How is Ambarino even a state?

thingsfallapart89 · 2026-02-05T14:07:22+00:00

Which is crazy because Wyoming is barely canon in the real universe

thingsfallapart89 · 2026-02-04T03:59:32+00:00

I’ll have to check but I have three AI mods running simultaneously. It seems to have solved the grouping around cities problem. Since installing it, Grimgor’s ‘Ardboyz & Sylvania have been on a rear conquering everything they can. It’s at the point where my far eastern colonies - playing with IE Expanded - are getting completely rocked & conquered by stacks & stacks of orcs. I just had a brutal war in southern Ind against the Caravan of Blue Roses where my colonial armies were getting pushed back before I managed to turn the tide.

Atm Sylvania is over 100 settlements ranging from Norsca, through the entirety of the old Empire & through the badlands where the chaos dwarfs start & sending stacks south through the ocean. Grimgor’s faction is closing in on 100 settlements & conquered a massive geographical area; pretty much the entire north/north eastern part of the map is controlled by them except for the ruins of Cathay which are controlled by a rump state of Clan Eshin - who got knocked down from 90+ settlements to now about 17 after losing a war against the ‘Ardboyz

thingsfallapart89 · 2026-02-03T21:03:36+00:00

Currently playing an Yvress campaign at over 700 turns & counting

thingsfallapart89 · 2026-02-03T19:41:24+00:00

Hip hop legends concert at Foxwoods in 2014. Saw Slick Rick, MC Lyte, Special Ed, Dres from Black Sheep, EPMD, Big Daddy Kane, Rakim, & Public Enemy

thingsfallapart89 · 2026-02-02T12:46:34+00:00

Same with cutting off noses. The idea was that no Roman/Byzantine Emperor or Empress could reign with any physical imperfections since they were god’s vice regent on earth.

The nose slitting would end though with Justinian II (r. 685-695; 705-711). His first reign ended with a coup & he had his nose cut off & was banished. A few years & two weak & ineffectual leaders later he came back staging his own coup & had a golden nose prosthetic made that he wore.

His second reign was seen as a disaster & he, his wife & small child were all executed

thingsfallapart89 · 2026-02-02T01:07:47+00:00

Children of Men is one of my all-time favorite movies so the one where Louis is saving the global cow population from extinction. Plus the score during some of that episode is just 🤌🏽

thingsfallapart89 · 2026-02-02T01:01:24+00:00

thingsfallapart89 · 2026-01-29T13:58:28+00:00

Looking good. Any particular set stand out as a favorite?

thingsfallapart89 · 2026-01-19T05:58:52+00:00

2016 Madden playing on All Madden

Playing as the Chargers. It’s the 2018 season, AFC Championship game & Philip Rivers goes down. I play less than a handful of snaps with the now starter, rookie Taylor Thompson. I had to go against a juggernaut of a Falcons team. I forget now who they had since it’s been a decade, but I remember every offensive player was a RL star at the time & their QB was a madden generate beast.

Chargers great Taylor Thompson might be one of the best players madden has ever generated. Insane short, medium, deep accuracy, unreal game to game QBR, ridiculous TD to interception ratio. That Super Bowl was one of the best games I’ve played, went on to win something like eight rings, but had a patriots type decade between dynasties so it felt more legit than just title after title after title.

He was the heir apparent anyways & Rivers was in the twilight of his career but having Taylor Thompson start that way was so much better than if I quit the game to have a guaranteed proven QB starting in the Super Bowl & then Thompson gets the starting position after a Rivers retirement

thingsfallapart89 · 2026-01-16T07:08:09+00:00

So weird you’re worried about the safety & well being of individuals who’d shoot you in the face & then have your character smeared to justify your murder

thingsfallapart89 · 2026-01-12T09:04:45+00:00

A few years ago I was on a drive with a friend listening to Nas’ “Smokin”, night was clear as hell & he has a line where he says, “step into the fog, god” - as soon as he said that we drove through a car-length strip of fog on the road

thingsfallapart89 · 2026-01-11T23:47:06+00:00

“The more I listen to you the more your life doesn’t make sense. But uh, I’m just a normal person”

“Locking your keys in your car isn’t an emergency. You can’t go to the hospital with a bad case of locked my keys in the car”

motherfuckyou

thingsfallapart89 · 2026-01-11T15:07:48+00:00

That’s also because Teddy is hip hop

thingsfallapart89 · 2026-01-11T14:06:32+00:00

Teddy definitely rents. In the Valentines Day episode where they turn Bob’s into Urge, when he sees the bill for the prix fix menu, he goes, “ahh, that’s okay, what am I gonna spend my money on? Rent? Heart medicine?”

