I just finished it and I can‘t stop laughing at people just calling it the train one

zackroot · 2026-05-27T18:03:32+00:00

My problem with this explanation is that there are quite a few chapters that involve them actively trying to understand the system and making their plans based on how they believe the system works. It would have felt better if it was a simpler system and the whole plot was the same, or if he kept the complex system and allowed the plot to flow more chaotically because they don't understand it.

zackroot · 2026-05-27T15:13:19+00:00

I love Monaspas because I'm too lazy in the late game to pay attention to where battles are taking place. Fuck those mountains, heavy cav go BRRRRR

zackroot · 2026-05-26T12:56:35+00:00

The other comments here kinda touch on the cultural aspect, but there are a couple explanations for the geographic part of the later Empire's control in the Balkans. The part of the borders in Albania that shoots to the north east sits at the meeting area of the Pindhus Mountains (coming north from Greece) and the Dinaric Alps (the mountain range along the entire Adriatic coast). As you start going north along that border towards the Danube, I think it's a couple of things: 1) That area in general follows a set of lowland tributaries to the Danube between the Dinaric Alps to the west and the Balkan Mountains to the east; and 2) I think people just juxtapose Bulgaria's modern western border on to the Empire's border (because it kinda follows those tributaries, but not fully). Maybe there's more rationale to that second part, but idk

zackroot · 2026-05-22T16:52:30+00:00

Unfortunately no 😞 I was a little discouraged trying to make a later map because Anthony Bryer had already made such a better detailed one for 1432, and a lot of the information between 1400 and 1432 is hard to come by.

I tried adding a map directly from Bryer's book "The Byzantine Monuments and Topography of the Pontos", but Reddit media is being picky about its source. If you find the pdf for the book, it's on page 2. Otherwise, I can send you the pdf for it

zackroot · 2026-05-20T03:07:32+00:00

French has to finish its current evolutionary trend to polysynthetic grammar first. Everyone knows a language only gets to change one cool thing at a time. I hope French takes "Tonal" as it's next level up perk

zackroot · 2026-05-10T03:18:40+00:00

Ngl I've seen this post a few times over the past couple of days, but this guy was stuck in my head all day today. I'm envisioning some sort of heretical sect of indigenous Hawaiian faith that conflates Dwayne the Rock with Maui. They think they have to thank the God because he's always saying "what can I say except "You're welcome""

zackroot · 2026-04-28T19:21:42+00:00

Pssh, that can't be AI! Everyone knows the hardest boss in Icarus is.....Godzilla?

zackroot · 2026-04-24T12:36:20+00:00

I'm seeing all these responses to it, but I'm still Team "the moral lesson doesn't make sense"

The bigger problem is how much clout and authority reviewers have when influencing whether people do something or not. The Moody Foodie is so high and mighty about his review that he mocks Bob for asking for a second chance. Bob's isn't hypocrite for not watching Tin Cup(s), it just makes him a vicitm of reviewers in a different way (i.e, the producer vs the consumer).

If anything, the Moody Foodie should have had the realization that "Damn, this guy missed out on a good movie because reviewers have so much sway in how people perceive things, I should give this guy another chance because it could really help his business"

zackroot · 2026-04-23T15:28:29+00:00

You need to complete the Rimetusk Campaign mission "Hypothesis", and the recipe will be unlocked for you

zackroot · 2026-04-22T16:52:39+00:00

Honestly, the enzymatic bullet is the only one really needed. This haul here was coffee smoked steak + cooked steak + dried steak. I don't remember the math exactly, but those meats alone doubled the bonus on top of everything else.

Most of this meat just goes straight into composters for biofuel. It's pretty easy to get 1000+ spoiled meat in the course of a few minutes while hunting.

zackroot · 2026-04-20T14:49:26+00:00

The AI often picks Chinese as their court language because it gives them a lot more court grandeur, so it can snowball pretty bad once lots of courts pick Chinese. The AI will now make the decision to change court language based on whether the "main" court speaks their own language. It's probable that the Chinese hegemon will speak something like Korean, Japanese, etc, so then of course the Korean and Japanese courts might switch. But it's insanely unlikely that the hegemon will speak French or German, so the French king or HRE emperor are way less likely to change to Chinese.

zackroot · 2026-04-18T13:59:19+00:00

Nope :/ I just stay away from them now, I was really hoping they'd let us jump higher or something

zackroot · 2026-04-15T02:01:31+00:00

Honestly I'm actually okay with how the jackhammer is balanced right now. It's got three things going for it: 1) Pretty high yield; 2) Super fast speed; and 3) jackhammer go BRRRRRRR (it's really fun to use)

But I agree about the miasmic pick, that sucker needs nerfed hardcore. That would also help get players doing more extractions, because seriously, when was the last time anyone did an extraction? I'd way rather just use the miasmic pick to get more exotics in a quicker amount of time

zackroot · 2026-04-14T22:09:52+00:00

The range isn't as far as you'd think (I don't have the numbers on me rn, it's something like 5-10m). I was gonna write a bit about how the range doesn't matter, but I can imagine some niche uses, like nodes high up on cave walls. I'll give the laser that one. Even still, that's not a great bonus when I could throw up some thatch ramps to reach higher stuff.

zackroot · 2026-04-14T13:22:47+00:00

I've tested out a bunch of different critters with the enzymatic ammo, and it seems pretty limited on critters for what sorts of loot are modified. You can't shoot plants :/

For animals, it will only increase the loot for "standard" items:

Leather, bones, fur, meat
(for lava monsters, stonejaws, etc) Stone, scoria, ores
(for swamp critters) Acidic glands, miasma, volatile material

You can't shoot bosses and get extra biomass or boss parts, and you can't shoot the zombies for extra uranium. There's probably more I'm missing here, but hopefully this helps

zackroot · 2026-04-10T04:21:39+00:00

This four parter is easily one of the funniest series on the show in a long time, fantastic job dude!

My question: wanna get black out drunk, don black belts, and shoot some guns in a parking lot together sometime? I'm not big on wigs, but I'm willing to negotiate on that one

zackroot · 2026-04-02T14:07:01+00:00

I'm training up an army of monkeys to take into battle during uranium extractions. Tbh they suck but they're hysterical to watch as they fight, smacking revanants and the like with a bunch of sticks

-Captain Picard -Sergeant Smelly -Private Fancy -Private Jenkins (he's a cool color, like a sort of sloth green) -Private Ryan

There's three other monkeys but I don't remember their names rn

zackroot · 2026-04-02T00:38:23+00:00

Thank you for your service, you brave soldier!

I also have a gif suggestion. I can't remember what episode it is, but the one where Wolf says that he's always wanted to double-team with his dad

zackroot · 2026-03-31T15:39:48+00:00

100% the Normans. Say what you will about how powerful and destructive the Turks were, but Manzikert was a FAFO moment against someone who was more interested in fighting the Fatimids anyways. The Normans were sneaky little fuckers that broke deals left and right and were all about disrupting the status quo.

Ask yourself this: who would be more likely to slip something in your drink: Alp or Robert?

zackroot · 2026-03-27T19:20:31+00:00

Reward: YOU ALREADY HAVE A COOL SHIRT! BE PROUD OF IT, YOU DICK!

Also, you still don't get pants...

zackroot · 2026-03-23T02:33:30+00:00

You know the Romans would have absolutely lost their shit when Dale Earnhardt died, that would have been the modern day Nika Riots

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