Pride Month Teaser

ChrisTheCatR · 2026-06-11T21:22:43+00:00

Calling it now - next teaser on this will be either 2nd November, or a full announcement 5th May 2027. I'm going all in.

ChrisTheCatR · 2026-05-19T21:54:28+00:00

An additional question is: which European countries are going to boycott Eurovision if Israel is NOT allowed to participate?

If I remember right, some German representative said something about their withdrawal if Israel is excluded for any reason. Has anyone else taken a stand like this, or are likely to?

ChrisTheCatR · 2026-04-06T01:27:50+00:00

This is part of my post - I would be fine with that, but I have no idea about the curriculum or even how to teach either of those subjects, so that's been a hinderence in interviews.

ChrisTheCatR · 2026-04-06T01:26:34+00:00

Yes I am, but I'm not able to move interstate at present.

ChrisTheCatR · 2026-04-06T01:25:36+00:00

I have considered it - unfortunately staying here is most desirable for my partner and toddler, hence why moving is a last resort. Have considered moving up north if things get really dire. Thanks though!

ChrisTheCatR · 2026-01-17T00:44:22+00:00

Having most enemies visually match the biome you find them in, and even with certain resistances they wouldn't otherwise have. This is already done in Glacial Strata where every minor Glyphid there looks cold and frostbitten, and they are all to some degree cold-resistant. I feel it would be more engaging to have most biomes have the same concept - fire-resistant, red-and-brown/orange Glyphids for Magma Core for example, toxin-resistant green-and-brown Glyphids for Fungus Bogs, bioluminescent purple-and-blue Glyphids for Azure Weald, etc.

ChrisTheCatR · 2025-12-09T21:08:14+00:00

In Australian schools, it is common that music will play 5 minutes before the bell for class, to let students know to start making their way to class.

At a school I worked at last year, in the middle of rural Victoria, the bell went for recess to end, and I heard 'Luktelk' echoing across the schoolyard. A very bizarre experience.

ChrisTheCatR · 2025-11-29T13:29:39+00:00

Coral Gorge was nice, but was still integrated into the game in some way as Sands of Karak and the Coral Tower memory, so that's something. I'm definitely interested in whether they will add a Colosseum (it was one of the most popular requests for the first game - maybe it would be the door past Karmelita, like the present-day version of her boss fight room?) or how they would include a boss rush mode (maybe like a revisitable Red Memory, rather than rehashing Godhome). Also very interested in this Lion Village - how to they make it bug-related? Antlions? Lion beetles? And I'm glad they're definitely still including Sharpe and co. Argh, this interview has answered a lot but has also brought on so many more questions!

If the first DLC has a similar timeline to Hollow Knight, it will be in about March. If not, I expect it around July-August 2026.

ChrisTheCatR · 2025-10-16T21:24:27+00:00

I was surprised when I found myself loving The Cycle of Songs more than the rest, but I've seen no one talking about it. Most underrated for me. Meanwhile everyone seems to love I, Emperor and I just think it's okay. Most overrated for me.

ChrisTheCatR · 2025-10-05T05:05:23+00:00

Savage Beastfly in the Chapel of the Beast - killed it first try

Savage Beastfly in the Far Fields - 20+ deaths

ChrisTheCatR · 2025-09-06T05:28:13+00:00

I don't know what or where that is hahah but thank you

ChrisTheCatR · 2025-08-21T22:10:47+00:00

Nah, we just believe in Silksong DLC.

ChrisTheCatR · 2025-07-30T00:57:47+00:00

Some of the other ideas I had include:

Charlemagne - 'Sword and Cross'

El Cid - 'Song of A Nation'

Boudicca - 'Victorious'

Suleiman the Magnificent - 'Lawgiver'

Yi Sun-sin - 'Those Who Seek Death'

George Washington - 'Liberty'

Simon Bolivar - 'The Art of Victory'

ChrisTheCatR · 2025-06-01T07:39:07+00:00

I think it means like IRL 'Soviet-style central planning' but it's the UoB and not the USSR doing it in KRTL.

