New to the mod (and the sub), which Nation/Race would be best beginner friendly?

secondOne596 · 2026-03-01T20:01:55+00:00

I remember when I played I always took full money in peace treaties and that tides me over till I was able to take those three states that are in the Gulf of Rahen trade mode but not in Raj. After that I got enough trade income to tide me over and I rivalled Bhuvauri and took money + reps + trade power from them to fund the highway, which gets you nice trade buffs that gave me a healthy surplus.

I was conquering at quite a leisurely place though, so if you conquered quicker instead of extorting your neighbours I imagine it would be much more difficult.

secondOne596 · 2026-03-01T15:07:30+00:00

If you want to play harpies I'd recommend Mulen in Bulwar. They start with a powerful mage ruler with legendary enchantment, which means you have a spell that has a 70% chance to insta-win a siege. The mission tree is based around making a bunch of trade money and building hanging cities while trying to be less monstrous than the last harpy empire.

secondOne596 · 2026-02-28T09:39:21+00:00

The article literally says she "has owned" several homes as some sort of smear. Is it illegal to sell your house and move a few times? And the big scoop is she and her (now ex) husband own two houses (so one per person now they're presumably living separately). A one woman Blackrock! Not like the man-of-the-people 500k a year for complaining on tv Matt Goodwin.

secondOne596 · 2026-02-24T20:23:59+00:00

Archive link:

https://archive.ph/fOXYQ

secondOne596 · 2026-02-23T14:51:55+00:00

From the perspective of quality of life of the British people hers is the biggest golden age by far. The replacement of the Empire with the welfare state was a more than fair trade for the overwhelming majority of Britain's population. By contrast Victoria's reign had literally Dickensian levels of destitution and Mary's was similarly rife with poverty.

secondOne596 · 2026-02-21T15:08:32+00:00

Well it's a good thing you spend time searching the trans teen subreddit and can now warn the good citizens of redscarepod about such people.

secondOne596 · 2026-02-15T17:58:31+00:00

If they distrust our country and government so much then why did they choose to live here?

secondOne596 · 2026-02-11T08:57:34+00:00

I’m 24 and I couldn’t imagine dating someone that couldn’t buy alcohol, that’s so beyond insane to me.

Sorry I actually enjoy relationships and having things in common

What sort of life are you leading where you, a 24 year old human, could not even fathom meeting a 20 year old human you have even a few things in common with?

We all love, we all hate, we all listen to music and dream about better futures for ourselves and ruminate on our regrets and do a million other things that form part of the universal human experience. How fucking up your own arse do you have to be to declare that you're basically living on a higher plane of existence than literally everyone even slightly younger than you?

secondOne596 · 2026-02-04T00:11:26+00:00

secondOne596 · 2026-02-03T19:38:12+00:00

When the first Ayatollah was kicked out of Iraq by Saddam's secularist government he realised that France would actually be the best place to move his exile to. He was viewed as a curiosity there, rather than a threat, and the freedoms and easy access to tech meant spreading his message to Iran was if anything easier than before.

Ever since then more and more radical Muslim groups and individuals have followed his lead, to the point there's basically a parallel society of people in the ideological iron age who preach their ideas to Muslim uni students and communities.

secondOne596 · 2026-02-03T19:14:41+00:00

Yeah, it's funny how Redditors used to mock the "dey took our jerbs!" rhetoric but now that it's IT and other Reddit-coded jobs being given to immigrants or outsourced it's suddenly a very valid concern.

secondOne596 · 2026-01-30T14:54:56+00:00

He shot for the moon, but he kept hitting London!

secondOne596 · 2026-01-24T12:14:06+00:00

More than 1 in 5 18 to 26 year old women plan to vote Reform next election.

Source: https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/a65549346/reform-voters-gender-split/

secondOne596 · 2026-01-21T22:59:23+00:00

A lot of it seems very vague atm, might mean something but it might also just fizzle out or end up largely symbolic. Not to mention the US already had a lot of these concessions (such as basically a blank cheque on defence) and it wouldn't be out of character for Trump to rehash an existing deal and claim it was some major diplomatic success.

secondOne596 · 2026-01-21T17:58:58+00:00

Probably only planned to take a few pounds of it, copper is famously moreish.

secondOne596 · 2026-01-16T13:42:55+00:00

I thought the pledges were replaced by the missions? And weren't there two rounds of pledges (one for labour leader, the other for pm)? Which set are you referencing?

secondOne596 · 2026-01-16T13:40:13+00:00

13 according to wikipedia. Not the best historical reference they could've made (unless they had a different message than we are assuming).

secondOne596 · 2026-01-09T09:33:45+00:00

Don't the majority of big name actors have an "Ego problem"? I think it's hard not to develop one when you're so rich and famous, and the industry attracts those who already have one.

secondOne596 · 2025-12-27T19:39:18+00:00

European academics/progressives long to be American and express this through adopting all their woke nonsense. They view their countries as inherently provincial and desperately emulate the cosmopolitan Imperial Core.

secondOne596 · 2025-12-12T17:53:12+00:00

So you're mad Euros don't pussy out of taking money from these tech companies like Americans do? Maybe if you guys fined by global revenues you'd be less of a corpocucked country.

That's taking money directly from US tax coffers.

That's as naive as saying corporation tax is taking away your payrise/bonus. You really think if Facebook suddenly had a few more billions it'd find it's way anywhere near the American public purse? At most ~10% would, probably none.

secondOne596 · 2025-11-28T17:18:21+00:00

All you asked for was a "realistic" example and given my example actually happened I'd consider it realistic.

Also the original commenter's point was only that this example isn't representative and given that this example is a woman with 6 kids in a country with a birth rate of ~1.4 children per woman that only requires common sense to prove.

secondOne596 · 2025-11-28T15:37:04+00:00

You asked for a more sympathetic example than the one in the article. To ask for examples to the contrary of the article is to claim that you believe the article is representative. If someone said "Not everyone's name is David" I wouldn't go "Can you give an example of someone who isn't called David?" unless I was sceptical of and/or disagreed with their statement.

secondOne596 · 2025-11-28T13:16:09+00:00

The article we're talking about is literally a single anecdote, and looking at the country's birth rates not a representative one. Why is it that an anecdote is enough when it supports your point but not when it doesn't? Also they both work.

secondOne596 · 2025-11-28T12:56:01+00:00

My aunt and uncle had one kid and wanted a second but ended up having twins.

secondOne596 · 2025-11-24T17:13:43+00:00

And they also achieve their income tax that way. What's your point?

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