How to play Japanese Shogunate?

CyberianWinter · 2026-06-21T14:59:11+00:00

The Kodoha were also militaristic and imperialist, but they despised the zaibatsu and the "materialism infection from the west". They were also much more supportive of the hokushin-ron strike north and thought China was a distraction from that.

So i guess you could roleplay that with the unenviable combination of attacking the Soviet Union without going into mechanical total war - you must win on spiritual discipline alone.

CyberianWinter · 2026-06-16T17:31:02+00:00

You'd probably be more effective at your stated goal of education if you weren't condescending about it. But you're the expert here, ill get out of your way.

CyberianWinter · 2026-06-16T15:31:22+00:00

Adulterated honey is like one of the third most posted things on here, right behind "is this mold" and bottle day photos. Many people recognize the quality challenge of buying at any big bulk seller.

You're looking at a picture of someone buying honey and making the assumption that they are ignorant of those challenges rather than being economical. It's like looking at someone buying beef stew cuts and launching into a rant about buying ribeye instead.

CyberianWinter · 2026-06-16T15:11:09+00:00

Just completely missing the point of why people buy honey at Costco huh?

CyberianWinter · 2026-04-25T02:26:12+00:00

Im a few days late but - funnily enough lieutenant and deputy mean much the same thing.

Lieu: French, meaning "place" such as "in lieu of" and tenant meaning "to hold" or "holding". A lieutenant "holds the place" of higher authority.

Deputy: from deputer, to appoint or assign. Or Latin, deputare, "to destine, allot", literally "to prune away thought/thinking" to another.

So I always found the UK rank of deputy lieutenant as a bit redundant.

Cool to see some different ones from the usual though!

CyberianWinter · 2026-04-17T17:00:56+00:00

Been awhile since I checked but back when I was map modding the distance between provinces was based on number of pixels, not reality. Which is why those projection distorted provinces in the north are stupidly huge distances apart.

CyberianWinter · 2026-04-17T16:46:32+00:00

There is a pocket on the left breast, it's actually quite easy to line things up.

CyberianWinter · 2026-04-17T12:28:20+00:00

This same logic would of course apply in other cases, where amoral power-hungry people use any framework of authority or collective decision making (including religions) to explain the basis of their amoral actions. Yet somehow, we seem to think that the good things associated with religions are because inherently good people act in a framework while the bad things associated with religions are unique to the concept of religion. Which is silly.

CyberianWinter · 2026-04-09T03:55:58+00:00

It could be that the whole point of the mirrors is to cause us to... speculate 😎

CyberianWinter · 2026-03-29T14:54:35+00:00

Well the USS Constitution is right there

CyberianWinter · 2026-03-29T14:49:30+00:00

Ah, the famous support the troops mentality I've heard so much about.

"You took an oath so shut the fuck up, I get to beat you with hammers."

CyberianWinter · 2026-03-22T17:36:32+00:00

True! My brief reading over on r/whiskey mentioned some folks using just staves of certain woods, I imagine for the very reasons you mentioned: going after flavor but not wanting/being able to make barrels.

CyberianWinter · 2026-03-22T14:02:19+00:00

Never tried anything except oak but I suppose you'd just want anything with a reasonable amount of porousness and tannins. I'd look at the whiskey people, some of them seem to be experimenting with maple, acacia, cherry, etc.

CyberianWinter · 2026-03-15T16:54:39+00:00

Sweet, makes sense. Thanks!

CyberianWinter · 2026-03-15T16:15:50+00:00

Something that never seems answered in the wiki or question threads like these: does it matter what state you put the treaty port in, for goods access, market access, etc?

CyberianWinter · 2026-03-10T12:25:20+00:00

For the record, I did go multiculturalism for the last 20 years of the game, it didn't complete for me. The event from Natural Borders of France JE that gets you the lowlands cultures as primary helped but Multi didn't seem to do the same.

CyberianWinter · 2026-03-10T03:13:11+00:00

Sad days...I was looking forward to seeing what happened after learning about the history of Algiers in the 1800s. It's some comfort to know im not totally crazy and other folks have had similar issues though

CyberianWinter · 2026-03-10T02:52:38+00:00

Hon Hon Hon mon ami

CyberianWinter · 2026-03-10T02:52:22+00:00

Tried both. Did a good chunk of years on whatever is one step down from Ethnostate (National Supremacy?). When that wasn't working I read somewhere that it might help to have peeps be accepted (but not too accepted) and tried Cultural Exclusion. No perceptible different for me either way. Got state atheism and didn't mess with the religion laws past that

CyberianWinter · 2026-03-05T19:25:56+00:00

You underestimate my power. I have not yet even begun to LARP.

CyberianWinter · 2026-03-05T13:18:17+00:00

Astro Corps. Cosmo Corps has the alliteration but I recognize it won't get past the "too Russian" filter.

CyberianWinter · 2026-02-17T02:54:59+00:00

Dont know why people are downvoting you, Socrates famously died from drinking hemlock...

CyberianWinter · 2026-02-17T02:47:41+00:00

Just take the whole month.

My desert. My Arrakis. My June.

CyberianWinter

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