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This absolutely has to be a bit, I refuse to believe such a caricature of a person actually exists

Gonna keep it to things not already mentioned.

Big standalone fangame/total conversion:

• Chronicles of Myrtana: Archolos, built off of Gothic 2. Was my GOTY when it came out, and I consider it better than anything the actual developers released since Gothic 2. I really dig the way it expands the original game's systems, like apprenticeship. I have some complaints about it but it's nothing major, and I overall greatly enjoyed my time with it, planning a new run when the big 2.0 update drops.

Mod packs:

• Morrowind Sharp, it's like Viva New Vegas for Morrowind, I always use it as a base for my own setups, but it's great as is for new players to get a patched, QoL enhanced and face-lifted vanilla-like experience.

Individual mods:

• Global Escalation for Squad - just a huge expansion-sized load of content
• Beautiful Cities of Morrowind, for bringing the game's settlements closer to their concept art, implementing a lot of the new fan-made resources to make places more distinct and detailed while having a clear scope and keeping within vanilla-like territory
• Kenshi Kaizo, touches up and expands the existing content without bloating itself by filling the map with all sorts of new factions of varying quality and lore-adherence
• The Stardew Valley mod that adds a whole bunch of cat skins so I can have my irl cat in the game. And on the topic, SDV Expanded and Ridgeside Village when I just want more Stardew Valley stuff.

Haven't been online for ages due to a whole bunch of life stuff, how are the bears doing? If all goes well I'm slowly getting off anxiety medication this fall.

Also Op. Bagration really blew my mind away the first time I watched that documentary on it. The sheer scale of it and all the deception involved into its preparation is really amazing. I will echo the OP and ask everyone to do their patriotic duty and watch Soviet Storm, and also check out When Titans Clashed - How the Red Army Stopped Hitler by David Glantz if you are in the mood for reading more WW2 history. The book can be a lot to take in at times, but it's a solid source to dispel the mindless Asiatic red hordes bullshit surrounding the Eastern Front. I am considering giving it a reread myself as it's been a long while since I read it.

I had the naval infantry cat saved but didn't know about the others. I love accordion cat's energy.

Yup. It's deeply jokerifying when I remember how 10 years ago "WW2 enthusiasts" who were suspiciously enthusiastic about the Wehrmacht (which they insisted was not not political, they just like history) would always point to the SS as the designated evil warcriminals while insisting that regular German troops were innocent conscripts. Nazi narratives of WW2 have become so normalized so fast that we are now in the clean SS stage of revisionism. Which is something that 10 years ago we would joke about. What a shitty timeline to live in.

The way libs understand history, Hitler was an evil sorcerer who put a spell on the Germans to make them do warcrimes and after he died the spell broke and the Germans became wholesome allies.

It takes an industrial grade alloy of smugness and lack of self awareness to proclaim yourself a herbivore when your society is built on brutal conquest and the immiseration of billions. This continent's century of humiliation can't come soon enough.