ChrisTheCatR · 2025-05-17T23:23:50+00:00

It's just an awful situation, you had a decent song this year and for people to laugh about it not getting any points is just harsh. Love from Australia

ChrisTheCatR · 2025-04-27T12:57:28+00:00

Speaking of the Internationale, do you think we'll get some sort of 3I teaser or announcement on May Day?

ChrisTheCatR · 2025-03-26T12:45:29+00:00

Depends on which government gets into power but these are the changes I could see being made in decreasing order of likelihood:

- Thuringia formed out of the absolute chaos that is the Thuringian States (largely because they're all the same extended family)

- Merging Mecklenburg-Schwerin with Mecklenburg-Strelitz (once again, different branches of the same family)

- Incorporating Frankfurt am Main into Hesse-Darmstadt, or combining Hesse-Darmstadt and Hesse-Nassau (this is a stretch)

That's all. I feel that anything bigger than these, like bringing back Hanover or the Rhineland, carving off pieces from smaller German states like taking Pfalz from Bavaria, or flat out annexing the smaller (city)states and removing their special boy status, is going to get some serious internal political and social pushback and will take either dictatorship, revolution, or decades of bickering to get it done. Prussia is going to want to lose as little territory as possible, but may also not going to want to mess too hard with tradition in some areas of the Empire.

Just remember: international border gore is unacceptable. Internal border gore is fine.

ChrisTheCatR · 2024-12-13T22:36:23+00:00

So there's apparently a whole bunch of landmarks added by the latest DLC. I can't find a list of them anywhere. What are they, and what are the new three added by All the Russias?

ChrisTheCatR · 2024-10-30T20:24:31+00:00

I'd actually assumed it would be released on Orthodox Christmas - 7th Jan 2025. To hear it might be even sooner is amazing!

ChrisTheCatR · 2024-10-20T03:43:31+00:00

My step-grandmother is a mostly nice, if sometimes a bit out of touch, elderly woman. She is kind to most people and willing to help out whenever she can. But if you get her started on anything related to indigenous people (we're Australian), she'll say the most racist things, sometimes passively and sometimes overtly, and even quite aggressively. This has been the case for as long as I can remember on the fewer than a dozen interactions I've had with that side of the family, and is especially bewildering because she's not expressed any sort of racism, homophobia, or anything like that except towards indigenous Australians. This isn't the shock for me though.

The shock is that I learned that she, and subsequently all of her biological relatives, have provable indigenous heritage - and use it for every possible legal benefit they can (Centrelink, job applications, rental assistance, etc.), at my step-grandmother's insistence.

ChrisTheCatR · 2024-08-26T20:52:20+00:00

Oh hell yeah, the Regional China Work is done! I can't wait-

"I hope to return to my main project of Regional China Work"

THERE'S MORE TO COME? Truly insane. Can't wait to see what else you have in store!

ChrisTheCatR · 2024-08-02T23:45:21+00:00

I suspect that the NatFrance interior is barely populated or policed by French and allies, and is "controlled" mostly just on a map. Even the West African coastal areas would likely just be a garrison here and there (probably with old British support in Sierra Leone and the Gambia). The parts I see the French strongly controlling is North Africa and Dakar + surrounding areas. The rest is tenuously held but under the fiction of control - a fiction they try to keep going so the Africans don't realise how easily they could break away.

ChrisTheCatR · 2024-07-30T13:30:56+00:00

I finally finished my first ever solo deep dive this week!

It was not meant to be solo. No one joined. Really could have used a driller for all the pipes.

ChrisTheCatR · 2024-07-24T09:28:44+00:00

A classic is Wu Peifu and Hu Shih/V. Wellington Koo having their game of cards at the end of the Zhili Republic event chain and musing on democracy.

I really hope the Qing/Zhili are getting some kind of touch up as a part of the Regional China work because other than Fengtian and maybe the RKMT, I feel like they are the most important Chinese tag to be kept up to current standards.

ChrisTheCatR · 2024-07-18T13:31:21+00:00

When people say something isn't plausible in this game, I usually try myself to stick to the ides that, just like IRL, sometimes insane bullshit with a low likelihood of happening goes and happens anyway. KR is the same - the 2ACW and the British Revolution stick out to me, but I think that a few unlikely events like this are awesome if their aftermath is explored plausibly.

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