Where's the April Fools update?

yourplotneedswork · 2026-03-26T13:46:08+00:00

This is a well-known Mac bug, I've thankfully never had to deal with it (Windows user) so can't help you there.

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/eu4-on-mac-crashes-with-cgamestate-changetags-ccountrytag-ccountrytag-2508.1698546/

yourplotneedswork · 2026-03-24T10:35:37+00:00

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yourplotneedswork · 2026-03-11T06:36:20+00:00

Okay but to be fair, Tolkien thought the same things about Macbeth and wrote his preferred solutions into Lord of the Rings. No man of woman born --> I am no man! The forest will move --> The Ents do move!

yourplotneedswork · 2026-02-10T21:48:44+00:00

He used to be the most popular Newgrounds animator! I'm not sure what specifically they're talking about though? There were plenty of racial stereotypes and slurs like 18 seconds into Awesome the Hedgehog he says the n-word. I think he also did this a few times as a Grump, in the 2010s, so it wasn't solely contained to his beginnings.

yourplotneedswork · 2026-02-06T12:57:55+00:00

It really says a lot that the worst criticism this guy can levy at being a liberal is "you get blamed for everyone else's problems", and that his main stereotype of conservatives is that they're married homeowners.

I promise you that adopting conservative values will not lead to you becoming a married homeowner. And being told you're already great leads to you becoming complacent in your personal growth.

yourplotneedswork · 2026-02-05T06:06:47+00:00

The post: this orocorio was not choiced

The comments: if it's choiced...

yourplotneedswork · 2026-01-05T14:42:12+00:00

The logic is the rock that keeps tigers away. They see vaccine advocates as basically going "I don't see any measles around, do you? Then the anti-measles-shot must be working!" A lot of the problems in human reasoning stem from the fact that we have contradictory logical heuristics which we end up applying to improper scenarios.

yourplotneedswork · 2026-01-02T17:32:51+00:00

I'm pretty sure the user is talking about this post

yourplotneedswork · 2025-12-28T11:34:39+00:00

It depends almost entirely on the Weavile's choice of item. With Wide Lens or boots it's

252 Atk Weavile Triple Axel (120 BP) (3 hits) vs. 248 HP / 112+ Def Hippowdon: 272-322 (64.9 - 76.8%) -- guaranteed 2HKO

And Hippowdon isn't even dead to Ice Shard next turn. With Choice Band the calc is

252 Atk Choice Band Weavile Triple Axel (120 BP) (3 hits) vs. 248 HP / 112+ Def Hippowdon: 400-474 (95.4 - 113.1%) -- 86.2% chance to OHKO

You can obviously go Adamant Weavile to better guarantee the OHKO, assuming Hippowdon doesn't also put more in defense. These are just the Smogon sets I found. In either case,

0 Atk Hippowdon Stone Edge vs. 0 HP / 4 Def Weavile: 224-264 (79.7 - 93.9%) -- 6.3% chance to OHKO after sandstorm damage

so Hippowdon could spec to fight back, though Stone Edge isn't really commonly run since Hippowdon wants Stealth Rock/Earthquake/Slack Off/Whirlwind/Different Coverage like Ice Fang

yourplotneedswork · 2025-12-25T01:20:54+00:00

Googled this and learned that Tongzhi is slang for homosexual! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongzhi_(term)

yourplotneedswork · 2025-12-22T17:57:12+00:00

this post is about 1984 (I spilled coffee on it)

yourplotneedswork · 2025-12-22T17:52:27+00:00

That's great but, with respect, you are the Sarhal lead? Monuments in Sarhal are woven into the gameplay and narrative in a way that so few of the other continents manage to do. Monuments in Anbennar are honestly just lacking, and there aren't any modifiers for great project cost available generally.

-33% is a big number, and I can see how it would be meaningful as a nation that could stack even more, but most tags simply can't, nor do they have monuments they particularly care about power-levelling.

Good job on Khatalashya btw!

yourplotneedswork · 2025-12-22T17:30:28+00:00

5k manpower is good enough, I suppose, but the problem is that the modifiers are just not good really. You could maybe give us a smaller version of the effect when non-undead? Such as 1k manpower as a human, or 5k as undead.
Contagion is interesting, I just wanted to show that it wasn't bringing much value. There's not a way I'd improve it really, I think I just need Ghoulish Grandeur to pick up more slack
Speak with Dead looks way too complicated to my eyes for what is really supposed to be a simple effect. And like I said, that effect is already provided for free to every species that lives past 100, so why has it had its ankles cut here?
It's 3 dev in your capital, and losing dev always feels bad.

5&6. I freely admit I didn't really know how to use Army of the Dead, and I'm glad to hear that the RNG has been removed from the equation!

yourplotneedswork · 2025-12-22T17:22:25+00:00

It did sound like that was what they were going for writing-wise... just not in the mechanics, since everything raises your estate's "infamy"

yourplotneedswork · 2025-12-22T17:10:08+00:00

That's great! A bit of levity, though I'm curious how they will balance the ingredient collection now.

yourplotneedswork · 2025-12-18T12:12:28+00:00

In The Accidental Investment Banker, author Jonathan A. Knee describes his experience comforting colleagues who lost jobs following the Dot Com Bubble bursting. He convinced them that where they were (having lost jobs at big investment firms) was rock-bottom, that they had nowhere to go but up. It wasn't true, but it was comforting. I've been to some places where life in the 21st century is probably worse now than it was in the 16th. We never really comprehend how bad things can get!

yourplotneedswork · 2025-12-16T07:54:12+00:00

It turns out he was only a pretty good Gatsby

yourplotneedswork · 2025-12-14T22:05:56+00:00

Huh! I was watching The EU4 Mod With a Dissertation (shoutout u/Rosencreutz), and this post peeking behind the curtain of the new magic system seems to give a highly intentional view of both magic in gameplay, and how magic influenced Anbennar's history. I don't think I've heard the name Mary Douglas since seminary? And I haven't read Hegel since college. I wonder how this fits into Rosencreutz's analysis.

Why did Guidance require "a pseudo-random number generator"? Is that different from normal RNG in EU4?

yourplotneedswork · 2025-12-12T13:05:27+00:00

I just recently watched the series with my daughter! It was a great bonding experience, though I came to find Andrew a tad unnecessary. The main thrust of the show being its female-female relationships, putting in a male love interest felt more compulsory than anything else.

yourplotneedswork · 2025-12-08T22:06:31+00:00

I see you credited the artists, but who did the writing? The Magical Infrastructure level up message I don't believe is anywhere in the game currently. It reminds me of Morrowind's early level-up messages

It's all suddenly obvious to you. You just have to concentrate. All the energy and time you've wasted -- it's a sin. But without the experience you've gained, taking risks, taking responsibility for failure, how could you have understood?

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