand your ground!
>Immediate evasion – a quick costume change to shake any pursuers followed by slipping out the back. Annapolis bred you may be, but even you've had to give the Shore Patrol the slip on occasion. Very rare occasion. Twice, tops. Maybe thrice, but it wasn't your fault.
>Just wrap up the evening, pay your tab and leave like sane human beings – no need to get hasty, you just won't overstay your welcome, is all.

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>>40143546
Holy shit. Yamato is Goto's secretary ship?

>>40143571
>Immediate evasion – a quick costume change to shake any pursuers followed by slipping out the back. Annapolis bred you may be, but even you've had to give the Shore Patrol the slip on occasion. Very rare occasion. Twice, tops. Maybe thrice, but it wasn't your fault.


ALAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARM

>>40143571
>>Fuck that. You're finally having a nice night, and you ain't going anywhere. Stand your ground!

Fuck it, we'll deal with it tomorrow.

SERVES YOU RIGHT GOTO

>>40143571
>Immediate evasion – a quick costume change to shake any pursuers followed by slipping out the back. Annapolis bred you may be, but even you've had to give the Shore Patrol the slip on occasion. Very rare occasion. Twice, tops. Maybe thrice, but it wasn't your fault.

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>>40143571
>Immediate evasion – a quick costume change to shake any pursuers followed by slipping out the back. Annapolis bred you may be, but even you've had to give the Shore Patrol the slip on occasion. Very rare occasion. Twice, tops. Maybe thrice, but it wasn't your fault.
IMAGE RELATED
ALSO THE THEME
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80XAJKqRU9k

>>40143571
>>Just wrap up the evening, pay your tab and leave like sane human beings – no need to get hasty, you just won't overstay your welcome, is all.

>>40143571

>Just wrap up the evening, pay your tab and leave like sane human beings – no need to get hasty, you just won't overstay your welcome, is all. Just be prepared to evade like a motherfucker

>>40143571
>Fuck that. You're finally having a nice night, and you ain't going anywhere. Stand your ground!

I admit I'm doing this solely to spite Goto.

>>40143571
>>Just wrap up the evening, pay your tab and leave like sane human beings – no need to get hasty, you just won't overstay your welcome, is all.

Challenge the lad.

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>>40143546
So Yamato is the secretary ship? Big whoop.

>>40143571
>>Just wrap up the evening, pay your tab and leave like sane human beings – no need to get hasty, you just won't overstay your welcome, is all.

>>40143571
>Fuck that. You're finally having a nice night, and you ain't going anywhere. Stand your ground!
GLORIOUS AMERICAN NAVY NEVER RETREAT

>>40143571
>Immediate evasion – a quick costume change to shake any pursuers followed by slipping out the back. Annapolis bred you may be, but even you've had to give the Shore Patrol the slip on occasion. Very rare occasion. Twice, tops. Maybe thrice, but it wasn't your fault.

Love ye planefag.

>>40143571
>Just wrap up the evening, pay your tab and leave like sane human beings – no need to get hasty, you just won't overstay your welcome, is all.

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>>40143571
>>Fuck that. You're finally having a nice night, and you ain't going anywhere. Stand your ground!

So how long do we have before the otaku and paparazzi show up?

>>40143571
>>Fuck that. You're finally having a nice night, and you ain't going anywhere. Stand your ground!

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>>40143660
>So how long do we have before the otaku and paparazzi show up?

about ten minutes ago

>>40143571
>>Just wrap up the evening, pay your tab and leave like sane human beings – no need to get hasty, you just won't overstay your welcome, is all.
>Just wrap up the evening, pay your tab and leave like sane human beings – no need to get hasty, you just won't overstay your welcome, is all.

>>40143571
>Fuck that. You're finally having a nice night, and you ain't going anywhere. Stand your ground!

>>40143571
>Just wrap up the evening, pay your tab and leave like sane human beings – no need to get hasty, you just won't overstay your welcome, is all.

>>40143571
>>Fuck that. You're finally having a nice night, and you ain't going anywhere. Stand your ground!

If anyone wants to bother us we SQUEEEEEZE

>>40143571
>>Just wrap up the evening, pay your tab and leave like sane human beings – no need to get hasty, you just won't overstay your welcome, is all.

>>40143571
>Just wrap up the evening, pay your tab and leave like sane human beings – no need to get hasty, you just won't overstay your welcome, is all.
Doesn't take more than a few minutes to do the sane thing, and why ruin the night?

I mean, it'll be ruined, but maybe Shoukaku won't blame us for that.

>>40143571
>>Immediate evasion – a quick costume change to shake any pursuers followed by slipping out the back. Annapolis bred you may be, but even you've had to give the Shore Patrol the slip on occasion. Very rare occasion. Twice, tops. Maybe thrice, but it wasn't your fault.
HEARD YOU LIKE FASHION GIRL. LETS GET FABULOUS.

>>40143524
>inb4 she starts hurling a wide variety of colourful Irish, and English insults at Abyssals as she's throwing everything she has in her pockets at them.

>>40143571
>Immediate evasion – a quick costume change to shake any pursuers followed by slipping out the back. Annapolis bred you may be, but even you've had to give the Shore Patrol the slip on occasion. Very rare occasion. Twice, tops. Maybe thrice, but it wasn't your fault.

Crazy Ivan?

>Fuck that. You're finally having a nice night, and you ain't going anywhere. Stand your ground!

We fuckin drove a golf cart with a sub that has the mentality of a 12 year old that just discovered MLG.

