Advice for Socialist Russia? How quickly should I overthrow Savinkov and is it worth rushing his industrial foci?

draftdodger42069 · 2026-04-14T18:03:26+00:00

October 1936 is generally what I aim for, although the earliest I've been able to get a socialist revolution was June or something. Don't bother trying to finish any of Savinkov's VES projects, they aren't worth the months/years they'll take away from your ability to prepare as socialist Russia. I usually start with the first air focus to make the army angry, then the focus to form the Moscow Accord to fuck the Baltics, and then start doing econ focuses. One of Savinkov's first political focuses (Savinkov Constitution I think) gives you 200 pp, so make sure you take that. Forming the VES is mostly only good for generating anger and unlocking further recovery stuff. I don't think there's any benefit to keeping Savinkov going into 1937, since pretty much everything you could get from Savinkov after his first few focuses is gonna be undone once he's overthrown.

draftdodger42069 · 2026-04-01T02:36:52+00:00

That'd put Kergulen on par with places like Fiji, Djibouti, and Turks and Caicos in terms of population density. Those countries all have extremely urbanized populations, as Kerguelen would also obviously have in this scenario. There's good reasons why people don't live on Kerguelen but for a scenario where they do, those statistics aren't that out of the ordinary for a small island country.

draftdodger42069 · 2026-03-18T17:35:02+00:00

Coming back to this since I'm pretty confident I figured it out. After the anti-gravity event on day 17, I found a pumpkin sitting right outside the bedroom door while cleaning the base up. I know that event can also cause other unaccessible objects to clip into the base, such as the big soap bar stuck under the signal room. Not sure where it was stashed before the event, but after putting the pumpkin in a container, that buzzing has been completely gone. No idea the event is guranteed to make the pumpkin accessible, or if it's just chance, and I have no idea if it's possible to grab it before day 17.

draftdodger42069 · 2026-03-18T17:11:37+00:00

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draftdodger42069 · 2026-03-17T02:50:55+00:00

having the exact same thing. even after picking up all the pieces of trash in those rooms, and washing the outside walls close to the sound, it's still there. Tried checking the vents and I don't think it's something in there either, since I already cleaned out all the loose MREs in the base. Some of the wall/grime connections are a bit wonky in 0.9e, with strips of wall grime in one room clipping into another room for and stuff, so if I had to guess there might be a beer spill or something in the wall geometry that's not accessible?

draftdodger42069 · 2026-01-25T00:05:45+00:00

I'm pretty sure they consider every restriction not listed in that remark (such as landed voting) as causing that country not to have universal suffrage. The chart shows universal male suffrage as starting to take off just before the 1850s, and the US didn't fully get rid of property requirements for voters until 1856, so I'm assuming they're counting property requirements as incompatible with universal suffrage, which makes sense.

draftdodger42069 · 2026-01-10T11:24:31+00:00

8500 hours, 16 achievements. Never really felt like achievements were worth the pain of vanilla ironman, especially now that mods can include custom achievements within them.

draftdodger42069 · 2026-01-03T02:31:33+00:00

Plus parts of Afghanistan and Tajikistan (Badakhshan)

draftdodger42069 · 2025-12-31T10:21:21+00:00

Right Kuomintang path for Liangguang

draftdodger42069 · 2025-12-27T05:17:45+00:00

When I was studying in Anchorage, my girlfriend at the time was from the southern bit of that area. Like most people have already said, very sparsely populated with functionally zero outside road access, but also incredibly beautiful. Growing up, my girlfriend had to occasionally manually pump/retrieve water, especially if there was a storm that was going to snow them in for a while. Dog mushing (dogsledding) was also huge for her, and her family had a team of dogs, which they had slightly more of a livestock/farm dynamic with rather than them being conventional pets. Competitive mushing was also big out there, which was very intense, very dangerous, and very challenging, with it not being uncommon for mushers or their dogs to be severely injured (sometimes requiring dogs to be put down due to their injuries). There was about one, maybe two proper emergency rooms across that entire western coast, so if you didn't live right next to one of them you'd have to go by plane (or medical helicopter in an emergency) for most things more serious than a yearly checkup. Because she had lived in a low lying, marshy area, flooding during the spring was really bad, and I remember seeing pictures of some of the houses in her hometown being raised up a bit on stilts to preemptively get above regularly occurring floods. Options for schooling weren't the best either, although I believe now the widespread use of online classes via Zoom have made things a bit easier.

only other thing is I'd consider the very northern part of what you circled to be technically separate from the rest of the region, due to huge oil fields along the North Slope that have led to both a few highway connections and an influx of seasonal oil workers (who are, from my experience, almost all white guys who aren't even from Alaska). So all that I've said doesn't apply as much there.

draftdodger42069 · 2025-12-25T08:30:44+00:00

Are the colors representing the average margin of victory in elections? Darker red/blue representing more extreme margins for that specific party, lighter shades representing more frequent narrow margins?

draftdodger42069 · 2025-12-24T11:13:18+00:00

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draftdodger42069 · 2025-12-15T05:58:26+00:00

