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Just curious because you see both the Former Members band and Danny Elfman playing OB songs live.

Curious what other people do during their breaks. I tend to just watch a video or browse social media, but I'm wondering if there's something better to do. I try to avoid anything too mentally stimulating or that takes too much brainpower.

The dial on my macropad has started to not input when it's in a specific portion of its rotation. Hard to explain but if I'm doing a full 360 rotation of it, it stops inputting at like 180 to 200 degrees but continues to input after 200, regardless if I'm rotating it clockwise or counter clockwise. It's only a few months old but I live in a very humid area and have been using it a bunch, could it just be a dust problem? I'd like to avoid opening it unless I'm sure it can be fixed, as it might void the warranty. Has anyone encountered a similar problem?

In every paradox game there's a problem of snowballing to the point where the challenge is basically gone and the campaign isn't fun anymore, it's the most common reason why people quit campaigns, how often do you see someone get to the 1700's in eu4? (There are other factors like lag but this is by far the #1 reason)

The initial obvious solution would be to make managing a large empire much harder, but this comes with the fact it's just really hard to have the player feel more powerful while keeping the difficulty consistent, or just high enough that it's not too easy. Right now for example in ck3, having to worry about peasant revolts or more kingdom vassals should be harder, but when you make so much more gold and have stronger MaAs and more general opinion bonuses from stuff like prestige or dynasty bonuses, it becomes much easier to manage vassals and peasant revolts in the late game than early game. Mechanics like gifts and activity costs scale, but even then you can just make so much money they're meaningless.

Another problem would be that if it's too hard and an empire collapse is basically inevitable, it would make the game much less fun. It just isn't nice to see all your hard work done away with. Rebellions are universally annoying to deal with and just feel like the game interrupting you. Constant civil wars also just aren't fun, these are at least true for how Paradox implements them. If someone knows that by X date their empire is going to collapse, it would just lead to the same problem of people quitting campaigns long before the end date.

I think Total War Attila is something worth looking at. Playing as the WRE is basically a sinking ship. The game starts less than 100 years before the western half of Rome falls to barbarians, if you want a fighting chance you're basically forced to give up territories, you start with provinces like Britannia and Gaul but should give these up so you can focus your military and economy on Italia or North Africa. The WRE campaign is also the fan favorite campaign. It's the complete opposite of what you see in Paradox games, but people love it. I think it comes back to the fact that people don't like seeing their hard work destroyed, you start at your peak so losing land hits a lot less than if you, say, started much smaller and saw all the land you yourself conquered be lost.

Like idk man after spending 8 hours trying to get a book with no luck I'm really wondering what exactly you're saving by not whipping out the card, because it sure as hell isn't time or money.

I get that they work in a rock-paper-scissors model and some cultures are optimal or only have access to certain ones, and the animal icons are cool and all. But why would I pay attention to them? By the time I know what tactic an enemy stack is using it's already too late because I'm in battle. Plus, trying to predict what tactic the enemy is using based on previous battles doesn't seem reliable at all.

As a beginner artist, I see a lot of focus on human heads and faces. If my focus is just furries, is it really necessary to practice human heads and study them? I know that even if you want to draw with a really cartoony style it's necessary to practice drawing real people. But is this true for anthropomorphic animal faces and real life human faces?

My main concern was HR accuracy but comparing the two they seem roughly the same. Polar loop is 2x the price of the air though, and being able to put the loop on your bicep seems like a really nice feature, though the air is still a really new product so it should be only a matter of time before we get a bicep band. Unless there's something I'm missing the air just seems much more worth it to get, they basically have all the same features.

20k for bronze, 75k for silver, 225k for gold. For the price of gold you can roll 11 bronze UVs and nearly 4x the amount of rolls. Having multiple variants on the same weapon is nice, but I'd rather have only CTR high than CTR low + ASI low on a weapon. Not to mention trinkets can basically give you a universal UV at least for each weapon type.

I think the only thing it might be useful for is armor or shields. Imo I'd rather have a more well-rounded armor set than try and roll something like shadow defense max, as it doesn't even give that much defense anyway. I'll take shock + freeze resist low vs shock resist high.

What's the general timeline and evolution of what the emperor was called? The most common title you hear for the Byzantine emperor is Basileus, which is Greek for king, but wasn't the title of "king" viewed negatively since the Republic and more akin to the modern word for "tyrant"? How did it go from an insult to an official title? Were titles like Imperator, Caesar, and Augustus just phased out?