We earned this break.

>>40143571
>>Immediate evasion – a quick costume change to shake any pursuers followed by slipping out the back. Annapolis bred you may be, but even you've had to give the Shore Patrol the slip on occasion. Very rare occasion. Twice, tops. Maybe thrice, but it wasn't your fault.

>>40143571
>Just wrap up the evening, pay your tab and leave like sane human beings – no need to get hasty, you just won't overstay your welcome, is all.

>>40143571
>Fuck that. You're finally having a nice night, and you ain't going anywhere. Stand your ground!

>>40143571
>Just wrap up the evening, pay your tab and leave like sane human beings -- no need to be hasty, you just won't overstay your welcome, is all.

If we encounter paparazzi, IGNORE.

Or troll, that's always a good option.

>>40143571
>>Immediate evasion – a quick costume change to shake any pursuers followed by slipping out the back. Annapolis bred you may be, but even you've had to give the Shore Patrol the slip on occasion. Very rare occasion. Twice, tops. Maybe thrice, but it wasn't your fault.
Hey Shokaku, how about some quick repainting to throw people off?

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>>40143671

Shit. Front entrance is probably gonna be breached in moments.

Okay--new plan, then: anyone have any good ideas for disguises/cosplay that an admiral and shipslut can masquerade as?

>>40143571
>>Fuck that. You're finally having a nice night, and you ain't going anywhere. Stand your ground!

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>>40143518
>have you considered Naka?”

Also, any other book recommendations?

>>40143703
That's the problem. Otaku are already on site. And hashtagging about the carrier. Were going to be buried in neckbeards trying to grope the date

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>>40143734
>Pic related

>>40143571
>Just wrap up the evening, pay your tab and leave like sane human beings -- no need to be hasty, you just won't overstay your welcome, is all.

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>>40143571
>>Fuck that. You're finally having a nice night, and you ain't going anywhere. Stand your ground!
This feels like a bad idea, and is thusly the best idea.

Also pre-dreadnought battleships when.

>>40143740
The skipper can handle 'em, easy.

>>40143571
>>Just wrap up the evening, pay your tab and leave like sane human beings – no need to get hasty, you just won't overstay your welcome, is all.

>>40143740
Then they can get introduced to THE HAND

>>40143571
>>Immediate evasion – a quick costume change to shake any pursuers followed by slipping out the back. Annapolis bred you may be, but even you've had to give the Shore Patrol the slip on occasion. Very rare occasion. Twice, tops. Maybe thrice, but it wasn't your fault.
Damn it! Why can't we have nice things!

>>40143571
>Immediate evasion – a quick costume change to shake any pursuers followed by slipping out the back. Annapolis bred you may be, but even you've had to give the Shore Patrol the slip on occasion. Very rare occasion. Twice, tops. Maybe thrice, but it wasn't your fault.

>>40143571
>>Just wrap up the evening, pay your tab and leave like sane human beings – no need to get hasty, you just won't overstay your welcome, is all.

Let's attempt the reasonable choice. This isn't SWQ

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>>40143756
>mfw

>>40143754
>Also pre-dreadnought battleships when.
Anon, we had a few in the earlier threads. They were Abyssal in their manners though.

>>40143571
>Just wrap up the evening, pay your tab and leave like sane human beings – no need to get hasty, you just won't overstay your welcome, is all.

>>40143571
>>Just wrap up the evening, pay your tab and leave like sane human beings – no need to get hasty, you just won't overstay your welcome, is all.

>>40143729
this

>>40143740
Er, we just pretend we're cosplayers.

Done.

>>40143571
>Just wrap up the evening, pay your tab and leave like sane human beings – no need to get hasty, you just won't overstay your welcome, is all.

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>>40143734
>Okay--new plan, then: anyone have any good ideas for disguises/cosplay that an admiral and shipslut can masquerade as?

heh

heh

heh

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>>40143571

>Fuck that. You're finally having a nice night, and you ain't going anywhere. Stand your ground!

>>40143571
>Just wrap up the evening, pay your tab and leave like sane human beings – no need to get hasty, you just won't overstay your welcome, is all.
Don't run, they're attracted to fast movement.

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>>40143518
Oh, dear.

Oh, my.

Oh... ... ... I can't actually argue this, I'm not well-served out to sea.

>>40143734

Dude. We're in a Gundam café. It's fucking obvious what our disguises will be.

>>40143571
>>Fuck that. You're finally having a nice night, and you ain't going anywhere. Stand your ground!

>>40143571
>>Immediate evasion – a quick costume change to shake any pursuers followed by slipping out the back. Annapolis bred you may be, but even you've had to give the Shore Patrol the slip on occasion. Very rare occasion. Twice, tops. Maybe thrice, but it wasn't your fault.

Look, a live planefag thread! It inly took me about a week filled with side splitting laughter to read SWQ between finals. I was wondering what else I ought to read..

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>>40143815

Kinda hard to do after we accosted those girls cosplaying as the Kongou sisters

>>40143847

planefag pls

>>40143571
Call the Spec Ops guys we have on speed dial from when we inserted them into Syria or Lebanon from our days as the XO of a nuclear sub.

>>40143571
>>Fuck that. You're finally having a nice night, and you ain't going anywhere. Stand your ground!
Give her a heads up though.

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>>40143869
Also pic related

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>>40143869
>It's fucking obvious what our disguises will be.
Macross?

