{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Looking at WWII bombers and I'm struck by how Wikipedia recently has a lot about development and procurement programs for...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/655491207385038848/", "html": "<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"https://isaacsapphire.tumblr.com/post/632928359993819136\" target=\"_blank\">isaacsapphire</a>:</p><blockquote><p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"/post/632914227288539136/\" target=\"_blank\">kontextmaschine</a>:</p><blockquote><p>Looking at WWII bombers and I&rsquo;m struck by how Wikipedia recently has a lot about <i>development</i> and <i>procurement</i> programs for military planes and honestly its striking to realize that casuals caught up with WWII say defensive armament placement analysis circa Quake III and bombing analysis circa like Warcraft III (and logistically, the dissemination of the M:tG concepts of &ldquo;card advantage&rdquo; and the &ldquo;mana curve&rdquo; were like Scramble for Africa-era) and strategy circa like 2008 WoW theorycrafting</p><p>Does give some context to how so many 1990- era personal computing and table games were like, simulations of major war theatres for people who&rsquo;d been Navy engineers</p></blockquote><div class=\"npf_row\"><figure class=\"tmblr-full\" data-orig-height=\"570\" data-orig-width=\"997\"><img src=\"/media/980b2cf295f443d26bbad9b23dabdd1666d89475_f6305b0a59bc.png\" data-orig-height=\"570\" data-orig-width=\"997\" srcset=\"/media/ae21612f0b73a5b27154ac47c23c30b1f7e0b513_6d74f2ab237e.png 75w, /media/0034ca01104ae24581c9b0de76ce751777cf3a6c_edca6caa7bed.png 100w, /media/90dc0485b148c8bf2536b32c4c6434aa3c5887c1_13dcc2b8d1f1.png 250w, /media/193a5e21950a6a93f665466ad3d86abeabebb029_356ef6fa1d01.png 400w, /media/ea49eaddc7bd0a5651aa90082423275000caa116_9a5f7d9c4a0b.png 500w, /media/4088d9dcd078edc2dcefab30c18eb0309b8d577a_9cb71150d308.png 540w, /media/980b2cf295f443d26bbad9b23dabdd1666d89475_f6305b0a59bc.png 640w, /media/241203339836364669bdd41d89704773bf967810_9639febab045.png 997w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 997px) 100vw, 997px\"/></figure></div></blockquote>", "thumbnail_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/media/980b2cf295f443d26bbad9b23dabdd1666d89475_f6305b0a59bc.png", "thumbnail_width": 640, "thumbnail_height": 366}