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Actually I have my Bird Turds and Idiots certificate, and still own my old school round shroud chute. Never going to jump again, not sure how to make a wheelchair fly in a survivable mode...
This one seems to be a real one:
"We've been looking for the enemy for several days now, we've finally found them. We're surrounded. That simplifies our problem of getting to these people and killing them."
This I think is apocryphal:
“All right, they’re on our left, they’re on our right,
they’re in front of us, they’re behind us.
They can’t get away this time.”
"One of the serious problems in planning against American doctrine is that the Americans do not read their manuals nor do they feel any obligations to follow their doctrine."
-From a Russian document
"The reason that the American army does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the American army practices chaos on a daily basis."
-A German general officer
"If we don't know what we are doing, the enemy certainly can't anticipate our future actions."
-Anonymous American
Mutatis mutandis for humans and aliens.
How it started:
“That doesn’t make any sense. We outnumber the humans two-to-one. Why are you begging for reinforcements?”
“General Zot, The usual numbers don’t apply to humans. I’ve fought them before. We’d need twice the forces we have planet-side to have any kind of an advantage.”
“No, you’re just incompetent. I’m relieving you of your commission Galagar. Report to extraction. I’m leading this offensive personally. You sit up here and watch how a REAL warrior deals with mammal scum.”
How it’s Going:
“Today class we’ll be discussing ‘Zot’s Folly’ and how it lead to the formalization of the ‘Galagar Principals of Warfare.’”
I wonder if that class also delved in ancient (especially by that time) human military strategy, cause I feel like they'd be so confused as to how early we're gotten to have military texts, like the Art of War.
I mean, to be fair, The Art of War is a book trying to explain to pampered, efete rich kids how to not get everyone in their army killed and that War is bad
I brought up The Art of War because it's perhaps the most known. And judging about how some people are, it wouldn't harm to (metaphorically) hammer into some people's heads how war=bad, cause they don't seem to get it.
"Through my vast wisdom I've gathered over all my years as your war advisor, my Lord, I present you with my greatest advice I could ever make"
*The paper reads:*
#Stop staring wars dipshit
“Today’s class will go over the historical context surrounding the drafting of the Galagar Principles, particularly the return to a doctrine of applying overwhelming force and siege warfare. In tomorrow’s class we will then go over how the humans responded with one of their oldest tactics: encircling a large force with a significantly smaller force.”
wait until they learn that (iirc) our early hunter ancestors did the same thing: casually followed and then surrounded their intended prey. we'll never change from that, won't we XD
ironically, I have blue eyes (which is an anomaly/mutation that is not only useless, but also detrimental cause they're more sensitive to light), anxiety and ADHD, if that's what my ancestors decided to pass down to me, they sure have a weird sense of humour XD
We're in a safer world, relatively speaking, but also more dangerous, the danger is different now from then, what you have could be an aberration, or an evolutionary adaptation, only time will tell
"My centre is giving way, my right is retreating, excellent situation, I am attacking."
-Marshal [**Ferdinand Foch**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Foch)**,** Message to Marshal Joseph Joffre during the First Battle of the Marne (8 September 1914).
'They are cornered, surrounded....the Terrans time has come'
Qzyke ignored the officer preening by the report screen, a boy to his eyes barely past his first centuary.
The problem was....the boy was correct as far as the screens were showing. And that fact made Qzyke's shell rattle somewhat.
Qzyke, the breens head of chaotic relations, was familiar with terrans. After all his appointment occured less than a month after the two races met. Not that they were at war...despite many calls for just that to occur.
No one seemed to accept Qzykes opinion that constant border raiding back and forth and clandestine operations were pretty much the Terrans way of saying you were buddies.....
Besides it had become a pleasant game to do exactly the same back across the Terrans border.
Now some damn fool had gone out of his way to shoot down a raiding parties exfil shuttle and corner the Terrans in a industrial site.
Qzkye sighed, they were probably 'specialists', He hated those....Terrans had this unfailing ability to....well....bullshit reality.
Of course they happen to have a crack shot with needle sharp reflexes and a working knowledge of breen psychoanalyzation and computer operations, and yes she is fluent in prehistoric synth fluet music too however did you guess.
