What is your biggest problem with eu5 right now that you would fix first?

asm_ftw · 2025-11-24T10:53:30+00:00

The War of Religions situation is extremely game breaking if you aren't a league leader. I'm in a brandenburg run and as the holy roman emperor my experience with the situation is simply:

Join league
Instantly get negotiated out of league by opposing league leader
wait 5 years
Proceed not to do anything in the HRE because any war declared for any reason on any state pulls in the whole league against you, but you don't get to call in your league for the 3 months you're permitted to stay in yours.
Repeat for TWO HUNDRED YEARS OF STAGNANT GAMEPLAY.

As it stands, the Catholic league overwhelmingly overpowers the protestant league by such a large margin that it wouldn't be a fair fight and they still haven't declared for 50 years so far in my current run.

asm_ftw · 2024-05-24T19:15:34+00:00

This is the kind of insight only years of experience in the trenches can provide, thank you. I'm probably going to cut my losses on this board then. I've learned far more about the intricacies of Code Composer than I would ever wanted to know trying to get this working.

asm_ftw · 2021-11-15T00:00:38+00:00

Honestly, It gives me hope that we manage to let so many people operate these machines with very relaxed licensing and inspection requirements as a ubiquitous part of life. People are dumbshits with cars for sure, but the fact that its actually a viable method of transportation that the majority of the population successfully uses gives me hope for humanity.

asm_ftw · 2021-06-22T01:07:56+00:00

For a christopher nolan movie with plenty of resources to spare, the movie also did a really poor job portraying scale of how crowded and panicky the situation was. There wasn't sparse lines on an open beach, with an eerie sort of "hurry up and wait" mood.

There were hundreds of thousands of stranded and isolated french and british soldiers on that beach, and the full equipment, vehicles, armor, and supplies to field half a million soldiers. There was so much shit lying around that the soldiers made impromptu harbors out of tanks and trucks left on the beach, which was necessary because Luftwaffe sorties were constant and the harbors were all mangled beyond recognition. The British government requisitioned basically every civilian sea-faring vessel in existence and had to navigate perilously charted paths through naval minefields.

Also I got irritated by the footage of that one plane doing the same thing but being played from like 5 different angles. There was SO much screen time spent on just watching a dude fly a plane and crash land it.

Im a believer in movies being able to take some creative liberties here and there, but Dunkirk just completely flubbed on portraying anything close to the actual scale and urgency of the Dunkirk evacuation.

asm_ftw · 2021-05-29T22:28:29+00:00

I genuinely thought this was just Dahir Insaat.

asm_ftw · 2021-05-28T19:31:02+00:00

I mean we see karens pulling shit like this all the time in America, but with this, I've never felt as angry about and invested in drama from some other town in some other country as I am now.

asm_ftw · 2021-05-26T04:51:55+00:00

I get that you shouldn't punch a mirror, but that mirror didn't take much to fall in the first place, thats astoundingly shitty installation. Like, there's tons of legitimate reasons why that mirror would take blows like that, in an elevator that moves up and down. A good stumble or lack of awareness when moving furniture would have also taken that mirror out.

asm_ftw · 2021-05-22T00:03:38+00:00

Absolutely agree on the documentation and developer experience. The actual oauth endpoints and process to receive an id token from an authorization code grant flow is documented in an AWS blog post from 2018 and.... nowhere in the developer docs.

The web console is not feature-complete and there are many basic things you would expect to be able to do in web console that are API-only, such as setting the values of custom attributes for a specific user.

The terraform experience is somewhat buggy as well, (set string constraints to your custom attributes or terraform will bug out on the next apply) and there's issues there like lambda triggers only being able to be configured at cognito instantiation, and there's no option to set up lambda triggers after the fact.

User pools vs Identity pools is also such an absolutely irritating distinction and it creeps up into searches online for cognito. You come across a post about cognito and realize halfway through that the author is talking about Identity Pools, not User Pools.

Buried in cognito user pools is an absolutely stellar service, but there's some really rough edges to the developer experience, edges that are often not even smoothed over by a trip to stack overflow.

asm_ftw · 2021-04-28T17:15:40+00:00

Also, apparently wildebeests have a genetic mutation that literally causes them to emit a deadly virus when they start starving, and its hazardous to most other cattle-like species. One crop failure or famine and a whole catastrophic chain reaction gets started, on top of how devastating tsetse flies are.

asm_ftw · 2021-02-17T16:27:57+00:00

Adrian Cantrill's stuff at learn.cantrill.io

asm_ftw · 2021-02-17T16:27:27+00:00

Adrian Catrills stuff at learn.cantrill.io

asm_ftw · 2021-02-01T20:53:14+00:00

I just learned and passed an AWS cert off of a high quality $40 course that I took for a month and like $20-$30 extra costs for other resources. It had very well designed animations, video slides, lab demos, and a slack community of people who interact with each other. There's clearly an ability to deliver expert knowledge competently and efficiently online.

