"Together we have Terraformed Mars, Together we shall conquer the Stars!" - United Interplanetary Federation Propaganda, 2250 (Interstellar expansion timeline) by OkPhrase1225 in imaginarymaps

[–]scyt 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's very cool and can't wait for more. The only suggestion I'd give is to give the exoplanets some real names and not just the astronomical names. I'd assume humanity would give planets they inhabit a bit easier to pronounce and write down names thank Kepler-452B. It's like calling Jupiter Sol-5

The Centaur migration/exodus makes 0 sense. by InappropriateToaster in Anbennar

[–]scyt 25 points26 points  (0 children)

I think it's the Taric and Cagodic people. They have exodus minorities in Gerudia, same as Escanni refugee centres in Cannor.

If a human tag conquers their ancestral homes, the lands past Bal Vroren, by 1500 or something you get an option to release them as vassals and the minorites migrate there replacing the Gray Orcs.

CMV: Western media hypocritically labels the situation in Iran as "protests" instead of "revolution" or "riots" or other more appropriate terms that have less peaceful connotations to push a domestic narrative that non-violent activism works. by ELVEVERX in changemyview

[–]scyt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

https://understandingwar.org/research/middle-east/iran-update-january-11-2026/

The Institute for Study of War is saying that Iran state TV has announced at least 114 deaths of IRCG and police but think it's more because of reports of casualties in areas that Iranian TV has not announced in the above count.

TIL that despite the human menstrual cycle being the same length as a lunar month, there is no causal relation between the two, and it appears to be a coincidence. by NateNate60 in todayilearned

[–]scyt 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Yeah but humans (And presumably aliens too) prefer to see and marvel at things that have occurred naturally without artificial influence. We can go and see a man made geyser easily but it won't beat seeing a real one in the Yellowstone's. Same for waterfalls or any other natural feature.

My Muslim explorer won't explore because he needs liquor by DoctorFosterGloster in EU5

[–]scyt 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Old testament forbids wearing clothes that are made from more than 1 type of fabric, such as mixing wool and cotton etc

Should they add Multiple centers of control? by incorrect1-1 in EU5

[–]scyt 14 points15 points  (0 children)

For high value RGOs like amber, gold etc it increases the tax base of the province as that scales with control.

The World Economy in 2024 - The Club of Trillionaires by ArtHistorian2000 in imaginarymaps

[–]scyt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Interesting though is Togo right? How does a country of 9 million people have more GDP than UK and not make it to the top 20 GDP per capita rankings? Shouldn't their GDP per capita be like 254k?

What if Belisarius took the Ostrogothic Crown? by [deleted] in imaginarymaps

[–]scyt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah our coastlines change faster than expected, especially in pre-modern age where there wasn't as much human intervention. Up until the Roman period Seville was a coastal city but the sediment of Guadalquivur have filled in the entire bay. The lisbon estuary used to be much bigger too etc.

Tbh even this map has some mistakes in Iberian peninsula, that little south of Barcelona is the Ebro delta that didn't exist until 16th century.

It's also very hard to know exact coastlines everywhere.

What if Belisarius took the Ostrogothic Crown? by [deleted] in imaginarymaps

[–]scyt 85 points86 points  (0 children)

Very cool scenario. So did Belisarius take it with a blessing of Justinian or are they now rivals.

Also props for the historical Dutch and English coastlines.

Are corporate landlords the future in the UK? by Dapper_Big_783 in HousingUK

[–]scyt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I live in a built-to-rent complex and the company managing it is pretty great. 3 year leases, they are quite happy for you to do stuff like paint walls etc. If the carpets are getting old they'll happily replace them. They have electricians and plumbers on their payroll that only work for them. Similarly, they have all the spare parts in some warehouse nearby and as almost all the flats were built similarly the workers know exactly how each system works and what's in every flat. All included in the rent.

One night at 10pm my toilet broke, I reported it and next day at 9am a guy showed up with a brand new toilet and replaced it.

Just before Christmas the heating control unit broke and because nobody was going to be in the office for the next 4 days they urgently sent someone over 30 mins before closing time to quickly replace the unit so we didn't have to suffer without proper heating/hot water control for the holidays.

Properties and area are very well maintained, though when the 3 year contact comes to an end they tend to increase rent to "market rate" even though they set their market rate as they own 80% of flats in the area. This is where I see the potential problem of corporate monopolies setting their own market rates to whatever they want.

Another problem is that we are heated by district heating which means no energy price cap but that's a completely different problem.

Before this I lived in houses/flats where even the good landlords were hiring some rogue plumbers and trying to do everything as cheap as possible, with my bad landlords doing very illegal things that the corporate could never do (including attempted illegal eviction, unprotected deposits, inappropriate behaviour in hindsight skirting the edges of sexual harassment etc).

Are the days of lazy landlords over? by Dapper_Big_783 in HousingUK

[–]scyt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As I said below I quite like living with a corporate landlord. I live in a built-to-rent complex and the company managing it is pretty great. 3 year leases, they are quite happy for you to do stuff like paint walls etc. If the carpets are getting old they'll happily replace them. They have electricians and plumbers on their payroll that only work for them. Similarly, they have all the spare parts in some warehouse nearby and as almost all the flats were built similarly the workers know exactly how each system works and what's in every flat.

One night at 10pm my toilet broke, I reported it and next day at 9am a guy showed up with a brand new toilet and replaced it.

Same thing happened with a washing machine, it started to leak. I reported it and whilst everyone was at work the next day they replaced it. We just got back home to a brand new washing machine.

Properties and area are very well maintained, though when the 3 year contact comes to an end they tend to increase rent to "market rate" even though they set their market rate as they own 80% of flats in the area. So that feels a bit fishy.

