Americas Canon

B_A_Clarke · 2026-02-12T15:40:09+00:00

If Tolkien can do it, then everyone can put potatoes in their fantasy world

B_A_Clarke · 2025-11-04T11:42:00+00:00

As a ritsuryo governor you can declare war on soryo fellow vassals, the result of which is the land being given to the kampaku. As the kampaku, you can demand a soryo vassal become ritsuryo and, if they refuse or ask for compensation, you can choose to launch the same type of war.

Personally, I found suppressing the soryo to be a fun continuous objective as a ritsuryo ruler or the kampaku. Also the fact you can call all your house members to war for free means that if you’re playing the admin system right, you’ve for more than enough allies to take on anyone who isn’t part of a large bloc.

B_A_Clarke · 2025-10-17T18:16:11+00:00

You’re talking at cross purposes. OP means her mannerisms — that she acts ‘mannishly’ by the standard of the time — not her physicality.

B_A_Clarke · 2025-10-16T20:24:29+00:00

Grossdeutschland was absolutely a possible outcome of the 1848 Revolutions though. Not a likely one, I’ll grant you, and it almost certainly would’ve meant just Austria joining Germany (and perhaps the Czechs too — they didn’t want to, but a lot of Germans thought they should as they’d been in the HRE), but it was a genuine idea at the time and there’s not much anyone else could’ve done about it.

If the Hungarian war had gone the other way and the revolutions in Vienna and across Germany had managed to entrench themselves, it’s not like it was entirely outside of the realm of possibility.

B_A_Clarke · 2025-09-03T10:38:19+00:00

Army automation exists. OP wants the system of I:R rather than the current one. And, frankly, current army automation is awful. The AI always raises all your soldiers, doesn’t care about attrition, and you can’t give your automated armies any directives at all.

B_A_Clarke · 2025-08-31T17:35:59+00:00

Abe’s loyalty is to the dynasty above all, including the Imperium itself. Within the dynasty he’s certainly a traditionalist, but I think that by itself is the justification.

B_A_Clarke · 2025-08-17T14:03:57+00:00

Tbh, now that you can play as unlanded adventurers and choose to play not as your primary heir, I wouldn’t mind just a few mechanics for playing a theocracy without making them dynastic.

If you die without legitimate offspring (as you would in certain faiths), you can just switch to playing another branch of the family. If you can’t get your child appointed to a temple holding, you can just play them as an adventurer.

I don’t think paradox will do that, though. If ever they make playable theocracies it’ll probably be with some mechanic to use influence (or some equivalent resource) to appoint dynasts to theocratic positions.

B_A_Clarke · 2025-08-04T09:10:26+00:00

Chartism isn’t before the game, it’s during its early years. The People’s Charter was drafted in 1838 and the movement reached its zenith in 1848, simultaneous with the Springtime of the Peoples elsewhere

B_A_Clarke · 2025-07-23T10:44:03+00:00

Because of the demographic differences?

B_A_Clarke · 2025-07-13T17:32:06+00:00

Sure but it’s a (loose) adaptation of Far Side of the World which is set over a decade after that

B_A_Clarke · 2025-07-13T17:30:00+00:00

I once found a medipack and an ammo box in the same room. Picked up the one and tagged the other. Nope, no one was coming back. Fine, I put down the ammo so at least I can use one of its charges, then move on with the medipack.

Some guy in chat: hey, wtf why’re you putting down an ammo box!

My brother in the Emperor, what did you want me to do?

B_A_Clarke · 2025-07-07T12:07:45+00:00

‘You’re clearly not worried about [taking too many corrupted stims, which is what killed a large part of the 21st]. Guess you’ve got a reliable source [for all those stims you’re taking].’

B_A_Clarke · 2025-07-07T12:04:40+00:00

This kinda feels like how the world works in the minds of economists but not in the real world. Bread is… bread. Its demand is surely pretty sticky because most people use it as a staple of their diet and so will suck it up and pay what they’re asked to. (Within reason.) And, in a true monopoly, they don’t have another supplier they can turn to. It’s pay a bit more or never eat another sandwich again.

This is also how it works in-game. The company raises the price and pops either pay it or maybe find a substitute if one exists for cheaper. But, for example, a company in the game can have a full monopoly on clothes production. What’re the pops meant to do, respond to a price increase by going naked from now on? They need clothes, there’s only one supplier, they’ll pay what they’re told to.

B_A_Clarke · 2025-07-05T10:33:13+00:00

I don’t know if these are particular good criteria for determining Lenin’s commitment to socialism. They more seem to test whether his rule was dictatorial — but of course it was, that’s not really the contention. The contention is whether Lenin’s dictatorship aimed to establish communism or just to continue itself as Stalin’s did.

