Gormongous
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Spoilered for relationship shit.
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Wow, this is awesome. I'm glad that my dissertation-fueled frustration gave you inspiration for a cool project, even an unsuccessful one. You're probably right that the Europäische Stammtafeln are probably a better basis for the hypothetical program, but they really only have standardization and completeness going for them, because they're almost as error-ridden and out-of-date as Wikipedia, not to mention not digitized (which is really baffling, considering how great Germany has been about digitizing almost all of its historical records). If it makes you feel any better, Burgundy is about as bad as European nobility gets. It's a region that didn't experience stable political authority from the ninth century through the fifteenth, so the primary documentation is terrible, and that isn't part of any distinct ethnic group or nationality today, so the secondary documentation is terrible. You're not going to get worse than Burgundy when it comes to "I guess he had some kids, here are the ones we know" and "He got married to a woman who died sometime later, I don't know."
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Nah, you put on the Mad Max-style one-sleeved leather jacket, and Dogmeat "recognizes" you. It's totally an intentional reference to that movie.
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True Detective Weekly - Welcome!
Gormongous replied to Jake's topic in True Detective Weekly Episodes
Wow, this is cool. Is there going to be much discussion of the first season as well, at least in terms of the themes of the broader show, or is it more focused on reactions to and discussion about the new episodes as they air? I suppose I could just listen to the episode to find out... -
I agree with all of these things. For me, the hardest part of a breakup is the whiplash when someone goes from being one of the most important parts of your life to being just another person whom you know. Sucks, it sounds like you're doing a good job of making space to talk or feel what you need about the girl and the breakup, so keep that up. Everything else levels out eventually. We're all here for you, of course.
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Ouran Boast Club - Planning an Anime Podcast
Gormongous replied to Gormongous's topic in Movies & Television
I know what I'm going to talk about! It's called Ergo Proxy. Yeah, a major goal for me is to keep participation in our open/rotating panel format so that we don't go too far down any rabbit hole of specialist knowledge. For all of that, I know I was really bad about just dropping shows and their pedigrees in Episode 00 (Don't Feed the Dragon), but the next episode was better, so everyone should feel welcome to put their two cents into the Doodle. -
The thing with that, just like it is with people who wish intensely for anarchic or post-apocalyptic scenarios, is that a lot of the proponents of such extreme "free speech" are self-centered and unaware enough to think that i) the group will never disagree with or turn against them, and even if they did, then ii) they would have the loudest voices and would be able to fight back against such ostracism. Generally speaking, by which I mean apart from the untold numbers of people who are harassed and abused under the auspices of such systems, it's a self-correcting scenario over the long term, because eventually they will disagree with the wrong person, find out how it is to be on the outside, and drift away from the community. That said, I prefer being proactive with moderation infinitely more, because such a huge, distributed, and amoral system of "moderation" as peer ratings is capable of incredible and inadvertent wrongdoing.
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The Other Paradox Games (Europa Universalis, Victoria, Hearts of Iron)
Gormongous replied to Gormongous's topic in Strategy Game Discussion
Well, the AI certainly doesn't give a shit about imperial integrity. My last game, I actually saw Austria give away parts of Bohemia to its ally Poland during a war. I feel like that should get you fired as emperor... so I can take their place. -
That's great news and a long time coming, Miffy!
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Looks like it's slated for a full-cour of twenty-four episodes.
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For most cases, yes, but for others, the section invariably near the bottom titled "issue" or "children" would probably be necessary to include. Nah, I appreciate some help with the thought experiment. "Digital humanities" is a big buzzword right now in my field, but for some reason, it never involves using bad tools like Wikipedia to make better tools for research.
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Yeah, I thought it would be fairly straightforward. The main issue is to keep them from being linked by a two- or three-click jump through "crusades" or "Middle Ages" or a noble title, which I know so little about programming as to be useless to solve.
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Nah, it accumulates naturally from robots being defeated in-game. The reason that it's not accruing when you actually defeat one is because the servers are getting wrecked and everything's lagging on the scale of minutes. It's what Twig said, you think that after years of doing Steam sales, Valve would have their servers ready to be hit for once...
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Wow, it's not as terrible as I thought. Thanks!
