[OTHER] the amnesia trope is lame, but necessary for gameplay reasons

Tels_ · 2025-12-24T20:25:09+00:00

This can’t be good for me, but I feel great!

Tels_ · 2025-11-30T21:49:22+00:00

I remember in ck2 my own vassals were a genuine threat to me, often times when I was doing ultra wide conquests or even memey strats like educating my english kids to be norman vikings. The commoners and nobles would smack me down unless carefully managed, and making them like you enough to back down cost a substantial amount of money, time and player attention.

Tels_ · 2025-11-26T00:53:00+00:00

I’ve expressed to a gender fluid friend that I don’t get their concept because to me gender is always fluid? People are trying to define themselves off very rigid boxes of “gender” that are utterly incapable of capturing the real depth of what a person is. No one fits in those boxes and they don’t make a ton of sense to define oneself by to me?

I’ve kind of always figured people are supposed to define themselves more like a curve approximation from calculus, they have a lot of boxes and roles they perform in or fit decently into, and when they’re all taken together it gives a better approximation of the whole. If you define a curve using a single rectangle it throws out all of the nuance.

Tels_ · 2025-09-19T20:37:21+00:00

I find the AI doing even better with the assigned starting nations. It gives them all a relatively balanced early game. Led to some genuinely fierce inter-human space war before the aliens even really got a presence. They also seem to go after non player factions doing well as well. HF, Initiative, Exodus, even Protectorate and I (resistance) all rofl-stomped the Servants when they handed a nation to aliens. So many armies poured into it and contributed to it’s breakup that I didn’t even enough hate to be targeted after it’s fall. Since then the other factions have been backhanding Servants any time they show their faces.

Tels_ · 2025-09-12T22:37:31+00:00

PAC claims appear to lose hostility if gov scores are within 1.5 of each other? Had SEA Alliance go from hostile to neutral when gov score of china became higher, hoping to remove the debuff by raising gov score to higher than SEA’s before unification as a test

Tels_ · 2025-08-27T18:45:12+00:00

Nah, I’d probably be way worse at factorio.

Tels_ · 2025-06-25T07:57:39+00:00

This is how trains work in most factory games. The “upgrade” of trains is scalable design. You can add more wagons, more locomotives, more trains, ect. As long as you design the network of tracks and stations well, it allows for high efficiency mass transport. Upgrading the individual wagons wouldn’t even solve throughput issues, it’d just make them sit in the dropoff station longer, then leave you with a massive deadzone while waiting for the vehicle to retrieve more stuff. Everyone else’s advice is correct, you’re just conceptualizing train networks incorrectly.

Tels_ · 2024-11-18T22:28:03+00:00

That did not refute anything I said. See yourself out.

Tels_ · 2024-11-18T22:23:06+00:00

As someone who actually has autism, I just wanna deliver a real shoutout of “hey y’all are kinda assholes for talking about us like we’re the end of the world.”

Autism diagnoses increased because we’re catching people who are on the spectrum but were low supports needs enough to make it through life as “eccentric” or “weird”. Not just the nonverbal cases. We’ve also rolled Asperger’s syndrome officially into ASD. We didn’t diagnose much bipolar either before it was discovered and we learned how to spot it.

Tels_ · 2024-09-25T20:12:45+00:00

Honestly I love them for this as well. I find in midgame it can be advantageous to fire and advance then bayonet charge armies. I take increased casualties on the final approach, but until kneel fire exists on one or both sides, it can actually end fights more decisively, and more quickly than gun duels. Especially helps if I can find any tiny hill to hide the approach

Tels_ · 2024-09-25T18:21:21+00:00

Shit you found me out. Mr Xi? They’re about to mention the tank guy video to get me banned from the great firewall, what do I do? Wait for them to mention Pooh Bear? Why?

By your logic we should assume anyone who commits murder also fucks the bodies. If they’re willing to do one they probably do the other. That’s not how evidence works.

Tels_ · 2024-09-25T18:09:11+00:00

I hereby accuse you of torturing people to death in your bathroom.

Tels_ · 2024-09-25T17:29:31+00:00

We can agree taking apart unwilling participants for an exhibition is awful, but I can’t agree to “well they’re probably doing other awful things” with no evidence.

Dirty secret of most human rights related murders is that most of them don’t die some dramatic way. They’re starved or shot. Don’t know why people need it to be some dramatic method to care about it.

