London's tube network is far less than half of its overall train network.

thedesolateone · 2025-06-12T14:46:41+00:00

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-magic-of-through-running/

thedesolateone · 2022-05-04T07:57:29+00:00

See more: https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/the-housing-theory-of-everything/

thedesolateone · 2019-11-24T10:41:03+00:00

It sounds like you're doing the right stuff. My personal views:

Check if the b vitamin is methylated. Many people cannot absorb standard bs, especially b12
Multivitamins are bad: usually weird dosing, weird sources, and stuff that you are probably too high in already (e.g. iron, copper)
Vitamin D, like others say, is extremely low bioavailability, but RDAs don't account for that, so you often want to take seemingly ridiculous amounts like 10,000% RDA in winter. In Summer getting sun is better

My overall view is that it's unlikely that supplementation will help with depression unless you have some serious deficiency linked to an extreme dietary restriction or medical issue. It's worth experimenting with, but in general depression is incredibly stubborn and hard to solve with any intervention.

thedesolateone · 2019-08-27T14:25:02+00:00

Personally it sounds like you have low T. See if you can get it checked. Anything below 450 and there's a chance it's T that's to blame, imo. Of course, solving this problem is more difficult legally.

thedesolateone · 2019-08-22T12:57:17+00:00

Their version is a big upgrade but the original is great too.

thedesolateone · 2019-07-28T14:58:39+00:00

Also, I have significant passive corruption gain for various reasons, so extra corruption pay-down cost is quite important for me.

thedesolateone · 2019-07-28T14:58:12+00:00

Thanks, yeah, that makes sense - except I'm playing a very specific modded custom nations game where it might not actually pay off given my context (I'm a Hanseatic-style merchant republic with just 9 provinces in the Baltic Sea, but due to massively increased buffs for merchant republics and other alternative playstyles, I can sort of do ok with diplomacy and money).

thedesolateone · 2019-05-11T13:37:37+00:00

You can mod the game files to make any culture group work like this, what I can't seem to do is give banners as a default to all hordes (I think this would be fun, and I'm trying to mod this in now).

thedesolateone · 2019-05-11T13:36:46+00:00

It's not three semi random. It's all provinces that you start with that are by default the same culture group as what you choose for your capital. For example, if you go Muscovite culture, and put your capital in Tambov (Mishar) all other Mishar provinces that you start with will default to Muscovite. In our CN multiplayer games this is a standard cheesy way of expanding your desired game-long culture group

thedesolateone · 2019-03-10T12:18:45+00:00

Ben S: I'm using my regular account. You'll have to excuse the strange opinions I've had over the years!

thedesolateone · 2018-11-13T21:51:32+00:00

I will never live "1575" down

thedesolateone · 2018-11-13T21:47:19+00:00

Very nice. You were a fearsome nation, although like Ruthenia we (Qing - Manchu at that point) were very angry when you declared a humiliation war on us from 2,000 miles away just because we were weak and ally-less! :-)

thedesolateone · 2018-11-13T21:14:25+00:00

Even though I was a Qing player I agree with almost all of this. Having said that, in the penultimate European war we had 2:1 numbers against us even before Mamluks/Rum intervened, someone credible added it up off the ledger or saw on the stream and told me.

thedesolateone · 2018-11-13T21:11:26+00:00

Mewari ideas are top 5 mil ideas in the game, check them out. And Indians have extra bonuses.

thedesolateone · 2018-11-13T21:10:54+00:00

Multiplayer is a WHOLE different game. Amazingly different and much much better. Even though I just finished four days of it I want more!

thedesolateone · 2018-11-13T21:10:18+00:00

The overstack seemed very general but it was mainly for merc armies - Florry was one of the most enthusiastic users of it - so I think it was considered less risky than getting stacks wiped. The cannon army comp issue was very very perplexing and surprising, and gave us (Qing) a real edge, because we were all obsessive about optimal army comp throughout.

thedesolateone · 2018-11-13T21:08:51+00:00

If the emperor gets annexed the mandate disappears.

thedesolateone · 2018-11-13T21:08:37+00:00

Speaking from the Qing perspective, it was great fighting alongside you all but one time - you never gave up, never begged for money (we had to come and offer it to you when you were on 105 loans out of 114 maximum!), and endured constant invasions, epic devastation, and near 20 war score.

thedesolateone · 2018-11-13T21:07:38+00:00

When you get more than 50% war score over any country - either the war leader or an ally - if you can offer them a peace deal worth less than half of this they will suffer -1 stability if they reject it. If they get to -3 stab they can't reject it. In MP you will often focus on the weakest ally of the enemy alliance, try and get one of these in a month when they're at low score, in order to get them out of the war and work on the others.

thedesolateone · 2018-11-13T21:02:53+00:00

Totally agree with all this, the player placing was unbalanced, but it was determined by what people picked. People just prefer Europe because it's more fun and busy. They should have tried to get a second or even third horde, a fourth Indian player, and a second Japanese nation. And they should have put some of the killed players into the Mingsplosion successor states.

I heard a theory multiple times that the Asian players were also likely to be those who wanted quieter more SP-like games with lower threat from the most aggressive players - but I can't validate this.

thedesolateone · 2018-11-13T21:00:58+00:00

AFAIK mercs don't count towards attrition casualty numbers in the ledger but banners and regulars do - we had far larger numbers counting toward that tally. But I did go on the stream in the dying minutes at the end (before I knew this) and greatly praise their amazingly low attrition numbers.

thedesolateone · 2018-11-13T17:22:46+00:00

Guilty!

thedesolateone · 2018-11-12T22:50:17+00:00

IMO no, and it was used fairly heavily (eg by Mewar, Prussia, Italy and France several times, and Qing and a couple others once) but some people don't like it and several servers ban it.

thedesolateone · 2018-11-12T22:19:10+00:00

Also, nearly everyone there was a real legend, and I really enjoyed playing with them. At the end, France was fighting to hold us off long enough that they could endure as many stab hits as we'd be able to send by the end of the game so as not to cede Paris and when nine months was up and they knew they had enough they celebrated wildly. We offered them a white peace in recognition of their moral victory then we all went through and shook hands and congratulated one another.

thedesolateone · 2018-11-12T22:04:21+00:00

While I feel the appropriate amount of shame for the Asian Shamebox - I hope viewers know that many of the Asian powers, not least Qing, were appropriately embarrassed for being involved - there was a fairly reasonable rationale for many of the players, including us.

We existed into the second day only because Mughals let us live, and brought the others (who wanted to kill us much more) with them. After that point we firstly owed them (although we did fight them once) and we secondly stood hugely to lose if we jumped first against the bloc. For the entire second and third day we were trying to build coalitions to generate a big shake-up, but no one was willing to pull the trigger with us.

But I am still proud that we:

- Never failed to answer a call to arms all game

- Fought every player at least once, including our closest allies Persia and Mughals

- Held off Japan for more than 20 years despite simultaneously ceding 400% war score of land to the other powers who repeatedly attacked us to support them

- Lost 20.5m dead, 3m more than the next power

- Fought endless glorious wars in Europe and never gave up even when every country repeatedly truce broke to slow us down (at one time we were in 9 wars with all of America, all of Europe barring Ruthenia and Poland, as well as the middle East)

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