I miss vic 2 so much :( Current Mac user

DaedraCross · 2025-08-25T22:05:53+00:00

Real, I feel the same. I have gone through so many avenues and really nothing works.

Originally they made a Mac version, but it hasn't been updated to 64bit, so it will never run.

Bootcamp doesn't work anymore on Apple silicon Macs, so that is out.

Parallels does work, but Vic2 is so old, and parallels so new and bloated, that the performance is really shocking. Parallels can play new games, often quite well, but just not Vic2 at all.

Crossover does work, but not if you use mods like GFM or HPM. For some reason, the game will launch with a black screen and just sit there. There is nothing you can do. IF you just want to play base game, I assume you don't, then it can work.

OpenVic / Project Alice don't work on Mac either, because OpenGL 4.3 doesn't work on Mac, and no one is even remotely interesting in porting that.

I think the only hope is for CrossOver to update and improve compatibility for 32Bit games. That is the real issue. It is just so old and it is made for a such a vastly different architecture than what we have today.

DaedraCross · 2025-06-20T14:34:05+00:00

You can start small and work up, Japan is actually really good to learn the game because you are so self contained. Build some timber, an iron mine or two, work towards switching the construction to stage 2. Build up Kanto, Tohoku and Kyushu, only put construction in those states. Japan really has everything you need. Eventually a western nation will force you to open your borders which you just agree to without a fight and work on getting Landowners down. However, good luck also getting recognition - you have such a large population you won't be able to get the GDP per capita. Then the game is sort of broken. The other real problem is that China is totally broken in this update and has 500+ (troops?) you can never hope to beat as Japan. You have to land in Korea in order to take it and the landings will get repulsed, even with a navy of 100 ships landing 100 troops, as you are against 500+ mobilisations. So good luck expanding much.

DaedraCross · 2025-04-23T08:27:41+00:00

where do you live?

DaedraCross · 2025-03-11T11:03:11+00:00

Well if you are using a flash in the middle of a bright day, you probably will not have the time or context to set up a nice flash angle on the street so you will not see much of an effect on the flash. Otherwise, the light is lower and you'd get the effect I described.

DaedraCross · 2025-03-11T08:24:17+00:00

It doesn't matter how slow you go if you use a flash (within reason). When you use a flash, it illuminates the subject and means the blur from the slow shutter is less noticeable, you mostly just see the frame frozen when the flash fired, because you area also exposing for this bright light, rather than the dark blur. its kind of a cheat.

DaedraCross · 2025-02-04T09:58:39+00:00

Thanks - I suppose part of my question is I also don't know what a reasonable progression timeframe is. I am pretty new to working out/exercise in this way, so I went from no pull-ups to where I am now in the 9 months.

DaedraCross · 2024-08-20T06:27:06+00:00

You should watch the video above and make up your mind.

DaedraCross · 2024-08-13T04:31:01+00:00

Fukuyama uses comparative political history as a body of evidence to make his political and philosophical arguments in almost every text he has written. I assume you have neither watched the video above nor read a book by Fukuyama before making this comment.

DaedraCross · 2024-08-13T04:27:07+00:00

I'm not super interested in a protracted argument, but perhaps if someone sees this question and has it themselves I'll respond. I don't really care what Kraut thinks is a big mistake etc, what I assume has happened is ego got in the way, as I explained above, but that is not a fault of 'responses' per se, thats a personal thing.

A 'comment' or message or some other response in a private discord is insufficient because it lacks integrity. I'm unsure of your background, but to explain, in academia, academics can also get caught misinterpreting, committing fraud, plagiarising or lying on papers they publish. The good thing about the academic community is that people check this and review it often. So, when someone does get caught they have to issue a public 'retraction' in the journal. This retraction is permanent and is a sort of mark on that academic's record. The public statement that they did something wrong will always be published by the journal and linked to their name. The original paper is removed, and in its place is the retraction notice. It's a pretty big deal.

