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For anyone interested in the Sykes-Picot deal and the competition between France and Britain in the Middle East during and between the two world wars, I recommend A Line in the Sand by James Barr. An excellent and detailed telling of events with a lot of political scheming and backstabbing.

Check out the book Measure of the Earth, about the European expedition to the Andes to precisely locate the equator. You can still find the surveyor's monuments from this project in out-of-the-way places in Ecuador today!

Wrong. Completely wrong.

https://www.amazon.com/Fascism-Integralism-Corporative-Society-Fascismo/dp/1493123335

The allies difuminated the info for it to not get to the public. It was a well-defined ideology by the 30s.

Wrong (absolutely wrong)

https://www.amazon.com/Fascism-Integralism-Corporative-Society-Fascismo/dp/1493123335

Fascist wanted to vertebrate and integrate every aspect of society into a new form of state, organized by fascios, guild-like corporations, municipal corporations...

Essentially, abolishing the classic "parliamentary state" with an administrative structure as "bureocratic" skeleton for a given society.

Cheers! Cherry Brown Switch, default keycaps apart from WASD

keeb: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0899YGQ7S?ref_=pe_27063361_487360311_302_E_DDE_dt_1

WASD: https://mechbox.co.uk/products/cmyk-oem-wasd-keycap-set

Hey! Thanks for the advice here. I've never seriously considered building a PC before myself. I was chatting with a friend about this and he offered me this old PC of his. Is this something I could upgrade and get to run Vic3?

I don't think it has a graphics card, but seems to have right amount of RAM? Unsure on processor. Would love your thoughts!

https://www.amazon.com/Beelink-4-1GHz-Desktop-Computer-Support/dp/B0B3NKN4FM/ref=sr_1_14?crid=149IU2GQMGCVB&keywords=beelink&qid=1663722147&sprefix=beelink%2Caps%2C131&sr=8-14&ufe=app_do%3Aamzn1.fos.08f69ac3-fd3d-4b88-bca2-8997e41410bb

I picked this up recently and it runs latest gen Paradox games crazily well. You'll have to turn graphics down, but the processing is buttery smooth with no lag or framedrops

Huh, interesting. After searching exactly by the name, I was able to find a page for it on Amazon DE, but it still doesn’t show up anywhere else. They don’t say anything about DLC, and it’s the same price as the base game, so probably it doesn’t include any pre-order bonuses, but it does have an artbook (which I hope is a physical one)!

You simply aren't understanding what I'm saying. I don't care if a company detracts from their base. I wouldn't care if Paradox went out of business immediately after releasing Victoria 3. What matters to me, the consumer in this equation, is that the product appeals to me. I could be convinced to care a little about what YOU want in the game, but I can't be arsed to care about imaginary people that you hypothesize would care. Again, I don't see any market research in your posts.

> And again you seem to be missing my point. That I am not holding Vicky 1
or vicky2 up as a flag ship perfectionist peice of economic simulation.
They had their faults yes, certainly. What I am doing, is criticizing
failings of victoria 3. You seem to think it's one or the other, but
it's not. The game designers had the oppertunity to build a full fledged
economic sim from the ground up. And elected not to do it.

I don't have any reason to accept the idea that you know what is realistic or not to develop.

>You heard it here first folks, "sliders are fake nuance, 100 discrete positions are certainly not better than 5"

Mechanically, there were 10 meaningfully different positions on 50% of the sliders. This had to do with pop promotion mechanics. On all the rest, it didn't matter. Nobody, you nor anybody else were actually calculating the market effects of 45% taxes vs 46% taxes. Sliders were basically this

https://www.amazon.ca/Kunmark-Activity-Educational-Training-Attention/dp/B07P4M7243/ref=asc\_df\_B07P4M7243/?tag=googleshopc0c-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=337532783213&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=8052587221487010660&hvpone=&hvptw...

The only theory I have as far as the "mobile game" thing is that people just don't like circular or rounded rectangular buttons in PC games. No one says XCOM 2 looks like a mobile game even though it's <em>literally playable as a mobile game with surprisingly minimal UI changes</em>. My guess? Square buttons.

For those that want to dig into John Snow & the London Cholera epidemic, I highly recommend the book The Ghost Map, it's fascinating.

Hidden Agenda is a lot like Suzerain and might be the first game in that genre. I recommend reading the reference manual because it contains a lot of background storyline that would be presented in-game if it weren't 1988.

Frederick the Great, unquestionably a military genius, had the same blind spot for sustainability of his victories. He drained Prussia dry; the only reason he narrowly scraped out a victory in the Seven Years' War was that the Franco-Austro-Russian alliance opposing him had almost zero coordination. Even with that, he almost lost; had Russia not pulled out when it did, he likely would have lost. But in his position, catastrophically outnumbered, its a sign of his genius that he even held out long enough to be able to outlast his enemies.

Lee had many of the same strengths and weaknesses of Frederick the Great. He was a tactical and operational genius, won many victories at impossible odds, but couldn't seem to gain a strategic advantage for all of his tactical victories, and suffered heavy losses he couldn't sustain. The difference was that, where Frederick the Great was fighting a disorganized alliance of three countries that hated each other, Lee was fighting a literally United enemy who was utterly determined to win. A genius simply wasn't enough to win facing the odds the Confederacy did. What the Confederates truly needed to win was actually summed up very well by Jeff Davis himself - “A General in the full acceptation of the word is a rare product, scarcely more than one can be expected in a generation, but in this mighty war in which we are engaged there is need for half a dozen.”

Sources for Chickasaw Bayou and Tunnel Hill:

The book I read on the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou (the only book detailing the battle available for Kindle):

https://www.amazon.com/Chickasaw-Bayou-Campaign-Major-Gildner-ebook/dp/B06XGQ6LHD/

For Tunnel Hill, my sources are Peter Cozzens' classic book on the Chattanooga Campaign:

https://www.amazon.com/Shipwreck-Their-Hopes-Battles-Chattanooga/dp/0252065956

and also Wikipedia to remember some of the details I forgot and was too lazy to flip through the book to find.