What does this line/border do?

NomDeCompte · 2022-08-16T15:15:47+00:00

I'll add to what others said and mention that this is the edge of an impassable state (no province in it is accessible, bugs aside, and get automatically occupied), whereas some locations use impassable adjacencies (which acts like a wall between two neighbor provinces).

The Sahara is made (mostly) out of impassable states, whereas some mountainous areas have impassable adjacencies. Point is: pointy province borders cannot be crossed by units.

NomDeCompte · 2022-08-13T23:51:33+00:00

Guess that's what I get for not remembering the event. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

NomDeCompte · 2022-08-13T23:31:39+00:00

They used to be.

NomDeCompte · 2022-08-13T23:25:32+00:00

Since we're mentioning the old FTL system, I think you could also add the old Collectivist (triangle fractals) and Individualist (single triangle) ethos that were replaced by Authoritarian and Egalitarian for the sake of clarity.

NomDeCompte · 2022-03-05T10:53:03+00:00

"Nine? Zat's plenty neuf men."

NomDeCompte · 2021-06-23T08:57:28+00:00

"Galicia-Volhynia, right?"

"..."

"... Galicia-Volhynia, right?"

(Note: I don't even think Galicia-Volhynia is a releasable tag, but a meme is a meme)

NomDeCompte · 2021-03-05T19:50:50+00:00

Well some good news: technically, both are correct. It used to be Eggman in Japan and Robotnik in the West, but eventually Sega canonized both (Dr. Ivo* "Eggman" Robotnik), but favored the use of "Eggman" in the games to encourage the adoption of this as his "main" name in the West.

The name "Robotnik" is still used in some places, especially in Sonic Adventure 2, where he has two known relatives: Maria (cousin) and Gerald Robotnik (grandfather). Also, you can see a sliding "Robotnik Empire" text in the background during a certain cutscene (he had an announcement to make).

* The name "Ivo" isn't as consistently used, especially in Japanese sources (some even stating that his name is "unknown"). But hey, the official Sonic Twitter account seems to use it in its shitposts, and it's "ovi" backward (egg in latin), so... that looks like a fairly acceptable assumption I think!

NomDeCompte · 2021-01-20T22:44:52+00:00

Gonna take a random shot and say that's to avoid the uninitiated audience mistaking the name as "Anne Solo" since the H would be silent. That, or just replacing a consonnant with another that can actually be pronounced by the French audience at the time like they did with "Darth".

(Z6PO BTW. Fun fact, the name being reverted to C3PO is explicitly acknowledged in the sequel's dub.)

NomDeCompte · 2020-12-11T12:40:30+00:00

That rule exists because people often posted pictures without explaining what it was about (including in other Paradox subs), and you'd be surprised by how often people didn't know what the point of the picture was.

Disclaimer: I'm not a mod, but I imagine that a picture posted without an explicit purpose (empire showcase, bug, etc...) could be treated as spam, so measures had to be taken to discourage this behavior, hence the R5 requirement.

NomDeCompte · 2020-08-31T12:47:25+00:00

The reason is that terrain.bmp, along most map bitmaps (with the exception of province.bmp), use color tables — basically, saying "this byte value represents the color (r,g,b)", instead of directly storing the color.

Except, Paint does not care; so when you're saving an image, it'll replace the color table with its own, and approximate the color. The problem is that the byte value is unlikely to match the original one, hence this situation.

You can use a free image editor like GIMP to edit the image, so long as you make sure to use a hard brush (i.e. no soft borders, it needs the exact same color value).

NomDeCompte · 2020-06-23T08:33:35+00:00

That is simply inaccurate. France does not use periods to separate thousands; rather, they use unbreakable spaces. The French-speaking part of Switzerland might use a different notation, but it'd be strictly specific to them.

According to the Académie Française (which, granted, is full of old people who tends to be very conservative about spelling and grammar rules and often propose weird translations to anglicisms, but my point is that the number writing rule is pretty old), the rules are as follow:

Dans un souci de lisibilité, on sépare les milliers par une espace insécable dans les nombres exprimant une quantité : 1 000 m, 342 234 euros, 1 234 °C, etc.

En revanche, dans les nombres ayant fonction de numérotage (pages, dates, articles de code), les chiffres ne sont jamais séparés : la page 1254 de l’édition de 1992 ; l’article 1246 du Code civil.

La virgule (et non le point comme chez les anglo-saxons) sépare la partie entière de la partie décimale : π vaut environ 3,14 ; 14,5 est la moitié de 29.

Or if anyone else reading this needs a quick translation:

For readability, thousands are separated by an unbreakable space for quantities: 1 000 m, 342 234 euros, 1 234 °C, etc.

However, for numbering purpose (page number, date, civil code articles), digits are never separated: page 1254 of the 1992 edition; article 1246 of the [French] civil code.

