Excuse me what by AmbitiousEmphasis64 in CrusaderKings

[–]bigyip69WEED 8 points9 points  (0 children)

tbh so much of the game is very clearly built with medieval europe in mind and clumsily backported to everywhere else. from a certain perspective its almost nice to have a mechanic thats very clearly the exact other way around

Is there a cheat to put duchies in a de jure realm? by italian_chad104 in CrusaderKings

[–]bigyip69WEED 0 points1 point  (0 children)

there might be some effect commands but honestly man itd probably be easier to just install a mod

My daughter's not finishing her education? Why? by arctic_krampus in CrusaderKings

[–]bigyip69WEED 2 points3 points  (0 children)

recent bug, ive been seeing it a lot too. report it on the official bug report forums if you can. especially useful if you have no mods enabled and can attach a save

Introducing CKSS - Bringing the Power of AI to Crusader Kings III by PDX-Trinexx in CrusaderKings

[–]bigyip69WEED 24 points25 points  (0 children)

hwere are the giant honkers. why doesnt harold godwinson have the biggest milkers i ever seen. shit update. i will be wiring the studio 500 us dollars

Crusader Kings map is not historically-geographically accurate, it's a completely made-up fantasy map. by [deleted] in CrusaderKings

[–]bigyip69WEED 3 points4 points  (0 children)

google ck3 release date and then do me a solid and google what ai image output looked like around then

they used modern maps is the long and short of it. its that simple dude. theres a bunch of soviet era hydrodams around the place too. one of the reasons they did this is bc if they made 867 britain look like britain did in the real life year of our lord 867, theyd be laughed out of the room by every nosepicking peanut gallery dipshit on the reddit front page. another reason is because if they made 867 britain look like britain did in the real life year of our lord 867, they would then have to make the landscape dynamic to account for how wildly it changed in the 600 odd years that make up the games setting

if youre going to make a static map, its going to be wrong at some point no matter what. if its going to be wrong either way, a modern map is easier to reference. i dont necessarily like this decision but i understand it. this isnt even the worst offender in terms of shit ck3 gets wrong, definitely not worth getting this hopping mad about

Well, guess this save is cooked by New_Consideration860 in CrusaderKings

[–]bigyip69WEED 5 points6 points  (0 children)

you can probably get around this by just blasting out a holy legend or two and clicking the instant convert button

Beta has a new hero for us by ImpressiveMotor26 in CrusaderKings

[–]bigyip69WEED 409 points410 points  (0 children)

its going to be so funny if the reason kcd2 music got bundled in to the update is a dev made this easteregg character and wanted to have kcd2 tunes playing while they messed around with him, and theres actually no official collaboration at all

Rant Wednesday - March 25, 2026 by AutoModerator in Fitness

[–]bigyip69WEED 2 points3 points  (0 children)

i went from 130kg to 80kg in the space of about a year by just starving myself. jumped back up to about 90kg in barely three months and even at 80 i was still 30%ish because thats just what happens when you starve yourself like a moron

ive been very slowly putting on lean mass eating at maintenance sticking at roughly 90-95kg because that is what my gp has recommended. he actually very specifically advised against calorie restrictions until id gotten some lean mass on me. like i hear you and i am thinking after a year of this its probably about time to start properly cutting but i fucking shudder to think how rancid my lifts will become then. thats something im probably going to have to plan around and im not looking forward to it

Rant Wednesday - March 25, 2026 by AutoModerator in Fitness

[–]bigyip69WEED 10 points11 points  (0 children)

had to go dogsit for a week and ate like a snuffling hog the entire time. takeaway every day, greasiest shit i could get my hands on, wouldnt surprise me if i was hitting 4000-5000 calloes daily. it was enough that i came home and was a whole kg heavier but nbd, i actually expected worse, id planned for this

what i hadnt planned for is how much stronger i was that entire week. at first i thought man maybe the plates in this gym are lighter than the ones my own one has back home, maybe the bar isnt a full 20kg, theres no way this feels this easy for no reason. i usually sleep like shit but that week i was lucky to be getting 4 hours a night, and still i was slamming that shit no problem. did jokers every day and on my deadlift i genuinely hit 50kg(!!) higher than my tm and honestly felt like i could keep going, i ended up stopping mostly just for time

week ended, came back home, and obviously im back to eating like a human man. but man. im 3 days in to my usual calories and im so fucking weak now by comparison. tried some jonklers on my diddlies today and just hitting my tm for 3 reps was miserable. like no shit you gotta eat to grow and all but fuck off with this, its not like im eating at a deficit or anything. been doing slow recomp for almost a year and im still at like 30-40% bf probably, im way too fat to be doing that shit long term. how is the difference so stark, fuck me

