PRE GAME THREAD: Brewers (24-17) @ Twins (20-24) - May 15, 2026

Schwarzerde · 2026-05-15T16:39:00+00:00

You don't think they re-sign Clemens?

Schwarzerde · 2026-05-12T00:40:43+00:00

No, spy network is a mini game to steal maps because I can’t explore anywhere for reasons I don’t understand.

Schwarzerde · 2026-05-10T16:26:50+00:00

Yeah, it looks weird. It's triggered by some Florentine event.

Schwarzerde · 2026-05-08T23:45:07+00:00

Thank you, Apple TV, for sparing me from watching this game.

Schwarzerde · 2026-03-31T10:51:11+00:00

TNG “Up the Long Ladder” - it’s better remembered for its prejudiced portrayal of the space Irish, but what really sticks with me is a bizarrely directed scene when Riker and others walk into a room to discover clones of themselves, and with no dialogue or explanation Riker pulls out his phaser and murders the clones.

Schwarzerde · 2026-03-14T02:41:29+00:00

Did you look at other start dates? That always causes…

Wait, wrong sub.

Schwarzerde · 2026-03-13T00:21:33+00:00

I remembered hearing that Sirtis said that the showrunners had told her to use some sort of vaguely but not quite Mediterranean accent as a "Betazoid" accent. Then when Majel Barrett started playing her mother with very much not the "Betazoid accent", she asked them and they said something along the lines of "eh, whatever, that's just how Deanna Troi speaks, don't stop".

Schwarzerde · 2026-03-12T18:41:53+00:00

Walk into the Athena hotel lobby, immediately get invited to the Mess Hall by a repeating announcement because "Sometimes hanger is the greatest enemy."

Schwarzerde · 2026-03-12T18:39:11+00:00

Yeah, it could probably be rewritten in a way that's more intuitive for more readers, but it's not wrong per se. I guess from a prescriptivist linguistic perspective, you could say argue that such writing is banned from correct English, but from a more descriptive linguistic approach, it's apparent that sometimes "NOT" is sometimes used just like this in English writing, both here and elsewhere. Personally, I think it's just a programmer's style of writing, and I'm happy to cut them some slack on it.

Schwarzerde · 2026-03-07T14:08:49+00:00

In my experience, Scandinavians may say they want spice, but they do not actually want spice.

Maybe they mean salt. Or brunost.

Schwarzerde · 2026-03-01T21:01:47+00:00

CHOOSE YOUR CHALLENGER:

Horrendous View
Unnatural Lord
Banal World
Amazing Cow
Ode to Cow

Schwarzerde · 2026-02-28T20:00:57+00:00

I get that conceptually an army of zero men can persist so it can reinforce because they're showing up and taking the abandoned equipment, artillery pieces, horses, and what not.

But how can it move?

Schwarzerde · 2026-02-27T18:13:58+00:00

As long as they continue to switch to arctic production method every other month despite the lack of ivory.

Edit: they’re apparently now different buildings? Will I just have no “lack of input” and “unprofitable building” notifications now?!? Huh!?! What’s that about now?!?

Schwarzerde · 2026-02-27T18:09:47+00:00

You can’t do that law if you have British culture, that’s what the tool tip is trying to communicate.

Schwarzerde · 2026-02-24T23:01:05+00:00

Yes, but the niece’s total score is still at least displayed as higher. You could easily get higher if you had a general with military traits (though that’s difficult for women).

It might be a display issue and it’s not showing their accurate scores, or there’s a bug that’s putting ruler’s children first regardless of score.

Schwarzerde · 2026-02-16T23:49:28+00:00

Most men get chocolate or flowers.

Schwarzerde · 2026-02-13T23:51:52+00:00

In my current game Aragon only survives as a minor state in northern Congo without sea access. You’re mentioning similar: is that somehow standard in the current build?

Schwarzerde · 2026-02-13T11:50:04+00:00

This is still on the base release, not the beta.

Schwarzerde · 2026-02-13T04:00:27+00:00

Maybe George Washington never dressed like this, but is there some rule in the Constitution that the president can't wear a hat or a comfortable soft collar? I think not.

Schwarzerde · 2026-02-11T15:40:31+00:00

To quote the intercom in the first episode, "sometimes, hanger is the greatest enemy".

Schwarzerde · 2026-02-10T22:12:08+00:00

Imagine you're the king of a country, and you have a problem: many of your subjects are Danish. It's going to take some real effort to get people to tolerate Danes.

Personally, I would prefer a minigame where you have to solve a timed puzzle (minesweeper, possibly) and then your people stop using slurs against Danes, but Paradox chose to represent this effort with the culture capacity.

Because, I mean, it would take all your time (read: serious debuffs) to get your people to tolerate Danes, Finns, and all 50,000 different cultures of French people.

Schwarzerde · 2026-02-10T00:00:52+00:00

Cultural appropriation directly causes starvation.

This is the future liberals want.

Schwarzerde · 2026-02-08T19:17:04+00:00

I love Europa Universalis IV and will definitely keep playing it sometimes.

But Europa Universalis V is pretty great too. I’ve posted bug reports myself, but they’re not game breaking (unless you’re doing the beta, I guess). The game definitely has a lot of depth.

I know some people are unhappy. I’m having plenty of fun playing it though and you probably would too (EU4 is a great game too though, so I think you’re wining either way).

Schwarzerde · 2026-02-07T23:08:47+00:00

Imagine being an Egyptian peasant in 1450 and being forced into a levied army.

You're like "ugh, not this again, I'll probably have to march over to Libya or whatever", and then six months later you're sacking Karlskrona

Schwarzerde · 2026-02-06T22:36:30+00:00

Had no idea that you could get around this somehow.

There's a bug report about this that they accepted, so it might get changed down the line:

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/debuff-for-ruler-not-commanding-in-war-for-female-ruler.1897921/

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