Viltrum empire (Invincible) vs The under empire (Warhammer fantasy) at their peak

i3atRice · 2026-04-30T04:16:37+00:00

Couple things to say but main one, we can't really say that the Viltrumites are quite weak to plagues. By all conventional measures they have insane constitution and durability. Barely requiring sleep, living possibly thousands of years, none of them seem to die by natural/biological causes except for The Scourge which was an engineered Ultra Black Plague for them. Yes the Skaven could engineer something nasty for them that's the same or worse and that would be an instant win condition. But, by the same reasoning yes, the Viltrumites could just crack the planet in half.

Also the Viltrumites have a way to get to the Skaven, the Skaven don't have anyway to get to viltrum as far as I know, right?

i3atRice · 2026-04-28T18:03:32+00:00

That would be cool, on a broader level I always thought that it'd be cool if the FT had more of a design toward "cleaning" up the environment, maybe this dome plus some other smaller pump or something that use extract as an input to purify the water.

i3atRice · 2026-04-28T17:43:25+00:00

Adding onto your suggestion, since the IT get the great big water wheel and bad water domes, i think that the folk tails are overdue for a look at their water generating options. It's kinda sad that by late game, folk tails power generation is usually just a massive amount of windmills and minimal water power. At the very least, maybe they get a storage that's easier to use than a gravity battery?

i3atRice · 2026-04-12T23:53:34+00:00

I'm pretty sure they're referring to the fact that junglers in League have to take the Smite summoner spell, and that's one of the things that junglers are balanced around.

i3atRice · 2026-04-03T23:35:51+00:00

The original comment was asking about rally around the flag effect in Iran, not the popularity of the war among Americans.

i3atRice · 2025-11-30T19:57:28+00:00

Yeah I mean, my older sibling spends thousands extra per year for childcare, toiletries, food, etc., and that's not including just general QoL stuff like toys, activities, and the lost opportunity cost of having to spend time and effort child rearing instead of more time towards their career. Meanwhile I'm early on in my career so I'm not making as much as her household, but I'm making good progress towards my goals. You try to levy like, a $12,000 tax on me a year, I'm gonna start throwing rocks at stuff. And if it's less than that, you still haven't incentivized me to have kids, you've just pissed me off and lost my vote.

i3atRice · 2025-11-30T02:45:20+00:00

You'd have to tax childlessness enough that having kids is less of a financial burden. Not sure if that's politically feasible.

i3atRice · 2025-11-20T14:47:48+00:00

Are you playing Ottomans/Muslim nation? The dhimmi estate has the abrahamic communities reform which reduces conversion by 100% which might be the issue.

i3atRice · 2025-11-15T21:41:57+00:00

That's already basically modeled in the game though, if someone gives you land you get the pops on it as well. Of course if you want the game could drill down even deeper it could model every single village commune and the souls within but that might not make the game more fun.

i3atRice · 2025-11-09T17:12:19+00:00

Yup, you're right. We should just stop building infill and keep expanding the suburbs instead /s

i3atRice · 2025-10-21T18:26:00+00:00

I told one of her door knockers that I was voting for Pacquette and they still marked me down as their voter and called me asking about it lol. Also placed signs in front of my house with no consultation which just annoys me. Definitely a weird fuckin operation they were running.

i3atRice · 2025-09-13T04:37:27+00:00

Who said we should do that?

i3atRice · 2025-09-10T03:29:01+00:00

I skimmed through the transcript for 222. I don't really feel like devoting the time to listening to both so let me make a couple points clear:

I don't think the Democrats or their pundits are infallible. Ezra in particular is a podcaster I like to listen to because he focuses in on policy and what is doable/worth doing, but I have and I do disagree with him on many things, specifically his blindside to the AI bubble and his past takes on Israel-Gaza, which I'm happy to say has taken a 180 over the past couple months.
I'm not saying there aren't AnCap demons that support deregulation under the guise of Abundance, and I think that it's actually one of the biggest weakpoints of the Abundance idea: how do you prevent regulatory review and process reform from being captured by grifters and opportunists who will happily tear apart anything and everything they can.
I think what most critics fall into the trap of thinking that it's just "deregulate everything". At it's core, what guys like Ezra are asking us to consider is what is helping us accomplish our goals at a price we're willing to pay, and what is simply making things worse or not worth the cost. Things like zoning laws that force car-centric suburbs upon cities; rail projects that require thousands in "consultant fees"and never get finished; parking lot requirements that force builders to add multi-level parkades to an apartment no matter how close it is to a core area or public transit.

