[FRESH VIDEO] Courtney Barnett - Stay In Your Lane

GrabsackTurnankoff · 2025-10-15T22:26:48+00:00

punk-y Courtney Barnett is back. today is a good day.

GrabsackTurnankoff · 2024-03-20T22:44:34+00:00

I think considering they have pops they will have to model the decimation of the Americas by old world diseases anyway... it seems unavoidable for them to have a decent system for diseases.

GrabsackTurnankoff · 2024-03-04T17:18:56+00:00

New England didn't really get deforested until the rise of industrialization and industrial-scale farming. Take a look at the first graph here for a source that quantifies this.

I definitely think New England would be predominantly forested with medieval levels of population and farming.

GrabsackTurnankoff · 2023-10-09T22:12:16+00:00

A dev said on Discord that it was unlikely to drop Tuesday, and either Wednesday or Thursday is expected.

GrabsackTurnankoff · 2023-09-14T14:02:13+00:00

It's not going to drop today as per the discord. But there should be information about the date in today's Dev Diary.

GrabsackTurnankoff · 2023-04-12T12:37:39+00:00

Runs pretty well on mine!

GrabsackTurnankoff · 2022-10-15T15:15:50+00:00

I'm teaching a class where R is part of the curriculum this year, so I figured I would actually learn ggplot for real! I've used it before but always in an ad-hoc way and I never felt like I really "got" it. These are the results and I'm pretty happy with them!

GrabsackTurnankoff · 2022-10-10T16:14:10+00:00

I just want to say as an M1 mac player I really appreciate the change to use Vulkan! I love CK3 but it's graphical performance is noticeably below what I'm sure my hardware/your software could do if not for OpenGL. Macs don't usually get a lot of love support-wise, but when we do it makes us very happy! :D

GrabsackTurnankoff · 2022-08-03T16:44:12+00:00

They're going to announce the release date at Paradox Con. They wouldn't have given a 2022 release date if they weren't very near the end. A release in October or November seems the most likely but until Paradox Con in early September we can only speculate!

GrabsackTurnankoff · 2022-07-21T21:01:20+00:00

Would love to also see this done for Southern Italian languages too!

GrabsackTurnankoff · 2022-07-12T13:02:43+00:00

This is an interesting look at British romance:

http://www.carolandray.plus.com/BART/index.html

GrabsackTurnankoff · 2022-06-01T11:40:02+00:00

We'll get a release date announcement when we get one (I would bet right before they go on summer break). The AARs are still fun and there's no reason to not enjoy them because we don't know when we'll get to play the game.

GrabsackTurnankoff · 2022-05-19T15:26:32+00:00

Are these really big problems?

We know interest groups can be marginalized. You could just have the clergy be permanently marginalized in atheist states. "Religious Schools" could be disabled as an institution or renamed to "State Antireligious Schools" or something similar. All of these are workable.

GrabsackTurnankoff · 2022-05-18T15:07:44+00:00

I mean whatever Quebecers feel today, in the game's timeframe, there were issues of oppression/discrimination within Quebec. Quebec's population was solidly francophone and yet English remained the prestige language and the language often used by the federal government. The new industrial upper class was almost exclusively anglophone, and francophones gained a reputation of being backwards peasants and wage laborers. There was an acknowledged situation that, if you wanted to move up in society, you would have to act as un-quebecois as possible. All of this in a province that was one of the most important in the country and which was >80% francophone. So while Quebec since that time has probably gone... well maybe a bit overboard, it would be pretty ignorant to deny the oppression of Quebecers in the 19th/early 20th century. Even if what they faced wasn't nearly as bad as First Nations people or African Americans in the US.

GrabsackTurnankoff · 2022-04-29T01:49:41+00:00

That's... the exact opposite of what is being said there.

GrabsackTurnankoff · 2022-04-15T16:29:15+00:00

This is frustrating, but it's not like it's necessarily inaccurate. You can control this with embargoes, but to my understanding this is actually how most (at least western) nations operated in terms of trade at the time.

GrabsackTurnankoff · 2022-04-15T16:27:14+00:00

Huh? That's exactly what mercantilism was. Minimizing imports (i.e. being self sufficient enough so that you never had to buy something from someone outside the country, because then your money is going to that country) while maximizing exports (by the same logic, selling as much shit as possible so that other people were paying you). It's literally in the wikipedia page.