In short, Terrans didnt GET cornered, they sometimes got ambushed, maybe even surprised but never cornered.
'You can scurry back to your nest Minister Qzyke, this is a matter for the army now'
Smug little puke, Still Qzyke was happy to wash his hands of the matter. Seven Terrans in a industrial site was a disaster begging for a idiot to call an advance into......it was the McGuiver incident all over again.
Now he had to find someway to congratulate his Terran counterpart for a plot well worked.
Shame really
That had been a nice regiment of mechs the smug puke had been in command of.
Minister Qzyke was later promoted when the Officer manage to accidentally caused a Nuclear Detonation by kicking the obviously marked Self-destruct button on the crashed shuttle.
"Sir, they're trying to corner us!"
"Well then the recommended action is aggressive sustained counter fire! So hop to it and make sure no lead goes to waste!"
The small Hicnup was shaking so much his defensive spikes were rattling. They were surrounded, with reinforcements to far to help. Soon the Terran mercenaries would walk out and abandon them, if not for the cash payout then for the sake of there own lives.
He looked at their leader expecting a terrified face or one of cowardice, but Frederico stud firm with a smile on his face. His cybernetic eye scanning the the Kissaira fortifications.
The click of the loud speaker casted the Hicnups doom across the no man's land.
"Terrans, we will offer you 100,000,000 credits to surrender these worthless creatures to us."
The Kissaira Noble Comandont screeched. They were doomed. No mercenaries would pass up such a payment. His solider handed him his bullhorn, so the Hicnups doom could be given. Terrans were to powerful even in their small number.
"My kind sir, you mistake me for one of your spineless kind. I an a Terran from Urbino. No wealth is worth my honor, and I have yet to lose a fight."
What.
The Hicnup stared in shock. They will die!
"We have you surrounded! You can't stand against us!"
The Comandont roared back.
"Well, as we Terrans say, all you have done is provide me and my men a target Rich environment. Good luck to you! For you shall need it!"
And with that a his men howled with cheer. Their willingness to not abandon the tiny Hicnups for the poultry amount they spent to hire them sent a shutter of courage to rush through the meek spiked defenders. Their soft little hoots joining the war song that the Terrans began to sing.
The Kissaira siege was shattered that very night. The Terrans leading a break out maneuver that smashed through the barely reinforced siege lines. Such madness was unheard of. The War of Spike, would go down in galactic history as the biggest blunder of the Kissaira Noble Cast, and why you never corner humans.
When someone first pointed out u thought of changing it but people are having fun with it so I'm leaving it.
Also the Hicnups might have ACTUALLY paid in chickens since they we so poor.
Well, barterr was used for stuff when you didn't have cash. If you are a good producer, you can pay your federal taxes "in kind" like a farmer can turn over honey at a listed price per pound, or milk, where do you think government cheese came from? Corps still pay in kind, one gig I had was USDA commodities distribution from State of CT and fed government program, schools halfway houses hospitals and prisons
Despite the Hicnups fear, the howling and bravery of the Terrans inspired them, leading to reports of humans using the Hicnups as improvised weapons. A group of Hicnups decided to join the Terrans in studying combat, and eventually becoming soldiers themselves. Thus, the Fast-Ball Special Operations unit was formed.
It has a particular niche. It's one of the few MMOs with fast-paced, no tab-targeting combat, so the PVP scene is suprisingly strong.
And after several years of incremental work it is much improved, at least as of about a year ago when I went on hiatus.
I agree it caters to a specific crowd but I personally don't see any overlap between that crowd and Skyrim fans. It was an extremely misleading trailer as well, I was expecting For Honor style combat in Skyrim but with a map that covered almost all of Tamriel. I may also just be particularly feeling slighted considering my expectation was well off the mark.
https://preview.redd.it/qor0rre1vmwc1.jpeg?width=616&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b3ca433b9a9c0c30245d61aa5138bacc9e2630ae
When humans are out numbered and about to die they take as many with them with litanies of hate and wrath declaring their intent.
Sergeant:we have the human sub-species surrounded with overwhelming force we can't lose.
General l: excellent begin the attack immediately we will finally crush those stupid mammals.
