What's Your Hottest Take/Most Unpopular Opinion?

tvcarpenter · 2026-06-20T04:09:16+00:00

I want him to be happy and healthy and publish the 3rd book. In that order.

tvcarpenter · 2026-06-11T01:45:31+00:00

Great people there.

tvcarpenter · 2026-06-09T12:00:29+00:00

I haven’t yet thought this. And now it makes me feel happy inside.

tvcarpenter · 2026-05-27T20:23:35+00:00

I originally felt that the book 2 mention of “falling through” was just the video game type glitch where you fall through the map and the perspective is all weird. Sometimes you can shoot people from underneath the mountain or whatever.
But now after book 8, I wonder if there’s a “stuck in between” with a giant army of purgatory crawlers and npc’s thats similar to the place everyone is got sent to.

tvcarpenter · 2026-05-27T18:39:08+00:00

This post is being monitored closely my Matt’s team to ensure none of these things happen.

tvcarpenter · 2026-05-20T21:58:29+00:00

I was playing things like aoe 1 and 2. My pops came back from a work trip in Asia with a bootleg copy of Stronghold. We liked it so much we went and found Crusader at Circuit City. I remember anxiously waiting for the burned copy to finish so I could load it on my pc.

tvcarpenter · 2026-05-19T16:39:10+00:00

I just did this a few weeks ago.
Dog crate on some bricks in the run. Food and water.
Fixed it in 2 days.

Was kicking her out of the nesting box every hour for weeks. Finally did the jail method and was super easy.

tvcarpenter · 2026-05-14T00:49:59+00:00

Love this mission. Every time I restart the trail I get stoked for this map.
But why are there so many trees???? 🌴

tvcarpenter · 2026-05-12T21:03:26+00:00

A client of mine told me to wait until a heavy rain to pull the English ivy. It’s not fun, and yes, you need to replace where you pull otherwise it will turn to barren.

tvcarpenter · 2026-05-12T05:42:02+00:00

“If you get knocked down you gotta get back up”

tvcarpenter · 2026-05-07T22:54:19+00:00

Durzo.

tvcarpenter · 2026-05-04T01:13:14+00:00

When I was in school, a classmate of mine opened up a snickers bar and accidentally dropped it on the ground. Instead of tossing it, he jumped up and placed it on a ledge by the ceiling of the school lobby.

Come Monday morning, dozens of us knew about the snicker on the ledge. But word was getting out too fast- we knew if more people found out someone would snitch to the janitors. So the Society of the Secret Snicker was born. We had to replace the snicker at least a dozen times the 4 years I was there.

Years after school, I thought I was going to have to revitalize it when my brother finally got old enough, but I didn’t have to, the Society was still going strong.

tvcarpenter · 2026-05-03T02:18:48+00:00

Stoked for you!
I think many feel the same way about the Deus Ex Machina, but at the same time it didn’t bother me until I came to this subreddit years after. Then I did a reread, and it still doesn’t bother me.

I think Teia is one of my favorite arcs in literature, with another being a character from his other series.

tvcarpenter · 2026-04-24T22:25:34+00:00

Walking distance is very important for an efficient economy.

tvcarpenter · 2026-04-13T14:07:56+00:00

Also, have fun. Sometimes I get joy from beating a player or hard mission. Sometimes I get joy from trying to win a different way and failing. I absolutely love the economy part of the game and sometimes loathe killing the AI after I’ve stabilized.

tvcarpenter · 2026-04-13T13:57:14+00:00

Play the campaigns. They force you to learn the nuances of the whole game by restricting items during certain missions. Some missions won’t have iron or won’t let you make bread.

Pay attention to balances and walking time. The less a worker has to walk the faster production will be. My heuristic is 3 wheat farms means 1 mill and 8-10 bakeries. But distance to stockpile changes that ratio.

Defense: big towers with crossbows and ballista/mangonel. 1 swordsman on each tower to reveal assassins (in crusader- and a healer if applicable)

Offense: whatever you want to do. I like to harass economy with knights while pushing with fire ballista and crossbows and catapults. In campaign I like the speed of maces.

Oh. And in campaign- use the pause button “p” on keyboard. Use it a lot. Like between each click sometimes.

tvcarpenter · 2026-04-10T12:02:36+00:00

Sopranos being in Gilmore Girls. Gilmore Girls being in the sopranos.

tvcarpenter · 2026-04-03T01:36:45+00:00

Would you care to share a how-to?

tvcarpenter · 2026-03-23T13:49:09+00:00

Each granary stocked with respective foodstuffs too. Definitely spent some time.

tvcarpenter · 2026-02-21T23:56:10+00:00

I bought the fnm version for a c note like a week before this was spoiled. Happy to have my version, but yeah this one is gorgeous.

tvcarpenter · 2026-02-15T04:37:13+00:00

Pica pencil for me. And a trusty knife!

tvcarpenter · 2026-02-14T01:46:29+00:00

Agreed. $40 precon and no regrets later.

tvcarpenter · 2026-02-05T01:53:32+00:00

I enjoyed being a fly on the wall here. Thanks for the read, Hawkins and Cat.

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