>>40143571
>Fuck that. You're finally having a nice night, and you ain't going anywhere. Stand your ground!

>>40143571
Otaku can get fucked.
Paparazzi can get double fucked.
>Fuck that. You're finally having a nice night, and you ain't going anywhere. Stand your ground!

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>>40143899
>mfw

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>>40143671
>about ten minutes ago
Wait less me guess. This is going to end up like the Young & Perrine newspaper thing from SWQ, right?

>It's fucking obvious what our disguises will be.
Minna and Young?

Cause it'd be cute

>>40143571
>>Immediate evasion – a quick costume change to shake any pursuers followed by slipping out the back. Annapolis bred you may be, but even you've had to give the Shore Patrol the slip on occasion. Very rare occasion. Twice, tops. Maybe thrice, but it wasn't your fault.

Votes... called.

Writing.

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>>40143847
Hey Shoukaku I heard you liked switching paint jobs!

>>40143931
No evil gloating?

>>40143869
Does that mean we're disguising Shoukaku as Zechs Marquise?

>>40143931
Planefag, did the other thread fall off the board so fast you couldn't archive it in time?

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>>40143899

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STORIES FROM THE FLEET PART FOUR: TOJO'S REVENGE (Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the curry)

I was in a unique position when I was stationed in Japan. One of my uncles has lived there for the better part of forty years. It was actually one of my major motivating factors to get stationed in Sasebo, as he lives about an hour-and-a-half away from the base. I'd regularly visit him and his family on three-day weekends or during leave.

I had been at Sasebo for a few weeks, still relatively new the Navy Life (like the Thug Life only slightly less homoerotic), and went to visit my uncle before my ship arrived. My cousin, who was only a few years older than me, spoke perfect Japanese and English, and offered to take me out sightseeing the local area.

After a few hours of playing tourist and seeing where my cousin worked, he asked me if I had tried sushi yet. After letting him know that I had not, he took me to one of his favorite sushi-go-rounds. After an hour or so getting to re-know my cousin and enjoying the many delicious varieties of sushi, we headed back to my uncles place, where they had prepared a room for the night for me.

That night, only a few hours after going to bed, I awoke to strange sounds. Realizing that my stomach was communicating... something to me, I quietly go up. Suddenly, an EMERGENCY PUMP AND DUMP BLOW BLOW BLOW MAN ALL DC LOCKERS PREPARE FOR MASS CASUALTIES

I clenched my stomach, while I tried to fuse my ass cheeks together to keep anything from leaking out with the kinetic force of a 25mm gun. I struggled to my uncle's bathroom in unholy agony, where I promptly realized that the Nation of Japan still secretly remembers World War II. The profane smell that emanated from the toilet after Tojo took his revenge could've been used to clear bunkers.

I've tried sushi once more since that time (mid-2004). The results are still the same. Since then, I've espoused the virtues and prestige of Japanese-style curry.

>>40143931
Oh shit.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN7vrhOY9j8

>>40143931
what are they called?

>>40143571
Brace for fandom!

>>40143954
Why gloat even more? He has already done tons of it.

>>40143959
>it wasn't even archived

I almost never archive my own threads actually because I'm fucking lazy lol

It's still in the 4chan archive though so there's time still to archive it

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>>40143958
>Liking the poor man's Char

>>40143962

Looks like your went with the wrong internal microbe load out there.

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>>40143962
>EMERGENCY PUMP AND DUMP BLOW BLOW BLOW MAN ALL DC LOCKERS PREPARE FOR MASS CASUALTIES

laughed way too hard at that

Most times I love my job! Now where's that popcorn?

>>40143984
First person I could think of with long white-ish hair.

>>40143571
>>Fuck that. You're finally having a nice night, and you ain't going anywhere. Stand your ground!

I'll archive it, moment.

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>>40144001
There's always Aila man.

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>>40143984
Char was a terrible fucking human being anyways.

Also he died on Misery

>>40143962
>slightly less homo erotic than the thug lyfe

Bull. Fucking. Shit.

>>40143995
Planefag, how do you get good at questing?

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Sajuuk and Christ, if it wasn't for the Opera tonight, I wouldn't have missed the first thread.

>>40144031
Shit, I completely forgot about her. Much better idea.

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>>40144047
>good

>>40144031
That's EXACTLY who my thoughts turned to when I thought "Which female Gundam character could Shokaku cosplay as without a wig?"

>>40144025
Already on it. suptg is really slow for me.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/40136816/

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>>40144037

It's true though. After all, it ain't gay if it's underway. It's only queer if it's on the pier.

Pic attached is your average view at sea.

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>>40144034
>All those gundam names
pfft

>>40144065
>>40144074
Aila is best gundam girl with white hair.
NOLORANDOESNTCOUNTHESNOTAGIRL

>>40143962
That happens with a drastic diet change or... "exotic" input. Your gut flora can't handle it because a certain bacterial population isn't large enough to deal with it or is not there.

After all, gut flora correlates to diet.

>>40144047
>planefag
>good

There are no good QMs, only entertaining ones.
It's been years and there hasn't been a single quest that wasn't terrible over all.

It's just that certain quests were far more fun and entertaining than others.

because really, >coming to a image board for chinese cartoons for quality writing and narrative

>>40144103
What about Soma? Her hair and eye color both match with Shoukaku.

>>40143571
>Fuck that. You're finally having a nice night, and you ain't going anywhere. Stand your ground!
We are having a Nice Fuckin' Evening, and anybody who says otherwise can suck on a six-incher.

