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

Last post by Sophie Scholl - Today at 09:17:26 PM

Anyone mind sharing a picture or the numbers for Poland? I'm curious. 

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Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...

Last post by Sheilbh - Today at 07:16:21 PM

FFS

FT reporting that Jonathan Powell, Starmer's National Security Advisor (a nonsense job that should be go rid of), has secretly been contacting the Kremlin to build covert dialogue with Putin over Ukraine. This was apparently without informing the Foreign Office or the Cabinet. Powell was, incidentally, the guy implicated in the collapse of the trial of Chinese spies because the government wouldn't give evidence that they considered China a threat.

(Not fully sure I believe the line that no-one in the Cabinet knew...)

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

Last post by crazy canuck - Today at 07:16:09 PM

Event/Mission trees are gone I believe someone said earlier. How are things like... historical events or missions or whatever? Is there some actual flavor you're seeing in the game popping up throughout the years?

Playing as Castille there are a lot of historical event choices that are popping up.  As Tamas says the number varies by country, and you can see that in the country selection phase.

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Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic

Last post by mongers - Today at 06:17:31 PM

Back in the day the school bus we were taking a daytrip on was playing shitty VHS tapes and suddenly a porn movie came on. The bus went so quiet the driver immediately realized what had happened 

 

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Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...

Last post by Tamas - Today at 05:11:51 PM

Nobody has as punchable face as Farage, not even Steering. I hate the guy with a passion.

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Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...

Last post by garbon - Today at 04:24:55 PM

I don't know a damn thing about Wes Streeter, but my outside/Yank quick-take of immediate downsides is that his face seems very punchable.

Although I think that's true of literally Farage, Ed Davey, Zack Polanski and Keir Starmer -so literally every party leader except for Badenoch

 

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Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...

Last post by Tonitrus - Today at 04:24:33 PM

I don't know a damn thing about Wes Streeter, but my outside/Yank quick-take of immediate downsides is that his face seems very punchable.

Although I think that's true of literally Farage, Ed Davey, Zack Polanski and Keir Starmer -so literally every party leader except for Badenoch

Definitely agree on Farage...I'd think in the UK just his surname would be punchable as well. (maybe "Nigel" cancels it out)

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Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...

Last post by Sheilbh - Today at 04:23:10 PM

I don't know a damn thing about Wes Streeter, but my outside/Yank quick-take of immediate downsides is that his face seems very punchable.

Although I think that's true of literally Farage, Ed Davey, Zack Polanski and Keir Starmer -so literally every party leader except for Badenoch

#9

Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...

Last post by Sheilbh - Today at 04:22:22 PM

I think problem there is European opposition to cherry-picking and as I say the slightly "Middle Kingdom" view of the world from the Berlaymont. The world is split into the Union, candidates and applicants to enter the Union and Third Countries.

I suspect that they may end up with a slightly more flexible approach in the future - possibly prompted by challenges with Ukrainian membership or an increasingly hard-edged world forcing a recognition that some Third Countries (like Russia and China) are hostile, while others (like the UK or Canada) are basically pretty well-aligned, friend-shoring etc. which, I agree, may present the best route for the UK too.

[It was a bit mad.]

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Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic

Last post by Tonitrus - Today at 04:21:57 PM

Why were the children screaming?

Probably because their parents were freaking out.

But still very British when asked about it afterwords...

"It was a bit mad. I don't know how it got on there. It was a whole mess with the ferry crossing. People were really disgruntled."