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#21

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

Last post by DGuller - Today at 09:09:30 AM

I wonder if I ran into a bug. I started a parliament session and then added as an additional agenda a law change request. This tanked the success chance of parliament, like to 5% and it failed eventually. But still, the implementation of the law has triggered, without the 99 stability hit that you'd get trying to push it through without parliamentary approval. I am pretty sure this isn't how it is supposed to work.

I think that's how it's supposed to work.  You use up your political capital on changing the law, and not enough was left for the original agenda item.  The additional items are not tied to the original agenda.  That was one of the few things I figured out in my 7 hours of playing.

#22

Off the Record / Re: The AI dooooooom thread

Last post by crazy canuck - Today at 08:15:55 AM

My concern about AI succinctly explained by a scientist

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQzjGn1jISq/?igsh=bWliNXdtb2gxZmc0

#23

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

Last post by Tamas - Today at 08:14:56 AM

I wonder if I ran into a bug. I started a parliament session and then added as an additional agenda a law change request. This tanked the success chance of parliament, like to 5% and it failed eventually. But still, the implementation of the law has triggered, without the 99 stability hit that you'd get trying to push it through without parliamentary approval. I am pretty sure this isn't how it is supposed to work.

#24

Off the Record / Re: The AI dooooooom thread

Last post by Tamas - Today at 07:42:13 AM

Due to various reasons I have been reading/listening up on private equity firms and they do sound like the replacement for the various schemes around the housing market going on pre-2008

#25

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

Last post by Syt - Today at 06:26:12 AM

Languish is a bit my "second living room". A place to share ideas, news, jokes, and opinions. While I think overall we who are still here have mellowed out over the past 20 ( ) years, I think the last years have put matters to the test with rapid crazy changes in the world. War, pestilence, political upheaval ... it takes a toll on all of us.

I think people here generally have interesting views, often not exactly matching mine, but that's fine. Getting different perspectives and all that. I think most of us are fairly set in our ways, even if we'd like to believe that we aren't (though I feel we've all done some re-examining of our positions in the past 5-10 years especially).

At the same time it's hard to overlook that our numbers have greatly dwindled and the speed of the board is greatly diminished. There's not really many places like this out there - I admit I occasionally cast furtive glances at other online communities, but after two decades of shared history it would be hard to find something anywhere near similar and representing such a wide range of folks. So I guess I'll be one of the guys switching the lights off when the time comes.

#26

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

Last post by The Brain - Today at 05:54:24 AM

In my experience, when you think one thing and the world thinks something else, you're probably right.

#27

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

Last post by HVC - Today at 04:10:51 AM

Yi, that's an interesting, but I feel flawed view. No one person is just on one side of that divide. We have posters who I think you would consider part of the rational cadre who exhibit the traits you attribute to Romantics when confronted with certain topics or posters. To be all woke ( ) I'll compromise and say theres a spectrum between the two that each person holds. Where they sit on the spectrum isn't about the person themselves but the topic on hand. If you can be dispassionate about a topic you're more likely to be logical.

Another fatal flaw is not so much with your classifications, but one based on the personality of a person who believes they're logical, fact based and rational. Such a person often discounts the fact they can be biased and illogical. This causes them to discount anything they disagree with as wrong, even when they themselves are in fact wrong. "I'm always logical so can't be wrong" type thing. This stifles their ability to learn, change, and grow. To clarify, because I think it's important, that's not a veiled dig. Of posters who profess to be logical arguers you're the most likely, in my view, to consider the other side and change your views when you deem it reasonable. That can't be said for every poster.


All that being said I still don't get how that makes argument between rationalists and romantics asymmetrical

#28

Gaming HQ / Re: PSA: Game Discounts

Last post by celedhring - Today at 04:08:05 AM

Not so much a discount, more a heads up: Battlestar Galactica Deadlock will be removed from sale Nov 15. So if you still want the game, best to pick it up now from Steam, GOG, or Slitherine themselves.

https://www6.slitherine.com/news/battlestar-galactica-deadlock-will-be-phased-out-on-november-15th

The game and DLC (Steam keys) are currently cheapest (according to isthereanydeal) on Fanatical (base game 75% off, DLC 57% off): https://www.fanatical.com/en/franchises/battlestar-galactica

The game is also on GOG (base game 70% off, DLC 50% off): https://www.gog.com/en/games?query=Battlestar&order=desc:score

Damn. I guess they are losing the rights - probably related to the new game that's coming out.

I own the base game but I really never got into it despite my undying love for the show and spacey strategy games. Probably will give it another go before it is removed, to decide whether to get the DLCs.

#29

Off the Record / Re: TV/Movies Megathread

Last post by The Brain - Today at 03:55:26 AM

The Midnight Club, S1. I liked it, I think it's very well made.

Frankenstein. Not a good movie, I might finish it later but it wasn't interesting enough to finish in one sitting. Apart from severe general blandness, my biggest objection is that they make Frankenstein a simple Reanimator who assembles pre-owned body parts. The whole point of the book is that Frankenstein creates life, and that the Creature confronts his Creator. Book Frankenstein uses body parts in his R&D to understand how the body works, but he doesn't use them for production.

Finished Frankenstein. Still not good.

#30

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

Last post by Zoupa - Today at 03:43:44 AM

The camp I identify with i call the rationalists.  We believe in cost/benefit analyses, weighing of conflicting principles, and civil discourse as a means of resolving differences, and the primacy of reason, logic, facts and evidence as instruments in that discourse.

You are not a part of the serious discussion, you are a prop, an exhibit.  Joan is making a heroic, well intentioned, and thankless effort to broker some sort of accomodation between the nutjobs (you) and the centrists.  This discussion only has purpose to the extent that it informs Joan of the terrain in which he is operating.

Perhaps you are right. Perhaps dim witted people will invariably be drawn to romanticism over rationalism.

It's not condescension.  It's the subversion of treating your feeble, dim witted attempts at sarcasm as literal.

Simple pleasures for simple minds.

Civil discourse.