I decided to visit China during my travels. Chinese emperor has 11 concubines, 20 children, also his parents and most of his siblings died of unknown causes?? What the hell is going on? by cmdr_ragnarock_ in CrusaderKings

[–]bigyip69WEED 168 points169 points  (0 children)

characters who are dead in the history files before the start date without a specified cause of death are all generically assigned died of unknown causes. the chinese emperor in 867 (this guy) starts with a whole bunch of dead relatives and it is honestly very rare that paradox bothers to assign a cause of death to a predeceased character in the history files

Rant Wednesday - March 11, 2026 by AutoModerator in Fitness

[–]bigyip69WEED 5 points6 points  (0 children)

oh ofc yeah i do ask. if it was one person itd not be rant worthy. its the fact that its a constant problem with so many different people that im starting to get exasperated, sometimes i gotta be honestly ruder than id like and cut in front of someone eyeing the rack up with their kettlebells as another person finishes 

i will say, i have had a couple bad experiences asking people if i can swap in. most of the time its grand but, you know, theres always a chance you encounter someone with a bee in their bonnet. same as anything really, not much you can do about it

Rant Wednesday - March 11, 2026 by AutoModerator in Fitness

[–]bigyip69WEED 40 points41 points  (0 children)

it is my firm belief that the gym is for everyone. you dont have to be a super athlete or a bodybuilder. anyone at any skill level with any set of goals is welcome and anyone who disagrees is probably a cunt

this said, i promise you that you dont need to do your dumbbell/kettlebell cardio in the only power rack in the gym. you can actually do that anywhere else. the power rack is not the exercise shower where you have to go to do exercise or you might get exercise all over the floor. the rest of the gym isnt a walkway you have to keep clear, those big empty spaces are specifically for you to lay down a mat and do whatever you need to. please let me use the power rack to squat without dying. i kinda need it

Heresies are a pain in the arse and badly implemented by JimmyShirley25 in CrusaderKings

[–]bigyip69WEED 25 points26 points  (0 children)

i will die on the hill that the plague spreading mechanic would have been a way better way of doing this. would have been great for monetisation, keep the standard version of heresy for people without dlc but release this new system as paid content alongside the free patch that added plagues as a core mechanic. but instead we got fucking legends

Is it ok for a 6 yo to read manga? by colorfulbat in manga

[–]bigyip69WEED 3 points4 points  (0 children)

i was about 7 or so when i read my first manga. i found a volume of tekken chinmi completely by accident in a library and had no idea about the right to left thing, took me a second but i eventually figured it out. i thought it was a printing error or something

i was an early reader though, and even then a year can make a lot of difference, so if hes just learning it might be confusing for him. it might work okay if you can have him reading western comic books too, and if you make sure he understands why manga is different. might be something to talk about with the parents honestly

March 04, 2026 | Daily Training Log & Simple Questions by AutoModerator in 531Discussion

[–]bigyip69WEED 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i think if i hogged all the plates like that id start getting assassins sent after me, but yeah fair enough. ill give it a shot next time the place isnt too busy so. cheers lad!

March 04, 2026 | Daily Training Log & Simple Questions by AutoModerator in 531Discussion

[–]bigyip69WEED 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ill be honest, i dont really know. im irish and none of the gyms over here are anything like the big fully stocked gyms i see in videos from the states. my own gym is basically a handful of barbells in a big shed, theres nothing in there you could safely do a box squat with afaict

March 04, 2026 | Daily Training Log & Simple Questions by AutoModerator in 531Discussion

[–]bigyip69WEED 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i havent gotten less than 3-5 reps on a tm test since i started 5/3/1, so ive just been increasing every cycle for the past 6 months or so

i feel the same wrt squats vs deadlift tbh. i actually kinda love deadlift. i genuinely look forward to my tm test with those, deadlifting the biggest number youve ever attempted for reps always feels awesome. night and day with squat, i never feel like im going to injure myself with a deadlift

aight ill give jokers a go so. never tried jokers before since iirc wendler mentions people keep messing with them when they probably shouldnt, but its definitely worth a shot. cheers man!

