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#21

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by OttoVonBismarck - Today at 11:26:24 AM

I don't have any insight into whether a quick invasion of a Latin American country is part of the current US administration's roadmap. It would be on brand, I suppose.

I mean, I do think Trump is a moral coward who is unwilling to make the kind decisions and take responsibility for the consequences that starting a war requires from a leader. He's a bully, not a fighter. But he might be talked into it, especially as senility sets in.

For sake of argument, let's say the current US administration decides it does want one of its traditional Latin American regime change wars - how will it play in the US? Will Trump be able to rally patriotic fervour?

Trump won't invade Venezuela, he has had a couple of consistent political positions since the 1980s:

1. Hatred of international trade, as a real estate investor he has never understood it and intrinsically thinks trade is just a way for America to lose money
2. Obsession with the concept that alliances are a form of being taken advantage of by the other country
3. Dislike of deploying the U.S. military overseas

Trump enjoys the uses of the military which mirror how he engages with the world--performative, off the cuff, Tweet format thinking and acting. This will look like drone / bombing strikes and possibly up to and including small special forces raids and naval incursions into Venezuelan waters. It will never look like the massive build up and invasion of Iraq in 2003.

If this sort of harassment fails to destabilize Maduro's regime to the point of him fleeing or losing support of the military, Trump will just pretend all of this never happened and move on to something else.

#22

Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic

Last post by Jacob - Today at 11:16:39 AM

Everything old is new again

#23

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by Razgovory - Today at 11:14:06 AM

Is that the position of the Greens or Your Party?  "We support you but..."

I see what you're doing there.
You know this is the way good support is meant to work right?
Not just blind cheerleading but trying to steer those you support away from doing stupid and terrible things?

More on the fake question, no idea what Your Party say, the Greens are on that wavelength however as are most mainstream parties in Europe.

Pulling the old Trump tactic.  "Fake question!"

#24

Off the Record / Re: Australia begins enforcing...

Last post by The Brain - Today at 11:11:26 AM

Musk not shouting for the disestablishment of Australia?

He's doubling down on antidisestablishmentarianism.

#25

Gaming HQ / Re: Europa Universalis V confi...

Last post by Valmy - Today at 11:09:38 AM

One of the main reasons for building a hospital and other health related buildings in your capital is to try to increase the longevity of your court characters.

I am surprised you didn't experience young characters dying in your game. Did turn disease off in the options?

Not unless they are turned off by default.

I got constant death spam to but everybody was dying rather late in life.

#26

Gaming HQ / Re: Europa Universalis V confi...

Last post by crazy canuck - Today at 11:07:42 AM

CK gets that way on occasion but less so since thats the core of the game.

Also in CK you would have people die young. People would be infertile. People would be murdered or try to murder you. People would go insane. There would be plots.

None of this happens in EUV. Every woman seems to have several children who all grow up to adulthood who do next to nothing of note and die at a ripe old age.

That is not accurate. There is character trait variability in EU5 and characters can die young, as happened to one of my heirs.

Ah. Well that's good. I had played up until the 1600s and none of my kids died young. And I didn't notice any of my courtier's kids dying young. But maybe there were just so many of them I didn't notice. They need to make infant and child mortality more common...historically common.

One of the main reasons for building a hospital and other health related buildings in your capital is to try to increase the longevity of your court characters.

I am surprised you didn't experience young characters dying in your game. Did turn disease off in the options?

#27

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by Josquius - Today at 11:05:51 AM

It's pretty clear fuck the youngism with the fonts.
Serif fonts are easier to read on paper.
Sans serifs fonts are easier to read on screens.
This is typography 101.

Yet another area where maga are letting some pathetic culture war nonsense that means nothing to anyone else reduce the efficiency of government.

#28

Gaming HQ / Re: Europa Universalis V confi...

Last post by Valmy - Today at 11:04:21 AM

CK gets that way on occasion but less so since thats the core of the game.

Also in CK you would have people die young. People would be infertile. People would be murdered or try to murder you. People would go insane. There would be plots.

None of this happens in EUV. Every woman seems to have several children who all grow up to adulthood who do next to nothing of note and die at a ripe old age.

That is not accurate. There is character trait variability in EU5 and characters can die young, as happened to one of my heirs.

Ah. Well that's good. I had played up until the 1600s and none of my kids died young. And I didn't notice any of my courtier's kids dying young. But maybe there were just so many of them I didn't notice. They need to make infant and child mortality more common...historically common.

#29

Gaming HQ / Re: Europa Universalis V confi...

Last post by crazy canuck - Today at 11:02:27 AM

CK gets that way on occasion but less so since thats the core of the game.

Also in CK you would have people die young. People would be infertile. People would be murdered or try to murder you. People would go insane. There would be plots.

None of this happens in EUV. Every woman seems to have several children who all grow up to adulthood who do next to nothing of note and die at a ripe old age.

That is not accurate. There is character trait variability in EU5 and characters can die young, as happened to one of my heirs that had good stats. I found that to be a cool part of the game. I felt the loss of a character who was going to become a great ruler.

#30

Gaming HQ / Re: Europa Universalis V confi...

Last post by Valmy - Today at 10:49:15 AM

CK gets that way on occasion but less so since thats the core of the game.

Also in CK you would have people die young. People would be infertile. People would be murdered or try to murder you. People would go insane. There would be plots.

None of this happens in EUV. Every woman seems to have several children who all grow up to adulthood who do next to nothing of note and die at a ripe old age.