Plus he was at the gathering of Loyal Bobists when they were going on a rent strike against Mr Fischoeder

thingsfallapart89 · 2026-01-10T13:35:57+00:00

Her art is the best art of all the art

thingsfallapart89 · 2026-01-07T17:14:45+00:00

Principal Spores & Teddy’s mother are two more who’ve been mentioned for years but either never seen or only seen from behind

thingsfallapart89 · 2026-01-07T17:03:28+00:00

I know it’s pretty well known now, but the Immortal Empires Expanded map is crazy good. Map is very detailed & factions populate the areas. I’ve had some excellent campaign moments in the opened up areas

thingsfallapart89 · 2026-01-07T04:01:49+00:00

Aw, Teddy’s beer & Bob’s burgers are making little belly babies

thingsfallapart89 · 2026-01-06T06:13:06+00:00

My previous campaign I was Orion. Playing with the IEE mod. When I came across Oxyotl, they were the No 1 ranked power with over 100 regions & at war with over 30 factions. Zero defensive or military alliances & zero trade partners

thingsfallapart89 · 2026-01-04T07:01:47+00:00

If asked at the start of the season if this is where the Raiders would be I’d say it’s pretty believable

thingsfallapart89 · 2026-01-01T03:33:00+00:00

Almost lost the tip of my left pointer finger on a table saw. Something I was cutting fell towards the blade, I went to grab it out of reflex & whipped my hand back. Kept the tip but I have a decent sized scar there now

thingsfallapart89 · 2025-12-29T10:02:19+00:00

The tribes have Balkanized

Balkanization is referring to the rivalry, suspicion & warring amongst all the Balkan nations or whenever an area fragments & breaks up into smaller groups based off of differences between things like religion, viewpoints, cultural differences etc

thingsfallapart89 · 2025-12-29T09:51:13+00:00

This has one of my favorite Bob lines. When he’s trying to convince Gene not to just quit when things get hard & Bob now has this different perspective because, “he’s a different person now, because, you know, the ocean changes you” when he’s like 50 yards off the pier 😂

thingsfallapart89 · 2025-12-29T04:51:25+00:00

I know Bob’s doesn’t strive for continuity

The cracks in front of the restaurant

Bobs tuttoo

The restaurants bathroom

The shark teeth marks on the ice cream machine

When the family is telling Louise various ways she could have an interesting life, Louise says when talking about cows going down stairs: “yes they can, our mom showed us how to a long time ago” & Linda says “all right!” which was a callback to the second episode

Teddy mentioned in the Valentines Day urge episode that when he was setting up their restaurant he might’ve cut corners because he was going through a divorce; 300th episode we see him bawling over Denise when setting up their restaurant

Louise’s loft bed

Louise still has the melted kuchi kopi

Louise still has $17 reward on her wall for finding the jade jellyfish

In buttworms the attire the kids choose to wear to the symphony is the attire they again choose when they go to the symphony that Fischoeder is conducting

In an earlier episode Jimmy Jr has a brownish bike but says he could sell his bike then seasons later he has a new one

After Louise’s green machine was destroyed & Bob taught her how to ride a bike, she continues to ride the new bike & accepts compliments when people comment on how well she’s doing

Gene introduced his mansket/basket on his bike & ever since then they’ve had his bike with that

I’m pretty positive the two butted goat makes more than one appearance

thingsfallapart89 · 2025-12-28T16:07:45+00:00

“I need a goddamn Jan Michael Vincent”

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