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>>40144121
Not really a fan of Marie to be honest.

>>40144121
She's also a shit.

Meatbuns isn't a shit.

The choice is obvious.

>>40143571
Fuck that, there's no need to fear from simple Otaku.

Unless they're also Nationalists.

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>>40144157
>Gate: Thus the JSDF fought there jokes go here

>>40144157
Not all that unlikely.

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>>40144072
Goddamn I'm late tonight... But Graf Spee when?

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>>40144141
>>40144144
But that means we get to cosplay as Sergei.

>>40143571
Call the cos-player shipgirl place and tell them that if they'll provide support then they could have official support.

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>>40144189
Dude, I know we're a dead man walking, but holy shit that's overkill.

We can always go as Captain SLAP HAPPY EVERY FIVE SECONDS you know.

>>40144190
We will NOT be whoring out our shipgirls.

We WILL be whoring out Hate, though.

>>40144253
Don't even need to whore them out.
Just offer them a chance for teatime with Kongou.

Am I the only one disappointed Shokaku did not volunteer herself for our secretary?

>>40144287
No, no. Offer them an opportunity for teatime with an officer (noncoms are technically officers) who saw live action and regularly interacts with the shipsluts. And don't tell Hate until five minutes before-hand.

>>40144290
>Thinking it'd be that easy

>>40144290
She'd rather be our sexretary.

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The Hario Radio Tower is a set of three wireless broadcasting towers where the Imperial Japanese navy sent out the signal to attack Pearl Harbor on the 7th of December, 1941, launching America's involvement in the Pacific Front of World War II. It's located in close proximity to the town of Sasebo, and can easily be viewed by ship while entering the harbor. Nowadays, it's considered a cultural landmark for Japan.

>>40144112
I'd have to sah that planefag's writing is wholly superior to most of the trash that's printed nowadays, especially the "big hits" that all the kids rant on about. To each their own, of course, quests are not a medium most people can enjoy or understand. And, hey, this random person on the internet is writing a riduculous, "fun" story with/for us, that's a lot further than most other authors would be willing to go.

>>40144290

It'd be pretty crass for her to offer herself as our secretary.

Don't worry anon, when the time comes we can just choose her.

>>40144345
Ever get thrown to Okinawa? Like, Osprey training or something?

>>40144290
Slightly, but humility isn't a bad trait. Though the real kicker is that the girls we've seen aren't perfectly fit for the role, maybe save for Naka, but well that'd complicate other things.

>>40144112
>>40144346
He has talent, but he's prone to coasting off of it. That being said, should he actually plan and all that other stuff, what would be made would be amazing.

>>40144355
Naka tho

>>40144345
>Cultural landmark for Japan
>launched the war where they got demolished like no other war

kek

>>40144290
I would rather have Shoukaku too, but it'd be awful forward of her to do so. Still gonna vote for her when the time comes though.

>>40144403
Naka is a pretty good choice but I have too much of a raging waifu bias for Shoukaku to choose anything else.

>>40144431
I'm still voting for Naka. She's bro-tier AND one of our only methods of restraining Harder.

>>40144431
She is ticking off every item in the /tg/ wife checklist.

It is almost as if she is too perfect.

>>40144290
Dude, that's reverse psychology she's pulling.

>>40144421
>The Alamo
>>40144431
At least you can admit how disgusting you are

>>40144464
Except Texas won that war, dumbshit.

>>40144253

You'll try.

You'll fail, too.

>>40144421
Every nation has got that kind of monument, man.

>>40144461
Spoilers, she's a planefag trap. He knows how to make /tg/ dance in his hand, making the perfect waifu to get /tg/ to do something is kindergarten shit.

>>40144431
This >>40144463

We're being played like a fiddle.

>>40144486
So Hate, what's your story?

>>40144486
But Hate, you'll look positively radiant in this dress!

>>40144421
Hey man, they got to rape and murder A LOT of chinese people before the end of the war.

>>40144503

That's nice bro.

>>40144290
It's pretty obvious she's the kinda person who assumes fault where there isn't any, so she considers herself unqualified due to her (lack of) involvement in the mess with Kaga.

>>40144485
Yes. Due to the only battle they ever won. Which they only won because the enemy was asleep.

The military history of Texas is kind of hilariously embarrassing.

>>40144464
>Site of a noble last stand of volunteers against the imperial ambitions of General Santana
>Texas goes on to win the war

lol okay

>>40144486
It's this or paperwork, Hate. Choose.

>>40144499
I would have liked a more bro ship to be our secretary. Too bad none of the bro ships aren't in the quest.

>>40144499
>>40144503
Even if we know, it is no defence against her.

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>>40144503
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JuK1Yr35Io

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>>40144503
I can only speak for my own vote, but I have no intention of shipwaifuing.

>>40144535
Are you saying Naka isn't a bro ship? Check yourself before you wreck yourself.

>>40144538
At least we can say "TOLD YOU SO" when morons vote her in. Waifu votes are the worst.

>>40144527
>General Santana

Yeah, if Texas had been fighting a Pillar Man their rebellion would have gone a lot differently.

>>40144547
>Not https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw2K1B04lLo
Poor taste.

>>40144567
Santa Anna, then. Sue me, I've been at work all day and its nearly one in the morning.

>>40144535
>more bro
>not Arizona
Fuck the diplomatic relations, acquire one bro-tier shipslut

>>40144509
The fuck do you mean.

