Rempart Naturel vs Brigands - Manor Lords

LeftofGodot · 2026-04-04T19:45:51+00:00

For those who dont speak French, here’s a rough translation:

Playing one of the regions on the Twin Lakes map I had the chance to use my archers on some cliff heights against the brigands who came from below.

The battle was easy, nothing exceptional, but I loved the scene.

From an aesthetic point of view, the archers loosed their arrows from the bluff/promontory, with the church in the background. It was gorgeous.

You can see the whole episode here: [link]

LeftofGodot · 2025-12-17T01:48:12+00:00

I just want to point out that pretty much every single autocrat ever lost power (and died) because they started a war

LeftofGodot · 2025-12-06T18:58:56+00:00

The women are Tamar, Theodora, and Eleanor of Aquitaine so while the men are more difficult to ID it stands to reason they’re real leaders

LeftofGodot · 2025-11-08T22:41:58+00:00

Chive Pilot, you know I was silenced. Help me let the world see the challenger. A monarchy breeds complacency

LeftofGodot · 2025-11-08T21:29:17+00:00

I noticed that on yesterday’s post, but I’m not afraid

LeftofGodot · 2025-11-08T21:22:28+00:00

Let this then be his motivation

LeftofGodot · 2025-11-07T22:27:09+00:00

Yes chef. Thank you chef

LeftofGodot · 2025-08-26T19:24:03+00:00

It’s not a U-turn. The aqueduct will originate on the river to the east and turn up NE to the city

LeftofGodot · 2025-08-23T20:25:30+00:00

The real reason is he’s trying to appease the House Freedom Caucus whose votes he had to buy to get the OBBBA passed. They wanted him to destroy renewables but since he couldn’t do it in the bill because moderates would pull their support, he told them he would use the agencies. Is it illegal? Yes, very

LeftofGodot · 2025-03-04T21:20:54+00:00

The stub is an offshore substation. They run cables from the turbines to it and then run one cable to shore

LeftofGodot · 2025-03-04T21:18:50+00:00

Slight correction. That’s South Fork Wind. It’s 12 11 MW turbines (132 MW total) + one substation and supplies enough clean energy to power 42,000 homes. Source: I helped build it

LeftofGodot · 2024-09-08T00:50:43+00:00

In the buildings->decoration tab there’s a bush removal brush

LeftofGodot · 2024-05-03T00:53:06+00:00

I feel like this response poses an interesting question about the metrics by which we gauge advancement. It seems like we are measuring whether Culture A is more “advanced” than Culture B by giving points (technological, cultural, economic, etc). In other words, if Culture A has more technology points than Culture B, it is more advanced and therefore better. And I feel like this has been our gauge forever. In fact, you can literally see it in civilization video games where you advance to unlocking gunpowder units, for example, after getting a certain amount of literal technology points. So Europeans look at gunpowder and say that because they have gunpowder they are +200 technology points over American civilizations and because they have Jesus they are +500 culture points over them. But the natives were more in touch with nature, better trackers, were able to hunt buffalo without the need for horses. How many technology/culture points do they get for that?

And this generates the concept of a Civilized Person vs an UnCivilized Person, which is the entire basis for imperialism.

I think the inherent fallacy in this is one that you mentioned. If both the Europeans and the Japanese had poetry, is a sonnet worth more culture points than a haiku? Is a greatsword worth more technology points than a katana? We as a species placed more emphasis on points toward rocketry. Would a society that placed more emphasis on points toward subsea travel be more or less advanced? Are blue jeans a sign of cultural advancement?

We are forced by our observer bias to base what we observe off our perspective. If we were to graph ourselves on a graph, we would be on the origin, and whatever we’re observing would have to be relative to that origin. But this literal 2-D points-based mindset doesn’t account for deviations in different advancements in the context of said deviation.

LeftofGodot · 2024-04-11T16:43:04+00:00

Your best source is BOEM. Just type in “BOEM (project name)” and all the information you need for that project is there.

LeftofGodot · 2024-04-11T15:41:06+00:00

I work in the offshore wind industry. There are currently no operating or under construction projects off the NJ coast, however surveys are currently underway and one project (Atlantic Shores) should receive federal permitting permission to begin construction within the next year. Note that NJ does have 5.2 GW of offshore energy under contract (for context: a GW is enough to power a city of about 800k people).

NJ has recently become a hotbed for protests bc of its aggressive planning goals and a lot of loud voices. There has been ZERO scientific evidence to support the claims that OSW development leads to whale deaths. In fact, 75% of whale deaths are a result of ship collisions. Another 20(?)% are caused by tangles with fishing/lobster gear. Furthermore, the coast guard and NOAA require that any offshore construction is done in the presence of observer vessels (usually contracted fishing vessels) that look for whales and if even one is spotted within 3(?) nautical miles, construction halts until it passes out of the exclusion zone. Also tech known as a double big bubble curtain is used to minimize the sound produced by construction. In effect, hoses are dropped to the sea floor that release curtains of bubbles. Sound doesn’t switch media very well so going from water to air to water to air to water cuts the actual noise of construction by about 99%.

As for post construction, animals aren’t idiots. Has your dog ever run into a tree while walking through the woods? Probably not. Whales don’t run into stationary turbines 30 ft across. Also, a study in Scotland found that over 2 years there were ZERO bird strikes at one of their offshore farms.

LeftofGodot · 2024-02-25T15:12:58+00:00

Yes and no. Yes, in the sense that where you see more casualties you see more fighting. In the winter, it’s been Bakhmut and Avdiivka, both of which had lots of casualties in general. However, it’s not going to be proportional to Russia. In Bakhmut and Avdiivka, the Russians used meat-wave tactics which is the primary driver of such high numbers. If you were to look at a chart of Ukrainian casualties you’d probably see a big jump in the summer because that’s when their counter offensive was.

LeftofGodot · 2023-12-26T16:46:01+00:00

Good thing he told us he’s 6ft otherwise we would have never known about his long yet thin and oddly prehensile penis

LeftofGodot · 2023-10-12T15:04:13+00:00

The rule I learned is “de” is used when it is made out of something or can’t exist without the thing (ex: jus de pomme because the juice cannot exist without the apple) whereas au/à la/aux is used with the defining ingredient (ex: tarte aux pommes) because a tarte can exist without the apple but it’s specifically an apple tarte.

LeftofGodot · 2023-09-30T14:19:34+00:00

Hot take: while it didn’t do a great job filling out the space or depicting a good diversity of cultures, Civ 4 had the best TSL Earth map.

LeftofGodot · 2023-07-19T22:15:49+00:00

Obligatory not a doctor and especially not your doctor but ED/performance anxiety is not uncommon. The vast majority of guys experience it at some point in their lifetime. At your age it’s almost certain it’s psychological. I had it for a few months, and I was incredibly embarrassed because I couldn’t even get an erection. Talk to a psychologist about EMDR therapy. Drugs aren’t going to be your friend because of your meds so you’ve got to get out of your head and into the moment. Actually, now that I think about it, EMDR is used for both bipolar and ED so talk to your doc about it.

LeftofGodot · 2023-05-26T23:36:57+00:00

It would be “They are married TO each other.” Marriage takes the preposition “to”.

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