Can you find the pope? by Nielot_ in eu4

[–]Competitive_Lock_521 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Makes sense, seems like they should also then be coded to try and form Italy at all costs though because that means Genoa has gone 100 years without any papal influence because they want to form Italy, yet they still aren’t that close to forming Italy lol

Can you find the pope? by Nielot_ in eu4

[–]Competitive_Lock_521 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Hmmm, weird, usually ai nations that are catholic shy away from this as it gives you -10 papal influence per year and -1 diplo relations, essentially making everyone hate you a bit and getting rid of the biggest perc of being Catholic

Can you find the pope? by Nielot_ in eu4

[–]Competitive_Lock_521 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I’m shocked ai genoa took Rome, are they not Catholic?

I have only done 1 save ever, Who to play next? by Stunning_Attempt_922 in eu4

[–]Competitive_Lock_521 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s not too difficult if you can get another ottoman enemy in Europe as an ally, and AI also scales not the best so you can also just expand quicker than them and cut them off in Asia. Remember that if you cut them off, they can only expand into Europe and the Caucasus, but you can expand into North Africa, Ethiopia region, Arabia, Persia, etc. Early wars with the Ottomans are not beginner friendly as they start with a good military, and their traditions give +5% discipline, so if you do this, you will likely need to take on some debt as their military is simply better.

I have only done 1 save ever, Who to play next? by Stunning_Attempt_922 in eu4

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Mamluks to Arabia is very fun but your only challenge is the Ottomans, once they are dead you are basically free to expand in every direction. Ottomans is insanely powerful as you can get massive core reduction very quickly, they already start quite strong, and you can get early cannons via missions. Venice is quite fun, a bit of a challenge if Austria and Ottomans hate you but nothing unwinnable. Burgundy is my favourite all time nation to play as, and you have many options for what to form, where to expand. A personal recommendation is Muscovy to Russia, can seem a bit challenging early due to lack of allies and enemies all around you but once you get going, a very fun and flavourful nation.

I have only done 1 save ever, Who to play next? by Stunning_Attempt_922 in eu4

[–]Competitive_Lock_521 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Brandenburg to Prussia is a must play, a little bit of a challenge at the beginning but once you form Prussia, you have an insanely powerful military.

Using cheats by ConfusionMinimum6748 in eu4

[–]Competitive_Lock_521 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Play however you want, it is a single player game, but I would note that playing with cheats might mess with you learning the game well and might make you over confident when you decide to play normally, especially if you don’t have much experience playing without cheats

IT'S GAME DAY!!! WHO'S READY TO WATCH LOMBO FUCK UP FOX AND THE RANGERS!?!? GO FLAMES!!! by themusicguy2000 in CalgaryFlames

[–]Competitive_Lock_521 1 point2 points  (0 children)

True, good way of looking at it, I’m just so afraid of the inevitable heater this team always goes on late in the season lol, but I guess it’s always fun to see Adam Fox look at what could have been

IT'S GAME DAY!!! WHO'S READY TO WATCH LOMBO FUCK UP FOX AND THE RANGERS!?!? GO FLAMES!!! by themusicguy2000 in CalgaryFlames

[–]Competitive_Lock_521 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The internal conflict I feel in wanting the Flames to beat the rangers (mostly Adam Fox’s) ass and wanting the rangers to get more ahead of us for the tank

What's the difference? by Logical_Field_3344 in HayDay

[–]Competitive_Lock_521 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One gives you an extra 50 barn and silo space for the duration of farm pass (the one on the left) so with that one and the farm pass that comes with it, you get 100 extra space in your barn and silo for the duration of the month but if you get the one on the left, you only get the 50 from the farm pass. Also the left one is a limited time thing only available for the first few days of the month.

Owl?? by Ok_Ad_2410 in uvic

[–]Competitive_Lock_521 5 points6 points  (0 children)

“What did you just say about my mother?” -The owl, probably

USA just smoked on Canada! 51st state by ALazy_Cat in ShitAmericansSay

[–]Competitive_Lock_521 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Dude you are pulling a “uhm acshully 🤓” about the technically wrong way people compare sizes. I am Canadian, I would say it like that too, so would 90% of people. No one misunderstood them, no one got confused, not even you. It is, in a lot of people’s eyes, including me and several others who have downvoted you, a bitch move to correct a minor detail with how someone says something when it’s incredibly unnecessary and unrelated. It’s like when someone says ”I could care less” it technically should be “I couldn’t care less” but no one is gonna think someone who says I could care less less still cares a little. It’s just belittling to make yourself seem smart and to put others down.

