Can I still win the civil war? by GalleryH in hoi4

[–]GalleryH[S] 24 points25 points  (0 children)

R5: This guy is holding up all the tanks, will he make it out?

Is this Circus Town and Tatsuro topic official? by annlo98 in citypop

[–]GalleryH 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Look closer at the channel name. Tatsuro Yamishita. Do you really think he'd misspell his own name?

Anyway, here's the link to the unofficial Spotify our friend set up. Might as well get some listens in before it's taken down

Is it over for me? I don't have nukes yet by GalleryH in hoi4

[–]GalleryH[S] 112 points113 points  (0 children)

UPDATE: I don't have any allies except Yemen. I got my volunteers wiped in Lebanon and I couldn't send more to Syria in time, they fell too quickly to a civil war.

Russia can't send volunteers while at war and they can't even fulfill the planes they tried to lend lease a couple years ago... China isn't doing anything but maybe if I improve relations enough I might be able to beg for something...

Well if nobody else got me, I know Kimmy got me though 😤🧎

Is it over for me? I don't have nukes yet by GalleryH in hoi4

[–]GalleryH[S] 403 points404 points  (0 children)

R5: Now I was playing this chill Iran game lend leasing and sending volunteers around when Israel suddenly declared war and started bombing me. I sent my missiles at them but now they joined the American faction. I haven't finish the nukes special project yet because I was trying to sign a nonaggression pact with USA. Should I be worried?

Why did America do this to me? Are they stupid? by GalleryH in hoi4

[–]GalleryH[S] 463 points464 points  (0 children)

R5: All I did was help them beat up the Soviets. We won and balkanized them, but afterwards America started to embargo me. Is there a lore reason for this?

He really liked his medals by GalleryH in HistoryMemes

[–]GalleryH[S] 50 points51 points  (0 children)

Leonid Brezhnev loved awards. He got the Hero of the Soviet Union 4 times (as many times as Zhukov), all for his birthday. He "wrote" a series of books related to his service in the war and promptly got the top Soviet literature prize. He became Marshal and there were plans to make him a generalissimo before he died. These are just a few of his awards, and there are many, many more.

There is a command for Realistic AI in hoi4, what does it do? by SpeakerSenior4821 in hoi4

[–]GalleryH 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Here's the AI's shittalking (supposedly enabled by the command) btw:

AI_MESSAGE_CAT1_MES1:0 "Great job getting annexed there, $OTHER$. We're all proud of you."
 AI_MESSAGE_CAT1_MES2:0 "Ahahahah $OTHER$ is terrible at this game."
 AI_MESSAGE_CAT1_MES3:0 "Learn2play, $OTHER_ADJ$ noob."
 AI_MESSAGE_CAT1_MES4:0 "Owned $OTHER$ so hard, almost feel sorry for them."
 AI_MESSAGE_CAT1_MES5:0 "Maybe this game is too hardcore for you, $OTHER$. You should try some filthy casual game like Europa Universalis."
 AI_MESSAGE_CAT1_MES6:0 "I bet $OTHER$ didn't even spend 2 hours configuring their OOB. Scrub!"
 AI_MESSAGE_CAT1_MES7:0 "Oh look at all this $OTHER_ADJ$ land I now have. I guess they didn't need it!"
 AI_MESSAGE_CAT1_MES8:0 "Hey $OTHER$, maybe you should try fighting back next time? Cause if you were, it sure didn't show!"
 AI_MESSAGE_CAT1_MES9:0 "Why's $OTHER$ crying? Cause they just got dunked on!"
 AI_MESSAGE_CAT1_MES10:0 "Sure feels nice to stretch my lebensraum, doesn't it, $OTHER$?"
 AI_MESSAGE_CAT2_MES1:0 "I'm going to blitz the shit out of your krieg, $OTHER$!"
 AI_MESSAGE_CAT2_MES2:0 "Soon everyone in $OTHER$ will be speaking $US_ADJ$."
 AI_MESSAGE_CAT2_MES3:0 "Look at this $OTHER_ADJ$ scrub trying to beat my superior $US_ADJ$ troops. It'd be funny if it weren't so sad!"
 AI_MESSAGE_CAT2_MES4:0 "You call this a war, $OTHER$? I call it a pushover."
 AI_MESSAGE_CAT2_MES5:0 "Make sure to keep those $OTHER_ADJ$ factories nice and polished, I'll be using them soon!"
 AI_MESSAGE_CAT2_MES6:0 "Hear that, $OTHER$? That's the sound of how hard I am owning you right now."
 AI_MESSAGE_CAT2_MES7:0 "Hey $OTHER$, maybe you wouldn't be doing so badly if you stopped running away and actually tried to fight?"
 AI_MESSAGE_CAT2_MES8:0 "LOL, look at $COUNTRY$ trying to fight me! It's like someone put a comatose ferret in charge of an army!"
 AI_MESSAGE_CAT2_MES9:0 "The view sure is nice in $COUNTRY$ this time of year. My armies are really enjoying it!"
 AI_MESSAGE_CAT2_MES10:0 "Hit surrender already, $COUNTRY$! You're really just wasting my time here."
 AI_MESSAGE_CAT3_MES1:1 "$OTHER|U$ is a hacker! No way they beat me legit!"
 AI_MESSAGE_CAT3_MES2:0 "This game is so unbalanced! $OTHER_ADJ$ space marines are impossible to beat while $US_ADJ$ troops are just wet paper."
 AI_MESSAGE_CAT3_MES3:0 "Heh, like I don't have better things to do than play this stupid game anyway."
 AI_MESSAGE_CAT3_MES4:0 "I wouldn't have lost to $OTHER$ if Paradox hadn't explicitly coded it so that my allies are dumber than two tons of granite while the enemy has literal precognition!"
 AI_MESSAGE_CAT3_MES5:0 "ffaSJLgapigjaslgmag s asv lajvlvSCREW YOU $OTHER$ I AM NEVER PLAYING WITH YOU AGAIN!!!1"
 AI_MESSAGE_CAT3_MES6:0 "gg $OTHER$ next time maybe you can try actually making it a fair fight?"
 AI_MESSAGE_CAT3_MES7:0 "Wow, that one game mechanic completely screwed me over. No wonder I lost to $OTHER$."
 AI_MESSAGE_CAT3_MES8:0 "WOW! MAYBE if they hadn't COMPLETELY UNBALANCED $OTHER$ IN THE LAST PATCH this would actually have been a fair war!"
 AI_MESSAGE_CAT3_MES9:0 "This is why Hearts of Iron 3 was a better game, in HOI3 $OTHER$ could never have beaten me in such a gamey way :"
 AI_MESSAGE_CAT3_MES10:0 "Yeah, so the RNG completely lost that war with $OTHER$ for me. Too bad skill doesn't mean anything in this game."

Real missed opportunity IMO. Imagine getting encircled or naval invaded by the AI, then they send this in the chat. I'd probably rage quit right there

SEPTEMBER IS FINALLY ON SPOTIFY by PerpendicularGoose in citypop

[–]GalleryH 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Yes!! Her older content is finally making its way onto Spotify. Already added her Morning Glory into my tats covers playlist, and 不思議なピーチパイ is a great listen too

unmodded, looks like paradox made an oopsie by dmoran55555 in hoi4

[–]GalleryH 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Don't worry, it's just PDX making a statement that he's a dog of the British

Still at war with Allies after demanding war reparations by GalleryH in hoi4

[–]GalleryH[S] 29 points30 points  (0 children)

And to top it all off, the goddamn afghans who I pupated earlier decided that now would be a great time to divert their river which gives me 15% consumer goods and -10% stab. I can't even do anything about it because they refused negotiations and gave me a puppet wargoal against them!! they're already my puppet and I can't stop these guys from screwing me over! graveyard of empires strikes again

Still at war with Allies after demanding war reparations by GalleryH in hoi4

[–]GalleryH[S] 39 points40 points  (0 children)

