@christapeterso just to be annoying: what if the end of conscription made it easier for empire to go to war, now that war’s costs are no longer borne by the general population?
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trying to move forward
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It destroyed the US’s ability to conscript its population for imperial wars, probably permanently
Purity test enforcer 🇵🇸@extra_beef_
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@GuyFromCollege i don't find eu4 fun because the eu4 map doesn't correspond to any real economy which means no interesting economic geography. by virtue of being able to model this at >0 eu5 is funner to me
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Yeah they "tried" to make a more realistic simulation, but they failed at it and made a game that isn't realistic nor fun to play. That's why everyone is upset
Nikolaj🇺🇦🇵🇸@nikicaga
Insane how Paradox tried to make a more realistic simulation that showed why mass expansionism isn't always ideal and the players are revolting against it
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@OG_Zig_Zag @arakkosuperstar i would simply presume the author is telling me something
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@krunkenschnitz1 @arakkosuperstar Have you ever tried to interact with a story with inconsistent power scaling? Imagine one page a character is juggling a black hole and the next page he's getting taken out by a beer bottle to the head. Does that sound like an interesting or compelling story to you?
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powerscaling discourse is so funny bc all of a sudden powerscaling is something completely different from what it is if you go to literally any powerscaling community forum. i’m baffled. people are now trying to abstract it into just. stating character traits bro what is this
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@OG_Zig_Zag @arakkosuperstar powerscaling as a practice starts to come into being as a thing separate from battleboarding in the late 2010s so i'm not sure it's that odd to claim powerscaling is a metatextual fan activity
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@arakkosuperstar People insisting that "it can't be powerscaling unless two sweaty nerds are arguing over their favorite character" is going to be the end of me.
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@redrummarts tbf this is because slave is a racialised word
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Master vs Slave morality needs to be renamed to some shit like "winner vs loser mindset" or something. Cause that's basically what he's saying but the name trips people up
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@Joaxe001 nationalist slop. if you want to blame any dynasty for the great divergence it’s the ming
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JP's surpassing CN by a century is an anomaly in the world, just as Western civilization's surpassing Chinese civilization by 400 years is itself an anomaly. This anomaly is largely due to CN's dark period under Manchu rule, the Manchu rule over CN was itself largely an anomaly.
Promethean 🌲🚄@martian_lore
I feel for Japan The 20th century was the best the Japanese nation ever had. For the first time, Japan emerged from under China’s shadow and surpassed it. Now they can only watch as the shadow engulfs them once more No wonder they were so keen to kill China as an idea (支那)
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@pachabelcanon @matthiasellis if inflation is the real constraint MMTers have to explain why bond markets care about fiscal sustainability without recourse to epistemic explanations
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@matthiasellis are there good critiques or essays on the MMT phenomenon you would rec?
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with a title like that you just know its some awful coal from south korea
AniTV@AniTVOfficial
'Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint' Anime is reportedly airing in 2027. (gamey.kr/news/articleVi…)
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@Content_797 i swear the backing track is from fucking TCOAAL am i losing it
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any piece of writing that needs footnotes is far too serious to write in fucking Google Docs
John H. Boyer@johnhboyer
The number of college students I have taught who don't know how to insert a footnote in Word and Google Docs is astounding. It's gotta be between 50% to 75% of them.
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@jonathanbfine @iycrtylph « STEM leads to jobs » until someone dares to study a natural or basic science
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@garvvee @seraphel_ right but ludo means pertaining to games. it’s a ludo-narrative dissonance because there’s a game-narrative dissonance
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@seraphel_ i mean ludonarrative is a borrowed term from video game journalism where the actual gameplay loop contrasts the message. what i mean here is that the actual platform/means of communicating the message is the part that’s ironic.
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you can’t top the ludonarrative dissonance of critiquing inflammatory engagement speech while making a short form video with inflammatory engagement speech. truly elite level posting.
Emma Camp@emmma_camp_
Why does everyone sound like a teenager? Find out in my latest for @WSJFreeEx
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Me if i was rich enough to buy more physical books.
Dawson S. Williams@DawsonSWilliams
Rosen is my favorite student of Strauss. Houlgate has been a guide through the labyrinth of Hegel’s Logic for many of us. Schiller’s letters hidden between Hyppolite and Inwood should be mandatory reading for all.
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@Y40IFRQTTING yeah, it just feels like nolan imposing nolan-isms on the odyssey rather than working with it
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People are hating on The Odyssey mainly because Nolan seems to have contempt for the epic he's adapting. He clearly does not respect or care for it at all, every shot from the movie is devoid of passion.
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@drumm_colin they beat jimmy carter to death with hammers for daring to suggest less treats
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“I’m a reasonable social democrat centrist but I want to completely abolish the Western cultural heritage of New Zealand and replace it with Māori Third Worldist grievance politics”
Tiare@Tiare_MP
i like to think i’m sensible social democrat close to the centre of politics but according to twitter i’m a rabid communist so who knows
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