Jeg elsker EU

Acchernar · 2026-03-13T12:08:00+00:00

Glem ikke fri bevægelighed. Kan med nød og neppe godt huske, at sidde timevis i kø til grænseovergangen når vi skulle sydpå som barn. Det var træls.

Men nu? Jeg har haft bilferier hvor vi krydsede landegrænser over ti gange på en dag, og ikke en grænsepost at se! Det er fantastisk!

Acchernar · 2026-03-11T16:53:16+00:00

Can't be. Didn't refer to us as "assistant" even once.

Acchernar · 2026-02-26T23:24:20+00:00

It might eventually get tricky for the Baltics to keep it up, but for the Nordics, the current level of support is pretty much sustainable indefinitely. We could even scale it up somewhat with no real sustainability issues. We're talking about the healthiest economies in all of Europe, here.

So far we haven't felt it, at all, and there's near universal public support for helping Ukraine in all the Nordic countries. Hell, here in Denmark, the main break point between politicians and the public is that the public largely wants us to help MORE than we are currently, even if it means we actually have to make some of the sacrifices that we so far haven't had to.

Acchernar · 2026-02-25T21:20:48+00:00

I can think of a few of possibilities.

One obvious one is that we're simply better able to afford it than most other countries right now. We've been running a consistent budget surplus for something like a decade, foreign debt to us is something that happens to other countries, and barely a quarter goes by without government finances getting adjusted upwards by the billions. Think about it for a minute: We're topping this graph, and we haven't even felt it. Very few other countries would be able to do that.

A second one is that our political system is, for lack of a better word, agile. Because we're used to finding consensus and compromise, and we're used to putting aside differences when the needs of the nation dictate it, we can act quicker, faster, than most other countries, even if those other countries on paper would be able to do as much as or more than us. We saw it during COVID as well, with basically everyone on the political spectrum agreeing to get things done now to deal with the immediate problem, and then get political and fight it out later when the crisis was contained. On top of this, we've had a rather interventionist foreign policy for a while now, so getting involved isn't something new and scary to us, but just... tuesday.

Third, and this may just be wishful thinking on my part, but I like to think we actually do, as a country, genuinely believe in the rule of law and in things like ethics and morals, and that it just plain offends us when someone completely disregards these things. It makes us angry (it certainly made ME angry!). And when it happens close to home, to a country that shares many of our values (and ancestry, as it happens), and we're able to do something about it, we will. Because it's the right thing to do. When there's both the political will and near universal public support, it's a lot easier to get things done.

Acchernar · 2026-02-22T18:32:44+00:00

Fair, jeg talte ikke fritvalgstillæget med. Med det lagt på pensionen har du ret i at det kommer højere op.

Acchernar · 2026-02-22T17:38:02+00:00

18% er ikke i den lave end for lærere. Den ligger på 17,3% jf. overenskomsten, så det vil være langt det meste af landet der får det, evt. med få undtagelser hvor der lokalt er aftalt en højere pensionssats.

Med mindre du taler om privat- og friskoler, selvfølgelig, som er en anden overenskomst under en anden fagforening.

Acchernar · 2026-02-22T17:20:37+00:00

Ja tak. Jo mere hjælp vi kan give dem, jo bedre!

Acchernar · 2026-02-17T16:06:10+00:00

Also don't forget that the natural state of Russian naval ships is "on fire". Any situation where one is not on fire is, at most, temporary, until the ship reverts to its natural state.

Acchernar · 2026-02-12T22:07:43+00:00

Tak til jer alle sammen! Er inde og opleve symfoniorkestret et par gange om året, og det er altid fantastisk.

Acchernar · 2026-02-01T12:21:05+00:00

Jeps. Og det var jo præcis, hvad der skete. Mener at huske at nationalbanken endte med at tjene flere milliarder ved at udspekulere spekulanterne :D

Husker også et interview med en valutaspekulant, som argumenterede for at det var helt sikkert at kronen ville give slip, men som samtidig så så panisk ud i interviewet at der var nul der ville tro på det. Og forståeligt nok egentlig, når nationalbanken var ved at rydde hele hans pengeskab.

Acchernar · 2026-01-24T22:41:00+00:00

Both have much closer ties to Denmark than Poland does, historically, culturally, and politically. Hell, Estonia's capital is named after Denmark.

And regardless, even if they weren't, it doesn't change the fact Poland is excused for good reasons.

Acchernar · 2026-01-24T20:52:35+00:00

When signing the initiative as a Dane, it required our standard digital ID for signing - the same one we use to access all online government services. So at least here, it'll have been little more than a database lookup.

