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Le monde est du dentifrice!! Now, how to spend the time until the Age of Revolutions starts around 1710....

Finding reasons for bans. Whoops, ninja'ed. Er.... Overfishing!

The second law of thermodynamics. ΔS ≥ 0, babyyy!

An end to the madness (I'm referring to that crazy-ass imperial cult, obviously)

Civilization VI is the first game of the series that basically spread out cities over more than just the tile you plonk them down on. After setting a city, you then build districts and wonders in the territory around them. Districts are usually not restricted in where you can build them, but they receive bonuses from adjacent terrain - Campuses... Campi... SCIENCE DISTRICTS from mountains, reefs, and geothermal fissures; Commercial Hubs from rivers; Industrial Zones from dams and aqaeducts (which do have strict placement requirements). Wonders, on the other hand, do have requirements where you can place them most of the time. Mostly, they're fairly straightforward, like Pyramids on a Desert or Desert Floodplains tile, or the Great Lighthouse on the coast next to a Harbour district with a smol Lighthouse already constructed. Occasionally, you do need to plan ahead a little, like with the Great Zimbabwe that has to be built on a tile adjacent to a Commercial Hub and a tile with the Cattle bonus resource. Most of the time, those placement restrictions more or less make sense, but I have to make one exclusion. The Petra - a very satisfying wonder to build, but the AI really likes it, which makes it largely luck-based to build on high difficulties - can only be built on flat desert, which makes absolutely zero sense - the "real" city of Petra famously had burial temples literally carved from the mountains.

Missing the opportunity to end with a DLC centred around (the fair and balanced, NOT overpowered) Sweden. But I guess the ULTIMATE BUNDLE hasn't even reached 400€ in price yet, so there must be at least half a dozen more DLCs so that it can get to a nice, tidy 500€.

Cookies.

Trombaned.

Ah, sorry. I've made the - completely baseless, I'm sure - assumtion that you simply deduced that from his beard game.

Well, they have to deal with a ceramic atheist already, so they've already had contact with somebody they can't smite.

♫Hypa Hypa♫ ♫You're pretty and I like ya♫

It's genuinely very good. And Iroh would be the best character even if he shaved. Even if he wouldn't breath fire as one of his signiture moves, because his badassery, while being a contributing factor, isn't the main reason why he's great.

The German Red Cross has made a Spotify playlist of songs with appropriate BPM to do chest compression with.

Nice blue jeans and pop music you got there 👀 Shaka of all people being a wonder whore is surprising. In my opinion, he's either warmongering successfully very early, or he completely peters out as early as the medieval age, because his army upkeep completely killed his economic game.

By staying juuuust outside of the entire squad's range. Klein should hopefully walk into your range on enemy phase, then. I say "hopefully" because the AI decides to be a dick for no reason for Klein's (and Thea's) recruitment - they have a chance of skipping their turn, which can make it really awkward to recruit them without their squads messing things up for you. If you're playing with an emulator, this is a point where nobody in their right mind would judge you for using save states to prevent that from happening. You don't have to recruit either them immediately - although it helps, in Klein's case, and it's easier if you check the map on fireemblemWOD.com to position yourself appropriately. Note that both the Archer squad and Pegasi turn green once you recruit their respective leader. If you manage to keep them alive, you'll get a reward for each at the end of the chapter. For that, I highly recommend not talking to Thea with Shanna. If I recall, you'd have to do so both before and after recruiting Klein, but I'm not certain at all. In any case - her squad will turn aggressive against the enemy (and very likely suicide in the process), while they will try to flee the map through the little path next to the boss if you recruit Thea with Klein. Klein's Archers will always try to do so.

It's spelled "H U N N Y" and I shall not look into the matter any further, given that the context is rather... suspicious. I'll stick to cookies, thankyouverymuch.

Hmmmm.... Iiiinteresting what you have knowledge of, Mr. Holier-Than-Thou :3 I see how it is. Piety in the streets, the most degenerate heresy (that game has "honey" in its name, but isn't about baking and/or eating cookies. A good and proper heretic wouldn't even touch that with a 10-foot pole) in the sheets, eh?

I agree. Very silly of you to not think of that.

Well, yeah. Vestaria Saga III. Those ladies don't even have mighty full beards that could maybe entice Ruben.

