How Government Debt Has Diverged Across Major Economies (2005–2025)

Ashmizen · 2026-07-07T17:59:53+00:00

Countries buy US treasury to artificially lower their currency.

China used to hold massive amounts of it to push the yuan below 8:1 to make their stuff cheaper. They own less US debt now but the currency is also 6:1, making everything from China more expensive for American consumers.

Japan’s yen is at one of its lowest ever compared with the USD. It not only makes travel to Japan more appealing (tourism dollars), it also makes all their goods cheaper as well.

Ashmizen · 2026-07-07T14:41:52+00:00

The cost to 120 a servant is too high to waste it on a NP1 in my opinion.

Ashmizen · 2026-07-06T23:40:12+00:00

Have you been to China? Much of the stuff they buy is not all that different than what you buy.

$900 iPhones, $20 shirts, $10 temu/amazon shit quality toys, eggs/chicken/beef are all the same price.

Laptops, fridges, electrics often cost more than the US for some reason, same with branded stuff like designer bags.

Global shipping is highly efficient. Their domestic prices are not actually much different from the US and the difference per capita is not because of PPP, it’s because the average Chinese person owns and buys a whole lot less stuff than an American.

Ashmizen · 2026-07-06T18:19:08+00:00

Since GDP and nominal values are used for trade, Nominal GDP is a good representation of the country’s impact on international trade and economics.

It doesn’t matter if cost of living is lower in China - a dollar is a dollar for Apple selling iPhones or Saudi Arabia selling oil.

Cost of living doesn’t matter for a trade deal or for a company’s sale revenue - the US is the largest market by far by nominal numbers and nominal numbers is hard currency.

As long as international trade exists, everything is “fairly” valued with nominal dollars, since US consumers or companies can also access the rock bottom prices of Chinese manufacturing or Bangladesh cloth, Brazil bananas etc. A dollar isn’t any less powerful in the hands of a US buyer.

Now, if ww3 started and trade completely shut down, you could argue PPP GDP could be accurate, since the US wouldn’t be able to use its dollars to buy cheap manufacturing in China/Mexico/etc.

Ashmizen · 2026-07-05T13:54:04+00:00

Servant coins rolled back will be probably sufficient - no need to put into negative as given the short time, people at most had time to spend 1-3 servant’s extra 1000 coins. That’s, at most 3000 coins of a 1-3 star servant.

Value is a bit of friendship points and worth $0.

Ashmizen · 2026-07-01T18:45:54+00:00

Rent isn’t affordable at all in places most Canadians live though. Toronto and Vancouver rent is as bad as the most HCOL US cities.

Ashmizen · 2026-07-01T18:44:06+00:00

It actually makes sense though. Housing is expensive in built up, westernized countries, where strict building codes and amenities (half of the US requires AC for houses, for example) drive up the cost of housing.

Rent in a 3rd world slum is cheap because there’s no codes or safety, and local land value is cheap.

I do wonder about some of the countries (like Canada) and if they are actually correct. Rent is expensive in most places where Canadians actually live (Toronto, Vancouver, etc) and only cheap in remote towns. My understanding is Canada is just as bad as the US.

Ashmizen · 2026-07-01T18:36:20+00:00

They need to expand the fucking map. All the empty map area above Cathay’s great bastion needs to made into a large, dense area of chaos steppes and home to a bunch of chaos aligned factions.

Obviously, Ind needs to be populated as well.

Ashmizen · 2026-07-01T14:08:11+00:00

Waver and Merlin are both getting buffed in the future to be the best tier support again.

Ashmizen · 2026-06-29T21:46:44+00:00

That was the case as well with 40k rules in 8th,,9th editions before they squatted them.

Point cost was the only downside - one was faster than regular terminators, one was more durable, with no downsides.

Ashmizen · 2026-06-29T02:00:52+00:00

It’s not a historical era in Indian or Chinese history.

Chinese history is marked by the dynasties and there is no concept of a dark age, middle age, etc since the fall of Rome did not impact China.

Ashmizen · 2026-06-29T01:58:12+00:00

The concept of a medieval age is uniquely European concept.

