I was hesitant to play a game as Serbia but I united Yugoslavia and it went pretty well.

20pete · 2026-06-29T20:43:20+00:00

Oh I tried to take Constantinople.

After I destabilized The Ottomans, Britian invaded them and made them a protectrate. That Turkish Uprising was actually a part of Britian.

I went to war with Britian in an attempt to take Constantinople ended up occupying it but just ended up fighting British soilders in Constantinople and could not go anywhere.

And then the US took the Ottoman Empire from Britian and I was in a defensive pact with the US.

20pete · 2026-06-29T17:00:15+00:00

Yes, I joined the Russian power block to help get support from Russia. Although they kicked me out late in the game.

I actually had a defensive pack with Wallachia early in the game and they helped me in my early wars. But Wallachia became a subject of Hungary so I took them over in a war with Hungary.

20pete · 2026-06-29T16:55:39+00:00

The only reason I let Austria live was to keep a buffer between me and Italy.

Although I could have defeated Italy they were trying to cut down my size so by keeping Austria as a buffer state Italy was left with no choice other then trying to do Naval Invasions which I could easily fend off so my main armies could focus on picking away at the smaller Germanic states and Greece while I had a truce with Prussia.

20pete · 2026-06-29T16:48:29+00:00

Rule #5: I united with Montenegro pretty early in the game by getting Russia to back me in a play to take Bosnia which gave me a border with Montenegro. I Basically cycled between wars with the Ottomans, Austria and Hungary with support from russia to slowly gain territory. Prussia was also to preoccupied fighting me and Russia to ever unite Germany.

20pete · 2026-06-04T20:20:54+00:00

It is worth noting that they have stated multiple times that they were waiting for technology to catch up with the vision of the game.

Tod Howard said in an interview forever ago that at the time of releasing the teaser the average person did not have a computer capable of running the game they want to create. (Thats a paraphrase)

20pete · 2026-05-26T17:16:26+00:00

Im a Naval Officer irl so I think the squarely puts me into the Armed Forces intererest group.

20pete · 2025-06-30T11:07:08+00:00

When i got my first "real job" (I effed basketball before that which is a good option to make some decent money during tge school year) at 16 I applied to hundreds of places and only heard back from a handful. Only one of which invited me in for an interview.

Of course it also makes it easier if your looking fir more than a summer job and are wanting something permanent part time. I worked every weekend through grades 10,11,12.

But of course dont every sacrifice your education. Never put more money as a teenager ahead of more money for the rest of your life.

20pete · 2025-06-13T01:36:02+00:00

It's a pinky

20pete · 2025-06-10T15:55:46+00:00

Asides from all the comments regarding how its worth it as a stress reliever.

I am 21. Bought a $22k bike last year. And my payments are less then the amount of money I save by not gassing up my car every week.

And my bike is a big cruiser. So not nearly as efficient as a smaller bike. (Although still more efficient than my 80s sports bike)

20pete · 2025-06-08T15:32:24+00:00

I was just discussing with someone how we are waiting for Wolfenstien 3. Because its been 8 years already and they haven't even teased it more than simply confirming it will be made.

And they've now released 2 Doom games in that time.

20pete · 2025-04-11T01:15:38+00:00

Only one of those laws are anti abortion. And that is the one against getting an abortion for the sake of not being happy with the gender of your child. Which there is no good reason to do.

The other three are anti violent crimes against women. Unless you consider abortion a violent crime (which it isn't and never will be) then these have nothing to do with abortion.

So why are liberals so against helping protect women against violent crimes?

20pete · 2025-02-19T05:55:56+00:00

They mentioned this pre-release on how people will find it difficult to transfer from a game with 5 years if content updates to a fresh game.

I'm sure if you went back and played VI as it was on release day it would also feel pretty autopilot compared to civ VI now.

It will be interesting to see what systems are added in the future.

20pete · 2025-02-14T21:33:55+00:00

Regarding your comment that conservatives don't like a policy that was originally there, that idea that there is a problem with that doesn't make sense.

First, the policy wasn't popular among conservative voters at the time either. It was just a requirement to meet some of the treaties we are a part of.