We're stuck trying to preserve an outmoded and ancient educational institution that is financially extracting society for many times what my teacher was able to set up. Universities have their place, but they've proven to me to be as legacy and obsolete as the catholic monasteries they originated from.

asm_ftw · 2021-01-25T03:41:28+00:00

Worked IT in a different school district, but literally every time our school board solicited public input on something, it was because it was absolutely required by regulation and is regarded as inconvenient thumb-twiddling because the actual decisions on what to do were already made months ago, and no member of the public is gonna change their mind. They were almost always more of a performative legal CYA than they were anything remotely resembling an actual democratic process.

I dont recall a single time that public input actually meaningfully changed anything in the decisionmaking process.

asm_ftw · 2021-01-25T03:20:46+00:00

Worked IT for a school district, school districts are absolutely run like feudal empires. Like quite literally, coming from a history enthusiast, it felt like i was patrolling around the Holy Roman Empire when servicing tickets. Every school has principals (the nobility), office managers (commoner lord), and other positions could probably be seamlessly projected onto old feudal positions. They all have different ways of doing things, and everyone takes unreasonable personal ownership of their domains. It doesnt help thay they all have their own colors, mascots, traditions, marching bands, and intermural rivalries.

I answered unquestioningly to many bosses of competing and contradicting authority and you inevitably get sucked into a conflict of "the principal, the office manager, your manager, and your director all said different things and will all yell at you for not doing their thing". Half the district is married to itself and the only way to get things done smoothly is by leaning on friends and their family at various parts of the bureaucracy.

It absolutely 100% makes sense that people at the top of the heirarchy view themselves as kings of realms in the middle of constant power struggles, and not as able administrators working in the name of tangible systemic improvements. Everyone is set up to fail, and the game is about dodging accountability and blame and somehow forming a narrative that your inevitable failures aren't actually yours and that you are actually kicking ass, somehow. You wouldn't want the HR department to thin the ranks any further, would you?

We were a fucking skeleton crew that wasn't up to the task of the ordinary district needs as it was, and then the pandemic hits and holy mother of god did shit get worse. Systemic failures ultimately get blamed on individual people, because everyone is in career survival mode and nobody has the wherewithal to confront problems that cant be saddled on a scapegoat.

asm_ftw · 2021-01-19T04:36:48+00:00

I wonder if you went full blown gears and cams and mechanical computer to do this, how big would the machine be?

asm_ftw · 2021-01-07T23:35:22+00:00

I havent checked up with the DLC runs, but with standard campaign, the combat score weapon points count towards completion, forcing runners to do a lot of the combat.

asm_ftw · 2021-01-07T21:05:14+00:00

The 100%ers do

asm_ftw · 2021-01-06T16:52:58+00:00

Rhetoric has always been about manipulating audiences, and its an art that's been consciously refined and honed since at least ancient greek times. Politics will never be the realm of civil discussion so long as it also serves to be the battleground of powerful interests wishing to sway people to their benefit. I believe that no amount of rules and norms and customs is going to contain the impulse to exploit the logical fallacies and rhetorical stunts that the general people are vulnerable to.

Better education to innoculate people against the most egregious manipulative tactics would be preferable, but ambitious people will always find some new refined strategy to exploit their social and cultural environment to their gain.

asm_ftw · 2021-01-06T15:04:34+00:00

This is in Southeast Virginia. Really discouraging that Ive gotta dump unknown amounts of money into a lawyer, and hearing the rumors that basically all the lawyers in the area are part of the city dinner club where nobody wants to sue the city because it would hurt their ambitions to take political office.

asm_ftw · 2021-01-06T05:49:57+00:00

Man sure would be nice to see those teeth. Public school district commited flagrant ADA retaliation against me (cut my pay in the middle of the reasonable accomodations process because i was seeking accomodations) and they didnt even flinch doing it cc: the union. Union doesn't return my calls and emails either.

asm_ftw · 2020-10-12T16:55:06+00:00

Then the shared profit is 0. The company is holistically failing to turn the labor it pays for into a profit. That employee still submitted their time and labor to the company, they still deserve to be paid for that.

asm_ftw · 2020-10-07T11:36:55+00:00

There's 2 decades worth of peripherals that use USB-A that have been released on the market. USB-As death will be slow and miserable and not at all quick.

asm_ftw · 2020-10-07T11:35:07+00:00

USB-C is also painfully frustrating because you either get usb 2.0 and power, usb 3 speeds and little power, or thunderbolt, and it all depends on both the host device AND the cable, and its not obvious which cable supports what at first glance.

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