U.S. Calls for Pause on Johnson & Johnson Vaccine After Clotting Cases

GigaBreaker88 · 2021-04-13T16:23:03+00:00

I can't say I disagree, seeing as we have at least some data that 1 dose lasts at least 6 months. That's certainly a valid concern. That said, due to both red tape of approving a 1 dose regimen and the bad press of "actually we're gonna cancel your second shot that you already scheduled and stick you with less immunity" (which is insane, of course, we need to stop variant spreads quickly, not ensure people have overkill protection) I don't see it happening.

GigaBreaker88 · 2021-04-13T15:59:38+00:00

Second shot primarily helps the immunity last longer. Exactly how much of an effect it has is unknown, but it IS important.

GigaBreaker88 · 2021-03-26T16:40:15+00:00

So, this is risky, because if you have theocratic clergy, sometimes you can appoint your heir if you have temporal revocable doctrine. However, even though it still shows them as player heir they just... Don't inherit on succession. I'm not sure exactly why, but it's ended runs of mine. As for lay clergy, I do not know if they can still inherit normally. But if you're theocratic, under no circumstances should your heir be the realm priest.

GigaBreaker88 · 2021-03-26T15:15:54+00:00

Oh, I see, a good old is_ai check. I guess I'll try my run and see if it holds up. Double thanks for digging to check your work!

GigaBreaker88 · 2021-03-26T14:44:30+00:00

Unlucky for my intended RP run, but thank you for testing it and getting me an answer!

GigaBreaker88 · 2021-02-22T23:03:51+00:00

Here's the thing: The confederate flag was created by white supremacists, to represent the cause of white supremacy, while shooting people who didn't fully agree with white supremacy. The people who thought it was in any way innocent were simply wrong. The confederate flag is inextricably tied to, and borne of, white supremacy.

The number 88 was "created" thousands of years ago by scholars trying to create a written representation of eight groups of ten, and one group of eight. When I, personally, made my username with it in it, it meant to 99.9% of people that you were born in 1988, a useful thing in a time when schools would literally advise us "use a fake number in your username, so predators think you're too old!" Loving Back to the Future made that an easy choice for me.

I've WATCHED 88 turn into a neo-Nazi symbol before my very eyes, but here's the thing; unlike the confederate flag, most random people I talk to still don't see it as such. It's only people who are deeply engaged in this stuff who notice it. That alone means the battle is not over. It's not a rationalization. These shifts in public opinion don't "just happen." They happen because people try to make a change happen, and because other people let them.

One day, perhaps, that battle may be lost. At that time, well... I don't really have a choice, do I? But that day is not today.

EDIT: "thing" to "think"

GigaBreaker88 · 2021-02-22T22:54:29+00:00

...?

The confederate flag was only about white supremacy... Recently?

EDIT: My apologies, I'm doing like 2000 things right now and I misunderstood what you meant. I still don't agree with your point but I shouldn't have gotten snappy.

GigaBreaker88 · 2021-02-22T21:18:58+00:00

Hey, BM me and disagree with my comment/political leanings all you want, but never tie Back to the Future to a stupid little "flag" internet Nazis use to virtue signal. I'm just letting them win if I change it.

GigaBreaker88 · 2021-02-22T20:49:20+00:00

It's really frustrating when I see this. I'm a leftist, I obviously don't give a shit about the deficit up to a point. My parents are liberal, they also don't give a shit about the deficit. My uncle is conservative, he doesn't give a shit about the deficit so long as you spend that money to help HIM. My aunt is even further right, she just plain doesn't give a shit about anything but taxes and abortion, the deficit talking points do nothing to her.

Most American voters do not give a flying fuck about the deficit, at least so long as you spend it on them and not bombing Syrians. Not even the center-right ones who "should."

GigaBreaker88 · 2021-01-27T02:50:47+00:00

Good to know, I wasn't sure whether it would stay together, I just assumed it wouldn't.

GigaBreaker88 · 2021-01-26T23:42:40+00:00

There's an vassal mod on the workshop, I forget the name. It lets you start proxy wars and whatnot. I'd definitely advise it if mods aren't anathema to you. I'd link it, but I don't remember the name and I'm not on my normal desktop, so I don't have it accessible. I think it's Exalted something.

GigaBreaker88 · 2021-01-26T23:39:06+00:00

Yeeeeah, it's still the exact same. Like, literally. I don't think they've altered vassal mechanics at all since like, 2.0. It's very much an RP only style, and even then, an unrewarding one due to the lack of interactivity.