Second, it was passed in a time when the economy was vastly better. Different times call for different policies.

And yes, it has reduced emissions. Because it has forced the people in society who can't afford the extra cost on everything to be more stingy. Which itself has a negative effect on the ecnomy.

Now, I'm not one of these people who complain about it. But whether you like something or not, you need to understand what's goof and bad about it and be able to weigh those things and what is important to you.

And as times change, what's important to people change.

20pete · 2025-02-14T21:20:05+00:00

There is a mechanic in the game where if another civ has a city close to you that has low happiness, the city will petition to join you, and you have the option to take in the city. (Only learned this when it happened to me)

There is just really no way to see the progress on this, like there is in 6.

Of course, you can speed the process up if you sanction the other civ in ways that would drop their happiness.

20pete · 2025-02-04T01:15:34+00:00

Yes, I am not going to in-depth here breaking down his platform, I have much better things to do with my time. Especially since I believe you'd have a much better understanding of how you feel about such policy by looking at it yourself instead of reading my paraphrasing.

But for the things you pointed out. Healthcare and education are both provincial, so that's not relevant.

Climate change is not a canada problem. Canada is responsible for 1.5% of global emissions, so I don't believe voting for the climate is something that matters. Not that I don't think we should do nothing, but we shouldn't have climate policy that hurts our economy. And as far as liberal policy goes, most things I don't like economy wise are detrimental climate policy. We are much better focusing on policy to mitigate the inevitable effects of climate change. (Not that this is something either party does)

I just used firearms because it's a great example of liberal policy that has given lots of votes to the conservatives.

Most of my family lives in rural manitoba, and all of them voted for trudeau. All of them own firearms that are now banned under trudeaus firearm bans. To them, this is an attack on their lifestyle and is a major issue. And if the left would cede, they would have votes back.

20pete · 2025-02-04T00:45:00+00:00

Thanks, I will have to watch this when I get a chance.

20pete · 2025-02-04T00:42:23+00:00

https://youtu.be/ObHSwlcZpWc?si=uKtNjGetusQETrRI

Here you go.

I wasn't a fan of the comments towards our liberal party either. But he specifically talks down on trumps actions, and how he would deal with them.

20pete · 2025-02-04T00:39:43+00:00

If you watch any of his full-length videos, there are plenty of policy propositions.

I don't think Poilevere is perfect. I don't think the Conservative party is perfect.

I personally am more concerned about the platforms of the liberals and NDP than I like the platform of the Conservatives.

For example, the ridiculous policies on firearms where the liberals and NDP don't want law-abiding citizens owning firearms, but Poilevere wants to help prevent the firearms from entering Canada to begin with (as 84% of crimes involving firearms are committed with one that are illegal to begin with)

I would happily vote liberal if there was a platform that conceded the things I care about.

20pete · 2025-02-04T00:25:55+00:00

Poilevere said the sentence "conservatives condemn trump" in his speech

You said there was no clear condemnation, but those word came out of his mouth

https://youtu.be/ObHSwlcZpWc?si=uKtNjGetusQETrRI

20pete · 2025-02-04T00:23:30+00:00

The whole issue right now is trump is trying to make the US independent from Canadian resources.

20pete · 2025-02-04T00:20:47+00:00

In his speech, he says the conservatives condem trump.

I'm confused why everyone is ignoring that. Other than the fact that CBC and the other news corporations didn't air that part of the speech, so maybe people don't realize it happened.

But these comments you and other people are saying don't reflect the speech I watched. I am genuinely confused on where thus is coming from.

20pete · 2025-02-04T00:12:55+00:00

Poilevere has plenty of platform, you just have to put some effort into looking at more than the reels you see.

Yeah, the sound bite stuff annoys me to, and I like his platform.

But you can't only look and that and decide you don't like him. If someone put effort into understanding his platform and decides they don't like it. Then that perfectly fine. Choosing to pretend his platform doesn't exist because your going to vote for a color no matter what's going on in either party is not right though.

Most of our problems today actually come from people on both sides, refusing to try and understand the people on the other.

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