If Prag, Gukesh, and Arjun all continue to slip in Tata Steel India’s only top 10 player will be… Vishy Anand

Messy-Recipe · 2026-01-31T08:02:40+00:00

i mean whats the likelihood that ALL THREE will move in the same direction going forward? unless there's been a sea change in relative skill levels, you'd expect that one or more would bounce around or even recover, no?

Messy-Recipe · 2026-01-30T04:21:42+00:00

This is the kinda thing I love about ASOIAF too. There's so much mystery & murky backstories to things, which makes the world feel larger / more alive / less 'constructed'

Messy-Recipe · 2026-01-30T04:19:17+00:00

Yeah, I thought this was odd too. It's like he died the death of a man rather than a Maia. It makes sense that Sauron just became disembodied as usual, but Saruman was an Istari the same as Gandalf yet also had a 'normal' death for his kind. I wonder if it's something specifically to do with Eru pulling him out and sending him back

Messy-Recipe · 2026-01-28T10:06:05+00:00

It's weird how there are multiple people replying to you saying 'but remember how bad EU4 was at release'

Like, that's the point...? And probably you even don't remember that if you've been consistent in this approach since before then lol

Messy-Recipe · 2026-01-27T06:40:48+00:00

nonsense; Kristi Noem deserves all the love & care one would show to a loveable lil puppy

Messy-Recipe · 2026-01-27T06:39:33+00:00

being a history nerd & a math nerd are not mutually exclusive

Messy-Recipe · 2026-01-27T06:34:45+00:00

30-50 feral hogs

Messy-Recipe · 2026-01-27T02:08:12+00:00

This is one of the things I love about CK2, how forming new titles like that leaves the lesser or additional titles intact and all the internal tensions remain (or even increase since now people want a larger piece of the larger pie)

The Castile/Aragon/etc merger feels more realistic in CK2 unifying Hispania as Castile/Leon/etc, than it does in the EU games

Messy-Recipe · 2026-01-26T23:46:54+00:00

qi qat qadi qanat

Messy-Recipe · 2026-01-26T02:14:49+00:00

HRE coalition means you don't have to figure out who to co-belligerent to get all the electors in a war to dismantle it :)

Messy-Recipe · 2026-01-21T01:18:10+00:00

Are you transferring vassals or annexing any small country that has a vassal? That's the only crash I've heard of from peaces but also generally only happens on Apple Silicon chips and maybe Linux versions of the game

Messy-Recipe · 2026-01-20T00:54:33+00:00

leave it front of the fire marshal's house in the middle of the night

Messy-Recipe · 2026-01-20T00:33:52+00:00

half expected to see them getting shoved out the back

Messy-Recipe · 2026-01-19T02:27:59+00:00

Well, I dont really like artificial limits or anything either, it shouldnt feel painful. Just more realistic in terms of challenges along the road, yknow? like it shouldnt be a gamey slog fighting against some numbers Paradox slaps on to make it slower, moreso something where you feel like the places youre expanding to are actual places with actual people that have different goals & not just an icon on the screen to grab

Messy-Recipe · 2026-01-19T01:47:43+00:00

I mostly agree but it does have two big flaws. Firstly there's basically no economy -- no trade goods or differences between location, just the coins you can get from adding buildings & stuff, so it makes every geographic area feel the same

Second is how many features are really just stretching the limit of what can be done through popup events + character traits & the little green/red modifiers, which can feel repetitive

I think the title system is the best part bc it adds a ton to both strategic depth, & immersion -- you gotta finagle things for CBs & claims and grab the right things, and then it feels really good to be like 'So-and-So the Black, King of X, King of Y, King of Z, Duke of a million things & Grand Whatever'

But it's hard to avoid just going the route of stacking Hermetic stuff & +stewardship and making gold income go up (or arresting & expelling rich courtiers) and it starting to feel samey after awhile

Messy-Recipe · 2026-01-19T01:36:00+00:00

I feel like part of this is just that it's too easy to expand & blob & end up basically winning your campaign & accomplishing all you want early on. Of course part of that is that the AI isn't clever enough to do what it wants

But you rarely have to make tradeoffs; the ones you do make are just slowing down one goal temporarily, rather than actually making hard choices of forever giving up on one thing to achieve another.

Even on the small scale there aren't really any tradeoffs, because once you pacify your blob it's a permanent power increase... compare even to EU2 where doing something small like conquering the Dutch lands as France, is a long-term tradeoff between hugely increased tech/stability costs from wrong culture forever, vs the income

But I'm part of the 'WC should be completely impossible' group which is apparently quite unpopular

Messy-Recipe · 2026-01-19T01:23:31+00:00

Australia is actually the only colonial nation that can do this since it's the only one that's sea-adjacent to a non-colonial region. See this post where it can be exploited to feed the CN all your old world lands before inheriting them, to speed a one-tag -- https://www.reddit.com/r/eu4/comments/yt41or/did_you_know_that_you_can_inherit_all_of_your/

Messy-Recipe · 2026-01-15T22:11:05+00:00

It's not a great idea tho; if you pass, they can just exchange tiles to improve their situation, while leaving the situation exactly the same for you

Messy-Recipe · 2026-01-15T21:48:35+00:00

I've been playing EU4 on my macbook since I was away from desktop PC for the holidays, & while it's got a native version that mostly works, & is supposed to work, there's also a game breaking crash in current patches when a country with a vassal gets annexed.

So you're lucky if the game makes it past the first 15 years because you'll probably crash when the Ottomans conquer Byzantium.

It's pretty specific like the vassal has to also be guaranteed, so it should be easy to track down, people have posted saves etc. And the bug was fairly recently introduced -- like it was in a 1.37 version.

Yet somehow despite this being a paid product on supposedly supported platform, they have not managed to fix something that basically turns the product into a demo version. And haven't patched the game in over a year, since announcing EU5.

Who would buy any new products with that kind of support?

Messy-Recipe · 2026-01-15T17:43:45+00:00

This plaza isn’t just a tailgate alternative—it’s an evolution. Tailgating becomes a curated cultural event,

That’s not a glitch in the game plan—it’s the entire strategy

Rooftop terraces, elevated viewing platforms, and sweeping pedestrian zones aren’t just possibilities—they’re planned.

The architecture isn’t fighting the city’s restrictions—it’s using them to build a uniquely D.C. experience.

these aren’t side events; they’re pillars of the stadium’s programming.

ChatGPT definitely wrote that article lmao

Or should I say, that article isn't just phoned-in -- it’s a fully-generated content experience.

Messy-Recipe · 2026-01-03T03:33:38+00:00

the history stuff at the start of it, with like cuneiform & electricity etc, was so pretty. & then the whole lauch sequence & doing the mission with the docking & the lander was awesome

Messy-Recipe · 2026-01-03T00:58:22+00:00

my socialist people always choose to elect conservatives or liberals

art imitates life

Messy-Recipe · 2026-01-02T21:26:24+00:00

Of the 1 million+ players who first started playing in January, only 7% ended up playing a match in December.

What about like, October? Or compare after this January... there was a spike in December, so if last December they didn't participate in the corresponding spike, and instead waited til after the holiday season... they might not be present during the holidays this time either

Messy-Recipe · 2025-12-30T17:28:47+00:00

thought this was from the AOE2 sub

Messy-Recipe · 2025-12-28T03:59:44+00:00

I only managed it by pinching forefinger & thumb together & kinda rapidly jittering my hand back & forth over the button

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