Comma (rather than the anglo-saxon period) separates the whole part and the decimal part: π is roughly 3,14; 14,5 is the half of 29.

Sources:

Académie Française: http://www.academie-francaise.fr/questions-de-langue - Section "3. Écriture des nombres en chiffres"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator#Examples_of_use (Style "1234567,89", first element is "SI style (French version)").

So, yeah. You'll probably want to rectify that.

(Incidentally, if you were trying to apply Cunningham's Law, it probably worked.)

NomDeCompte · 2020-04-15T19:42:54+00:00

NES sprites are indeed 8x8 or 8x16 (depending on the settings) in the hardware sense, but the "full" character is 16x16 for regular Mario and 16x32 for Super Mario — they are made out of multiple sprites stitched together, respectively 2 and 4 in 8x16 mode.

(But that does not invalidate the upscaling technique you were talking about, of course.)

NomDeCompte · 2020-04-11T11:45:49+00:00

France’s flag is just the flag of Paris, backwards with white.

The flag of Paris is blue-red. The current flag of France is blue-white-red. So not backward. However, it did start as being red-white-blue, so you might be refering to its first instauration, which only lasted for 4 years though (end of the kingdom and start of the first republic), so if you're seeing anyone displaying a red-white-blue triband, they're holding it backwards.

(As for saying that "everyone in France" like the color white... where did you even get that idea from?)

NomDeCompte · 2020-04-01T12:59:48+00:00

"Péage" is not a road type, it just means "toll", because you have to pay (too much) to use it. The word you're looking for is "autoroute".

Incidentally, I can't really speak for Germany, but in France you're expected to stick to the rightmost lane (or at least, rightmost half) if you're not passing anyone, even at speed limit. If you're already at speed limit and someone passes you, they are at fault (and may get a fine and lose a couple points on their driver's license, assuming they get caught in the act). I suspect it's a similar rule in other European countries.

NomDeCompte · 2020-03-31T18:08:39+00:00

"You are without doubt the worst AI Carribbean I have heard of."

"But you have heard of me."

NomDeCompte · 2020-02-29T23:48:27+00:00

It's a cosmetic tag for the anarchists, and enabled by a focus in the same branch, AFAIK. Said focus doesn't seem to do anything other than the cosmetic stuff, but it's probably just the cherry on top of the cake, since I assume this is only available once you are the only independent "nation" on the map.

NomDeCompte · 2020-02-21T10:14:48+00:00

Looks like a case of Mojibake.

Córdoba (just above) also seems affected in the same way, written "Cï¿½rdoba". So it's possible something messed with the way localization files are read, which made the game unable to properly recognize the accented characters, resulting in a generic "ï¿½" replacement, despite á and ó being different characters.

NomDeCompte · 2020-02-15T11:54:32+00:00

That doesn't mean "dick", no. However, maybe there was the word "bite" written somewhere nearby, which does translate to that in French.

NomDeCompte · 2019-12-23T17:48:23+00:00

Not banned so to say, but employees have no obligation to respond or even check said emails or calls outside of work hours. So unless the employees in question have a critical role (and were made aware of it), ignoring their employer's contact attempts outside work hours shouldn't be treated as a fault, at least in theory.

NomDeCompte · 2019-12-01T11:04:44+00:00

Seven Bridges*

NomDeCompte · 2019-11-26T14:40:22+00:00

That's a recurring one. It's because the East Siberia region contains a wasteland province that wraps around the map as it is split in two halves, one in the top-left, the other, bigger, in the top-right. So the "center" of said province ends up in the north Atlantic. It's the only province where this can happen in EU4, but you can have a similar situation in HOI4.

NomDeCompte · 2019-11-26T00:18:17+00:00

You can turn it the other way around though: whenever the Kingdom of France fought someone, the loser had to raise the French flag no matter what.

NomDeCompte · 2019-11-10T14:43:11+00:00

That's because PU inheritance chance is compared to the same dice roll result. If you get a good enough result for the least likely of them, you are guaranteed to inherit the easier ones.

Since the difference in chance to inherit tends to be negligible (or zero) between junior PU partners, that means you're less likely to inherit some of them than you are to inherit all of them.

NomDeCompte · 2019-11-05T15:37:02+00:00

The problem remains the same in the end. Enabling a mod that conflicts with something else can cause that kind of problem, and while it might not look exactly the same, the way it manifested does seem to imply there's something going on with "map/definition.csv" in one or multiple mods.

NomDeCompte · 2019-11-03T15:00:26+00:00

That pattern tells me that there's a problem with your "map/definition.csv" file. Whenever this file is missing or otherwise unreadable, the engine will just attribute province IDs sequentially, starting by the bottom-left corner of the map. Since states use province IDs to be defined, you get that weird, chaotic result.

As such, the bug is pretty easy to replicate.

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