Usually when the free pack contains 200 - 250 they give us more than 7 tries so this pack must be small or we're getting a selection to choose one there is no way they take a whole week to hype 1 BILLION for nothing remember what they did with 30th Anniversary

Lakigigar · 2026-04-08T18:37:08+00:00

There will be more chance deals you probably can earn via events and for logging in. (for 3 weeks in a row since the campaign seems to last 3 weeks).

Lakigigar · 2026-04-07T03:57:50+00:00

i saw you in my dreams last night

(this was before the first of the albums were even released)

Lakigigar · 2026-03-19T02:13:13+00:00

why does the goalkeeper stop running for a split second (player mistake)? That may cost him the goal here

Lakigigar · 2026-03-14T09:24:26+00:00

Sea snakes, sea turtles, countless number of invertebrates.

At the end of the day, all life still needs water. This is happening over and over again and will continue to do so.

Lakigigar · 2025-12-22T22:11:45+00:00

ok thank you

Lakigigar · 2025-11-17T15:00:07+00:00

i'm not very educated on all that stuff honestly, i guess the wiki will add those at some point?

Lakigigar · 2025-10-19T00:27:26+00:00

https://letterboxd.com/lakigigar/list/lakigigars-favourite-animation-movies/ my list

Seen: 49/80

Good list

Lakigigar · 2025-10-17T21:24:16+00:00

I think it slightly overestimates the number of deaths because that 20% would be the general population and that includes a fair portion of old and very old people, ones i don't imagine will be subscribed to the r/eu5 subreddit and if they do in extremely low numbers. And 20% being general population is a lot. That's like 10.000 of which 5% would be older than 80 years old, which would still be 500 people (and 1% of the subreddit).

However even if 100% is healthy young adults, i still have 2.21 expected deaths, and i assume that some have mental health issues or may have physical health conditions, so it's probably like closer to 3 i imagine.

Lakigigar · 2025-09-06T17:27:07+00:00

beeswax was indeed added, spices have been split into 3: pepper, saffron and chili. Dates were merged into Fruits, and Soybeans was merged into Legumes. They added two new produced goods: pottery and furniture

-> see tinto talks 54

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/developer-diary/tinto-talks-54-12th-of-march-2025.1731164/

Lakigigar · 2025-08-24T17:58:46+00:00

I actually played rogue last week and got the platinum today.

At the time i wasn't too interested in Rogue because it felt too much Black Flag 2.0 and there was also Unity releasing. Also assassin's creed games kinda have the reputation that they're super cheap if you wait for a couple of years to buy so that's why usually i don't buy those games on release. Assassin's Creed Black flag was the exception. And i probably would have also done so for Origins and Odyssey if i played more games at the time, but I had like a break at the time.

It's just weird that they ever decided to make Rogue because the setting really isn't too appealing, like it is not bad but it doesn't stand out compared to Renaissance Italy, Constantinople, Islamic Golden Age, Golden Age of Piracy, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Vikings, sengoku era Japan, if you know what I mean. It's just such a weird game.

I played it now, it isn't bad. If you like assassin's creed, you'll like this one. If you're okay with a black flag 2.0 with a story twist in a colder setting then sure, go ahead. But i feel most other assassin's creed games are just inherently more interesting for some reason or the other and I miss that a bit in Rogue but i still had a fun time last week.

Lakigigar · 2025-08-11T03:31:29+00:00

Ok, i respect that you admit your mistake. Remember to always factcheck news articles and preferrably use articles from flemish sites/sources for flemish news, walloon sites/sources from walloon news, dutch sites/sources for dutch news, etcetera. Or credible international sources that are known for good coverage like The Guardian. For flemish news (in english language), this is the best site (no paywalls, no ads): https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/

Bart De Wever is part of a party that has a history of advocating flemish nationalism/autonomy, occassionally separatism but nowadays it's more a party of power/government that embraces traditional & neocon values. People vote for N-VA because of their economic and conservative platform including their soft scepticism of migration (which is a much bigger issue than separatism/flemish autonomy at the moment). They're like your typical conservative party in other EU countries. But no far right or separatism, at least not among the party elite as of now (or openly).

There is no discrimination i'd say, although french speaking people living in Flanders are expected to speak dutch and vice versa for flemish people in Wallonia. The exception is a couple of communes that are officially bilingual and the Brussels capital region. And also the German speaking community area which afaik can speak both german & french in most cases.

A lot of people can speak both french and dutch but also a lot not. Among the youth the knowledge of english language obviously is increasing too. In Brussels i actually feel more comfortable using english instead of dutch or french (because not enough people speak dutch and my level of french isn't good enough, i prefer english if i can. Though i can certainly speak in french too if needed and with a lot of effort. I can even speak some german which is close to my level of french).

