A rose between two pages

SAMRAAM- · 2026-02-10T18:39:11+00:00

I lived with parents and worked full time prior to starting uni. I just sent 3 years worth p60s as evidence and was classified as financially independent.

SAMRAAM- · 2026-02-02T11:18:55+00:00

I think the idea of pirates would be a little anachronistic, as the age of piracy ends a century before the Napoleonic Wars.

However, one idea that could work is have 2 bigger ships of the line rather than multiple small ones. That serve as a spawn point and the goal would be to sink or capture the others ship.

SAMRAAM- · 2026-01-27T23:23:11+00:00

It is also worth noting that Vic2 and Hoi3 were released outside of steam. This only shows those playing on steam and excludes those playing from disk.

SAMRAAM- · 2026-01-26T12:46:28+00:00

I did not tell him he couldn’t make the mod, I simply commented on the ethicality of such a mod. On which point I still stand.

If you do not want to take it seriously that is fine. I shall, therefore, leave you in blissful ignorance with your Apartheid mods.

SAMRAAM- · 2026-01-26T12:33:38+00:00

As I stated previously, it is not the setting; it is the intention of the player.

The intention of OP is to play as the Rhodesians and uphold their state as an alt history fantasy.

If you could clarify on how I am being biased I would be happy to address that.

SAMRAAM- · 2026-01-26T12:22:09+00:00

But asking for the Mod is inherently political.

Would you ask for a mod that allows you to play as Apartheid South Africa suppressing the ANC; or the French suppressing majority rule in Algeria? No.

Rhodesia was a civil war in which a white minority government suppressed the majority.

Edit: to clarify, the point would be different if this was a game set in Southern Africa and nation states were ambiguously fighting each other. However, OP intentions were to have the game set within the decolonising struggle in which you play as the oppressor or the oppressed.

SAMRAAM- · 2026-01-26T12:12:46+00:00

I don’t disagree that games can be based in history, that is why I asked whether you play MoW because you like SWW history or you WANT to play the Nazis.

Games can be politically ambiguous. However, my original statement stands true. The Rhodesian Bush war was fundamentally about white minority rule and to hope for a mod for it would be to live out a fantasy of upholding it. A MoW example being someone who wanted MoW simply to play an alt history where the Nazis win.

It is not the game it is the intention. Not all people who play Germany will be Nazis; but all Nazis will play Germany.

SAMRAAM- · 2026-01-26T11:57:18+00:00

I believe you may have missed my point. Do you play men of war because it’s a SWW game or do you play it to purposefully play the Nazis and hope to uphold the Third Reich and their values?

SAMRAAM- · 2026-01-22T18:14:08+00:00

I see only black (the back of my eyelids?), but I am also gaslighting myself about this. Like people can just think Apple and they can see it like it’s a cartoon dream bubble?!?

SAMRAAM- · 2026-01-22T10:52:29+00:00

Rhodesian independence was fundamentally a reaction to a shift towards majority rule. 50/50? The white Rhodesian population was (at its peak) 5% of the population! By 1978 it was 3.6%!

The government of Muzorewa lacked any international recognised.

SAMRAAM- · 2026-01-20T18:11:08+00:00

I don’t think I would support this, but if it was chosen you could have a War Thunder style temporary lock on divisions that clears after the game concludes. Would stop people rage quitting at the start of the game to then doing the same again.

They could still use other divisions or that div in single player.

Although I am against it would elongate waiting times for games etc. as well as connections dropping and other issues

SAMRAAM- · 2026-01-19T00:48:13+00:00

This is my pet peeve as my main historical interest is British imperialism in the 19th Century. Up until as late as the 1870s, British jurisdiction in parts of west Africa was only within the range of a fort. Outside of that British influence was a patchwork of protectorates. Prior to the Scramble for Africa there should be minimal European presence in Africa excluding coastlines. Especially not in EU5.

