Skua

That fact that this is coming from a lemmynsfw.com account is beautiful

The feature itself is fine, the fact that it’s literally in between you and turning regular shuffle on and off is incredibly irritating

True, but the octopus does not actually have any hands. As such, the octopus has no guns, and is one short of the minimum necessary to shoot the cat

After all, how else am I to appreciate the tits that I now have?

The first Japanese embassy to America even landed in San Francisco in 1860

It may well be that you loving spicy food is protecting you. I imagine the exit hole can develop a tolerance in just the same way that the entrance hole can

Vet bills can get nasty in Europe too. They’re not covered by universal healthcare policies, unsurprisingly. But also, like… don’t be a dickhead about someone’s pet getting hurt? They already know it’s costing them a lot of money

We can indeed print steel with direct metal laser sintering. I think that the object needs heat treatment afterwards, though to be fair it is almost ten years since I properly read up on it and things have probably advanced since then

You see it - an ambush. Four with crossbows, watching from the shadows in upper story windows. One leaning against the wall forty feet ahead with his finger twitching nervously over his knife. Three at a table, barely visible through swinging saloon doors, but each with a hatchet in hand listening for the sound of fighting. You feel every grazing shift of the wind, hear the distant crake of carrion crows unaware of the feast that is about to be laid out.

You see beyond the walls of the buildings, even. No, beyond… something else. Another kind of wall. One distant, but ever-present. Five titanic figures, shrouded in the haze of vast distances, looking over you. They speak, but you cannot know their tongue. One commands the others, a theatrical gesture wrought across the entire sky, and the other four hurl stones of mountainous proportion. What calamity have you witnessed?

And in an instant, they vanish from your sight. One of the crossbowmen shot your leg.

“It’s like It is relying on unpaid labor when the company has nearly a billion dollars in revenue,”

Any hobby would fit honestly. Musicians call it Gear Acquisition Syndrome

It’s good! It depends on what you liked about 2 though, since they did shift a lot of the points of focus for 3. I personally like that they leaned into the roleplaying aspect of it. Managing a large realm is now a much more active task than it was in 2. It’s a shame that stuff like nomads and merchant republics aren’t playable yet, but I do think that the feudal gameplay is substantially better.

I’ve been playing Paradox games, so I’m probably going straight to the Hague and deserving it

I have a homebrew that I need to revisit and fix the formatting of for mixed heritage PCs, and the system I came up with meant that I had to give every race four traits. Some of these would be minor, like darkvision, but there had to be four. I went with a once-per-day refuse-to-die ability and a proficiency-per-day advantage on a roll of your choice, so that the one thing humans do best is push through the tough situations

Alright my plans for the evening got cancelled so I decided to have a go at working this out. Methodology, a term I am using somewhat loosely, was to go down wikipedia’s list of largest empires, ignore each one that was already completely covered (the four big caliphates and several Chinese dynasties in particular), then take their peak territory from Geacron. Geacron isn’t an ideal source here, not least because the only way to “export” from it without paying money is print screen, but it’s good enough for these purposes. I also didn’t bother filling in the entire map because a couple of places were basically just going to come down to whichever country had them today due to how difficult to conquer they have historically been. Priority in overlaps is given to the larger empire. The result is this: https://i.imgur.com/kLNjpSm.png

On here we have:

• Britain in 1920 (including dominions)
• Mongolia in 1259
• The USSR in 1945
• Russia in 1895… basically only because of Finland and Latvia
• Qing dynasty in 1790
• Spain in 1810
• France in 1920
• The Abbasid caliphate in 750
• The USA in 2022. We could have used 1946 to get part of Germany, but we needed Germany in here anyway since the British and Soviet areas aren’t included due to different territorial peaks.
• Brazil in 1889
• Japan in 1942
• Rome in 117
• Portugal in 1894 (mainland Portugal is already covered by Rome, though)
• Italy in 1941 (mainland Italy is, of course, also Rome)
• Belgium in 1939 (Rome has the core again)
• Netherlands in 1938
• Denmark in 1917
• Germany in 1941

This list leaves Western Sahara, Liberia, Sweden, Slovakia, Nepal, Bhutan, Papua New Guinea, and Antarctica for a total of 25 countries (or maybe 27 if you add Norway and Chile for maximum Antarctic coverage. I suppose you could also argue that the Treaty of Torsedillas granted half of Antarctica each to Spain and Portugal, not that either ever actually controlled it). Possibly also some islands, especially in the Pacific, but the map isn’t in a high enough resolution to tell. The most contested areas are the Levant and Central Asia. Some big empires that aren’t on the list include every Persian empire, the Ottomans, and Alexander’s empire.

Please, nobody look at my combined hours played on those games

I feel like overlaps should be allowed otherwise certain regions (Iraq and its surroundings come to mind) will make it impossible

I kinda want to see what the fewest countries you could cover the whole world with is if you took everything at its historical peak territory. So like post-WW1 British empire, Mongol empire just before Chinggis died, Umayyad caliphate when it stretched from Iran to Spain, Roman Empire under Trajan etc etc. How many do we need to fill in the whole map? And what’s the smallest country that we need in order to do so?

There’s someone in these comments claiming that they have orange juice with their coffee, so I’m willing to tolerate uphillbothways’ bullshit at least until that war criminal is dealt with

The pseudo-espresso that you can take camping? Anarcho-primitivism for sure