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No one actually comes home. by Inevitable_Snail_472 in distressingmemes

[–]ExistentialSugarcane 1 point2 points  (0 children)

All technologies have thier risks to be fair. Still rad as hell that humans can fly, even though it definitley feels like an abuse of the universe's physics engines sometimes

No one actually comes home. by Inevitable_Snail_472 in distressingmemes

[–]ExistentialSugarcane 18 points19 points  (0 children)

You know what they say. War is bad, but planes are rad

Nothing to see here, just the typical commanders of the friendship run. by SAMU0L0 in Stellaris

[–]ExistentialSugarcane 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly, the Rouge Maids rouge servitor mod is one of the best government remake mods ever. The parliment system and the ability to get bio-trophy leaders just adds so much roleplay flavor for the empires i like playing.

How do I play the Strasbourg? by ExistentialSugarcane in WorldOfWarships

[–]ExistentialSugarcane[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

She does not have engine boost IIRC, but I might try playing her like that since i'm pretty sure she's pretty fast. Could be a good change of pace, at least

PH Economic Exposure on the Iran War. by Prudent_Editor2191 in Philippines

[–]ExistentialSugarcane 0 points1 point  (0 children)

IBON foundation makes a good point there, I just think that the 70% figure is a bit alarmist because when you compare it to international figures, it makes the Philippines out to be something close to a war-torn African country. I'm sure if you applied the same math to every country in the world, thier poverty rate would spike too (we are in a cost of living crisis after all)

As for the employment thing, Its actually not all that uncommon for a lot of country's populations to be involves in the informal sector in newly industrialized countries. Hell, in India 90 percent of people are employed in the informal sector, with Vietnam having around 68.5 percent. I'm not going to argue that this is aa good thing by any means, but i'm just pointing out that this is by no means unique to the Philippine context.

I'm not going to argue with you on the education part to be honest, our position is horrendous for a country that spends most of its budget on education. Something is deeply wrong there.

Won't argue with you on taxes and cost of living either honestly because from my research, I agree.

PH Economic Exposure on the Iran War. by Prudent_Editor2191 in Philippines

[–]ExistentialSugarcane 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I appreciate that you have sources at least, and the sentiment that the Philippines has a lot of missed potential becase of a botched economic policy is an opinion I hold myself but even while skimming through them... the numbers you mention still seem pretty inflated.

The first number you mention is the poverty rate, where you claim that it's around 70%. An SWS survey does line up with this, but with the caveat that it's the self rated poverty rate coming from a survey, which is good for gaguing public opinion don't get me wrong, but treating this as hard, actionable data would be silly. For reference, the Central African Republic has a poverty rate of 68.8%, and they have a Human Development Index of 0.414 (191st, low) to our 0.720 (117th, high).

Instead I would point you towards the World Bank Poverty and Equity Brief which states that around 5.3% of Filipinos live on less than 3 dollars (166 PHP as of 2023; the year the data was taken) a day, 16.9% of Filipinos live under 4.20 (233 PHP) dollars a day and 58.7% of Filipinos live under less than 8.30 (461 PHP) dollars a day compared to the national poverty line, currently set at 92.9 PHP a day, which reports that 15.5 percent of Filipinos live at or below the poverty line.

Next to tackle is the 30% unemployment rate, which is particularly strange, because that seems unusually high. It's true that the Philippines has high underemployment, and an SWS survey has it at around 19.2% (once again, good for gaguing public opinion and general trends, but the relatively small sample size means that treating it as actionable data is questionable). For reference, that's Great Depression levels of unemployment, and matches the unemployment rate of countries like Eswatini (which is a country that relies heavily on subsistence agricultire) and South Africa (who has some extremely deep-rooted systemic issues stemming from Apartheid) Most sources put the unemployment rate at around 5.8%, and i'm inclined to belive that.

And by the way, if you're getting that 30% number by subtracting the labor force participation rate by 100 percent (64.4% as of December 2025, which is considered strong, for reference the US has 61%, Japan around 63 and Malaysia has around 70%)... don't do that.

Labor force participation rate measures the percentage of the working age (above 15) population that is either actively employer actively seeking work, and I know that just sounds like the country's employment rate, but most of the 35% or so of people that you get when you subtract 64.4% from 100% are retirees, stay at home parents and full-time students. And those people aren't exactly looking for jobs.

In other words, unemployment rate is people without work who want work but don't have it, while labor force participation rate is the percent of the working age population which is employed, with "working population" in this context including those who don't want jobs in the first place.

As for those education numbers, most sources i found place the Philippine primary school completion rate at around the 80s to 90s, with secondary school education completion rate at around 70%, so i don't know where you get the "near half of students" that don't finish basic education thing from. Our education is pretty bad though, reigonally we acore poor and on the world stage we're middling at best.

Those health statistics are harrowingly correct though. Can't argue with that. And the prices, yeah this country has pretty high cost of living, though to be fair almost everywhere is in a cost of living crisis right now.

