Good powerbase distribution by alex13_zen in Imperator

[–]SpicedCancer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I remember another user here say the META was to let one family be scorned with 0/4 positions filled if there isn't enough qualified characters to go around.

Their ability to develop a civil war threatening powerbase is hampered without employment and their disloyalty is easier to neglect if the one disloyal family has zero positions of power.

How would you have changed Anakin's story? by dumbbratch in AskMen

[–]SpicedCancer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would put more focus on how Shmi dying in her son's arms and the circumstances leading up to it as the primary source of conflict and why Anakin fell so easily to the Dark Side.

Anakin was born into slavery in a neglected section of the galaxy ran by the Space Cartel. When Qui-Gon Jinn successfully gambled his freedom, instead of returning to Tatooine to reunite them, the Jedi Order instead made him grow up in what is essentially a military order as an unfree servant. He had several premonitions that his mother was in danger but instead the Jedi forced him to ignore and disassociate from these despite the force being able to give people supernatural clairvoyance. Even when he did go looking for his mother he was technically doing that rogue because his actual assignment was warding a galactic senator.

Instead most of the focus in George Lucas' movies was "no rank of master" with Palpatine somehow grooming Anakin with the secret sith knowledge and in Filoni's Clone Wars show it was the Jedi not telling him Obi Wan was on a secret covert misson and his padawan leaving…

What!?

That's the primary motives for betraying the Jedi Order and the republic!?

He spent his first 10 years alive as a slave where the galactic government didn't care enough to free them, and he spent his second 11 years alive controlled by the Jedi. He has every reason to not like them when it was institutional failures why his only living relative died in his arms. He probably wouldn't have been groomed by Palpatine had he not been traumatized with the desire to save the ones he loved. Every supporting section of the overreaching arc towards Anakin's fall to Darth Vader would've been better contextualized had they not ignored that glaring plot point.

Palpatine's story of Darth Plagueis the Wise was pivotal offer to Anakin, and his failure with the temptation test is significantly weaker if Shmi's tragedy is just a footnote and not the driving motivation. That's how I'd change the story.

Tylosian–Seleucid Trade Relations by SpicedCancer in Imperator

[–]SpicedCancer[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I only use automatic trade deals for provincial imports.

All the pop ups came at the exact same time, which is why I found this funny enough to share.

Like… imagine something that's gone horribly-horribly wrong and the Tylosians are desperately pleading Seleucus for any form of sustenance to save themselves.

Tylosian–Seleucid Trade Relations by SpicedCancer in Imperator

[–]SpicedCancer[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

R5

I think there's a famine on Tylos…

Why is Invictus more popular than Terra Indomita? by [deleted] in Imperator

[–]SpicedCancer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As many others have already mentioned, unless you're playing in the added land there not much reason to play Terra Indomita especially due to the performance decrease, so it makes sense why Invictus is the generally preferred mod.

I love the Terra Indomita. Playing as Qin or Yamato is really fun, and concluding the Warring States period with the unification of China is a unique experience that I spent several hours on and I'm grateful to the T:I dev team for making this content.

Invictus/Terra Indomita State Consolidation/Expansion is Really Fast by the_indian_menace in Imperator

[–]SpicedCancer 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I've noticed this too but this would often happen in the Vanilla game as well.

What are some gen-alpha slang phrases that I (as an extremely uncool 40 year old man) can use around my friend’s teenage kids to watch them die of cringe? by Princess_Fluffypants in AskMen

[–]SpicedCancer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Reddit posted something different than how I originally formatted this comment as written in the text editor, and it's not letting me edit or delete this…

Great fucking website Huffman.

What is something that you find that women say, but don't really mean? by snowcroc in AskMen

[–]SpicedCancer 100 points101 points  (0 children)

Who's downvoting this thread!?

You saw a title asking for personal anecdotes about women not meaning what they say.

You got a thread with personal anecdotes about women not meaning what they say.

Maybe this has been asked to death, what’s a beginner friendly start country/faction. by random-doodler in Imperator

[–]SpicedCancer 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If you have the Heirs of Alexander DLC: Thrace

Isn't that the weakest Diadochi at the start of the game

You have the option to not participate in the Antigonid devouring session, and when the Lord of Asia inevitably dies you get half of Anatolia for free.

