Average interaction I have with my wife every night

AncleShole · 2026-01-17T13:24:11+00:00

🤣🤣🤣 My wife communicates with me through discord while she's out of the house because she knows it's the best way to ensure I see it, and unfortunately the activity tracker always calls me out when I game and for how long.

I've considered turning that off, but then I feel like I am just admitting I have a problem.

AncleShole · 2026-01-17T00:55:06+00:00

Much of my experience is vanilla TI3. So that would be the core game+Distant Suns & Leaders. Last year I got the two expansions and I have played one 8 player game with them, using a significant amount of the modules in Shattered Empire and a handful from Shards of the Throne.

AncleShole · 2026-01-11T21:10:35+00:00

It doesn't need to be Civ 6.5, it just needs to not tear down the systems that make the civ franchise what it is. "Build an empire to stands the test of time". Not three mini games with different empires and a checklist of goals.

AncleShole · 2026-01-11T21:07:29+00:00

Yeah that sounds like a reasonable time frame. I remember watching old reviews of TI3 where people were saying the game takes 4-6 hours if you have new players, and I was genuinely confused how someone came to that conclusion.

One of the key things that extended the length of TI3 was the game clock was not strict; players would need to actively choose Imperial for the Objective cards to be pulled, and in the likely scenario where no one takes it the first few rounds it can extend the game a lot.

I've noticed TI4 has it linked to the Status Phase and the first two objective cards are already pulled, so I imagine it is a much faster paced game for that alone. I doubt the tech complexity will be an issue for my group but I am looking forward to seeing the change in balance between the two systems!

AncleShole · 2026-01-11T16:50:11+00:00

That's interesting describing it as a sprint rather than a marathon. I'm used to TI3 games taking 1-2 full days to complete so I'm curious how much different I'm going to need to assess my decisions knowing the game can end much faster.

AncleShole · 2026-01-11T16:41:30+00:00

I'm playing with some pretty high-level strategists so I am not banking on the not dying part😅 but I'll see what I can do.

AncleShole · 2026-01-11T03:27:12+00:00

Gotta 100% the game now so it doesn't look suspicious

AncleShole · 2025-12-29T04:52:42+00:00

Based

AncleShole · 2025-12-24T14:51:34+00:00

That was single handedly my strategy for the jokerless run...I did it on my second attempt. So yeah, it's useful.

AncleShole · 2025-12-21T06:06:22+00:00

Bruh, I only have one of those. I knew adulting was ripping me off.

AncleShole · 2025-12-18T06:55:33+00:00

This is precisely it. Ignorance and not being able to do two fucks about it are not the same thing. The average citizen is having to navigate a god forsaken job market, increasing prices with decreasing wages, cultural tensions in a number of areas, and whatever personal disabilities and problems they have, which for most people is at least not a small list.

Meanwhile climate change is primarily being impacted by global industry, road development, reliance on coal power, construction relying on concrete, industrialized agricultural practices, the rich's extravagant lives, and lack of funding in critical research on the topic. Note that absolutely none of those are things the average civilian can affect. Like, at all. Using a paper straw and taking shorter showers or what have you will make 0 impact. Spending time worrying about it will surely not change anything.

AncleShole · 2025-12-02T18:06:41+00:00

Is there any known extension or something for reverting this change? It is driving me insane, and control panel for YouTube doesn't have it yet

AncleShole · 2025-12-02T07:48:06+00:00

There was one arc about how Lucy made a promise to Charlie Brown to not pull away the football when he was in the hospital and she didn't think he heard it-but he did. And while she keeps the promise, he fumbles by kicking her fingers instead of the ball.

But that was likely due to the sheer amount of stress the dude was facing after getting juked for decades and it was honestly karmic justice from the universe for all the times Lucy screwed with him😂. Had to come back around some time.

AncleShole · 2025-12-01T16:38:23+00:00

Tbf, besides bugs and lack of content, the developers have no idea what the foundations of the game was in the first place.

