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4 months

Thread of some of my best Elden Ring tips to anyone coming back or playing it for the first time, starting with my easy mode stats guide.

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@TilFolkvang

3 years

EASY MODE Stats Guide to Elden Ring. Feel free to share.

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@TilFolkvang

3 months

2024 is a wild year. Drake: Not beating the allegations Dr. Disrespect: Not beating the allegations Mohg, Lord of Blood: Weirdly enough,

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@TilFolkvang

2 years

The current Elden Ring Any% run involves using a metronome to exploit a glitch in the blocking animation which sends you flying many miles outside the intended play space, causing the geometry of the whole world to unload to save memory and making the final boss fall to its death

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You make Elden Ring by making King's Field in 1994 and building incrementally and iteratively on modest success. You make Baldur's Gate 3 by making Divine Divinity in 2002 and building incrementally and iteratively on modest success. Think constructively. Think long-term.

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"Don't bank on being the next viral hit": Manor Lords publisher urges other studios to "take care of all the devs" instead of hunting for their golden goose

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@TilFolkvang

2 years

Everyone who was somewhere on the spectrum of confused to absolutely clueless about the Disco Elysium devs, here's a bit of clarification.

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@TilFolkvang

3 years

Games Workshop actually had to put out an official statement explaining that you're not supposed to root for the fascists.

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@TilFolkvang

5 months

One of the things that really strikes me watching the Jenny Nicholson video is how much money Disney has spent to deliver the "ultimate Star Wars experience" completely based on a trio of films almost everyone, at this point, agrees are bad. Like I don't care at all about Baatu.

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@TilFolkvang

9 months

Something poignant about how it turned out space won't actually save us and we have to fix this place, actually.

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@pcgamer

9 months

The ashes of Arthur C. Clarke and Star Trek creator Gene Rodenberry just burned up on re-entry to Earth's atmosphere after a failed moonshot

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@TilFolkvang

6 months

How students at the University of Paris in the 1200s saw people around them. This looks like a shitpost but it is based on an real document:

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@TilFolkvang

10 months

In the wake of BG3, it becomes increasingly jarring to me how even most very clever, heart-filled, well-written games have "random thug" enemies that are coded as totally okay to kill, subhuman. In BG3, pretty much everyone you can kill has a name and a story, even a simple one.

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@TilFolkvang

2 years

If I hit Alt+F4 and your game politely asks me if I am sure I want to quit, you have OVERSTEPPED your authority. Alt+F4 means fuck you, I don't care about your application, die immediately. You don't get a say in Alt+F4. It is a unilateral, absolute, and immediate order.

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@TilFolkvang

1 year

"Hey Len! Congrats, I heard you wrapped up a 150-hour review of Baldur's Gate 3. What are you going to do with your first weekend off since July?"

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@TilFolkvang

4 months

I absolutely can't make sense of the fact that they are advertising this as a feature. If I had invented this I wouldn't even admit it in a deposition before Congress.

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@WindowsLatest

4 months

Microsoft announces "Recall" AI for Windows 11, a new feature that runs in the background and records everything you see and do on your PC: #Windows11

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@TilFolkvang

7 months

I saw someone younger than me casually refer to "a regular 8-5 job" and my immediate reaction was rage. The term is "9-5." Do not let them take an extra hour from every day of your life, child. Claw the eyes from their skull and set fire to their luxurious amenities first.

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@TilFolkvang

7 years

Stephen Hawking's last comment on reddit, presented without comment.

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@TilFolkvang

2 years

Ranni: "Now to begin the thousand year journey beyond the moon to-" Speedrunner: "Nah take your shoes off I just handled that shit. I'm back." Ranni: "..."

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@TilFolkvang

2 years

This game has only been out like a month.

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@TilFolkvang

2 years

- It only works if your game is running at *exactly* 60 fps, no more and no less. - Elden Ring has Wrong Warps like previous Souls games, but the Block Animation Yeet is so efficient that you only wrong warp once. - You fight only one enemy total... and it happens to be Maliketh

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@TilFolkvang

4 months

EU4 has 12 playable starting countries in Ireland, plus the Pale which is just outright owned by England. EU5 has 31 playable starting countries in Ireland.

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@TilFolkvang

3 years

So the racist Lord of the Rings take guy was one of the main black metal dudes involved in the Norway church burnings in the 90s, went to jail for murdering another musician, and released his own tabletop RPG where the Jews are actually trying to replace Nordic people with Arabs.

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@TilFolkvang

3 years

When you run into a KKK rally in Red Dead

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@TilFolkvang

2 years

Although the current world record holder has said we theoretically don't have to fight Malekith either if someone could find somewhere to Turbo Yeet themselves off of Farum Azula with sufficient velocity that it would become unloaded and drop him into the void as well.

