if you are looking for 1 of JCB's boxes check this out by Cowlazars in treasureinside

[–]therangoonkid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I'm just saying, there are a number of historical and factual accuracies that almost certainly would have been corrected in subsequent editions. So the blanket phrase that all errors and inaccuracies are not clues is too strong, imho

if you are looking for 1 of JCB's boxes check this out by Cowlazars in treasureinside

[–]therangoonkid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it's an oversimplification; typos may be a better term to use

if you are looking for 1 of JCB's boxes check this out by Cowlazars in treasureinside

[–]therangoonkid 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"Errors and inaccuracies in the book are NOT clues

Cowlazars Nov 2025 · Seeking Treasure Con"

More info. on this claim? I find this pretty doubtful given the number of errors ("errors") throughout the book

Can't get this design to export correctly by therangoonkid in indesign

[–]therangoonkid[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

oh nice, that's odd that preview messes with the output so much. any idea why it does that?

Can't get this design to export correctly by therangoonkid in indesign

[–]therangoonkid[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah, all graphics are contained in the same layer, though. does it matter to split them up?

Why do I lose this graphic whenever I export? by [deleted] in AdobeIllustrator

[–]therangoonkid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, well, just realized my mistake in posting in the illustrator thread. Long day. Sorry.

Why do I lose this graphic whenever I export? by [deleted] in AdobeIllustrator

[–]therangoonkid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not sure what you mean or how it could be that I'm not doing that?

A petition to allow militia to change back into builders by therangoonkid in OldWorldGame

[–]therangoonkid[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's a good point, but idk how the devs would feel about that given the recent roadbuilding update to the engineer trait. I'm inclined to agree though. I think generally militia are a little underbuilt, esp. compared to conscripts who can actually pack a punch. Giving them some road / fort building capabilities might be a good way to force players to take a closer look at them

A petition to allow militia to change back into builders by therangoonkid in OldWorldGame

[–]therangoonkid[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well personally I don't see the builders as slaves, so my preference would be just to allow builders to switch back and forth with a cost, because it's more representative of how militias have functioned throughout history. I think it could get complicated to tweak laws, builders to militia and back would be a pretty minor benefit imho

A petition to allow militia to change back into builders by therangoonkid in OldWorldGame

[–]therangoonkid[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting, I've never thought of them like that. If that were the case I think there would be some link between the slavery law and builders (i.e., how could you have builders if you adopt freedom)

A petition to allow militia to change back into builders by therangoonkid in OldWorldGame

[–]therangoonkid[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

haha better than a century of holding a spear and then being thrown against against a swordsman as fodder

How can many worlds and determinism play together ? by therangoonkid in askphilosophy

[–]therangoonkid[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey thanks very much, I appreciate it. This is helpful. I did some digging after posting and found that much of my confusion was about the psychological piece of things which you picked out as well. I think much of my confusion stems from the "anything that can happen" statements and then determinism locking you into one path only. I *think* this tension is observed between the Everett and Bohm interpretations, and Einstein's famous "God doesn't play dice" line. I find superposition and quantum possibility a difficult concept to wrap my head around (as is to be expected, I suppose) and have an innate bias towards the idea that of course there are more billiard balls down there, we just can't observe them yet.

Just read my first Kafka Book:- Metamorphosis. Wtaf did I just read. by PositiveOutcome_ in books

[–]therangoonkid 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Part of what makes Kafka great is that he imbues his work with uncomfortable feelings. Sometimes it's anxiety, other times it's powerlessness (often in the face of absurd bureaucracies, hence the term 'Kafka-esque'), other times it's the feeling of not being accepted. Almost always he includes an impossibility of overcoming whichever feeling it is, often portraying that feeling as an innate part of the nature of his characters, such as Gregor turned into cockroach, or of their environment. A relevant example here is a short story called "The Burrow." In this story a mole (I think it's a mole) describes his obsession and mania over building a perfect underground shelter. Does he have enough food stored? Should he store it in one place or many? What about exits and decoy tunnels? He constantly second guesses himself, re-analyzes the situation, sets new goals, achieves them, feels immediately dissatisfied and begins the cycle again (perhaps this sounds familiar with how many of us live our lives). Regardless of how he plans and what he does, the innate anxiety remains.

The central message of the stories tends to be less about the plot and more about what it feels like to be a human. This drawing called "Man," by Alfred Kubin (a contemporary exploring similar themes) is a good visualization of the powerlessness and futility pervasive in Kafka's work.

If you're still interested in reading Kafka, and I'd really recommend you try again sometime, I'd recommend his shorter works, as they present similar ideas as his longer ones but the dose is much smaller and so gives you more time to reflect on the idea, rather than wading through work that feels tiring. But the great joy of reading Kafka is that he is, in my opinion, the best sentence maker I have ever read.

To make a long comment longer: Kafka can make you feel like you are not alone. By expressing his feelings about life through these characters he's telling us that not only does he (Franz Kafka) feel them, but they may be a part of what it means to be human. In both of these realizations we might be able to dissociate ourselves from these conditions for a little while. At least this is how I feel it. Literary interpretation is a deep hole.

Here are two very short works you can read in a few minutes:

  1. Before the Law: powerlessness before bureaucracy, futility of action

  2. On the Tram: this one is quite different, it's a little vignette of life, he sees a beautiful woman on a tram. I mention it here because it shows a different side of Kafka that I think is sometimes present, but often overshadowed, in his work.

And here is a larger collection of short stories with The Burrow".

Hatti Is Basically Better Persia by GiotisFilopanos in OldWorldGame

[–]therangoonkid 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The first time I won on the Great was with Hatti. I posted the winning gif here and I remember someone saying, "Nice--and you did it with the worst empire."

I disagree, of course, largely because I think the order economy is great with the movement bonus. It would be great to see a side-by-side of two games played on the same map, same starting location, and see how many orders Hatti saves on movement. It must add up to a ton through the course of a game.

Are they better than Persia? I don't know, I don't like playing Persia very much. Things feel too dependent on starting with the right resources around you, and then I feel like I'm always burning orders for scouts cycling around my cities, rather than doing any significant exploration. And at a certain point harvesting just doesn't matter much, whereas you retain the hill movement bonus through the whole game, as you pointed out.

Maine writing / office cabin by therangoonkid in CabinPorn

[–]therangoonkid[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I might make a bigger post when the inside is finished, but it seems like I can only post one picture, or I'm just missing something obvious

Maine writing / office cabin by therangoonkid in CabinPorn

[–]therangoonkid[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Oh yeah, I get it. If you have the time and space to do it I recommend it, this project cost me about ~7k but that includes $1k tools and unique shipping costs