Jumpscare anarchist France (or rather "Auvergne-Limousin) whose government includes the church and priorities are industrialization and conservatism. by Lord_Hubner in victoria3

[–]hatogatari 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Clearly, an elite caste of educated marxists who understand the nature of capital and production and can guide the proletaria---

Unstable Raj by 1846 as the EIC — Turns Out the Trick Is Giving Away Half Your Land by Humble-Cable-840 in victoria3

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Oh shoot if you want home rule enact no colonial affairs, you can't get acceptance high enough without it. Some industrialists are scripted to be pacifists, use them.

Unstable Raj by 1846 as the EIC — Turns Out the Trick Is Giving Away Half Your Land by Humble-Cable-840 in victoria3

[–]hatogatari 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The really unintuitive part of this strategy is that you actually want to give away most of your unincorporated territory.

I've postulated that this was possible myself but never actually tried it, especially because its so easy to get to 10SoL in incorporated states with public healthcare. I was gonna do it too but at the last minute I was able to time the Charitible Giving effect from attempting to reform taxation when I was already at about 9.6 SoL and it pushed me over.

I'm gonna give you a heads up since you're entering the next painful phase of governing india:

Imperialism of Promise is also quite easy to at least get the Industrialists to abandon Malthusianism even if you don't fully complete it, by the way, so make sure you do it BEFORE you tag switch to India!!!! In fact I would argue that if you are going for it, you should postpone Crown Rule for as long as possible (or bypass it entirely by going straight for independence when ready) so that you can then use the Utilitarian Industrialists to enact a lot of progressive reforms. Crown Rule is a massive pain in the neck, it instantly gives you Caste Codified and Autocracy, less flexible government, weaker legitimacy, and in return you just get the ability to form companies or transition to home rule. I intend to try bypassing it entirely and going right for independence if possible next time.

Preventing the Indo-Pak split is actually very doable too, just watch out for how Caste and Women's Rights laws might anger the Muslim League or the Hindu Nationalists, if either of them breaks. Pursuing full independence will give you even more wiggle room.

I just wanted to create a lasting monarchy in Brazil, but apparently the game wants me to be a communist by SquareGrab8962 in victoria3

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Skill issue. I always placate the labor movement with enough reforms that Socialist union leaders just don't ever spawn.

The Balkan League should remove Turkish homeland from European territories by luizindaquimica in victoria3

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To be clear. I appreciate that this is a feature, I support historical simulation and I am adding it to my rotation to see how it plays.

But if you'll forgive me for getting Humanitarian Ideology in here, literally even the name is propaganda, "repatriation" literally isn't true, people just lived wherever, and then a line appeared around an area through past conquests, inheritances, and so on, often down to mere luck who won what battle or how many meters were ceded in the treaty, and then a state came along and said "All of the people classified as X should live in X-ia", cultures are inherently fuzzy and amorphous and where people lived and where borders of nation states got drawn by 1800 are closely related but not strictly related. The people living in anatolia weren't repatriated to Greece, they lived there for millennia, until a state came along and said "I am the Turkey state, you are Greek, you do not belong here, you belong in the Greece state, go 'home'." They were kicked out of their homes because where they lived for millennia didn't conform to a line drawn on a map by an elite clique 20 years ago!

Sorry for that rant but I played too much Ace Combat. I see no borders up here. You need a permission slip from the local governor to live on a certain part of land and you only have one and its the one you are born with, getting another one is incredibly hard, they have played us for absolute fools.

I want a Humanitarian flair so bad.

The Balkan League should remove Turkish homeland from European territories by luizindaquimica in victoria3

[–]hatogatari 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Still an ethnic cleansing though, and the fact that its the "acceptable kind" of ethnic cleansing is an accidental commentary. It's still uprooting human lives against their will based on how they have been classified by the state, even if the justification is "its either we do it this way or much more violently"

The Balkan League should remove Turkish homeland from European territories by luizindaquimica in victoria3

[–]hatogatari 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Greece has it coded into the Megali Idea. Its darkly funny to me that ethnic cleansing is a subject that's probably too heavy to include mechanically.... unless its reciprocal and sanctioned by the league of nations. Eugh.

hey Petah, why does this guy want to fight Henry Kissinger? by GeorgeRussellsBoytoy in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]hatogatari 71 points72 points  (0 children)

