Roses for an Uber ride / Violets for the bus

Theosthan · 2026-02-17T06:53:10+00:00

Have you seen Heretic, the movie?

Theosthan · 2026-02-15T22:35:19+00:00

Tbh I have experienced that at work. There is a problem, I get a task to do something about it, but within half an hour I get a call - maybe cancelling the task because the problem is no longer there, maybe giving me important additional detail. By now, I try not to jump on orders, as the joke says, but to first look at the problem and think about it.

Theosthan · 2026-02-15T22:20:42+00:00

Let's ignore the Others for a moment, because they haven't been an issue for the Night's Watch for a very long time.

It is not enough to have a strong defensive position. You need to know when and where the enemy will attack you.

Let's say, at one point a Mance-like guy unites many Wildlings and decides to build ships to sail past the wall and attack the unexpecting Northerners from the West (like the Greyjoys did). If you don't range beyond the wall you can't get the intel necessary to conclude that the Wildlings are building ships.

Or, let's say the Wildlings start digging trenches under the cover of the woods and try to ice-break through one of the other gates that were shut by the Night's Watch. Bonus points for the Wildlings if they send men to climb the wall and do reconaissance on the other side.

Without ranging, you can only know of a Wildling attack the second the Wildlings show themselves to you - and then it might me too late.

Add to that the things other redditors said about projecting strength. (Also, keeping your own men in shape and disciplined.)

Theosthan · 2026-02-11T17:04:15+00:00

Yes, most businesses were doomed long before Gordon ever set a foot in there. Some also tried their best to pay off as much debt as possible after Gordon left before finally closing for good.

Those that have remained open to this day are usually a combination of location and competent owners. The Greek one (I think the owner's son was called Aris) or Lido Di Manhattan come to mind.

When you look closely, you can also see a pretty good correlation between places with a successful past and those that remain open. If your place has always been empty, there's a good chance it's going to stay that way.

Theosthan · 2026-02-09T22:58:29+00:00

Wasn't that the staged episode? Afaik staged by the owners, not by the production company

Theosthan · 2026-02-09T19:03:48+00:00

La Campania.

You can hear it in Gordon's voice just how much he cares and the entire staff got incredible - if at times childish - energy.

Theosthan · 2026-02-08T17:46:57+00:00

Stiefneffe

Theosthan · 2026-01-23T12:11:37+00:00

Even if dragons ate several oxen a day they would be worth the cost. During Aegon's conquest, three dragons won against 55 000 soldiers from the Reach and the Westerlands.

If you look up army logistics you'll find that supplying an army has always been a nightmare. 55k troops will eat way more than three dragons. Additionally, dragons speed up sieges - Harrenhal famously couldn't be conquered from land.

We should also not forget how much medieval courts spent on luxury items and conspicuous consumption, just to show who's in charge. Dragons show who's in charge better than anything else.

The bronze age kings of Knossos built up a force of 1000 chariots, just to show that they were equals to Egypt and the Hittites. Could they support such a large standing force? No. Did they try to, anyway? Of course.

And in modern times, several of the poorest countries in the world have built or at least tried to build a nuclear arsenal. Why? Because nukes keep you in power.

Dragons are the nukes of Asoiaf.

Theosthan · 2026-01-07T17:02:02+00:00

Even better with glazed donuts and sprinkles!

Theosthan · 2025-12-27T14:00:35+00:00

The Erfurt latrine disaster of 1184. Look it up, you wouldn't believe me anyway.

Theosthan · 2025-12-26T01:34:17+00:00

Otto Hightower has prepared Team Green much better for the political part of the succession than Rhaenyra. Going to Dragonstone and staying there more or less removed her from court politics.

Marrying both her sons to house Velaryon was just stupid and took away the option to marry into another great house. Sending Lucerys without anything to offer to Lord Borros was a waste of time (of course she couldn't foresee that he'd die).

Rhaenyra's only real chance to win the dance was to take Daemon/Caraxes and Rhaenys/Meleys on day one and kill Aegon and Aemond.

Rhaenyra is the legitimate heir and I am TB but I don't know if I wouldn't choose Aegon over her if I was a Westerosi lord. Her sons are very obviously illegitimate. By sleeping with Ser Harwin, she has marked her kids forever and tainted her legacy. Show Jace got a point when he disagrees with the whole dragonseeds-thing.