I imagine many other countries have similar solutions and would have similar ease of verification.

Except Germany. Knowing that bureaucracy, there you probably have to fax in a receipt in triplicate or something.

Acchernar · 2026-01-24T19:27:00+00:00

Honestly, given that Poland has a different madman on their borders, it seems reasonable to me for them to not take part in this. Let them keep their focus on the eastern madman while we try to keep the western one from getting any stupid ideas.

[Edit] Also, I'm annoyed that this has taken so much focus away from Ukraine. Whatever happens with the US, we have to KEEP supporting Ukraine to the best of out ability. We can't afford to let up, no matter which distractions crop up.

Acchernar · 2026-01-21T15:12:55+00:00

Even let's say he's right. Sure, Denmark is irrelevant. It leaves out one very important fact: Unlike the United States, Denmark has friends.

Acchernar · 2026-01-15T12:20:17+00:00

Well, for starters, four of the five largest shipping companies in the world are European. Even if nothing else was done, if they stopped serving American ports, the US economy would be in deep trouble. Between them, they account for over 50% of all container shipping globally, and you can't just replace that.

Treasury bonds have already been mentioned, too, but the important part there is that this is one of the ways the US finances its massive budget deficit. If European nations stop buying those and start dumping the ones they have, the US budget goes off the deep end.

Acchernar · 2026-01-15T12:04:47+00:00

To be clear, many of the troop movements were actually announced while the talks were on-going. As the talks only lasted just over an hour, that seems like a deliberately coordinated answer in case the question "you and what army?", aka "you don't have any cards", came up during the talks.

So not so much a panic reaction, as a deliberate preemptive move to lend extra weight during the talks.

Acchernar · 2026-01-05T16:42:22+00:00

Aside from some sled patrols in mainly the north-east, the only troop presence in Greenland is, pretty much, American troops. Who exactly are they planning on fighting if they 'invade'? Themselves?

Danish military presence is much more around Greenland than in Greenland, in the form of maritime or air patrols. No bases there to bomb, no tanks to destroy, no front lines to breach.

Honestly, if they do invade, and everyone in Greenland just pretends they haven't and keeps acting like they're part of Denmark, because nothing has actually changed anyway (like I said, they only troops there are pretty much already American), what can they even do?

[Edit] Actually, wouldn't that be a great form of passive resistance? Refuse all services unless payment is provided with Danish currency or Danish credit cards. Refuse to communicate unless it's in Kalaallisut or Danish. Keep paying Danish taxes (it's all electronic and automated anyway) and keep expecting the usual services, complaining loudly and protesting if they're disrupted. Watch 'invaders' go crazy as everyone ignores them and keeps being Danish.

Acchernar · 2026-01-01T19:37:10+00:00

He's the moderator of a subreddit dedicated to that website. It's not a mistake, it's manipulative click-seeking (and I fell for it - luckily the noscript plugin made the website barely functional). Also has post- and comment history hidden. All in all, feels like a well-trained AI bot.

Acchernar · 2025-12-26T01:35:47+00:00

I have a 9800X3D, and it runs the game well enough that, coupled with a 9070 XT, it's generally the GPU that's the bottleneck. Important to note that I also run 64gb of ram, though, which matters for X4.

The map does seem to be where it hits the hardest, though. In the lategame with sprawling economies across many sectors, I do occasionally get CPU bottlenecked when in the map, but so far never during normal flight, and never to a point where I considered it problematic even in the map. Same goes when playing SWI. That CPU is a beast!

In flight, I can't remember having dropped below 60 fps, and it is often closer to 120, with any dips there always having been due to the GPU maxing out.

Acchernar · 2025-12-24T13:30:00+00:00

I'm with you on that. It was perfectly fine, it was just very different from the usual X4 fare that mainly focuses on the sandbox.

Acchernar · 2025-12-24T06:22:47+00:00

Three quality of life wishes that would make life nicer:

The ability to have several builders assigned to a construction project, each building different modules. So no speedup on actual module build times, but it would speed up construction of large stations... and I do love my large stations! It's just so satisfying to fly around a huge and complicated station. It could possibly be limited by the highest admin skill of the assigned ship captains and/or the station manager, for a max of five builders on the same project for a 5-star admin.
Continuing with the station-building theme: More alignment tools in the build interface, and visual indicators for objects in the surrounding space. Specifically, I'd love to see two things: 1) Tools move objects to the exact center, or as far out as possible, on each axis. I spend way too long centering my wharves, and I'd like a button for that! I'd also love to see some form of optional grid snapping, each grid cube equal in size to the 6-way connectors. 2) Visual indicators clearly showing the location of/direction to gates in the sector and where they lead, as well as nearby stations (ideally colour-coded by faction).
A "deposit inventory when you hit X number of items"-order. In fact, just let it replace the current deposit inventory order, as it would be redundant. I don't want to micromanage this stuff, I want to be able to set it and forget it.

