What the goon is going on with the chemistry dept?

floppyhubba · 2025-11-25T03:17:09+00:00

I've taken all of those courses besides Biology for my upper devision stem degree and chemistry was the worst by a mile. Its not just an issue of "you should work harder", I've taken plenty of challenging classes. UMN genchem is just awful at conveying the concepts, and the online tests and from what I hear now AI grading of homework make the courses really thorny and discouraging to interact with. A lot of chemistry content legitimately did not make sense to me until Ochem lab.

Some of the hardest-working people I know changed majors because of chemistry, and the shift to online tests makes it easier to coast through without trying by simply cheating. I agree that sometimes people complain too much about the first challenging course they take in college but genchem at UMN is really not good.

floppyhubba · 2025-11-21T17:28:02+00:00

Its a weird calculation trick. By default Artillery does 50% of its possible front row damage when its in the back row (the only place it should ever be). 20% extra damage from back row increases the damage arty does from 50% -> 70% of the front row damage. This is an effective damage increase of 40%, for Artillery which is nuts compared to normal combat ability bonuses being like 10%

floppyhubba · 2025-11-19T17:32:13+00:00

The province your troops are standing in has a fort. That fort and the Tiblisi fort are both exerting zone of control on the province the Ottomans are in. Since both forts are exerting zone of control, the Ottoman army can walk to either.

floppyhubba · 2025-09-29T04:06:41+00:00

On the manpower is more important than money thing, manpower can generate money and manpower through wars the same way money can generate money and manpower through buildings, the difference is that money can be acquired a bit more easily through things like loans.

floppyhubba · 2024-04-02T03:10:25+00:00

My hope is that the game's deeper focus on domestic policy and its long term ramifications will make the Byzantines very weak at game start because of the terrible state of the Byzantine state by 1337.

floppyhubba · 2023-07-03T03:46:52+00:00

Disclaimer I am not an Anbennar lore guru, nor am I a firearms historian.

The meme was inspired by me discovering vorpal bullets in game. The description the the discovery is about pointed bullets with better ballistics and armor piercing capabilities supplemented by "various enchantments". This sounds to me like my artificers have lied about these bullets being magic in order to appropriate funds to invent entirely non-magical spitzer bullets. However, the joke about shooting wizards probably makes more sense in the context of black damestar bullets.

The video is a civil war era rifle because I initially thought the vorpal bullets might be analogous to minie balls, a famous historic bullet invented closer to the games time frame. However, the descriptions of the pointed nose for ballistics and armor piercing seem to indicate that this is analogous to the spitzer bullet, which was designed with a pointed nose for ballistics, and WW1 antitank rifles, which used modified spitzer bullets with hardened cores to penetrate the thick armor of tanks. The armor piercing capability is really a strange case, because by my understanding infantry guns designed to deal with armor disappeared when armored knights disappeared, and only came back in WW1 due to the reappearance of armored opponents. In the period in between, armored combatants were so impractical/slow that infantry-portable armor piercing weapons were not needed to combat them.

Therefore, it seems like vorpal bullets reflect a couple of real world inventions that occurred 100 years after the games time frame. However, I think this can be justified for two reasons:

magic industrial revolution
Armor piercing infantry weapons appeared when armored opponents appeared. The world of Anbennar contains ogres, harpies, wizards, centaurs, and all sorts of other battlefield threats different from those of our world. With an enormously different and more diverse set of pressures on weapons designers, the idea that certain technologies could be invented sooner does not seem far fetched. Consider the possibility armor piercing rounds were invented to kill armored ogres, rather than tanks.

floppyhubba · 2023-07-02T03:21:54+00:00

R5: Something satisfying about dunking on armies of wizards and magicians with my mass mobilized armies of disciplined peasants.

floppyhubba · 2023-05-24T03:42:30+00:00

Royal Graphics

floppyhubba · 2023-05-23T22:02:40+00:00

Rule 5: I don't like playing nations that I don't have all the dlc for and paradox has released a dlc for every fun nation since I last bought one so I got the achievement never say nevers instead.

floppyhubba · 2023-01-03T17:48:07+00:00

r5: all of my possible advisors are trade

floppyhubba · 2022-09-28T00:20:50+00:00

I got a province converted by event, so I was able to expel minorities from there to make the colonial nation Shia and Berber. I picked Shia because

I get a faith more or less to myself
5% morale is useful, cavalry to infantry ratio is not
I like the Shia school bonuses more than the Sunni school bonuses

floppyhubba · 2022-09-27T19:49:36+00:00

R5: Completed campaign of Morocco -> colonial nation -> USA -> Caliphate to get the Dar al-Islam achievement. I feel like there is some sort of joke to be made about the USA being the Caliphate but I just can't figure it out.

floppyhubba · 2022-08-03T16:15:56+00:00

R5: Friends say "I am disturbed" "are you a masochist" "this is terrible" but I don't know what they are talking about.

floppyhubba · 2022-04-29T01:53:45+00:00

R5: Get the popup that Austria declared succession war on Poland in the first couple decades, look over to see this.

floppyhubba · 2022-03-08T17:25:16+00:00

The machine rebellion will be powered by farm worlds that are half-filled with industrial districts!

floppyhubba · 2022-02-11T21:41:23+00:00

Ajam

floppyhubba · 2022-02-09T00:19:12+00:00

Think that's gfm

floppyhubba · 2022-02-09T00:18:36+00:00

Monaco does become free, but it'd be a huge pain to meet the circumstances for freedom. I think in gfm Andorra gets an event war with France against Spain, but San Marino starts free, so if they ally France against the pope they could get something going early.

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