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I often find that RPG merchants don't sell anything good.
My problem is I hoard consumables and then forget anything that's not a health potion exists.
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I once stopped pressing the buttons because I heard about this, then discovered that the walk signal at the big intersection at my college would not light unless you pushed the button.
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I think the fact that he proposes that airline pilots pick the "CEO" is even funnier.
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Barbeque baked lays.
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I'm tempted to suggest not allowing pardons for any crimes committeed during the period the president was in office, to block pardoning brownshirts.
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Normally appeals courts would balk at an immediate escalation like that, but courts take a dim view of being fucked with.
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I would think you could issue a new order on the same terms but with a bond now. Technically contempt would be unenforcable against any prior violations, but my understanding is that judges escalating contempt rather than going straight to arrests isn't a hard requirement.
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The hook is that it's prohibiting the use of appropriated funds rather than directly prohibiting the practice. Dunno if that passes muster.
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Does seem to be a prototype, though.
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I'd also be reluctant to go on an offensive war with an army that's 75% people I *just* conquered.
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He'd probably pull a commander from the same places he's getting the ships, but there's good odds they'd be replacement-level.
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Also for maintaining naval superiority, he wouldn't have the Alexander factor he does in land battles. As far as I know, Macedon doesn't have a strong naval tradition, so neither he nor the Companions would have been raised knowing a ton about naval battles.
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Because as far as the prison guards are concerned he's just prisoner #754 and the cameras aren't working because jail infrastructure is regularly poorly maintained.
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I'd even argue that there's no rational legal basis for it being prospective. If the 14th Amendment doesn't grant citizenship to some category, it never did. An executive order can't retroactively grant citizenship.
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Native Americans mostly aren't affected; they actually don't have 14th Amendment citizenship as it is because they're under tribal authority and thus not "subject to the jurisdiction of the United States".
They got citizenship by statute some time later.
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Probably too easy? I'm not sure what these stats represent exactly, but people replay Paradox games a lot and maybe a lot of the Germany players fired up an America campaign once, sleepwalked to victory, and switched to other nations for most of their playthroughs.
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It must be noted that Germany is the overall underdog, since it's the historical loser.
I don't play HOI, but I enjoy going against the tide of history in other Paradox games. I love restoring Rome as Byzantium.
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Even disregarding the ethical issues, bad provenance destroys the historical value of a piece; it's impossible to draw conclusions if you don't know the context in which an item was found.
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It generically means the story of where it comes from is unclear, which can mean fake (though age can be authenticated by various means) or illegally looted, or the documentation was lost in a fire.
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Apparently.
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His loyalty can't be bought at any price, but it can be rented remarkably cheaply.
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Distant Lands Ada save me.
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Hell, these days we don't get many oranges from the US any time of year.
Some kind of blight has taken out like 90% of Florida's trees.
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The ones from the elven god civil war may have been wiped out, since they don't appear again until the Golden City Expedition pierces the elven god's prison and releases the Blight, transforming the magisters into Darkspawn and blighting Dumat into an Archdemon.
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Genlocks are from dwarven women, hurlocks from humans, shrieks from elves, ogres from qunari.
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This is mostly explained in Veilguard. They're the results of the Old Gods using the Blight (which is the minds of the Titans, severed by Solas) to mutate creatures.
Darkspawn in the Origins-Inquisition era are born from Broodmothers, women of various sentient species mutated by the taint.
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Though if I recall correctly the agreements didn't actually have a provision that would bar Trump from doing that anyways.
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I'm not sure the agreements are actually binding, or that as written they obligate the firms to do the specific pro-bono work the administration orders them to.
The most likely consequence of breaking them is that Trump reinstates the executive order.
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That only seems like a dilemma if the asteroid is on an Earth impact course already and we lack the technical capacity for a complete deflection; otherwise it's just a WMD attack and the major space powers already have nukes.
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Demotion. National Security Advisor works directly with the president and probably has more policy influence than anyone short of cabinet secretaries.
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Also, confederation participation could be distance and threat scaled somehow, so a migration by a smaller realm doesn't trigger the whole confederation joining and they only collectively resist the big players looking to become Genghis Khan.
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This could be solved by having fewer nomadic realms at the start and constricting the founding of new nomadic realms, so there's a reasonable possibility there'll be a chunk of empty herder lands to move into.
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So to migrate I have to pick a fight with like a dozen realms at once, who collectively field like 20,000 troops, and I'm sitting here with 10K.
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The problem is, the AI weight for doing this is way too high and confederations are an entire culture. So in my games there's the two realms that started huge and their starting tributaries, and *everyone else is in a confederation*.
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Then there's the problem of confederations. They're sort of defensive alliances between members of the same culture, where they give up some ability to expand for a fertility bonus and crucially having every member of the confederation join a war.
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Other nomads can displace your herders with no ability to contest this, so you can't "fallow" some lands until they recover. So you can up stakes and migrate potentially a long distance. Problem solved?
Not really, because there's not a ton of herder lands to migrate to.
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The problem is that like 90% of counties will be held by nomads at any given time, so their fertility will be low, so there's not many good options to migrate to. You can abandon your lands to herders and easily claim lands from them, so you can technically do a local loop, but not reliably.
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Basically, each county has a fertility score that has a balance between growth and consumption, and when held by nomads this tends to fall to a low level, while it rises when held by "herders", who are basically noncharacters who only exist because the engine requires all territory to be held.
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The two basic problems are that the population density is too high and Confederations are too big.
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I would expect a 10% tarriff to increase prices by 10%, otherwise they'd be lower in the first place. That's how pricing in competitive markets works