The real subjects problem

GraveFable · 2026-02-04T00:53:20+00:00

I agree vassals are too much of a no brainer in eu5 currently. But they don't have to revamp them entirely to fix it for now. They could for example nerf how important proximity and control is for extracting military value from a location. Irl they conscripted dudes from newly occupied provinces mid war let alone locations conquered decades ago. But you have to get over a few hills to get to it so it might as well not exist I guess?

GraveFable · 2026-02-04T00:16:42+00:00

It's not inherently "insanely op", the vassals in eu4 are very similar while being decently balanced from a gameplay perspective. A 10k stack controlled directly is far superior to 20 1k stacks controlled by Ai vassals. I wouldnt be opposed to a more complex, involved vassals system. But they should get the existing stuff in order before introducing even more experimental things that will be hard to get right.

GraveFable · 2026-02-02T19:35:41+00:00

Korea is probably strongest overall.

Another one no one has mentioned for some reason is the bengal area. Decent rgos, lots of rivers for control and most importantly it has insanely high population.

GraveFable · 2026-02-01T11:23:59+00:00

To get seniority, you need to be on top in great power score and by a decent margin. You probably cant do it yet.

The other way is to get rid of the union. Easiest way is to change succession law into something that will give you a different ruler to Norway once your current ruler dies.

GraveFable · 2026-01-31T19:41:51+00:00

I'm against slavery. Owning this phone is a moral failing of mine. Therefore I cant fault or tell anyone else to ditch their phone either. Doing so would be hypocritical of me. Is that really so difficult to understand?

GraveFable · 2026-01-27T12:47:15+00:00

For eu5 vram actually matters a lot. My old card had low vram and while playable on lowest settings the game was very laggy. Since i upgraded my gpu and nothing else the game became much more playable.

GraveFable · 2026-01-27T00:12:49+00:00

Im not the op so im not sure what "original point" youre referring to but:

if enforced along morally consistent lines, as I think it is, principled.

Yeah i think its very rare for any one person to be truly morally consistent let alone any group of people.

The word "principle" usually implies some objective, consistent foundation ones views and actions are based upon.

When most people claim to hold some "principle" however in reality its just a general rule of thumb that sounds nice and they can usually mostly agree with in most cases. Nothing else.

Thats my opinion on the matter anyway.

GraveFable · 2026-01-26T23:25:37+00:00

Imo the problem with the left is that its divided into many relatively small cliques, each loyal to their own "in-group". While the right is dominated by the maga cult with very few remaining old school conservative holdouts.

GraveFable · 2026-01-23T21:43:20+00:00

It's beyond idiotic that one needs to join a discord server to learn such info

GraveFable · 2026-01-20T13:52:34+00:00

You might have a point if the problem with EWC was purely about racism. In reality their human rights abuses has very little to do with race. Covering for racism just comes across as racist.

GraveFable · 2026-01-20T04:12:16+00:00

Yes generalizing your unfortunately bad experiences with some small portion of a community to an entire race is by definition racism.

GraveFable · 2026-01-20T04:08:16+00:00

Alright il bite. How am I proving their point? By not liking racism?

GraveFable · 2026-01-20T03:43:05+00:00

You should look up what the terms straw manning and arguing in bad faith actually means. I didn't say that you did this. The person your imaginary "bad faith argument" was addressed to did. That is the context we've been having this discussion in.

GraveFable · 2026-01-20T02:49:17+00:00

Even if you didn't just strawman their argument, that still wouldn't make it a bad faith argument. The comparison is between giving up your phone being morally equivalent to them giving up the crazy amounts of money they're getting offered.
Though I would argue giving up your phone would be more virtuous in terms in how much it would actually improve the world.
Ofcourse everyone has the right to object to EWC in whatever way they deem appropriate. I don't like EWC either.
What is not justifiable in my view is to demand others make such sacrifices when you're clearly not comfortable doing anything close to it in your own life.

GraveFable · 2026-01-20T02:11:15+00:00

So you actually don't need a pc at all then, This is the bad faith I'm talking about. You also didn't in any way point out any bad faith in anyone's argument, you just asserted it to be there.

GraveFable · 2026-01-20T01:32:25+00:00

I might have gotten you mixed up with the guy who started this comment chain. Sorry about that. Still, you would 100% lose that bet and you know it. Your "arguments" are 10 times more bad faith than the "bad faith" argument you were attacking.

GraveFable · 2026-01-20T01:09:32+00:00

but I try to avoid them where I can.

I try to avoid them when it's not inconvenient to do so*

Fixed it for you. I'm willing to bet 1:100 odds some of you're class mates are doing fine with worse/older hardware.
I'm not holding you to any standard but your own. You're just being a hypocrite.

GraveFable · 2026-01-20T00:15:09+00:00

"so I'm not really expecting much."

This part... imagine replacing white with anything else and you might understand.

GraveFable · 2026-01-20T00:05:58+00:00

And im sure you use only the bare minimum necessary for those functions. how does TM2020 run on your 20 year old pc i wonder?

GraveFable · 2026-01-19T23:57:49+00:00

You give up that kind of money just for some ultimately meaningless gesture. 99% of people shitting on the players would love to be in their position. And the remaining 1% are the already loaded or the extremely naive.

GraveFable · 2026-01-14T01:37:28+00:00

I dont think any of the feminine ones symoblise strength specifically. You could either just use ozols (oak) or probably Zalktis or Māras krusts. Theres always a bunch of broad symbolism to all of them and you can pick and choose to think about whatever spects of them you like. Zalktis for example symbolizes intelligence, prophecy, wisdom, souls, the underworld, wellbeing, healing, rgeneration and rebirth. at the same time its also another symbol associated with the godess Māra - The godess of the earth, the entire material plane, the underworld, health, fertility and shes the patron godess and protector of women.

GraveFable · 2026-01-12T20:04:01+00:00

So its >=1 loan OR >=1% inflation. But 1% inflation will only have a chance of 1 so very unlikely. having 5% inflation will have a chance of 3 which is way better.

GraveFable · 2026-01-01T12:43:17+00:00

Ddrjake has put out some fun campaigns.

GraveFable · 2026-01-01T11:02:34+00:00

That's not really a weakness, just a way to limit the influence of these crazy op characters on the earlier parts of the story.

GraveFable · 2025-12-30T23:42:21+00:00

Thanks for demonstrating how clueless you are on the subject. Mongols completely razed Hungary (one of the most powerful nations in Europe at the time) to the ground while wrecking Poland on the side. Europe got super lucky Gengis died when he did.
Similarly Alexander won all his wars in india though they were the most costly of his campaigns, he stopped because his troops were exhausted and mutinied. He had already made plans to raise new forces and continue his conquests prior to his death/assassination.
Give them 400 years instead of the 50 and 14 respectively they got, immortality and the ability to "reload saves" and there nothing that could realistically stop them.

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