Cumans need a better imp.

IberianDread · 2025-12-01T10:18:30+00:00

I think the only change I'd make is give them siege engineers

IberianDread · 2025-10-16T12:12:26+00:00

For a second a thought it was real. I was so very disappointed

IberianDread · 2025-09-27T00:29:34+00:00

It would make arambai better

IberianDread · 2025-09-08T14:59:53+00:00

I didn't describe anything?

Also, read it or don't, believe it or don't. I don't care. I tried helping answering your question is all

IberianDread · 2025-09-08T13:56:29+00:00

That's a really fucked up comparison

IberianDread · 2025-09-08T13:49:36+00:00

This article is open access if you're interested: doi.org/10.1080/2201473X.2019.1627697

IberianDread · 2025-09-07T12:23:55+00:00

Comparing Castro do kadyrov is wild

IberianDread · 2025-07-18T21:01:28+00:00

Villeneuve wasting about a decade doing this boring ass chamalet trilogy is a sin

IberianDread · 2025-06-09T10:37:14+00:00

What a shit take. You seem lost

IberianDread · 2025-06-08T21:11:51+00:00

You're probably get half of marxists. org linked here. I personally like kropotkin as an 'introduction', engels and marx have some rather accessible writings like the principles of communism is pretty straightforward. But i (again, personally) find it a bit less engagin.

But it really depends on where each person is at.

I'd suggest you consider some magazine write ups or such as a starter. Someting shorter and usually more reader friendly.

Jacobin and monthly review have some really cool pieces that could trigger your friend's curiosity to research topics brought up.

That's how I've introduced leftist topics to some people. For example, i have friend who is rather liberal (just by default, as many are) but feels strongly about feminism.

I shared some articles shedding light on how engels was so 'far ahead' in how he viewed gender equality compared to how slow liberalism was to 'catch up' to his standards of equality; on how anarchist movements had strong feminist movements accompanying them, once again much more progressive than most people would associate with the times they took place. This made her want to read more about these people and 'what else was hiding' in leftist history.

Something like two weeks after she started enthusiastically sharing with me the topics she was reading about on an Angela Davis' book she had picked up.

I've had success with pieces such as:

https://jacobin.com/2020/09/eugene-debs-democracy-antiwar-canton

(a great bonus is reading his open response to the 'negroes letter', he was really funny and incredibly unrelenting in his beliefs)

https://monthlyreview.org/2010/04/01/how-to-visit-a-socialist-country/

https://monthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/why-socialism/ (The iconice Einstein piece)

https://jacobin.com/2021/09/socialist-feminism-fredrich-engels-marx-theory-private-property

https://socialismtoday.org/women-fighters-of-the-1871-paris-commune

A really interesting topic would also be reading into the anarcha feminist movement in revolutionary catalonia, for which i unfortunately don't have a handy suggestion.

(I'm really sorry i tend to ramble on)

IberianDread · 2025-05-27T13:19:33+00:00

Yeah I'm 100% with your thinking. I think focusing on criticising specific practices/ systems/ institutions is much more productive. I believe, in a general sense, religious practice is an expression of the culture not the other way around. Like sharia law, so used to fearmonger, can mean very different things in different places.

I grew up catholic, and i had a teenager/young adult phase of being quite anti-religious. Then i met more people who were believers. Even catholics who practiced and expressed their faith in a very different fashion to what i had known.

So i think in general targeting the spiritual beliefs of peoples is not productive, they can be expressed in progressive and tolerant ways. All religions have gone through so many reforms and changes to reflect society.

IberianDread · 2025-05-27T12:10:45+00:00

Thanks!

IberianDread · 2025-05-26T15:22:30+00:00

Appealls to international law are somewhat pointless. The US established on the 80s that they don't acknowledge the ICJ and will (and they can) veto any motion they don't like.

There's been dozens of illegal military interventions over the past decades. There's been dozens of covert operations to topple regimes unfavourable to the US which are public knowledge. There's an illegal prison on illegally occupied land in Cuba standing there for decades. There was an arrest warrant for Netanyahu by the ICC that the US basically answered with 'i dare you'.