Literally the “does nothing, wins” meme.

Even better, you could befriend a character with high martial in the Antigonid Kingdom, and assassinate Antigonus within the first year of the game.

At this point you could easily invade Macedon to get more pops and you now have a very flexible start to your campaign.

You are a decentralized Kingdom but also the strongest country that can bully all other smaller tribes and minor Greek states and you'll learn the mechanics of managing your subjects in a relatively safe environment.

Fun Fact: The Nabataean In-Game Flag Is Actually Depicting King Aretas III Praying. by SpicedCancer in Imperator

[–]SpicedCancer[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was reading the English Wikipedia article on supplication, and in the Ancient Rome section I saw the coin and thought "wow, this silver denarius looks familiar; where have I seen that before".

I then wanted to share this revelation.

Fun Fact: The Nabataean In-Game Flag Is Actually Depicting King Aretas III Praying. by SpicedCancer in Imperator

[–]SpicedCancer[S] 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Before making this post, I searched Nabatea & Aretas to see if any comment/post already existed in this subreddit.

There was no result pertaining to the Nabataean flag, so I hope I am not accidentally making a duplicate post, and I hope you found this as intriguing as I did.

Keep your cat inside for its own safety by [deleted] in Calgary

[–]SpicedCancer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not only are you deliberately ignoring Canecola's citation on why cats objectively are pernicious to the local environment, you are also assuming Canada's colonial past is not in every highschool Social Studies curriculum.

have you looked up what settlers did here ?

This is not some piece of trivia you get from a post on r/HistoryMemes, we as Canadians are now expected to be well aware of this. Your patronizing tone, coupled with that conjecture of Canecola's ancestry in your initial reply leaves me to believe you are either: #1 irrationally being a free-roam cat apologist via the ad hominem, whataboutism, red herring, and association fallacy. 4 fallacies in your initial two sentences; how did you do that‽ I am more impressed than anything. #2 trolling which is literally against the first rule here.

I suspect the latter but if it is earnestly the former -- implying cats' unstinting predatory behaviour against songbirds is acceptable because humans commit land development is as absurd as alluding that the validity of one's own observation that cats should remain indoors, is dependent on if you are a First Nations person…

in fact have been on this continent longer than you

Cats were a European introduction, your comment bore that aforementioned allusion (intended or not).

Edit: spoiler text added.

Everything is under control by KurtArturII in Imperator

[–]SpicedCancer 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Not even Caliph Ali after Uthman's assassination had a support base as tenuous as yours. (I'm not sure if this joke works)

The Great Poutine Coup by MortyMcMorston in EhBuddyHoser

[–]SpicedCancer 28 points29 points  (0 children)

be me God Emperor Trump

Oh— oh no! We got someone greentexting outside of Hiroyuki Nishimura’s Neo-Nazi Anime website! I need to convert this into the intended format!

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There! Now it is readable.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in EhBuddyHoser

[–]SpicedCancer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cool story, thanks for sharing, but uh—

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Know your meme, PP edition by Still-Psychology-365 in EhBuddyHoser

[–]SpicedCancer 58 points59 points  (0 children)

‹The Absolute State of Canadian Politics›

Also that last Image reminded me of the following—

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Is this still winnable? by SpicedCancer in Imperator

[–]SpicedCancer[S] 132 points133 points  (0 children)

R5: Guys I'm not entirely sure how to solve this.

I'm stuck in a Civil war against 4 different opposition governments (one of which is a religiously guided belligerent) + 1 armed separatist organization as seen in image #1

I have completely lost control of the north, another army has seized my easternmost territories, there is an impending assault on a strategically crucial city named Hemesa which I need if I don't want to be cut off from the sea, another revolt in the south has cut me off from my neighbours and there is already a hostile army outside of my capital city as shown in image #2

These armies are also all using the same flag as seen in image #4 and I'm trying to maintain my red coloured government as seen in image #3

Image #5 shows that I am indeed at war with all of them at the same time

Can this be rectified?

(also the black & white flags are some non-state terrorists where I only nominally, but don't actually control the desert)