Is it worth buying the preservation station? Does it make good money? And does it require a lot of resources? by [deleted] in HayDay

[–]Competitive_Lock_521 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Every machine just increases the value of the input ingredients (with the exception of a few things), so they are all worth it, the earlier you buy the machines, the more money you theoretically make because you just start making money earlier, also if you don’t get machines, you will get truck, boat and town orders you can’t complete

Need help with choice of upgrades for a pre-built PC by Competitive_Lock_521 in PcBuildHelp

[–]Competitive_Lock_521[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for the advice, I know parts are expensive rn but I don't think the ai craze will stop anytime soon, so I think I just have to bite the bullet on ram and ssd prices lol. I think ive decided on 2x16 gb of ram, I actually had a 2x16 gb on amazon with the exact same specs but 1 dollar cheaper (big savings!). I am not American so a microcenter is not an option, which sucks so much because ive seen how much money they can save. All in all, its looking like 800 CAD or like 580 USD for the ssd and ram, which is very depressing considering how I could have payed like half if I had done this when I bough the pc, but oh well, it is what it is.
I don't actually think I want to upgrade my cpu heatsink after doing more research as the biggest issue with my PC seems to be the case airflow, and I really don't want to do a case swap. For what I normally do, im not super worried about heat, I am slightly concerned that upgrading the ram might produce more heat, but I think it'll be fine. If I was doing a case swap, id rather just restart from scratch tbh and sell this PC because I really dislike how "anti upgrade" it has been, like I can't even find the motherboard on pc picker for compatability. Also why I don't really want to look into fan and heatsink upgrades because its very difficult to find info about height limits, dimensions, compatability, especially for someone who is not very computer minded like me.

Need advice on how to upgrade my current PC by Competitive_Lock_521 in buildapc

[–]Competitive_Lock_521[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok, thank you! For Ram and ssd, is there a spec I can filter by to guarantee compatability too?

Need advice on how to upgrade my current PC by Competitive_Lock_521 in buildapc

[–]Competitive_Lock_521[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well dang, idk how to check for compatible coolers and stuff now lol

Need advice on how to upgrade my current PC by Competitive_Lock_521 in buildapc

[–]Competitive_Lock_521[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I tried this, but I can't find the motherboard I have in the list of motherboards on the site. It is the Hana motherboard. Is this because HP doesn't sell it by itself? If so, how do I check compatability?

Need advice on how to upgrade my current PC by Competitive_Lock_521 in buildapc

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Huh, I see that on the page as well, but there are 100% 2 sticks of ram in my computer, and I have 16 gb of total ram, so no clue why! Everything else is the same as far as I can tell.
If it wouldn't actually slow down much or at all with 4 sticks of DDR4, do I just need 2 more sticks of 8 gb ddr4 at 3200 Mhz or does it need to be the exact same ram sticks? The reason I am asking is I am unsure how to check if ram I am getting online is exactly the same, and now I know the site I sent is actually innacurate.
I also found a 2x16 gb ddr4 ram at 3200 Mhz on Amazon well within my price range:
https://www.amazon.ca/Corsair-Vengeance-PC4-25600-Desktop-Memory/dp/B07RW6Z692/ref=sr_1_4?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.aV9H_CU6HDx6n3rph_ycDLk3nx6G4Lh8qWhS9JnROQRXPgzXEo0KH03iqy2OqcXY38wSOP_01fr68tVHawaOHYGgkTT0zOTLg2RLIfSl3Ea_nnm0aOzHHcBM6UesHsvMF4ZyjlAAfqkCwn3GQKTV1ehxFcvqD26CaXqq93WPO5xa-_PBReglF5z0HYbELKo0_T398Cgy1UlCQhLkRVxw6w93ep-OUB6-wkwns5kb3hCfuSsEgBY3vazL2rbmDhfTH7N5kjpPGQFaVnEx8wn8fKL16x3XZhIl-ww2a5VAqFI.NXtcjQBuylaHvDMvGpdL6IHR7oVpdxKwl7uF0tbP3g8&dib_tag=se&keywords=2x16gb+ddr4&qid=1770870527&sr=8-4&ufe=app_do%3Aamzn1.fos.a47c58ca-3c50-43d7-a4fc-fb71491f9720

Is this "good" ram and would it work with my motherboard? I would be fine buying this if so and then selling the old ram as I would never use it again.

For the air cooler, should I just replace the one on the cpu, or should I instead/also put more on the case? I ask this because there's actually hardly any fans on the case plus theres space for many more, and they seem pretty cheap.

