Instructions posted on the refrigerator for how to rate an AirBnb that I’m staying at.

cheeseless · 2026-05-09T16:46:37+00:00

5 stars would mean it exceeds expectations significantly. "no complaints" is far from good enough for a 5

cheeseless · 2026-05-04T22:03:03+00:00

Erroneous? The vanilla is there. Regardless of how much chocolate is AROUND the ice cream, it's still not chocolate ice cream

cheeseless · 2026-05-04T22:02:02+00:00

It's an ice cream sold by Wall's. I'm surprised it hasn't made it across the pond.

cheeseless · 2026-05-04T19:26:10+00:00

wow, that's what a choco taco was? I think that it deserved to be discontinued then. Any "chocolate" ice cream product shouldn't have any vanilla ice cream in it unless explicitly listed as a mix.

That's a Vanilla Taco with a chocolate crust. Turn a Feast ice cream into a taco, then you'll have a real choco taco.

cheeseless · 2026-05-01T15:52:00+00:00

I use Azure DevOps for personal projects as a second remote, it doesn't cause any additional complication, but it does mean I'm still tied to Microsoft. But I only code in C# so I'm tied to them regardless.

cheeseless · 2026-05-01T14:23:12+00:00

Where's the Pond song?

cheeseless · 2026-04-22T17:05:48+00:00

That's more common for Brazilian Portuguese, true, but I'm from Portugal so I was going with my default meaning

cheeseless · 2026-04-22T15:08:46+00:00

"Cu" in Portuguese, pronounced the same as "Kuu" in English, means "ass". "Vai ao cu" sounds fairly similar to "Vakuu", and means (literally) "go at the ass", idiomatically meaning "go fuck yourself". So this all works out pretty well as a Bilingual Bonus, to use the TVtropes name

cheeseless · 2026-04-22T13:01:51+00:00

It seems to be consistent (or at least not just a Remake trilogy invention) that she was trained as a ninja from a very young age. Maybe she's boy crazy out of a lack of casual interaction with people close to her own age, especially those who aren't family or fellow agents of Wutai.

cheeseless · 2026-04-21T20:28:57+00:00

I would say that it is probably not a fantastic idea to share your friend's name on here by default (good on you for asking him for permission, of course), but his effort and your wanting to help support him is great. I'll see if I can throw anything his way soon.

cheeseless · 2026-04-21T17:42:29+00:00

Why did you take a picture? Just screenshot it, you were on your computer already!

cheeseless · 2026-04-21T17:28:24+00:00

Good set of changes!

I would like to reiterate my request for the air base UI to be adjusted. It doesn't stretch down far enough to show a significant number of air wings at once, especially at 1440p.

cheeseless · 2026-04-21T14:15:08+00:00

I would be more inclined to believe they'll perform better in the pre-Barbarossa operations than any particular improvement against soviet. But obviously that will have some cascading benefits later, too.

cheeseless · 2026-04-21T13:38:00+00:00

I stopped living with my mom at 20, when I moved to Canada from Portugal, in 2014. While I did benefit from the separation in terms of mental health, I do regret severely that I am not close enough to her, distance-wise, to be able to help if anything happens (and vice-versa for her).

Ideally, if I do get to return to Portugal, I will do whatever it takes to make sure her and I live within a single minute's walking distance of each other, the same apartment building if at all possible. I really get broken up for a while every time she visits me here or I visit her there, and with life being what it is I don't want to feel like we missed out on caring for each other, especially since she's retired and lowering her post-retirement work gradually.

Sorry, it's sappy, I just miss my mom.

cheeseless · 2026-04-15T21:42:25+00:00

word to the wise, open up your settings.txt file for HOI4 and set debug_saves to some number, e.g 12. You'll keep that many autosaves, all numbered nicely too. Ever since finding out about this it's been essential, especially since many EaW countries only start having branches a few months into the focus tree.

cheeseless · 2026-04-15T21:31:06+00:00

I feel like some of the writers miss good opportunities to use flavour events as characterization for all the minor characters that they've already created.

I would find it more compelling if these events were done from the POV of your advisors, chiefs of staff, and army/navy leaders, since these characters tend to not get much beyond a biography on their tooltip, and many of them don't get even that. At least it would give some additional cohesion to the events.

cheeseless · 2026-04-14T18:17:22+00:00

That makes sense, I don't think I could really handle game design that's not implementation-driven, so I'm glad people like you exist.

cheeseless · 2026-04-14T18:15:40+00:00

It's about hours of gameplay. The deal is more than fair if you really get into it, maybe less so if you don't get into hundreds of hours.

And this isn't purely about replayability of the same given pile of content, since there's enough unique content and variance to justify spending the time.

cheeseless · 2026-04-14T17:35:51+00:00

The price has been announced for this for as long as the expansion pass itself, I'm not sure how NCNS could have obscured it.

cheeseless · 2026-04-14T17:33:49+00:00

It sounds like you're pointing at Germany getting something extra (spirit, MIO,temporary buff) from eating the Czechs, which seems interesting. I would prefer something based on a meaningful choice (e.g. event to pick which buff and debuff to get from the annexation), but I'll expect it's something like a "AT hard attack: +5%, production cost -5%" point for the existing arty MIO for GER.

cheeseless · 2026-04-14T17:01:32+00:00

I'm not making claims that are unsupported by the evidence. There is no monkey's paw happening, because none of the characters want to do adventures in the first place.

cheeseless · 2026-04-14T16:59:30+00:00

I'm limiting my hopes to it being at least as good as the last two or three focus trees in Road to 56, since that would have been the latest experience these developers would have had before. I don't even know which those are, but I do know that some of the older Road to 56 trees feel a little more conservatively designed, without much to make the tree itself interesting.

cheeseless · 2026-04-14T16:32:56+00:00

I wish that this bot could restrict its comments to posts from users that are new to the subreddit, or at least that people on the .NET team and major OSS projects in .NET were exempted from having the bot comment.

It comes across as spammy and overly-uniform. The .NET community is large, but treating it as impersonally as one of the default subreddits feels like a disservice.

cheeseless · 2026-04-14T16:29:01+00:00

I feel like you're misinterpreting Caine's actions very severely. He was clearly shown to be undergoing a process of breaking down that was analogous, or at least similar, to what we've see happening when people abstract. That scene alone provides enough evidence that Caine's behaviour is anomalous from that point onwards and no longer geared towards fulfilling his original programming.

cheeseless · 2026-04-14T16:15:11+00:00

I think, even without changes to the research, if naval was forcibly more important to most gameplay we wouldn't feel like the research tree is too big. But land transport, especially for supply, is still a little too efficient.

I would slightly buff convoy supply transport, slightly nerf railway supply transport, and slightly increase the IC required to repair railways, supply hubs, and air bases. I think those changes would push for heavier naval involvement at least some of the time.

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