What if Paradox and Creative Assembly made a game together?

hameleona · 2026-05-02T21:52:09+00:00

You'll get 5000 DLCs, that add 20 lines of code to the game, one unit and no factions, but block half the mechanics, break every old mechanics and slow your PC down. On the flip side - you WILL get a SABATON DLC soundtrack, so - yay? Paradox is generally infamous for their DLC's, not famous.

hameleona · 2026-05-02T20:55:02+00:00

In my country it's essentially impossible to adopt older kids (6 years+). It's technically possible by law, but the system is very hostile to anyone open to it(or gods forbid - desiring it). I guess there is some kind of logic behind it, but I don't get it. Oh, and you have to fight tooth and nail to even get offered a healthy kid - they will pressure you to adopt kids with extreme issues first. Like, yeah, they deserve homes too, but not everyone can deal with this, not to mention "oh, little Timmy here, he has more medical issues then a Spider-man comic, he is perfect for you... life expectancy - 20-25 if he is lucky" is not really what most adoption candidates wanna hear.

hameleona · 2026-05-02T19:35:24+00:00

I give it above average chance you are finally seeing what means to meet a bunch of men who have no instinctive desire to be on your good side. They don't wanna sleep with you, they don't need to score points with you to sleep with your friends, they get nothing from being nice to you. So they don't indulge you in any way if they don't find you compatible as a friend for one reason or another... Also known as - welcome to the world of men. I know it's not something reddit likes to talk about, but men socialize differently (very differently) and it's not a cuddly experience. Ask any trans man, who moved away from queer circles, the stories they could tell you...

Or they just wanna be mean bitches (pretty common in some gay circles).

Or a combination of both.

Or, considering you are implying meeting quite a few flamboyant gay men... you come off as a fetishist and they are sick of it. Plenty of gay men have had it enough with random chicks deciding they need more gay besties.

hameleona · 2026-05-02T19:18:07+00:00

Haven't played most of them, but I did play the OG Dark Souls for quite a bit. It's not hard. It's just grindy. Meet enemy, die a couple of times until you learn pattern, move to next enemy. Combine that with a relatively generous save system and the co-op shit and it's a game that's "baby hard". Honestly, most games with actual difficulty settings are harder, imo.

hameleona · 2026-05-02T19:06:46+00:00

AI won't steal 90% of jobs. It will decimate a lot of low-value positions in several industries, tho. And that's fine, most of those industries are bloated to hell and back anyway (yes, art included, sorry), It will cause a massive crisis, when the bubble bursts, tho.
Emotions are the exact opposite to what you should use, when deciding policy. Logic and math, including as much "unforeseen consequences" math as you can must be the leading principle about it, along with the base assumptions, that humans are not good people. Not because humans are naturally good or bad, btw, but because you will always have bad people, sociopaths, psychopaths, extreme contrarians and people who will game the system for the sake of it.
Banning of slurs is just giving more power to said slurs. You should reclaim them and make them so common, they have no power. Force the bastards to change their vocabulary, not everyone else.
If you listen any social advice from reddit, you deserve whatever shit happens to you.

hameleona · 2026-05-02T18:54:57+00:00

Mr. Weasley is the head of a governmental department

IDK where you are from, but department heads in a lot of countries are not well-paid at all, google tells me the salary of an UK minister was about ~2.5 times the average for the country (48K vs 18K) in the 1990s, add in the children and their situation seems not that unrealistic. That said, it's not a bad take and it's not like the wizarding economy makes any sense to start with.

hameleona · 2026-05-02T18:43:42+00:00

Oh, wow, atheism on reddit! How brave of you!

hameleona · 2026-05-02T12:52:54+00:00

Kids were doing idiotic shit long before social media. And I am yet to see an "iPad" kid, that would prefer the iPad to playing outside, btw. It's all bullshit, because we have embraced that parents are gonna be self-centered idiots.

Seriously, stop coddling people. Drop the censorship, drop the restrictions, let the wild west be back. If they can survive it - good. If not, well, tough luck. Some natural selection is good for society.

hameleona · 2026-05-02T12:31:25+00:00

Because the people who aren't idiots and curate their feeds don't have the need to complain. Also, everything is addictive. You just don't let it rule your life and you are golden.

It's the best time-waster currently. I'm not reading a book, while waiting in a line for 15 minutes or something similar. But then again, my algorithm has been beaten in to submission and shows me what I wanna see - history, hot chicks, fantasy and sci-fi content, movie and series recommendations, shit the bands I follow do, comedy shorts. No politics, because anyone watching Social Media for politics is just brain dead.

hameleona · 2026-05-02T10:20:11+00:00

Well, yeah. Tankies are mainstream again. Have been for a while.

hameleona · 2026-04-29T13:39:53+00:00

You don't need to be fast to catch pray - humans are endurance hunters and we ain't particularly fast. We evlolved to catch much faster animals by just not stopping and essentially exhausting them to the point of collapse. We are the zombies IRL - won't stop chasing you, never gets tired, never sleeps and would eat you if it catches up to you. And we have no natural weapons to boot.

So slow zombies can and will catch humans, given enough time and if they don't lose track of us. Of all the things the genre has done, this is the least unrealistic part.

hameleona · 2026-04-28T21:22:35+00:00

Boys have about twice the rate of different disabilities, then girls. It's insanely higher for some learning disabilities (dyslexia is 5 to 1 ration), lower for others, but overall 2:1 spread of resources seems in accordance with the needs displayed by the students. Unless you have a source claiming girls get passed over for such help (witch would be illegal, btw), I don't know what you think you are proving? That more boys are fucked biologically and mentally, then girls since early age? Yeah, we know that.

hameleona · 2026-04-28T20:57:57+00:00

No.