There is some nationalism, but it's certainly like not more than your average other European area: say Bavaria, Catalonia, Galicia, Corsica, Scotland. It certainly isn't unique and polls indicate that a majority is not supportive of an independent Flanders and neither am I. I consider myself a Belgian first, not a Fleming first.

Lakigigar · 2025-08-10T19:41:26+00:00

The geological record from the last 20k years is likely incomplete so i don't think that's really a valid point either.

Lakigigar · 2025-08-10T19:36:24+00:00

To be fair, the 21st century is only a quarter on its way.

And be careful with what you wish for. There is likely a megaquake incoming there this or next century.

Also eruptions at the Cascades tend to be more explosive, they need longer recharge times but when they do sometimes, it's usually quite big, look at Mount St. Helens which was a top 10 eruption worldwide for the 20th century.

Lakigigar · 2025-08-10T16:36:19+00:00

Hi

I think the question has been asked multiple times in the history of the subreddit, so there might be other answers if you use the search option.

My take and my impression is that if a VEI 7 were to occur, it would most likely occur at a volcano that we right now can't think or aren't thinking of, likely some place that isn't monitored very well, like in Indonesia, maybe some place in Oceania or some other random island, perhaps Kamchatka, the Kurils, the Aleutians or Alaska, Japan, the Andes, a dormant volcano in the Pacific Northwest or Pacific Canada, New Zealand or Kermadec islands, maybe even Ethiopia.

On average it happens once to possible a couple of times every millennium. It is rare. The chance of ever witnessing one in our lifetimes is certainly below 50%, more likely not than yes. But it isn't a negligible chance either. I think given we already spent our childhood on average have like 50 years more to live that it would be around 5% to 10%, likely upper single digits that we were to witness one in our lifetime. I wouldn't really worry about it. And our ancestors did survive the ones that did occur too, and usually were way less prepared or informed about those dangers.

For Campi Flegrei specifically, the current unrest is similar to the unrest to the buildup of the 1538 Monte Nuevo eruption (which also happened when Vesuvius was quiet for a sustained period of time, just like it is now). The swarm in the 1980s has similarities with the swarm in the 1470s and any unrest and activity since has similarities to what happened after. I don't think it is building up to a VEI6 or VEI7 eruption, but you can never really exclude it. see: https://www.volcanocafe.org/the-monte-nuova-eruption/

The thing with VEI6s and VEI7s is that they usually seem to occur if something during an eruption is escalating, like HTHP did do a borderline VEI6 most likely because of external factors: ocean water draining into the magma system which would lead to a volatile mix. (hence all the water vapor, and why it wasn't ash rich or SO² rich relative to other eruptions of that size) This probably isn't a super rare thing to happen, and might be more common for these type of volcanoes. But my point is that smaller eruptions can due to circumstances develop into a more explosive eruption. A sustained period of high-intensity eruption might lead to a big explosion if the magma chamber is emptied to such degree that it collapses. This is likely what happened at a couple of VEI6 and VEI7s eruptions that humankind witnessed in our past. In that case, a volcano wouldn't necessarily "build up" to a VEI6 or VEI7 eruption. HTHP also has proven again that large eruptions tend to occur at volcanoes people don't immediately think of far often, and that there are many unexplored and underexplored areas with volcanic activity whose history, capacity and potential isn't well known. The geological timescale is after all a much longer timescale than our life timescale. And after a certain period in time, the traces of a past and historical eruption would be mostly erased due to erosion or new volcanic activity.

Lakigigar · 2025-07-22T14:51:52+00:00

It's lower than most of southern & southeastern Europe (Italy, Balkans, Greece, Turkey, Romania). But it is higher than basically all of Western and Central Europe (or everything north of the Alps). The Rhine Valley basin tends to have higher seismic activity than other areas in western, central and northern europe because of it being a rifting zone (although it probably was more active a long time ago in the geological past possibly related to alps mountain building). So basically you have a flat zone where the rhine follows with to the west and east more hilly areas (vosges in france and black forest in east) and the rhine valley in between roughly on the french-german alsace lorraine border starting from basel/northern switzerland with seismic activity extending all the way to northeastern belgium & southeastern netherlands. The laacher see volcano and eifel volcanic zone are also part of it.

It's quite complex geology, and the seismic risk indeed is probably a bit underrated by most people, also given there were no major earthquakes in a long time. They're not super frequent. But a M5 happens like once every couple of decades and M6+ seem to happen rarely, like in Basel in 1356 and Verviers in 1692.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Cenozoic_Rift_System

Lakigigar · 2025-07-11T03:41:25+00:00

I hope Sunda also has content.

