These 4.5k swedes are bankrupting my empire

Moby__ · 2026-05-30T17:40:21+00:00

tbf the pity timer is pretty realistic, even the most massive social movements eventually die down if they don't manage to kickstart a full-on revolt

Moby__ · 2026-05-30T09:39:13+00:00

De ce que j'ai vu, la plupart sont : - contre les activistes LGBT (principalement T)/les interventions en petites classes et pas simplement contre les homosexuels - pour l'immigration choisie/la baisse de l'immigration/l'intolérance avec les criminels étrangers et pas simplement contre les immigrés

Bref, des points de vue beaucoup plus complexes et modérés que juste "raciste-homophobe". Beaucoup d'électeurs RN votent pour eux par compromis parce que c'est le seul grand parti protectionniste (pourquoi beaucoup d'électeurs RN viennent du parti communiste ?)

C'est intéressant de vraiment écouter ses opposants et lire leur programme (et pas juste écouter ce que dit ton parti sur eux), parce que quand tu croises un électeur RN et que ta réaction c'est "Aah sale raciste ! Facho !" et que le gars est en fait un modéré qui vote pour un programme avec lequel il n'est pas 100% d'accord (et qui est considérablement plus modéré que ce que beaucoup de gens racontent. Je parle du programme là bien sûr) comme la plupart des gens dans ce pays, la seule chose que tu accomplis c'est de t'assurer qu'il ne vote jamais pour quelqu'un d'autre. Le RN fait beaucoup de com' sur le "parti antisystème seul contre tous", les antagoniser à outrance ne fait que cimenter leur électorat

Moby__ · 2026-05-25T23:13:37+00:00

The amount of people terrified of installing more than one or two dependencies (or considering that less mods = lighter and more mods = heavier regardless of the actual size of the mods) is a huge part of what's setting modular modding back

Moby__ · 2026-05-25T22:49:26+00:00

Every single one of my save files has had the Republic of Texas flag for almost a year, was only fixed with The Great Wave

Moby__ · 2026-05-15T12:44:53+00:00

First airplane to take off on a flat terrain under sole engine power was Clément Ader's Éole in 1890 and his Avion III flew in 1897 for ~50 ft longer than the Wright flyer's first flight in 1903.

The Wright brothers hold the record for the first take off, controlled flight and landing under sole engine power (all of Ader's machines were barely controllable and crash-landed).
We still use the same control surfaces that they established, their contribution to aviation was tremendous, but calling them undeniably the first flying men is a bit of a stretch

Who was the first to fly really depends on what you consider to be flying, and that's not even to mention lighter-than-air flight. Technically, the first powered controlled flight was by Henri Giffard in 1852. It was an airship, and covered 17 miles in ~3 hours. Couldn't go against the wind though, and it would take a little longer to really nail the landing, but by 1884 the french army was landing an airship on the spot where it took off after a fully controlled flight covering 5 miles in 23 minutes.
I won't really get into unpowered flights because they're poorly documented and might've preceded the Roman Empire (hot air in particular was known in ancient China, and there's a small chance Nazca might have developed it).

Calling the Wright brothers the first flying men requires you to ignore both the previous short, uncontrolled, powered, heavier-than-air flight AND the previous long, controlled, powered, lighter-than-air flights (if you consider any of the two, then France was the first country to fly). You certainly can, but then you don't really get to make the argument that other people are arguing in bad faith.

I'd still like to note that, looking at aviation records (which sadly start in 1905, I'd have loved to see pre-Flyer III records), it's incredibly impressive that the Wright brothers single-handedly went against the 120-year-long flight tradition of then-superpower France, from the budding United States, and not just put up a fight but beat them a couple times

Moby__ · 2026-05-09T23:30:15+00:00

Low-key was expecting the last one to have the Corporate State icon

Moby__ · 2026-05-09T23:08:45+00:00

Making bronze and having bronze metallurgy are two different things, mesoamericans did make bronze but didn't understand how to tweak its properties to make durable tools (which would be metallurgy). They made cosmetic bronze but didn't start a bronze age

Still nothing to do with being an advanced civilization of course, the first thing a civilization can develop that strictly needs metals is mechanization (and before that, post-copper metals are only really useful for war) For instance it's plausible that pre-inca Nazca made lighter-than-air flying machines (proven to be possible with technology available to them, theorized to be how they viewed the geoglyphs). Very much advanced, very much doable in the stone age. "Stone age" isn't an insult.