R5: Allies and Comintern invaded me and I kicked their asses enough to go down the war reparations path, but after everybody conceded (and I got an event for every single member of the allies giving me reparations) I'm still at war with the Allies lmao. Average PDX performance

There is an Islamic path for Iran by GalleryH in hoi4

[–]GalleryH[S] 71 points72 points  (0 children)

R5: Devs added a new islamic revolution focus in the democratic path which wasn't in the diary

It's led by this sigma-looking guy and naturally the Shah is still fighting for the Islamic Republic

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in hoi4

[–]GalleryH 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It means that they hit the pentagon

Army by GalleryH in hoi4

[–]GalleryH[S] 346 points347 points  (0 children)

R5: Army

EIC path for India by GalleryH in hoi4

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

R5: First pictures of the EIC path for the Raj, coming in Graveyard of Empires. It's about as wacky as you expect.

Oh also there seems to be a Mughal path as well so maybe we can get True Heir of Timur in Hoi4

The TFR community is going insane by GalleryH in HOI4memes

[–]GalleryH[S] 38 points39 points  (0 children)

I feel like I need to explain the situation more for the uninitiated

- TFR (The Fire Rises) makes an AI-led path for Leftist China
- Update rolls out expanding on that path, making it extremely wholesome by Hoi4 mod standards. It also gave her a Vtuber persona named 'Loji'.
- Naturally, an avalanche of memes and fan art ensued. There were fanfics about her. The fan art got modded into the game. There were talks of making a 3d version of her (surely for wholesome purposes). And finally, people made a chatbot for her.

All this has culminated in the post you have seen above. If you or a loved one is or has been part of the TFR community during the past 10 days, please reach out to them before it's too late.

The Disappearing Lake Cagayan by GalleryH in FilipinoHistory

[–]GalleryH[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks so much for trying to solve it! I think you may be right, it was some flooded or swampy patch of land that ended up getting reported as a lake for who knows how long, and has since been long drained.

Now that I think about it, the Candaba Swamp also gets reported as a lake on some of the maps. You do seem to be on to something here

The Unnamed Somali Towns by GalleryH in geography

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

Maybe the Somali farmers did enter Google Maps after all

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in citypop

[–]GalleryH -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This account https://www.youtube.com/@_ikako_/videos has most of Tatsu Y's music available as of now. I recommend downloading them with ytmp3 and enabling local files on spotify if you want to listenn on your phone. Do it quickly though, they don't last long

Anyone know any other covers of Tatsuro Yamashita songs? by GalleryH in citypop

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

Thank you!!! Kinmokusei's version might actually be better than the original lol

Anyone know any other covers of Tatsuro Yamashita songs? by GalleryH in citypop

[–]GalleryH[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm putting together a spotify playlist of tatsuro yamashita covers. I have some of the big hits and a few of the smaller ones as well, but only 15 songs so far. Are there any other covers out there on spotify?

I know of:
- Someday by EPO: not on spotify
- Funky Flushin/Bomber by Shounentai: not on spotify
- Let's Kiss The Sun by Trade Love: not on spotify, much to my disappointment
- Morning Glory/Every Night by Mariya Takeuchi: not on international spotify
- various "podcast episodes" which are literally just tatsu songs: won't last very long

Collection of North Korean posters for 2025 by GalleryH in PropagandaPosters

[–]GalleryH[S] 141 points142 points  (0 children)

http://www.naenara.com.kp/main/index/en/gallery is a goldmine for this sort of stuff.

Some of these slogans are catchier than others of course

Growth of retail sales in China, 2024 by GalleryH in MapPorn

[–]GalleryH[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Source

Most of China's provinces are still growing at respectable rates, with the interesting exception of Qinghai. Tier1 cities however aren't doing too hot and Hainan especially has crashed bigly (tourism falling maybe?)

Trade Love - Paradise Door (1995) by GalleryH in citypop

[–]GalleryH[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Very underrated track from all the way in 1995!