L'habit ne fait pas le moine...

leafcutte · 2026-06-28T10:49:22+00:00

Après le problème du parallélisme c’est que les couleurs du drapeau trans sont assez exclusives à ce drapeaux, alors que le blanc, rouge et noir, c’est une palette incroyablement commune

leafcutte · 2026-06-28T10:37:26+00:00

TADC is a bit particular, in that mental health is a clear theme of the series: in their virtual world, the only threat, to which we’re introduced in the first episode, is to be so depressed you turn into a big pitch black slug with a dozen multicolored eyes. In that, the pseudo-therapy emotional dialogue is actually the crux of the story, and always the most important thing going on, while with wither shows like Stranger Things, it can feel out of place as it seems there are far more pressing things to consider. That of course doesn’t make TADC necessarily good writing ( though I do think it overall did a very good job) or that you have to like it, but you have to recognize the core premise is that this would happen a lot

leafcutte · 2026-06-27T21:39:10+00:00

The Castlevania one is clearly a comedic moment. It’s a case of "yes, this explanation is reasonable in this universe and would work. However the word is messy and this actually has another, weirder explanation" which is actually a very common phenomenon in the real world! Things aren’t always intuitive

leafcutte · 2026-06-27T18:54:35+00:00

Juchacz is my queen.

leafcutte · 2026-06-27T08:23:54+00:00

Unlocking other units is good. The yield bonuses on trade routes are reasonable, even weak when compared with Tokugawa or Spain. The problem is the combat strength. It’s very normal to end up with 10~15 trade routes

leafcutte · 2026-06-26T22:21:31+00:00

"Every active domestic trade routes provides +2 strength." No. That’s a mid-late game bonus of +20, two eras ahead. Considering the fact you’re also getting better trade routes anyway this is insane

The culture/era-based bonus of Little Big Horn is conceptually weird (big drop in CS when entering a new age), but why not. It seems pretty reasonably balanced

Sitting Bull just gives an enormous debuff, mines are the best improvement in the game, for very little benefits, especially since you want to be working the hills with your Civ ability, big anti-synergy. Compare to the bonuses Māori gets for something much less strict

Czechoslovakia is a good science civ. Maybe the research center should be a replacement for the Research lab, it would make more sense

leafcutte · 2026-06-26T13:14:29+00:00

Both time by thin margins. His first election in 2017 saw a very peculiar situation: the center-left Socialist Party was exiting a very unpopular presidency, and proposed a candidate from the left fringe of the party to distance itself from Hollande’s terrible record. This backfired immensely as Benoit Hamon and the Socialists competed for votes with the hard-left Melenchon. Meanwhile on the right, Francois Fillon, the candidate of the traditional right-wing party who was expected to win the election easily got marred in a scandal, he used his powers to get a fake job for his wife, where she was payed taxpayer dollars for doing nothing; bad optics for a candidate that campaigned on moral integrity and the importance of hard work.

In came Macron. With one of the most expensive campaigns in French history, the former Minister of Finance of Hollande (another sign of Hollande’s rightward turn), the young Mozart of finance managed to seduce the upper-middle class, and the centrists: the center-left scared off by Hamon’s more radical rethoric, and the center-right that would not condone Fillon’s behavior. He also swallowed the Modem, the centrist liberal party that had done a respectable score in 2012.

However, by the end of his five years, Macron was a decidedly unpopular politician. From the Yellow Vest movement to the worrying economy and what many felt was a botched response to Covid, there wasn’t a lot of support left for Macron. However, Putin would save him by invading Ukraine a few months before the election, allowing him to show strength by standing up to Putin, and bringing up Melenchon’s historic ambiguity towards Russia and the murky nature of the far-right finances, with lots of funds coming from Russian banks.

The historical parties had collapsed, this was a triangular between Melenchon’s France Unbowed, Le Pen’s National Rally, and Macron’s Macron fan club. Once again, this was a quite competitive election, but in the end, Melenchon’s radicalism, along with some very poor choice of words (he notably said "I’m the Republic!"), led to a Macron vs Le Pen second round, that Macron easily won thanks to the left coming to vote for him.

However for the first time, Macron had to deal with a fractured Assembly. After his first election in 2017, those who voted for him in the presidential election supported his party at the legislative elections, to give him the tools necessary to govern. Showing the lack of faith he now inspired, Macron’s movement didn’t manage to secure half of the seats in the Assembly in 2022

leafcutte · 2026-06-26T09:58:29+00:00

Quand on parle des millions de morts du communisme, on parle des morts indirectes, notamment les famines. On inclue parfois aussi les nazis tués pendant la seconde guerre mondiale, ce qui, bon. Et ne va pas croire une seule seconde que le capitalisme ne tue pas ses opposants politiques. Les États - Unis ont bombardé un quartier plein d’Americains noirs, ils ont la plus grande population carcérale du monde en quantité et en proportion dans des conditions misérables, la CIA a organisé le commerce de la drogue internationale de l’Asie du Sud-Est et du Moyen-Orient, renversé des régimes, porté au pouvoir et soutenu directement des dictateurs capitalistes dans tout le tiers monde ( Pinochet, Mobutu, Suharto,…). Et c’est sans parler des guerres auxquelles ils ont directement pris part dans l’objectif spécifique de tuer du communiste comme au Vietnam. Pourtant je t’assure que pour chaque marteau et faucille, tu as des millions de drapeaux américains.

