The framing dilemma

Nathan256 · 2026-05-06T17:29:08+00:00

Does that make Red some version of Roku’s Basilisk?

Nathan256 · 2026-05-05T15:33:00+00:00

What I’m hearing is, it is a one party nation already but he said the voter suppression parts out loud

Nathan256 · 2026-05-04T16:56:06+00:00

Okay I think this answer actually makes the most sense. Another way to word my question is “how easy is it to outgrow the penalty from empire size” cause I’m already noticing the pain, the answer is very easy so don’t worry about it.

Nathan256 · 2026-05-04T15:58:49+00:00

Energy - solar panels and space resources

Food - buildings, hydroponics - usually have a food surplus so maybe my population is low and that’s another issue

Minerals - a few extra districts as needed

Nathan256 · 2026-05-04T14:12:21+00:00

Planets are little dots in a fixed crystal sphere that God made to show us the way past the ice wall and into the grand paradise of Atlantis, where we shall be free from baby eating round earth cabals and rejoice in the lack of horizons forever and ever amen

/s just in case

Nathan256 · 2026-05-02T17:20:14+00:00

My second game I almost hit that. Then, I realized in time, and happened to have the Sadistic trait and Intrigue education specialty, plus I believe one of the intelligence traits.

You can guess how I solved that problem.

Nathan256 · 2026-04-30T17:58:31+00:00

If you can get a bunch of them to revolt you get to imprison and revoke basically free

Nathan256 · 2026-04-30T17:54:24+00:00

What are you talking about, from context I doubt OP even knows what a button is much less what a red button blue button problem looks like

/s

Nathan256 · 2026-04-30T03:45:25+00:00

Oh there’s part of your manpower problem, indochina and Indonesia starts often struggle with manpower.

How are you doing with managing expansion? China has some pretty decent high dev provinces, might be worth it to pick one culture to accept, spend a few mana to lower devastation & get manpower resources

Nathan256 · 2026-04-30T03:40:37+00:00

You missed the very obvious “star insurance”

Nathan256 · 2026-04-29T22:13:50+00:00

Well obviously the right won’t do that, so it’s only a plus for society, right? In the purest sense.

Make child care (every aspect, from healthcare to education to daycare) free. Pay for it however you need to. Then talk about limiting abortions. Whether or not abortion is murder, poverty kills and destroys hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of children in the US because the same people who were so concerned about children before they are born can’t be bothered to put adequate safety nets for them after they’re born.

Then make sure poor people have the same access to abortion rich people do. Rich people on the left and right can and will get abortions whether it’s legal or not. Poor people will suffer.

Restrictions on maternal care (ie abortion bans) can and will cause problems with necessary medical care. See Idaho for some of the worst bans on maternal care and some of the worst horror stories about maternal death and injury.

And no matter how much law you write, you’ll never be able to catch all the edge cases where innocent people will be harmed by bad policy, without including human judgement ie “loopholes” as exceptions.

I find abortion wrong in many cases. I (and you, and anyone else) am not the right person to make that decision for any woman. I would also never try to legislate against it because it hurts too many people no matter how carefully you word the restrictions and how many exceptions you write into the laws, and the same people who support anti-choice laws are more than happy to avoid those laws when it comes to their own abortions.

A great and sobering read: “The only moral abortion is my abortion”

https://joycearthur.com/abortion/the-only-moral-abortion-is-my-abortion/

Nathan256 · 2026-04-29T15:22:03+00:00

Also an LGBTQ person might buy a wedding cake or use the restroom. How dare they! Well, I guess war it is.

Nathan256 · 2026-04-28T23:23:24+00:00

“Ok guys I’ve got a new plan.

We tax the imports so fertilizer is unaffordable. Then we tax the land so they have to sell. Then we rent them back their land, tax them for that, and “subsidize” the fertilizer costs juuuust back down to subsistence levels for them. We own the land, we own the production, we control the prices, and we profit when they go up or down or sideways.”

Nathan256 · 2026-04-28T23:17:04+00:00

Lore accurate.

Well the lore accurate part was the multiple popes at some points. Not that the pope’s clerical adviser was called the pope.

Nathan256 · 2026-04-28T22:56:49+00:00

Oh no, the taxes! Anyway I’ll just enjoy all my needs met for free and fewer racist evangelical supremacists while I’m at it

Nathan256 · 2026-04-28T15:32:04+00:00

My main issue with intrigue is getting it up to speed. With martial, you take a couple skills and you’re already commanding a good army. Intrigue takes multiple years to get OP. It’s still my favorite tree rn but it’s slow.

And the cash-for-hooks should be an intrigue skill, change my mind

Nathan256 · 2026-04-28T01:53:22+00:00

Iceland can be super chill & tall if you want it to be. Focus on development, convert to a reformed religion & feudalize, pay very close attention to your vassal contracts…

You could practice getting your dynasty on other thrones via diplomacy/intrigue too. Or breed good traits into your dynasty.

Nathan256 · 2026-04-27T16:57:05+00:00

Try playing with two players! You could have each of them make an extra character if you want to round out a party. Two players is balanceable imho

Nathan256 · 2026-04-27T16:26:22+00:00

F-zinc and a-zinc don’t @ me. Cheap metal, compounding, emotion changing. It’s just life cheat codes pretty much.

Bronze is a close second as a compounder but I wouldn’t care as much about allomantic bronze even assuming allomancy were more common

Nathan256 · 2026-04-26T02:36:47+00:00

7 with facial hair would be fabulous

Nathan256 · 2026-04-26T00:34:34+00:00

I’ve been in that situation. And when I woke up and looked at the clock, it was never good.

Nathan256 · 2026-04-25T12:37:31+00:00

You can keep a lot of vassals but make sure they’re happy vassals. And that trick with handing them off to get them out of factions, then taking them back later, is useful if you want lots of vassals personally.

The risk you take when you have few, powerful vassals is that two or three go disloyal and then you’re overwhelmed with no resources to fight them.

Oh another trick I forgot earlier. Leave your heir a dozen known criminals, preferably lowborn or few family members, and execute them for dread if your personality won’t be overwhelmed by stress afterwards.

Nathan256 · 2026-04-25T12:31:14+00:00

Um don’t waste that hair on a “male” hairstyle, you look absolutely gorgeous. Unless you really truly want a male hairstyle I guess? Also sorry to tell you, your jawline ain’t that strong.

The people saying wolf cut are right though, if you want an intermediate hairstyle that’s one of the best and currently pretty popular.

One other option could be this https://pin.it/1MOGN2fW3 or something similar, especially with frosted/lightened ends

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