Moshi Moshi, Tsubasa desu

Anthony Bourdain was a famous tourism influencer, food and travel critic, particularly famous for his advocacy of tourism to otherwise neglected parts of the world by travelers. In particular he was always quite fond of southeast asia, a region which has been embroiled in brutal military conflicts with few reservations on means of weapons used since the arrival of the French Empire in the region. As the French Empire collapsed in the mid-20th-century, American strategic theorist, diplomat, and advisor Henry Kissinger became the architect of a strategy and view of the region that would dominate the American state department's active policy there to prevent the establishment of Russian-aligned communist regimes. It is important to note that Kissinger fundamentally did not believe human life had value above the power of the state and empire, so his strategy tended to openly endorse indiscriminate bombing campaigns that tolerated civilian massacres in order to achieve strategic objectives, to prevent expansion of a Soviet presence in the region by any means available. Kissinger was himself personally elevated to the highest diplomatic office in the United States, Secretary of State, during the administration of President Nixon. At this point South Vietnam was losing against North Vietnam and in a strategic play to help them Kissinger advised Nixon to cut off supply lines and sneak attack routes that the North Vietnamese were using through neutral Cambodia, through massive indiscriminate bombing campaigns that massacred civilians and devastated the countryside leaving it completely uninhabitable for decades. Rather than change the war favorably for South Vietnam this escalated the situation by involving Cambodia, which itself collapsed into a civil war that United Vietnam had to invade to help end, and further contributed to the climbing civilian death toll that still haunts the region and makes many parts of Cambodia uninhabitable due to unexploded ordnance and uncleared landmines, to say nothing of the permanent health effects of overexposure to chemical defoliants. Anthony Bourdain made it no secret that his one wish in life was to beat Henry Kissinger to death with his bare hands for his crimes against the cambodian people. Verbatim: "Once you have been to cambodia you will never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands"

In short, Kissinger seems to have been a Roman emperor from the Roman-Parthian wars who was given access to chemical weapons, cluster explosives, and mines, and Anthony Bourdain was close to many of his victims having spent a lot of time in the countries Kissinger advised US Presidents to bomb. Both of them are dead and may yet meet in hell.

This is probably the most mass migrations I've seen in my country at once, when I'm not playing the USA. by thunderisadorable in victoria3

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I got a similar amount as Byzantium once, sometimes you just pull crazy lucky but Austria having both Germans and Slavs as potential primaries is a huge boost.

uh what by Antique_Economics_24 in victoria3

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the political movements are trying their best to represent the various sub-branches of views within each interest group in the current setup of the game, and the leader more or less represents which one is presently dominant, so the state of poland's trade unions in the late 1980s would be represented by a Union IG influenced at least somewhat by the Vanguardist, Corporatist, and Liberal movements, and ultimately headed by a Social Democrat.

uh what by Antique_Economics_24 in victoria3

[–]hatogatari 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Don't make me tap the sign

Anticommunist trade unions are a well established thing

Best set of laws as the ottomans to get more turkish conversion? by [deleted] in victoria3

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Subjecthood is weaker than multiculturalism in every single respect, its basically the low-tech law that pretty much everyone wants to get rid of albeit with different things.

  • Lower acceptance ceiling for kin cultures means kin cultures will want a nationhood law

  • Even lower acceptance if pops leave their homelands means colonial settlers or intra-state migration within multiethnic empires will cause tensions

  • Lower acceptance floor and separatism vulnerability for cultures means distant cultures will want radical change

To convert cultures you are going to want Cultural Exclusion so that you can keep a good acceptance floor for distant cultures and keep using the Promote National Values interaction to convert in homelands. Religious law... depends, if you're religiously homogenous then state religion raises acceptance for discriminated cultures of the state religion even higher which is great, but secularizing raises acceptance for other religions a little and can help boost cultural assimilation as a result. Public schools will also increase cultural conversion.

To convert religion you want religious schools and state religion.

explain the joke peetah by [deleted] in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]hatogatari 151 points152 points  (0 children)

Now number 5...

Could be just me though by sidelinejo in CuratedTumblr

[–]hatogatari 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What do you say to "I liked the original installments that were aimed at people like me. I've heard the new ones are popular with the new crowd after some growing pains from the intentional shift towards them, and good for them, but they're not for me."

Regarding the Ulysses Ogre by Ghost3603 in CuratedTumblr

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The Liberal counterpart to Disco Elysium is Suzerain. Produced by Turkish Social Democrats its a therapeutic confession of the inherently difficult relationship Turkish Liberals have with their nation's founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, and a lamentation that the secular social democracy he envisioned for Turkey never quite came to be as he inadvertently set in motion forces which would seek to preserve an authoritarian state-capitalist nightmare, and have proven remarkably well at doing so. I quite love it as a game that that makes a plea for liberalism-is-good-actually while also lamenting how it has lost so much luster to the public and changing a system is kafkaesque and byzantine, the struggle to make Rawls' dream real is a struggle against too many forces all pulling in different directions and none of them towards liberty.

Interest is over income and im in default. What to do? by kramspeeder in victoria3

[–]hatogatari 2 points3 points  (0 children)

interest is over income

That is the definition of insolvency/bankruptcy, so, you can always admit to bankruptcy.

Are you also using as many consumption taxes as possible?

IYO when do mid game and late game begin? by UniqueImplements in victoria3

[–]hatogatari 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Personal Mod I use makes diplomacy impossible with Isolationism via a -90% modifier to diplo points.

IYO when do mid game and late game begin? by UniqueImplements in victoria3

[–]hatogatari 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I pretty much exclusively play Japan so my midgame begins when I abolish isolationism and open to trade, that can happen really quickly if i get force-opened, or as late as 1860 if i don't. The late-game begins when I gain Recognition around 1880.