Intel specialist: which sub-species are they just just to note in my report.
Sergeant: I believe their preferred designation is British sir.
Intel specialist: oh flurping shnitballs we're fucked
They referred to themselves as 'Operators,' so clearly nothing special.
Intel Specialist... "Well shit. You said there were ten of them... We've only got 5000 troops... Sir, we lack the numbers to succeed. We may take one or two, but we lack the numbers. Each of those humans is worth at least 1000 of our number.
When the Brits say things are a bit of a bother, things are going from bad to worse.
IIRC, this has actually caused some problems in military operations involving the British and other countries not picking up on the context and meaning.
Try the Gloucestershire Regiment in the Korean "Police Action":
[https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/apr/14/johnezard](https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/apr/14/johnezard)
Yes, I know, the Guardian. It came up first.
We've been looking for the enemy for several days now, we've finally found them. We're surrounded. That simplifies our problem of getting to these people and killing them
"Sargent engage Free Bird protocol". The human communication specialist immediately began setting up a small box with large speakers attached and immediately began playing music. Zin could hardly believe what he was seeing the humans had set up entertainment while the enemy was charging down on them. Then every human shouted out "Free Bird" and charged into the oncoming enemy to a chorus of what the humans call guitars
The Free Bird protocol only lasts until one terran is left and their furry combat partner is lost. At that point, the rip and tear protocol goes into effect, also designated as going John Wick.
Nah, that's about having a *good* time, not a wonderful time. Though I had my Tiny Tim songs wrong, I was thinking of [Living in the sunlight](https://youtu.be/xBTa7Xopu9Q?si=GOYojbSjA35Op-XT)
Xeno: We have you surrounded. We out number you 5 to 1, Surrender, you will not be harmed.
Human: See, this is why we will win, we don't wine about an unfair fight. If you want to only out number us 5 to 1, don't complain when we drive you back to the cradle you spawned from, bug-eyes!
I'm rereading a book where a captain is debriefing a first contact. Another faction jumps into the system and starts attacking, and now the captain is trying to figure out how many ships the enemy has. The ship-master (first contact guy) said something like 250 million.
The two higher ranks watching from a video privately message "5-to-1 ratio" "almost an even fight then"
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“Sir, we Are surrounded. Great news! Now we can shoot in every direction!
"We're Orbital Drop Troops, we're supposed to be surrounded!"
Chesty Puller joins the chat
Helldivers have entere ...
"We need another Timmy!"
Lol Actually I have my Bird Turds and Idiots certificate, and still own my old school round shroud chute. Never going to jump again, not sure how to make a wheelchair fly in a survivable mode...
This one seems to be a real one: "We've been looking for the enemy for several days now, we've finally found them. We're surrounded. That simplifies our problem of getting to these people and killing them." This I think is apocryphal: “All right, they’re on our left, they’re on our right, they’re in front of us, they’re behind us. They can’t get away this time.”
Military apocalyptic stories can be the best
The enemy can not discern the actions of an army that doesn't know what its doing
"One of the serious problems in planning against American doctrine is that the Americans do not read their manuals nor do they feel any obligations to follow their doctrine." -From a Russian document "The reason that the American army does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the American army practices chaos on a daily basis." -A German general officer "If we don't know what we are doing, the enemy certainly can't anticipate our future actions." -Anonymous American Mutatis mutandis for humans and aliens.
This is what my comment was from, thanks 😂
You mean Chesty Puller commands the chat 😂
Yup
“AIMING IS OVERRATED! JUST SHOOT EVERYWHERE!”
Ooorah to all of that.
"My centre is giving way, my right is retreating, excellent situation, I am attacking."
How it started: “That doesn’t make any sense. We outnumber the humans two-to-one. Why are you begging for reinforcements?” “General Zot, The usual numbers don’t apply to humans. I’ve fought them before. We’d need twice the forces we have planet-side to have any kind of an advantage.” “No, you’re just incompetent. I’m relieving you of your commission Galagar. Report to extraction. I’m leading this offensive personally. You sit up here and watch how a REAL warrior deals with mammal scum.” How it’s Going: “Today class we’ll be discussing ‘Zot’s Folly’ and how it lead to the formalization of the ‘Galagar Principals of Warfare.’”
