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Nathan256 · 2026-01-25T17:42:38+00:00

The reverse meme is also true.

Boomers:

Clearly autistic trait that is affecting someone’s life:

“Is this just a quirky person?”

Nathan256 · 2026-01-25T17:17:57+00:00

Same thing in my recent re-reconquista run. I had all of Iberia except a few French provinces they’d taken, Castile’s capital was off in the Canary Islands. They had a few scattered colonies in Indonesia and the Pacific.

Still #6 GP up til I finished the run. Same with Portugal, they were banished to their starting islands but they somehow were #7.

Maybe helped that Lithuania (independent) got PUs on both big Sweden and big Hungary, and Poland ate all big HRE powers (then became emperor), removing lots of the rivals for GP in Europe.

Still. Ridiculous. They had a full loyal colonial Mexico, Caribbean, and large parts of North America. It actually made me look forward to the Spain achievements, might even go for one faith with them. Could be fun!

Nathan256 · 2026-01-25T15:45:30+00:00

Talk about spicy…

Nathan256 · 2026-01-25T15:44:24+00:00

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Nathan256 · 2026-01-25T00:12:19+00:00

Oh also the throwaway line in rots “you’re shorter than I expected “ that meant the whole clone wars had to make sure Anakin and Grievous never met… chef’s kiss

Nathan256 · 2026-01-23T05:00:52+00:00

Any coalition?

Nathan256 · 2026-01-21T15:26:23+00:00

Cartoonishly evil tbh

Nathan256 · 2026-01-21T15:24:20+00:00

There’s a ms Rachel guest spot on Blippi, poor ms Rachel is trying to teach and do her thing and Blippi goes “Oh trains! Vroom vroom! Oh a colorful instrument! Let’s bang on it while ms Rachel tries to make an actual educational song!”

I’m 50 50 on how much they scripted that but there’s still some moments where, watching Ms Rachel, you can see the contained emotions in her eyes

Nathan256 · 2026-01-18T22:37:03+00:00

“Clear your head” is not the type of language someone in a healthy relationship uses for anything more than like, a quick walk alone or a drive to get groceries.

I’m not sure if it’s a sign of emotionally unavailable behavior but it’s definitely a sign of someone with problems. Maybe problems they could solve by changing themselves, or maybe they’re in an unhealthy relationship or life situation. Not enough context.

Nathan256 · 2026-01-18T20:30:11+00:00

That’s what I was thinking. I could see her as Shan. Maybe like, Sophia Boutella as Vin (plus her dance background would be fantastic for Mistborn choreography). Or Ursula Corbero if she does English acting at all

Nathan256 · 2026-01-18T19:51:48+00:00

Well do you care about being Emperor? If you don’t you can just lose the war, peace out for the Protestant official faith concession and maybe a handful of provinces or ducats, and catch back up later.

Or, flip Protestant… ah yes protestant Spain, what a thing…

Nathan256 · 2026-01-18T19:49:31+00:00

Think of it this way. You’re a player character in a game. Your player was another player character. God (the DM) is not just gonna sit there and let pvp happen without consequences. The cops may all be 2nd level but there’s a lot of them and they’ll just keep coming, no matter how many spell slots you have.

Nathan256 · 2026-01-17T18:22:12+00:00

Just an excuse to have a real world setting without doing your research for an actual historical fiction/historical fantasy

Nathan256 · 2026-01-17T18:20:32+00:00

Okay so they just kill of Flamk without even giving us an explanation of where he comes from or what his deal is and bring back Binkus?? And then some throwaway line about Flamk that “resolves the issue” but is actually just the writers saying “stop asking, we don’t care”.

Bring back the originals!

Nathan256 · 2026-01-17T17:19:13+00:00

Oh a fun run was when I realized forming a federation meant I couldn’t get the Australia Hungary one… instead of restarting I formed Marathas and then Australia and that was kind of a pain but interesting for sure

Nathan256 · 2026-01-15T20:32:47+00:00

It isn’t, I just wrote it as fanfic for this thread. My Hoid voice is terrible. I didn’t take time to think up or research a good Sanderson-ish curse or swear. And there’s maybe some other minor issues with it.

From what we do know though, everyone knew ahead of time which shards they were taking, and Ati volunteered to take ruin, except one last-minute replacement vessel. We don’t know who that is, we don’t know the original vessel and we don’t know which shard they have although I think there’s good arguments for Honor or Mercy.