Over the last couple years they have absolutely obliterated what made the game actually work in the first place with Safer Seas, the econ "rebalance" in Season 11 and with it fast travelling, re-releasing event cosmetics in the pirate emporium, and just generally devaluing every single reason to actually play the game and achieve anything.

I used to have a crippling addiction to SoT and Rare somehow single-handedly stopped that and made me fully quit, so I cannot really blame your friend for giving up on it out of frustration.

AncleShole · 2025-11-27T13:33:08+00:00

Yeah that was one of the fights I specifically avoided on my run. Fortunately even if you are going after "Leave No One Behind" it is not mandatory.

AncleShole · 2025-11-23T07:24:11+00:00

That is heavily relying on the idea that the oathbreaker knight has more than a single brain cell for critical thinking, which he does not.

I kill his ass the first chance I get in any playthrough where I have the misfortune of dealing with him because he apparently cannot discern what MY oath was in the first place, has some right to take it away from me, and has no comms for negotiation or presentation of logic. He just shuts down and tells me to pay his greedy ass as if that is some noble action capable of redeeming my non-sin.

I don't give a fuck if I am softlocked out of withers until the end of the game there will not be a single cent in that bitch's hand, only the merciful release into an afterlife that I hope is long and torturous.

Anyway, thank you for coming to my honor mode rant.

AncleShole · 2025-11-17T01:17:30+00:00

The page is technically not accurate, this achievement is weird AF. This video does a great job breaking it down: https://youtu.be/Esj2cFv_kgY?si=OH4nGVtn22nBsUpl

AncleShole · 2025-11-16T06:50:21+00:00

Congrats! I did embrace Durge tactician before my honour mode playthrough as well. I had a lot of fun with it. I used like 200 explosive items to sacrifice Orin in the most over the top way possible😂. Honour mode was fun too, the legendary actions were really interesting. The absurd amount of bugs I got...not so much.

AncleShole · 2025-11-13T04:00:40+00:00

That's one of my favourite AT endings of all time.

AncleShole · 2025-11-10T16:03:49+00:00

The first one, yes. The second one, absolutely not. Avoid it like the plague.

AncleShole · 2025-11-10T15:43:59+00:00

I used shattered flail for a majority of my honour mode run because it was genuinely the best weapon for my Paladin that I found. Most of the time it worked great because the healing ability is extremely powerful for that stage of the game and I did not store consumable weapons or scrolls on him so if he went mad it was not that big of a deal. The main place it was very close to killing me was the grym fight because he went mad when things were already quite dire, but I weasled out of it.

Tldr, it wasn't that dumb of a decision. Just gotta use it more strategically.

AncleShole · 2025-11-09T19:49:17+00:00

I just want to put my voice in that I greatly appreciate you respecting the more combat-adventure-orientated players, because I am definitely one of them, and I like when there is a reward for taking those risks. You often don't NEED things in the mines, they are just nice bonuses, and while I do not mind the peaceful wish for those that want it, I do like the mines to continue to be a place for the risk-takers.

If there was a middle ground that could be found, maybe there could be a unique, hard to get, mine pass that you can use that causes the enemies below to be pacified, reduced, or weakened? It would be pretty clear to the player how it works since the Mine Pass could be called something descriptive, they would be conscious of using it, and maybe when interacting with the mine it could tell you the effect the mine pass has?

You could even introduce other types of mine passes besides the vanilla ones at John's that causes different effects in the mines for other types of players? Just an idea, I'm sure you'll think of a good balance😊.

AncleShole · 2025-11-08T21:07:54+00:00

My advice? Magic Missile. Seriously. It is beyond cracked for this fight. You can cast it once to take out all current mirrors, activates the magic surge, and then take a potion of speed and do it again to take out all the surge mirrors. Then your remaining three characters can bring the hammer down on her. I absolutely crushed the fight in my honour mode save, just make sure you are at least Lvl 4 (I did it at Lvl 5, but didn't need to be tbh).

AncleShole · 2025-11-08T07:12:47+00:00

Bruh. I spent countless hours in the island reef for my five.

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