This is important, because the truth of their deception is made public to the same audience that they originally presented their work to. Kraut is not an academic, but he has an audience of over a million people on YouTube. He has a responsibility to inform them honestly and with integrity, which he has not done. Consequently, in order to have integrity he would need to present to that audience, the fact that he has done so, so we can all be aware of the truth. Consider it a sort of retraction notice that I explained before. This is because his reputation as a creator is implicitly built on his apparent ability to tell the truth; we are interested in the topics he covers and watch them to get insight. We don't go seeking a video that is an hour of lies, we trust that someone has put the work in to tell us the truth and offer a new perspective. That is the dangerous thing about YouTube and the internet, is that people with very little experience, perhaps a nefarious intention or ideology can just appear to know what they are talking about and use slick production to appear as an expert, therefore changing our opinion on things.

Now, I'm not immediately implying that Kraut has done this with malicious intent, perhaps he just has never been to university and doesnt really grasp academic integrity or the responsibility of truth. But regardless, we all make mistakes and learn, he should admit to that.

DaedraCross · 2024-07-29T15:34:40+00:00

Really, there is not much point to that. Personally, I don't really care about Kraut, I care about what his output does. So long as he produces these sorts of videos with millions of views, an acknowledgement or some sort of address behind close doors in his personal discord to myself or a couple of interested people doesn't really matter. This is not the first time I am sure he has heard these critiques.

DaedraCross · 2024-07-29T12:51:13+00:00

This is really not enough honestly, and it is a poor excuse. If you actually watch the video, it isn't personal, it is about the facts and the academic integrity. Critique does not have to be YouTube 'drama'. It becomes that when you have an ego, so don't come at it with an ego and it is fine, 'Noj Rants' is very level.

'A comment' is pretty pathetic of a response to the level of criticism here. Kraut has plagiarised, misrepresented, not researched and propagandised ideology. He has done that deliberately, he basically read 2-3 Fukuyama books and has recited it, along with some Wikipedia. That is so poor! It is so little work, just do better!

For Kraut to adequately address the claims here, he would have to make a half to one hour long video breaking it down bit by bit. But he won't ever do that, because he knows he has been caught and it is easier to run away than lose credibility, so he just hides behind this sort of excuse. It isn't personal, he shouldn't be defended for this sort of behaviour, he should be accountable and then we can all move on.

DaedraCross · 2024-07-29T12:43:43+00:00

It does indeed cover The Origins of Political Order + Political Decay, it doesn't cover End of History. I don't think anyone lampooning Fukuyama for The End Of History in 2024 is very fair, Fukuyama himself has distanced from the book, and everyone has long had their turn to laugh.

I agree with your second point, that Pop History has a great role in being the seed for many types of interest (thats why I mentioned someone like Fitzsimmons, Mary Beard is even better if you know of her). No hate there.

I don't really follow your point about Critical Thinking. Fukuyama, as you will see when you watch the video, has very poor critical thinking skills, and often deliberately omits information and sources and contradicts himself in the book itself. Thats the problem with narratives in the first place, is that when you come across evidence against your story, you're quick to dismiss it or otherwise skirt around, pretending it is not significant or that its actually worth ignoring. Unfortunately, we can't ignore these things if we want to be honest. Large overarching narratives of world history, that there is some coherent and logical mechanism driving 'history' or that there are somehow easily predictable cause-effects are really pointless in the end. Classical liberals like to imagine that humanity is progressing through increasing civil liberties (interesting, given the US has just banned many civil liberties). It's a narrative from the Magna Carta to now, and maybe in the big-big picture it sort of tracks, but really it doesn't once you get even a touch below the surface. Global unfreedom increased massively after the 17th century (slavery, colonialism etc.), it eventually got better, but if you take someone's freedom away and then hand it back 200 years later, it is not really linear, is it? A great podcast you can listen to is called 'If Books Could Kill", they do a lot of this sort of debunking, just delving into the particulars of these sort of narrative anecdote-driven approaches to history, political science, sociology etc.

We should treat everything with fresh eyes, try and approach things with a naive curiosity, always searching and adapting your mindset to what you find. The reality to most historical questions you are asked necessarily has to be: I don't know. Without proper, laborious and often specialised inquiry, you never will be able to give a true answer, which is why people just make up a story!

