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This painting by a Hiroshima survivor is fascinating to me
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Date: January 31st, 2026 8:10 AM Author: OYT and the Indie Reprieve ( ) https://ibb.co/5gz9YVpv
It could be interpreted as abstract, but also as a semi-realist depiction of nuclear carnage. No one who wasn’t there really Knows. You look at this image and somehow simultaneously don’t understand what is happening and fully comprehend what is being conveyed. |
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Date: January 31st, 2026 9:39 AM Author: ,.,...,..,.,.,;:,.:,.,.,::,,,,..,:,.,.:.:.,:.::,., You should watch White Light Black Rain. Their descriptions are out of a nightmare. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5829100&forum_id=2Reputation#49635291) |
Date: January 31st, 2026 8:11 AM Author: Noah Tannenbaum War crime (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5829100&forum_id=2Reputation#49635180) |
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Date: January 31st, 2026 8:37 AM Author: cowgod It’s sort of insane how we justify it. As if WWII NEEDED to be 1939-1945 or else it’d create a time paradox. The “real reason” was always to btfo the Russians.
The firebombings were “worse” they say. Yeah ok. The same people who defend using nuclear weapons would be the ones to sweep firebombings under the rug. But they bring them up when it’s convenient.
The whole country of Japan was basically like that one guy who was discovered in the 70s who thought the war was still going on. “Sure, champ.” And we were like “accept that you Lost, champ. Accept it.” Like what about letting them keep their empire and letting them rule over the Lower Azns? That would’ve worked better in hindsight imo. Imagine the Games we’d have. |
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Date: January 31st, 2026 8:40 AM Author: OYT and the Indie Reprieve ( ) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5829100&forum_id=2Reputation#49635205) |
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Date: January 31st, 2026 8:42 AM Author: Gary Goatfucker No fuck them if they didn't wanna get their ass nuked they shouldn't have attacked Pearl Harbor for no reason. And don't try to justify it with OiL eMbArGo, as if that's a valid reason to kill white Americans. We should've decapitated their faggot fuck emperor right in downtown Tokyo and burned his imperial palace down too. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5829100&forum_id=2Reputation#49635207) |
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Date: January 31st, 2026 8:51 AM Author: cowgod If you’d let them have their empire there’d be greater scaffolding against globalization and probably fewer immigrants in the US. Keep a somewhat powerful enemy around if you don’t want history to End. Once history Ends, the brown floodgates open. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5829100&forum_id=2Reputation#49635217) |
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Date: January 31st, 2026 8:52 AM Author: Gary Goatfucker Not sure Japan having an empire in Asia would keep Mexicans out, that's really fucking retarded. Almost as retarded as sneak attacking Pearl Harbor and whining about the blowback (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5829100&forum_id=2Reputation#49635218) |
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Date: January 31st, 2026 8:54 AM Author: cowgod Russia having an empire did. You don’t understand knock-on effects. Race is important when war is a possibility. It’s the only thing that makes libs stfu and btfo. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5829100&forum_id=2Reputation#49635220) |
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Date: January 31st, 2026 8:59 AM Author: Noah Tannenbaum Sneak attacking Pearl Harbor didn’t justify dropping 2 nukes (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5829100&forum_id=2Reputation#49635226) |
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Date: January 31st, 2026 9:04 AM Author: Gary Goatfucker all that shit they did after didn't help. fuck them, they fucked with the wrong one (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5829100&forum_id=2Reputation#49635233) |
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Date: January 31st, 2026 9:04 AM Author: Noah Tannenbaum How would you have liked it if they dropped 2 nukes on us? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5829100&forum_id=2Reputation#49635234) |
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Date: January 31st, 2026 9:07 AM Author: Gary Goatfucker Obviously I wouldn't have, what's that have to do with anything? Pretty sure Berliners didn't like Soviets fucking up their shit either. Golden Rule doesn't apply in war, retard. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5829100&forum_id=2Reputation#49635239) |
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Date: January 31st, 2026 9:19 AM Author: Noah Tannenbaum Idk. Dropping 2 nukes on civilians for any reason still seems excessive to me. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5829100&forum_id=2Reputation#49635253) |
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Date: January 31st, 2026 9:20 AM Author: Gary Goatfucker That's because you're a liberal pussy. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5829100&forum_id=2Reputation#49635258) |
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Date: January 31st, 2026 9:32 AM Author: Noah Tannenbaum You’re not tough (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5829100&forum_id=2Reputation#49635281) |
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Date: January 31st, 2026 9:35 AM Author: Gary Goatfucker You’re retarded (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5829100&forum_id=2Reputation#49635284) |
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Date: January 31st, 2026 8:56 AM Author: cowgod Btw naval bases aren’t supposed to be these Defenseless stores of materiel. They’re supposed to be able to defend themselves somewhat. FYI. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5829100&forum_id=2Reputation#49635223) |
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Date: January 31st, 2026 8:58 AM Author: Gary Goatfucker FYI empires aren't supposed to leave their entire home countires Defenseless aginst atom bombs. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5829100&forum_id=2Reputation#49635225) |
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Date: January 31st, 2026 9:04 AM Author: cowgod Maybe give them a few more days to Process the first bomb. News traveled more slowly back then (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5829100&forum_id=2Reputation#49635232) |
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Date: January 31st, 2026 9:15 AM Author: OYT and the Indie Reprieve ( ) I think he's being intellectually dishonest. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5829100&forum_id=2Reputation#49635250) |
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Date: January 31st, 2026 9:30 AM Author: cowgod He probably only plays western video games (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5829100&forum_id=2Reputation#49635274) |
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Date: January 31st, 2026 9:54 AM Author: ....;..;...;;;.....;;......;; There’s pretty much no good rational/logical argument against using the bomb.
