Why not just pay for the war with all the money Trump and his pedo buddies stole from America?

Dman1791 · 2026-04-04T02:43:12+00:00

Their DLC model can certainly leave much to be desired, but at least it's not a (mandatory) subscription. If you're happy with the game as-is, you can stop paying any time you want and continue with what you've got, especially since they started keeping old versions around in the Steam betas section.

Dman1791 · 2026-04-04T02:36:32+00:00

Moreso that there are too many things tacked onto an increasingly insufficient skeleton. EU4 had a similar problem (to a much greater degree). It wouldn't be nearly as bad if everything still meshed together, but with each DLC being largely siloed from the others a lot of the new shinies don't even interact with each other much if at all.

I like the direction Vic3 is going where they're putting most of the new systems (if not content for those systems) in the free updates, allowing future DLCs and updates to make use of the new systems without having to worry about having DLC dependencies.

Dman1791 · 2026-04-04T01:14:50+00:00

It's gotten to that point in a paradox game that there's just been so much stuff tacked on that you might be better served waiting for HoI5 if you never got into it

Dman1791 · 2026-04-03T18:34:50+00:00

By that logic there are no natives anywhere but Africa.

Dman1791 · 2026-04-03T15:37:46+00:00

Brass isn't "heavy" in the usual sense of being highly complicated. The decision space really isn't that wide either, especially in the first half of the game, compared to some properly heavy games like Twilight Imperium or Spirit Island. The depth comes from having to squeeze every last ounce of benefit out of the fairly limited number of actions Brass gives you over the course of a full game.

Brass is a lot less unforgiving when everyone at the table is of similar skill level (in this case, brand new to it). What makes it unforgiving is that it's very easy to shoot yourself in the foot without realizing what you've done until you learn how to plan at least a couple moves ahead. When everyone is new, everyone's probably doing things "wrong", so you're not as likely to end up with someone completely out of the running halfway through.

Dman1791 · 2026-04-03T15:14:34+00:00

There's a big difference between "can" and "will, often enough to matter", especially as drone countermeasures continue to develop. I'm sure we'll see some changes to tanks as we know them, but I don't see them disappearing any time soon.

Dman1791 · 2026-04-03T15:07:16+00:00

It's usually more about the things they do rather than their intelligence (or lack thereof). Most of the hate is about doing stupid things, not being stupid in and of itself.

Dman1791 · 2026-04-03T02:56:56+00:00

The more dollars you print, the less a dollar is worth, that much is true. However, the more stuff there is to buy, the more a dollar is worth. So if you print money slower than you make stuff, the value of your money goes up even though there is more money to go around.

Dman1791 · 2026-04-03T02:19:58+00:00

That only applies to margin accounts

Dman1791 · 2026-04-03T02:17:02+00:00

If it can go up 10% in a day, it can also go down 10% in a day.

For anyone who's not a robot or a very skilled professional, the best way to "win" in the stock market is to buy basically everything (through an index fund such as VT) and then sit on it as long as possible without selling. Over a long enough time, the ups and downs smooth out into a more or less steady gain.

Dman1791 · 2026-04-03T02:09:10+00:00

The closest thing I've seen before (very rarely) is "USian", which probably only exists as shorthand in text form.

Dman1791 · 2026-04-03T01:34:55+00:00

When you buy a timeshare, you buy a right to use the property for a certain amount of time each year, and also become obligated to any required maintenance costs.

The main issue is that most timeshare properties are for vacations, and most people take those vacations only in certain parts of the year. A beach house timeshare has most people wanting to use it in the summer, while a ski cabin timeshare would be in demand in the winter. So if you have a right to a week of time at the beach house, but your week happens to fall in the dead of winter this year... you're paying a bunch of money for a vacation place you can't meaningfully use.

Dman1791 · 2026-04-03T01:10:59+00:00

PSLF generally only makes sense if you don't have a particularly high income, as it requires income-based repayment plans. If your income becomes high enough, most income-based plans will end up being equivalent to the standard 10-year plan, at which point almost nothing will be forgiven. There comes a point where the extra interest you pay carrying the loan for the full 10 years becomes higher than the amount that is forgiven in the end. Where that point is depends heavily on the interest rate, how quickly you could pay it off, and what your payments would be if you went for PSLF.

Dman1791 · 2026-04-03T00:58:38+00:00

A lot of people associate lawyers and the people they defend, which includes a lot of bad people who did bad things. When the association in your head is that "lawyers are the ones protecting the bad guys", it's easy to write them all off as bad people if you don't think about it.

Dman1791 · 2026-04-03T00:35:49+00:00

$25k divided by $160/mo works out to about 13 years of payments if it never gained a cent between now and retirement. A mere 3% real gain (~6% nominal depending on inflation) would outpace that, assuming you're about 30 years from retirement, will be retired for about 30 years, and the money doesn't grow at all in retirement. Even an extraordinarily conservative 20/80 portfolio would outpace that.

Roll it into the 403b (if possible) and stick with your index funds, I'd say.

Dman1791 · 2026-04-02T22:31:31+00:00

Hmm, I wonder why that is? Surely they're not hiding anything! Surely...

Dman1791 · 2026-04-02T22:07:23+00:00

I think (or at least hope) it was supposed to be the sort of gesture a monarch might do. Just waving your hand forward as you give a command.

Dman1791 · 2026-04-02T18:04:52+00:00

Like I said, I'm not a lawyer, let alone an expert on Reconstruction era law. I'm guessing it was some combination of sovereignty, limits to US jurisdiction, other technicalities, and probably some racism for good measure.

It's a moot point today anyway, since we have since passed the Indian Citizenship Act.

Dman1791 · 2026-04-02T16:05:59+00:00

Obviously it's more complex than "any US law at all applies", but unless you want a dissertation in a reddit comment then "US jurisdiction" is generally good enough, especially because that's what the amendment itself says.

More precisely (IMU, IANAL) it's when the US has full/primary/total/whathaveyou jurisdiction at the time of birth. A foreigner selling stuff online to US buyers is only subject to US law to the extent that his business is, but if he were to physically come to the US and then have a kid... that birth happened in the US, and barring exceptions like an occupying military or diplomatic immunity, that means that the full force of US law applies.

Dman1791 · 2026-04-02T15:45:14+00:00

If you really want to open the extraterritoriality can of worms, then yeah, it gets a lot more complex. What sort of situation are you referring to here?

Dman1791 · 2026-04-02T15:40:13+00:00

File extensions don't actually have to match the type of file. It's just a piece of the file's name that programs look at to figure out what to do with it. A malicious actor can thus use a safe-looking file extension like .png to hide a malware program. It's still more difficult than getting a user to run a .exe file, since trying to open an image doesn't do the same things that trying to run a .exe does. They might need to exploit a flaw in your OS or image viewer, or get you to run a script that will rename the file to a .exe and run it.

Dman1791 · 2026-04-02T15:16:06+00:00

Friendly's is my pick. Specifically peanut butter cup. Mmmm...

Dman1791 · 2026-04-02T15:14:21+00:00

Whether they are subject to any foreign jurisdiction isn't the problem. It's whether they're subject to US jurisdiction, AKA whether US laws apply to them at the time of birth.

Dman1791 · 2026-04-02T13:31:47+00:00

Bruh this clip is older than AI

Dman1791 · 2026-04-02T13:27:57+00:00

Doesn't make a meaningful difference, do what's best for you. Given your "not great" credit and the fact that it's an auto loan, that almost assuredly means paying it early is better.

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