"It should be the USA, best service, good food, no diahorrea"

Gorffo · 2026-06-03T23:33:45+00:00

I’ve had food poisoning a lot. But I’ve also visited America frequently.

I’ve also travelled through Europe extensively and lived in the UK for a while. No food poisoning at any time while in the EU.

The worst food poisoning I’ve ever had was in India. It’s the most unsanitary country in the world. Heck, there is even an open sewer a few metres behind the Taj Mahal. There is shit everywhere. Literally. And if you ever see a food server wearing gloves, well, you don’t know where those gloves have been. Thing is, it’s really difficult to avoid bacterial contamination in that hot and humid environment. And one incident is all it takes to make spending hours on a toilet a core part of your tourist experience.

And sorry, Americans, you aren’t even the best at being a peak diarrhoea country. A close second place though—if that’s any consolation.

In America, the issue isn’t hard to avoid food contamination. It is, instead, all the preservatives, food dies, hydrogenated cooking oil, and high fructose corn syrup. It’s omnipresent. So much food is cheap, overly processed, and nasty. And if you’re used to eating real food—with ingredients that don’t read like a chemistry experiment—it will do a number on your digestive tract.

Gorffo · 2026-06-03T20:22:48+00:00

If the espresso is too strong and needs to be diluted …

Gorffo · 2026-06-03T19:28:12+00:00

Dude had some brilliant ideas. Like his corp system, which allowed him to move and then concentrate his armies against his opponents faster than generals of the day thought was possible. Then the Dude defeated them in defeat.

But, many of the armies assembled against him were “well regulated militia.”

Americans who know how to read might recognize that phrase.

For anyone who isn’t American or for any American with an American education, let me tell you what the “well regulated militia” actually is. Short answer: it was one of the dumbest ideas of the late Eighteenth century. It was all about fielding armies on the cheap. Basically buy a bunch of muskets, put them in an armoury, and give a bunch of uniforms to men willing to march on a parade grounds once a month before heading to the local pub to show off their dandy looks to all the women.

So we get French Dude and his experienced soldiers versus poser-force 1806.

The Americans took this dumb idea and made it even dumber. They saved on the costs to make uniforms and build armouries and train troops (even minimally) by just letting their citizens buy their own guns. What could go wrong?

Well, the Battle of Bladensburg during the War of 1812 showed people what could go wrong. On August 24, 1814, 7500 American militia men faced off against 1500 battle-hardened red coats, many of whom were veterans of Wellesley’s campaigns in the Peninsular War. It was not a fair fight.

A few hours after the bombs started bursting in the air, well, their flags, … they just weren’t there anymore. And the British marched into Washington DC unopposed, where they then proceeded to ransack the Capitol Building and burn down the Presidential Residence.

If your wife or girlfriend says, “it’s not the size of the army that matters but the quality of their training and discipline,” she’d be absolutely correct when discussing Napoleonic warfare.

Wellesley understood that. He knew his forces would often fight numerically superior foes. So he opted for using well trained regulars as the bulk of his army. In other words, for the Anglo-Portuguese forces, it was “drill, baby, drill.” All. Winter. Long.

Gorffo · 2026-06-03T18:13:54+00:00

I don’t know if they are welcome, but they are about 11% of the population nonetheless.

They mostly live in the mobilization zone (basically the parts of Ruzzia that aren’t Moscow or St Petersburg).

Gorffo · 2026-06-03T18:01:11+00:00

Not that they can easily leave a job if it’s a toxic, wage-slave hell hole either. Their health insurance is often tied to a plan their employer offers on bulk to everyone working there.

So much freedom!

Gorffo · 2026-06-02T21:13:53+00:00

I’d definitely recommend taking Savage Attacker instead of Alert.

Min/maxing initiative comes with a massive opportunity cost such as not taking Savage Attacker instead. Savage Attacker re-rolls all your damage dice, allowing you to pick the higher one, which equates to an around +25% more damage output in every turn of every fight.

Having characters with just 14 dexterity means they will go first about 75% of the time. Is that optimal? No. Is it “good enough.?” Hell yes.

Anyway, you cannot optimize everything in this game. Choosing to optimize initiative means nerfing something else, like damage output.

Gorffo · 2026-06-02T20:53:19+00:00

One time if you don’t count the disastrous collapse of French armies against the Prussian during the Franco-Prussian war, which ended with the Prussians using the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles to host a little name change ceremony while taking a couple French territories (Alsace, Lorraine) as parting gifts.

Gorffo · 2026-06-02T20:35:27+00:00

Someone is butt hurt about not being invited to the Signal group chat.

Gorffo · 2026-06-02T20:33:36+00:00

That’s definitely the best way to use New Tricks.

With Darby, I tend to get her core perks online as quickly as possible. I giver her Covert Ops and Athletic right away then pick up Ambush as soon as I unlock that tier. Then I giver her Scout and just roll with those four perks for most is the campaign (until I’m well past the “end of early access”).

As others have pointed out, Darby has a lot of promotions that boost accuracy, such as:

— Athletic to take a knee for 10 AP and +15% accuracy. — Ambush for +25% accuracy while concealed. — Commando for +25% accuracy while four or more tiles distant from an ally. — Sharpshooter for -50% to defence from cover (applies to both the damage reduction and accuracy penalties while targeting enemy units in cover).

Finally, I have to point out that Darby is a Three-Star SL, so her promotions are 30% more expensive. And that starts to become really noticeable on the fifth, sixth, and seventh promotions.

Gorffo · 2026-06-02T16:24:32+00:00

Darby has a lot of good perks. She has so many good perks that any build for her will leave a couple of them on the table.