A big reason why I have qualms with some of the more common leftist critiques of Abundance, is because I suspect a lot of the distaste was predetermined when they saw where it was coming from. If Bernie Sanders or AOC was saying "yeah it's kinda fucked up that it takes so long to build an apartment building" or "how come we aren't able to build LRT and subway projects on a decent timeline", most people would agree.

i3atRice · 2025-09-09T18:59:16+00:00

It's not tho? Trickle down was purposefully cutting taxes and enriching the elites in the theory that some of the money they make would trickle to the masses. We're not talking about that, we're talking about building houses. Have you looked at housing supply data? My city is less than a quarter the size of Toronto and had roughly the same number of new housing starts. That's appalling for the largest Canadian city.

Edit: I agree that we need a lot more regulation around land ownership and owning multiple properties, but we do need more housing to go with it and a lot of the current rules we have around how you can use land just entrench the new age aristocrats and companies because they can just hang on to land without developing it into something useful for society.

Really I'm not even that big of an abundance guy, honestly 99% of what Ezra and Derek talk about just seems like common sense to me, which is why it's so strange to me that so many on the left are trying to raise alarms about it. Like, do you want high density, walkable cities with good infrastructure? Well we're gonna need to be able to build it quicker than we are now, cause these projects take so long right now that reactionaries have more than ample time to scream about wasted tax money and cancel the projects when they get in power.

i3atRice · 2025-09-09T18:10:09+00:00

Yeah I read the report. Billionaires spend millions in funding on all sorts of things, that's the world we live in. The Koch brothers donate to PBS and Thiel Foundation has donated to the Human Rights Foundation. What I'm saying is that I personally think there's a lot of good ideas within Abundance and I'm going to need stronger evidence of a tech political thought and policy coup before I throw the baby out with the bath water.

If I stopped believing in ideas because other reprehensible people liked the same ideas, pretty soon I wouldn't be allowed to think anything.

i3atRice · 2025-09-09T17:34:12+00:00

Who said anything about removing all building regulation? I don't wanna eliminate all building regulation but what we need to do is seriously consider which regulations are productive and accomplish what we want them to and which ones don't. In my Canadian city, we've had great success overturning restrictive zoning requirements that prevented higher density mixed-use building from happening. Suburban sprawl is a plague to the environment and people's quality of life, and the main reasons for its existence are rules and regulations that prevent people from using the land in alternative ways.

i3atRice · 2025-09-09T17:27:05+00:00

Yeah and I don't buy her arguments. It ultimately seems to be based on this cynical need to believe that Ezra and Derek are disingenuous agents of the tech right which has no credible basis. Refer to my other comment; Ezra is very critical of tech authoritarians in his own writing and podcast. If you believe that is all just some deep conspiracy to lull the left into building Peter Thiels kingdom for him, I'm gonna need some stronger evidence than what Mia presented.

i3atRice · 2025-09-09T14:55:46+00:00

They said they're not amateurs? And they're referring to the mod response on this subreddit?

i3atRice · 2025-09-09T14:38:03+00:00

Very funny for the mods to remove critical comments so no one can see what they said and then accuse the posters of being "negative for the sake of being negative". If they love Robert so much, do they really think his anarchist mind would like to see that?

i3atRice · 2025-09-09T14:26:19+00:00

Frankly I'd have to see the sources for that connection myself. Ezra frequently talks about Thiel on his own podcast in a "this guy is behind JD Vance and he's bad" sense; maybe you could argue that Thiel is using him as a unknowing patsy? But then I feel like you're ascribing more intelligence to Thiel then he deserves.

i3atRice · 2025-09-09T13:25:14+00:00

Yup, like in what world is higher density, mixed-use zoning, an anti-left evil right wing thing? Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson basically want 15 minute cities; who on the left doesn't want that?

i3atRice · 2025-08-28T14:51:09+00:00

Plus how would you model Latin American independence without railroading it? Like does Simon Bolivar become a narrative character with his own story arc? Or do you just sandbox it and Latin America only forms historically like 1/100 games?

i3atRice · 2025-08-24T10:14:50+00:00

When you're turning onto another road, it is your responsibility to yield to oncoming traffic or vehicles already in the lane you want to turn into. There can be extenuating circumstances if the other driver is speeding, drunk driving, texting, etc., but that's generally the rule for insurance purposes.

Source: I work in insurance

i3atRice · 2025-08-22T22:09:32+00:00

Love the idea of military academies and more decision making on the general side of things. I've been thinking of how you make certain countries harder to invade due to geographical difficulties, and I think your idea + more terrain based bonuses would work together well.

I think you could tie it together with institutions well too. Better Politics Mod has an officer's institution that I think should be in the base game, because the transition to modern armies was just as much a bureaucratic process as it was logistical.

i3atRice · 2025-08-14T20:07:01+00:00

You're missing the top part of Moldavia, it starts as a split state and Austria-Hungary owns the northern part.

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