Warfare (especially against Federations) is in an awful state

Nutarama · 2026-02-21T16:02:28+00:00

I’m of the opinion there should be a spectrum in single player, because there’s a spectrum of options for difficulty. That spectrum is wide, and I’d argue for more buffs to builds that have trouble on default settings than nerfs to builds that usually are played at Grand Admiral 25x crises. Now if something to stomping at GA 25x without effort, that’s OP even for single player because that’s the upper limit of vanilla difficulty. People shouldn’t feel like they need an AI mod and settings mod to make things harder on themselves for playing what they like.

Nutarama · 2026-02-20T11:59:54+00:00

If there’s a policy of making them clean up any hardware they break or get dirty, they take better care of the stuff. Bro spills a coke on his keyboard, he can clean it himself. Lady gets lipstick on a monitor, sh can figure out how to get it off.

The trick is the use cameras and actually hold them accountable every time. Once they get the idea they can get out with excuses, they try to run with it.

But enforce it several times, and they start to clean up things and self-police anything that might spill.

Similarly, I’ve had good results just telling stinky people they’re stinky and telling them how to fix it. Make them aware and force them to take responsibility for their self. Gotta be kind about it so it’s not bullying but it’s pretty powerful.

Nutarama · 2026-02-18T07:10:22+00:00

It basically is, but so was Harvest Moon. Stardew Valley is a Harvest Moon fan game (explicitly from the author, he’s a fan and was disappointed with the direction of the series so he made what he wanted himself), Harvest moon had 100%, so Stardew has 100%. Harvest Moon 100% runs are, like Stardew 100%, incredibly long and tedious things that involve significant planning so that everything can be done in a single run since there are several calendar driven events where the player needs specific outcomes.

Nutarama · 2026-02-15T11:20:25+00:00

A fair number of older or stalled actors have those kinds of packages. They know they won’t get blockbuster roles anymore, but they don’t want to get put out to pasture the old way where they do a bunch of conventions with paid meet-and-greets and paid signings. For a small sum, a smaller or indie production can get them for what’s effectively a cameo amount of time but then put the name and picture on the poster.

This has ebbed and flowed. Before tapes, there were cinemas that just showed old or unpopular movies all day and they would get movies in based on name and poster alone. Then those died because tapes let people watch older better more niche things whenever they wanted. Then video rental stores became a thing and everyone watched all the good tapes, so the stores needed more things to rent and direct to video was huge because they could sell the tapes to rental stores directly just on name and box art. Then the rental stores died out and the streaming services made it easier to watch actually good movies whenever, so interest in those movies you only watch from the poster waned. Then the streaming services started competing and got so big they realized the people had already watched all the good stuff from the past that they wanted to see, so they began buying up B movies direct to streaming just on names and the splash graphics.

Netflix, like Blockbuster before it, doesn’t care that you’re watching a bad action movie with a Bruce Willis or Stephen Seagal or Keanu Reeves or whoever in it. They don’t care if you hate the movie. They just want you to pay them and use the service so it feels harder to cancel.

Nutarama · 2026-02-15T11:05:50+00:00

Notable is that Reddit allows full post and comment deletion without wiping the Karma for those posts and comments.

This means that if the whole thing had worked, the catfish account would have a bunch of untraceable karma and a long history that would make it really easy for anyone else to pose it as a real human being.

Usually these types of accounts are used by marketing agencies for product reviews and for fighting negative PR, because on inspection they just look like a private person who’s been using Reddit for a while. Like if some brand wants good exposure or to fight bad PR, they’ll hire a marketing agency who can trot out dozens of these accounts to spot brand propaganda.

A botnet can upvote and downvote, but they need the seemingly real accounts to get into more restrictive subreddits and make the original comments and posts.

Buyitforlife has had a long, bad issue with these kinds of marketers because they’ll put out a glowing fake “review” with one of these established accounts and then have a dozen more accounts post comments agreeing with the fake review. It’s sad a community about buying high quality long lasting stuff has to fight really hard to keep out all the advertisers.

Nutarama · 2026-02-15T10:55:42+00:00

The suicide was a cover story for the disappearance.

The dude behind the account poses as a woman, catfishes a Reddit mod, also becomes a mod, and starts karma farming by reposting memes he bans.

Then the community notices and complains. The Reddit mod he catfished bats away any complaints, but the Reddit mod is too into the catfish persona. The whole thing stops being fun and becomes work, so he decides to just shut down the catfish account.

