We're playing the turboneurodivergent Dawn of Civilization mod for Civilization IV that replicates world history. !g*mers

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With the research of Logistics technologically the Roman Empire has reached the Renaissance age. It's 1015AD so we're quite advanced, almost a full age ahead of medieval Europe

Persia isn't even matching us anymore but China has researched one technology we haven't (Printing Press).

We already have a spy settling east to take care of that

We're already discovering Brazil, interacting with the natives and fighting panthers

We prove that the world is round when we discover Japan

In Rhyes and Fall if you found a city in the Renaissance you get a bunch of free buildings. In Dawn of Civilization it's the same, but settlers in a new age can also be used to rush buildings that would have been provided otherwise. Here we can build a bunch of stuff for free with "Rebuild", including a library and a forge. We'll need these because Poland just spawned, hello Poland

Athens has historically been our Great People city since it's conquest, though Rome is catching up. We've had a Great Prophet born here, Eusebius.

We're sending him to Jerusalem to found the Temple of Solomon.

This will let us then build the Dome of the Rock, which will boost the output of St. Peter's Bascilica in Rome.

When we discover Economics we get a free Great Merchant (Marcus Crassus), and with Economics we can have him build a Stock Exchange in Rome

After the Dome of the Rock is built, St. Peter's Bascilica is maxed out at 40 gold per turn.

Rome turns a 150+ gold profit per turn

England is coming for Ireland.

We go straight for London, after capturing it they become the "English Government in Exile" but still refuse negotiations.

Really wish the AI was prone to settling just one more city in England It's kind of annoying that London controls its entire English core.

When a European or Christian civ researches Academia, the Protestant Reformation begins and Europe erupts in war. Since we're already fighting England, now is a good time to do it. Protestantism is founded in Rhegium.

We can adopt Protestantism, allow Protestantism to spread, or stamp it out. After all the work I've put into Catholicism you should know what I'm gonna pick.

England joins the Reformation, as expected. Portugal and the Norse join them. France probably would have if they weren't under my boot. Austria (the Holy Roman Empire) and Poland do not, fortunately.

The Italian Maritime Republics are supposed to spawn in 1167AD. In a normal medieval game they spawn in north Italy and found Florence, taking Milan and Padua with them. I was afraid my two core cities were going to secede and I would need to reconquer them, but the 1167AD date has passed so apparently not. I can focus on the Reformation wars.

The Austrians have claimed Denmark, blocking Norse access from Birka. The Norse have a port from Nidaros but I'm not too worried about them, we might need to be ready for a little naval harassment. They're at war with England, so there's not a risk of them reinforcing them.

With espionage I can see the Portugese army in Lisbon. It's big (see unit icons at the bottom)

In fact, they're one of the stronger military powers right now. Ethiopia is also up there too, interedasting

If I don't take care of them they could frick up my vassal Spain, so while waiting my main army to arrive I reinforce their cities with troops from Tarragona and Alicante.

A couple good wonders are becoming available, to get them up I think it's time to expend my Great People for a Golden Age.

The Ottomans should be coming too so I want to need to start getting gunpowder units up everywhere to properly fight these guys:

England collapses If they had just been willing to surrender I would have returned London to them. I maybe should have taken their city in Scotland instead, but I really wanted them to capitulate.

This is going to screw up world history a little There will be no British Raj. The United States spawns assuming there are European colonies there, there will still probably be some but not in the same way. We might get a Dutch New Amsterdam instead of New York.

We already have an explorer in America. Maybe we could even colonize it

At least Alfred did well with his time running London. He's given it a Great General and a Great Engineer. It's still in our historic expansion zone so I think we'll keep it. Ireland is not, so I might set it free.

By the time my army arrives at Lisbon, Portugal is willing to surrender, but as it's the "Rise of the Portugese" they can't capitulate. I figure I will allow peace so I can properly focus on the coming Ottomans.

But suddenly, something extremely strange happens.