You have to rely on EMOTIONS |
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Date: January 31st, 2026 10:02 AM Author: Post nut horror The US was estimating an invasion of mainland Japan ("Operation Downfall") to result in up to 800,000 American deaths and up to 4 million causalties, with up to 10 million total deaths, Japanese civilions included. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5829100&forum_id=2Reputation#49635328) |
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Date: January 31st, 2026 10:38 AM Author: It's computers spoken like a kike whose ancestor never fought in an American war.
they expected a million+ US casualties in a land invasion of Japan that would have dragged on until '48. the fighting on the Pacific islands was savage. Japs were animals.
many (white) people you know would never have been born had they not dropped the bomb. |
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Date: January 31st, 2026 10:48 AM Author: cowgod Whoa, better listen to what “they” estimated. Same people that estimated holocaust deaths btw. Exact same people 😏 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5829100&forum_id=2Reputation#49635425) |
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Date: January 31st, 2026 9:09 AM Author: Justinian the Great The thing that makes the American way of war brutal is the pursuit of unconditional surrender rather than any acceptance of a negotiated settlement. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5829100&forum_id=2Reputation#49635241) |
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Date: January 31st, 2026 9:13 AM Author: cowgod “But an Invasion would’ve killed millions!” (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5829100&forum_id=2Reputation#49635248) |
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Date: January 31st, 2026 9:20 AM Author: Risten Why would we invade when we could get them to surrender with 2 bombs
Why would we not make them surrender |
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Date: January 31st, 2026 9:32 AM Author: cowgod You’re begging the question. Surrender what? The Imperial Palace? Nintendo HQ? The Philippines? Thank god we have the Philippines. Where would the us be without a vassal state of hellosirs? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5829100&forum_id=2Reputation#49635280) |
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Date: January 31st, 2026 9:50 AM Author: Risten Ur showing ur ass here. American brilliance recognized Nintendo's potential (being wasted for they prior few decades in TTT playing cards), Stimson took Kyoto off the nuke list to spare Nintendo's HQ, shortly after the war we INJECTED US capital and OPENED UP Nintendo to US influence (Disney partnership), and the rest is herstory (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5829100&forum_id=2Reputation#49635306) |
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Date: January 31st, 2026 9:51 AM Author: cowgod Im going to allow this. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5829100&forum_id=2Reputation#49635308) |
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Date: January 31st, 2026 9:54 AM Author: barnabyjones We could’ve just left you know. The war was fought on their territory not the US. Maybe instead of the worst war crimes known to man we just brought our troops home. It’s the same result. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5829100&forum_id=2Reputation#49635315) |
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Date: January 31st, 2026 9:56 AM Author: ....;..;...;;;.....;;......;; Ljl Japan would’ve ended up attacking Hawaii again.
You are analyzing this like Japan was a rational actor |
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Date: January 31st, 2026 10:02 AM Author: barnabyjones So then we do the war in Hawaii. still better then burning babies to death. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5829100&forum_id=2Reputation#49635326) |
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Date: January 31st, 2026 10:32 AM Author: cowgod You’re talking to a Team Cherry kickstarter donor: (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5829100&forum_id=2Reputation#49635386) |
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Date: January 31st, 2026 9:13 AM Author: which dad? I remember first realizing Charles was not gonna make it when he poasted a weird Catholic-influenced strident anti-nuking-Japan thread. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5829100&forum_id=2Reputation#49635247) |
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Date: January 31st, 2026 9:17 AM Author: FizzKidd (probably not even asian) The "Freemasons wanted to eradicate Japanese Catholicism with nukes" conspiracy doesn't have much going for it but I'm gonna belueve it anyway (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5829100&forum_id=2Reputation#49635252) |
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Date: January 31st, 2026 9:20 AM Author: Risten (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5829100&forum_id=2Reputation#49635259) |
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Date: January 31st, 2026 10:49 AM Author: cowgod There is a crude way to describe the lineage. Japan was annihilated, then rebuilt itself in circuits, cartridges, and ritualized play. That version misses the interior shift. The atomic bomb did not merely end a war. It taught a culture something terrible and precise about abstraction. That ideas, once freed from restraint, can arrive before ethics and leave nothing standing.
The bomb was theory made sovereign. Calculation preceding consequence. Certain Western philosophers warned that once the world is reduced to what can be measured, it becomes available for use. Certain Eastern thinkers, long before, suggested that the will to mastery is itself the delusion. Hiroshima was where these positions stopped being arguments and became weather.
Games emerge as a response to this knowledge. Not escapism, but containment. Nintendo’s worlds are clean to the point of austerity. Violence is symbolic, reversible, polite. Death becomes repetition rather than negation. The save file is not convenience but metaphysics. After irreversibility has shown its face, cultures grow suspicious of anything that cannot be undone.
Kojima refuses this comfort. His games are haunted by systems that believe themselves rational. Nuclear deterrence, feedback loops, control through information. You are allowed to act, but never allowed to forget that action binds you. This is where postwar Japanese memory meets Western guilt, filtered through a medium that knows it is complicit.
Even the present carries the residue. A new console arrives, powerful, pristine, and strangely empty. Switch 2 stands there with very little to say. Commentators call it a drought. It may be closer to a hesitation. After catastrophe, you do not rush to populate the world. You build the container first. You make sure the system can hold what is coming.
Gojira gave the bomb a body so it could be confronted. Games give the bomb a loop so it can be survived. Reset, retry, continue. A quiet refusal of finality. Japan learned, earlier than most, what happens when abstraction outruns human scale. Its games remain a long, disciplined answer to that lesson.
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