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#1

Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic

Last post by HVC - Today at 07:34:22 PM

Second highest score in the Languish Fantasy league by a good margin and I'm gonna lose this week. Not even in close.

That doesn't prove you're good, if anything it shows languish sucks

#2

Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic

Last post by mongers - Today at 07:29:57 PM

This happened this morning in a ford near to here:



Why did they think it was a good idea to try and drive through 0.75m of fast flowing water?

And I mean it's not as if there was an alternative bridged route around the ford that adds a whole 84 metres* to the drive. 


* I know this because I once measured it on a cycle tripmeter.

edit:
also guess at what point in the streams flow did they attempt this stunt?

#3

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

Last post by Josquius - Today at 06:34:54 PM

Hypnoboobs is one the main smears about him. Back when the Greens were having their leadership election I heard about this one and as I wasn't really following the election for a long while it was all I knew about him.

His explanation for it makes sense and seems reasonable enough. He was working as a regular hypnotherapist and some tabloid journalist decided they wanted to put a fun angle on it so asked him if he could hypnotise their boobs bigger to which iirc he said he'd give it a shot.

The way I first saw it presented was he was himself pushing hypnotising boobs bigger as a thing he was eager to do and it would work. I also didn't know he was gay at the time so all sounded extra sleazy.

The other main empty attack you hear is the name change one. And his explanation again sounds a lot more reasonable than Yaxley Lenon.

He's been getting some more reasonable attacks lately though about his favourite economists. Also I'm not a fan of his definition of populist.

#4

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

Last post by Jacob - Today at 06:03:21 PM

Yeah as far Marina Hyde articles go (I like her) this is very weak. But still.

Yeah I don't have an opinion on the Greens, Polanski, or Hyde for that matter. So she may still be making a decent point. I guess the real question is the degree to which this is "the one weird thing from the past" (in which case it really doesn't matter IMO), or whether it's indicative of a deeper strain of weirdness that will come out should Polanski get political influence.

#5

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

Last post by Tamas - Today at 05:37:01 PM

Yeah as far Marina Hyde articles go (I like her) this is very weak. But still.

#6

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

Last post by Jacob - Today at 05:28:59 PM

I mean breast expanding hypnosis is pretty weird, sure, but that Guardian piece just seems like a "I'm not woke myself, but THIS is what woke people should be mad about! Why aren't they mad about the thing I think they should be mad about? Bunch of hypocrites! How can this guy be good when the people who like him should hate him according to me!" attack by a partisan of another party.

#7

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

Last post by mongers - Today at 05:18:39 PM

Lol I had no idea the progressives' latest saviiur, Polanski, was advocating for breast expansion by hypnosis.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/09/zack-polanski-politics-green-party-leader

Not unhinged at all.

Shelf will be gutted that he made a major misstep last week, by changing his mind about appearing on 'Have I Got News For You' the show that gave Boris his first national exposure and from subsequent appearances on it, endeared himself with large sections of the voting public.

[Why are you so shit at writing patch notes?]

#8

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

Last post by Syt - Today at 04:47:16 PM

The deleted thread returned.

The previously posted patch notes have been since been reverted from beta 1.0.10 due to a critical error. In an effort to avoid misinformation, we have since deleted the notes themselves from this post, but you can find the otherwise unedited rest of the post below.

We apologize for the chaos this has may have caused.
- PDX Ryagi

Also liked this line from Johan:

Why are you so shit at writing patch notes?
Well, its not something most of the team have done before. Me personally, its a long time since I last did it, and I'm an old guy who sometimes thinks have not changed since I was patchin eu2 with posting a zip file of changed file on the forum. We'll try to be better, and not just write "nerfed sweden, kkthxbye".

The whole post reads like a direct response to OPB's video, and while I guess the effort is nice it's a far cry from how the V3 team communicates.

And yes, maybe it's time for Johan to pass the torch for good and enjoy his Elder Statesman status.

#9

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

Last post by Tamas - Today at 04:42:44 PM

Lol I had no idea the progressives' latest saviiur, Polanski, was advocating for breast expansion by hypnosis.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/09/zack-polanski-politics-green-party-leader

Not unhinged at all.

#10

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

Last post by crazy canuck - Today at 04:37:28 PM

Oh my, more example of Johan being too jittery to handle the pressures of a major franchise:

https://www.reddit.com/r/EU5/s/TmcNUezrTX

Community relations have never been one of his strengths.

Yeah man. So many times back in the EU2 days I would find myself thinking "Damn Johan, what the hell is your problem?" dude should probably not be customer facing.

Yeah sometimes just let the design guys design.

Yeah, there was some good news in that - at the end.  But so much passive aggressive messaging at the beginning that I doubt many read that far. Johan, play to your strengths, you are a brilliant game developer.  Let others with different skill sets do the PR.