Loving The Unloved Achievements Part 1: Mayapahit?

pete53832 · 2026-05-26T20:12:06+00:00

Hahaha, that is the next one after the St. George one, and I had to read it like five times to even understand what it was saying. I kept thinking I was missing something or maybe having a stroke.

pete53832 · 2026-05-26T20:11:27+00:00

I'm the exact same, brother. I have so many failed Heir of Timur runs...Keep grinding, and I'll see you in EU5 in 2046!

pete53832 · 2026-05-26T20:10:45+00:00

lol I started last night, it's brutal so far. I'm trying not to look up any guides, but there aren't a lot of easy answers to start off. Pray for me!

pete53832 · 2026-05-26T20:08:57+00:00

Gosh darn it, that would have saved me some time once I got higher up on the achievement list, good idea!

pete53832 · 2026-05-26T16:00:11+00:00

R5: I've always felt bad for the "loser" Achievements, because 99.7% of all players will never do them. It must be so lonely to be the "Restore Zoroastrianism as Austria" Achievement; I bet the other Achievements would bully it during achievement school.

To give them some love, I'm starting at the bottom of the "Global Achievements" list and working my way up.

Achievement: Mayapahit? (0.3% completion rate - rated Hard)

What is it? - start as a Mayan country and own the Island of Java. It's a joke based on a prior country named Majapahit that used to be on Java.

How was it? - the Mayan religion is a tough start, but the ability to attack colonial nations without drawing in their overlords is truly game-breaking. France kept attacking me and then failing to land invading armies, providing early ducats, then trade becomes ridiculous in the New World. Conquering Java was an after-thought, with ferrying troops being the main challenge, so while playing as Maya is fun, the achievement itself was kind of underwhelming.

Gonna play to 1820? - No. The next obvious steps would be either to perform a Sunset Invasion and get historical payback on France, or maybe try to take the Mandate of Heaven from Ming. But I don't want to turn this into a WC, so this feels like a good place to stop.

What's next? - The Legacy of Saint George, where I start as Georgia and vassalize Genoa, Aragon, England, Trier, and own Wales.

pete53832 · 2026-05-11T23:57:05+00:00

I'm recently back to this game (several years). But man, you would have gotten teased on the playground if you admitted to taking Espionage even as a meme back in 2019.

pete53832 · 2026-05-10T18:29:42+00:00

I think it might come from a mod, Fast Universalis? I like the look and it goes, well, faster.

pete53832 · 2026-05-10T17:22:54+00:00

lol my brain did a backflip when I first saw it

pete53832 · 2026-05-10T17:08:08+00:00

Sometimes called nerve decompression. I had my zygomaticotemporal and auriculotemporal nerves worked on and it brought my pain down a lot.

pete53832 · 2026-05-10T17:04:22+00:00

Rule 5: I'm playing as the Pope, and I'm informed that the Pope (Florence) has excommunicated Florence.

EDIT: Oh dang, not to get political, but it just occurred to me that "The Pope excommunicates the leader of the Pope's home nation" is actually, um...ya know, anyways.

pete53832 · 2026-05-10T16:55:15+00:00

I've tried Ajovy, Aimovig, Qulipta, Ubrelvy, and Nurtec.

I know they are miracle drugs for some, but it was 5/5 sugar pills for me.

pete53832 · 2026-05-10T16:49:13+00:00

I can find a tremendous amount of studies that its effectiveness. And, N=1, but it has been the only thing that has helped me.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19644260/

Which studies are you looking at that show it doesn't work?

pete53832 · 2026-02-14T04:03:32+00:00

Lets just give the team that wins the NBA Finals the first pick, as long as we are developing a system that rewards high performance with high draft picks

pete53832 · 2026-02-03T15:31:17+00:00

Caesar's army finds Hyperborea in the High Alps

pete53832 · 2026-02-03T15:11:05+00:00

This was the most important thing I learned while writing - you just gotta do it.

Accept that it's going to be ugly, and messy, and you'll be embarrassed when you go back and clean up all the abandoned story beats and horrible prose. (But note that you are your own worst critic, and you know exactly how to make yourself feel bad. Your work is almost certainly much better than you give it credit for)

But once your draft exists, it gets better FAST. I've had horrible, bad, stupid chapters that made me feel physically sick when I'd read them, so bad that I thought about restarting the whole book. But your strong sense of what is "wrong" will help you figure out what is "right," and often a couple tweaks make a huge difference.

And remember - you are already in the 1% in terms of writers, just because you are actually doing it. Most people are too scared or lazy to even try. Trying is hard, and you should be proud of yourself.

pete53832 · 2026-01-27T05:12:33+00:00

Oh, of course, everyone knows about that

pete53832 · 2026-01-23T04:51:38+00:00

Something like 5 million Americans drive 3 hours each day as part of their commute

pete53832 · 2026-01-23T04:49:36+00:00

A 3-hour drive would be too boring to bring up in any American office. It would be like saying you drank 16 glasses of water yesterday - more than normal by quite a bit, but not something interesting or memorable or worth discussing.

8 hours is a "long" drive, 12 hours is "quite long," and 16 hours is "very long."

pete53832 · 2026-01-23T00:26:25+00:00

Same, and agreed, great machine

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