>>40144510
I'm sure I will. I look good in my blues and a kilt, too. Doesn't mean I wear them.

>>40144532
>Assigning paperwork
>To ME

Hope that doesn't need to get done this fuckin stellar era, there, chief.

>>40144525
Considering that the Mexican Army outnumbered them by 3-1 and had significantly more combat experience to boot, I'd call even a single victory pretty impressive.

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>>40144387

God, I've been to Oki more times than I can care to remember. Our helo pads never took on Ospreys while I was in; we usually went there to pick up Marines and/or the baby amphibs that our ship launched, like LCACs, AAVs, LCMs, or LCUs.

Pic related is a view from pierside at White Beach Naval Facility.

(All these captchas with sushi. FML)

>>40144566
I was thinking more like Hayashimo or Asashimo. Mogami falls just a little short.

>>40144585
Everyone's got a story to tell, so what's yours?

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>>40144576
Wasn't a fan of Babylon V to be honest.

>>40144605
You can't seriously think any of those ships are going to appear, do you? Choukai is the most obscure shipslut to show up in this.

>>40144589
>(All these captchas with sushi. FML)
This time it'll work for sure!

>>40144345
Actually, it's only believed that the radio station was the one that sent the attack message. There is no proof that it had any involvement in the Pearl Harbor attack. Still, why is that sign in English? Kind of odd to be on a Japanese cultural landmark.

>>40144587
Except that the part of the army that wasn't asleep did not, in fact, outnumber the Texans.

And even then, they lucked out by capturing Santa Anna.

>>40144634
I thought Kiyoshimo was the most obscure and she already showed up.

>>40144581
I don't know about everyone else, but I find the idea of a fucking mute as a secretary hilarious.

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“Yeah, no,” you tell him.

“... what.”

“It's the first nice night I've had in a while and I'm not bailing out because a few slobbering fanboys are waiting outside with hand-lettered signs,” you reply. “It's about time to go home anyways – just meet us at the garage.”

“YOU DO-” he manages to get out before you hang up.

“Is there trouble?” Shoukaku asks.

“Apparently someone recognized you,” you tell her. “No big deal – it's about time to go anyways. I'll settle up and we'll be on our way.”

She stands up with you, gripping your arm possessively. “There's no need-”

“Let's get out of here quickly,” she says tersely.

“Is something wrong?”

“Those letters I told you about – I wasn't joking. Entirely. A few guys got the idea to write about wanting to 'take' me just like the Cavalla did. A long stalk and a surprise attack.”

“Don't sweat it,” you tell her. “We'll be out of here in no time.”

>>40144664
>fucking mute

Arizona is not for lewds.

>>40144672
SHOULDA CALLED THE SPEC OPS, BRO. SHOULDA CALLED THE SPEC OPS.

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>>40144672
oh god what

>>40144672
>I'll settle up and we'll be on our way.”

But we're already Settle...

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“T-think we could slip out the back?” she asks. She seems to be turning green at the mere prospect of meeting one of the slavering otaku who've been harassing her.

“My dear,” you reply, “I've given the shore patrol the slip a few times, but I'll be thrice damned if I'm going to take a lady slinking through an alleyway. We're leaving, and nobody's gonna stop us.”

Taking heart in your words, she makes no complaint as you pay the tab and let her escort you out the front door – but the instant you step into the muggy summer twilight, you're blinded by camera flash after camera flash; a semi-circle of people directing camera phones and camcorders at you both. Shoukaku shrinks against you as voices start crying out from the crowd – whether they're applauding or rude, you can't tell. You don the slim sunglasses hiding in your breast pocket; (necessary to see much of anything when the sun's low on the water, having some at all times is a habit.) You just pull Shoukau along gently as you make to part the circle – but they refuse to budge. Which is fine by you – your frame is quite sufficient for a little shoulder-shoving. You wade right in without hesitation, bumping people aside. You hear Shoukaku yelp, and before you can react the sound of an open-handed slap claps through the air; sending one camera-boy spinning on his heel before he collapses, unconscious.

You hear a hoarse voice shout something vaugley familiar in Japanese, and your peripheral vision captures two men moving forward as a team, holding between them -

- you spring towards them, a shout on your lips, but they upend the bucket over Shoukaku before you can reach them. She shrieks as cold water soaks her to the skin; including her white shirt. She claps her arms over her chest defensively – and the crowd immediately moves in, no longer fearing her blows, cameras already being thrust downward for a shot up her skirt.

>Remove otaku. REMOVE OTAKU
>“Hate. It's time.”
>other?

>>40144672
>“Those letters I told you about – I wasn't joking. Entirely. A few guys got the idea to write about wanting to 'take' me just like the Cavalla did. A long stalk and a surprise attack.”

Fucking cute.

Starting to wonder if we should pack a pistol next time.

>>40144664
I don't see the problem.

>>40144655
And she didn't even get anything more than a namedrop. Face it, she wasn't really in the quest. Choukai at least got some screen time before she was Sammy'd.

>>40144696
We're going to Settle harder.

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>>40144672
>A few guys got the idea to write about wanting to 'take' me just like the Cavalla did. A long stalk and a surprise attack.
Fucking owned.

>>40144699
>“Hate. It's time.”

>>40144699
>>“Hate. It's time.”

>>40144499
Ouch.

Or is this that other kind of trap people keep asking about?

>>40144699
>>“Hate. It's time.”

LET LOOSE THE DERP OF WAR!

>>40144672
"Then it's a good thing I have my beating stick".