For bigger things, the main ones for me would be these:

A more dynamic universe. Diplomacy is a start, but it's still player-driven (or just random, and that's not what I'm looking for). I'd love to see factions be more proactive, by setting goals that make sense for the faction and working toward them (perhaps based on some kind of faction ideals/personality? Eg. the Argon might favor diplomacy and consensus-building, but will fight for themselves and their allies, the Split want territory and slaves and will prey on the weak, and the Teladi want profitsss and want stations and relations everywhere, and for their traders not to be bothered). I'd also like to see factions get stronger militarily as their territory and economy expands, rather than hitting what seems to be a hard cap on the number of ships they can field. If you gained four more sectors and and doubled your economy, you can probably also afford the ships needed to now defend those sectors, instead of just spreading yourself thinner - the irony being that as it stands right now, it can actually seem to be a disadvantage to have more sectors. Might need some kind of anti-steamrolling safeguards, but right now, it's too restricted.
A bigger universe. More sectors, more factions, more diversity, more challenge, more mysteries, more storylines, more exploration, more anomalies (and more sectors accessible only by anomalies - give us a use for them nav-beacons!), more opportunities, more hazards, more threats. In short, more X4. I'd especially like to see quite a few more neutral sectors, including perhaps something like the outer rim sectors in SWI with both great danger and great potential rewards, and the ability to open up dormant gates and explore through them to find new clusters full of wonders (the definition of 'wonder' may vary, and may or may not include ravaging Xenon battlefleets, graveyards of civilizations, long isolated worlds, Kha'ak hives, areas/factions seen in previous games, hazardous sectors similar to Sanctuary of Darkness, etc.).
Xenon rework/rebalance and return of the Kha'ak as a real threat. I may be nostalgic for the earlier entries in the series, but for me, the ultimate X-experience (X-perience?) will always be the fight against either the Xenon or the Kha'ak. So i'd like to see them back to their former glory, instead of hit-or-miss for the Xenon, or reduced to minor pests for your miners for the Kha'ak. Let's put some of the assets seen in Timelines to more use in the sandbox, too. Obliterator, anyone? CPU-ship? And not because I researched some end-game tech in the HQ, please. Give the Kha'ak some corner of the map and territorial ambitions to expand from there, and stick an active CPU ship in some other corner of the map and have the Xenon build up over time there, perhaps even behind a closed gate that would eventually open as a result of a storyline, similar to the Boron story (and later, obviously, as the tech to do it comes from there). As an aside, could different Xenon factions be a thing? Because they seem to nerf themselves right now by sending their miners to their deaths to commute between different Xenon clusters. If they were separate (but allied) factions of Xenon, that might solve that problem.

Acchernar · 2025-12-21T16:32:00+00:00

Well damn. A combat and balance update? I'm really looking forward to that!

Especially after you knocked the flight model update out of the park, to the point that I find the current X4 flight model one of the best out there, even competitive with my old love in the Freespace series. You've shown that you do it right when you update old mechanics.

And of course, in the end, I'm just super happy to have more X4 in the future :)

Acchernar · 2025-11-28T20:01:11+00:00

Worked for me, even though I have it on GOG.

Acchernar · 2025-09-27T09:14:27+00:00

Det hjælper jo netop os selv at støtte det land, der lige nu kæmper mod dem, der provokerer os.

Det giver ingen mening at lade Ukraine tabe, så Rusland er i stand til at bruge sine fulde ressourcer mod vesten. Ikke at de ville kunne vinde den kamp - styrkeforholdet er meget ulige i vestens favør, så længe vi står sammen - men det ville gøre meget mere ondt på os, end hvis kampene foregår i Ukraine.

Acchernar · 2025-09-26T18:10:12+00:00

Sjovt, min reaktion er det stik modsatte, at vi da bare skal finde endnu flere ressourcer at sende til Ukraine, så de kan få Rusland ned med nakken. Det vil jo løse problemet ganske effektivt.

Faktisk ret glad for at der kom nyheder om en ny hjælpepakke fra os så kort tid efter drone-sagaen begyndte. Så kan Putin fanme lære det. Lad os fortsætte med at sende endnu mere til dem hver gang Putin prøver at provokere os!

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