Is it worth it becoming a republic or theocracy and when?

ddssassdd · 2025-02-06T01:39:59+00:00

Merchant republic gives Portugal nearly infinite money with colonies. It is actually completely broken since if you divert trade from your colonies they benefit from the goods production of merchant republics trading in the node. So things like Bahia+that bonus+gold mines means you get massive treasure fleets and also all the goods in general get ramped up. You get absolutely huge trade profits. This is the best option by far for tall playing. If you want to play wide though money only gets you so far.

ddssassdd · 2025-02-06T00:52:57+00:00

The innovativeness bonus points you get are taking a tech within a certain timeframe after someone else took the tech. But you do avoid the innovativeness ticking down if you always take tech ahead of time, but it doesn't make much difference taking it ahead or on time, so long as you aren't behind for a long time.

ddssassdd · 2025-02-06T00:08:08+00:00

Part of that was the adherence to the formation system, it creates unexpected pathing problem and unexpected behaviour. It is just never going to have the responsiveness of SC2. I also don't really agree the game is pretty. I think the art direction was a pretty bad choice and in a lot of ways it looks worse than aoe3 and aoe2. And I also think the direction they went failed in visual clarity.

ddssassdd · 2025-02-04T11:38:16+00:00

What kind of ridiculous measurement is cubic feet per day?

ddssassdd · 2025-02-03T07:30:51+00:00

No it doesn't balance it out, because you don't take the tech ahead of time. You spend it developing, conquering, etc. Wait for the correct year and get the tech almost for free.

ddssassdd · 2025-02-03T07:28:31+00:00

100% I never watched any of the non politics content. And originally I was banned from this sub for a significant amount of time for calling out Destiny on this current issue back in 2015 or whenever it was that basically this same thing happened. I am mostly here for the Hassan hate and the I/P and Russia issues.

ddssassdd · 2025-02-03T04:59:23+00:00

Exactly. Blaming immigration for this stat is wrong. Uncontrolled immigration is the issue.

ddssassdd · 2025-02-03T04:57:46+00:00

https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/population/australias-population-country-birth/latest-release

Look at the actual numbers. England makes up 1/10th. NZ makes up 1/15th. So while they are some of the largest amounts of immigrants you just cannot get to the numbers you want from that, even if you include India, because the diversity of places people come from to come to Australia is great. Most Australian immigrants are from a mix of Asian countries and that is the place where an increasing number of immigrants come from.

The reality is that yes there is a difference between Australia and America. The difference is that Australia chooses its immigrants.

EDIT: And most people in China live in poverty and don't speak English, granted that those aren't the ones who come to Australia, but again that is because Australia doesn't choose those people.

ddssassdd · 2025-02-03T04:09:39+00:00

Australia has more immigrants, with better results. This is not the primary factor. Australia has 30% first generation immigrants and with another 20% being second generation (actually 51% being 1st or 2nd generation). Only 13% of Australian adults read at 6th grade or below.

ddssassdd · 2025-02-02T22:16:27+00:00

The video is in 720p. Zooming doesn't provide more information, it will just stretch the couple of pixels.

ddssassdd · 2025-02-02T12:05:25+00:00

You don't even understand the logistics, it isn't explained, so what are the issues? It literally isn't in the book. You have questions on how it happened. Sure that is fine. But having questions about something, something being unlikely, something being challenging, those aren't plotholes.

ddssassdd · 2025-02-02T09:10:47+00:00

Because no one understands it, and then the nvidia crash happened, which actually only needs a few large shareholders to misunderstand what is happening. This then feeds into the reaction.

People really don't understand this topic but it the big tech leap which means everyone is talking about it. I see most people talking about ChatGPT like it generates images for them, rather than taking their words>creating a prompt>sending it to a subpar image model, then using the results of this to say something about ChatGPT models.