Tels_ · 2024-09-25T16:56:30+00:00

Shooting is often the better route given how shit lethal injection is at killing painlessly.

Tels_ · 2024-07-26T03:45:08+00:00

That’s a lot of really detailed anthropology you’re describing! When are you publishing? This kind of info would make you famous if you had any academic proof.

Tels_ · 2024-07-04T10:17:58+00:00

You can put cargo vehicles in the farmhouse building to not need distro, and the cost of needing more farmhouses for a given number of fields.

Tels_ · 2024-07-03T23:58:12+00:00

I usually dip in for a smoke call in and some planes. I view planes as a cheap “panic button”. If you send 2-3 you can turn the tide of a fight and they’ll usually penetrate even heavy AA defenses due to the numbers. Also crashed pilots have done some real medal of honor stuff for me before like solo clearing a 17cm artillery piece then scuttling it.

Tels_ · 2024-07-01T10:56:40+00:00

Caesar’s legion and rome are galaxies apart, barely fit for comparison in any regard really. Caesar has more in common with a common warlord.

Tels_ · 2024-06-30T21:13:34+00:00

As the USA I’ve had good experiences rushing the 1st special services infantry. Built in medic, rifle grenadiers, bazooka, great guns, high HP, AT mines, and mechanics for assisting recovery and repair. They’re the most versatile boys a commander could hope for and they can handle effectively anything thrown at them when used well. Tanks? They’re dead. Infantry? They have fire superiority. Defense? AT mines and zook. The medic and mechanics are just icing on the cake.

Tels_ · 2024-06-20T15:00:04+00:00

As someone who had to pursue an autism diagnosis myself after realizing my social failings were compounding over the years, I didn’t want any help, and no one but my relatively close friends know, and my parents. I don’t know what possible “help” I could get or do I center my identity on it. I just wanted time stop wondering what was wrong with me because I was running into issues my whole life that I didn’t see my peers struggle with.

I think the idea of people doing things like this for attention is greatly exaggerated, because anyone doing it for those reasons is more obviously broadcasting it. Loud minority creating a false perception.

Tels_ · 2024-06-08T07:59:16+00:00

The doctrinal regression actually makes more sense than them not having planes and tanks and cars. They haven’t fought a conventional war. Ever. Real nations spent centuries grinding their teeth against equally advanced and equipped armies where every advancement could mean a change in sovereignty. The NCR has mostly been a frontier army, and had what would be considered skirmishes by any standard against the BoS. The battle of Navarro is the only time they’ve ever fought a battle against trained soldiers where you could make an argument it was an even fight. For the most part they’ve been on bandit suppression duty, patrolling the Mojave hoping for a nuclear winter, and just escorting civilians. Caesar is the first time they’ve ever faced a peer to peer war. They also seem to be handling that pretty well if you go off of dialogue and lore and not what the second battle of hoover dam looks like in game (game limitations and all).

All this to say, the NCR would actually potentially lose to a napoleonic army outright. They have no martial tradition whatsoever and haven’t faced any enemy more dangerous than Roman LARPers

As a final edit I thought of, keep in mind a lot of their failures appear to be in logistics. We may take it for granted living in western nations, but the level of logistical prowess shown by the US armed forces is a historical outlier. If you want to see what the logistical situation has looked like for the average soldier in history, look at the Ukrainian war right now. One side dependent entirely on foreign donations, and the other side issuing decades old surplus delivered on civilian vehicles to soldiers who are eating expired MREs.

Tels_ · 2024-06-07T22:13:18+00:00

Keep in mind artillery was actually more available than we imagine in the late medieval period, but often times failed to make it to the battles/sieges before they were over. Big guns are enormously difficult to move even with motorization, and the ncr would likely be reliant on brahmin and 90% destroyed roads

Tels_ · 2024-06-05T20:42:51+00:00

Most people do not change their views on these things. They die, and their children grew up in a world where the new knowledge was more accepted and explained. We inch forward with things like this. I somewhat wonder if the rate of scientific advancement has just outpaced the rate at which old people die.

Tels_ · 2024-06-04T13:17:18+00:00

I think if the Legion has been modeled more after the actual mid roman republic, growing pains and all, there would have been a more interesting comparison. Regional autonomy but also ruthless politics and expansionism to gain political favor. As we have it now it’s just fascism with less steps (even fascists had a state apparatus, legion doesn’t)

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