We do have the cane, right?

>>40144619

Enlisted out of high school. Found out that being smart and violent makes you uncle sam's favorite motorcycle club member. They taught me lots of neat shit about killing people and breaking things, then sent me to do it.

There ya go.

>>40144699
>“Hate. It's time.”

>>40144699
>“Hate. It's time.”

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>>40144642

That sign is actually part of a sidewalk display featuring multiple highlights of the Sasebo area. The locals are, surprisingly, proud of both their history and their friendship with the Navy base.

I spent a not-insignificant part of my life in the Sasebo area. I miss it a good deal.

>>40144710
>We're going to Settle Harder.

>>40144699
>>“Hate. It's time.”
>>Remove otaku. REMOVE OTAKU

>>40144699
>>“Hate. It's time.”

>>40144699
>>“Hate. It's time.”

>>40144719
It's just anon being paranoid. Planefag isn't known for perfect waifus, Minna certainly never looked like one.

>>40144699
>>Remove otaku. REMOVE OTAKU
>>“Hate. It's time.”

>>40144699
>“Hate. It's time.”

Crazy Ivan.

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>>40144699
>>“Hate. It's time.”

Loose the hounds! The time has come for the streets of Akihabara to run red with otaku blood!

>>40144719
I really doubt Shoukaku has a dick.

Although that would definitely be something I could see planefag pulling. And it'd explain the torpedo fight line.

>>40144699
>Remove otaku. REMOVE OTAKU
>“Hate. It's time.”

>>40144699
>other?
We have a cane. We fenced at Annapolis. Figure it out.

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>>40144699
>“Hate. It's time.”
HAHA TIME FOR HEDGEHOGS
WAITNOTHATSOVERKILLFORCIVVIESARGH

>>40144699
>>“Hate. It's time.”

>>40144699
>“Hate. It's time.”

>>40144699
>Remove otaku. REMOVE OTAKU
Sidearm, air, wildly, etc.

>>40144699
>Hate. It’s time.
>Unleash the dog of war.
>GAIJIN SMASH with our beating stick

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>>40144719
>other kind of trap

>>40144699
>Remove otaku. REMOVE OTAKU
>“Hate. It's time.”

got a feeling that we're going to need both for this

>>40144699
>“Hate. It's time.”

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>>40144699

>Remove otaku. REMOVE OTAKU
>“Hate. It's time.”

HAHAHAH TIME FOR BEST AMERICAN PAST TIME, VIOLENCE!

>>40144764
>YOU HAVE AN ANTI-TANK RIFLE. OVER THERE IS A TANK! FIGURE IT OUT!!
>www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaF_dkuGLjE

>>40144699
>both
"Hate, remove, with as much force you want, anyone within 50ft. The more force the better"

>>40144699
>>Remove otaku. REMOVE OTAKU
....Shit why didn't we listen to hate?

We kind of ruined her night.


Though I kind of missed the vote, why didn't we go for options 2 or 3?

>>40144770
Otaku are not civies. They're walking warcrimes.

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>>40144699
>“Hate. It's time.”

It's too bad Arizona isn't here, stalking us.

She would plow right through the crowd like bowling pins.

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>>40144699
>Other
Flight decks looks like riot shields.

>>40144802
>....Shit why didn't we listen to hate?
Why didn't you listen? You should've listened.

>>40144699
>Remove otaku. REMOVE OTAKU
Bring in Ivan's Otaku Removal Service.

>>40144802
We didn't think they would come upon us so fast.

Then again we forgot who was writing this story.

>>40144816
If she was there, those guys would have been premptively decked.

>>40144699
>“Hate. It's time.”

>>40144802
If I knew they were going to be this bad I'd have voted to slip out back instead.

A lesson for next time to be sure.

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>>40144699
>HATE IT IS FUCKING TIME

>“Hate. It's time.”

Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war.

>>40144699
>Other

Cane them like we were a Singaporean cop and they were just caught littering.

>>40144816
...How do you know she isn't?

>>40144802
Why does Young do half the things he does?

Anon can't shift gears without QM intervention. Sometimes that's punishment, sometimes it's rewards.

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>>40144699

>Remove otaku. REMOVE OTAKU

Followed by:

>“Hate. It's time.”


(I qualified and served on both the .50 cal and 25mm guns that my ship had. Firing that shit is a combination of the best sex of your life, a religious experience, and dining on your favorite foods guilt-free.)

>>40144699
>“Hate. It's time.”

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>>40144802
>Though I kind of missed the vote, why didn't we go for options 2 or 3?
Because there is a difference between some fans that we expected and this rabid horde that has greeted us.

>>40144850
We'll know if she plows through them like bowling pins.

>>40144816
When is Sammy going to show up? She knows about the date.

>>40144699
>Other
>Break the cameras with our cane.

So someone copped a feel on Shoukaku?

>>40144873
I came through like a wrecking ball~

>>40144699
>Remove otaku. REMOVE OTAKU
>“Hate. It's time.”

Maximum punishment.

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>>40144816

>implying Arizona didn't sneak a peek at a computer screen and saw Settle's face plastered all over the Twitterverse
>implying she isn't ripping through the streets with all haste
>implying Sammy isn't tagging along for a chance to relieve her boredom

A maelstrom of fuck is about to hit, and we'll be right in the thick of it.

>>40144699
>>“Hate. It's time.”
"Cry 'Havoc!', and let slip the dogs of war!"

Always wanted to use that line.

