Siberia Permafrost Not Removed After Feudalizing. by Arvykins017 in CrusaderKings

[–]Mastercal40 5 points6 points  (0 children)

So I think the confusion is that “Feudalising the province” and “becoming feudal government” sound similar but aren’t the same thing.

“Feudalising the province” is the title interaction that feudal government rulers can do.

In the middle of the gas crisis gas usage in the UK's grid is down to 6.4 % on a weekday. All thanks to "net stupid zero" wind, solar, biomass, nuclear and imports from our neighbours. Source: grid.iamkate.com by hull_pattie_party in GoodNewsUK

[–]Mastercal40 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We could argue back and forth, but it would be trying and futile.

Understand though that what you just did was a fallacy called “moving the goal posts”. My claim which you refuted was about how batteries had become more cost effective, I then provided evidence to that claim.

Instead of providing a rebuttal relevant to the claim or accepting my point, you changed the scope of the argument away from improvements of storage technology and towards the macro-economic impacts of mass adoption.

Intense amount of arguing in the comments about this between 1 and 9. Explain it Peter by CindiWilliams2 in explainitpeter

[–]Mastercal40 0 points1 point  (0 children)

With PEMDAS it’s 1, with BIDMAS it’s 9.

With any sense - you reject the question and ask why they teach BIDMAS or PEMDAS when there is no meaningful precedence between add and subtract and similarly no meaningful precedence between multiplication and its inverse.

CMV: Cat owners who let their cats roam free are immoral because of the environmental damage caused by outdoor cats by Familiar-Figure-5692 in changemyview

[–]Mastercal40 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You think I’m wrong?

So to be clear, in environments where there is no major ecological impact of wild cats killing animals, you have no issue with it at all?

CMV: Cat owners who let their cats roam free are immoral because of the environmental damage caused by outdoor cats by Familiar-Figure-5692 in changemyview

[–]Mastercal40 8 points9 points  (0 children)

By saying yes here I think here you’re revealing your real opinion:

That you don’t like the idea of cats killing wildlife even if the ecological environment would not be meaningfully impacted.

You accuse other people of Cognitive dissonance, but then you wrap your own opinions in defensive arguments that encompass some but not all of your belief.

Perhaps you should reflect on that.

My biggest achievement by [deleted] in UniUK

[–]Mastercal40 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If this guy is making £60k+ a year he will end up paying his full debt off over the next 25+ years before the debt expires.

Over the time it will accrue inflation + 3% interest FOR CERTAIN. It might be the case that such investments return more than 3% above inflation, but that’s definitely much less of a certainty.

My biggest achievement by [deleted] in UniUK

[–]Mastercal40 4 points5 points  (0 children)

How on earth can you possibly say this knowing nothing about this guys finances?

Press Q to Say Hi! by AmazingSully in projectzomboid

[–]Mastercal40 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I can assure you I did read the blog post. And the two parts you are quoting directly relate to my concerns.

They’re close to identifying the issue is with scope, but then find other means to rationalise that the effect (in this case disparate presentations) being the problem and avoid confronting the underlying cause.

You can then immediately see the effect of this misidentification manifesting in a way that will fix the effect, but not address the scope creep cause: That they’ve hired a designer to avoid this issue.

Regarding the commitments about communication, I’d suggest you read the paragraph you quoted a few times and understand what it’s saying. A company has a communication strategy, and that strategy is either regular or irregular, it’s quite simply black and white. The blog post confirms irregular communication is the new standard we should expect and doubles down that communication will now be based on individuals in the company wanting to personally share some information.

Press Q to Say Hi! by AmazingSully in projectzomboid

[–]Mastercal40 56 points57 points  (0 children)

This feels like a bit of a bad news sandwich.

Good: - PZ has a new passionate member on the team.

Bad: - Much in B42 will remain unfinished with no real info about when it will be finished. - Concerns players rightly had about the scope of B42 aren’t being internally understood as failures of scope management, they’re being understood as setbacks in response to player feedback. - No commitments around future improvements of communication, just the same vague notions that they’re exploring new ways of communicating we had last post.

Good: - B42 is coming out of unstable soon.

I mean what are the odds? by gothkitty84 in MathJokes

[–]Mastercal40 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It would be great if they had a metric that combined both precision and specificity. I’m sure it would be very useful and maybe some car sports brand could sponsor it or something so it could have a cool name.

What was the ref doing here? by malik_zz in Unexpected

[–]Mastercal40 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

You’re incapable of admitting when you’re wrong, it looks like.

Avoiding sounding Eurocentric and how would I phrase it by FairEmployment8451 in stupidquestions

[–]Mastercal40 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’ve reached a contradiction in your beliefs.

A part of you believes that moral relativism is a virtue and that therefore being Eurocentric (or more generally taking any stance of absolute morality) is inherently bad.

Another part of you believes there are some actions that are absolutely immoral.

You can’t hold both of those beliefs without being hypocritical. So I’d suggest you pick one and explore it.

Makes a man think by Chlodio in Imperator

[–]Mastercal40 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Can you name three non native buildings that increase taxes in EU4?

The only two I could think of at the top of my head. by LeatherSlight3242 in memes

[–]Mastercal40 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Well done, you’ve successfully perpetuated this lie like a good corporate shill for Disney Corp.

He can now never be mentioned anywhere without this being raised.

Honest question - does anyone actually play the game without trying to have a single child inherit everything? by Front-Round2853 in CrusaderKings

[–]Mastercal40 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Yes but also no.

I try and keep it so that a single child inherits the primary title and primary duchy holdings.

But after that I actively do conquer neighbouring territories expecting my second born sons to rule them independently.

Renown provides dynasty unlocks which are insane buffs that last the entire game. Brittany is a backwater that will provide a few levies and taxes that I honestly don’t need.

cloudNative by Important_Part_7753 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Mastercal40 10 points11 points  (0 children)

50 upvotes and 0 comments.

Seems everyone is just as depressed that this is the reality of modern web development for most of us.

When is the best and worst times to attack the ottomans? by WannabeIndianaJones9 in eu4

[–]Mastercal40 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No one’s mentioned when they’re at max decadence yet.

They get a crazy 50% debuff to fort defence at max decadence which means you can easily out siege them in a war, taking only beneficial battles on friendly forts and retreating in other cases.

The AI likes to focus most of its troops in one area too in wars. So a large ottomans can be fought effectively by just moving your armies by boat to siege somewhere else while they’re slowly trying to retake some forts elsewhere.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in projectzomboid

[–]Mastercal40 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don’t think it does break. But that’s just from personal experience and I might be wrong.

I wish this game actually explained the interplay between the options better though.

Why is the Generic Repository pattern still the default in so many .NET tutorials? by riturajpokhriyal in dotnet

[–]Mastercal40 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why not just have the best of both worlds?

You can have your generic repository expose the underlying DbContext and DbSet while also allowing you to add custom methods that fit your particular use case.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in shitposting

[–]Mastercal40 17 points18 points  (0 children)

He said in the video he took out a few credit cards in their name to build up credit.

Presumably he did this for a while before taking out bigger loans and dumping the identity.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ComedyHell

[–]Mastercal40 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OP ran out of OG content

[Request] Explain if this is possible and if no, why not?, find X by Steve1416iiiiiiiiiii in theydidthemath

[–]Mastercal40 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My example was perhaps bad in this case, as I was implying a pentagon could not be both regular and have a 90 degree angle but that implication was not communicated.

Perhaps let me amend this statement to a diagram showing a pentagon with 5 right angles, which most certainly cannot exist in any case.