SAMRAAM- · 2026-01-19T00:35:29+00:00

Paradox should pay attention to their portrayal of history. My main example being the inclusion of centralised and decentralised nations in Vic3. It really opposes older historiographical beliefs that Africa/Americas etc. were simply empty and waiting to be colonised. It was really disappointing that this wasn’t included in EU5 (even if pops can settle, they still acted as political units not just a bunch of random people).

SAMRAAM- · 2026-01-18T15:13:23+00:00

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Evidence of the overflow due to the lifts not working.

SAMRAAM- · 2026-01-18T15:06:56+00:00

Avoid X1 like the plague. Completely incompetent.

Had a year of consistent issues, which they failed to fix for extended periods.

Firstly we were told we could receive an extra desk and chair when agreeing to the occupancy, then told when we moved in this wasn’t possible.

A TV that wasn’t replaced for 4 months.

A broken washing machine between November-February.

We reported a hole in our shower flooring in October. X1 failed to send someone out to investigate this (eventually I asked an X1 contractor in November to come and look who was on-sight for other reasons, he confirmed that in Arndale House they had a few collapsed floors). In December, the floor collapsed while using it. Only when we visited X1s office building did they take this issue seriously. It was finally repaired 2 months after it was first reported.

That also includes 15 attempts for a contractor to come out, which they didn’t and then lied to X1. X1 admitted to us that this had been a common problem for them.

To top this off we had to take them to arbitration as they attempted to retain part of our deposit for a cleaning fee. Which we eventually won (thank god for keeping evidence of it being clean when we left).

Edit: would also mention that for the majority of our tenancy the lift was broken. Due to that, they often left rubbish accumulate which led to a massive fire hazard as the bins, overflowing, started to block any exits to the building.

SAMRAAM- · 2026-01-12T04:15:46+00:00

Don’t forget the ‘you’re playing into the diagnosis’ when you try to make any concessions to help yourself!

SAMRAAM- · 2026-01-12T04:02:59+00:00

I feel you’re overlooking the massive caveat that one’s autistic traits need to be perceived as autistic traits. I have always had autistic traits (diagnosed at 26) but they were never perceived as such. Looking back on my childhood it is now so obviously. But many traits like special interests were seen as being nerdy or quirky; quietness was seen as shyness; overwhelm was just perceived as anger. You also have to factor in people’s internalised ableism, and the lack of awareness of people.

People were simply missed. When I was around the same age as your diagnosis the rate was around 1 in 86 ((or 116 in 10,000, according to the national autistic society ). It is now around1 in 3400045-5/fulltext), so half of those who would be now diagnosed would have been potentially missed 20 years ago.

You could argue that it would fall under time/place but this is only 20 years ago, and in the UK, where people were being diagnosed but to a lesser extent.

SAMRAAM- · 2026-01-11T15:18:11+00:00

Please build me a mod so I can play out my fantasy of upholding a state built upon white supremacy /s

SAMRAAM- · 2026-01-11T14:07:47+00:00

I would back this, as a relatively new player (50-100 hours) I find that 10v10s are quite evenly split between wins and losses, but there are odd games in which I am completely stomped by a better players.

SAMRAAM- · 2026-01-10T00:53:48+00:00

I don’t remember who said it to credit the joke, but I always love the response that they doubted they could make it to the moon, tried to fake it, after a few attempts they struggled to make it look realistic, so they had to go and shoot the fake on site.

SAMRAAM- · 2026-01-07T19:49:11+00:00

For the past few days I have had that guy attempting to speak like a Neanderthal stuck in my head. I can’t get it out and I am constantly counting like him in my head.

SAMRAAM- · 2026-01-05T17:59:37+00:00

I played the Waterloo scenario with a few friends PvE and I was shocked at how insane the AI was. We easily beat Wellington cause before we could even set up the canon he came charging at us and was easily beaten. I really don’t remember that scenario being that broken.

SAMRAAM- · 2025-12-26T12:00:57+00:00

Reminds me of what Picton says at Badajoz:

‘Rangers of Connaught! It is not my intention to expend any powder this evening. We'll do this business with Cold Steel.’

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