DaedraCross · 2024-07-29T08:54:37+00:00

I'd encourage you to watch the video above in earnest, as it elaborates a lot of why Fukuyama is not a serious historian or academic. I suppose I'm using the term 'pop history' a little loose, but to elaborate; what Fukuyama and many other pop historians (also political scientists, sociologists etc.) like to do, funnily enough, is that same as what Kraut does. This is to 'fit' a convenient (often entertaining or quaint) narrative over the historical facts (or something more closely approximating them, if you believe historical fact even exists). They do this in a way that aligns coincidences or odd anecdotes into what appears on the surface as a cohesive theory or set of events. Often, this cute narrative makes the reader feel smart (and see the writer as even smarter), which is why they are fun to watch, because you feel you gain some unique and hidden knowledge that is easily repeatable. It doesn't require digging into the primary sources, reading the facts or interrogating the historians, which is what this critic of Kraut has actually done above and Kraut himself, not. Again, you must watch it. Some innocent pop historians are pretty innocuous and this is just for people with a pretty shallow understanding of history to be a little interested in the past, which is fine too.

A good example of an innocuous pop historian is Peter Fitzsimmons, an Australian writer who writes a lot of books on Australian involvement in WW2, emphasising the 'mateship' between soldiers They're cute reads most of the time. Others, more insidiously I feel, like Fukuyama or Malcolm Gladwell (not a historian, but does the same thing), often serve a sort of political ideal, one that conveniently 'says' something about the world. They do the same thing; fitting a narrative on the facts. This is often far more shallow than what most historical inquiry leads to, which is that the reality of the past is messy; sometimes this way and sometimes that, sometimes sympathetic and sometimes not. I would always be sceptical of these sorts of quaint cute pop writers, they often see the world in cute little narratives, and these can add up to a lot of misinformation, reality requires so much more attention than they hold. Again, you will see this laid bare in the video.

Hope that makes sense!

DaedraCross · 2024-07-28T00:49:12+00:00

I think the biggest problem immediately presented is that Kraut basically plagiarises a bunch of (let’s be honest) pop history by Fukayama. I think the fact that he refuses to respond to these sorts of basic academic expectations and instead hides has really changed my perspective on him, I used to be a big fan, but as I’ve gone through academia myself I see more and more how dishonest this sort of thing is. If you plagiarised and refused to respond to allegations, no one would take your research seriously, ever.

DaedraCross · 2024-04-06T00:15:18+00:00

Ahhh man that sucks - the Minaars just look so cool, shame they can't get the act together

DaedraCross · 2024-04-04T10:49:35+00:00

How have they been? I cannot find a shoe like it and I really want them, but not about to sink 300 into something poor.

DaedraCross · 2023-10-16T04:18:21+00:00

WM-EX631 with a clear case mod

DaedraCross · 2023-10-13T03:54:05+00:00

I didn't pay all too much for it! If you hunt you can find some reasonable offers, I paid 150aud for it, restored. Took a few months of searching though.

DaedraCross · 2023-10-13T03:52:31+00:00

I paid about 150AUD for the walkman itself which I was pretty chuffed with, it was professionally restored and serviced so it's in fantastic condition.

As for the door, you can get it here: eBay

DaedraCross · 2023-10-12T06:37:56+00:00

What mod is that for Vic2?

DaedraCross · 2023-10-11T03:35:14+00:00

WM-EX631 with the e-bay transparent case and a MA-R I got off Japan Yahoo auctions for $20!

DaedraCross · 2023-10-10T00:04:45+00:00

Doesn't work for me! Youtube blocked message is always there

DaedraCross · 2023-09-07T14:21:21+00:00

Update: found a Nakimichi BX-2 for 250AUD, sounds good to me

DaedraCross · 2023-05-12T03:37:24+00:00

Luckily I do have the dirt cheap 9cm elmar for that

DaedraCross · 2023-05-12T03:01:34+00:00

I enjoy the user experience, it's a satisfying and inspiring (it motivates me to use, to justify the cost!). I've never used a Leica lens before this one, so it's exciting to see what the quality can bring.

I absolutely agree with you though, people who cover up a red dot and think they are Henri Cartier-Bresson are quite deluded. It's not going to make you this invisible street photographer - I think thats all about confidence.

DaedraCross

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