One of the closest competitions possible occured for the Handball championship in Germany 2014. There are no playoffs in the Bundesliga, so placement is decided by points (2:0 for a win, 1:1 for a draw, 0:2 for a loss) and then goal difference after every team has played everyone else twice. This tends to lead to season finales where the winner has been decided weeks in advance, but this was certainly not the case in the season 2013/14. Leading up to the final matches, it was quite clear that the championship would be decided between the Rhein-Neckar Löwen (I personally prefer their old, old name, SG Kronau/Östringen, because it can be shortened to "Krösties". Plus, "Lions" is a little pretentious in my mind) and the "Zebras" of the THW Kiel. In the 29th match (out of 34) of the season, the Löwen managed to beat Kiel 29-26 in a home game, which allowed them to catch up in points (49:9) while having a significantly better goal difference (+184 vs. +161). At this point, the championship looked like the Löwen's to lose - as long as they would win all five remaining matches, they should be fine. However, Kiel did not agree with that assessment. In match 30, while the Löwen got a convincing 34-26 win in an away game against the Bergischer HC, Kiel managed to decimate TSV Hannover-Burgdorf 37-20, helped a lot by Hannover being weakened by some player injuries. With that, the goal difference difference went down from +23 in favour of the Löwen to just +14. The weekend after that, the Löwen only barely managed to eek out a win against the HSV Hamburg (no relation to the Hamburger SV football club), while Kiel got another huge win: 46-24 in Lemgo.This actually put Kiel ahead of the Löwen by a 7-goal margin, and if I recall, it also lead to some grumbling from the Krösties if Lemgo really tried as hard as they ought to. However, the win came at a price: Filip Jicha, Kiel's team captain (and today's head coach), injured his ankle after landing on his teammate's foot after a jump shot. He decided to grit his teeth and still play the remaining matches, but this turned out to be a poor (or at the very least very expensive for him) decision, since I think he struggled with that injury for the rest of his career. The Löwen then struck back the following two matches: First with a 42-19 in Eisenach (who ended up relegated that season) while Kiel managed to beat their big Rival Flensburg 33-25, and then with a 41-28 against Melsungen. Kiel managed to answer that one (their match was a few days later) with a 35-21 in Lübbecke, but the Löwen still went into the final match with a +7 goal advantage. On top of that, Kiel had - on paper - the stronger opponent for that final match, too. They were playing Füchse Berlin, who managed to win the cup (the less important competition, but still a big deal) a few weeks earlier, while the Löwen were matched against Gummersbach, a lower-mid tier team at this point. However, Gummersbach absolutely refused to be the fall guy for Kronau/Östringen: They only trailed by two goals (19-21, which is quite a lot of goals) at half time. Meanwhile, Kiel had a bit of a tough start as well, only leading 9-7 after almost 20 minutes (one third of the total playing time). However, Berlin, also riddled with injuries, then collapsed: Kiel managed a 8-1 run until half time, putting them at a 17-8 lead... and dead tied with the Löwen. In the second half, the Löwen then managed to step up their game, increasing their lead to 29-21 in the first eleven minutes. However, Gummersbach then managed to fight back, keeping the game a bit closer. Kiel's second half against the Füchse took the opposite turn - Kiel again didn't have the greatest start, only gaining a single point of goal difference until the 48th minute, but then managed to increase their lead to 34-20. Kiel's coach Alfreð Gíslason took a time-out at this point, four minutes before the end of the game... at which point the race with the Löwen was dead tied again, with the Löwen being up 39-32 at that point in time. That game's score wasn't shown in the Kieler sports hall, but the team was informed by a replacement player (Dominic "Mini" Klein) that it's back to 0-0 at this point. And Kiel then increased their lead even further, to 36-20 and 37-21. However, they then yielded two goals, going back to +14 with the end score being 37-23. Because that +14 was only enough to tie the Löwen four minutes earlier, the Kiel team did not think that it would be enough for them, that those two last yielded goals would've cost them the championship... but as it turns out, Gummersbach managed to not only prevent the Löwen to increase their lead, they even managed to close it by two goals, ultimately losing 35-40. Gummersbach's players even celebrated this loss after the full time whistle, much to the consternation of the Löwen, who lost their chance for their first championship title by only two goals. As a bit of a happy end for them, though, the Löwen did manage to win two championship titles in 2016 and 2017, plus a cup win another year later. They have since fallen down the rankings a bit, only finishing 4th or 5th between 2019 and 2021, never really in a position to challenge the champions of those years, and having a pretty rotten season 2021/22, finishing 10th (of 18 teams). I haven't been following Handball as closely as I used to, but I think a large part of their decline is that their star player, the playmaker Andy Schmid, has been getting older. He went back to his home country of Switzerland after this last season, at an age of 38. He's always been the "brain" of the Löwen's offence, famous for his passing ability, but also a dangerous scorer in his own right.

Has trouble counting past three. Probably related to his (façade???) worship for the emperor - somebody able to count would surely have figured out that that figure has been dead three times over at this point. Imperialism - not even once. Unless it's Europa Universalis and you've reached Dip tech 23

The word "Assassin" being derived from the Arabic word for "weed smoker" (hashishin) is an excellent little piece of etymology.

Continues to show his obsession with heresy. It's OK, Wraith, you can eat the cookie. Nobody is going to judge you much, except maybe for the Emperor, and who cares about him?

That one is your imagination - BinBla has functionally the same RNG system as the games following it. You do have lower hitrates across the board because of a couple reasons: Most weapons just have lower hitrates by 5 or 10% compared to Blazing Blade (although the Killer Lance is actually a little more accurate in BinBla) Enemies have better stats in general Enemies have actual Luck stats, unlike BlaBla Your own units have somewhat worse stats Those things add up, so you often see 70-80 displayed hit in match-ups that would give you 100% accuracy in BinBla or SacSto. It makes swordies with good Skl - Deke (especially on normal difficulty) and Rutger (especially on hard) in particular - much more valuable than they are in most other FE games. Fun fact: Compared to Iron Lances, Iron swords are 5% more accurate against enemy Swordies and Lancies. It's one of the few examples where going for weapon triangle advantage isn't strictly the best choice (another one is the Hammer, which is just a terrible weapon), although there's still the damage dealt/taken advantage present. Slim Lances are unironically a pretty good weapon on cavaliers for this reason, specifically against mercs and myrmidons. In later stages, once you can buy them, Killer Lances with their high strength and good accuracy (+5 compared to iron lances!) are awesome. The crit is just an added bonus!