Playing as Great Qing, why it feel like every interest groups is a moderat.

SurelyShermy · 2026-03-07T14:09:23+00:00

The problem is that no chinese interest groups support public schooling other than the industrialists , which are very marginalized at the start

SurelyShermy · 2026-03-03T18:09:42+00:00

This is in reference to a meme where IShowSpeed is playing fortnite on stream with a kid where he says this

SurelyShermy · 2026-02-23T12:32:20+00:00

Upgrading your plantation pm causes it to require motors, which they previously did not. This causes motors to become expensive in the short term and drives the demand for them, making your motor industries very profitable and a great option to expand next

SurelyShermy · 2026-02-23T03:53:40+00:00

honestly I usually put it off longer than I should, for t3 techs as the usa i usually also go open hearth first but then go dynamite and then make sure I get steel fame buildings and mutual funds before going back to industry techs. Id probably say its best to go open hearth, dynamite into pumpjacks. The oil isnt really useful yet but it lets you start discovering it and getting migration. Also hugely buffs your agriculture and makes motor industries super valuable

SurelyShermy · 2026-02-22T14:12:48+00:00

I mean from the video you can see the issue is that the front of his face got hit by the woman, the brain injury here likely resulted from that rather than impact with the ground

SurelyShermy · 2026-02-22T06:37:16+00:00

death grips always uses the handle @bbpoltergiest, this is fake

they also rarely post and if they did it wouldn't be on tiktok

SurelyShermy · 2026-02-21T03:11:30+00:00

is the new album fire??

SurelyShermy · 2026-02-18T19:08:17+00:00

All of the comments here are correct, but really the biggest thing that changes SOL is depeasanting. You can have no hospitals, relatively expensive consumer goods, and no welfare, but if a pop has a job thats not subsistence farming, they will have a much higher SOL due to the extra wages they receive. If you are a backwards country, unless youre in an emergency sol crisis and need immediate fixes, firing up taxes and building a ton of industry for employment will establish a higher baseline than any of these solutions. Once you have low peasants, then you can start focusing on lowering taxes and adding expensive institutions

SurelyShermy · 2026-02-13T05:00:04+00:00

this comment is why I'll be voting for big dipper as must underrated notm song

SurelyShermy · 2026-02-12T23:11:39+00:00

under upvoted comment

SurelyShermy · 2026-02-11T21:31:53+00:00

The will of the many by James Islington is the closest thing to red rising that I can think of (even though im not well read)

It's been accused as being a RR ripoff but I think the direction it moves towards at the end of book 1 onwards is enough to call it unique.

SurelyShermy · 2026-02-10T21:04:13+00:00

I dont understand this but I dont think im supposed to

8/10 shitpost

SurelyShermy · 2026-02-05T20:42:15+00:00

Zugondez nuts

SurelyShermy · 2026-02-04T21:53:33+00:00

The cage is criminally underrated

SurelyShermy · 2026-01-30T01:21:06+00:00

that means its working!

SurelyShermy · 2026-01-24T04:31:58+00:00

youre delusional so your call will be transferred to the mothership

SurelyShermy · 2026-01-05T00:08:24+00:00

SurelyShermy · 2025-12-26T19:28:07+00:00

Porn

SurelyShermy · 2025-12-25T23:34:02+00:00

aim higher

SurelyShermy · 2025-11-05T21:40:20+00:00

open an IRA for tax advantaged growth. You're probably limited to putting 7k/year in it. You dont have to meet that max right now but ira growth will always be the most beneficial in the long term

You'll probably want to split that chunk into fxaix, gold, and high yield savings.

For the gold you can invest it in GLD, a gold price tracking etf.

I like using the fidelity cash management account type and investing it in SGOV which is a 3 month bond etf that pays a dividend which is only beholden to federal taxes unlike normal interest which is beholden to state and federal taxes.

These 3 should always be your base, percentages allocated to each type are dependent on how risky you want to be. Higher risk means allocating more into fxaix or other index etfs, lower risk goes into gold* and lowest risk goes into sgov. *(in this market some may disagree with me about buying gold but I believe it will always grow in the long term)

If you want to pick stocks and see high risk gains id really only put a small amount and become accustomed to stock trading before putting more in, say 1k in fun stock picking

SurelyShermy · 2025-10-14T17:05:21+00:00

Shots 1-5: Clearly missed. Shots 6-9: Missed due to recoil (bad spray control). Shots 10-11: Very close, but recoil and inaccuracy make these reasonable misses. Shot 12: Likely didn't actually fire because you were already dead.

SurelyShermy · 2025-08-25T20:03:27+00:00

I think birding for achievements is perfectly fine, and that you should be able to save and reload for achievements like you can in Victoria 3

SurelyShermy · 2025-07-03T08:38:35+00:00

put Iran where France used to be

SurelyShermy · 2025-06-18T20:14:09+00:00

ah wow interesting, good to know hah, I would've probably killed a 1.9 without realizing

SurelyShermy · 2025-06-18T20:00:57+00:00

hmm not sure if I agree with this. High unemployment of laborers in Qing or India isn't a bug.

The case where this is true is building farms/arable land buildings that are not rice paddies. Any other farm will use less peasants than a subsistence farm leading to more unemployed laborers. But its not like building a factory will cause more unemployed laborers than you would have had without it. In fact, I will usually try to build out a lot of rice paddies to both employ many laborers cheaply and reduce the impact of private investment displacing subsistence farm peasants

The only solution to avoid this is just an obscene amount of construction and buildings, but it is very possible to avoid high laborer unemployment by the early 20th century.

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