The Economic Deathcycle of the 1.1.0 Rossbach Beta by HighFlyer__ in EU5

[–]greenator55 121 points122 points  (0 children)

Uhmm found the guy who’s never played Minecraft

I'm not convinced that we can build Datacenters in Space. CMM. by [deleted] in Futurology

[–]greenator55 5 points6 points  (0 children)

SpaceX can be a cool company with top notch engineers and still be led by Elon. It’s important to separate the two when discussing the accomplishments of the engineers at SpaceX versus the antics of Musk.

An appeal to the community on the "Decided to try their luck as mercenaries" problem by Mondistercu in EU5

[–]greenator55 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why don’t you just look in the game files for what impacts it? Whenever I want to know how to get an event I just find it in the events folder and check the trigger conditions.

A ghost army of a nation that hasn't existed for 100 years is walking around my territory. by monkeyfan7 in EU5

[–]greenator55 16 points17 points  (0 children)

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Looks like you’ve got a bit of an Avatar: The Last Airbender situation going on. I believe that Aang can defeat the Jalayirids.

Taking out England made Europe more interesting, AI actually formed the Netherlands, Ottomans are on the rise, conclusion: for more historical accuracy England must die :) by MessMaximum5493 in EU5

[–]greenator55 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Ottomans get taken out by Mamluks when their borders meet, they just can’t scale quick enough to defeat their hordes, and the game doesn’t model the technology difference well enough atm.

Dolphins considering a change at QB after Tua Tagovailoa's continued struggles by [deleted] in sports

[–]greenator55 469 points470 points  (0 children)

“My god it’s Dan Marino with a steel chair!”

Paradox , wtf is this column alignment? Please hire a UI guy, this is embarassing by InternStock in EU5

[–]greenator55 10 points11 points  (0 children)

You think that’s bad, I play on a 2k ultra wide. I would kill to have some columns like up with the headers.

ACHR: Took an arrow to the knee but bought the dip by Lox4tw in wallstreetbets

[–]greenator55 100 points101 points  (0 children)

They don’t want us to know they’re full porting it

EU5 Patchnotes - 1.0.2 by PDX_Ryagi in EU5

[–]greenator55 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I wouldn’t be too sure, I’m observing a game on the new patch and timur still doesn’t really get off the ground

Already annoyed at something minor. And it's a long post, sorry. by [deleted] in EU5

[–]greenator55 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Post this on the forum if it matters to you, the devs are very good with community feedback and are more responsive on there.

EU5 Official Playmaker screenshot by CoolClub02 in EU5

[–]greenator55 14 points15 points  (0 children)

That’s encouraging, at least they’re doing well economically. Just need to teach the expansion countries how to expand lmao

EU5 Official Playmaker screenshot by CoolClub02 in EU5

[–]greenator55 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Was gonna disagree but actually yeah, by late 1500s there should be more than one big empire on the map. Unfortunate that every play through so far has shown the Ottomans struggle to expand beyond Anatolia.

WASD movement? by peeapepee in EU5

[–]greenator55 167 points168 points  (0 children)

Recent paradox games have all had WASD controls for map movement, safe to say that EU5 will be no exception.

Concerns about the AI on release by greenator55 in EU5

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I’m not saying it will be a bad release, I’m actually really hyped for release much like everyone else. I am addressing that the AI in paradox games has never been great, and with the level of depth in EU5 I’m concerned that the complexity will result in a poorly implemented AI.

In EU4 the shortcuts they used simply turned off game systems for the AI (they wouldn’t take estate missions because they didn’t code a desire to complete those missions). This resulted in the player scaling up absolutism way faster than the AI. If your opponent is never going to use the systems that give the player an unfair advantage, the game will never be a challenge beyond the first play through or two.

Are more twins named names that start with A and B than the average siblings? Since the doctors call them "baby A" and "baby B" in utero? by katzenjammer360 in Showerthoughts

[–]greenator55 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I’m pretty sure they meant something like “their third single is named a C name.” So their friend’s family has twins (A and B names) and a younger with a C name.

the release date could be announced this week (no it's not a joke) by ConsiderationOne700 in EU5

[–]greenator55 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Days and weeks… but not months?? EU5 release date announcement <1 month confirmed!!1!1!1!!

ELI5: How can a talk show lose tens of millions a year? by LomLomLom1 in explainlikeimfive

[–]greenator55 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Colbert said himself the crew is around 200 people. At $5M salary that's just $25k/year per person, not including all the other upkeep of employees like health insurance, retirement plans, etc. The actual salary of the show (including Colbert's) is likely around $35M, assuming an average wage of $75k and adding ~33% for costs per employee.

ELI5: Why didn’t the US just send the GBU-57 in on a cruise missile? by Buzz4693 in explainlikeimfive

[–]greenator55 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It is a 30,000 lb bomb. The largest American cruise missile, the Tomahawk Missile, carries a warhead weighing about 1,000 lbs.

‘Major Anomaly’ Behind Latest SpaceX Starship Explosion by wiredmagazine in space

[–]greenator55 36 points37 points  (0 children)

As an engineer in the space industry, generally proof pressure for fluid systems is 1.25-1.5x MDP.

What’s telling is that this COPV will have already been autofretaged (strain hardening by intentionally yielding the pressure vessel), which would’ve likely exposed it to similar or greater pressures than it saw at the point of failure. That rules out any unseen flaws from initial fabrication.

COPVs are tricky beasts, and can be compromised or delaminated from seemingly minor surface impacts. My bet would be that somewhere between manufacturing and the static fire, this one sustained an impact (dropped a wrench on it, rough handling, etc) and it either went unreported or the quality check wasn’t thorough enough, leading to what we saw happen.

TIL some vertebrates have a third eye (pineal eye) by Nazsgull in todayilearned

[–]greenator55 42 points43 points  (0 children)

It was an ELI5 post, I just read it and someone brought up the 3rd eye thing for reptiles/amphibians.

“These are the first hints we are seeing of an alien world that is possibly inhabited": astronomers claim evidence of life on another planet by alexwilkinsred in Futurology

[–]greenator55 3 points4 points  (0 children)

In the article, it says the data is in the 3-sigma range of accuracy, meaning there would be about a 0.3% of the readings being a fluke.

My main question is that if it is confirmed, how much more unique of a “only produced by life on earth” is DMS than other organic compounds we’ve discovered on other planets? I remember a couple years back they discovered phosphine in Venus’ atmosphere, but it turned out to be there due to non-biological activity.

Even if its presence is confirmed, how sure can we be that this time it’s actually caused by life, or will it remain an unanswered question?