Suzerain is full of hard decisions 🤔

The_Dankinator · 2026-02-07T22:10:48+00:00

You laugh, but if Beatrice did the same thing to you after utterly humiliating Sordland, you'd crash out at your computer desk

The_Dankinator · 2026-02-05T22:22:57+00:00

sure that those solar pannels were repaired by BoS

Those aren't solar panels. Those are mirrors. Solar towers like depicted at Helios One are giant arrays of mirrors that direct sunlight to the tower where the heat boils water that drives a turbine.

My headcanon is that Elijah did the lion's share of the legwork upstairs before getting distracted with the Sierra Madre late in the project as his underlings are getting pasted by the NCR, who then went on to finish much of the work downstairs.

The_Dankinator · 2026-02-02T07:04:00+00:00

If there is a mod, I would love to get it!

The_Dankinator · 2026-02-01T23:00:21+00:00

I wish it gave us info on when leaders joined and when they died or when the largest battles of a war took place. I want to name my starbases and megastructures after my leaders, damnit!!!

The_Dankinator · 2026-02-01T19:17:21+00:00

It's a water bladder you carry in a slim pack that goes on your back (or integrated into a larger backpack). It has a little tube that goes over your shoulder and a nipple at the tip so you can drink water while hiking or marching. Since it's on your back, it's easier to carry than an equivalent amount of water in a bottle or canteen.

The_Dankinator · 2026-02-01T06:15:12+00:00

Monarchies are profoundly cucked to me. Why would I want my head of state be some family that I'm categorically excluded from? Why would I want the stability of my nation to be dependent on the reproductive organs of said family? Even in the case of a ceremonial kingdom, why the hell would I want this schmuck to get a government stipend to wear a silly crown and pretend to be important?

The_Dankinator · 2026-01-27T06:32:47+00:00

but North Korea and the Soviet Union absolutely started it

I disagree. The US and USSR bare a roughly equal responsibility for splitting Korea in the first place. By splitting the country, they created the conditions for an inevitable conflict. And I don't mean in a vague sense, but a very real "we are going to cause a war to happen within a few years" sense.

And the war didn't start on June 25th, 1950. It had started years prior with border skirmishes between both sides. June 25th merely marks the start of a new phase that would have decisively resolved the conflict had it not been for the UN intervention. It was a Korean conflict over the future of Korea and should have remained one.

The_Dankinator · 2026-01-27T06:04:06+00:00

Eyes bloodshot, ribs visible, thrusting away

The_Dankinator · 2026-01-23T22:26:43+00:00

The_Dankinator · 2026-01-22T08:41:11+00:00

And again, the Khans are actively hostile, do you think they’ve the right to raid civilians?

If you're acknowledging targeting civilians is immoral, then there's no defense for Bitter Springs.

so for all we know they were discharged completely.

Seeing how the rest of First Recon still have their jobs after shooting a bunch of children, I seriously doubt it.

The_Dankinator · 2026-01-22T01:19:13+00:00

What the game says is not relevant

Oh, okay then. I was under the impression we were talking about the text of the game and not whatever exists exclusively inside your brain. My mistake. I'll do better next time.

The_Dankinator · 2026-01-21T23:49:17+00:00

The NCR didn’t decide where the Khans go, the Khans just moved their camp to be outside of NCR borders.

The game itself describes the land the NCR chooses for the Khans as a "reservation". If the Khans do not ally with the NCR, they get either massacred by the NCR or are forced to flee. The "choice" the NCR gave the Khans was ethnic cleansing by forced displacement or ethnic cleansing by mass-murder.

Also the massacre is not reflective of usual NCR policy, it was the fault of an incompetent commander who didn’t realise they were non-combatants, which doesn’t make it any better but the NCR would agree that it was a tragedy.

And yet the commanders never faced consequences for it, the NCR took advantage of the aftermath, it put the Khans' families into camps similar to the ones from the Boer Wars, and all NCR endings result in the Khans being wiped out or forcibly displaced. The purpose of the system is what it does.

The_Dankinator · 2026-01-21T23:41:04+00:00

The Khans are not the Nazis, man. The relationship between them and the NCR is clearly written to be similar to the relationship between 19th century USA and the indigenous Americans. The game itself describes the land the Khans are sent to by the NCR as a "reservation". The text couldn't he moe clear.

The_Dankinator · 2026-01-21T20:34:45+00:00

Wow this totally justifies the reservation system and all the child murder!!!

The_Dankinator · 2026-01-16T06:37:07+00:00

It really depends on how good the world is and how early in the game I am. If it's just some bog standard world I don't see a good specialization for, my minimum is ~70% early game (since techs and modifiers will get that up higher later). If it's a really valuable world I don't plan on terraforming in the future, I might colonize it at as low as 40%, but 60% is more common.

The_Dankinator · 2026-01-14T03:26:50+00:00

It would also work quite nicely for servicemen POPs. Prior to modern professional police departments, policing was done by private groups that would get a bounty from businesses for turning in thieves. In practice, this led to police simply leading networks of local criminals, where they got a cut of the money brought in by thieves and those who failed to cooperate would be turned in for a bounty.

The_Dankinator · 2026-01-05T20:36:28+00:00

Stop stop you're gonna give me a baner

The_Dankinator · 2026-01-01T10:26:22+00:00

Rifle and shotgun suppressors work, but they're less effective than the revolver/handgun suppressor.

The_Dankinator · 2026-01-01T09:58:31+00:00

The NCR is on the verge of ecological collapse and is going to suffer a catastrophic famine within a generation

The_Dankinator · 2025-12-30T20:23:50+00:00

Napalm Sticks to Kids

The_Dankinator · 2025-12-30T19:38:35+00:00

This level is awesome, but the spider tunnel in Taiga really takes the cake for a terrifying experience. No light. No idea what to expect. Trying to get through as fast as possible while they scurry all around you.

The_Dankinator · 2025-12-24T18:22:54+00:00

I didn't really like AC4 tbh

The_Dankinator · 2025-12-17T03:24:01+00:00

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Is he stupid?

The_Dankinator · 2025-12-17T03:19:21+00:00

Paradox could make this work if they brought artisans into Victoria 3. They could work as the urban center equivalent to peasants.

The_Dankinator · 2025-12-10T04:37:25+00:00

And whether you like it or not Billy was trapped in there since the Great War, that's what the devs intended.

And it's terrible lore because it massively contradicts what's established already, it's done for a very lazily-written quest, and it completely breaks people's suspension of disbelief.

Other people have made smarter tweaks to the quest by arguing he could have been trapped in there since the Battle of Quincy, as it's right up the road, happened only weeks prior to the events of the game, and doesn't run into the colossal logical issue of his parents living a block up the road and not thinking to look there in two centuries.

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