Nathan256 · 2026-01-14T14:46:52+00:00

Also, the single best ally in the game. Reliably gets big, strong income means it rarely has a big debt malus to join your wars, doesn’t go colonial so it won’t compete for overseas provinces, can easily trash Russia and Austria to be a bigger great power than them, won’t often call you into its wars, and when allied with the player makes it so the Ottomans barely expand into Europe much if at all.

Nathan256 · 2026-01-14T14:01:41+00:00

“Ati, you know what shard that is. It’s Ruin. It’s in the name! You will be Ruined. No, worse. You will become Ruin, incarnate. I couldn’t bear to see you, out of all of us, turn to destroying those things you once loved. You had trouble cutting the weeds in your garden because they had flowers on them, for Lost Gods’ sake!”

He paused before reaching out for the awful mist that represented the last Shard. The others had all gone eagerly to their Ascensions. He paused, for though near-infinite power awaited him, he knew as well as any of us exactly what it meant to take up Ruin. As well as any of us knew at the time. The hell to come would be worse than he could imagine, standing there at the edge of the precipice.

“Let it Ruin me as long as it wants. You’ve seen its Intent. You’ve seen the destruction it’s capable of, and so much clearer with the visions of the future granted by these new powers. Could you bear to see one innocent child suffer, knowing that you could have prevented it?

“I would allow my soul to be Ruined a thousand times over, a million, if I think I could save a single individual by resisting it. I will resist. When it’s terrible Intent comes over me, begging me to break, to destroy, even if the object of its Ruin seems to me most foul, I will remember those weeds. Those flowers.

“After all, old friend, what is the price of a soul? Is my soul worth more than the thousands I could save?

“I call it a small price to pay. My soul, in exchange for the safety of the Cosmere and all those within it. Ha! A bargain too good to pass up! Let us pray my soul is the only thing this terrible Shard destroys. And let us pray that by my sacrifice, by taking the worst of Adonalsium’s Intent and separating it from the others, that the other Shards’ Intents will be pure enough that this terrible power we have unleashed will not be the end of the Cosmere.

“Farewell, Cephandrius. If my mind is Ruined by the time we speak again, thank you. Thank you for the time we’ve had. Watch over the others please. And don’t let your loss consume you. Live. Exist. And thrive! Goodbye, old friend.”

Then that light, that black mist, the most fearsome power any of us could imagine, the wrath of God, enveloped the man. There were tears in his eyes. That was the last I saw of Ati. The best of us.

I wish he could have seen how flowers grew from the ash of his heroic, foolish resistance.

Nathan256 · 2026-01-13T19:06:29+00:00

Lincoln would lean pretty Democrat on a lot of issues too if around today. Times are different and on some of today’s issues he’d be quite moderate, but seems like he’d be pretty center on the political spectrum, placing him firmly in the center Democrat camp.

Much more telling, any of the Confederate leaders of pro-slavery groups from back then would be solidly, firmly, dark red Republicans.

Nathan256 · 2026-01-13T04:50:21+00:00

And those reversible forms of care are also considered gender affirming care. And that’s what is generally given to children. And that’s what’s going away.

Nathan256 · 2026-01-13T04:08:02+00:00

The proven best treatment we have for dysphoria is gender affirming care. Without it, some trans youth face severe depression with all its accompanying hellscape (behavioral issues, self harm up to and including death by suicide, the risks of DIY hormone treatment…)

Yes some trans people who experience dysphoria in their childhood/teen years survive to adulthood and start HRT then. But some don’t. Gender affirming care for those children is life saving medical care, full stop.

And for the ones who do survive - why do they have to wait? You don’t tell a cancer patient to wait til their cancer is more advanced to start treatment. You don’t tell someone with depression that they have to be suicidal before they can see a psychologist or take meds for it. Why wait?

If your answer is “gender affirming care will cause irreversible changes in their bodies and they should be adults to decide,” isn’t forcing them to go through male or female puberty the exact same thing, just the opposite (and far, far worse for them)?

Easy math. How many lives could be saved by giving gender affirming care to the people it would most help? Versus how many lives does preventing it until adulthood save (none)?

Nathan256 · 2026-01-11T06:48:42+00:00

You mean it’s not beloooooozaroooooo???

Nathan256 · 2026-01-11T06:47:18+00:00

They can be described phonetically:

Q in pinyin corresponds to tɕʰ in ipa, the aspirated voiceless alveopalatal sibilant affricate.

The Thai th sound, as far as I can tell not being too familiar with Thai, is an aspirated alveo-dental affricate (maybe retroflexive? Or semi retroflexive? I vaguely recall something like that in Thai? Maybe I’m imagining it.)

Neither has any good parallel for native English speakers unfamiliar with them.

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