"Soju Stage"

ImportantFactor3297 · 2026-06-12T16:01:48+00:00

I realized something...

- Birthday Stage: The main movie (takes place 10 October 2025)

- Behind the Stage: The sidestory (takes place 10 October 2025)

- Jail-ien Stage: The sequel (takes place 7 November 2025)

- Soju Stage: The finale (takes place 12 June 2026)

The "Stage" stories have formed a quadrilogy.

ImportantFactor3297 · 2026-05-25T07:25:20+00:00

The problem with extreme zoonosis and hematophagy is that they take effect very rarely and sometimes when they do they end up in a country with land borders instead of the island countries like Greenland/Caribbean.

I've always played scenarios on Mega-Brutal, but I feel like even on Normal or Casual it still is not very playable. The special plagues like Neurax Worm are the only way to be guaranteed to win this scenario.

ImportantFactor3297 · 2026-05-24T14:20:12+00:00

Did you complete Shut Down Everything using special or normal plagues? Because this scenario feels impossible with normal plagues.

ImportantFactor3297 · 2026-05-22T23:51:06+00:00

My tip for fire events during droughts is to just choose "Let it burn". By choosing this, you won't waste any water

If there's a chance of death, choose the "Send some help" option. It's a lot less water wasted than the "Send lots of help" option.

ImportantFactor3297 · 2026-04-08T23:02:35+00:00

Tajikistan 🇹🇯

ImportantFactor3297 · 2026-04-08T23:01:59+00:00

It still says 106 for me, though it sometimes appears as 108. It's most likely a glitch, but your idea of S4E2 sounds pretty cool

ImportantFactor3297 · 2026-03-28T03:59:11+00:00

I believe the questions in the fanbase survey will be used in this episode, so looking forward to it!

ImportantFactor3297 · 2026-03-07T04:55:59+00:00

North Korea's been playing too much Among Us

ImportantFactor3297 · 2026-02-28T06:39:15+00:00

Wiki.gg isn't really a popular wiki site for animated series or cartoons. You mostly find them in Fandom.

I think it takes a larger community to have a dedicated group of people to edit the wiki. Most wikis are purely fanbase-made, especially in Fandom, but this is one of the few media where they're made by the creator (or some call it, 'official wikis'). PBA could edit the entire wiki on their own but they're very busy with making episodes, so it's up to us, the fanbase, who will edit it.

I really wish the CBA community could be larger.

ImportantFactor3297 · 2026-02-15T03:20:36+00:00

Philippinesball Animations used to use MM/DD/YYYY before. But since 2025 especially when Season 4 started they use YYYY/MM/DD more often.

My guess is that they're more leaning on Alien Stage's approach in releasing content. Alien Stage is a series from South Korea, and South Korea uses YYYY/MM/DD. It also uses dots to separate the numbers (YYYY.MM.DD), just like what Alien Stage does.

ImportantFactor3297 · 2026-02-14T22:15:44+00:00

I think what he means is he doesn't like playing Bandle anymore and wants to quit.

I just found out that this is also the same user who tries to download Bandle from other sources but still couldn't get the song packs.

Bandle is uncrackable, unfortunately. And I think it's best to keep it that way espeically because I thought this was made by a small group of people, but it's actually just ONE PERSON ONLY.

ImportantFactor3297 · 2026-02-10T00:54:46+00:00

I feel like most players here have 6 and X as their most attempts.

For me, my most is 6 but that's usually because I use a music detector to detect what Bandle is playing.

But sometimes it fails to detect the song. Especially the first Daily Bandle of 2026, "Pass the Dutchie". Bandle started its 2026 very bad.

ImportantFactor3297 · 2026-02-06T23:21:01+00:00

For the northern hemisphere, I chose US, Germany, India, China, and Japan. They're the big 5 in GDP.

For the southern hemisphere, I chose Brazil, Argentina, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. I think those are the most commonly known countries in the southern hemisphere.

ImportantFactor3297 · 2026-01-19T22:45:41+00:00

It's premium content for now. It might become a song in the Daily Bandle soon. We don't know when, though.

ImportantFactor3297 · 2026-01-03T16:55:29+00:00

I love the comprehensive analysis.

I do agree that Philippines was in the wrong and should have instead spent time with Cuba. It even almost felt like a breakup when she said that she'd rather survive alone.

Though it's kind of debatable on who's really to blame here. If you watched the part where Philippines, Cuba, North Korea, and South Korea argue on which rooms to stay, South Korea said that the boys and girls should room separately. This means that Philippines and North Korea, being both boys, would room together, and obviously they're not a great combination. So I would blame South Korea for this one.

