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It's decided then. The children must die.

Wish I had known this when I had my Swedish Empire, but anyway I am going to be trying it out later.

Guys, it's only Tuesday.

I loved the first book. I've bought it probably 5 or 6 times. Based on a recommendation on these boards, I bought Messiah and read it. But it had nothing of the things I found interesting in the first book. Perhaps that is a bit hyperbolic. It did have court intrigue and commandos. But I guess...

This is super interesting. Do you know where I could read more about it?

So if your lord commands an army during a crusade, and they set foot in the holy land, they get a Crusader buff. But then if they are defeated and the army is destroyed, they lose the buff. I got a message that I, "Left the Field of Battle." Bitch I was fighting the battle.

I formed an empire that encompassed all of Scandinavia and Scotland, and then my heir switched his culture to some Spanish bullshit and all of my vassals launched an independence war. I lost everything. Twenty plus hours down the drain.

So this is my Sweden game. Best I've been able to do so far. Started in 867 AD. I reformed the viking religion, making my king the head of the faith so I can do holy wars. I also managed to switch to feudalism, so I can get decent buildings. For some reason, when I was tribal, my vassals gets...

Hedonism.

Is it my birthday? I get jaw-clicking angry over the littlest things, like my students showing up to class 15 minutes earlier or the train being 2 minutes late. I also hit my hit against the open cabinet door the other day and thought about punching my neighbor. No connection between the two...

This show is the tits. Telling kids to man up. Telling kids that their teachers are bullshit with bullshit ideas. Male role models that aren't limp-wristed intellectuals.

Dubrovnik (also known as Ragusa) from the parapet of the fort. You can see the switchbacks that you would have to climb. City is super interesting, but filled with dumb-fuck tourists (like myself) who go there to take photos of where they filmed Game of Thrones. Saw a lot of dwarves, though...

That tank made me think of something that I saw in Dubrovnik, Croatia last summer. Right by the harbor there was this big steel leviathan. Apparently it was an armored car used during the Croatian-Serbian War. I would highly recommend anyone who is an amateur military historian to visit Croatia...

Some war heroes. Very cool statue I found in the Les Invalides. I believe this tank was from World War One, possibly interwar era. Only tank I saw in the Les Invalides. They also had reproduction breastplates from the Napoleonic Wars in the gift shop. Couple hundred euro. I wanted to buy one...

^ Technically also the Arc de Triomph, but this one depicts Napoleon's victories of 1806. It sits right in front of the Louvre, which has to be the worse place in Paris. So many people. Keep one hand on your wallet. Eiffel Tower from the far bank of the Seine. Don't get any closer than this...

Man, Paris really is a cool city if you know what to look for. Since you fuckers are posting a bunch of bullshit you get to see my vacation pics now. ^ Arc de Triomph ^ Napoleon's Tomb. Several caskets encased within each other. Picture doesn't do it justice but it is absolutely huge...

Alright I think I get the appeal now. In my Tuscany game, my king was a gay dude who sent assassins after people that pissed him off. He killed his brother and his three nephews in order to secure a duchy and increase his income. He has a wife and like four children but spends all his time...

Yeah I was plastered last night and got angry at the game. But anyway, I've been doing a lot of genetic match ups and now my Duke of Tuscany is both herculean and intelligent. I'm trying to get some sons who are both herculean and genius. It has made the game a lot more fun for me, and...

Yeah, there is obviously something very wrong with this game. I realize now it is more of an RPG than a kingdom builder. And that's fine. I can play a RPG. But I am playing as Tuscany right now, and my character just decided they needed to start a liberation war against the Holy Roman Emperor...

This game is pure RNG. No skill involved. Don't try to convince me otherwise. I had an intelligent and robust king (I played with genetics like some Nazi doctor) with high military ability, and he got cucked by one of his lords that someone managed to raise an army larger than mine, despite...

Alright, I'm starting to pick up what you guys are saying. I chose to play as a duchy of France in the 867 start. And it is truly more satisfying than being the king of the whole country. I can just sit in my duchy and improve my lands and if I want, I can join a war and get some military...

Am I missing something? Is this the fun part of the game? Because what seems to happen is I build up the farms and the barracks and make sure everyone in my government is okay with me, and then I attack a neighboring county to conquer it and shit just goes haywire. My prince started murdering...

Yeah that is almost exactly what happened. Thanks for the heads up. I went and played as Bohemia, and found it so much easier. Starting to think Ireland is actually just a trailer park. No infrastructure. No central authority.

You act like everyone knows that. Anyway, my king died and instead of letting me play as his son... the prince... I became some random family member. And then the son stripped me of my titles. I really don't get how that happened. Aren't I playing as a lineage? Why did I suddenly become a...

So I figured out how duchies work. If you are a duke and you conquer another duchy, and then you die your son will get the primary duchy. But your younger son (if you have one) will get the second duchy. Unless you have no second son. You can disinherit the bastards, but then they will hate...

I'm not sure I understand how succession works. I was playing as Ireland and conquered 70% of the island, and then my king died. Instead of inheriting all his claims, my heir got one. Is that normal? Why didn't he become king like his father was? I feel like I just did 2 hours of work for...

Well that's the writing on the wall, isn't it? Owen Benjamin is a loon but he's harmless. Mikhaila Peterson? Didn't she become successful by talking about dieting? Either Spotify has a problem with the carnivore diet, or they want after her because of her dad. But they didn't remove the...

When I was in highschool I wanted to join the army. That didn't happen. I got pressured into going to college and was told it would be a better path. So I went to college and didn't know what I wanted, but I had always enjoyed history class. So I studied history (and minored in German). Holy...

I'll wait to see how the SP reviews are. Don't play much MP nowadays. But I love 80s music and I hate communists, so this looks nice.

Notes from Underground and The Double by Fyodor Dostoevsky ** spoiler alert ** Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 'Notes from Underground' should be taught in highschool classes, because the soul of this text is more important than ever. In the Narrator, we see the same foundation-less sickness spreading...

I'm not doing spoiler seeing as the book came out when my granddad was in grammar school. You've all had enough time. Anyway when I read the book it was my understanding that the party members had clerical jobs. Winston is, after all, engaged in government-mandated censorship of public...

Does that website have enough advertisements? Just wondering if there could be anymore advertisements.

Thanks for the info. I'm on board.

Who does he seem to echo? I've thought about getting this book and if this guy is throwing around some Jungian philosophy it would seal the deal for me.

Fuckin' political derails.

I really liked this for a couple of different reasons... One of which was the fact it was shorter than the average flick. They didn't pad it with a bunch of bullshit in order to get to the 2 hour mark. Another factor was that there wasn't anything we didn't need. No subplots (pun not...

Food of the Gods by Terrence McKenna. While I found the first half of this book entertaining, it is a disappointment at the end of the day. McKenna has woven together two halves of two different stories to create a Frankenstein narrative. In the first half of the book he claims there used to...

What a bunch of noise