Byzantine leader Basil I appears out of nowhere

Apparently Persia collapsed. Right after I lost 500 gold investing espionage against them

And Turkey has become the Byzantine "Empire of Dorylaion". I had no idea this was a thing.

This is the city that the Persians burnt down when I first conquered Greece, rebuilt, and I helped defend from the Arabs. It's been a valuable espionage center for centuries. What a journey it's been

A few turns later we become the "Western Roman Empire", but no cities want to secede. It's not the Eastern Roman Empire, it's just this weird made up new "Dorylaion empire". Fascinating Regrettably they do choose to become Pr*test*nt

My spy sees that Genghis Khan has arrived and the Chinese are fukt

After China collapses they start mopping up the remnants of Persia too

...and harassing my new Byzantinebros

Notice that Mazaka is in revolt, when mongols are the gates the citizens panic

We're still stable but have outdated civics - apparently the culprit is Merchant Trade.

Time for a revolution.

Regulated Trade has stability and general gameplay synergy with Bureaucracy. I'll miss my Despotism whip but Monarchy will further boost our stability.

Thalassocracy's benefits are negligible especially as more towns are popping up (Roma is working 3 towns and 2 fishing boats for example so we'll lose 1 commerce), and it no longer has a stability benefit with Merchant Trade. There's not much point to colonize too much but Colonialism will be fun anyway. We'll get some slaves and slave plantations up

So many High upkeep civics and losing the free units from Vassalage is gonna hurt. But it's a very stable combo and Roma is so profitable that focusing all commerce to the capital might outperform the costs.

Sure enough, once the revolution is settled it turns out to be profitable. With Rome pumping out 275 gold per turn we're making 5 gold a turn at 50% research funding instead of losing 6.

Around 1280AD the short lived Empire of Dorylaion collapses.

No Ottoman Empire ever appearaed I'm guessing the weird Turkish Byzantine Empire in their place prevented it.

I guess we can go ahead and mop up Turkey now.

We finally have unified borders and we're back to being the "Roman Empire" instead of the "Western Roman Empire".

The mongols right on my nuts are a little worrying tho. When Temujin asks me to fight Kievan Rus I have no problem doing so, any little thing to potentially keep this guy off my back.

I take Tarnopol and call it a day before setting it free. Later the mongols take Kyiv and Sweden France scoops up Tarnopol

Since Spain and France are our provinces we technically have Trajan's borders now!

Oh except Poortugal. Whatevs. What a beautiful empire regardless

I was really expecting a big civil war and conflict with the Ottomans, it really does appear that the weird Byzantine state blocked them from spawning. This is very good for us. But if the mongols invade, as they're prone to do, it could be trouble.

For now, time to look towards the new world

I accidentally discovered the Inca, spreading disease to them

Mexico is controlled by Toltecs, predecessors of the Aztec. No conquistadors for either It might only be available to colonial European powers.

I've given my vassal France and Spanish technology to colonize, so they should get started soon

Since I accidentally killed England, I can take care of colonizing America instead

I think I'm going to colonize the Deep South so we can set up some tobacco plantations

And I've got a crew headed to Africa for some labor

Australia will be next and should be uncontested

Till next time Civ4bros

Part 7

The democrats are just fully lying everywhere now.

Whoever chose the title was doing a bit of trolling

Concord and implacability, name a more iconic duo

Episode opens with shitty pirate accent voice about Concord's lore. FTL travel exists but randomly kills people sometimes

TFW traveling through the limitless reaches of space at hyperlight speeds but you get sniped by a screw

Scene cuts to random woman(?) bound up

Dollar store Thanos confirms that the protag is a foid. Apparently she has some special chip that Thanos wants to extract.

We cut to a new character

He seems to be working with a grumpy

The two men spring into action, opening a door containing the Black lady. , , and a doctor all spring into action. They free the woman, smash a window, and try ziplining away. Thanos cuts the zipline Lots of MCU-style quips

There was also this character distracting some guards in the background. Apparently another member of the crew

The teletubby starts blasting Thanos with its finger guns. Teletubby gets shot in the head, but is revealed to be a talking fish.