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@TilFolkvang

1 year

I couldn't cover everything but I do think I was remiss not to praise one of the best things about BG3: You just buy it once and you get everything. There is no fishing for microtransactions, no mobile app to farm resources, and no live service bullshit. How it should be.

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@IGN

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With crunchy, tactical RPG combat, a memorable story with complex characters, highly polished cinematic presentation, and a world that always rewards exploration and creativity, Baldur's Gate 3 is the new high-water mark for CRPGs. Our review:

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@TilFolkvang

5 months

If you told me I was getting to visit Mos Eisley or Hoth or something, that would be cool. I'd be more excited about Naboo. But it's like building a Lord of the Rings theme park that's not set in The Shire, but like, somewhere they made up for the Amazon show.

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@TilFolkvang

5 months

If I'm paying three thousand real world united states dollars per person and Kylo Ren comes out, I'm going to boo. That's Vader money, you cheap fucks.

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@TilFolkvang

6 months

It is possible to believe both of these things at the same time: "Dragon's Dogma 2 is a very good game and I want more people to experience it." "Capcom's microtransaction bullshit is terrible and a fully valid reason to wait for a sale or something in protest."

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@TilFolkvang

5 years

I love this, especially because it's like @ContraPoints : "Look upon celestial divinity and rejoice." @PhilosophyTube : "Intrigue. Danger. The sky before a storm. Leftism, the new fragrance for men and women." @Hbomberguy : "HEY GUYS IT ME TODAY WE'LL BE PLAYING SOME DANKEY KANG"

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@TilFolkvang

6 months

Incels: "You must look like the gigachad meme or you will never get laid" Half of my friends who are into men right now: "The guy with the burned face and no nose in the Fallout show is so hot I wish he would pin me up against the wall"

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@TilFolkvang

1 year

It's finally here, mofos. The most total time I have ever spent on a single thing as a video game journalist. My review of Baldur's Gate 3. I waited 14 years for a worthy successor to Dragon Age: Origins. @larianstudios has given me one:

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@TilFolkvang

1 year

I hope Starfield is good. I really, honestly do because I love good RPGs and I don't think we can have too many. But holy fuck, it is going to be rough for them to follow Baldur's Gate 3. It's gonna be like trying to carry the crowd as the headliner and your opener was Zeppelin.

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@TilFolkvang

2 years

If you want to say, "Well they were stupid for getting help from investors to launch the game without protecting themselves from this kind of thing happening," you're more than welcome to do so. But I think that's an extremely callous interpretation of the situation. ykwya

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@TilFolkvang

3 months

@PrincessPhinx We made it up to him by fighting beside his man Ansbach, one of the only good characters in the entire canon.

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@TilFolkvang

10 months

"Random thug" enemy design is a relic. If your bad guys are people, as opposed to robots or space bugs or something, I don't think it's really responsible as designers to genericize them, to treat them as something you don't have to feel bad about murdering. We should stop that.

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@TilFolkvang

3 years

The surviving pre-Indo European languages of Europe

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@TilFolkvang

4 months

This is actually almost unfathomable to me.

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@Lambert2191

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I don't think people TRULY realise just how big the Project Caesar map is going to be. I've seen a lot of comments about how the increased granularity is going to be a nightmare to move units around in and just... I don't think thats going to be the case. The map is HUGE!

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@TilFolkvang

4 years

This tweet needs to go in a museum to help future generations understand how we got to this point.

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@TilFolkvang

4 years

The current state of the PDS news cycle.

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@TilFolkvang

2 years

Ther Atomic Age was the culmination of a project we started in the Paleolithic to figure out which rocks could kill the most people in the shortest amount of time.

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@TilFolkvang

7 years

I don't normally crosspost PrequelMemes, but this is an all-time great.

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@TilFolkvang

2 years

Don't make me bring the task manager into this, I swear to computer jesus.

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@TilFolkvang

1 month

found Henry's reddit account

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@TilFolkvang

3 months

@nickjudin They just took a swing at making a fantasy RPG and spent the next 30 years picking it apart and refining it.

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@TilFolkvang

2 years

If I could steal one stat from sports management games to put into other RPGs it would be "clutchness". I love the idea that some people are just going to be throwing down crits when everyone's HP is low and they got poisoned, or your golden god might choke if anything goes wrong

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@TilFolkvang

6 months

Calling the Cathars "bestiality-loving pansexual vegetarian heretics" has slain me

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@TilFolkvang

2 years

The last time there was a significant, ongoing warming trend in Northern Europe, this happened. Stay safe out there.

