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

Last post by Valmy - Today at 10:00:33 AM

From a post on their forums about "the released state of the game being unacceptable in 2025":

In a section complaining about the UI:

For a series known for complex but functional interfaces, this is honestly embarrassing.

Huh. Maybe I am clueless as to what is out there but I thought EU5 was pretty good at release. Obviously there is a lot to sort out and learn but compared to previous EU games I thought it was fine.

#12

Off the Record / Re: The AI dooooooom thread

Last post by Admiral Yi - Today at 09:56:23 AM

Yeah. Its mad stuff.
Give me a company any day in the final figures earns x having enormous income and enormous operating costs, employing thousands, over one that just makes x employing a few guys and with minimal outgoings at all. The value to society is far larger with the mass-employer.
The employment itself is an asset which may not profit the company itself too much but does profit the broader economy even directly let alone considering more abstract societal stuff.

I am seeing ever more reports of this famous investment guy or that pulling out or shorting AI.

How much is society willing to pay for this value?

#13

Off the Record / Re: The AI dooooooom thread

Last post by Josquius - Today at 09:42:59 AM

Yeah. Its mad stuff.
Give me a company any day in the final figures earns x having enormous income and enormous operating costs, employing thousands, over one that just makes x employing a few guys and with minimal outgoings at all. The value to society is far larger with the mass-employer.
The employment itself is an asset which may not profit the company itself too much but does profit the broader economy even directly let alone considering more abstract societal stuff.

I am seeing ever more reports of this famous investment guy or that pulling out or shorting AI.

#14

Off the Record / Re: The AI dooooooom thread

Last post by DGuller - Today at 07:52:55 AM

We need to be more precise in defining "worth".  I'd argue that worth to society is more a function of revenue (although this is far from perfect representation), while market worth is a function of profits.  A company that sells $1 trillion worth of products at 1% profit margin will be worth less on the market than a company selling $30 billion worth of products at 50% margin, even though the former company would be much more of a presence in everyone's life.

It never sat right with me that Apple could be "worth" more than all the carmakers combined, but I guess you just have to approach this question intellectually, not intuitively.

#15

Off the Record / Re: The AI dooooooom thread

Last post by Grey Fox - Today at 07:32:27 AM

Without ASML there is no TSMC whose without there is no NVIDIA. NVIDIA's market cap is stupid.

#16

Off the Record / Re: The AI dooooooom thread

Last post by Syt - Today at 06:23:17 AM

Stolen from Reddit:

#17

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

Last post by Syt - Today at 05:42:49 AM

As Ottoman, aren't you supposed to kill all your brothers when you ascend?

#18

Off the Record / Re: Russo-Ukrainian War 2014-2...

Last post by Solmyr - Today at 05:01:13 AM

Will all these new conscripts need some... Lebensraum?

#19

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

Last post by Solmyr - Today at 04:59:52 AM

I get several notices every single month people are turning 16 and then I have to go check to see if I care about them. It gets rather exhausting.

And nobody wants to royal marry me since I am a dirty pagan. But I suspect when I play a non-Pagan country that will also be something I have to manage.

In my Ottoman game my dynasty absolutely exploded (doesn't help that every man can have four wives). My fault really, though, since I got them marriages. By the end of the game, practically every major Muslim country was ruled by an Osmanoglu.

#20

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

Last post by Syt - Today at 04:42:22 AM

I think I might give this a patch or two before going back to it