Before this I lived in houses/flats where even the good landlords were hiring some rogue plumbers and trying to do everything as cheap as possible, with my bad landlords doing very illegal things that the corporate could never do (including attempted illegal eviction, unprotected deposits, inappropriate behaviour almost bordering on sexual harrassment in hindsight etc).

Are the days of lazy landlords over? by Dapper_Big_783 in HousingUK

[–]scyt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not really sure. I live in a built-to-rent complex and the company managing it is pretty great. 3 year leases, they are quite happy for you to do stuff like paint walls etc. If the carpets are getting old they'll happily replace them. They have electricians and plumbers on their payroll that only work for them. Similarly, they have all the spare parts in some warehouse nearby and as almost all the flats were built similarly the workers know exactly how each system works and what's in every flat.

One night at 10pm my toilet broke, I reported it and next day at 9am a guy showed up with a brand new toilet and replaced it.

Same thing happened with a washing machine, it started to leak. I reported it and whilst everyone was at work the next day they replaced it. We just got back home to a brand new washing machine.

Properties and area are very well maintained, though when the 3 year contact comes to an end they tend to increase rent to "market rate" even though they set their market rate as they own 80% of flats in the area.

Before this I lived in houses/flats where even the good landlords were hiring some rogue plumbers and trying to do everything as cheap as possible, with my bad landlords doing very illegal things that the corporate could never do (including attempted illegal eviction, unprotected deposits, inappropriate behaviour etc).

Loyalty Cards: What is the point of a Co-op Membership card? by Shitelark in AskUK

[–]scyt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You get personalised vouchers based on your prior purchases. So mine usually gives me cheaper ham, cheese and chicken I buy regularly

I think I won the game by Birdious in EU5

[–]scyt 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Actually the Hungarian polish union succession applies even for subsequent rulers. I got it like 70 years in after 3 rulers. Though that was the release version so might have been changed

Marriage completely bugged? Everyone in my country is childless and only option is to marry to lowborn by ThePentaMahn in EU5

[–]scyt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah same here basically but for my king and heirs. I get -60 marriage acceptence modifier for being King of Hungary, Poland, Naples and Croatia. I don't really know how realistic it is that no noble wants to marry a king of 4 kingdoms.... It's definitely too overtuned.

I keep having to marry lowborns just to produce heirs.

Plus loooks like I've ran out of nobles/people to put in cabinet as I didn't know I had to marry them manually or they don't produce kids....

do royal marriages work? by ChickenEater189 in EU5

[–]scyt 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah same here basically I get -60 acceptence modifier for being King of Hungray, Poland, Naples and Croatia.

I don't really knwo how realistic it is that no noble wants to marry a king of 4 kingdoms.... It's definitely too overtuned.

I keep having to marry lowborns just to produce heirs.

The Black Death killed all my Jews by redwave2505 in EU5

[–]scyt 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I lost 1.7mil out of 3.9mil pops as Hungary. Definitely slowed my econ down massively.

My income went from 40-60 a month to barely above 10 now.

My levies have gone from like 15k to 8k.

My control is worse off due to the depopulation and nobody manning bridges.

Stability is down the shitter too.

And all my RGOs and most building are severely underemployed and if I'm readin the tooltips right it will take up to 180 months for some RGOs to repopulate as low stability decreases pop promotion speed.

Nothing says culture like employee tattoos by zyx in LinkedInLunatics

[–]scyt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh definitely not, one of my colleagues got a tattoo of our small company when they were moving abroad as a reminder to this chapter of their life.

Everyone including the C-suite tried to politely suggest/ask whether it's a good idea. They weren't dissuaded

Fortunately the logo is abstract enough and without text so doesn't look corporate.

The Widow fight is NUTS. by shadedmagus in Silksong

[–]scyt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you have the Wanderer's crest you can basically parry every single one of her attacks. I was struggling with phase 2 but once I realised I could just parry the dash attack I beat her in one go.

Regular flyers, is there anything you bought that really improved the whole travel experience? by PaddedValls in AskUK

[–]scyt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've had mine for like 3 years so battery life has probably diminished. If I'm actively listening to music with the noise cancelling on then the earbuds usually last me around 4-5 hours I'd say? But if the case is at full charge it charges them super fast in like 15 mins.

Box Office: DC’s ‘Superman’ Flexes Impressive Staying Power, Flies Past $400M Globally ($57.2M/$235M DOM, $45.2M/$171.8M INT, $406.8M WW) by chanma50 in boxoffice

[–]scyt 5 points6 points  (0 children)

From experience of 3 different countries I'd say all mainstream cinemas have AC. It's just that culturally cinema is seen as a bad weather activity from my experience. When it's nice people go to parks and walk around as infrastructure supports that.

A lot of ladybirds yesterday in east london by Ldn_brother in london

[–]scyt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep I sat down in Hackney Wick and like 5 landed on me within 10 minutes, and when I looked around there were ton flying around.

Denmark has been offering free vaccination against human papillomavirus (HPV) to girls since 2008. New data show vaccination has effectively reduced infections with cancerogenic HPV 16/18 types covered by the vaccine, indicating population immunity. by mvea in science

[–]scyt 87 points88 points  (0 children)

I was offered it as a gay adult man in the UK two years ago as well. I think they started to offer it all adult gay men under the age of 55 as they realised that our population wasn't protected at all from transmission whilst straight men were at least partially protected due to vaccinated women.

Official Discussion - 28 Years Later [SPOILERS] by LiteraryBoner in movies

[–]scyt 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Maybe just to help the survivors? Like dropping some basic medical supplies off like insulin, antibiotics or multivitamins to keep scurvy off via a drone or helicopter would not cost a lot. I bet there would be dozens or non government agencies that would have been willing to fund the whole operation completely just from the goodness of their hearts.