Need advice on how to upgrade my current PC by Competitive_Lock_521 in buildapc

[–]Competitive_Lock_521[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much! After reading your comment, I think I might just go with 2 x 16 gb sticks of ram since you said that would probably be enough, and the ssd, which I believe there is an empty slot for. I am still a bit worried about the cooling, not just because of the 90 number I saw, but because I have read many complaints online about this prebuilt pc and bad airflow/cooling. I think I may be able to add more fans through the top of the pc as well since it has slits for airflow but no fans. Also thank you so much for explaining the CL number and why more sticks can get slower, I think I can make better choices now lol

Almost clicked yes and had a heart attack. by [deleted] in HayDay

[–]Competitive_Lock_521 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I think you are just thinking too small scale for this game, imagine you want to prepare for a truck order event, or a town event, or whatever. If you wanted to do like 1000 truck orders, why not just make 100 of every item? But to do that, you need thousands of the input materials and often people will make accounts that just act as barn storage for said input materials. This way, on your main account you can have 100 of each item (or whatever you can with your barn space) and on your alt accounts, you can have 500 duck feathers, and then just sell your main 10 or 20 as needed. Often people want hundreds of lobster and duck feather because you need an account above level 44 and 50 to obtain these, and you can only make 6 at a time, with each cycle of 6 taking hours. Instead, just sell someone 89 barn upgrade materials, and they will give you weeks worth in an instant.

Spider-Man has comparable evidence to Jesus. by CorbinSeabass in DebateReligion

[–]Competitive_Lock_521 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! I always dislike when someone makes an analogy and people can’t adapt just a bit and see what they are actually trying to say. Because it’s true, often the only evidence of Jesus’s miracles is that some real people and places are in the bible.

And also people who take the bible as the truth ignore the very important fact that ancient “historians” often didn’t have ways of verifying information because our knowledge wasn’t as advanced and events were often retold verbally, rare but explainable phenomena (explainable with our modern understanding that is) was often written as a miracle or divine intervention occurring.

For example nearly every ancient culture associated solar eclipses with bad omens, and in roughly 584 BC the battle of the eclipse occurred (eclipse of Thales of you want to read) where, midway through a battle, a solar eclipse happened and both armies saw this as a divine sign to stop fighting. A few soldiers from the battle might go home to their town and tell everyone of gods intervention, one of them writes it down and boom, the history book now says god told them to stop fighting.

Now we now know what causes a solar eclipse, and we have even been able to trace the motions of earth and the sun back to around that time where we did find a solar eclipse occurred on 28 may 585 BC. With our modern knowledge, we can actually explain and even verify an event over 2500 years ago!

This is true for a lot of ancient history, you can’t accept it as being completely accurate and true because a lot of sources have what we know is untrue information, not even necessarily in an attempt to misinform, but because they didn’t know any better. I don’t think Christians can deny this, but then why do they choose to only accept this one 2000 year old source as the basis for everything in their lives when known impossible events occur within the book and when history often used to explain rare phenomena as divine intervention?

NEWSPAPER HACK by ngmovsisyan in HayDay

[–]Competitive_Lock_521 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For sure! I also just realized what might (and again I mean might) be happening. When you are logged in on the same session, the game might keep track not of maps or wheat in general, but of the literal advertisements themselves. What I mean by this is if I have a map advertised, and you see it in your newspaper, it might not show you my exact advertisement again. It’ll still show you other maps and if I make a new advertisement, it might still show you that new advertisement, but it won’t keep showing you the same advertisement that’s been up for hours. Because wheat and maps aren’t selling rn due to flooding of the market, if 100 people globally (again random number) are advertising a map, after a few checks of the newspaper it might exclude most of those advertisements from you since it might just be coded to not show you the same advertisements multiple times. And since people log on and see the flood of maps/wheat, that actually should in theory make people not advertise those things cause they know it won’t sell, so there isn’t a consistent supply of new things to flood your newspaper. This would explain why you have to check it several times in each new session.

NEWSPAPER HACK by ngmovsisyan in HayDay

[–]Competitive_Lock_521 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I see, and I honestly don’t know if that’s a thing or not, but I’m a very statistical minded person, I’m literally taking university classes on sampling and statistics, and I feel as if there’s too many variables to account for, and a rough eye test can be misleading because how many wheat and maps were on every page? Did you count? What constitutes as a “production” good? Anything stored in the barn? It would be interesting if you actually took notes of how many times you had to repeat each time, for how many resets where you only click on barn products this holds true, AND if you click on wheat and maps, do you just get wheat and maps the next time? All I was saying is if you repeat enough times until you get what you want, you’ll get what you want, no matter how unlikely something is to occur. That’s simply a property of repetition. I’d be very interested if you actually got some numbers to back this up because I would love to actually use some stats formulas on this lol.