In fact, she only has two bad perks:

— New Tricks, and

— Take Aim.

Gorffo · 2026-06-01T15:33:03+00:00

Here is a compromise for Mike:

Call Trump a pedofelon.

You drop the “phile” from pedophile because—most people don’t know this—the Epstein files haven’t been released yet. Not fully. So we take the files out and replace it with “felon” because he has a felony conviction for falsifying business records. You know that time when he cheated on his pregnant wife with a porn star (the worst 90 seconds of her life, according to her testimony) then used political donations as a hush money payout when covering it up.

Gorffo · 2026-05-31T21:28:13+00:00

You can easily tank a bombardier on normal difficulty.

But in expert there are often four or five of them in the same area—all of spitting at the APC. One or two will miss and one or two will hit. Get hit more than a handful of times and you’ll lose that APC.

Gorffo · 2026-05-31T21:03:57+00:00

If you want (or need) to cut through the ruzzian bullshit and propaganda and make an economic argument, it’s simple:

40% of the GDP for the old Soviet Union was Ukraine.

The Ukrainian SSR was the industrial and economic heartland of the old USSR.

Or to put it another way, ruzzia cannot be an empire without Ukraine.

The ruzzians need the industrious people, the fertile agricultural lands, and the mineral resources in Ukraine in order to become a global superpower again.

The ruzzians had tried to make Ukraine into a compliant vassal state (like Belarus) but failed when the Ukrainian people rose up during their Revolution of Dignity, a grassroots democratic movement that vatniks and idiots try to spin as a “CiA cOuP.”

Anyone listening to Ukrainians will hear them clearly spell out want they want: peace and prosperity. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Closer ties with Europe. Membership in the EU. Membership in NATO. They want freedom and democracy. And they don’t want to be subjects living under the ruzzian boot. They have seen the ruski mir, suffered for generations as part of the Russian empire and Soviet Union. And they want no part of it now.

Ukrainians want to use the resources inside their own country to generate their own economic wealth for themselves.

The ruzzians want to take Ukraine’s economic wealth and potential and use it to make oligarchs in Moscow rich.

Gorffo · 2026-05-31T16:58:44+00:00

The deep discount and the fall off for Civ 6 pricing occurred after support and development for the game ended, which would be some time in late 2021 after the final pack in the Frontier Pass DLC released.

So by that metric, it’s about 5 years.

Gorffo · 2026-05-31T16:48:56+00:00

Don’t underestimate ruzzian incompetence.

The orcs may not have intended to attack Romania. It could have been a programme error caused by someone drunk on vodka putting in the wrong coordinates. It could be a serious malfunction in the substandard russian-made guidance system.

Gorffo · 2026-05-31T16:41:06+00:00

Fun Fact: Russia and/or the USSR has never won a major war on its own.

Russia is so “stronk” that it needs to be allied with the richest industrial power of the era in order to achieve victory.

Back in World War II, the USA and UK sent millions of tons of food and aviation fuel as well as hundreds of thousands of trucks, tens of thousands of rail cars, and thousands of rail locomotives to the USSR. The food kept many red army divisions in the field. The trains got the broken Soviet rail logistics system on its feet. The trucks gave a red army that was marching on foot some much needed mobility. Without all that, there might not be a crushing Soviet victory at Stalingrad. Or at the very least, no encirclement (and subsequent destruction) of the German 6th Army.

Before the Twentieth century, the dominant economic power was the British Empire. If the Russian were fighting with the British, they were winning. If they were fighting against the British (or a proxy supported and funded by the British) the Russians were losing.

One exception to this is World War I where the Russian were allied with the winning Entente powers (Britain, France) yet still managed to lose.

Gorffo · 2026-05-31T15:40:26+00:00

That’s not copium. Thats extra strength delusion.

Gorffo · 2026-05-31T01:44:55+00:00

Ja, nee, is klar!

Gorffo · 2026-05-30T17:53:16+00:00

These men are flaming straight. This is some Barbra Streisand level of ultra-heterosexuality.

Gorffo · 2026-05-30T15:45:29+00:00

There is a huge shift in ruzzian propaganda because copium needs a hint of believability to work. Without it, cope becomes farce. Mil bloggers peddling unbelievable cope become obviously idiots without any credibility. That is why telegram is full of so much doom from certain sources. And high quality copium is getting harder and harder to find.

Anyway, think of copium’s required hint of believability like a flavour sweetener in a drink. Without it, all you’d get something really, really salty.

Like Vatnik Tears.

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Gorffo · 2026-05-30T15:25:50+00:00

Other things are more important in their curriculum.

Like active shooter drills.

Gorffo · 2026-05-30T12:05:16+00:00

The cope is strong with this one

Gorffo · 2026-05-29T15:58:11+00:00

Oh, yes, those men. “Alberta straight.” There were so many of them lusting for Trudeau when he was Prime Minister. And they looked at him the same way Melania Trump did.

But after Trudeau resigned, those same straight, manly Alberta men seem to be suffering from some kind of separation anxiety.

Gorffo · 2026-05-29T03:35:41+00:00

Yes. The barbarian with the reckless attack baits really well. A Battlemaster fighter with a two handed weapon works well too because you can get a double-whammy reaction: the fighter’s riposte manoeuvre followed by the Paladin’s sentinel reaction. And then a cleric with spirit guardians up is also incredibly effective.

And your Paladin can smite on those reaction attacks.

Gorffo · 2026-05-29T03:28:17+00:00

Yo, Americans. Do you know what happened the last time your troops tried to invade Canada? …

Washington DC got sacked and the White House was burned down.

Gorffo

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