A general chit-chat thread. Post whatever you want, share whatever you want.
220 posts and 97 image replies omitted.>>788530fucking stephen always mouthing off but then stephen goes on to be a lolcow streamer who makes 40 grand a month while you slave away at taco bell. it's an injustice but it do be like that.
>>788530Then once again, what I said in
>>788432I used to read a lot of comment threads where there were smug and jaded teens and adults arguing their point of view with excessive wording and condemning others, especially younger people for not sharing the same intellectual inclinations as them
>>788497This is why general education should have technical skills as part of the curriculum
I'm test playing the latest version of my Civ 4 mod.
I'm playing as the EU and decided to aid Ukraine against China, Russia, Iran, and a few other less relevant Civs. The actual diplomatic situation surrounding the war is complex, but the primary actors are NATO plus its East Asian allies versus Russia, Iran, and China. I was able to get the bloc representing Southeast Asia to declare war against Iran, but not China. Turkey is also at war with Iran, but not Russia.
All of Eastern Europe plus most of Eastern Germany was quickly leveled by Russian nukes. Brussels also got hit but it wasn't too bad. I assume Russia and China tried to nuke more targets but their ICBMs were mostly intercepted. China did hit Los Angeles though. They did shoot off all of their tactical nukes at the Pacific Rim Bloc (Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan) though. Basically ensuring South Korea and Japan were leveled to the point of irrelevancy. The entire bloc is essentially just Taiwan now. There wasn't even a land invasion following it. The US retaliated against China and nuked a few of its cities but it had minimal effect, I assume their ICBMs were intercepted too.
There hasn't been any significant military action outside of Eastern Europe, where I've pretty much rendered Russia irrelevant. I'm a bit surprised North Korea hasn't entered the war to at least annex South Korea.
Oh, Israel decided to chimp out and nuke Syria in anticipation of invading much of the region.
Since the map is massive, I'm only like 4 turns in so I'll be interested in seeing what other shit happens. Also, I think post-war will be interesting. Playing this save emphasizes how much I need to flesh out the city development process, and the civilization stability system. If I actually set it up, it would be interesting trying to politically stabilize post nuclear holocaust Europe. Also, trying to either integrate the portions of Russia I occupy or divvy it up, or whatever.