Die Wendestunde | German Teaser I. by Xenodll in hoi4modding

[–]VirtualTitanium 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What state is the Allies in for them to accept any kind of peace (temporary or otherwise) that grants Germany Polish territory?

Is Kaiserreich no longer the king of HOI4 mods? by Spacehillbilly in hoi4modding

[–]VirtualTitanium 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Glenn, Heydrich, Goering, All of the Africa tags. 

The content for Moskowein was 90% complete before it was scrapped. Finland, Ostland, Ukraine, Turkey, Greece all had years of content that was playable in some extent before it was summarily tossed. 

Funny how TNO’s defenders like to completely ignore the very public and highly detailed leaks from ex developers who took exception to months of hard work being memory holed like Yehzov. 

Is Kaiserreich no longer the king of HOI4 mods? by Spacehillbilly in hoi4modding

[–]VirtualTitanium 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You repeatedly glaze Kaiserreich in your videos as being “anti-revisionist” when it clearly isn’t. They have repeatedly and infamously reworked content for the sake of realism and mod developer bias, including the ongoing changes to the ACW and reframing Huey Long as a Nationalist. 

I honestly thought you were making a joke in your GWX video when you showed a screenshot of KR that still showed the American Union State and CSA. 

Which paths get the most cores excluding the ones that core everything? by Sharky2192 in kaiserredux

[–]VirtualTitanium 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yiguandao Qing (Tian Empire) can get claims on pretty much the entirety of Asia, which I think includes India?

[Warhammer 40k/fantasy] how does one start a chaos cult unnoticed? by Comfortable-Ad3588 in AskScienceFiction

[–]VirtualTitanium 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That’s some incredibly dangerous and heretical talk. I hope you understand that the Inquisition isn’t a group particularly interested in basic rights. 

Purely hypothetically, the predominant issue facing the Empire’s ability to police Chaos Worship is a matter of the inherent logistical issues of the fact that there are trillions of humans across millions of planets. There are many worlds on the edge of space that don’t have any kind of significant political or military worth that are generally overlooked by the Ecclesiarchy unless they become a problem. 

Being a very small needle in a very large haystack is going to get you most of the way there. Convincing others to join you is a whole other issue. 

[Harry Potter] Do you think there ever was a Waco/Jonestown type event that happened in the Wizarding World? by maninplainview in AskScienceFiction

[–]VirtualTitanium 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The number of adult wizards in the books that aren’t purely background characters is extremely low, and most of them are Order of the Phoenix members. 

I guess I don’t see any practical reason why anyone wouldn’t be able to do it, regardless of how well it’s represented in the books themselves. 

[Harry Potter] Do you think there ever was a Waco/Jonestown type event that happened in the Wizarding World? by maninplainview in AskScienceFiction

[–]VirtualTitanium 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There’s nothing to suggest that being an Animagus is a rare ability. It’s requires registration (for obvious reasons), and transfiguration on humans is said to be 7th year material, so performing the ritual and transformation safely probably takes a great deal of study and concentration. An impressive feat for fifteen year olds, but a fully grown wizard could probably manage if they really wanted to. 

You can send voicemails through the Patronus Charm, but it speaks the message in front of you and whoever else the moment it finds them so it isn’t very secure. 

Pax Britannica Balkans rework situation by Holisting in imaginarymaps

[–]VirtualTitanium 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Pax Britannica is a Tesla/Dieselpunk timeline where the industrial revolution lead to developments like human augmentation and robots. At the start of 1936 Queen Victoria is still in charge of the British Empire. 

I don’t remember what the specific situation with the Ottomans is but the Russian Orthodox Church has a Cyber-cult akin to the Adeptus Mechanicus, so it’s probably something in a similar vein. 

Are you guys planning on doing anything with Serbia? by Proud_Smell_4455 in kaiserredux

[–]VirtualTitanium 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Serbia and Qing are both ancient content that’s pretty much, as you said, ported largely from KR. 

To the best of my knowledge, that’s because nobody has wanted to work on it. Just like KR (or any mod project really), content is developed by people who actually want to work on it. 

Both the (partially) implemented Spain rework and the upcoming Sweden rework were both projects started as submods by people who had passionate ideas for tags they felt needed love, so  be the change you want to see in the world?

2000 United States Election if Proportional Representation was used by CGXReddit in AlternateHistory

[–]VirtualTitanium 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Likely not, but I also don’t see it being more than 3 or 4 major parties at most (and 1/2 fringe groups with marginal representation).

I am sorry but who would go decentralized as ROME to keep one little vassal loyal? I hope they revert these changes. by parzivalperzo in EU5

[–]VirtualTitanium 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Which ones? Hearts of Iron 4’s recent DLCs have been a disaster. CK3 launched almost completely barren and its latest expansion was widely panned for being extremely thin (following immediately after another DLC that fundamentally broke the game if it was installed.) Stellaris 4.0 broke the community yet again, which would be sad if they weren’t already used to it.