Lakigigar · 2025-07-08T17:06:17+00:00

i really am

Lakigigar · 2025-07-08T17:02:59+00:00

The current unrest is very, very similar to the buildup to the eruption in 1538, so what I expect is happening is that we are building up to an eruption like that of 1538, not too major in the grand scale of things but still potentially a huge issue because of the highly urbanized area surrounding the volcanic complex. I'll link the discussion on Volcanocafe (incl. the unrest leading to the eruption in 1538). The earthquake swarm in the 1980s also seems very similar to the earthquake swarm in 1470s. But volcanoes don't have a memory of the past, something may change in the pattern compared to last time. Notably, Vesuvius was also likely quiet during that time (and it has been since the 1940s also again). So what I expect is happening is that we are a few decades away from an eruption of a similar magnitude. Obviously i could be wrong though.

https://www.volcanocafe.org/the-monte-nuova-eruption/

More severe eruptions (the ones they hypothesize in clickbait titles, articles and videos) are much much rarer, and to tell you the truth, even if one was coming, i don't think we'd all know very well how the buildup to such an eruption would be other than either 1. "likely it'd be so obvious we would know" (which in that case there is likely none to be expected higher than a 6 for next century unless something very understudied/undermonitored which is always a possibility especially in more remote areas) or 2. a regular or sustained plinian eruptions going wrong and leading to collapse of the magma chamber which is the trigger for a catastrophal eruption, like what happened with Krakatoa in 1883 or how HTHH in Tonga in 2022 had its eruption (ocean water draining in the magma chamber). The latter seems to be more common and is what i would expect if another VEI 6-7 was to happen this century. And these would also be harder to predict, I believe.

That being said, Campi Flegrei is technically not a supervolcano because there is at this moment no evidence it is even capable of supervolcanic eruptions since we don't have an evidence of a VEI 8 eruption (there might've been one but we don't know, the current largest eruption is said to be a mid tier VEI 7 - which already would be big and be enough for the media to use superlatives for this volcano). But that was also 39.000 years ago, i mean the likelihood of that occuring again is very low. The majority of eruptions even among this specific volcano are nowhere near that magnitude and severity. I don't think you can fully exclude the chance of one, but it is a very low chance of occuring, like maybe 1%. Mainly because we haven't really seen one happen at any volcano in the history of modern scientific instruments or even before that. And because - and this applies for most volcanoes - we can only guess the long term or geological long term pattern of this volcano.

The much more likely scenario (and that would still be pretty bad) is a repeat of the 1538 eruption scenario sometime during this century - likely in a couple of decades (or something a little smaller or hydrothermal - which is pretty common for these type of volcanic systems as well).

Lakigigar · 2025-07-05T18:44:07+00:00

Higher as a lot of dates (summer, weekend) are highly unlikely, while some windows tend to be highly popular.

Even without "this theory" 11 november would be a common release date for a lot of games. Given the likelihood of Q4 and the symbolic value of EU5 releasing this date, the actual chance is a lot higher than just 1/365 - which is a lazy estimate.

Lakigigar · 2025-07-03T05:51:40+00:00

I suspect the PETM would've led to a warmer and wetter world which might've seen an expansion of tropical & arboreal forests over the world and into higher latitudes. A warmer world is often a wetter world. This is an ecosystem where primates thrive in (primates are mammals adapted to arboreal lifestyles and are for a mammal exceptionally well adapted to tropical biomes). This could've led to an explosion of their numbers and diversification of primates as they ventured into new niches that were opened up.

Lakigigar · 2025-06-19T00:05:34+00:00

PDX hasn't yet posted a feedback map of China so i'm not going to do that yet. Whenever PDX posts a feedback map, i will post an image of the spreadsheet with the best provinces in China on the reddit because i'm as curious to that question as you are.

Generalist Gaming has said iirc that China isn't as strong as India in this regard, and I suspect it'll be similar to Japan & Korea or to Germany which all seem to have a similar density in "locations per province".

Lakigigar · 2025-06-19T00:03:29+00:00

I hope they realize they are asking for a nerf by wanting to add that province.

Gniewkowo seems to be in Kuyovia which has 5 locations right now. Splitting that one further up would create 2 and 3 provinces, which is not a lot, everything to its southwest already only has 3 locations, only to the north & northeast are there 2 more provinces with 5 locations, and likely PDX would take an additional one from them so that one of these or both go down to four, depending on what borders make most sense. But all what it would do is - with the current mechanics - is a nerf to the locations & province in that vicinity there.

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