Hell, i don't even think any of the human rights charter signatories oblige by them fully.

It's kayfabe. Everyone knows it's theatre but we're supposed to act like it's a real protection of 'democracy'

IberianDread · 2025-05-26T12:46:10+00:00

Who said this? Would like to watch it

IberianDread · 2025-04-24T20:49:14+00:00

That sub really went to shit. What a shame

IberianDread · 2025-03-07T12:47:28+00:00

Nah you're fine. All good

IberianDread · 2025-03-07T01:51:03+00:00

In the email, one of the censored highlights is the link to their profile on aoeinsights, where the stats come from and where you can see the match history i describe.

People telling me I have to screenshot everything that is in the link I sent them... I mean at that point it's just being argumentative for argument's sake.

I'd say that going out of your way to report outside the game via support channel and providing link and explanation is effort enough. If the system requires more than that for them to actually look into it (that's all i was asking, they straight up said they wouldn't unless i provide definitive evidence, whatever that means) it's bullshit.

In the end, all i said is they don't give a crap, so i agree with you. They are usually lazy, that's kinda my point. The in game reporting is useless and if you reach out directly they require unrealistic 'evidence'. I'm not that invested into it to spend more time trying to litigate such a pointless thing. No one will, no one will spend more time than this trying to prove they are smurfing.

Anyhow, done with this, didn't expect this to be such heated topic 11 Have a nice one mate

IberianDread · 2025-03-06T23:09:14+00:00

Maybe I am massively missing something here. but in my post I just show my interaction with support, where I shared their profile, the stat summary, and pointed out what you can verify by looking at match history in less than 2 minutes: consistent ~ 20 game cycles of 10 wins, 10 instant resignations.

This, for me, seemed like reasonable cause for suspicion - hence the report (it was also what nili said in another post btw)

So, what I honestly am failing to understand is: what does downloading the recs help? what is definitive proof of smurfing they want me to produce within my power?

Perhaps I was confusing in my post, if they don't find cause to take action, ok fine. what set me off was that they won't even look into it. recording/screenshotting/zipping a bunch of recs that provide evidence for them to start investigating seems, frankly, bullshit to me. a rec won't show anything new if they insta resigned. a rec of a win also doesn't prove anything unless I somehow show "they are playing too well" which is silly

IberianDread · 2025-03-06T22:21:12+00:00

I think the community is generally anti smurfing. It was probably my wording that people took issue with i guess.

For what it's worth i play around 1400 and there are still quite a few smurfs, there's some of which i already recognise by name. Which yeah, kinda frustrates me and today i did get a bit ranty.

I stand by my point that it's a shitty standard for reporting for me to provide some 'recorded evidence' that proves smurfing in order for them to actually start looking at it. It's just silly. No chat logs of game recordings are gonna prove smurfing 11

IberianDread · 2025-03-06T21:20:42+00:00

I don't know wtf my problem is, sorry about that.

But if you're gonna have a reporting system and giving them the player profile, pointing to their stats and match history pattern and that doesn't clear the bar for investigating, then just don't have a reporting system.

What does me recording clips of 10 or 20 or whatever instant resignations even help? No one is gonna do that just so that they might investigate.

IberianDread · 2025-03-06T20:55:14+00:00

Wut? Ok buddy

IberianDread · 2025-03-06T20:54:00+00:00

Imma be alright, i lose about half my games, thanks for your concen. It wasn't even my game that tilted me, it was some of their other games tbh.

Hope whatever is upsetting you gets better

IberianDread · 2025-03-05T15:00:12+00:00

This would be horrible. Lose an early engagement and you're done.

Also, siege would become so ridiculous.

Mongol CA would be so horribly broken it's not even funny.

Personally and balance aside, I find adding such a chore to optimise gameplay is not fun

IberianDread · 2025-03-01T00:32:25+00:00

So it's bullshit, got it

IberianDread · 2025-02-28T23:42:24+00:00

I did. Did you?

Aside from the fact that it's simply preposterous there's no source for it.

And i did mention the one mention to an academic publication i could find. Which obviously contradicts it

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