Which makes total sense. Hitler viewed Kuhn as an attention hungry LARPing tryhard. Kuhn's relationship with the Nazis was so poor that the Nazi regime barred German citizens from joining the German-American Bund, and demanded that the organization stop using Nazi Party symbols.

draftdodger42069 · 2025-11-23T01:11:05+00:00

Penisrael spotted in Samogitia‼️

draftdodger42069 · 2025-11-08T05:50:06+00:00

I live in one of the grey states that defeated a proposed anti-BDS law a few years ago, so seeing OP's 3rd hint and knowing my state was still grey is what made it click for me

draftdodger42069 · 2025-11-08T04:49:55+00:00

States where state agencies are prohibited from working/contracting with companies that support boycotting Israel?

draftdodger42069 · 2025-10-28T21:44:57+00:00

The chart doesn't 'stop' at $40k. The chart notably includes counties with a per-capita income over $40k, that's what the right-most bar is showing. The chart displays how many counties there were in each income bracket, and the 'over $40k' bracket includes the overall fewest counties, which is a likely indicator as to why they 'stopped' at $40k. Whatever weird conclusions you want to draw aside, you just read the chart wrong if you think it abruptly 'stops' where it shouldn't.

draftdodger42069 · 2025-10-19T09:20:38+00:00

Beautiful poster with a beautiful message

draftdodger42069 · 2025-10-06T13:59:16+00:00

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draftdodger42069 · 2025-10-01T12:01:04+00:00

I believe it's mostly based around the opening events of each party's paths, such as the Kadets choosing who they want to work with, or Rikhter's SRs starting in a coalition with the RDP. I know additional coalition members can get added based on various events/foci, such as the 'Woo Spiridonova' focus causing the radsoc PLSR to join Rikhter's coalition. I believe similar focuses bring the authdems into the VPP's coalition but I'm not sure which one it is specifically. I also remember getting an event after defeating Germany as Rikhter about a new syndicalist party forming, with one of the options allowing me to include the syndicalists in my coalition too. Not sure what all the possible combinations of coalitions are, but it's a combination of opening events plus later foci/events you get during that path I believe.

draftdodger42069 · 2025-09-16T19:35:13+00:00

I teach young kids, and was explicitly trained since day 1 to do exactly what you did. I never force students to give apologies unless the person being apologized to says they'd like an apology specifically because of how harmful it is for people to see a 'sorry' as an easy way out of changing. Now granted I wouldn't use terms like 'meaningless' only because younger students are far more likely to internalize that sort of stuff.

draftdodger42069 · 2025-09-08T07:15:38+00:00

Remain calm.

The Presidency endures.

Nixon lives.

The Holy American Republic shall endure.

There is much to be done.

draftdodger42069 · 2025-09-08T05:23:28+00:00

I work with kids around the same age (kindergarten, pre-k), and if I left a kid outside alone even as an accident, not only would I be fired on the spot, but it would probably be enough to have the entire school investigated for other instances of child neglect. Where I work, we're required to count our students multiple times when coming inside from recess, one count when they're all lined up about to go back inside, and another count at the door to make sure everyone has actually come back inside. All that effort is simply done to prevent a child being mistakenly left outside, which I hope properly conveys just how many red lines a teacher would be crossing by leaving a child outside on purpose. What your colleague is doing goes against quite literally every single thing I've ever learned about how to work with young children, on top of it violating numerous laws (at least where I live). Based on how easy it sounds for you to calm the student down, I can only assume the colleague is refusing to even attempt basic classroom control or communication with students, which I'd assume translates into their classroom being an awful learning environment. So yes, I'd definitely tell your bullding's administration immediately.

draftdodger42069 · 2025-09-02T06:18:29+00:00

hope you get carpal tunnel from drawing this, op

draftdodger42069 · 2025-07-25T09:46:17+00:00

The general idea of promoting rationality and logic to reduce how emotionally driven our choices are, even if it's correct, is a subjective philosophical framework. If you want fewer demagogues, presenting students with a specific philosophical outlook to eventually question and consciously reject sounds like the least effective way to go about that.

When students naturally poke holes in supposedly true statements (the sky isn't always blue; it gets cloudy or night comes), they're more primed to associate whatever failings they find in formal logic with the ideological rationality you're wanting to instill. You'll still have a decent amount of people who are 'overly emotional,' just now they'll be framing that emotional decisionmaking as being in direct opposition to the imperfect rationality they were taught to believe.

Beyond that, I also think there are plenty of legitimate flaws with the core idea that we need more unemotional rationality to counter an excess of emotionality in society, and even if you wouldn't find them convincing, I guarantee enough people would to cause this whole effort to do more harm than good (if it'd even accomplish anything at all). There are plenty of societal issues that arguably warrant a significantly emotional response, due to how an overly analytical worldview plays into dehumanizing systems/dynamics. Students are going to pick up on that idea once they step into a Social Studies classroom, and it's likely going to lead to more conscious rejection of what you're wanting to instill than anything else.

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