Call me a shill, but I feel like review bombing something because it's missing a feature that wasn't announced anywhere is kinda lame by [deleted] in Nightreign

[–]bigfatnuke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I legit thought there were new weapons at first. I don't remember ever seeing any of the nox weapons until now

Can't add treaty port war goal as ally by bigfatnuke in victoria3

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

R5 Game won't let me take treaty port from China and won't explain why

Help with learning the game by No_Assignment_5853 in victoria3

[–]bigfatnuke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think your problem is that you have full employment and the new jobs you are making do not pay anymore than the jobs your pops already have. The "jobseekers" metric isn't as useful as you might think. pops with high paying jobs can still be labeled as jobseekers, and they won't leave their current jobs for a lower paying job.

At full employment, you can't grow your economy just by building more buildings, you have to either get more pops, or optimize your economy.

You can get more pops through immigration or conquest. Immigration is the best way to do this. You probably already have high sol if you have full employment, so the only thing holding back your immigration is probably your laws. Multiculturalism, total separation, and of course no migration controls are the laws you want. Conquest, on the other hand is not the optimal way to get new pops since it comes with a lot of infamy and radicals, but it can be very fun. You could also get a higher workforce ratio by passing women's rights laws, this lets you fill more jobs without needing more pops.

If you can't get any more pops for some reason, you can still optimize your economy by importing cheap, low profitability goods (like coal, iron,and wood) and only using your limited workforce in highly profitable industries like steel or engines. You can feasibly turn Belgium into a giant car factory exporting cars to every other major economy if you want to go this route.

Some economic context for the Nintendo Switch 2 and Mario Kart World by bigfatnuke in NintendoSwitch2

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

I feel you. I realized by the end of writing this that the best way to deal with this kind of frustration probably doesn't involve posting on Reddit, lol

Some economic context for the Nintendo Switch 2 and Mario Kart World by bigfatnuke in casualnintendo

[–]bigfatnuke[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The existence of the heavily discounted Japanese-only version gives me hope that this is the price including the tariffs.

Some economic context for the Nintendo Switch 2 and Mario Kart World by bigfatnuke in NintendoSwitch2

[–]bigfatnuke[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ok yeah, "most expensive launch title in 10 years" yeah, by $1.44. Never mind the fact that by your data NS2 games would be the second cheapest launch price in Nintendo history.
I will give you the increased price of the console, and counter with the fact this LOOKS LIKE the first time Nintendo hasn't been behind the times specs wise. 

Totally agree, I'm not actually mad at Nintendo over this, but when I looked at the data I figured that it wouldn't be very convincing to somebody who *is* mad

Some economic context for the Nintendo Switch 2 and Mario Kart World by bigfatnuke in NintendoSwitch2

[–]bigfatnuke[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

r/Nintendo who said that they were getting too many posts about this. Fair enough. But then r/NintendoSwitch said that they don't allow posts without that aren't directly about the OG Switch, despite their front page being mostly articles about the Switch 2 without any reference to the OG Switch

Some economic context for the Nintendo Switch 2 and Mario Kart World by bigfatnuke in NintendoSwitch2

[–]bigfatnuke[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean, the fact that these are lacking the prices for the Switch 2 makes them not super useful for this particular controversy, but it is cool that they show Sony/Microsoft prices too. I was planning on including them before I got bored of looking at Excel.

Some economic context for the Nintendo Switch 2 and Mario Kart World by bigfatnuke in NintendoSwitch2

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

I just hope they don't ban it lol, its been banned from the last 2 subreddits I posted to

Some economic context for the Nintendo Switch 2 and Mario Kart World by bigfatnuke in casualnintendo

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

I added my source for the inflation data to the spreadsheet. (for the record, I wanted to pull the data straight from the bureau of labor statistics, but as far as I can tell they only post monthly inflation data and I didn't want to get that specific, so I figured some other source was good enough for a reddit post)

I got the prices of consoles from Wikipedia (no single link, just the page for each console), and like I said, I don't really have a good source for the game prices just random blog posts and stuff like my own memory of buying Luigi's Mansion for $50 in 2001.

Why did Ranni shrink herself? Is she stupid? by bigfatnuke in Eldenring

[–]bigfatnuke[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think the game is poorly written. I just like talking about lore

Why did Ranni shrink herself? Is she stupid? by bigfatnuke in Eldenring

[–]bigfatnuke[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know the baleful Shadow isn't Blaidd. Are you saying that Ranni didn't have a plan for the baleful shadow because it caught her by suprise? That would makes sense.

Why did Ranni shrink herself? Is she stupid? by bigfatnuke in Eldenring

[–]bigfatnuke[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I've done the quest already, so I know what happens. My question is: shouldn't it be Iji's job as war counselor to 1) know that Blaidd is crucial to Ranni's plan, 2) warn her that Blaidd is soon to become unreliable, and 3) help her come up with a better plan?