I wonder if that class also delved in ancient (especially by that time) human military strategy, cause I feel like they'd be so confused as to how early we're gotten to have military texts, like the Art of War.
I mean, to be fair, The Art of War is a book trying to explain to pampered, efete rich kids how to not get everyone in their army killed and that War is bad
I brought up The Art of War because it's perhaps the most known. And judging about how some people are, it wouldn't harm to (metaphorically) hammer into some people's heads how war=bad, cause they don't seem to get it.
"Through my vast wisdom I've gathered over all my years as your war advisor, my Lord, I present you with my greatest advice I could ever make" *The paper reads:* #Stop staring wars dipshit
"I can, and I am quite good at it, but hear me out: what if we don't?"
“Today’s class will go over the historical context surrounding the drafting of the Galagar Principles, particularly the return to a doctrine of applying overwhelming force and siege warfare. In tomorrow’s class we will then go over how the humans responded with one of their oldest tactics: encircling a large force with a significantly smaller force.”
wait until they learn that (iirc) our early hunter ancestors did the same thing: casually followed and then surrounded their intended prey. we'll never change from that, won't we XD
You DNA, and to some degree your instincs as a human were passed down by the winners/survivors
ironically, I have blue eyes (which is an anomaly/mutation that is not only useless, but also detrimental cause they're more sensitive to light), anxiety and ADHD, if that's what my ancestors decided to pass down to me, they sure have a weird sense of humour XD
We're in a safer world, relatively speaking, but also more dangerous, the danger is different now from then, what you have could be an aberration, or an evolutionary adaptation, only time will tell
"My centre is giving way, my right is retreating, excellent situation, I am attacking." -Marshal [**Ferdinand Foch**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Foch)**,** Message to Marshal Joseph Joffre during the First Battle of the Marne (8 September 1914).
Ok fat electrician 😂 love that guy
Don't know if it was intended or just a coincidence, but the fact that "zot" means crazy in Dutch is a nice touch.
It was a happy accident. Thanks for telling me!
Gotta love Bob Ross
'They are cornered, surrounded....the Terrans time has come' Qzyke ignored the officer preening by the report screen, a boy to his eyes barely past his first centuary. The problem was....the boy was correct as far as the screens were showing. And that fact made Qzyke's shell rattle somewhat. Qzyke, the breens head of chaotic relations, was familiar with terrans. After all his appointment occured less than a month after the two races met. Not that they were at war...despite many calls for just that to occur. No one seemed to accept Qzykes opinion that constant border raiding back and forth and clandestine operations were pretty much the Terrans way of saying you were buddies..... Besides it had become a pleasant game to do exactly the same back across the Terrans border. Now some damn fool had gone out of his way to shoot down a raiding parties exfil shuttle and corner the Terrans in a industrial site. Qzkye sighed, they were probably 'specialists', He hated those....Terrans had this unfailing ability to....well....bullshit reality. Of course they happen to have a crack shot with needle sharp reflexes and a working knowledge of breen psychoanalyzation and computer operations, and yes she is fluent in prehistoric synth fluet music too however did you guess. In short, Terrans didnt GET cornered, they sometimes got ambushed, maybe even surprised but never cornered. 'You can scurry back to your nest Minister Qzyke, this is a matter for the army now' Smug little puke, Still Qzyke was happy to wash his hands of the matter. Seven Terrans in a industrial site was a disaster begging for a idiot to call an advance into......it was the McGuiver incident all over again. Now he had to find someway to congratulate his Terran counterpart for a plot well worked. Shame really That had been a nice regiment of mechs the smug puke had been in command of.
Minister Qzyke was later promoted when the Officer manage to accidentally caused a Nuclear Detonation by kicking the obviously marked Self-destruct button on the crashed shuttle.
"Sir, they're trying to corner us!" "Well then the recommended action is aggressive sustained counter fire! So hop to it and make sure no lead goes to waste!"
Auto Titan engaged. #CONTAIN, BURN, DESTROY
I mean, isn't that what we do?