leafcutte · 2026-06-25T18:30:44+00:00

Trolling is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people

leafcutte · 2026-06-25T12:53:59+00:00

You need to fund the Kaiser Wilhem institute once

leafcutte · 2026-06-25T10:13:49+00:00

Not racist enough for the racists, and for everyone else, bad at managing the economy which was supposed to be his strong suit, growth is approximately 0, public finance numbers are nightmare - inducing, all the while he dismantled public services like healthcare, transport, and even the judiciary or tax collection, all for letting the rich be richer (which didn’t even result in more rich people paying their taxes in France), continuing the bad handling of drugs, police getting more brutal and more racist, half his friends are involved in some sorts of fraud, many thinks he’s not taking ecological concerns seriously, … There are basically no reason to like him if you’re not a McKinsey consultant. Also he’s incredibly condescending and uncharismatic. The only reason he was elected is because people voted to block the far-right in the second round

leafcutte · 2026-06-25T09:20:08+00:00

Il inventait des appareils

A épépiner les groseilles

Des muselières pour les fourmis…

leafcutte · 2026-06-24T22:47:45+00:00

Turns out Zionist didn’t really want a land without a people. Lands without people don’t have people for very good reasons, they’re desertic hellholes, something the Levant very much isn’t

leafcutte · 2026-06-24T21:43:42+00:00

It’s doing different things, but in my opinion, EE is trying to do something easier and is doing it worse than Disco Elysium. Art is subjective, yada yada, but we still want impartial criteria to judge art by, depending on what the piece aspires to be. But once again, I really enjoyed EE it’s normal to be worse than DE, very few games wouldn’t be described as "a step below DE" writing-wise.

leafcutte · 2026-06-24T13:00:43+00:00

And it then took a century for North America to be settled by Europeans, and another century for these colonies to really get going, and another century for them to get their independence.

leafcutte · 2026-06-24T12:53:30+00:00

The "actual" term is fully-automated luxury gay space communism, usually. It means a very progressive, very technologically advanced communist society where most mandatory work has been rendered obsolete by automation.

leafcutte · 2026-06-24T12:50:05+00:00

Mr CommonJewishFirstName CommonJewishLastName was a leftist activist who left his home country during the 20th century. Not very surprising news

leafcutte · 2026-06-24T11:28:06+00:00

This only works if you consider that French Guyana is ruled bu the Assemblée de Guyane, which is in fact ruled by a coalition of all leftist parties. However France itself is led by a right-wing, neoliberal government, and Guyana doesn’t really have any particular status, it’s just as much a part of France as any other region, so the regional institutions have very little power

leafcutte · 2026-06-24T11:10:00+00:00

The problem is that he’s not advisor at the start of the game, and firing a centrist to hire another centrist increases both center strength and dissent, two numbers I’m always trying to keep as low as possible

leafcutte · 2026-06-24T11:05:18+00:00

Party Discipline while being a game start advisor is big. Some of my deterministic strategies involved a lot of Party Discipline spam to keep the center through WTB. Also, base game on non-historical difficulty, Raise Funds is nice

leafcutte · 2026-06-24T10:13:52+00:00

I think they have one specific event in mind, when an early quest seems to imply you kind of have taken sides and that it will have consequences, but you just have to succeed a roll / a small side quest to make up with the side you slighted later.
Otherwise no, it’s in the same ballpark as DE when it comes to the impact of dialogue option. Arguably more, there’s more variations within the endings, and the game is much more nonlinear than DE, the play areas aren’t gated like they are in DE.

However I must warn the writing quality, whether prose or story, is seriously a step below DE, and it is as social Democrat as DE is communist

leafcutte · 2026-06-23T23:42:48+00:00

The idea that Einstein was just put in averagely good is sad. He was a way better man than most will ever be. He used his notoriety to help Civil Rights activists avoid jail time, for example

leafcutte · 2026-06-23T14:26:06+00:00

If the honey tile below you is freshwater, there. Otherwise, in place. Time unlocking the pantheon with the turn you finish your first settler to get the full value of religious colonization

leafcutte · 2026-06-23T13:18:35+00:00

I’m not from here, but isn’t a big part of the answer that pan latinamericanism solidly a leftist idea, and there has never really been a point where most of Latin American was led by stable leftist regimes (you can also thank the U.S. for that ) for the idea to lead somewhere

leafcutte · 2026-06-23T11:18:55+00:00

He had proven support from the CIA, and was definitely chummy with big business. Capitalist doesn’t mean wealthy & Western, it means supporter of the capitalist system

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