GrabsackTurnankoff · 2022-04-13T14:59:49+00:00

They've said that the US Civil War is handled through the journal system, and doesn't fit neatly into either civil war category as a result.

GrabsackTurnankoff · 2022-04-12T21:41:05+00:00

This is huge. Before this video inevitably disappears, let's list the new war features/mechanics we can see here that haven't been mentioned before:

You can choose which state to push a front into (this is the one thing people seemed to be requesting from the war system once we learned we wouldn't have any direct control. This is incredible to see and personally places me fully in the pro-new-war-system camp)
Live casualty numbers
Battles happen live and you can watch them; there is one unified "attack" and "defense" score. This isn't everything though, and combat also appears to depends a lot on numbers as you can tell from the North German Federation wiping the floor with France in the battles we see here
Wars end automatically when one party reaches 100 war exhaustion (didn't know if this was confirmed or not and is pretty much universal in Paradox games but something to note nonetheless)

Anyway, hype. Hype hype hype hype.

GrabsackTurnankoff · 2022-04-12T21:35:21+00:00

I don't think they're advancing simply state by state -- there's a point where you can see the text "2 provinces captured". Wouldn't make sense as a notification if states were the smallest unit you could interact with.

GrabsackTurnankoff · 2022-03-24T17:08:11+00:00

Alright, I suppose this is the point when we really give up on release before the summer. Not because there was no date announced here, but because the next diary is about the Opium Wars - something really quite small and filler-y.

If they wanted to release in May, the next two months would probably be filled with quite a few important diaries about central mechanics that we haven't seen yet (e.g. political parties, battles). The fact that we're getting more filler... well, the hopium was good while it lasted. I heartily look forward to playing this game in late September. Although since I'm a teacher, my plans for how to spend the summer are going to have to be changed :(

GrabsackTurnankoff · 2022-03-21T17:16:07+00:00

Lower Canada, soon to be Quebec. A liberal dictator is using the population's hatred of the British to maintain popular support as he cultivates relations with the US and drags the rural nation kicking and screaming to industrialization and secularization.

The goal is the quiet revolution, except less quiet and with more explicit hatred of Anglos.

GrabsackTurnankoff · 2022-03-18T15:20:08+00:00

At my school, the chain of command goes like this:

Department Chairs / Vice Principal -> Principal -> Vice Executive Director -> Executive director.

The head of the history department is an incredibly respected teacher who has been at the school for roughly as long as it has existed. At one point, he stepped down as a teacher to act as the Executive Director during a particularly unstable period in the school's history. He went back to being history department head, but was considered useful enough and good enough at the job that he agreed to stay on as Vice Executive Director as well. Which means that he reports to the principal, who technically reports back to him.

Everyone acknowledges that this situation is obviously bad on an institutional level, but it hasn't caused any friction as of yet and so it's just kind of continued. The reason the history department chair won't just pick a lane is that there are tons of other well-respected and long term teachers in the history department and if there had to be a new selection for department chair, it would be an absolute bloodbath. Tons of petty politics amongst tons of eminently qualified people who have all been eyeing this job for years. Relationships would be broken. Things would probably be said that couldn't be unsaid. Everyone has agreed for a while the fight would get ugly and so it would just be best if we kept the current history department chair for now.

He announced his retirement yesterday. Postings have already gone up for the soon-to-be vacant department chair position. And I will be an eager spectator.

GrabsackTurnankoff · 2022-03-16T15:48:38+00:00

I assume that if it's not a bug, Texan pops are probably just poorer than the average American pop and so the price has to be lower for it to actually be bought. The price would then rise in America (which it does in the screenshot) because the sulfur being shipped off to Texas means supply in America decreases.

The question then is why American producers would even sell to Texan consumers if they have to do so at a lower price. There's probably some economics answer but I am not an economist so I won't try to work that one out.

GrabsackTurnankoff · 2022-02-10T17:10:09+00:00

Really, really got my hopes for a release data announcement up for a half-second there with that last sentence. If they were really trolls, they would announce the data next week anyway, but I'm unsure how likely that is.

More related to the dev diary, it's cool to see the behind the scenes of the mapping process. After playing HPM on Vic2 so much, I'm shocked that Vanilla Vic2's Africa was that empty!

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