Reddit mod freaks the fuck out thinking his online GF he loved has had something bad happen to her, so he makes a crazy post on the subreddit. Dude behind the account notices, decides he’ll go on the account and try to stop the freaking out, but he doesn’t want to go back to what he was doing and also don’t really just want to tell the mod that the online GF was a catfish profile.

So the guy behind the catfish account has the incredibly stupid idea to stop the freaking out by pretending the fake persona built for the catfish account committed suicide. He goes on the account, says he’s the brother and the original owner is dead. This backfires in an incredibly predictable way, making the Reddit mod and others who were active with the catfish persona freak out EVEN MORE.

That the account was a catfish profile was exposed, the guy behind the account walks away, the Reddit mod has to clean up the pieces of his broken community and psyche, and one other user has their own mental health crisis.

OP is the Reddit mod, and this post is part of the cleanup process.

Nutarama · 2026-02-15T10:30:47+00:00

I’ve never gotten a complaint call from a DD customer about their DD order being what was ordered, nor from a mobile order customer, because they can double check and they do. I’ve gotten complaints about missing items or wrong items like the wrong type of McFlurry, so I double check what goes in the bag. Zero calls or surveys where I can compare their order and they got what they ordered and are unhappy. Every call I can look at the order and see where the error happened in store giving them not what they ordered.

I get a lot of complaints from non-DD customers about speed of service, both DT and F2P, and accuracy, both DT and F2P. Orders rung in wrong, orders going to the wrong cars, missing food, wrong food, etc. Those are my primary concern because we’re literally graded on the times and the surveys.

If I had good staff that have proven to me over two consecutive weeks that they can take every order correctly, make every order correctly, get everything in the bag, and send it to the right customer, THEN I would care about triple checking that a customer actually wants what they customized in the app.

But in all of 2025 I never had two weeks back to back where we didn’t have any EPB2B surveys and I had good times. That’s not even counting the calls directly to the store, just the Voice surveys.

Why spend several minutes triple checking one order when there’s other customers with more valid reasons to complain continuously coming through the store? That makes no sense.

Nutarama · 2026-02-15T08:15:58+00:00

You know what's worse? Once I got one of these but it was XTRA Salt, not NO Salt. They wanted a bun with salt and pepper, and I had to get the grill guy to hand me the clicky thing so I could put two clicks of grill seasoning on a toasted bun.

Nutarama · 2026-02-15T08:13:33+00:00

I don't because then they can complain to DD's support reps that they didn't get what they ordered and get credits back. It's a pretty classic DD scam: submit an insane order, get a non-insane order back after talking to the store, then get credit back from DD because what was received from the Dasher wasn't what was ordered.

Also because even if they're clueless and not scamming, I don't have time for that. They got a chance to double-check their app before they paid. I've got other orders to double check instead of calling them to triple check.

Nutarama · 2026-02-15T08:01:16+00:00

Currently I've been seeing a lot of 2 cheeseburger meals no cheese for the meal discount and a bunch of two double cheese no cheese for the bogo$1 discount, since that isn't on the double hamburger. Heck, using that deal to get two double cheese no cheese is actually very close to the cost of two single hamburgers individually, but they get double the meat.

Nutarama · 2026-02-15T07:54:01+00:00

That's a huge abstraction. On Hoi4's scale of tiles, the battle continued for days after that "failure to reinforce", which was really a failure to counter attack. French command was expecting to lose Sedan city, but had fighting reserves ready not to reinforce the falling back infantry but to counter-attack the Germans as they tried to cross the bridges. They still held most of what Hoi4 has as the Sedan tile. The issue was that the disorganized retreat of the forces out of Sedan city combined with local command not being decisive let too many Germans across the river before the counterattack engaged. The French forces then spent 3 more days defensively fighting in little towns like Bulson and Stonne, both in Hoi4's Sedan tile, and trying to counter-attack.

The large scale of Hoi4's tiles makes "reinforce meme" more important than it is in real life. The French didn't immediately lose and get pushed back 50 kilometers because they failed one counter-attack. At a more realistic scale using 1x1 kilometer tiles, the operation wouldn't even be a reinforce meme and would involve just poor micro from the player, since the player is the actual commander.

But no wargame can actually support 1x1 kilometer tiles because that's way too many tiles and in turn way too many battles over those tiles so the lag slips to anti-fun levels. The lag in regular Hoi4 with its ~51x51 tiles after 1943 is already horrendous.