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@TilFolkvang

5 months

@VaultAusir I think there are people who like the first one. And people who like the second one. Maybe even the rare person who likes both. But I think all of them could agree that RoS was terrible and that the sequel trilogy, as a whole, was an enormous mess.

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@TilFolkvang

10 months

There's some accounting for tone. If your game is silly, over-the-top, or generally unserious, I think there's a different connotation to this. But I just saw a clip of Dishonored 2 cross my feed and it really stunned me for a sec how subhuman the "generic thugs" are portrayed.

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3 years

Just a very quick primer for the clueless. None of the above is even slightly embellished. How deep you want to dig into that iceberg is between you and your god(s).

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@TilFolkvang

11 months

Once again, being "good at" @CrusaderKings is overrated. Do yourself a service and learn how to have the most fun with it instead.

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@TilFolkvang

3 months

@xelliepurr I'm not going to tell you what to do with the shareholders. Unrelatedly, here's the first gif that comes up when you search "throw them into a pit of lava"

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@TilFolkvang

10 months

And I don't have an issue with Sifu or Spider-Man because the implication is that you're knocking them out or webbing them to a wall. But if you have a bespoke decapitation animation in a game with a serious story, and it's okay to decapitate this lumpy-headed cockney thug...

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@TilFolkvang

11 months

While we're talking about Paradox UI, I think this is, to be blunt, programmer nonsense that is going to confuse most players. For the average person, it should be phrased as: "All interest groups in Brazil with Communist, Vanguardist, or Anarchist ideology are marginalized."

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@TilFolkvang

3 years

Apparently his new thing is "You can't call me a Nazi because we disagree on a couple bullet points of the conspiracy theory."

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@TilFolkvang

3 years

Said RPG has actual rules for white supremacy where you get better stats because the "kopparmen" don't get enough Vitamin D from the sun (swear I am making none of this up) and is very explicit about how homosexuals are killed on sight in civilized societies.

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@TilFolkvang

3 years

I have to issue a heartfelt retraction. This RPG has been revised with a new edition in which it says the motives of the dagger-wielding moneylender tricksters are unknown, but *one theory* is that they're trying to kill all the noble white people and replace them.

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@TilFolkvang

10 months

If it's like, "That's cool. You just did a cool thing and you shouldn't feel bad about it. We spent a lot of time on the art and sound to make sure it feels awesome when you do that." And the rest of the game presents itself as mature and realistic, ya know, it's not great!

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4 years

@AriDrennen And it's also invalidating to cis girls who like dinosaurs and lego and catching bugs, and trying to force them into a gender box, when people act like dolls and dresses are universal signs of transness.

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8 months

Yeah, so @CrusaderKings 3 Chapter 3, just to sum it up: * Plagues and the Black Death * Legitimacy * Byzantine Mechanics * Playable Administrative Governors * Landless play * More travel events They are breaking out the good shit.

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@TilFolkvang

4 months

Finally clicked for me when I realized this is one of those, "You are not the customer. You are the product." moments. They're not making features for us anymore. They're making features for the people they sell our data to. Nobody in their right mind would want this on their PC.

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Windows AI feature that screenshots everything labeled a security ‘disaster’

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3 years

My sister who's an RN received a job offer for $25k for 13 weeks in Ukraine. The assignment says it may involve the use of night vision, parachuting from an airplane, exposure to radiation, and requires you to pass a handgun safety certification. Motherfucker that's a mercenary.

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4 years

You know what's a good video game? Europa Universalis IV.

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4 years

Mother of god

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@TilFolkvang

10 months

As always, I'm not saying games that do this are automatically bad or that you're bad for enjoying them. It's just something worth putting more thought into going forward, both as players and designers. It's convenient. So it's not an easy habit to break. But we should.

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@TilFolkvang

11 months

From the people who brought you "Vicky 3 players discover class consciousness," I give you, "Cities Skylines 2 players discover the industrial revolution"

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@TilFolkvang

1 month

EU5 dev diaries have made my brain regress to like the 6th grade where I'm so down bad that I'm imagining myself playing it in my head and like, making documents of different playthroughs I want to do and things I want to try.

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7 months

Map Comparison: EU4 vs "Project Caesar"

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@TilFolkvang

10 months

In the context of a strategy game, I've been thinking a lot about Pentiment. How you realize at some point, if an army marches on this town, probably all of my friends are going to die. That would be a difficult feeling to impress continuously, dynamically. But I think possible.

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3 years

This is probably the best one so far.

