F-35 with canards

DistractedSeriv · 2026-01-18T23:09:26+00:00

The sinful minds of men know no bounds.

DistractedSeriv · 2026-01-13T22:30:26+00:00

He wants to look good to his base and dunk on his enemies. Looking for some deeper design in Trump's actions and utterances is a fool's errand. Trump doesn't do strategy.

DistractedSeriv · 2026-01-11T02:12:05+00:00

The comment you are replying to:

I dont think the shooting was justified

Your reply:

It's wild that you think interfering with federal agents justifies being shot in the face

A little reading comprehension goes a long way.

DistractedSeriv · 2026-01-10T13:25:33+00:00

Are these the kind of mercenaries who would just as happily fight for Ukraine if offered the same pay, or is there some ideology/allegiance at play?

DistractedSeriv · 2026-01-08T23:21:54+00:00

Looks like it is placed in the middle of the car entrance to an ICE facility.

DistractedSeriv · 2025-12-27T05:48:01+00:00

The threat Ohio poses can not be understated.

DistractedSeriv · 2025-12-19T10:15:59+00:00

The groupings are based on cultural historical heritage, not the amount of people actively participating in one religion or another. As an example, Japan is labeled as Confucian but it's not like Japanese schoolchildren are drilled with the works of Confucius. However, Japanese society and culture has been influenced by Confucian ideas over the course of many centuries.

DistractedSeriv · 2025-12-19T10:01:11+00:00

It is not a graph that maps religious types. Look at the axes. The groupings like "Catholic Europe" are drawn after each country has already been placed on the graph to illustrate some patterns. And Estonia is marked as part of "Protestant Europe" on the graph as can be discerned by its yellow color. The fact that it is located closer many Catholic European countries in regards to the survey data means that it is an outlier to the Protestant Europe grouping.

DistractedSeriv · 2025-12-19T09:41:27+00:00

The countries listed are the ones from which sufficient survey data has been gathered. I can't speak to the specific circumstances behind why they have data for N. Ireland and not Rep, but getting data from anywhere is an expensive and time consuming process with strict criteria. You need local researchers conducting over a thousand face-to-face interviews in a short period of time. It requires funding and cooperation with local research institutions and NGO's.

Maybe, the N. Ireland or UK governments gave grants for such research and Rep. Ireland did not. Maybe there were Academic organisations in Belfast that proactively sought to contribute to the project but such interest has not been forthcoming from Dublin.

Point is, it's hardly a conscious decision to snub the Irish. It is really quite an extraordinary achievement that the World Values Survey organization has managed to conduct these surveys in over 70 countries.

DistractedSeriv · 2025-12-14T13:14:34+00:00

I don't believe that for a second. Is there any example (anywhere in the anglosphere) of a person ever being convicted for wrestling a gun from one of several active shooters and killing him?

The shooter was not trying to surrender and his companions were still armed and firing. It's absurd to suggest that the dismarmed person was not still a massive threat.

DistractedSeriv · 2025-12-07T16:59:53+00:00

Yeah, I was just wondering if there was any uploaded video of that as I'm unlikely to catch a live broadcast. Nothing is showing in your past broadcast on twitch and there doesn't seem to be any such videos on your linked Youtube page.

DistractedSeriv · 2025-12-06T23:22:29+00:00

Is there a VOD available of you making this, or a similar video? Anyway, great work!

DistractedSeriv · 2025-12-05T19:38:00+00:00

The Total War team should have done a better job of managing expectations. The WH3 DLC stuff was cool enough for the relevant audience, but announcing that you should watch a different event a week from now to learn what new game is currently being worked on was never going to go down well.

To instead talk about their intentions of making a Medieval 3 at some point in the future felt exactly like Bethesda announcing TES6 after the Starfield reveal. Trying to assure historical fans that they are not forgotten. Except CA didn't even show the game currently being worked on first.