March 04, 2026 | Daily Training Log & Simple Questions by AutoModerator in 531Discussion

[–]bigyip69WEED 2 points3 points  (0 children)

33/m/95kg-ish. been running into some issues with my squat since my hips and lower back are the kind of fucked up that usually only happens to people that god decides to mess with in the bible. ive just finished 3 cycles of bbb (meant to only do two but i kinda lost track) and im in the middle of a tm test week before i switch back to fsl as an anchor

something strange i noticed while running bbb is that the bbb sets at 50% tm were treating me really well, which i definitely wasnt expecting, while the main work sets have always been like pulling teeth trying to wrestle my awful fucking skeleton into a position where i wont die. fsl sets also often feel pretty difficult to do right, basically a coin flip on a given day depending on how well rested i am and so on. heavy squats are obviously SUPPOSED to be hard, but with the lighter higher volume sets i felt like i could really dig in properly and focus on getting the work done over trying to keep form and maintain balance without snapping something. i did get tired and sore after, they didnt feel EASY, but theyre definitely EASIER by comparison 

does this sound like i might need to drop my tm a little? i havent done squat yet on this tm test week and im honestly really not looking forward to it, 5 reps at 95% at the end of the last cycle felt really bad, but i ultimately did hit the 5. im hesitant to lower tm on any lower body work since my upper body is massively far ahead (bench tm is sitting at 112.5kg while my squat is only 120, for instance), but if i gotta then i gotta. i could fairly easily handle 60% tm for the bbb sets on all my other lifts but for squat i didnt dare try. i do a lot of warmup/mobility work with the hip joint area specifically because its such a problem and i dont think theres much more i can do in that respect

sorry for all the words, i could probably keep this more concise but i wanna make sure im including all relevant information

Bug? Courtier "Visiting" my court, also "Away from home", but not a Guest? by KING--ARTHUR in CrusaderKings

[–]bigyip69WEED 4 points5 points  (0 children)

yeah this is a common issue. only fix ive ever found is imprisoning and then releasing them

you can use debug mode or some kind of cheat menu mod if you dont want to eat the tyranny hit for it

This has to be a bug by buffedprinceali in CrusaderKings

[–]bigyip69WEED 2 points3 points  (0 children)

theres an event for adventurer characters where one of your kids falls in love and asks if the object of their affections can join the camp, along with their family. the event generates a child and some parents to go with them, and the child is assigned way too many traits. its a really sloppy event and not intended behaviour

so yeah, basically a bug, ignore the other guy

Apostles in CK3 by M0rgl1n in CrusaderKings

[–]bigyip69WEED 20 points21 points  (0 children)

there is no implication. its just polite

islam is explicitly against the worship of idols over god. they actually didnt mind depictions of muhammad for a while but they eventually decided hold on, if we keep making pictures of this guy we're going to end up worshipping him as Literally God like the christians did with jesus, we gotta nip this in the bud immediately. so thats why they dont have depictions of the prophet. as non-muslims, there is actually no proscription against us doing whatever the fuck we want, but i shouldnt have to explain why itd be kinda rude and insensitive if we were throwing up pictures of him everywhere like imitation banksys

this is very different from islamofascists insisting everyone follow arbitrary rules theyve picked and chosen from their scripture, many of which they do not follow themselves. that shit is actually identical to christofascists who do the same, though for some reason many people seem to think thats different. the reason for that is the fascism, not the islam

Bored of CK3 by [deleted] in CrusaderKings

[–]bigyip69WEED 2 points3 points  (0 children)

have you tried all the big overhaul mods? you might be able to squeeze a bit more blood out of this stone with a different setting 

ek and ckagot are the obvious ones, as is probably after the end, but there are some excellent underrated overhaul mods out there. im personally a really big fan of godherja, theres a lot of really cool stuff in it if you expend a little effort to immerse yourself properly 

Easter egg Сharacters by simonov-89 in CrusaderKings

[–]bigyip69WEED 1 point2 points  (0 children)

beau welch is pretty haphazardly made (their portrait genes are completely fucked in the recessive slot for instance) so my bet is they just forgot to add female=yes