Some trash mobs swarm the crew, I guess they're looking to another crew member for backup. "They say Julius is amazing. Always on, always ready..."

He wasn't actually ready lmfao!!!! Typical worthless tbh .

Sniper tells him they need to go so he closes the ramp and starts to leave . The rest of the crew make it half a second before the ship launches. The Captain(?) isn't seen reaching the ship. They bicker for a while, until a scary guard enters the room holding them at gunpoint. Surprise, it's actually the Black woman captain!!!

They for a bit about whether or not the captain has secured the valuable route through space. She did . Apparently the chip she had in her arm grants access to every single guild navigation route.

Cuts to the guild attacking the ship. The ship loses all of its fins(??) that allow it to steer. Julius starts to so takes back over on the ship.

Somehow, everyone randomly starts passing out

But wait! Julius is shown wearing a gas mask and walking away with a smug look. Is the blond white male a traitor?

Cut to waking up from the knockout gas. Julius and Thanos are chatting on Zoom. Thanos wants the chip and and promises to leave the rest of the crew alone. Surprisingly, the crew seems cool with this and asks for a bounty. The bounty is large

12,500,000 MONEYS!?!?!

gets up and challenges Julius to tie her down . He gets nervous and unfastens to back him up. But SURPRISE! is still loyal to the captain! He opens the airlock, killing Julius and nobody else.

gives a hand.

This gives an idea. She uploads the chip and its trade routes to the galactic internet

Thanos rages, the crew accelerate forward with their ship, heading straight into the big scary storm foreshadowed earlier.

There's a gay slowmo montage of them all nodding at each other as purple storm magic swirls around them. The bartender who has been telling this whole story reveals that they may have survived, because he has the funko pop that they brought onto that ship.

Final Rating: 3/10 . ChatGPT writes Guardians of the Galaxy fanfiction. I shouldn't have wasted my time watching and reviewing this garbage. I hope this post is long enough to count as an effortpost, but if it isn't, the least you can do is upmarsey me or donate some dramacoin for going to all this trouble and saving you from having to watch this terrible episode. Thanks!

What the frick was rockstar smoking? 30 minutes in and I'm ready to uninstall it entirely. I pirated this and still feel ripped off. I've downloaded a save from the real start of the game in the hopes of actual game play, but at this point I don't think the game can recover from this.

And god knows GTA 6 is going to be the exact same sort of clusterfrick

https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1in1feb/german_tourist_detained_by_ice_in_the_usa/mc7tr8q/?context=8

TL:DR She posted about how she was going to work illegally and had the cowtools to do so

The end stage being complete corporate capture of all three branches of the government, and total gutting of state run safety nets, education, and infrastructure in favor of eventual privatization of such services. This is all far more in line with ancap fantasies than any genuine historical example of nationalist socialism or fascism. Ironically enough, "socialist" China is the one economic model currently existing that is closest to Italian fascism, in some regards.

They get too hung up on the popular definition of fascism being the marriage of the state and capital into one, without understanding the nature of the relationship between the nation-state and capital in fascist economics. In America, the nation-state is subservient to the interests of capital. In an ideal fascist state, capital exists solely in subservience to the nation-state. America perverts this like a dog walking a man, and not the man walking the dog. China has the balls to imprison billionaires. If Trump or Elon were genuine nationalist socialists, we would see them doing shit like creating jobs via public work projects to improve infrastructure and build nuclear power plants, desalination facilities, etc. They aren't even a tenth of the statesmen pre-war Adolf and El Duce were.

P Diddy's lawyer Anthony Ricco has stepped down from his legal team.

"Under no circumstances can I continue to effectively serve as counsel for Sean Combs," Ricco said in a motion for withdraw of counsel filed in New York on Friday. Discussions had been held with lead counsel Mark Agnifilo and Ricco before the motion was filed, according to the documents, which were obtained by The Mirror US.