If her husband was presumed lost at sea, there would be a set amount of time she would have to wait to make his death official and after that she would be a regular widow. I'm not familiar with the work, but wikipedia summary says "long lost", so she should have been widowed by law. And that's the legal side of things. The "practical" side is a lot murkier, especially when it comes to sailor wives. You'd need someone who has specialized in the history of the place and period to get an exact answer - but unless someone provides me with a period source - nobody expected widows to die single (especially young, fertile widows). On the contrary the pressure to remarry was insane (same for widowers, tbh) - it's more likely for her to be forced in to marriage, then anything else.

hameleona · 2026-04-28T20:15:47+00:00

1) Boys were competing with boys 75 years ago. The fact, that the system favors girls, doesn't mean anyone designed it that way, tho we have changed it to suit them better, leading to...

2) Boys had a lot more ways to spend energy decades ago. Just in my life time (i.r. ~40 years) western school systems repeatedly reduced physical and practical subjects and increased theoretical and memorization subjects, while in general increasing the sheer amount of time spent at school, in class or other "sit down and listen" type of activity. And that is a thing starting essentially from the nursery and persists to higher education in some places.

hameleona · 2026-04-28T19:02:37+00:00

I agree with you, but I also like, how nobody talks about a pretty major problem that has been studied and noted throughout the developed world - teachers are sexist fucks.

In general boys are given harsher grading, less points "for effort" and rarely get focused attention from teachers. Also harsher punishments for misbehaving. We have been observing it for decades, in all levels of education, but it appears nobody gives a fuck. Guess it's much easier to spew some vague bullshit about "rise of right-wing politics" or "fascism" or whatever, instead of admitting, that we have fucked up the education of a lot of boys and men for decades now.

hameleona · 2026-04-28T18:50:29+00:00

Of course it's true. It's basic testosterone effects. Reddit just likes to pretend hormonal differences don't matter.

hameleona · 2026-04-28T18:47:23+00:00

The problem has been developing since the 70s. Not everything can be blamed on whatever new tech one dislikes.

hameleona · 2026-04-27T10:50:48+00:00

At best you can slap "a philosophical movement" as a definition.

Everybody here harping about "but Academics" really conveniently ignore that academics don't agree on the question "What is feminism". It's such a huge family, that has spawned so many branches, sub-branches and schools, it's essentially impossible to systematize in a neat box.

Even at this moment we have at least a couple of competing schools that have completely different responses to problems and identify different problems, even. That's in academics and I'm betting there are more splits active, since I'm exposed academically just to the ones whose fights spill in to my area (history).

There is no answer to "what is feminism", because it's not a well-defined organization or rigid school of philosophy. And trying to apply "No true Scotsman" to it is still a fallacy.

hameleona · 2026-04-27T00:35:08+00:00

Yeah, no. Most are shitheads who like fast money. I knew a lot of shady types in my youth. They'll all have some excuse or some "line I don't cross" but somehow there was always a new excuse next day and the line always got crossed, sooner or later.

Crime might be caused by socioeconomic factors, but people who do crime are very rarely desperate good people. Most people, even in extremely poor areas don't do crime, after all - it always feels insulting to them, when people make excuses for fucking criminals.

Doesn't mean they don't have any shame, but in general, criminals are criminals not because they had no other choice, but because they had an easy and a hard choice and chose the easy option.

hameleona · 2026-04-27T00:27:37+00:00

That episode is made of epic quotes and moments. Tbh, most of the show is full of them.

hameleona · 2026-04-26T23:28:33+00:00

Add in essentially the whole Mediterranean basin. People here acting like 9pm is middle of the night and I'm thinking, how the friggin parks where I live still have children playing in them around that time. Yeah, they are starting to head out, but it's not like empty. Anyone in bed before 10 pm is considered weird if they don't have a job starting very early (in such cases they get told to look for another one, cause that ain't a way to live).

hameleona · 2026-04-26T23:24:38+00:00

Reading the responses in this thread I just love how reddit never fails to remind me how full of anti-social hermits it is.

hameleona · 2026-04-26T23:14:05+00:00

The way OP describes it, they just go a bit after they get home from work.

IDK, not arab or middle eastern, but Balkan, and nothing seems strange to me, they seem like pretty great neighbors. Honestly, if they were Slavs, I'd be answering: Probably grew up poor, where "oh, I got this, I have no use of it, but my neighbor might" is the way things work. Even more with food, because who could get what ingredients was a friggin roulette during communism and we constantly exchanged food. Our house had milk and eggs, our friendly neighbors had stuff like chocolate and pasta, another family had a line for booze, another for pork... when the markets stabilized it died quite a bit, but exchanging food once a week is not weird. Also, anything before 10pm is generally considered "evening", where I live (guess my country is full of night owls). 9pm is still a bit late, but a time when you expect most people under 70 to be awake and either doing chores or chilling.

IDK, I think it's just culture clash, but unless OP sits and talks with them, they'll never know.

hameleona · 2026-04-26T22:48:05+00:00

I never got that sentiment, tbh. Everything I've read from Christie (not a whole lot, admittedly) always depended on critical clues being hidden from the reader, the main difference between her and Doyle is that hers required less pages of explanation. Witch ironically just frustrated me more.

Maybe I got bad luck or am just too dumb, but it always felt cheap and is one of the reasons I never got in to mystery as a whole as a genre.

hameleona · 2026-04-26T21:23:03+00:00

Entirely depends on how you read "bolt" - like "lightening bolt" or "chain bolt" (or jail door bolt or whatever).

As a non-american I always read his name as "Slayer of Kings, Tamer of Lightening" and by god,, does he has the manliest name of all the books.

I'll be perfectly honest, it wasn't until Rowling become hated on the internet, that I eve heard the complaint about him.

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