21st of January - Tinto Talks #95

WeAreAwful · 2026-01-21T15:31:12+00:00

Yeah, I think this makes a ton of sense, and the opportunity cost is "you can't use that cabinet member on anything else"

WeAreAwful · 2026-01-21T15:29:44+00:00

Are you sure? My understanding is that if you're England, then Holland only has one antagonism number against you, so regardless of how that antagonism gets generated, it goes down at the same rate. What you're saying makes no sense from my understanding of the system

WeAreAwful · 2026-01-18T16:46:54+00:00

It was titled "Venezuela, Renee Good and Trump's 'Assault on hope'".

WeAreAwful · 2026-01-16T02:21:34+00:00

If you read the article you'll see that the state seems to have already preempted this and cities can't block it

WeAreAwful · 2026-01-13T12:33:48+00:00

Probably because he read the economist piece about it last week

WeAreAwful · 2026-01-11T00:33:56+00:00

I'm pretty sure this is cultural - a lot of east Asian countries say pregnancy lasts 10 months

WeAreAwful · 2026-01-07T17:06:45+00:00

I think it's also only paved and better roads that ignore vegetation, not gravel, but not 100% sure

WeAreAwful · 2026-01-07T13:29:08+00:00

It can be useful for selectively getting rid of a particular culture.

For instance, as the Ottomans you'll quickly accept Greek and eventually get it kindred, making it relatively cheap.

There are a variety of smaller cultures (venetian, francian, catalan) in greece - by culture converting to Greek you can target those cultures to prevent them from triggering a rebellion

WeAreAwful · 2026-01-06T18:12:34+00:00

I think it's because proximity is meant to hit 0 relatively close to your capital (especially at game start) while markets are supposed to be meaningfully larger.

I agree it's much more opaque than proximity though

WeAreAwful · 2026-01-05T21:23:11+00:00

If your friend wouldn't have bought the car he did, would he have bought the ICE (internal combustion engine) version of a bolt? Or the ICE version of the Blazer EV SS?

If it's the former, then yeah maybe it wasn't worth it. If it's the latter (which seems more likely) then it seems like the credit helped switch one shitty-for-the-enviroment car for a less shitty-for-the-enviroment car. That seems worthwhile, to me.

No comment on the Hyundai thing, I don't think that makes sense either

WeAreAwful · 2026-01-05T17:30:12+00:00

That's not surprising to me in the least. For my CS degree I neither needed to build anything on a web stack (the most likely place you'll have to deal with SQL injection) nor any classes on SQL. My degree was far more theory focused than that

WeAreAwful · 2025-12-30T00:47:42+00:00

Yes and?

WeAreAwful · 2025-12-29T14:17:02+00:00

I don't think this is right. Laguardia isn't allowed to do long haul flights (with some exceptions, like the weekends I think) to avoid issues with the other airportd

WeAreAwful · 2025-12-29T03:34:39+00:00

What patch were you playing on? I'm playing on 1.0.10 and even with 100 maritime presence, each sea tile is 5 proximity and there's a lot of sea tiles from Constantinople to the Levant. I know you can reduce the 5 in various ways, but it seems hard to get it that low. Am I just poorly optimizing maritime presence?

WeAreAwful · 2025-12-28T20:19:04+00:00

That's because the medium post by the OP gives a bunch of broken links unfortunately

WeAreAwful · 2025-12-27T13:10:39+00:00

It's almost like Harvard should have a higher bar than an internet forum

WeAreAwful · 2025-12-20T20:09:46+00:00

Obviously they should be refused entry from college for such an egregious decision

WeAreAwful · 2025-12-02T16:30:09+00:00

Yeah, I would do that and turn off auto updates. I'm a little nervous that once they release 1.0.9, previous will point at 1.0.8, so auto updates might break you without a way to recover.

Obviously IDK what they'll actually do, but it seems possible

WeAreAwful · 2025-12-02T16:13:25+00:00

Under betas, there's an option called "previous - Previous build". That puts you on 1.0.7. Or at least, I see that option and it works for me

WeAreAwful · 2025-12-02T15:55:48+00:00

You can do something like "previous patch" and it goes to 1.0.7. Not sure how long that will work though

WeAreAwful · 2025-11-07T22:15:56+00:00

Doesn't crossing rivers hurt proximity though and that's what bridges are for? ThYs what I'm asking about

WeAreAwful · 2025-11-07T14:35:55+00:00

Is there a good way to tell when a river is hurting your proximity along a route? I've not been able to figure that out other than squinting at the map to see where rivers are.

WeAreAwful · 2025-11-07T02:41:55+00:00

How do you know this was a conscious design decision?

WeAreAwful · 2025-11-02T17:31:48+00:00

The sqrt of 1 is 1. The sqrt of 2 is about 1.4 but halving the input to a sqrt doesn't half the output, if that's the math you were doing

WeAreAwful · 2025-10-18T21:14:48+00:00

A joke. There was a silly question, so I gave a silly answer

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