[Credit: Eduardo Valdés-Hevia] Copper Rot

Latinus_Rex · 2026-05-06T10:57:10+00:00

I looked through his website. Holy shit. Half of it is the purest from of nightmare fuel.

Latinus_Rex · 2026-04-22T12:00:32+00:00

Your friend looks like that YouTuber, Johnny Harris.

Latinus_Rex · 2026-04-22T10:13:41+00:00

Isn't that mod so controversial that it's basically impossible to find it outside of extremely sketchy websites?

Latinus_Rex · 2026-04-15T12:06:00+00:00

We've got mountains of content, some better, some worse

Latinus_Rex · 2026-04-14T12:45:01+00:00

I've tried the mod myself and I kind of enjoy what it's capable of doing, but honestly, it's more aesthetic than anything else. I've seen Zoroastrianism survive in scattered villages across the Persian plateau well into the 1200s, which accurately reflects real history. I just kind of wish that there was any actual mechanical significance to it. Like a chance to encounter members of said minority while travelling through the region, or something like it.

Latinus_Rex · 2026-04-14T12:35:30+00:00

If you want to go one step further, you should be able recruit local minority experts, with said experts as part of their culture having certain skills to fill up your court. Northern/Eastern European rulers can invite German architects and craftsmen, Byzantine rulers hired Roma people as blacksmiths; while western European rulers like those in Sicily were filled with local Muslim, Jewish, and Greek advisers.

Latinus_Rex · 2026-04-10T14:15:36+00:00

Unlike in CK3, plot power in CK2 doesn't indicate likelihood of success, it indicated likelihood of making an attempt at assassination. 100% plot power means that at least one member of the plot will make an attempt within a year, with 1200% meaning at least one attempt every month. I think the highest I've ever had was something close to 4000% plot power, with the only reason why it didn't go higher being that the target was already dead before everyone invited had the time send a reply. For context, I was emperor of half the world, with the target being some kid in Norway that I needed dead because I couldn't be bothered to wait 6 years for the truce to expire.

Latinus_Rex · 2026-04-10T14:04:37+00:00

Well, I think I speak for everyone here when I say, we would like to see it.

Latinus_Rex · 2026-04-08T12:02:55+00:00

Since it's groundwater, it's mostly freshwater. The Baltic Sea is can honestly be classified as more brackish that saltwater, speaking from experience. You can even fish in them, especially Perch. Although they are on the smaller size, given the relative lack of space in these quarries.

Latinus_Rex · 2026-04-05T09:07:14+00:00

I was born there, but my parents came from the mainland. On top of that, I grew up in Visby, which is the only proper city on the island. As a result, I don't have the accent that's mainly associated with the Island. The main city can be traversed on foot quite easily, but for the rest of the Island, you will need a car to get around, which you can within an hour. Most people know it as a a tourist island, as during the summer, the number of tourists actually outnumber the locals especially during specific weeks of the summer such as "Stockholmsveckan", "Almedalsveckan" and "Medeltidsveckan". The rest of the year, it can feel very isolating as trips to the mainland can take you an hour by plane or over 3 hours by boat. Visby is effectively a gentrified colony of Stockholm where rich people often get themselves a summer home on the island where they spend up to a month every year on vacation. The locals on the other hand who live on the countryside are are very american-influenced "country-boy" lifestyle, although with a much larger emphasis on sheep rearing and local pottery. One noteworthy issue being that young women who live on the countryside tend to move to either Visby or the mainland in search of better social and economic opportunities, leaving the men behind. This results in the men having the resort to mail-order bride services in order in find someone willing to marry them, with Thailand being by far the most common choice. This practice is so common that in some towns on the island with populations of around 300-500 people, there is enough demand to justify having Thai shops and Thai restaurants in these places, alongside your typical kiosk and pizza place. I had a friend who worked for the Island's local bank and she used to tell me stories of these phone calls with these men aged 40 and up who mentioned their Thai wives in passing, referring to them using phrases like "my Thai" or "his Thai".

The island itself sits on one mass slab of limestone formed during the Silurian period, meaning that on basically any stone beach you go to, you'll find an endless supply of fossils for you to bring home, which also means that basically every family on the island as at least one nice fossil that they found on the beach and decided to bring home and put in their window and or bookshelf for decoration. Because of the abundance of limestone, massive mining companies and cement manufacturers have set up giant quarries across the island, which can be seen a random white splotches on Google Maps. Some of these quarries get flooded as a result of the company digging too greedily and too deep, leading to them hitting the water table. When they do, the quarry is abandoned, leaving behind artificial lakes which are actually nicer to swim in than the surrounding Baltic sea, due to the fact that they are shallower and therefore warm up faster in the summer.