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2 years

There are two types of discord servers today: 1. Admin has an @-here specifically asking people not to discuss world events and give people time to mourn 2. General has been renamed "shes-dead-innit" and is full of Irish rebel songs

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2 years

It's clear Paradox just doesn't care about Victoria fans. It's been out for minutes and they haven't even hinted at a sequel. I heard the only programmer who understands the economy fell into the backrooms

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@TilFolkvang

2 years

Reactionaries who romanticize history: "Our society is oversexualized we must RETVRN to tradition" The actual tradition: "this guy was so good at cumming he was just pissing and cumming everywhere, we call him the Cum King"

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6 months

shout out to all my bestiality-loving pansexual vegetarian heretics on the TL

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1 year

This is what you get without an HOA. We have one place in our neighborhood that isn’t governed by the HOA and this is what we get as a neighbor.

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4 months

CK3 has 14 total counties, meaning the maximum number of playable entities you could have in Ireland is 14.

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This is drugs to me. This is my cocaine.

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3 years

I am once again voicing my support for making the entire month of September part of Spooky Season because all of us weird goths have to put up with Christmas music starting November 1 at 6 a.m. sharp, so you should just let us have this.

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3 years

@FolkParanoia @MenshevikM Even by their own twisted standards, "It's good to just do what is expected of you even if no one respects you" is some peak beta shit

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@TilFolkvang

11 months

Victoria 3 (2022) gets South America content before Hearts of Iron 4 (2016).

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@PDXVictoria

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Hello Victorians!Today we are announcing both the release of Update 1.5 and our new region pack, Colossus of the South - free to current owners of the expansion pass or the grand edition! Releasing on November 14th!Read more here:

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3 years

New CK3 multiplayer campaign starting tonight.

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10 months

So I wasn't caught up on this particular corner of 40K lore but apparently the Emperor is an immortal being who was born like thousands of years ago? Like, canonically, in the 40K timeline, he is alive right now and just chilling somewhere? Also he was probably Jesus??

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7 months

🧵 Now that I'm 99% confident about the start date, I'm going to run through some of the interesting stuff that was happening in the year 1337. Starting in Northwest Europe, this year marked the beginning of the Hundred Years War (which is, I suspect, why they chose it.)

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@TilFolkvang

7 months

The start date is 1337. I have been able to narrow it down to a single year. If it were any earlier, there would be an Ilkhanate. If it were any later, Serbia would extend further south and the Ottomans would own Skoutarion/Üsküdar, across the Bosporus from Constantinople.

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@TheJimStannum Yeah, it was only five at launch.

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The start date is 1337. I have been able to narrow it down to a single year. If it were any earlier, there would be an Ilkhanate. If it were any later, Serbia would extend further south and the Ottomans would own Skoutarion/Üsküdar, across the Bosporus from Constantinople.

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7 months

Map Comparison: EU4 vs "Project Caesar"

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1 year

Crusader Kings 3 has two speeds: * No developer communication for months * Dev diaries every week that are roughly the length of a 28-volume encyclopedia

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1 year

This might be the best change to EU4 in years.

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4 months

Kind of doing a farewell tour. This is the first time I've made it deep into a vanilla EU4 campaign since Leviathan and I decided to play a base game recommended country I've never seriously played before (Portugal). It's 1727, I have negative 200k manpower, and Austria did this.

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4 years

This is a casus belli

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10 months

crusader kings and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race

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1 year

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7 years

This is fantastic.

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1 year

The easy money is on this being Paradox's Civ competitor. If I had to guess I'd say it's probably being made by Triumph. The one big point in the Against column for that is that Paradox has steered away from announcing things too early, and AoW4 didn't ship that long ago.

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3 years

@KeiiStreams They had to include a *definition of satire*, that's how out of it the Imperiumboos are.

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3 years

@Variety

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1 year

My general concept for this run is a con artist who will do almost anything if the pay is good, can't help but try to steal anything shiny, and thinks fighting is a great way to get yourself killed so let's try to avoid that if at all possible.

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3 years

It's always the ones you most expect

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Wargaming community manager quits, alleging 'toxic corporate culture'.

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7 months

This week in "Victoria players discover real-world political issues"

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3 years

There is no good reason not to unionize and anyone who tells you different is either misled or does not have your best interests at heart.

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Starbucks began holding mandatory anti-union meetings for unionizing Starbucks workers in Buffalo today. I just spoke to a worker who attended one at a Marriott. "They said 'We’re holding meetings because we want you all to vote no and we’re giving you all the info you need.'

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My recommendation to everyone is to log off of social media for *at least* 24 hours and go look at some birds. Things are bad enough. You are not required to doomscroll, and it will be a long ride through rough waves of shifting information before we actually know anything.

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3 years

Soulsbros: "These are hardcore games are only for true hardcore gamers" Miyazaki: "turtle pope"

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8 years

Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is starting to seem like a pretty reasonable basis for a system of government.

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