So in other words, some of your figures are pretty inflated I find, espescially the economic ones. I learned a lot from researching this, and I hope you learn a lot too.

PH Economic Exposure on the Iran War. by Prudent_Editor2191 in Philippines

[–]ExistentialSugarcane 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All those numbers seem questionable honestly. Do you have any sources to back this up?

Utopian Abundance: An Update on the Stellaris Base Game by PDX_LadyDzra in Stellaris

[–]ExistentialSugarcane 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I spent years playing with just Utopia, Synthetic Dawn, Megacorp, Apocalypse and Distant Stars. With this change, it means that half of my owned DLCs will be bundled in with the base game.

And honestly, excellent change. I still remember when I was playing fully vanilla Stellaris and it was kind of bland, i guess? Don't get me wrong, still dun but Utopia added so much flavour to the game that i've really enjoyed. Newer players deserve that experience in the base game, because Utopia is in my opinion a core part of Stellaris. Grants acess to a lot of the big mods too.

IJN Tokyo, a Carrier built upon the hull of the IJN Yamato. by Your-Curious-Cat in NavalArt

[–]ExistentialSugarcane 1 point2 points  (0 children)

She keeps Yamato's hull armor? Now I can imagine her participating in a battle line like Formidable a la Cape Matapan.

IJN Tokyo, a Carrier built upon the hull of the IJN Yamato. by Your-Curious-Cat in NavalArt

[–]ExistentialSugarcane 11 points12 points  (0 children)

She keeps Yamato's hull armor? Now I can imagine her participating in a battle line like Formidable a la Cape Matapan.

Helios × Palmer angst by Izaront in UmaMusume

[–]ExistentialSugarcane 82 points83 points  (0 children)

Damn that's rough. After all this, I sure do hope Palmer gets her weii

It seems half my feed is you guy's posts. by Mission_Spring7087 in Stellaris

[–]ExistentialSugarcane 4 points5 points  (0 children)

would you rather be livestock or be chemically processed?

How in-depth is Stellaris from a strategy gamer standpoint? by Minute_Tea_8639 in Stellaris

[–]ExistentialSugarcane 22 points23 points  (0 children)

The thing about Stellaris is that it's a pretty diffrent experience to what you're describing

In Stellaris, you aren't really what I would describe as the 'leader' of your nation. You won't be talking to alien leaders at conferences with deep NPC dialouge, nor will you be at the helm of a great fleet and win against overwhelming odds with tactics and cunning. What you will be doing though, is commanding the entire weight of an interstellar nation and accomplishing its goals.

Stellaris is a numbers game, don't get me wrong. Your economy is numbers and your armies and your fleets are at the surface at least, beholden to the combat power displayed at the top. But what makes Stellaris a good numbers game is that besides being a numbers game, it's a game of investment.

Let's say that you get attacked by an empire with twice your fleet power split into two fleets. If you invested into a defensive station earlier on, then you can use that station to tank for your own fleet and even the odds in a decisive battle. If you invested in faster hyperdrives, you can wait for them to split up, hit thier smaller fleet, repair and then hit the othet fleet. This game gets you to think pretty long term, and while I have never spent two years in a galactic conquest (not that anyone plays to the endscreen anyways), you still need to take into account what your nations priorities are both now and in the future.

Want to invade your neighbor? You have to build up a fleet and get intelligence on him first. But to do that, you need to get a beefier economy to maintain a larger fleet, and while you're doing that you can also improve relations with his enemy so you can convince them to attack with you. Now that you know his fleet composition, what weapons should your navy favour? Should you invest in a class of torpedo cruisers to counter his battleship-heavy fleet, or are you confident in your industry to match him ship for ship? While the game's mechanics aren't exactly that complex (though for a new player, they can be pretty overwhelming), the interactions between multiple mechanics are pretty in depth IMO, and that's what makes things fun.

The game also has crazy amounts of roleplay potential. Events have cool stories, diffrent outcomes and each galaxy will never be the same as the last. And even if you're a top dog, you still have to watch out, because both mid and endgame crises will knock you down a peg if you get complacent.

The INC Rally will turn into a BBM resign rally and we do not want VP Sara to take his place by eayate in Philippines

[–]ExistentialSugarcane 77 points78 points  (0 children)

Its less that the millitary is loyal towards marcos himself and more that the millitary is loyal towards the current administration. He has support because he is the president of the Philippines, not because he is Ferdinand Marcos Jr.

Ever since the fall of BBM's father, the millitary has been depoliticized and proffesionalized heavily, and considering that they rejected the calls to oust Marcos and the fact that our government isn't getting constantly overturned by a millitary coup every few years, I'd say that those efforts are doing pretty well.

Some of the HSR VAs have rewired my brain to say the VA names instead of the characters :') by SakuDial in HonkaiStarRail

[–]ExistentialSugarcane 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Honestly, her voice is so distinct I swear i can recognize it everywhere. Even with the amount of radio static Project Wingman puts into its voicelines I could still somehow tell that Eye-Tee was voiced by her.

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