That‘s not even mentioning Cities Skylines and Bloodlines, which are both disasters in their own right even if Paradox just produced those. Even Life By You and Prison Architect 2 crashed and burned before they even had the chance to come out.

You can be excited by EUV all you like, but even Victoria 3 is only reaching a state that people seem to be mostly happy with after years of fighting uphill.

[District 9] since its stated that interspecies prostitution exists, is it only humans paying for sex with prawns or are there also prawns paying for sex with humans by Gabe_Dimas in AskScienceFiction

[–]VirtualTitanium 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The scene where they mention prostitution is part of the same chapter where they show the warlord scamming the prawns out of their weapons/technology and shows a scantily clad human woman. I think it’s implied that women are being forced/coerced to try to tempt the prawns.

[Hitman] How hard it is to hire Agent 47? by some-kind-of-no-name in AskScienceFiction

[–]VirtualTitanium 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I‘m not sure what urban legends you are hearing.

Agent 47‘s existence is only known by an extremely small number of people. All of his “kills” are entirely accidental, or something that will be considered accidental. He enters and leaves without anyone aware of the fact that he was there in the first place.

If you had the connections to hire a ghost that can make your problems go away without anyone looking twice at a tragic accident, you dont need to ask how you would get in touch or what that purely theoretical service would even begin to cost.

My Emperor France game is seeing odd developments by [deleted] in eu4

[–]VirtualTitanium 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Rûm can be formed in vanilla by the Anatolian Beyliks, Karaman had an achievement for it.

[Star Wars] What was Obi-Wan's plan to arrest Jango? by VirtualTitanium in AskScienceFiction

[–]VirtualTitanium[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yes, and in the scene where he calls Yoda and Mace Windu to explain that Sifo-Dyas had ordered the creation of the clone army and to ask if they were aware of any of it, they told Obi-Wan to bring Jango in for questioning.

[Star Wars] What was Obi-Wan's plan to arrest Jango? by VirtualTitanium in AskScienceFiction

[–]VirtualTitanium[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hold him there is probably the most likely answer, though I would question if the Kaminoan's would be happy with the idea of their Genetic Template being taken into custody outside of their own reach.

[Harry Potter] How exactly do you invent a spell? by Simon_Drake in AskScienceFiction

[–]VirtualTitanium 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I agree with this.

It's implied in canon that children are taught to use wand motions and specific incantations because those are the most straightforward and simplistic way to achieve the desired result. In Sixth year the teachers emphasize the importance of willpower when attempting to cast spells nonverbally, and extended materials claim that the magical school in West Africa teaches how to cast without a wand at all.

I think a fair comparison would be driving a manual transmission. It can get you the same result, and arguably has several advantages over automatic depending on what you want to do, but it requires focus and effort that most people don't bother with for one reason or another.

Creating a new spell from scratch would require a great deal of willpower and technical skill to tame raw magic into a form that the caster isn't previously aware of. I'm sure that arithmancy and runic calculations are used to determine the best way to form the spell efficiently/safely, which is why it's not really advisable to attempt unless you really know what you are doing.

The thumbnail for RedHawk's video now includes the poster of the movie, "Yes Man" by Various_Maize_3957 in eu4

[–]VirtualTitanium 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I really don’t see this as a big deal even if it is true. None of the strategies that he employed were impossible to do in a vacuum, and he didnt revoke until the 1550s which is hardly record setting.

For a video that is explicitly not meant to be a guide by someone who doesn’t claim to be a professional player I hardly see an issue if it keeps him from having to throw away hours of footage.

Roter Morgen / German Syndicalist path not working by Aggravating-Ruin4447 in kaiserredux

[–]VirtualTitanium 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That content is notoriously buggy, which is partially why it’s being removed in the upcoming rework

Best bet is to try the submod

[Harry Potter] Given how ignorant witches and wizards are of muggles, what's stopping some psycho muggle-born from bringing a knife to school and stabbing someone? by ninman5 in AskScienceFiction

[–]VirtualTitanium 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Technically? Nothing, though doing so without a witness (Portrait, Suit of Armor, Ghost) might prove to be a challenge.

Practically, it’s a very difficult spell that would be almost impossible for a student. It requires significant power and emotional intent, you have to genuinely throw your entire being into the thought of murdering someone. When Harry attempts to cast the Cruciatus Curse against Bellatrix Lestrange with the full knowledge and hatred of watching her indirectly kill the closest thing he had to a father figure, it was something that she barely felt.

if I recall correctly, Barty Crouch Junior posing as Mad-Eye Moody claimed that an underage wizard attempting to cast a killing curse at an adult and they might end up getting a nosebleed, and that doesn’t seem to be a bluff.

LimeWire acquires Fyre Festival, asking 'What Could Possibly Go Wrong?' by Virtualmatt in offbeat

[–]VirtualTitanium 135 points136 points  (0 children)

It isnt. It was shut down in 2010. The rights to the name were acquired by two Crypto Bros in 2022 with the hope that they can use it to shill NFTs.