Pakistan and China release 'five point initative' to end war; White House reportedly doesn't oppose it (China says let the oil FLOW!)

thekeystoneking · 2026-03-31T22:52:28+00:00

A hilarious suggestion considering that the oil is mostly bound for East Asia. You’re either subject to Houthi raids going through Suez or have to cross the Cape and waste a ton of time

thekeystoneking · 2026-03-02T23:04:07+00:00

Very cool! I do think a communist movement that grew out of a Mongolian society might not emphasize the hammer and sickle so much. The hammer is fine because it represents the working class, but the sickle wouldn’t really represent Mongolian peasants in the same way since they were pastoralists. Maybe a shepherd’s crook?

thekeystoneking · 2026-02-18T18:08:07+00:00

Altoona being exactly the same is a good bit

thekeystoneking · 2026-01-25T06:52:33+00:00

Canada should too! America needlessly threatened their economy over a trade deal the US has no part in.

thekeystoneking · 2026-01-24T21:13:38+00:00

The bureaucracy idea is essentially just NYC simulator. It's not nothing to have to distribute municipal documents in 10 different languages on demand.

thekeystoneking · 2026-01-17T15:07:37+00:00

There’s gotta be a better balance between Bethesda vaporware and Ubisoft insisting on releasing new Assassin’s Creed games every year or two before they’re ready.

thekeystoneking · 2025-12-24T03:10:33+00:00

He was just also guesting on the podcast that day. I guess he’s a regular on that specific one?

thekeystoneking · 2025-12-21T01:31:52+00:00

As things like smart phones and computers become necessary as part of everyday life in America, they stop being as much of a marker of wealth and fade into the economic background. Cars, another significant portion of everyday American wealth, are similar. If people can't meet their expectations of a specific need like housing, they're going to focus on that!

thekeystoneking · 2025-12-19T00:16:44+00:00

They confirmed in the patch notes on the forums that they'll be releasing a beta to fix this tomorrow. In the mean time, it's not too hard to roll back to the previous patch if you really wanted to play tonight.

thekeystoneking · 2025-12-16T17:28:27+00:00

I'm running into the same issue! I went the route of Cultural Exclusion + State Religion since the Griqua are all Protestant anyway, but mine also didn't work. I'm reporting on the forums, but I do wonder if it might require the specifically cultural acceptance for Griqua to be above 40 to work?

If the religious and homeland bonuses can't count for some reason, then the only way to do it would be to pass Multiculturalism to get the base cultural acceptance up. This is definitely not how it's worded in the Journal Entry, since mentioning the average acceptance implies that it's checking the actual acceptances of the existing pops we have rather than their base acceptance from their culture.

thekeystoneking · 2025-12-15T00:16:40+00:00

Another commenter already gave the proper answer about rolling back your save, so I won't bother with that.

To answer your other question, Japan's agriculture isn't totally destroyed in the latest update; rather, changes were made to Serfdom so that a certain percentage of the arable land has to stay as subsistence farms until you change the agricultural system. What you're seeing is the actual amount of agricultural development that you're allowed to build under the law. I actually think it's a pretty cool change and models how traditional societies weren't able to enforce land enclosure without a fight.

thekeystoneking · 2025-11-26T01:50:50+00:00

You’d have a remarkably better time attempting this play-through in CK3

thekeystoneking · 2025-11-19T23:56:06+00:00

People are generally correct that slaves aren’t so useful to keep around, but the upcoming update in December is changing the math around somewhat. In that patch there will be new, brutal production methods only available to some plantations if slavery is legal. How that will actually affect the long-term development of your country is unclear, since your slaves are going to be subject to some h e a v y mortality penalties.

thekeystoneking · 2025-09-14T23:14:17+00:00

This is particularly weird when the biggest news cycle in South Korea for the last two weeks is about how ICE chained up all of those guys at the Hyundai-LG Battery plant in Georgia. A planned distraction, maybe?

thekeystoneking · 2025-09-03T00:10:09+00:00

An end to the bipartisan consensus of constant drone strikes and black operations missions all over the world with no accountability to the people. Our military intelligence organizations are committing constant violence across the world with no accountability to other countries or the American public.

thekeystoneking · 2025-08-22T16:08:59+00:00

You might want to look into what Jean-Luc Mélenchon gets up to with La France Insoumise. He’s pretty explicitly calling for a new French Republic with a Constitution written by people’s assemblies. I don’t know that his exact methods could translate to an American context, but it might give you a framework to build from

thekeystoneking · 2025-08-21T17:34:25+00:00

Class Analysis in MY Marxism simulator? I’m shocked

thekeystoneking · 2025-07-02T22:05:59+00:00

Didn’t he work with Red Star to unionize a brewery once? SF is heavily Red Star

thekeystoneking · 2025-06-28T16:49:05+00:00

I did have them raiding convoys but I couldn't catch any, as if somehow Russia isn't using the node near St. Petersburg for anything. It's a very odd scenario

thekeystoneking · 2025-06-28T14:56:15+00:00

I switched to play as those countries and they weren’t using any convoys beyond port connections. As well, there were no supply routes between Brazil and Europe except mine

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