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My life as a historian would be infinitely easier if Wikipedia had a basic "cousin calculator" that used the common format of pages on the medieval nobility and the number of "clicks" between two people to tell me the degree of their kinship. As it stands, every time I mention a wedding or a birth in my dissertation, I have to make a pathetic hand-drawn chart in MS Paint to double-check that Beatrice of Burgundy was first cousin, once removed, to William the Old, marquis of Montferrat.
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Episode 309: Hearts of Iron IV Preview
Gormongous replied to Rob Zacny's topic in Three Moves Ahead Episodes
It's also really odd, in terms of theme, because the Allies desperately wanted to hold off the war in reality and there is absolutely no mechanical advantage to doing so in the game. We all know, in the terms that Hearts of Iron is dealing, that letting Germany act unchecked is an absolute ill, but it doesn't seem like Paradox has been very successful at all with simulating or systematizing the Allied powers' reasons for not checking German expansion immediately. -
It's more just that, when you're in the game doing some clicking, it's laggy and glitchy and seems to get you killed faster than if you let it idle, and after a certain point it just stalls out and the game won't progress until you exit and rejoin.
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I appreciate Valve trying to do something different with this Steam sale, but man if that "game" isn't shit.
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Ouran Boast Club - Planning an Anime Podcast
Gormongous replied to Gormongous's topic in Movies & Television
Alright! For a variety of reasons, we've postponed the recording of episode two to next weekend. Here's the signup link for times, if you're interest: http://doodle.com/aw4f85pvcgdu2rqc As has been alluded earlier in this thread, we'll be watching Time of Eve, a movie about robots and humanity. It was available on Crunchyroll for free, but now it's not, except for the first "act," which you should watch if you're interested: http://www.crunchyroll.com/time-of-eve -
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that the systemic problems with misogyny, homophobia, and transphobia are due to a lack of intelligence. I was just trying to have fun with the clear idiocy of that one specific post, where the dude rolls out utterly banal arguments to justify his own boner-feelings about women. Education is probably the long-term solution, not because it raises intelligence but because it raises awareness, and it's only by the unceasing efforts of people like you to educate by raising awareness that the arc of history bends towards justice at all.
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Episode 309: Hearts of Iron IV Preview
Gormongous replied to Rob Zacny's topic in Three Moves Ahead Episodes
Listening to the podcast, I feel like the current state of Hearts of Iron 4 is the multiplayer-first design philosophy of Europa Universalis 4 put into a historical setting where just it does not work as well. There's the drastic reduction of internal politics in the name of keeping players focused on the international scale of gameplay and not preventing them mechanically from partaking at will, even though it means that sometimes they have nothing to do if nothing relevant's happening on the international scale. There's also the interest in railroading huge confrontations, but without the interest in making them balanced, assuming that the player will do that heavy lifting. I agree with the podcast that the great powers need a lot of event chains to be scripted to push them in the direction that they appear to be headed, even if that direction's against history, and that the neutral nations need to be held back by paucity of military might, not tech disadvantages and lack of unique national focuses. I'm also just a little bit sad that the hilarious parts of previous Hearts of Iron games is mostly missing, where the player is desperate to predict and prevent World War II but held back by their nation's politics, which are run by people who have no idea what a threat Hitler is going to be. -
Ouran Boast Club - Planning an Anime Podcast
Gormongous replied to Gormongous's topic in Movies & Television
Turn A Gundam is finally getting a Region 1 release from RightStuf, the first big thing from their exclusive partnership with Sunrise, but I remember that you're maybe in a different region of the world? Anyway, it's one that I've always been curious about, especially because one of my favorite anime bloggers talks so fondly about it. -
Ouran Boast Club - Planning an Anime Podcast
Gormongous replied to Gormongous's topic in Movies & Television
I would love to do an episode spotlighting Macross: Do You Remember Love? I'm also one of those people who only knows mecha through its deconstructions, but I've been repeatedly tempted by Macross and by Turn A Gundam, for some reason. -
I mean, that's often the case with the books that teenagers are made to read in school. The Great Gatsby is the best example, because it's a short read yet terrible to give to teenagers who have never experienced loss or compromise. It's a book to read when you're about to turn thirty, not when you're sixteen and wondering why Gatsby won't just fuck someone cheaper.