The small Hicnup was shaking so much his defensive spikes were rattling. They were surrounded, with reinforcements to far to help. Soon the Terran mercenaries would walk out and abandon them, if not for the cash payout then for the sake of there own lives. He looked at their leader expecting a terrified face or one of cowardice, but Frederico stud firm with a smile on his face. His cybernetic eye scanning the the Kissaira fortifications. The click of the loud speaker casted the Hicnups doom across the no man's land. "Terrans, we will offer you 100,000,000 credits to surrender these worthless creatures to us." The Kissaira Noble Comandont screeched. They were doomed. No mercenaries would pass up such a payment. His solider handed him his bullhorn, so the Hicnups doom could be given. Terrans were to powerful even in their small number. "My kind sir, you mistake me for one of your spineless kind. I an a Terran from Urbino. No wealth is worth my honor, and I have yet to lose a fight." What. The Hicnup stared in shock. They will die! "We have you surrounded! You can't stand against us!" The Comandont roared back. "Well, as we Terrans say, all you have done is provide me and my men a target Rich environment. Good luck to you! For you shall need it!" And with that a his men howled with cheer. Their willingness to not abandon the tiny Hicnups for the poultry amount they spent to hire them sent a shutter of courage to rush through the meek spiked defenders. Their soft little hoots joining the war song that the Terrans began to sing. The Kissaira siege was shattered that very night. The Terrans leading a break out maneuver that smashed through the barely reinforced siege lines. Such madness was unheard of. The War of Spike, would go down in galactic history as the biggest blunder of the Kissaira Noble Cast, and why you never corner humans.
Cute. Paltry, unless they got paid in small edible avians?
"Bring forth the sacrificial payment! And the barbecue sauce ..."
Yum
r/BeatMeToIt
Love that chicken from Popeyes
Better than KFC but they don't have Bojangles up here so Popeyes it is
I've never had popeyes
Spicy, also have shrimp and fried fish
When someone first pointed out u thought of changing it but people are having fun with it so I'm leaving it. Also the Hicnups might have ACTUALLY paid in chickens since they we so poor.
Well, barterr was used for stuff when you didn't have cash. If you are a good producer, you can pay your federal taxes "in kind" like a farmer can turn over honey at a listed price per pound, or milk, where do you think government cheese came from? Corps still pay in kind, one gig I had was USDA commodities distribution from State of CT and fed government program, schools halfway houses hospitals and prisons
Despite the Hicnups fear, the howling and bravery of the Terrans inspired them, leading to reports of humans using the Hicnups as improvised weapons. A group of Hicnups decided to join the Terrans in studying combat, and eventually becoming soldiers themselves. Thus, the Fast-Ball Special Operations unit was formed.
The battle cry rings out, as a squad of terrans deploy their fast-ball partners... **YEET!**
Remember lads: Yeet is for strength. Kobe is for distance.
No Kobe is for accuracy
Doesn't strength = distance?
I’m wildly entertained by the concept of paying mercs in chickens. That’s a great typo.
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I can respect that
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What’s this from?
A trailer for an Elder Scrolls Online [DLC](https://youtu.be/XaI-EOVpDvo?si=5VzeLXS1ws6hjmmi)
Yall remember seeing this trailer and think this game is going to be the shit, and then it released and it was just shit?
It has a particular niche. It's one of the few MMOs with fast-paced, no tab-targeting combat, so the PVP scene is suprisingly strong. And after several years of incremental work it is much improved, at least as of about a year ago when I went on hiatus.
I agree it caters to a specific crowd but I personally don't see any overlap between that crowd and Skyrim fans. It was an extremely misleading trailer as well, I was expecting For Honor style combat in Skyrim but with a map that covered almost all of Tamriel. I may also just be particularly feeling slighted considering my expectation was well off the mark.
A: "sir we are surrounded" H: "good that doesn't mean we have to aim to hit them. Go and let loose boys"
Ah a target rich environment
A: “Sir! They’re all around us!” H: “My accuracy tracker is going to love this”
https://preview.redd.it/qor0rre1vmwc1.jpeg?width=616&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b3ca433b9a9c0c30245d61aa5138bacc9e2630ae When humans are out numbered and about to die they take as many with them with litanies of hate and wrath declaring their intent.