Trump shared on Truth Social an article about Putin cheering on his tariffs and expressing satisfaction that they divide America and its European allies. pic.twitter.com/OxMn3bogFh

— Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania) February 10, 2025

Time to Wake Up: Europe Must Unite and Become a Real Superpower

6.3k upmarseys and tons of nonsensical rambling.

We're playing the turboneurodivergent Dawn of Civilization mod for Civilization IV that replicates world history. !g*mers

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Everything is going cool, the Roman Empire is at its near peak historic borders.

I just settled my first Roman American colony in Columbia, South Carolina.

My Spanish vassals can now travel the ocean and have settled their first colony in Puerto Rico.

I've landed an explorer in Australia, the intrepid Down Under Dan, ready to traverse the outback.

I just hope all these mongols on my border aren't up to anything

FRICK

Ethiopia is vassal to the Mongols so they attack Nubia/Egypt. I really dislike these cute twinks

Kilwa (Swahili) are vassals to the Mongols as well, I was sending a boat to Africa to try to capture slaves for New World plantations, they can attack them instead.

And with 90%+ odds to survive the boat goes down Guess they're stuck there

I briefly forget how cavalry works and almost lose Khalpe

We successfully repel the main invasion force and get a new general in Rome, Traianus

Him and Scipio Africanus I send to the city Padua. @Ubie Promise I'll attach the next general and have him fight in the field I'm focused on getting Wonders built in Rome and Padua has strong production, I want to turn into a new military center, building a Military Academy as well.

Fun fact that blue southern tile I JUST NOW noticed is a "Lagoon" land tile and can be developed, not a coastal tile I really am bad at video games

The Mongols tank our stability basically just by existing. We have -10 Foreign due to Bad Relations and it's mostly their fault.

The Khan is ready to talk peace, then I screw it up and get greedy and unsuccessfully try to kill another one of his Keshik units

Next turn thoughever with a little more harassment towards him and his vassals he's open to talk again

No way he's pawning that piece of shit city off on me I counteroffer

And we are at peace

We can even go for a Defensive Pact now

Ultimately pointless because they collapse soon after

Then this region becomes independent Iran under the Safavid Shahdom

And the fall of the Mongols allows China to reform as the Tang Dynasty

We've researched Representation which advances us to the Industrial era (in 1424AD!) and gets us a new Great Statesman, Quintus Hortensius

These guys are new to DoC and I haven't really shown them off before but there's a few things we can do with them. They can "Resolve Crisis" and stop all city unrest empirewide, reform a government without revolution/anarchy, build an administrative center to reduce maintenance, or be settled for espionage and commerce. We're just gonna hang onto this guy for now.

We then research Scientific Method, obsoleting our religious monasteries and enabling the possibility for Secularism

Secularism even has its own religious victory if we wanted an Atheist World Order

As we are first to research we get a Great Scientist. We have enough different Great People now for another Golden Age if we want. We'll hold onto these people for now.

Clermont constantly revolts. France (Province of Gaul) is kinda unstable too and it's affecting my stability. Fortunately it's nowhere near as bad as it was when the Mongols were around.

I decide to liberate Clermont and help France out.

Down Under Dan has finished mapping out all of Australia. Beginning to settle our first colony.

Australia is rich with rare strategic resources, and since we destroyed England on accident, it's ours to colonize. We're starting with Adelaide.

It's of course outside our historic expansion zone but we can take the penalty. Australia is not a civilization yet ingame as well so it will never become independent nation. Tbh, Australia and South Africa as civilizations are currently the biggest gaps in the game imo, but it's still in development

We gain our first slave when Muscogee attempt to raid mines outside Columbia, and can put them to work at a Slave Plantation

It's hard to tell, but that sumovab-word is returning TWO full bags of commerce (10 )

Our stranded African raiding party is successful in tracking down some natives to enslave as well

^{(pls ignore that they are European heavy swordsman units, I think this is a cosmetic oversight)}

History is so fun

Slaves are pretty valuable if a civilization wants them, Turkemenistan for example keeps coming buy asking to buy these guys I captured

Sometimes this can be used as a great metagame strategy, for example trading technologies to the Mande and Congolese for slaves, which you then sell to Europeans for money or other technologies. But we're making ~150 gold per turn so we don't need that shit

When one of the Swahili cities gets captured by natives we can use our little raiding party to free it, repairing our relations and foreign stability a little.