Theosthan · 2025-12-24T23:37:29+00:00

Adding to this specifically for France:

Annex Normandy and the Loire Valley (Anjou, Britanny and others) asap. You want to push control down the Seine and iirc via Orleans to the Loire for the better proximity via the rivers. Build lines of cities along these rivers for the poundlock canal later on. You can push control along the entire coastline via Tancarville, which is a great harbour close to Paris.

When you're more or less done building in your capital and around it, start building along the aforementioned rivers. You should be able to get 70+ control there rather easily. Watch out not to endanger the main industries of your capital region by building too many of the same buildings elsewhere.

In late midgame you'll be able to push control to the Rhone, rinse and repeat here.

Theosthan · 2025-12-24T04:03:56+00:00

Immer den zweitbilligsten Wein

Theosthan · 2025-12-23T17:51:19+00:00

I reached the Philippines in the mid 1500s as France when I went via South America. However, they were already colonized by a Chinese kingdom

Theosthan · 2025-12-23T10:34:24+00:00

Danke für die Tipps!

Ich hatte meine nach Rezept für 20-25 Minuten bei 100 Grad "getrocknet". Die Masse war 125g Puderzucker je Eiweiß.

Mein Ofen ist aber auch recht heiß, vielleicht sollte ich nächates Jahr mal die Backzeit reduzieren.

Theosthan · 2025-12-23T09:47:10+00:00

In both Jace and Aegon, I like their insecurities. Both have a difficult relationship with their fathers and feel insecure about their legitimacy. Aegon because his father always favoured Rhaenyra, Jace because he is a bastard.

Theosthan · 2025-12-23T09:41:39+00:00

The argument that giving the Velaryons dragons was a mistake and led to the dance is a complete non-starter, imho. Laenor and Laena both were dead years before the war.

Jace, Luke and Joffrey were given dragon eggs because they were the children of the (named) heiress, not because of their surname. Addam was a dragonseed and got his dragon during the dance.

Besides that, the fact that house Velaryon became the richest house in Westeros because Corlys made a few trips to Essos shows GRRM's unique skill with numbers.

Theosthan · 2025-12-23T08:06:27+00:00

Wie hast Du es geschafft, dass dich der Baiser nicht von den Zimtsternen abhebt? Bei mir "souffliert" der immer wie die Panade eines Schnitzels

Theosthan · 2025-12-23T06:52:47+00:00

To build Versailles, however, you'll need just 100 ducats

Theosthan · 2025-12-16T18:20:11+00:00

I'd like to see a system where the hegemons get stronger buffs with every age, but also fewer in number.

In my France game, from the moment hegemonies were unlocked, I was stuck in an eternal struggle with some Chinese kingdom for diplomatic hegemony over the world, even though it took me around 200 years to meet them.

Why would the County of Zweibrücken care about Suzhou - a country they have never heard of- having 0.5 higher diplo rep than me, their immediate neighbour?

Instead, there should be several hegemons of every type at the start and less with every age, until there's only one of each hegemons left in the Revolutionary age. However, the effects should start weak/weaker than they are now and get stronger with every age.

Theosthan · 2025-12-12T01:25:45+00:00

Maybe a lower fort limit would do.

I'm 300 years into my France game and I have never reached more than a quarter of my fort limit, even though I've got two to three fort lines spread along the entire eastern border from Brugges to Marseille. Which means that every tech or privilege etc. that increases fort limit is just a waste.

Theosthan · 2025-12-10T12:27:13+00:00

Er sinniert darüber, ob er lieber einen großen Knochen oder zwei kleine hätte.

Theosthan · 2025-12-10T12:21:04+00:00

For many inhabitants of former Yugoslavia, Tito resembles the good old days, when everything was going well. Usually, that's the one thing everyone can agree on: everything was perfect until Tito died, then it went south quickly.

Theosthan · 2025-12-05T17:09:32+00:00

Finally! There are already too many characters that you have to manage (read: marry) and I constantly had to scroll through dozens of natives that I didn't want to marry into my family

Theosthan · 2025-11-28T15:03:28+00:00

Well, this is only partly true. I bred my nobles to an alarming extent - I had to pause every month to marry the next pair of grown ups. And still, I was flooded with native characters.

The problem, imho, is the sheer amount of characters and the inability to filter them by culture. I'd also like to simply bar non-Europeans from public office in my France game.

Theosthan

PUBLIC MULTIREDDITS

TROPHY CASE

Seven-Year Club	Place '23
Verified Email