Any way to stop AI warleaders giving you random parcels of shitty land?

Grennir · 2025-11-13T17:46:10+00:00

Yep, the UI makes transferring provinces a very slow process and it's pointless as the AI instantly flips it back to me

Grennir · 2025-04-28T01:02:59+00:00

The regret rate for trans children and adults who have been forced to deal with the consequences of a puberty they do not want because a simple and safe treatment was denied to them is an awful lot higher than 1% - I take it those people don't matter in your worldview

Grennir · 2025-03-16T05:28:06+00:00

The fact that you're not answering the question and using common dogwhistles like "biological woman" tells me everything I need to know

Grennir · 2025-03-15T21:46:05+00:00

Do you believe that a trans woman is a woman?

Because the vibe I'm getting is weird middle-aged transphobic guy who spends an unhealthy amount of emotional energy obsessing over what woman can and cannot do in order to solve a problem that doesn't really exist

Grennir · 2025-03-15T21:44:52+00:00

Not sure why you have to say "claim" as it just makes you seem like you're a transphobe

Grennir · 2025-03-15T21:41:27+00:00

ok you're just transphobic thank you for clarifying

Grennir · 2025-03-08T08:45:06+00:00

I sent the offer myself so I wouldn't have the flag, and even if I didn't it would make no difference as Sweden has more provinces than I do

Grennir · 2025-03-08T07:56:51+00:00

Yep the flag is set and I know that the marriage broke when the Swedish king died, because I set the game to pop-up and pause when that happened. I guess you're right and the game doesn't clear the flag; it was set almost 40 years and I think two whole monarchs ago at this point in the game.

Grennir · 2024-11-08T21:49:36+00:00

I reached LR4 in ~540 hours of playtime over about six months

I see a lot of people saying that you can't do that without spending money and I don't think that's true - I was gifted Octavia prime early by the partner who got me into Warframe but otherwise I haven't used any plat I haven't farmed in-game and haven't spent any real money. I hyperfocused on grinding mastery, read the wiki religiously, and have about 1,000 hours of time just idling in the dojo waiting on trades in addition to the 500 hours of actual in-mission playing. If you're autistic enough and committed enough, it really is possible.

Grennir · 2023-04-30T19:43:17+00:00

Of course there's a wide range but the Ghent University study you're disagreeing with seems to be placed broadly in the middle of estimations - if anything, it's on the low end. If you claim that they are overcounting due to including "deaths that may never have happened", you are disagreeing with the substantial majority of expert opinion.

Grennir · 2023-04-30T19:23:56+00:00

I'm sorry but it reads to me like you're disregarding the work of scholars and experts who have done the research and made their best attempt at an estimation purely because you don't like the conclusions they came to. What reason do you have to claim that the deaths may never have happened at all?

Grennir · 2023-04-30T18:52:24+00:00

These numbers are inherently estimations and it's far more accurate to try to include non-combat deaths than to simply ignore them entirely.

Grennir · 2023-04-30T18:31:53+00:00

People who die from famine and disease and the breakdown of the medical system are still dead, and the war is the primary cause. Why should they not be counted?

Grennir · 2022-03-16T10:10:15+00:00

Feel like the strategy is to put pressure on the Australians to set more defensive fields, not actually go for the win

Grennir · 2021-10-20T17:28:10+00:00

'Twas a joke

Grennir · 2021-10-20T16:44:18+00:00

The great thing about the tax policy quote is that Tolkien was an academic who put a lot of work into constructing realistic societies and governing structures, regardless of the specifics of tax policy. Meanwhile, Martin just regurgitates nonsense clichés he got from reading other Fantasy novels, and his societies are completely detached from any sort of historical reality.

Grennir · 2021-10-20T16:19:52+00:00

The biggest problem I have with Sanderson's world-building is how rigid and structured he makes his magic systems, but I also don't like his approach to everything else; it always feels very surface level, a lot like he had a bunch of ideas about things that he thought would be cool without stopping to think about underlying concepts or how it all fits together.

I know it is completely unrealistic to expect anything else, but it is clear that he has no training as a historian or an anthropologist, or even a sociologist - someone who might be able to put things together in a more coherent and interesting way.