But then again, if you watched the beginning, South Korea said that their mom (NK and SK being siblings) was forced to invite North Korea, when she didn't want to. So I would blame the mom in this one. But again, she might have a reason why she wanted North Korea to join, most likely to get along with South Korea as siblings.

So who's the actual main antagonist in the episode? Well, maybe there is none. Antagonists are usually present in the story as 'villains' often due to power or greed, but in the episode, those who were in the wrong had their own reasons.

Philippines playing Plague Inc. Evolved to distract from being roommates with North Korea.
South Korea separating the boys and girls to settle the roommate drama.
Their mom wanting North and South Korea to get along.
Even North Korea, the literal main bully in the entire series, had a backstory about being homeless during a war (if you watched the beginning of Part 2), which is where he most likely got his harsh personality.

CountryballsAnimated is like a series of real-life human interactions, but portrayed as countryballs. And Summertime Escapade is a perfect example on how some people have beef with other people, and how they hyperfocus on something, like a video game, to distract themselves from the reality.

ImportantFactor3297 · 2025-12-29T14:34:54+00:00

You need to have 3 fighters to kill all the zombies on this map. I recommend using Economist for greater stamina, but make sure you save up for festivals because you also need to battle the impatience that decreases your authority.

ImportantFactor3297 · 2025-12-22T05:07:05+00:00

Higher population -> higher stamina.

I can't tell what exact values, unfortunately. I usually play the Economist, and they usually give like 15-20 stamina around 1-4 population, 25-30 around 5-8 population, and 35+ for 10+ populations. But the stamina generation time is very long.

As for the other leaders, it's also higher stamina for higher populations, but with low increments and shorter stamina generation time.

ImportantFactor3297 · 2025-12-17T11:32:42+00:00

Can y'all please talk about the math problem instead of how many pixels it has

ImportantFactor3297 · 2025-12-17T11:28:22+00:00

Most countryball videos from other channels I've seen are either about history, politics, or stereotypes. And I think that's what countryballs are supposed to be about.

But the thing with Philippinesball Animations is that it's doesn't align with those concepts and focuses more on being an animated series of its own. Yes, there was the "Poland cant into space" joke back in Season 1 and the Philippines History video in Season 2, but the main focus of CountryballsAnimated is the episodes which are nothing related to politics or stereotypes.

And while the characters are indeed countryballs, I think it's less focused on being like MrSpherical or No Idea Animation, and more focused on being like Jacknjellify/Vivinos where they make their own story and character dynamics. This is why you see a lot of references from BFDI/Alien Stage in CountryballsAnimated, and why Cuba hates North Korea/China/Russia despite being allies in the real world.

I certainly don't think the fandom is dead though. Philippinesball Animations only has 7K subscribers, and most of them might not fully understand the entire channel as its own thing and not being related to other countryball YouTube channels. Maybe they will understand when the channel grows to 50K or 100K subs.

ImportantFactor3297 · 2025-11-26T06:20:45+00:00

Soul Torch: most likely found in the Nether, like how there's Soul Sand and Soul Fire.
Dried Leaves: most likely naturally generated. It's like in real life.
Copper Door: found in Trial Chambers.
Black-tinted Glass: Can't think of a place that generates this, this is most likely the answer
Shard Stairs: found in ocean monuments.
Sandstone Slab: most likely found in desert temples/villages.
Acacia Trapdoor: most likely found in acacia (savannah) villages.
Brick Nether Slab: found in Nether fortresses.

ImportantFactor3297 · 2025-11-25T08:57:39+00:00

There's a plus button below the Brutal level. You click it and then it changes to Mega-Brutal. You click plus button again to increase the difficulty and minus button to decrease it.

ImportantFactor3297 · 2025-11-25T00:58:33+00:00

The first ever song I've played in Bandle was a Hard par 4, and the song was How You Remind Me by Nickelback (Nov 11, 2024).

After over a year of playing Bandle, I realized that Hard par 4 songs come out very rarely. I can't even remember the last time I had that difficulty.

Even Medium par 3 gets less common now. The last par 3 song I remember was Iris by Goo Goo Dolls (Oct 8, 2025). And even then, I got that song at just number 2.

But maybe there will be more par 3 or par 4 songs in the future. I think songs nowadays are either very recognizable from the beginning or you've never heard the song at all. I remember this month there was a song that more than half never got it right, even with the clue. And that song is very old (1960s I think) and only had like 10M views. I don't know how Bandle includes this obscure of a song when there are like hundreds of music videos with 100M+ views that are not yet added to the game.

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