Plus we get more slaves

We can send these slaves to our new Australian colony to work in the coal mines

The Dutch spawn in 1580AD, sadly another Protestant power

As expected, since the English are kill and I'm only colonizing the south they colonize New York.

Also notice that I've expanded to Nashville

I've mentioned this, but this is a new map and unfortunately the dynamic city name mapping isn't complete. In DoC on the old map I'm pretty sure this would have been named Nieuw Amsterdam since the Dutch founded it

It breaks my heart that this isn't New Amsterdam I would literally cheat and rename it but it just seems to get renamed back to its default.

Although they're Protestant, after sending some missionaries we're able to pay them to convert.

and then immediately steal back the money we gave them

Now the only major European Protestant power is Sweden, who refuses to budge. Since the Netherlands have renounced their heresy we're willing to sign a Defensive Pact as well.

We're full on in the Industrial Era now.

Now is a good time to burn some Great People for a Golden Age as we're getting factories, power plants and railroads up across the empire

Padua as our military center is complete, with a Military Academy and Ironworks. We're pumping out promoted riflemen with leadership every turn

Marrakesh is our naval center, having built the wonder Trafalgar Square in it.

Corporations are starting to spread. Unlike the weird gimmicky implementation in base game corporations spread naturally in civilizations that allow them. Corporations piss citizens off and will start to get a LOT of angry faces in modern times. Lead developer Leoreth is kind of a Marxist I think. He's also pretty abrasive. This mod is an impressive achievement so he's earned the right to be as eccentric as he wants but I should find some of his rants at other developers in a future installment, they're hilarious.

Free Enterprise at this point is definitely more profitable than Regulated Trade, even as beastly as the city of Rome is. We have an extra Statesman left over from discovering Representation so we may as well use him to reform the whole government.

With Democracy and a Constitution we now are the Roman Republic once again. The Great People boost from Democracy will be great during our Golden Age.

Excess resources benefit corporations and all this industry spreads unhappiness and disease, so now's a good time for my vassals to start pulling their weight.

By now we've recovered our horrific Foreign Stability with strong vassals and the elusive Good Relations

Spain is booming, having colonized Texas and the incredibly helpful Panama Canal. France is not so much They've only built Speightstown. I'm going to give them some old galleons and maybe a settler to help them out.

Finally, with some assistance they settle New Orleans

We're getting warnings that we're close to the domination limit on population. It's feasible we could go for a Domination win. But I still want Space

Coming soon: America

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Artist is @ corndoggylol on twitter. Stalk him with a follow if you want to, child.

Goodbye Regular season. By my spreadsheet that was 272 NFL games you could bet on, meaning a single bet/game (which I did) would mean you risked 54,400 . Being a savy better (like me) you surely got some return on investment. Over the season I netted +573 (week 18 killed me), so with all that risk and reward I'm up 1.053%! Look out for me Wall Street! I'm also -43,200 on Dramacoin scholarships to anyone who asked for money to gamble, while I never asked for anyone to pay it back @Freak-Off did to the tune of 12,600 dc essentially borrowed. You can see that I'm a true financial megamind.

Playoff time: 4 threads left & 13 games left to bet on- WildCard (6), Divisional (4), Conference (2), and Super Bowl (1)

Here's the bracket- your team is in it. Right, anon?

If you weren't in it, your team surely is shaking off some dead weight and acquiring new talent so next year can be your year. Happy Black Monday, you got it champ! I was going to find a nice list of all the firings, but haven't found one yet. We'll see if that changes.

pings: !mensfootball !goomblers !bets @BILLYBIGBOLLOCKS @Freak-Off @Drippo @SpudsMackenzie

Wild card weekend is 2 Saturday games (4:30 & 8), 3 Sunday games (1, 4:30, 8), and 1 Monday Night Game (8)

2 Points of order

1. Regular Season MVP betting is still open. Voting will be open until the announcements prior to the super bowl because why not.