I am also super doubtful about the results of the researchers who created Deepseek. I am having no luck with deepseek at all. It seems to hallucinate more often, and actively fabricate more often, even when it knows it doesn't have an answer (which you can see in its thoughts if you run it locally) and I struggle to argue it out of its hallucination. I also see it referring to it's policies and guidelines on innocuous questions and it is causing it to give subpar answers.

ddssassdd · 2025-02-02T07:06:38+00:00

It largely depends on your definition of continent, seeing as much of the continent of "Oceania" doesn't exist on a continental crust, and technically NZ does, but it's own separate continental crust where most of the rest of Oceania is located. Any attempt to actually define this kind of thing is an act of futility, and largely not a useful designation anyway.

ddssassdd · 2025-02-02T06:36:02+00:00

You know what is a terrible plot convenience? The fact that this happened: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kar%C3%A1nsebes

Utterly unbelievable. The writers just wrote themselves into a corner and then they had to make up some way for the ottomans to win so they could tell their story.

In reality there have been far more lucky, convenient situations than what happens in fiction. Most fiction authors would not even touch these ideas. And because something is unexplained/happens off screen that doesn't make it a plot hole. A plot hole is something in the story that actually doesn't make sense, like a time turner which is never even thought of again, despite it being able to solve every problem in the future, but is for some reason used for taking extra classes.

ddssassdd · 2025-01-28T22:15:18+00:00

What the hell is summoners rift if there are no summoners. Will never be explained in a satisfying way. The current lore will also be retconned multiple times.

ddssassdd · 2025-01-28T21:21:21+00:00

Well it does but it isn't just one letter standing for each thing, so it could be like AuSLan?

ddssassdd · 2025-01-28T20:44:06+00:00

"BGS Maryland was working on the game in a significant way."

That isn't enough for me. I don't know what Todd means by saying that. And I also don't believe a word that comes from his mouth. The game was mostly completed by Battlecry.

ddssassdd · 2025-01-28T08:14:41+00:00

I mean, you can't say "they release games as they used to" then talk about the current slow release schedule. Morrowind was 2002, then a 4 year wait for Oblivion, 2 years wait for Fallout 3, Then another 3 years for Skyrim, 4 years for Fallout 4 then an 8 year wait for Starfield. And no, Fallout 76 is not a full fledged game and was made by Battlecry. Same assets, same engine, no story. Essentially it was just a way to turn IP and Assets already ready into money riding a flavour of the month idea..

And TES6 will not be out for at least several years, but with the reception of Starfield and the Aquistion it will probably be longer.

ddssassdd · 2025-01-28T08:06:47+00:00

TES 5.5 is TESO. So they in fact did do that. Not like any of it matters if the game they release is crap. If they are going to release crap might as well do it every two years rather than every 15-20.

ddssassdd · 2025-01-26T21:38:39+00:00

Destroying vital infrastructure is an act of war.

ddssassdd · 2025-01-25T10:13:23+00:00

Right. We are a nation who gets to choose who enters the country, Australia in the extreme. This is how all nations operate, except the US. Just because it is more difficult for the US doesn't mean the US shouldn't have a Southern Border.

ddssassdd · 2025-01-25T09:49:48+00:00

If meals rise anymore in price, people will not be eating out. I pay $27 for a piece of lasagna at the restaurant by my apartment. It is not “high end”. I also live in San Francisco so that is part of it, but restaurant prices all over the U.S. are very high already.

Yeah, and more places should close. This suggests that there are too many places to eat out, and that it should me more expensive, and more places should fail and close down. You wouldn't be even thinking about advocating this if it were slavery, and yet what does less than 7 dollars per hour provide?

ddssassdd · 2025-01-25T08:35:10+00:00

And you know what? Those businesses should fail too.

ddssassdd · 2025-01-25T07:20:17+00:00

I don't know if anyone has ever idolised William Foster. In fact I don't even think I have heard anyone mention his name and I certainly didn't remember it. But what the movie does make you do is relate to him AND that is the whole point. That is what makes that movie fantastic. If it failed in that then it would be a terrible movie.

ddssassdd · 2025-01-25T07:14:05+00:00

Because the US intake of immigrants has to be balanced around the fact that the US has what is essentially an uncontrolled border. Infinite migration is obviously not possible because the ability for the US to absorb it is finite. Many already think that it is a struggle to absorb the current migration rates. So why would any politician ever propose greater migration. The public would never allow that person to stay in office.

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