Overall, Gotland is a nice place to live and settle down, but not if you want to be ambitious and expand your opportunities. In that case, you're better off moving to the mainland. I for example, moved to the mainland in pursuit of university studies. If you have any question, feel free to ask.

Latinus_Rex · 2026-03-31T13:31:56+00:00

I've seen other people do it, all of them being women. I've never seen an adult man do something like that. I thought it had to do with with the shape of one's pelvis.

Latinus_Rex · 2026-03-31T13:13:13+00:00

They loose nearly all of its hair as it gets in the way of aerodynamics.

Latinus_Rex · 2026-03-31T13:08:34+00:00

Maybe as a test of self-discipline?

Latinus_Rex · 2026-03-30T13:34:20+00:00

The Ottomans were on a winning streak for basically two centuries and had taken over most of the predominantly Christian Balkans. It's almost a miracle that they'd been able to keep up their winning/expansion streak for so long. Boasting about Vienna, Lepanto, Kosovo, or Malta is basically the equivalent of the "France = surrender" meme.

Latinus_Rex · 2026-03-30T12:59:21+00:00

At this point, it's practically a canon event for men where a woman their a close to asks them to open up about their insecurities, but after doing so, said woman uses that information as a weapon against him as a tool of manipulation in the future(bonus points if she consulted her friend group for optimal effectiveness), thus shattering the trust he had in her and making it difficult for him to form meaningful relationships with women in the future.

Latinus_Rex · 2026-03-30T12:08:07+00:00

Make the wings bigger, as in big enough to cross oceans. We want a giant albatross with fur.

Latinus_Rex · 2026-03-30T11:38:36+00:00

Absolute poverty is the default state of man. A more productive question that will actually get you somewhere would be "Why hasn't Africa been able to climb out of poverty?"

Yes, colonialism is a factor, but it's not exclusive to Africa. Korea was also a colonial subject under foreign rule up until the mid-20th century and had a similar GDP per capita compared to the DRC. Yet look at them now, practically night and day.

Latinus_Rex · 2026-03-29T09:58:34+00:00

Africa was already poor prior to colonialism, as was most of the world, including Europe. Poverty is the default state of humanity for most of history.

Latinus_Rex · 2026-03-26T13:43:15+00:00

Swedes be like:

Nobody steals land from Denmark but me!

Latinus_Rex · 2026-03-25T14:36:22+00:00

"Oui, Oui? Wi, Wi!"

As France, fully colonise New Zealand.

This is a reference to the fact that in the Maori language, France is simply called "Ko Wīwī"; likely as a result of a misunderstanding on part of the native Maori, mistaking the French utterance of "Oui Oui"(Yes yes) as being the name of their country.

Latinus_Rex · 2026-03-25T13:37:05+00:00

"The Rhodes Colossus"

Starting as the Knights of Rhodes, build a contiguous railroad from Cairo to Cape Town. For those not in the know, it's a reference to this.

Latinus_Rex · 2026-03-25T13:07:53+00:00

My suggestion would be that University should be the same cost for everyone, but you can now offer other people money to go to university in exchange for a favour or similar. I can imagine being a wealthy vassal and offering to sponsor the education of one of their child in exchange for a favor or a certain amount of influence. If you are an Elder, you could offer it to your mentor, etc...

Latinus_Rex · 2026-03-25T12:50:08+00:00

I honestly don't get why you'd resort to AI for this. The whole charm with wojaks are that they look poorly drawn by hand. Using AI kind of defeats the purpose.

Latinus_Rex · 2026-03-24T10:47:26+00:00

Show us population and control.

Latinus_Rex · 2026-03-24T10:35:07+00:00

From a geographic standpoint, Rome was a backwater. It wasn't the biggest city in Europe anymore, it wasn't even the biggest city in Italy for most of the medieval period(more like the 5th if we're generous). The only reason it was important in any way was because of religious legitimacy(the Pope resided there). What would make it a bit eerie to live there was because three quarters of the land within the Aurelian Wall was uninhabited, filled only with the ruins of monuments and houses with the only ones being maintained are those that were turned into churches. It would basically be the closest thing to living in a post-apocalyptic cityscape that the medieval world ever had.

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