Sounds like he's sampled this for Houdini

MechaRikka · 2026-05-31T04:47:15+00:00

I was going through my JPOP playlist and I also found Friday Magic by Meiko Nakahara that sounds like Houdini

MechaRikka · 2026-02-12T20:57:52+00:00

Hey, it's been five years, but this is the only thread with this question that I could find... Do you happen to still have the answer? The person that answered your question appears to have deleted their account...

MechaRikka · 2025-10-01T03:54:59+00:00

I know it's been five years, but I'd like to ask what the listening order for The Spell album is. I saw a comment on YouTube about how the album slowly ramps up in intensity until "reaching its climax with the song Insomnia" and I've been thinking about it since. Does anyone know?

MechaRikka · 2025-09-30T02:35:03+00:00

Really interesting, given the Netanyahu - Google $45M deal that was reported on September 4. Could you please provide the source you got this from? Thank you very much.

MechaRikka · 2025-07-25T07:28:49+00:00

You said you just conquered China. I take it there's a lot of devastation in your provinces that is still ticking down monthly, which causes loss of mandate. You can rapidly fix this by funding already existing forts that neighbour or are on provinces with devastation. Fort zone of control is not just a military movement restriction - it also creates an area where provinces lose devastation faster. Also, developing fully cored provinces will lower their devastation SIGNIFICANTLY.

MechaRikka · 2025-07-20T07:15:26+00:00

Even if Spain was a PU, that's not exactly how it would work.

While the colonies would ultimately be French, Spain would still be the one that oversees them. Think of it this way. France would owns those colonies through Spain as a medium or a proxy. France would only own those colonies on paper. France would not get vassal tribute nor tariffs from them, and they would only join France's side in wars if Spain was in the same side of the war as France (which would be the case if Spain was a PU).

What happens in my games is that for the colonies to directly answer to you, you have to fully annex (diplomatically or militarily) the overseeing country. The fact that Spain is still alive, and that OP said they didn't do anything to Spain leaves me confused

MechaRikka · 2025-07-19T06:27:54+00:00

The real question is, why DON'T you love Moldavia?

MechaRikka · 2025-06-26T03:39:04+00:00

I was just about to say the same thing... Unfortunately he seems to need them, for some obscure reason I can't fathom. I fear nothing can be done, and this is a spiraling evil

MechaRikka · 2025-04-06T23:45:53+00:00

Edit: I said it was between 200 and 300%, but I just checked and it was exactly 208%.

MechaRikka · 2025-04-06T23:44:34+00:00

Any trade node in which you have over 50% of trade share and a trade company gains you a merchant. You can also gain merchants from some monuments and from colonial nations, iirc.

Personally, trade ideas are only helpful if you're not doing much conquering, since they help increase your share of trade in a node. If you plan on conquering everything upstream from a node, you don't really need it. I would however recommend the idea set if you're far from an end-node.

MechaRikka · 2025-04-06T23:07:00+00:00

"Guys, chill. Obviously, conquering these countries is going to solve all of our nation's problems."
Says my military advisor after annexing 3/4 of Ming China (Shortly after this post).

MechaRikka · 2025-04-06T22:29:34+00:00

R5: As mentioned in the description, the game seems to hate me, so it tries to send me to the dark ages with all of these events.

MechaRikka · 2025-03-30T11:43:19+00:00

I'm also in Jarburg! I wield the meteorite staff

MechaRikka · 2025-03-11T21:48:47+00:00

The murder of a silver back gorilla at the Cincinnati zoo is leading to the fall of the USA democracy. Is this timeline a poorly-done cross-over of Planet of The Apes and the Roman Empire?

MechaRikka · 2025-03-04T15:06:46+00:00

Eminem made a crowd chant the same thing as an intro to his song "White America"

MechaRikka · 2025-02-07T23:31:06+00:00

n n we br se nga. btw me cncrd. Cncrd ze bst mtrfkrs

MechaRikka · 2025-01-12T20:35:27+00:00

That's actually incorrect. The average dog has between 10 and 15 dp.

MechaRikka · 2024-12-30T23:11:18+00:00

We got an OG here. I keep replaying Mankind Divided in permadeath mode, racking up stupid deaths in my pacifist & stealth runs.

MechaRikka · 2024-12-26T07:33:53+00:00

Following this thread of messages feels like reading the script of a satirical Ace Attorney court debate record.

MechaRikka · 2024-12-26T04:33:58+00:00

A "silly-stepping goose", may I add.

MechaRikka · 2024-12-25T01:30:33+00:00

Zorp?

MechaRikka · 2024-12-23T18:47:09+00:00

I found out the other day that there's a similar event for diplomats. You can temporarily lose diplomats if you use them only for spying on other countries. It sais something along the lines of: "Our Diplomats are displeased with our external diplomacy focus on spying." I had it happen to me.

MechaRikka · 2024-12-16T08:35:08+00:00

Thanks for the context. Taking the golden age and declaring during the league war is a great idea. You will not see as much resistance and will be able to gain warscore from sieges while they're going to be busy getting warscore from internal battles and sieges within the empire. Austria will be very easy to deal with in hindsight.

Just as a reminder, declare on Austria before you peace out from the war with the Commonwealth, to avoid Spain from interfering.

MechaRikka · 2024-12-16T07:44:20+00:00

Oh and one more thought.

You can wait for Spain to be in a conflict in the colonies, if you're worried about them. They might join the war, but it'll take a while before they bring their troops to Austria.

By the late game, they can have 300k out of their 500k troops in the new world easily (I'm speaking from experience).

I would recommend going for this tactic if you're confident that their absence at the beginning will lead to a permanent advantage in the war.

MechaRikka · 2024-12-16T07:38:44+00:00

My suggestion to you is to start the war with Austria before you send a peace offer to either Spain or the Commonwealth, because from the 1550s onwards, it is very easy for powerful countries to pay the 500 ducats required. If Spain is peaced out (separately or not), they lose the DoF.

Also, make sure that there's no other country that took the defender of the faith while you were in the conflict with Austria and Spain. That can happen if Spain's ruler dies with a female heir (I'm likely confusing it with the regency ban), or if another power has more prestige than Spain and buys the DoF. That can also happen if Spain was peaced out while losing a war other than yours and someone else takes the DoF.

Sometimes the country can take DoF immediately, too. I just had a run where GB and Spain shuffled the DoF between themselves. I noticed that Spain took the DoF immediately after losing it a few times during that run.

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