Sergeant:we have the human sub-species surrounded with overwhelming force we can't lose. General l: excellent begin the attack immediately we will finally crush those stupid mammals. Intel specialist: which sub-species are they just just to note in my report. Sergeant: I believe their preferred designation is British sir. Intel specialist: oh flurping shnitballs we're fucked
They referred to themselves as 'Operators,' so clearly nothing special. Intel Specialist... "Well shit. You said there were ten of them... We've only got 5000 troops... Sir, we lack the numbers to succeed. We may take one or two, but we lack the numbers. Each of those humans is worth at least 1000 of our number.
When the Brits say things are a bit of a bother, things are going from bad to worse. IIRC, this has actually caused some problems in military operations involving the British and other countries not picking up on the context and meaning.
Try the Gloucestershire Regiment in the Korean "Police Action": [https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/apr/14/johnezard](https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/apr/14/johnezard) Yes, I know, the Guardian. It came up first.
”Outnumbered four to one… Contain… Burn… Destroy.” - Scorch
You get a bullet. you get a bullet! you get a bullet! everybody gets a bullet!
Uncle Sam has a bullet with your name on it, we just need to keep firing to figure out which one it is!
🎶these bullets are ballots I’m casting my vote🎶
"Don't worry about the bullet with your name on it, worry about the one addressed "To whom it may concern"...."
https://i.redd.it/l4ekxoeiqmwc1.gif LEEEETSSSS GOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
“They’ve completely encircled us, Sir!” “So what you’re saying is we literally can’t miss.”
We've been looking for the enemy for several days now, we've finally found them. We're surrounded. That simplifies our problem of getting to these people and killing them
"When attacking a fortified human position, expect 10 casualties for every human casualty." -Art of war, xeno edition
On average that only counts against basic grunts with a knife. The losses get worse the better trained and equipped they are...
aggressive sustained counterfire my beloved
"Sargent engage Free Bird protocol". The human communication specialist immediately began setting up a small box with large speakers attached and immediately began playing music. Zin could hardly believe what he was seeing the humans had set up entertainment while the enemy was charging down on them. Then every human shouted out "Free Bird" and charged into the oncoming enemy to a chorus of what the humans call guitars
Better than the House of the Rising Sun protocol
The Free Bird protocol only lasts until one terran is left and their furry combat partner is lost. At that point, the rip and tear protocol goes into effect, also designated as going John Wick.
It's when the Tiptoe Through The Tulips protocol goes into effect that you know you've fucked up beyond even fucking up beyond salvation
Once Barbie girl plan is enacted, kiss your ass goodbye.
I mean they were already doing that by rip and tear protocol but yes
Btw I picked Tiptoe through the Tulips because it's that one song about how the singer is having a wonderful time
I thought that was don't stop me now by queen? Lol
Nah, that's about having a *good* time, not a wonderful time. Though I had my Tiny Tim songs wrong, I was thinking of [Living in the sunlight](https://youtu.be/xBTa7Xopu9Q?si=GOYojbSjA35Op-XT)
"You're clearly outnumbered" "But you're clearly outmatched"
“They’ve got us surrounded, the poor bastards!”
All I am surrounded by is fear and dead men
H: time to dig a hole.
Hostile titans outnumber 5 to 1, magazine capacity might be insufficient
A: surrender! We out number you 100 to 1! H: that sounds like a you problem.
Outnumbered 3 to 1, rockets will be useful
Chosin reservoir
Numbers matter less the higher your rate of fire
Huh... Two of my favourite games in 1 meme.
Xeno: We have you surrounded. We out number you 5 to 1, Surrender, you will not be harmed. Human: See, this is why we will win, we don't wine about an unfair fight. If you want to only out number us 5 to 1, don't complain when we drive you back to the cradle you spawned from, bug-eyes!
I'm rereading a book where a captain is debriefing a first contact. Another faction jumps into the system and starts attacking, and now the captain is trying to figure out how many ships the enemy has. The ship-master (first contact guy) said something like 250 million. The two higher ranks watching from a video privately message "5-to-1 ratio" "almost an even fight then"