2. I'm doing one bonus bet in this thread only! Of the 14 teams in the playoffs, pick the Super Bowl Champion. This will close prior to the first game at SATURDAY JAN 11TH 4:00 EASTERN TIME (US)

Who will be the Super Bowl LIX Winner

Enter BetAFC-1 Chiefs (15-2) - 32 bets

Enter BetNFC-1 Lions (15-2) - 47 bets

Enter BetAFC-2 Bills (13-4) - 16 bets

Enter BetNFC-2 Eagles (14-3) - 26 bets - WINNER!

Enter BetAFC-3 Ravens (12-5) - 20 bets

Enter BetNFC-3 Buccaneers (10-7) - 5 bets

Enter BetAFC-4 Texans (10-7) - 4 bets

Enter BetNFC-4 Rams (10-7) - 7 bets

Enter BetAFC-5 Chargers (11-6) - 3 bets

Enter BetNFC-5 Vikings (14-3) - 4 bets

Enter BetAFC-6 Steelers (10-7) - 6 bets

Enter BetNFC-6 Commanders (formerly Football Team (formerly Redskins)) (12-5) - 5 bets

Enter BetAFC-7 Broncos (10-7) - 7 bets

Enter BetNFC-7 Packers (11-6) - 4 bets

I was really lazy this week and didn't save much of anything clip related. Here's more of the duck from that Buccaneers game

closed

The authorities are investigating the origin of a large object that fell to the ground on the outskirts of one of Poland’s largest cities.

There are suspicions it may be part of a launch vehicle used by @elonmusk's @SpaceX https://t.co/hCxK2M6Xde

— Notes from Poland 🇵🇱 (@notesfrompoland) February 19, 2025

My many fans will remember this post where I blame my kernel/amd for not being able to run Red dead 2.

Turns out there was a file in the Redistributables folder I needed to run first which would install vulkan and make it just work. It was mentioned in the readme and everything.

!codecels remember

these birds are so r-slurred. first, which pervert ornithologist named them this? disgusting. boobies, tits, peepees, shags. what is wrong with these people?

second, i HATE that their beak is concealed like that. they look fricked up and deformed. also disgusting. beakless freaks. debeaked. GIVE HIM HIS BEAK BACK!!!

they are lekking birds, which basically means to Get B-words, a bunch of males gather in a group (called a lek) and desperately display for the females. however because they are r-slurred they often forget about the females and start fighting each other.

also, peepee-of-the-rock leks are fundamentally useless imo because there's a single Chad Male that gets almost all the females, and the rest of the incel males get nothing. lmao

more pics of these frickers:

Washington DC searches soar for "Swiss bank" (yellow), "offshore bank" (green), "wire money" (red) and "IBAN" (blue) pic.twitter.com/OBEg0hW8g0

— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) February 13, 2025

Washington DC searches for "statute of limitations" soar (data from Google trends) pic.twitter.com/OkNKHEQsXa

— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) February 14, 2025

lol

Washington DC searches soar for "wipe" (blue) and "erase" (red) according to Google trends data. pic.twitter.com/WTbK1C1zxy

— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) February 14, 2025

Was sitting next to 3 college aged girls and some dude came up to them and mentioned that his daughter had just started going to college. They decided to guess his age and decided late 40s so he got mad at them, asking how in the world they thought he looked that old when he was 34. He then walked away leaving them dumbfounded. Literal !fellas

New look at text messages sent by Ye, fka Kanye West, to an ex-YEEZY employee:

"Welcome to the first day of working for H*tler"

"Hail H*tler / Come and get me b*iiiiitch / You f*cking cornball" pic.twitter.com/lMYHVmPRjl

— Kurrco (@Kurrco) February 11, 2025

Kanye has moved to Telegram but he's still manic. pic.twitter.com/PS96Bq1OfI

— Dissident Soaps (@DissidentSoaps) February 11, 2025

!tmz