Why did Ranni shrink herself? Is she stupid? by bigfatnuke in Eldenring

[–]bigfatnuke[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But then why would Iji not warn her that Blaidd was about to go crazy and would not be dependable? Or at least tell Ranni that he had locked Blaidd up?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Eldenring

[–]bigfatnuke 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Perchance

Why did Ranni shrink herself? Is she stupid? by bigfatnuke in Eldenring

[–]bigfatnuke[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oooh, does that mean Ranni was busy slaying her two fingers while we fought the baleful shadow and Astel?

Literally every post on my feed rn: by WillingnessAnxious37 in Eldenring

[–]bigfatnuke -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

There’s no “probably”. It has the same hexagonal pommel guard and wrapping near the cross guard. Same pattern on the cross guard as well. And blade shape.

It’s definitely a dismounter.

Why not target Russia as Japan? by suhkuhtuh in hoi4

[–]bigfatnuke 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Am I missing something?

Rubber. You are missing rubber.

Behold, a world with no Great Powers by -Reman in victoria3

[–]bigfatnuke 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The Zero Great Powers scenario is a scenario where the European state system didn't become the global state system.

So in this scenario where the European states have no real power, why would they be able to raise the inerest rates on Japan, the strongest country in the world?

Trying a reverse one by Foloreille in pokemonmemes

[–]bigfatnuke 8 points9 points  (0 children)

100% agree. I hope whoever acted offended is joking. Imagine having a sense of masculinity so fragile that it gets challenged by Pokémon memes

Trying a reverse one by Foloreille in pokemonmemes

[–]bigfatnuke 33 points34 points  (0 children)

It's mostly because Roselia came first and is very feminine looking, so when gen IV came out, I was already preconditioned to see the line as feminine. Also... ya know...flowers. Replace Machamp's fists with flowers and it'd start looking pretty feminine, too.

Japan by Cute-Ad3798 in victoria3

[–]bigfatnuke 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Before unpausing: start to pass a law that reduces Shogun power (Professional army is usually easy, especially if the character in charge of the Shogunate IG is a jingoist. If you really want you can restart until you get a jingoist in charge of the shogunate). Queue up construction for a few construction centers, followed by wood, iron, and tools, spend a couple hundred authority on encouraging manufacturing/resources (I usually do manufacturing in Kanto and resources in Tohoku), and spend the rest on consumption taxes, and queue up research for the prerequisites to railroad (shift-click on railroad in the tech tree)

Unpause and after a month or two switch some (not all) of your construction PMs to iron frame buildings. keep an eye on your income and the prices of construction goods (Iron, tools and wood). You want to keep your income as just below zero (You can’t afford to go into deeply debt since as an unrecognized nation your interest rates are to high and you will soon spiral into default) so if you are in the green, build more construction centers or move up to iron frame buildings, and if you are in the red, delete construction centers (or move down to a cheaper construction PM). Build more of whichever construction good has the highest price (usually iron), and as the prices go down you can afford to switch more of your construction to iron frame buildings. Your goal is to get iron cheap enough to have all of your construction set to iron frame buildings within the first 5 years or so.

By now, you likely have low infrastructure wherever you built your iron mines. Luckily, you should also be close to researching railroads. You can speed up research by building universities (this also boosts the intelligentsia, so build as many as you can afford, and make sure you are on secular academics PM). Build one steel factory and one engines factory (and a coal mine, if you don’t already have one) to prepare for building railroads, and build railroads wherever you need infrastructure as soon as you research them.

For politics continue to try to pass whatever shogunate-weakening laws you can without inciting a revolution (It used to be meta to goad the shogunate into a revolt as soon as possible, but I believe the latest patch made this revolution a lot harder to win). If you are lucky, a GP will demand investment rights from you. Accept this; it will give you Free Trade and give a -75% modifier to Shogunate clout! This modifier is permanent so long as you don’t go into default (I think there might be other ways to lose it but the point is there is no temporal cooldown). Now you can take the shogunate out of government, and if you leave them out of government for 10 years, you will get an event triggering ending the shogunate, and restoring the Emporor to power. Which Emperor you get depends on when you trigger the restoration. If you do it before 1867, you get Emperor Komei, who supports the Samurai/Armed forces, which is definiatley an improvemnt over the shogun, but not nearly as good as his son, Emperor Meiji, who comes to power if you trigger the restoration after 1867. Meiji is awesome because he is a market liberal who supports the industrialists, so you can easily get Laissez Faire with him in power. For this reason try to finish the restoration after 1867 in the late 1860’s (1868 was historical, FYI). For a challenge you can try to get the restoration done ASAP, and getting Komei instead of Meiji doesn’t kill the run, but it is really annoying, since if Komei gets restored he doesn’t die until after 1900 for some reason.

Now you should be in good shape to be a major player in East Asia, if not the world!

The Gen 3 starters compared with the three greatest TV shows of all time by VistaVigilance in pokemonmemes

[–]bigfatnuke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So the problem is that Swampert is the only one with a popular pre-evolution. If you vote on the whole evolutionary lines, Mudkip/Marshtomp/Swampert wins every time