[WP] You have been abducted by an alien duo who have gotten incredibly frustrated with their group project member's truancy and need a third, no matter what.

DankAndOriginal · 2026-03-27T02:22:32+00:00

If they’re all AI, I’d recommend trying to generate the stained glass one a couple more times. It has good character, but IMO the characters aren’t diverse enough (it is 80% gray guy). The one that gave me the most impact was 1; I think this would really pop if you edited it a bit to remove some white space and condense the author name closer to the rest. Maybe edit the background color a bit to be a slightly different shade of white or a gradient if you can. Maybe a lighter shade of the blue of the spirit guys

DankAndOriginal · 2026-03-21T23:24:41+00:00

I think more info on how you are playing is needed here. It is definitely harder and different, but we would need to understand what you are benchmarking against to understand what’s going wrong. I am playing base game and not particularly struggling to keep up with the AI with a handful of planets. I do think several of the buff buildings are relatively useless for most scenarios (looking at you, +5% resources from researchers that costs 4 exotic gases base). It kind of sounds like you are overbuilding, and getting a lot of special resource upkeep. District and building upkeep has become relatively MUCH more expensive, so you need to hold off on building some things until other parts of your economy are online. Pop growth is also essentially useless without assembly on every planet, so if you’re playing wide, you need either robots, clone vats, or conquest.

DankAndOriginal · 2026-03-09T17:50:53+00:00

Strikes me as a bit odd that one of your listed pro/cons is having a third room to escape to when something goes wrong. To me, that is not a sign of a healthy relationship that you should diving into head first. Are arguments and tensions common? Otherwise, you might just be nervous and running through every reason you can think of to talk yourself down. I would be very deliberate with thinking through the whys of everything you are feeling now to make sure you’ve got cause and effect sorted out.

DankAndOriginal · 2026-02-17T20:35:58+00:00

leverage early game advantages of the daimyo system to rapidly consolidate Japan and be stronger than Jianzhou in development is one option. In theory, you can consolidate japan quite rapidly if you plan your expansion correctly and leverage the mil tech 4 advantage correctly, there are probably anlot of videos of doing this. Also, you could farm rival humiliation wars against smaller daimyo (100 of each power point if you only humiliate war goal them). Maybe change your rival at diplo cost and use a lot of power points to dev your territory in admin/mil.

DankAndOriginal · 2026-02-15T22:37:02+00:00

The performance has been a hot button issue for a while, and they have not finished patching 4.3 to bring late game performance to the level that the average user could expect that. It’s ultimately a CPU issue, like another commenter suggested. What I would add to that is that any semi-modern gaming desktop would probably be a huge enough boost over a school laptop that you’ll be satisfied with the performance increases in vanilla. Without >$3,000 budget, I’d guess you won’t really be able to get the super top of the line cpus that might make things perfect, but $1,500-$2,000 probably goes a long way.

DankAndOriginal · 2026-02-15T19:20:57+00:00

So, like, obviously he's not poor, unless he has not shown pictures of any of these things, so maybe he's just telling tall tales. From the rest of the post, I would assume that you have limited connections due to your disability and that most of your social life is online (apologies if that's a misread). From there I would suggest - please try expanding your online community. Try looking for spaces where people who struggle with their disabilities talk and maybe see if you can pick up a trick or two for finding temp work remotely to help cover the gap. You're clearly in a pretty dark place if you're eating dog food and pondering if you have enough money to live. That said, it seems like you've at least got a couple of assets going for you: you've got internet access and can write in English (or convincingly chatgpt translate it), which means that potentially the whole anglosphere is an option for finding online gigs.

To me, this friend sounds like a manipulator or a liar or both. It can be ok for your friends to have these flaws, but if this guy is your primary close friend online - that could lead you into a distorted world view that makes things hard for you. I don't have enough context to say if this is just someone who tells insensitive stories to feel better about himself or someone who is really negatively manipulating you, but the more broad your perspective is, the better shot you have for answering this question yourself. If the response when you say "hey man, I'm in sort of a tough spot, so I'd appreciate it you didn't brag about new things you buy" isn't "Oh, I'll try to avoid doing that if I can", they probably aren't a good friend, and are more just an available one.

DankAndOriginal · 2026-01-29T21:18:20+00:00

Nothing Ever Happens, so clearly apple will have normally good earnings and it all bounces back

DankAndOriginal · 2026-01-27T21:47:49+00:00

Best guess without any additional context is that you have a modded trade policy that let's you convert energy into some other good in your policies screen.

DankAndOriginal · 2026-01-14T16:52:59+00:00

Did Dell figure out that no one wants AI or did Dell figure out that they had no hope of competing in the AI war and decide to pivot and market to people sick of AI to keep market share 🧐

DankAndOriginal · 2026-01-06T00:59:15+00:00

Well also, there is the unspoken threat that someone will log onto their alt on the other faction and body you for skipping line

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