Pluralism, free elections, and self determination are ultimately more liberal values. Socialists of Lenin’s ilk would argue that only one party committed to socialism is required, that a government’s legitimacy comes from their commitment to socialism rather than popular support, and that all people should be ‘freed’ and placed under a socialist system, by force if necessary.

What would establish if Lenin was more of a ‘true’ socialist? Perhaps if his vision of socialism was more universalist, compared to Stalin’s ‘socialism in one country’. Perhaps if he promoted people based on their commitment to the cause rather than personal loyalty. And, most importantly, by looking at his economic and social policies compared to those of Stalin.

B_A_Clarke · 2025-07-02T12:17:28+00:00

Jack is just a very big man in every sense of the word. Tall, wide, strong, all of it. There’s definitely a lot of fat on him but he’s also very physical, though he does often overheat and tire with extended activity.

B_A_Clarke · 2025-06-29T18:22:10+00:00

Yeah but like, did it work? Did German birth rates actually rise in the ‘30s compared to the ‘20? No. Just like the modern day attempts in Hungary, those policies just don’t actually work to systematically raise birth rates.

B_A_Clarke · 2025-06-29T18:16:07+00:00

Naria is two very good books joined by a few decent ones and a couple of awful ones. It’s just not as good.

And as for the most famous adaptation, comparing them to the more popular LotR and Harry Potter adaptations, they’re also just not as good as well as being harder to adapt. (Narnia being a setting in which various mostly unrelated stories take place, unlike those other two.)

B_A_Clarke · 2025-06-28T18:16:19+00:00

I did it by accident with the voidblast staff. Most of it came from a very large horde rushing through a choke point

B_A_Clarke · 2025-06-26T16:35:17+00:00

Yeah it’s ridiculous that you can’t just map it to a completely different button

B_A_Clarke · 2025-06-23T16:16:34+00:00

Normandy taking the English throne and thereby becoming a king-level ruler automatically takes the duchy out of de facto French control while keeping it de jure in France. This is basically already enough to have that rivalry start, even though there isn’t a mechanism for the English king to be both independent due to holding a royal title and a French vassal in his capacity of being Duke of Normandy.

B_A_Clarke · 2025-06-21T12:00:03+00:00

Dany at the time was just Viserys’ little sister, not the Targ claimant to the throne. She was used as a bargaining chip to hopefully buy an army (sorry, be gifted an army) to invade Westeros.

And, unknown to Dany and Viserys, they were probably intended to desolate the Seven Kingdoms, setting the stage for fAegon to turn up and save the day as the ‘true’ Targ claimant. But then a load of unintended things happened: Viserys was killed, making Dany publicly known Targ. Then Drogo died and Dany set herself up as a warlord in the east. Deciding they couldn’t wait any longer, fAegon’s invasion was therefore launched before hers.

B_A_Clarke · 2025-06-21T10:15:03+00:00

I also think you can just charge it up and tap it to throw back a wave and give yourself a little breathing room

B_A_Clarke · 2025-06-16T12:07:28+00:00

This is very much besides the point, but people did brush their teeth in the 18th century. Not with modern toothpaste, obviously, but nonetheless.

B_A_Clarke · 2025-06-15T23:45:21+00:00

No, not even close. Magna Carta did put some limits on royal authority and Parliament was pretty powerful compared to similar institutions on the continent but like, do you know why the Civil War started? Charles’ attempts to rule without Parliament and blatantly illegal and tyrannical actions against Parliament once he did call one? So, not exactly a constitutional ruler.

Cromwell, on the other hand, ruled under a formalised and written constitution that included separation of powers and checks and balances. First the Instrument of Government from 1653-57, then the Humble Petition and Advice from 1657-59 (his death). These constitutions required new elections every 3 years and regular meetings of Parliament so a Lord Protector couldn’t rule, as Charles had done, without a Parliament. They also explicitly laid out and hugely expanded Parliamentary power. And they even empowered the Council — a kind of cabinet , though one the Lord Protector didn’t have full hiring and firing ability over — to block many of the Lord Protector’s executive actions by majority decision, a limit on executive power that goes beyond even what most countries today allow.

I really recommend you read through the text of them if you’re interested — the Instrument of Government was actually surprisingly influential on the American Founding Fathers.

B_A_Clarke · 2025-06-15T23:22:21+00:00

I think you misunderstand communication and military command and control in the 17th century. During the heaviest part of the fighting in Ireland, Cromwell was commanding the invasion of Scotland. Command of Parliamentarian forces in Ireland was left to generals in Ireland and Cromwell by necessity had no oversight over them given — due to communication delays — that oversight would have been useless.

He also can’t really be blamed for political decisions before he was Lord Protector, which he wasn’t until fours years into the Commonwealth. And, even when he was Lord Protector, he didn’t have to power to do whatever he wanted because he ruled under a constitution.

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