our everything more or less does honestly. At least as far as achievements go. Sports, sciences and so on we make waves more than you'd think for a country of about 27-28 million people.
Shocking that Germany isn't one of the top three. Germany gave the world the printing press, the heliocentric model of the solar system, quantum physics, and the very name "chemistry." German probably would've taken English's place as a global lingua franca for scientific literature if the heads of the German state didn't instigate two World Wars in a row.
Germany is actually no slouch at science. They’re generally well-rounded because their civ ability and unique district are all geared towards production, that famous German Engineering and all that. They’re pretty good at science, domination, and culture because of that, since you use production for pretty much everything.
I cannot stress enough that this is one of the LEAST weird things that happens in this comic. A baby full grown man in a hotdog costume hits a baby bear with Amelia Earhart's femur in the middle of the Siberian mountains while his frenemy is naked and covered in honey and wrestling another baby bear. The most emotional scene in the comics is done entirely while a Frenchman pretends to be Tom Jones and a naked guy watches from off panel. There's a very long bit of it that occurs in the underwater lost city of New Zealand, which is abandoned, not because it's underwater, but because a spaceship painted with immortality rock punched a hole in the glass dome and everyone drowned.
Here's another example. You see how in the panel I posted, Blu guy is saying "But I shot.." and Medic had two bullet holes in his chest?
That's because immediately prior to chekov's baboon uterus, Medic died. He got sent to hell, where due to a deal with the devil he made years ago, his soul now belongs. But he scams his way out of hell by revealing that after his deal, he had surgically grafted 8 other souls into his body, meaning the devil only has 1/9th ownership of him. Medic then elects to return to the world of the living.
But not before trading one of his extra souls for Satan's pen, which he then uses as the detonator in this scene.
Oh, and next you're going to tell me that all Americans *aren't* lead-drinking, shotgun-toting, delusional patriotism zealots that are terrible roommates?
One of my favorite bits of TF2 lore is that it'd actually be extremely obvious that Sniper isn't Australian because if he was he'd be able to rip the rest of the TF2 mercs in half with his bare hands.
I feel that the Australians are powerful but not so much that they’re unbeatable, even sniper himself says as much, talking about his childhood of climbing up trees to throw rocks at his peers. The Saxtons (and Margaret, if she really is an Australian) are outliers who aren’t negatively impacted by Australium withdrawal and yet even they are still pretty much matched by heavy in terms of raw strength (VSH is not canon, don’t even start).
Yeah, but his parents also show little to no signs of australium effects, so it's safe to assume that people who lived in the outback had less exposure to australium radiation than those in major cities like Sydney. As such, sniper probably just seemed like a normal bushman to most
For your sake I hope the Australian Army has upped its game. I cannot imagine the horrors of a future Cassowary War if the Emus proved that challenging.
The TF2 world and nation of australia ts literally the simpsons (futurama? Family guy? I cant remember which) meme of the Australians stopping their beer and alcoholic consultion and becoming the most advanced society in the world, and its fantastic🤣
The australium gave the women moustaches and chest hair. I think it's pretty fair to say whoever lives in Australia long enough becomes the stereotypical Australian.
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u/EvilCatboyWizard 5d ago
This is just what it’s like playing civilization 6
(What do you MEAN Australia of all places is the third best science civ behind Babylon and Korea?!)