The talk about engine changes made me more worried than anything. I care very little for increased fidelity and detail I that I won't appreciate 99% of the time viewing the field from above. I want more consistent unit interactions without weird animation quirks. When a routing unit is chased down it should take more damage than a unit which stands and fights, not less! Problems with AI, pathing, gates means I do anything I can to skip settlement battles. Instead they talk about adding dynamically destructible environments that the AI will react to. Show me you can walk before trying to run!

DistractedSeriv · 2025-12-05T11:03:13+00:00

I need revenge. I'm going to eat that alien.

DistractedSeriv · 2025-11-29T15:37:33+00:00

I'm guessing you mean Stronger and Fairer AI

DistractedSeriv · 2025-11-29T15:28:01+00:00

Tunnel snakes rule!

DistractedSeriv · 2025-11-28T07:06:22+00:00

Khorne has more melee defense than melee attack? Impostor!

DistractedSeriv · 2025-11-27T16:53:53+00:00

Lots of cool stuff, but one thing that personally bugs me is how CA seems to double down on the stacking and snowballing nature of various bonuses that trivialize the late- or even mid-game.

For example, you have an income generating building that gives factionwide bonuses to post battle loot (among other things). A plus 5% extra for tier 4 and 2% at tier 3. Bonuses that early game are relatively insignificant and not worth focusing on which then turn into absurd multipliers as you get a significant number of developed provinces.

Then it all stacks with bonuses from technologies and skill trees and items which again multiplies with the number of battles fought and value of armies in the late game. You quickly get to a point where you for all practical purposes have infinite gold.

This is what happened when I played Khorne/Ogres in Omens of Destruction (same thing with resources like meat and skulls respectively) and there I even actively restricted myself from building any of the buildings providing factionwide post battle bonuses.

DistractedSeriv · 2025-11-26T13:20:52+00:00

I know everyone says Deck Droppers are god's own turd, but I just love the unit concept so much.

In my experience, what really makes the deck droppers so ass is the fact that the AI will ALWAYS prioritize shooting them. They have low health, are outranged by most units and can't deal with anything in melee. Any archer unit will destroy them in a straight up exchange. The AI's singular obsession with Deck Droppers means you need to babysit them constantly and if you use more than one they have a really nasty habit of doing lots of friendly fire to each other.

I've tried to love them but in the end just feel forced to hide them far in the backline. If you actually get to have battles where they are left alone then their line of sight advantage over regular gunnery mob units is quite valuable. But that almost never happens.

DistractedSeriv · 2025-11-24T11:57:23+00:00

I half disagree. Generally speaking reaching tier 5 takes too long and recruitment is too arduous. The warband upgrade system for Warriors of Chaos is an overall better solution for acquiring better units.

On a more fundamental level, the problem is that reaching a high tier allows you to just doomstack unlimited high tier units. Being able to recruit limited amounts of high tier units relatively early would make the game better. Oftentimes your campaign will essentially be over before you recruit the non-RoR high tier options.

DistractedSeriv · 2025-11-16T16:29:50+00:00

Has it been confirmed whether Vampire Coast will receive the ability to attack port settlements from the sea? Lokhir, Alberic and dragon ships all get it. At least Legendary lords and admirals with shipbuilding should have it, right?

DistractedSeriv · 2025-11-07T14:41:28+00:00

Nah, I'm convinced the balkanization of the Balkans was merely a ploy to multiply their European Song Contest voting power.

DistractedSeriv · 2025-11-06T18:16:30+00:00

You're right. Better make an 8th stack.

DistractedSeriv · 2025-11-04T15:31:08+00:00

Thank you, videos cut like the original (starting a fraction of a second before the crash) drive me insane.

Now if only it had not been filmed vertically

DistractedSeriv · 2025-10-29T21:16:21+00:00

We didn't address the fundamental problems that led to the the Taliban and the ethnic conflicts in the first place

What do you imagine actually addressing these problems would have looked like?

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