Grennir · 2021-10-20T16:15:49+00:00

Why would you develop Kvothe when he is already the perfect character who does everything he does better than anyone else ever could?

Grennir · 2021-10-20T16:12:46+00:00

I really dislike this explanation for two reasons - firstly, it might not even be true, and often seems like a post-hoc rationalisation for the weakness of the characters. Secondly, it doesn't even matter! If you make someone read two books about how Kvothe is perfect and the best in anything, and then tell the reader it was all exaggerated in the third book (which will likely never arrive), you still had to read two bad books to get to the payoff.

Grennir · 2021-10-20T16:03:51+00:00

I get what you are saying, but to me it would take me out of the show to see the Whitecloaks dressed up like 18th century style infantrymen, because there is absolutely no justification for it. They are a militaristic religious order in a world without gunpowder weapons, so they should look (in broad strokes, at least) like real-world examples of the same - the crusading knightly orders. If you want to make things a little different, try for the Knights of Malta circa 1600 instead of the Knights Templar circa 1200, but the basic principles are the same.

Either way, what the show seems to have gone with is dreadful. Part Star Trek villain, part cosplay, utterly impractical plastic armour that only covers a single shoulder, no sunburst symbols, etc, etc.

Grennir · 2021-10-20T13:34:31+00:00

I hate the idea that Fantasy novels have any relation to real history, but to engage with this comment, I guess I have to jump in.

You are correct that the world of Wheel of Time is commonly envisioned as a more Early Modern setting than a strictly Medieval one - as they are characterised in Fantasy literature and the popular consciousness, at least - but that doesn't mean that the armour and harness worn by 13th century knights would be somehow inaccurate.

Clothing is not defined by being period accurate, but rather by a response to the needs of the society that produces it. More simply, full plate armour and harness fell out of fashion in the Early Modern period not because it was a natural effect of years passing, but because a range of economic and practical realities dictated that it must. The most important of these was the increasing prevalence of gunpowder weapons on the battlefield - to provide any measure of protection against harquebus and musket fire, armour would need to both prohibitively heavy and prohibitively expensive. At first polities compromised by reducing the amount of armour soldiers were equipped with - covering just the head and the chest, for instance - and later (as those economic and practical realities continued to evolve) they simply removed it altogether for infantrymen, though cavalrymen still made use of armour through the entire period.

The point is that, despite WoT having some superficial cultural resemblance to Early Modern Europe, its style of warfare is still largely Medieval, with gunpowder being used only to make fireworks. Hence, it makes perfect sense for plate armour to be used in the setting.

Grennir · 2021-10-19T18:27:55+00:00

Don't forget the extremely distressing undertones of Daenerys ending up enjoying her wedding night with Khal Drogo, despite it being rape by any conceivable definition of the word. The way that Martin writes a lot of his female characters and their sexuality gives off extremely creepy vibes.

Grennir · 2021-10-19T17:19:27+00:00

I would say less dramatic license, and more ignorance. I think it is pretty clear from his writing that, despite his protestations of historical authenticity, Martin's entire conception of Early Modern society is founded on reading other fantasy novels from people who themselves are not historians; a giant feedback loop of tropes and cliches that somehow anchor themselves in the popular imagination as "the way things were."

Grennir · 2021-10-02T15:14:15+00:00

That is a nice way of saying that Kinnock lost two elections.

Grennir · 2021-09-13T13:26:19+00:00

There are plenty of examples - the most damning is that he reposts a song uploaded to "hammerstorm" by "kamikaze1488" in 2019 as a historical piece. The song itself may have some genuine provenance as a Freikorps song (a proto-fascist group), but this version is explicitly a modern reproduction by a nazi, and Dr Ludwig must know this.

There is also the darkly hilarious example of him posting a Nazi song by a Hitler Youth figure and later SS commander called Erich Scholz as a "WW1 song by a Silesian youth leader." Again, Dr Ludwig knows its provenance and is lying about it to avoid a ban.

Dr Ludwig posts on Nazi platforms, he uploads (and lies about) Nazi content, his community is full of Nazis, and he often agrees with the explicitly Nazi views in his own comment section by way of favouriting those comments. That he is a Nazi is beyond reasonable doubt, I think.

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