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You're welcome @Sanrith Descartes. And this is obviously nothing like 2008, never said that it was. MBS are losing some value cause their interest is so low, so banks don't quite want to pay face value. That's nothing like the shitstorm that happened in 2008.

It seems they were dumping lots of money into MBS, basically betting on interest rates being low forever. With interest rates going up, smart people with huge piles of cash in the bank noticed this imbalance and started a bank run to safer places, forcing SVIB to fire sale those MBS below what...

That's a lot of meth.

I found it to be completely unnecessary. Claims are easy enough to get and your conversion speed is already high, so extra missionaries go to waste. Defender and divine is plenty.

Ottomans finally share a border with me in my chill work Kilwa game. Been expanding and investing heavily into force limit buildings to try and make it so I can balloon my army with mercs and fight on par with them long enough to get out of any war without a big loss. They haven't fabricated any...

Reading the FDIC memo, it sounds like they intervened before it became a total disaster ala lehman bros. With Credit suisse seemingly circling the drain, I wonder what other monsters are hiding in the banking sector.

I fucking destroyed 7-11 curry buns last time in japan.

The russian special action of the great push east. They colonize a lot of shitty provinces super fast, which then lets you conquer them them later. It'll take you 10X as long to colonize them, on top of having to take colonizing ideas to even do it. The big thing about Russia is they have...

Tis but a flesh wound.

Does the FDIC actually have any money saved up to pay out people who lose everything, or has that all been looted like everything else involving government? Never looked into it tbh.

Aggressive expansion is a huge part of playing in the HRE. It's very rare that you want to take more than 2-3 territories at a time there. Countries with a truce wont join a coalition, and countries with over 100 opinion of you will leave a coalition. Always check the AE flag in a peace deal...

Hidden Valley Ranch ice cream is coming to a Walmart near you Time for some super tasting.

Some meat handling places use dyes to mark things. Every now and then you get something like a steak where they messed up and spilled some and a spot is bright purple or something when I worked in a grocery store ages ago. Chicken won’t turn green naturally.

I have an extremely strict rule of never doing any financial transactions over my phone other than paying with my credit card. It’s too easy to do things like spoof a SIM card. Only reason a CC is fine is cause I can make the bank eat the loss if something goes wrong. So I never look at my bank...

Never bought. I don’t buy many individual stocks at all, and certainly not stocks which have a high likelihood of being a scam.

Days like today just put a warm feeling in my heart. I pull up my list of stocks and can’t help but smile when I get to COIN wondering if we’re at 475 yet. Not today!

Always Ironman, but I don’t care about doing achievements actually, I just always play every paradox game in Ironman cause fucking up and losing is how you get better. Especially so in EU4, because you can recover from virtually any fuckup, which isn’t so true in some of their other games.

We need a boomer reaction too.

When you have a powerful ally, sometimes you have to just storm in and start sieging everything asap without any other care in the world, since the first man on tile will get control of the province, even if your 1k army storms in to start sieging the capital and get helped by Austria's 40k...

WC is about riding -3 stability while truce breaking everyone once you hit the too powerful to stop phase. It takes a lot longer to hit that point in the HRE than in some ass end of the planet because of coalitions, which is yet another reason why people tend to recommend Oirat or other eastern...

It’s likely because you had Austria as an ally. Bohemia and Austria tend to hate each other, so it’s a good idea to ally one or the other. I loaded a game up, and Austria is rivaled by burgundy. So If I were going to play this game id get relations up with Austria for the quest. But then I’d...

Novgorod is super weak and can be conquered relatively easily. I think I made a mistake in my game taking the neva and Novgorod provinces early and preventing Russia from spawning. So let russia spawn or plan on working some colonial in if you don’t want map blight. Burgundy is always a strong...

Go the chaotic good route. Tell them that your immune system is perfectly fine, and you don't like the suggestion they have that you are in some way immunologically disabled, and that the ADA protects people who are perceived as disabled by employers, regardless of if they have a disability or...

And if you want to see embarrassing.... Took this picture of a god tier move. Been stacking favors for just this moment. Put my heir on the throne of this S-Tier France. YES PLEASE.I'll PU you and ride you until you submit. Took the screeny for this thread and then got super distracted IRL for a...

I have my work game and my at home game. I play both separate from each other. Been doing a lot of HOI4 between the two.

Figured out my first major mistake. Didn't take calais in the second war with england. The result was that when sweden declared independence from denmark, my armies were all penned in on the islands. I guess I could have asked for mil access, but didn't realize my mistake until the war was...

For mil, Divine is an absolute must. Quantity is always good, and you are a horde after all, so why not MORE. Other than that, I tend to go for offensive just for the +siege. Admin, humanist are great, Religious is probably a must too just for RP reasons. For dip ideas, whatever floats your...

If a country is in a war, it's usually a good time to attack even if they're stronger than you. Sometimes I'll attack a much stronger neighbor with the idea of just grabbing what war score I can really quickly and peacing out when things get dicey. England is completely collapsing in my game...

Lmao, England was immediately called to arms and accepted. I could be cheeky and siege london, but my war exhaustion is killing me and my manpower sucks too. England aint going anywhere anyways. This gets me 500 ducats, more than enough to switch to some mercs and to rebuild my fleet, which all...

Was hoping to subjugate most of Ireland before France pulled me into the maine war. I fell pretty short. Things went a lot better than expected, though. I kicked britain off my fort in their first attempt to siege, and they left me alone to siege down Northumberland. Raced to siege down as many...

I was lucky in my Teuton game, with poland and lithuania deciding to hate each other instead of getting the easy PU, but I was prepared for a total all or nothing war with poland. I would have taken out all the loans, debased the currency, run massive debts and gone way over force limit with...

I thought it was just spain at first when I saw the color, I fucking lost it when I zoomed in and hovered over the province. Made me want to make my next more serious at home game as scotland.

My chill work game as Kilwa, I'm starting my conquest of Indonesia after successfully securing all of the southern part of Africa. Now I see my first European colonizer appear way later than I would have expected it in the mid 1500s... Que??? Colonial Scotland? What happened Europe? Finally...

NGL their factory looks pretty embaressing compared to the Tesla factories. It's like they didn't have much of a plan on how it'd work when they started building or something.

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Bull market, bear market. Those were terms from the previous age. I'm a firm believer that we're now in the time of the cancer market. Growth may not work out as expected.

Don't watch videos because I like figuring these things out myself and will play through multiple times to do so. Gotta admit I saw those mines many times and was like NO THANKS.

Handyman saitou is some funny shit. It's all over the place and you'll probably scratch your head going wtf for the first couple episodes, but it really pulls things together, while somehow managing to stay all over the place at the same time.

It’s so cringe it can be entertaining. It’s definitely an unusual show. I’m not sure it’s intended to be a satire, but the main characters obsession with not being a main character certainly makes it come off like one at times.

Once you get to the mid 1700s, and fully exploit coal, money will flow in insanely fast in any large country. Coal furnaces are stupidly strong.