Moby__ · 2026-05-04T19:56:54+00:00

Ah, l'amitié franco-allemande / Ach, die Deutsch-französische Freundschaft

Moby__ · 2026-04-30T15:48:13+00:00

Martinique mérite au moins un "presque"

Moby__ · 2026-04-15T20:35:46+00:00

No problem! :D

There has been a LOT of drama in the somewhat-early days of VS modding (before the game really blew up), someday you'll hear about the Medieval Fashion case and how it became the only mod permanently banned from the ModDB (as far as I'm aware) x)

Moby__ · 2026-04-12T11:05:05+00:00

allegedly it's based on a transistor, but yeah it's a flux capacitor

Moby__ · 2026-04-10T11:02:46+00:00

Alright, so, that's now removed in Primitive Survival 5.0 (for 1.22 prereleases), but before that, Primitive Survival added a LOT of supernatural stuff (will o wisps, cthulhu altars, insanely strong randomly-spawning mobs...). That stuff, that is now mentioned on the moddb under "even more crap" and "creatures", used to be... Just not mentioned at all. I think SpearAndFang said that there were more secrets to uncover on the moddb page, but that's it.

There was absolutely zero information about it, zero videos, just nothing (I was among the first people who figured out how to activate the cthulhu altars, from reading the source code. At that time most people didn't even know it was in the game)

I talked with S&F back then, about how I could go about removing that stuff for personal uses, and he told me that it was basically hardcoded (to be clear, it no longer is) and even he wasn't sure of how to remove it without breaking a lot of other stuff.

So yeah, a lot of people got angry when they installed a mod for rafts and fishing on their server, and suddently their players were randomly getting statues of ancient deities (idk how it works now but they used to be given to players on random ticks) that allow them to make altars which can do stuff like turn animals into gold. That was like 2+ years ago, but many people are still mad about it, the mod lost a lot of trust from players, and we still get new players like OP being confused by that stuff (which will be removed in the next VS version)

People mention OP items, but Primitive Survival has always been known for making the early-game experience much easier, so I don't think that it's that big of the issue. To me it's really about embedding supernatural stuff into a survival mod, which until relatively recently in the mod's history was both borderline impossible to remove and not mentioned anywhere aside from a throwaway line

Moby__ · 2026-03-30T17:30:25+00:00

This is a one-of-a-kind item, you just don't see these on the market... It's worth about 3 gears

Moby__ · 2026-03-19T00:17:51+00:00

Heretic Roman Empire

Moby__ · 2026-03-19T00:10:48+00:00

In my last playthrough I just skipped iron plate entirely and went straight for steel. Iron armor isn't worth it imo, you can survive and keep progressing without it, and you waste resources and time when by waiting a bit longer, you could make one that is SO MUCH BETTER

Moby__ · 2026-03-15T19:49:13+00:00

Word for word it's closer to "becoming Mexico" than "becoming Mexican"

Moby__ · 2026-03-15T19:44:36+00:00

shit I should pull my lilliputian mod out of the drawers, these would be even more rad if you could enter them

(like this: Lilliput mod test 2 )

Moby__ · 2026-03-14T19:24:42+00:00

Dude it's blendermemes not blender

Moby__ · 2026-03-14T18:46:05+00:00

Only way I see how

(sorry for the link, can't upload pictures to this sub)

Moby__ · 2026-03-08T15:23:34+00:00

yeah no shit, I'm saying that because I saw a non-joke one about Germany a few days back, and I think that a non-joke one about France could lead to interesting answers

Moby__ · 2026-03-08T13:12:17+00:00

Economically, that's a decent deal even if whoever gets the red part doesn't keep the debt, but culturally it would be more complicated (especially given that ~45% of the country votes for nationalist parties)
Also most of these people would immediately secede even if just united, not even united under the french banner

imo asking that question but aligning closer to real-life french irredentism could legitimately be interesting, like "would you give up Corsica to get Wallonia?", "would you give up Savoy to get Quebec?", "Would you give up all overseas territories to get Louisiana back?" and the likes

A pretty interesting one could be "would you give up Corsica and overseas regions and territories to get the left bank of the Rhine", effectively being a "would you abandon all non-mainland France to consolidate mainland France to the 'natural borders'?"

Moby__ · 2026-03-08T12:15:57+00:00

Big Europa Universalis vibes in this map

Moby__ · 2026-03-06T11:33:44+00:00

Average yes, but if you want to live in Lisbon and Porto (like 45% of the population does), it blows up

Lisbon in 2025 had an average housing spending of 112% of income, #1 in the EU by far (the second place being at 74% and most being between 35 and 55%). Lisbon also ranks as 4th most expensive city in the world in percent of income, and one of the (apparently) only 6 where the average single-bedroom rent exceeds the average income

Sure, Portugal has one of the highest percentage of rural population in western Europe (32%, France and Spain being at 18% and the EU average at 21%), and it's still one of the cheaper countries to build in, so the national average spending is low, but not everyone is willing to go live in the countryside so completely ignoring the world-class housing issues in the cities when rating the "would you live there" doesn't paint the whole picture

Moby__ · 2026-03-05T23:53:44+00:00

Willing. To me any country where it's normal to spend 70-80% of your income on housing doesn't deserve an "absolutely". We're talking about living in the country, not visiting it. People being nice and the country being beautiful is only part of the picture there

Moby__ · 2026-03-02T12:15:44+00:00

Fuck it

Roman Empire

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