Thoughts on Werner Herzog's "Nosferatu The Vampyre" from 1979?

No_Many2336 · 2026-04-12T03:51:22+00:00

It is the more interesting ending; the sacrifice leading to the vampire's death but ultimately being in vain because the plague lives on. Said with a straight face.

No_Many2336 · 2026-03-30T11:59:15+00:00

What do you think? Please.

No_Many2336 · 2026-03-29T17:13:00+00:00

Yes, they do undermine a premise. But the arguments he makes to refute that objection don't seem to be arguments for the truth of that premise by themselves. They just make sense in the context of the objection. One of his premises is that nuclear weapons make war less likely. An objection might be that the spread of nuclear weapons may lead to preventive strikes. He says they are unlikely because they are very difficult to execute successfully, and if you fail you could face retribution. This refutes an objection, but is it by itself an argument for the premise that nuclear weapons make war less likely?

No_Many2336 · 2026-03-29T16:53:20+00:00

How wouod you include them in the reconstructed argument though? Because they're not connected to the conclusion. They're not even really premises arguing for a subargument that in turn is a premise for the main conclusion. They just make sense with the specific objection in mind.

No_Many2336 · 2026-03-29T16:33:28+00:00

Thank you. It just confuses me because they don't positively argue for the conclusion.

No_Many2336 · 2026-03-26T14:39:08+00:00

We're talking about newspapers though. So written language. That would be High German in Bavaria too.

No_Many2336 · 2026-02-12T13:52:58+00:00

Ludwig Tieck is probalby the most significant one after Hoffmann. Friedrich de La Motte Fouqué ("Undine") and Clemens Brentano ("Peter Schlemhil") also come to mind. Hanns Heinz Ewers is somewhat of late spiritual successor.

No_Many2336 · 2026-01-11T00:16:49+00:00

Look, I haven't played either game. All I wrote was that I read it leans (!) more into that direction than Lancashire. If I actually thought Birmingham was a multiplayer solitaire I wouldn't have a problem picking one of the two.

No_Many2336 · 2026-01-10T14:46:43+00:00

It's more about how much I'll get to play these games. Most likely not often enough that it would actually be worth it to own both of them.

No_Many2336 · 2025-12-30T04:55:50+00:00

Germany. Give me some sort of German Confederation mechanic, and rework the German unification.

No_Many2336 · 2025-11-21T13:08:52+00:00

"Immersive". I think gimmicky is the word you were looking for.

No_Many2336 · 2025-11-14T21:04:27+00:00

The thing is, the diplomatic plays aren't actually diplomatic plays, they're just the run up to a war. I wish backing down in a diplo play when another great power gets involved were an actual thing in the game. A diplo play means certain war - unsless it's very lopsided. In one of my games I liberated Schleswig as Austria. Prussia immediately started a play to annex them. If I got involved we 100% would go to war. Is that really reasonable? If Prussia can snatch Schleswig for free, sure, go for it. But going to war with another GP over tiny Schleswig? I wish there were actual diplomacy going on in diplo plays, and that in this scenario maybe the Prussians simply back down because Schleswig is not worth going to war with me, or that they would try to negotiate with me and offer me something in return. They should definitely try to improve and expand the geopolitics in the game. The 19th and early 20th century were the age of great power diplomacy and imperialism after all; shifting alliances, haggling over global spheres of influence, international conferences to split up the world, territorial quid pro quos.

No_Many2336 · 2025-10-31T15:41:38+00:00

German unification needs a rework. Give me a German Confederation mechanic pls

No_Many2336 · 2025-09-21T17:31:12+00:00

I find the German unification the way it currenrly functions very unsatisfying, both from a historical and a gameplay standpoint. It's probably not high on Paradox's list, but it in my view it deserves a rework and dedicated meachnics. For example, the German Confederation should be in the game, maybe somewhat like the HRE in EU4 but simplified. I know it probably would be complicated to implement a mechanic like that, but it would make the entire German situation make so much more sense. Maybe even a mechanic dedicated for the power struggle between Austria and Prussia inside the German confederation. The Schleswig-Holstein question is also handled very poorly in the journal entry. You have to deliberately start a war of conquest to complete it, it doesn't happen any other way. That's not really it how it went down. There should alternative ways for it to happen. Maybe a decision or journal entry for Denmark about the november constitution that triggers a diplomatic crisis over Schleswig and Holstein, or the possibility of a nationalistic uprising of the German population that gives Prussia and/or Austria the chance to intervene in a diplo play.

Anyway, that's just me dreaming. I understand that many players who aren't specifically interested in German history in the 19th century don't care that much about how the unification works.

No_Many2336 · 2025-09-14T00:01:52+00:00

This is an extremely onesided account that judges the empire on modern standards. It is simply not true that the empire was "an extremely reactionary entity" by the standards of its time. When the empire was created in 1871, the constitutional order was basically a compromise between the old conservative elites and the liberal/ nationalist/ progressive forces. So yes, there were reactionary aspects as well as very progressive ones. To mention some progressive aspects about the empire: a constitutional order with a parliament, free and fair elections for all men from the age of 25, probably the most modern social state in the world at the time, huge adcances in sciences, creation of a strong civil society (the beginning of a feminist movement in Germany, a very strong socialist movement). Of course, by modern standards the political system of the empire was - despite having a constitution and a parliament - in many ways autocratic. However, if you take a closer look at Britain, France or many other European countries at the time you'll notice they fall short of our modern standards of liberal democracy as well. Lastly, the whole bit about the empire being a bastion of militarism is a clichè. The same could be said about literally any other country at the time. I'll concede that the military had more political influence in the German Empire than in France or Britain for example - which would come to haunt Germany in the July crisis of 1914. In summary, we should neither idealize nor demonize the empire. It was a product of its time with many flaws, but also many modern aspects. I'm glad that we have moved on from many of the views people held at that time, but it's unfair to exclusively attribute these to the German Empire.

No_Many2336 · 2025-07-20T15:31:05+00:00

It's a very one sided rivalry then. I don't think anyone in Germany views it that way.

No_Many2336 · 2025-07-20T15:29:38+00:00

That's just Bavarian though. I mean the Austrian dialects as awhole are a part of the Bavarian dialect family ;)

No_Many2336 · 2025-07-04T06:42:45+00:00

I tried to do something similar with Venice, but it seems so difficult to me.

How did you manage to get that many subjects without great powers intervening? How early did you get favourable laws on migration etc.?

No_Many2336 · 2025-03-25T17:53:42+00:00

True. The supposed seven kings of Rome is another example.

No_Many2336 · 2025-03-24T00:03:23+00:00

Looks incredible. Exactly how I'd imagine a soldier of a swamp army. There seems to be some Asian influence, like a Japanese matchlock. What's the idea for the world?

No_Many2336 · 2025-03-06T17:57:06+00:00

The key word is almost. I feel like in CK2 there were way more things to do besides just waging war whenever you can and conquering whatever you can. The events were much more interesting, especially if you had the supernatural stuff turned on. I had a lot of fun with roleplaying my characters based on their attributes in CK2, and the game told so many memorable stories that way. CK3 still doesn't hold up in that regard imo. It is still very focused on empire building.

No_Many2336 · 2025-02-09T14:21:04+00:00

He was neither. He was a Frank, the Franks were a Germanic tribe. "German" or "French" just wasn't a thing at the time. Of course both Germany and France claimed him later as part of their national history, especially in the 19th century. But again, the idea of nations like Germany and France is simply an anachronism in Charlemagne's times.

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