>>40144869
Navyfag, do you got any more stories to tell?

>>40144887
Never. Why would she care about the Admiral? She's got to busy wrecking every bar in a 20 mile radius.

>>40144889
>So someone copped a feel on Shoukaku?
Looks like it. Then she slapped his shit.

>>40144399
> planefag doesn't plan
compared to me he's pre-written a whole trilogy

>>40143472
Hold up, wasn't Kongou the first IJN ship to come back?

>>40144699
>“Hate. It's time.”
>Break the cameras with our cane.

>>40144869

What does it take to qualify on those guns? Do you have to blast apart targets they have floating, like, two hundred or more meters from the ship?

>>40144869
Mk19s are my bread and butter. Chunkachunkachunka

Why am I the only one saying "draw our sidearm and fire wildly into the air"

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>>40144873
>Because there is a difference between some fans that we expected and this rabid horde that has greeted us.

We are in fucking Akihabara. You SERIOUSLY expected a small crowd of respectful fans instead of a horde slavering otaku?

ARE YOU FUCKING RETARDED?

Votes pretty overwhelmingly called.

>>40144921
It said akagi was one of the first, not the first.

>>40144910
Best girl.

Also, we're there not more cosplay votes? I for one was looking forward to that.

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>>40144896
>Ali, Tyson, and now, CROCKETT!!!
>Murrica.webm

>>40144869
Dat chain gun

>>40144699
>She shrieks as cold water soaks her to the skin
Shouldn't she be used to the feeling of being submerged in icy cold water after all these years?

>>40144940
Ah, and here I was about to vote within the same trend.

Poor dear. We must defend her honour.

>>40144937
Because Settle doesn't have a sidearm. What do you think he is, a pilot?

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>>40144399
>That being said, should he actually plan

>>40144699
I propose that next time such a situation may occur, we have Sammy in the near vicinity. Heaven and hell have mercy on those poor bastards, because she sure won't.

>>40144937
Because we don't have one

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>>40144966
>Officer
>No sidearm
>No sword

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>>40144937

Is Settle even strapped? I don't remember there ever being any mention of him carrying a service sidearm.

>>40144960

Well it was a surprise, and she's not made (completely) out of metal any more, having cold water suddenly dumped on you would be a pretty rude surprise.

>>40143496
>build boiler pressure
How lewd.

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>pictures of Settle and Shoukaku circulate the net
>Everyone assumes they're a couple and it's a huge PR hit
>Settle has to take responsibility
>Settle has to make Shoukaku his secretary
>Overtime, they slowly become more comfortable with each other and form a relationship

This is getting WAY too lewd.

>>40144939
>OOC knowledge
>Not voting in character

>>40144939
Settle doesn't exactly have the powerlevel of the average /tg/er. Or something worse than an average /tg/er considering how few of us know what Akibawhatsits is like.

So remind again why Settle doesn't carry a sidearm. Because this is another one of those /tg/ decision making times.

>>40144986
>>40144985
He was out for an evening with a lady. Of course he wasn't armed.

>>40144987
Yeah but the bottom of the Pacific has got to be a lot colder than that stuff.

>>40144996
>in character
Every time I see this in quests, it's solely so that people can vote for retarded decisions. You're not trying to be "in character", you're just trying to tank the quest for your own amusement.

>>40144937
Settle doesn't have one. Probably specifically to take this option off the table.

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>>40144939
>Assuming people know what Akihabara is like

>>40144986
Why the fuck would we *not*? Are we not a good, freedom-loving red-blooded American?

>>40145006
HANDS HOLDING HANDS ARE AS BAD AS HANDS IN POCKETS BUT LEWDER

>>40145004
It's like unloading a gun when it's being transported. Retard prevention, essentially.

>>40145028

Presumably she was pretty dead before she got anywhere near the bottom.

>>40145038
We're in "no handguns allowed" Japan.

>>40144967
Planefag, get out from under that golfcart this instant!

>>40145006
>Not being equipped to defend said lady from ne'er-do-wells

Unbecoming of an officer or a gentleman.

>>40144986
Settle's got his cutlass or saber or whatever the fuck it is Navy officers get. Now go Google "sword wounds."

Lose your lunch. While I don't think laying about with our sword in a crowded Japanese shopping district is the best of ideas, I also think that defending the honor of one of our charges, a lady, and a warship, to boot, is the best of ideas.

Therefore, we hit them with our sword.

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>>40144906

I've got plenty of stories to tell. Some of them might even be truthful.

I was stationed on the USS Fort McHenry (LSD-43) and the USS Tortuga (LSD-46), both out of Sasebo, Japan. I've been to Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, Hong Kong, STRAYA, and the Philippines; as well as port calls to Okinawa, Yokosuka, and Tokyo. I was a Crypto Tech, and had numerous secondary duties, including the ships' security team, gun crews, DC teams, and flight deck crew. I've gotten shitfaced in exotic locales, and marveled at the stars on a cloudless, moonless night at sea. What do you want to hear about?

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>>40144996

>PR hit

More like PR disaster. A shipslut and a human--as a couple, no less! There would be so much goddamn controversy that the talking heads at all the large news networks would be debating the concept for weeks, and the public radio stations for months more.

>>40145035
It’s full of adventurers and shit, right? Or did Log Horizon lie to me?

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While we wait there is something I've been curious about. How much did you guys learn about WW1 and WW2 in school?