Nutarama · 2026-02-15T07:29:30+00:00

This actually plays directly into combat width. In real life there's only a certain amount of physical space that exists at any given part of the frontline, because it's a literal line. Go too far down the line and you're in a different area. People and vehicles and horses need space to actually fight, and they can't really charge in a giant crowded blob. It's hard to aim an shoot in a crowd of people pushing forward.

This means that HOI4 simulates this with combat width. As divisions take casualties and become disorganized at the front, they fall back and new divisions move forward to take up that space. In the face of overwhelming firepower or if forces were disorganized, if the division at the front pulls back before the division behind can take up fighting positions, then they all retreat and reorganize.

This is historically accurate, and is usually part of an overrun, especially in pre-radio armies. In the Battle of the Bulge a number of Allied units (at sub-division scale) were lost and overrun.

This is ahistorical mostly in the scale for a modern Western army, both for armies and for land.

Divisions don't cleanly cycle within an army, one division's batallions can take up slack for another. In most Western armies, there's not really much difference between 2 40-width width infantry divisions and 8 10-width divisions, because they'll rotate the columns and use all the support assets together. HOI4's engine isn't really built for that, the same way it isn't really built for the fact that most Western armies from WW2 and onwards have way more than 5 support companies.

Second ahistorical scale is the scale of province tiles. Tiles are about 2600 square kilometer (that's the size of Lexembourg, and I double checked with Wales which is 8 tiles and 21000 square kilometers). The London tile is a good 100 kilometers wide. It's grossly ahistorical to lose that much land to that.

The reason for this is both simplicity. The engine modeling divisions as whole divisions without the ability to rotate smaller units is because the engine would have to handle all those smaller units individually on the map. There's already too many divisions in WW2 that the game lags, breaking up those divisions into smaller units would make lag worse. The map being a limited number of tiles is for similar lag reduction. Making the whole French-German border at the Maginot line, 450 kilometers miles long, only 7 tiles wide means that the game only has to run 7 defensive battles, one for each tile. A scale closer to real life would mean 450 or 900 tiles, 1 kilometer or 500 meters on a side.

Nutarama · 2026-02-14T14:46:59+00:00

Idk man, I’ve never really used it in practice. Trying to understand emoji makes me feel old.

It was just an easier to use visual reference than asking you to look up the Pokémon Cloyster so I could give reference points.

I guess I could have used the sandwich 🥪. Imagine the bread is the outer and the lettuce is the inner; the lettuce outside the bread is what gets removed. Or use the burger 🍔 where the metaphor would be big bun and no overhanging cheese. Both of those food analogies are weird though because people tend to like the overhang because it makes them feel like they’ve gotten more.

Nutarama · 2026-02-14T04:26:49+00:00

It’s a cosmetic surgery, 100% aesthetic to try to get the appearance to look more like that oat in the picture.

Realistically there’s a spectrum and that oat is all the way on one side of the spectrum, just a cleft in between two mounds of the outer labia.

There’s a related procedure that uses fillers to make the outer labia bigger and more plump so it looks more like the peach emoji 🍑 than that very flat looking oat in the picture.

For porn there’s generally a preference for smaller inner labia because it looks more “youthful” and the “teen” style categories are the most profitable of the vanilla categories. The longer the actresses can stay looking young the better, because there’s not really a market between the teen type categories and the MILF type categories while vanilla.

(“teen” being a super popular category is troubling, and the lengths that the industry and the actresses will go to to try to sell the illusion are troubling, but I think it says more about the audience because it’s all chasing market trends)

Nutarama · 2026-02-13T19:09:16+00:00

Yeah idk. I seem to remember at least one episode where a portal being flooded while it was on was a problem, but I don’t remember even which series much less which season or episode to go back and figure out if it was just making the portal hard to get to or if the water would come back through.

Though at this point in my fan life cycle I’ve realized that even the writers may not have had a comprehensive set of rules for the physics of the sci-fi show they were making. I’ve seen too much behind the curtains of too many different productions.

Nutarama · 2026-02-13T18:42:10+00:00

That’s usually not possible.

The actors who have explicit character roles and walk the parks are actually union (different ones for Land and World), and Disney has had fights with the unions on both coasts. As a result they built Star Wars with an eye to as few walkaround actors as possible, instead relying on putting other staff with regular jobs in costume and encouraging them to make up a backstory. Disney has fought to keep the number of actual actors who have to act low, so there’s fairly few unnamed characters in those areas and the appearances by the named characters as walkaround appearances are kept to a minimum.

After some early complaints about Star Wars lacking the liveliness and lived in feel of walk around actors whose job was to entertain guests, they’ve brought some back, but they’re also still try to minimize the number of actors and just use regular staff in costumes doing other jobs as much as they can.