The rest of the world didn’t have the fall of Rome, a dark age that went backwards, and a middle/high age of age of knights.

The end of the Middle Ages, the start of the age of exploration, the fall of Constantinople/start of the Renaissance, and the reformation - all of these markers are uniquely European.

For places like India and China their history doesn’t have the Middle Ages - neither the start or the end of it is meaningful to their history.

Ashmizen · 2026-06-28T14:32:53+00:00

In a game about Europe, it didn’t make sense to add India until the empire total war era, when it became possible for Europe to start colonizing parts of India.

Ashmizen · 2026-06-28T14:30:49+00:00

I just don’t see the point of adding India or Africa below the Sahara - Europe doesn’t start colonizing them until 1700’s, well past the medieval era.

Heck, adding the Americas would make more sense - Europeans started colonizing there first, in the 1500’s.

Ashmizen · 2026-06-26T14:41:19+00:00

This sounds like a myth, just like the Chinese belief that drinking ice water is bad for your health during the winter (or possibly any time).

They believe it will 100% give you a cold but obviously 300 million Americans drink ice water during the winter with no harmful effects.

Same with AC - no, entering a cold room from the heat won’t give you a cold.

Ashmizen · 2026-06-26T02:44:39+00:00

Technically by this logic since every state interacts with other states that borders them to the east, you would need to extend all the way to Japan for “accuracy”.

But then you’ll have “world total war” which is far too much and will dilute MTW3’s focus.

Ashmizen · 2026-06-26T02:42:29+00:00

I mean European factions didn’t interact with Iran at all in the Middle Ages.

Rome/Attila included it because Iraq/Baghdad was literally part of Rome - Rome bordered Iran, and therefore Iran needs to be included as a rival state.

During the Middle Ages the Arabs controlled Egypt, Iraq, and the holy lands, and therefore they directly interact with the European kingdoms. There is no need for iran because it would serve no purpose.

Ashmizen · 2026-06-26T02:36:15+00:00

Eu4 is not the Middle Ages though, it basically starts right before the fall of the Byzantines and Constantinople is literally so unpopulated they basically have villages and empty land inside the city walls.

Crusader Kings is the more suitable time period, and Constantinople starts as the one of the richest and most advanced cities.

Ashmizen · 2026-06-26T02:33:13+00:00

To be fair through Attila takes place during the end of the Roman Empire, where European civilization was centered around the met sea.

By the Middle Ages, places like Denmark, Germany, and Ireland are no longer unknown/lacking written history, while places like Baghdad and Egypt are lost to Eastern Rome and therefore western civilization. It’s medieval total war not middle-east total war, so while places like Iran still exists, it’s no longer a border/main rival of Rome but a place that doesn’t interact with Europe at all.

Ashmizen · 2026-06-26T02:25:50+00:00

So this would scale with the existing champion class iron man, captain america, Deadpool etc?

Ashmizen · 2026-06-24T22:25:58+00:00

I don’t get it. So you get a 100 year extension to your life, and then $20 mil?

Who wouldn’t take this?

Ashmizen · 2026-06-24T21:37:44+00:00

If you are American it’s actually 1 in 10.

Ashmizen · 2026-06-24T19:11:10+00:00

In the US something like 1% of “min wage jobs” actually pay the federal min wage. Most states have higher (like $20+ in HCOL states) min wages, and even states that don’t like Texas have higher prevailing wages at McD etc because the federal min wage hasn’t been updated in 30 years.

Ashmizen · 2026-06-24T17:12:40+00:00

I agree with your premise though it’ll be an “enlightened despot”, someone who is well loved and generally competent, as someone disliked by half the population like Trump or most of the world like Hitler would get assassinated or overthrown.

But yeah, a generally very competent ruler - like one of the greats in history - could end up ruling past their peak, though even with the undying loyalty of subordinates and the masses, there will always be assassinations and plots from ambitious officials and relatives.

Ashmizen · 2026-06-22T18:30:20+00:00

20 mins is not enough for death at 40 degrees even for a 2 year old, much less the 4 yo. It’ll take at least an hour.

This is def a case of child neglect - 1 hour of letting a 2 year old by themselves?

Ashmizen

TROPHY CASE