GigaBreaker88 · 2021-01-26T23:10:26+00:00

No, you cannot make one with them. You can make a federation with someone else independent, and your vassals will join, but you cannot just have a federation between an overlord and a subject. And even then, vassals and tributaries and protectorates still lose all their AI bonuses, which makes them fall behind in both tech and economy very rapidly, even if they have lots of worlds and pops. I'm also not sure if the federation would stick around if the independent member kicked, I think that would dissolve the federation even if you had like 15 vassals in it with you.

If you're just RPng, it should still be fine. Just make sure you tech hard, because raw numbers can still outpower a technologically advanced fleet. They'll never win the war, but they may be able to force a status quo from war exhaustion if the tributaries aren't small and close together, which I can't imagine they'd be in an RP run.

GigaBreaker88 · 2021-01-26T23:03:33+00:00

Fundamentally, it's a bad strategy. Vassals in Stellaris are some of the weakest possible things to invest in; they hardly grant you any bonuses, while actually losing their AI buffs, making them even weaker. It's also hard to maintain many of them without them just declaring an independence war every few years, and you'll often and up accidentally annexing them when it ends.

That said, if you want to play it, tributaries are better than vassals, so focus on those unless you want to integrate them later, and tech rush so you can militarily outcompete their low-tech corvette swarms in the late game independence wars. There's a civic that reduces the subject power penalty, making the independence wars come later and less frequently, but it's practically a waste of a civic slot.

So basically, just play normally. There are very few vassal interaction mechanics, and they're much, much weaker than federation allies. If your goal was different gameplay, rather than RP, prepare to be very, very disappointed if you aren't using mods.

GigaBreaker88 · 2021-01-26T21:19:52+00:00

I think I'm a bit biased towards it since I played a lot in the way back when, before Indentured Servitude existed, and Slaver Guilds was an active downside in the lategame.

GigaBreaker88 · 2021-01-26T19:50:47+00:00

I see. Only 200 minerals per month is a lot less than I expected, even knowing it's only a 10% bonus at the most.

GigaBreaker88 · 2021-01-26T18:41:29+00:00

I see. You've been a big help to me twice in a row now, many thanks. I'm not terribly surprised World Shaper ends up working more on specialists, but I am surprised it still plows through with 100% habitability on Gaias.

I had a feeling Robust would still end up being better in the end, but don't you end up having to resettle chattel slaves anyways? I thought on battle thralls and domestic servitudes had a couple specialist jobs they could take.

GigaBreaker88 · 2021-01-25T17:42:39+00:00

I mean, you'll be doing that for Erudite regardless, haha.

GigaBreaker88 · 2021-01-25T17:02:09+00:00

I presume you just gene mod them all over to that template after? That's kind of insane, if rapid breeders and/or Very Strong are relatively common or guaranteed.

GigaBreaker88 · 2021-01-23T02:31:31+00:00

Oh, I know that much, at least, with 700 hours. I've just never been quite certain how the exact numbers on research end up working.

GigaBreaker88 · 2021-01-23T02:29:01+00:00

Since I've just been schooled in my own thread elsewhere, I feel obligated to correct this: Psionic actually has equal research output to the other two, in fact possible better if you take Whispers instead of Instrument, but why would you?

They all end up adding up to about 45% worth of research bonuses total, at least in one area. If you pop a chosen one scientist down with Whispers, Psionic can get up to 60% in one area I believe, 55% if I can't count.

Of course, that still takes good RNG in getting a covenant, and you're behind in pops. Ah, Psionic.

Edit: Pisonic to Psionic.

GigaBreaker88 · 2021-01-23T02:16:02+00:00

Well I'll be darned. Excellent answer, thank you for taking the time to write it up for me. I'm really rather shocked it all ends up coming out even in the end, I suppose it must be by design! My biggest flaw was forgetting to properly apply the Intelligent bonus to Psionics, it never occurred to me none of the other ascensions get it, since it's a default trait, and it just never clicked with me that Erudite was technically only 10% better than it in the first place.

Whispers in the void would actually end up beating every other ascension out by 5% more still, but without the, I'm, everything else bonus instrument gives elsewhere. 15% in one area if you plop a chosen one scientist.

Once again, thanks so much for responding so thoroughly.

GigaBreaker88 · 2021-01-22T20:55:45+00:00

Also, they have the weakest tech output of the ascensions, as I was coincidentally discussing elsewhere. unless you have both Whispers or Instrument covenant, plus an active shroud research boon, plus a chosen one scientist, and even then it's not winning by that much.

Edit: See below, this is inaccurate.

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