For me the curriculum I went through was basic. It talked about events in very broad terms, we went over there fought these battles and came home as heroes much patriotism something something remembrance day. Looking back it seems so empty because all it taught me was that these events happened and almost nothing about how and why they happened. Back when I was in school wikipedia didn't exist and after it launched it still took years to become useful with decent cited information. The wiki notability nazis certainly didn't help. The public library catalog system at the time still ran on DOS, and unless you were willing to pay sticker price it was almost impossible to find a history book less than 20 years old.

So up until planefag did SWQ I never had much drive to do research on my own. Some of the things I've learned since then have kind of blown my mind. Was it the same for you guys?

God damn it I look away to play robocraft for awhile and THIS is what I come back to?

Can't believe all these people are wondering why settle isn't armed.

A) its Japan, not even the beat cops have guns.
B) Flag rank and up Dont carry. Especially when they are nominally off duty.

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>>40145074
>guns
>japan

a y y y l a m o

>>40145095
Seeing as how even about ten years ago I was the one correcting my teacher on WWII, yeah it was.

Luckily he was a cool dude and just out of college so he didn't try to correct me back.

>>40145095

I actually learned more about Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union as societies than the actual war itself. Admittedly it was because of a elective, but still.

>>40145064
She died ugly. Four torpedo hits in quick succession. 4/5 of her crew (both sailors and airmen) died with her. I linked a description of her final hours in an earlier thread.

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>>40145079

Any neat stories coming from Thailand, Singapore, or the Philippines?

And as part of the base security team, did you mainly have to deal with drilling for disasters or were you also called in to break up fights while on board?

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>>40145095
>Was it the same for you guys?
Man FUCK no.
I read the shit out of every WWII book I could get my hands on because the tanks and guns and planes looked so damn sweet.

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>tfw yelling while firing a gun wildly into the air is a valid option but we can't even do it now

>>40145155
You been through Tigers in the Mud?

>>40145142
USA stronk.

>>40145095
I got an extremely basic framework of what caused each war, who won each war, and how they led to the next war.

Meanwhile, my father is and was a WWII milhist nut so I went into those sections of the classes better informed than anybody sans the teacher and left with nothing new, aside from a lot of irritation since the teacher wouldn't let me give details.

>>40145133
>Japan not letting US service officers carry their duty guns
>being no guns
lol Japan

>>40145116
>Not letting your cops have guns
>Flag rank and up don't carry
Patton says you're wrong
also
>not always carrying

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>>40145095

Pearl Harbor, the Battle of the Bulge, Russia getting backstabbed by Germany, and the atomic bombs--pretty much the broad strokes. It was only really in high school and afterwards that I started to delve into specific aspects of the war.

>>40145079
Before you were talking about sharing some more spoopy scary stories, how about more in that vein?

Oh, and where's the best place to watch the stars in your travels?

>>40145038
Japan's firearms laws are not American firearms laws.

Besides, we have a corgi. Why carry pistols when you can have an automatic artillery piece?

>>40145064
http://www.combinedfleet.com/shoksink.htm

Yeah. She was.

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>>40145185
>carrying duty guns OFF DUTY

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>>40145169
>tfw Carius passed on earlier this year but I didn't even get a chance to visit him at his pharmacy

>>40145169
Nah. Is it any good? I read Patton's Panther's, which was pretty great though.

Pic relates is GOAT WWII literature, by the way.

>>40145095
More like, most history classes, even AP US History, stopped just before WW2. Most of the focus was from 1776-1930 + Depression and recovery, and if there was time left in the semester, WW2 and the Cold War.

Everything I've learned was from watered down sections of highschool textbooks and various parts of history textbooks from the first few semesters of college (Top 10 university).

Even then it's still very sparse and far below the level of many of the readers here.

>>40145095
I learnt it because it is my history. Perhaps more than most Americans.

Since I'm a Belgian-born Canadian and both of my grand-parents on my mother's side lived under the Occupation.

And I knew my Great-Grand-Mother, who lived under BOTH Occupations and lost two brothers and an uncle during the Great War.

I had both the motivation and the sources to learn of the Wars, directly.

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>>40144934

Getting qualified to shoot them is piss-easy. Aim at target (usually a floating target), pull the trigger, contain your erection.

Getting assigned to crew one is entirely different. That requires be a 'part' of the Armory: volunteering to help the Gunner's Mates even when it's shit work, be a part of rifle/pistol/shotgun qualifications, knowing the Secret Handshake, and most of all not being a complete spaz around them.

I was actually GIVEN the keys to ammo lockers because I was considered an asset to the ships' Armory.

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>>40145213
fuck me

>>40145211
Are you actually capable of not shitposting?

>>40145212
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Valpy_Radley-Walters Don't forget this guy

>>40145213
Oh it's fantastic. Otto Carius gives an excellent review of the eastern front from a german perspective, and it really is quite eye opening. The descriptions and details on the Tiger itself are incredibly good as well.

>>40145230
He isn't.
It's literally what he does.
Never takes off his trip either.

>>40145218
Read "Inferno" by Max Hastings. It’s a pretty good one-volume history of the war. Look up more specific stuff after that.

>>40145185
>Patton

Was a fucking nutcase in the middle of a fucking warzone.

Settle is off duty on a date. I don't carry my piece when I'm out in public with the wife.

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>>40145095
Eh, let me put it this way. In high school when our history teacher eventually brought up WWII, half the class had no clue. One person even asked who won.

I snapped.

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>>40145230
Maybe I wouldn't have to shitpost so hard if there weren't so many wrong people.