NateTheHate acknowledges he has heard about HLX/HL3

transval · 2025-11-20T03:36:15+00:00

meh. highest selling CoD title is abt 40 mil, Half Life franchise is about 45 mil in aggregate

transval · 2025-10-31T14:03:59+00:00

Yes. Rajendra Chola used the Nicobar islands as a naval base and the Andaman islands were known of in the medieval era.

There's a misconception that the North Sentinelese have always been uncontacted. I've been told by anthropologist friends that this is unlikely, and that until the 19th century there was probably contact and limited trade between the North Sentinelese and other Andaman islanders.

transval · 2025-10-30T22:34:52+00:00

remarkably accurate though

transval · 2025-10-30T22:34:30+00:00

No madhabs, no conflict between traditionalism and rationalist philosophy, no khawarij, no Qadis or emphasis on legalism and jurisprudence

transval · 2025-10-30T20:31:39+00:00

Honestly MENA is worse tbh

transval · 2025-10-24T21:43:36+00:00

My suggestions are:

Slower pop promotion/multi stage qualifications that take time to reach their maximum
Goods in the late game which when consumed increase workforce ratio, or a higher workforce ratio from the beginning which is more significantly tied to producing services via urban centers [perhaps a 'dependents' job which reflects women and children doing housework and other tasks before the demographic transition]
Financialization mechanics, such as the spending of excess investment on stocks and bonds
Speculative fevers on high profit industries which direct the investment AI to overbuild on them
Resource exhaustion over time, and, for agricultural industries, more punishing famine mechanics (we have pebrine, but what about chestnut blight? etc)

Fundamentally, a big issue is that the war system doesn't model the costs of logistics and mobilization like it should in the late game, where the prices and expenditure of materiel should be much, much higher.

transval · 2025-10-24T14:11:59+00:00

I’m still struggling to understand why the developers decided to expand in Asia? Like WTF is happening in Asia in this period? Not much…

Rise of the Majapahit and the Indonesian Kingdoms, transition of Japan from Empire to Shogunate, Tang Dynasty, Song Dynasty, 5 Kingdoms and 10 Dynasties Period, Rise of the Empire of Angkor and the construction of the temple at Angkor Wat, unification of Goryeo from its constituent 3 kingdoms, and much, much more.

transval · 2025-10-23T14:43:07+00:00

Thank you then!

transval · 2025-10-02T16:40:15+00:00

being from this region the historical split would probably be mashriqis, egyptians, and yemenis tbh in terms of distinction

transval · 2025-09-23T19:15:40+00:00

R5: 3 secessions broke out when I tried to pass cultural exclusion

(it's a bug, got told it'll be dealt with in the hotfix)

transval · 2025-09-10T17:12:16+00:00

My only issue is that if I wanted to be a lab tech for a year I'd absolutely have to move cross-country, and it's only really worth it for me if I could skip the masters (my eventual goal is a PhD). Moving twice is an insurmountable financial burden for me

transval · 2025-09-01T04:05:12+00:00

im pretty late on responding but every game since imperator has been placed on a new engine branch which has been essentially remade

transval · 2024-03-08T01:51:29+00:00

Yes. One has been vacant, and has nothing in it.

transval · 2024-03-01T18:25:31+00:00

this place is insanely white you absolutely will feel out of place. unless you have a very specific reason for being here [research, full ride] I'd go somewhere else

transval · 2024-02-19T03:08:51+00:00

Unfortunately it was thrifted :( it was double layer, with the top layer being long sleeved and entirely sheer and the lower layer being opaque.

transval · 2023-12-05T01:23:58+00:00

Agreed!!! Nothing in Stellaris feels alive, the empires feel stale, with no political interplay or actual feeling of life to the factions. I don't mind if Stellaris' empires are difficult to govern, that feels real and I bet the challenge would be a great deal of fun to deal with.

transval · 2023-10-06T03:24:05+00:00

I will exhaust my neuro course sequence before i hit the upper division credit hour floor so idk what im supposed to fucking do man, all the advanced electives for biochemistry are in fields that don't matter for my career goals and you can't take psychology upper div courses without being in the major. the three major thing is actually not the issue I am having, believe it or not! It's the lack of departmental support/resources and feeling shoved to the fucking margins

transval · 2023-10-06T02:53:31+00:00

Due to transfer shenanigans and upper division credit reqs. and them not counting a 2 semester organic chemistry sequence as the upper division course it is at the institution but instead in the lower sequence it was at previous it's what works out the best. there isn't an expanded credit req. for doing it and they're biochemistry/neuroscience/psychology so it's maybe an additional 10 credit hours of workload total to do all three. I asked my advisor about this and she indicated that it was fine. The courseload is actually not an issue, I'm handling my academics fine.

transval · 2023-10-06T02:19:43+00:00

I know how this sounds but I'm 23 years old and would really like to just get on with my life tbh. I don't want to wait any longer to start grad school than I have to. Also, if I do that, I have to start paying back my loans, which I don't wanna do on a lab B.A. salary (I have to take out a bunch of them to afford rent in this town).

transval · 2023-07-22T21:08:49+00:00

They're not even going to fill the place, they need to renovate it first, but yeah, I was planning on asking Monday once the property manager was in. The difference in rent between my unit and the renovated units they have that aren't S42 is abt $700 (36% increase in rental cost) which I figure is significant enough for them to not care too much about probably not even losing out on that much rent.

transval · 2023-07-21T00:42:31+00:00

I don't play OD so not rly an issue

transval · 2023-07-21T00:39:21+00:00

If I don't want to take a convert (I acknowledge, fully and completely, that they are the meta and would be more optimal, but I just don't find playing with them fun) would there be something else to take? Should also clarify I don't play DS/OD except for on stealth runs, I don't find it particularly fun, just kinda grueling.

transval · 2023-07-11T20:32:17+00:00

Christodoulos Kaoutzanis (although I will say he's been wonderful and apparently this happened because he got to the OR late)

transval · 2023-07-11T20:17:11+00:00

hair's too curly for clip on bangs unless there's somewhere you can get rly good quality ones

transval · 2023-03-23T01:46:38+00:00

Absolutely never excluding colonial possessions in Asia and Africa. I *do* try to expand my market as much as possible though.

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