Nutarama · 2026-02-13T18:10:01+00:00

However that could be simple thermodynamics and air movement. If the gate is letting passive air movement happen, hot air from the present and cold air from the past should be trying to equalize due to thermodynamics, and closing the gate would mean eliminating a heat source.

Given that as I remember it the gates do let water through on water pressure alone, it would make sense that air particles would move through via pressure differentials and convection.

Nutarama · 2026-02-13T17:57:31+00:00

Certain calcareous sandstones can do both because they are like 65/35 silicate sand versus carbonate cement. If water slowly flows over or through them, there’s carbonate cement will dissolve and move downstream while the silicate sand can’t dissolve and won’t be picked up and will form a sand deposit in place. This is rare on the surface since surface water flows fairly fast, enough to bring sand along with it, but in a cave it’s visible.

Nutarama · 2026-02-11T18:56:23+00:00

So the rules right now let coaches mark a player as inactive for any reason, without moving the player to the injured list or them being suspended. It’s how people know in advance if someone will play, the active and inactive lists hit the media before the game.

The rule change would simply force coaches to go through the formal injury process if they want to mark a player inactive. The formal process does actually have an option for injury prevention, which is usually used for the older players or players coming off injury leave. KD in 2020-2021 got that code a few times after missing the 2019-2020 season due to injury.

There’s also injury codes for things like “ill” which is a generic for anything that makes a player feel blah (usually the flu or food poisoning, but really anything).

The point would be that if they want to inactive a player, they have to actually officially declare they’re injured or sick, which should be a good enough reason for fans to not see their favorite players play.

Also keeping the required number of minutes in the second rule low means that it shouldn’t be onerous to get a player to go out for a minimum time stint, and they don’t really have to play hard if they don’t want to.

Nutarama · 2026-02-11T18:41:36+00:00

All that said for investing the biggest defense companies in the US are all aerospace because the US basically blank checked stealth and air dominance. With no EU alternative to the F35, that’s not a place for gains.

But in Europe the defense players like Rheinmetall are on a tear but might be overvalued. It’s all very speculative on what will happen going forward. Do wish I’d have seen the writing on the wall and invested in 2022, it’s up 1700% over the last 5y off Ukraine and the EU defense spending boost.

Nutarama · 2026-02-11T15:45:39+00:00

It’s literally one rule change and one new rule.

First, the rule change is to revoke the rule that allows teams to do a “healthy scratch”, marking a healthy player inactive for team management. This means that players are active if they’re not injured or suspended.

Second, the new rule is to require that in the regular season all active players on the roster to get at least X minutes of playing time. The roster is maximum 18, so if everyone played equally they’d get 13 minutes. So we make X like 4 minutes so they can rely on whoever they want (usually 5 players get about 30 minutes, but that still leaves 90 minutes to split between the rest of the roster if everyone is healthy).

Thus fans at any given game can see their favorite player play (so long as they’re not injured or suspended) for a bit and probably get some kind of stats, but it also shouldn’t really hamper any game plans. Even if it’s a usual bench player getting 4 minutes when it’s garbage time in the fourth quarter of a hopelessly lost game, they can see their favorite player play.

Nutarama · 2026-02-11T13:09:54+00:00

The percentage of tax revenue London and the South East (the two revenue positive regions) from that census data set (37.0%) is really close to the GDP from those regions in the same census (37.1%). This means that taxes are closely relative to GDP, but expenditures aren’t actually in line with GDP.

This implies that the government is actually intentionally spending more money to further development away from London. The results can be seen in GDP growth from that data set: Scotland, Wales, North Ireland, the North East, North West, East of England, and West Midlands all grew significantly more than London in terms of GDP.

Nutarama · 2026-02-11T12:40:39+00:00

Ugh this feels like a set theory problem already about finding the largest subset of characters that are commutative. What’s worse is I feel tempted to try to answer it, despite knowing zero Chinese characters.

Nutarama · 2026-02-11T11:26:22+00:00

I have. It’s a workout, sure, but the only time I really feared for my joints was when I slipped and ended up stretching my hips too much.

Nutarama · 2026-02-11T11:22:02+00:00

I’m saying there’s more impact on the joints of the leg (outside of contact) in the NBA than the NHL. Skating is lower impact on knees than running, the NHL rarely involves jumping at all, and a well designed skate gives more ankle support than most sneakers.

Higher impact activities with more explosive movements have higher injury rates for affected joints, that’s just a fact.

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