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Poor Wraith I fear that his long-standing reliance on the, ha, Emperor has afflicted his mind and senses.

I always recommend Inca Terrace farms are beautiful yield porn, and having full movement through hills (including forest/jungle hills) is very very nice. It's only too bad that their unique unit is pretty garbage, since it can't protect workers/settlers. But they're genuinely really good (personally, I'd only rank Poland and Babylon higher) because they can get so much food and production if they spawn near a mountain range. Little word of warning - going wide is generally not recommended, unless you have a really crappy capital. Normally, because you centralise so much of your population (Tradition is the best first culture tree like 95% of the time) and science in your capital (National College, yo), adding more cities will slow down your overall tech (and culture) rate. Three cities can be decent enough if they have a lot of food (like, for example, in a Polder Paradise), four is often the goldilock number, five can be fine if there's enough good spots and enough happiness (i.e. luxuries, unless you have the most awesomest religion, or a unique building with extra happiness) to support it.

Sir, you haven't paid close enough attention. Cookies, not chaos. 🥰 Sweet, delicious cookies of heresy. Covered in chocolate and firm refusal of any wannabe imperial's power. Hey, that's kinda offensive! Um... I'm not that physically imposing, to be honest. So unless you're a bully who enjoys picking on the weak, I don't think this is true. Well, yeah, I'd probably try to get some help if some madman would want to fight me. In truth, Wraith just has proven to be deadly afraid of hereticalarmless cookies. That sounds reminiscent of my own Civ5 experiences on Immortal, to be honest. I either get get swarmed by an aggressive neighbor (I still have PTSD from one game that started great, partitioning the Mongols between myself and Rome, just to have Rome backstab me and invade with approximately 40 Trebuchets) or I play overly careful and there's some Korea or Babylon runaway civ on the other side of the world. I've come to accept that I'm probably just an Emperor scrub (ironic, given my totally serious feud with Wraith, I know). 😐 The secret to Polder Paradise is to play on the Sandstorm map script, by the way. You won't get Desert Faith unless you're insanely lucky (I think it went the turn after I finished my shrine, and I got Pottery four turns early thanks to a tech goodie hut), but there's a good chance that you'll spawn on a river through a desert. (2) Yeah, religion game can be really annoying. The only way to defend against the inevitable Great Prophet sent against you without declaring war (including the "everybody hates you" part) is to indefinitely block him with your own units or banked up great people. (3) Jungle being a dead tile for the city itself (only enough food to feed the pop itself that is working it and no production) makes any Jungle bias a really rough start. Good job getting to the lategame. (5) Tourism is rough even on Emperor, yes. You kinda need all the bonuses you can get - world religion and/or ideology from the congress (the latter can be doable if you're first to get one), trade routes and open borders with everybody, and probably some Great Musicians to get one-time tourism boosts with any big culture civ. With all the culture bonuses that the AI gets on higher difficulties, its "defensive tourism" really is a mountain to climb. (6) The earliest reasonable point to attack a neighbor is at Crossbows, imo. Comp bows can work on Emperor if you have a weak neighbor, but I doubt that it can work on Immortal. For that reason, I'd actually point towards England (3-range crossbows) or China (Logistics on their crossbows, which also basically doubles their XP gain) for "early" conquest. Plus, with how Civ5's tech works (extremely centralised on your capital, plus the increased tech/culture cost for additional cities), you actually shoot yourself in the foot if you expand too aggressively too early, so the big KILL ALL THE AI push shouldn't come too early, anyway. Basically, killing one neighbor with Crossbows is very helpful, but you might actually wait until the modern era to continue. The happiness boosts in the ideologies (I like to go Commie for domination games) really helps, too. Anyway, that's enough smartassery from the scrub who plays on Emperor

Sir, I believe this is one of the saner discussions of Fire Emblem: Fates that has been had on this site. Er, restaurant.

Hans is clearly working for Blackwater. Iago... I don't think he has much of an own agenda beyond "make Corrin suffer because ???", so I don't think lobbyist is the best fit. I'm going to say he's a alt-right grifter. Knows that he's just talking bullshit, but keeps it up because (1) this is how he makes money, (2) he likes the power he wields by riling up his followers, and (3) to own the libs Corrin. -- Lekker

Xander's finest hour, I assume. (Useless fact of the day: I just learned that Ctrl+Shift+X swaps the forum's design from left-aligned to right-aligned)

Now that just sounds like cruel and unusual punishment. Hey, BR!Elise was genuinely OK, if I recall. You know, when she doesn't need to be a technical adult. It's a bit of a distant memory at this point, but I think I also appreciated her more melancholic tone as her siblings grew more reclusive and/or deranged because their sibling (who they definitely see as a sibling and nothing else) didn't love them anymore. Plus, you can't fool me anymore, Shrimpy! Just take this as an opening to admit defeat! Actually, I have no idea where I'm going with this Ignore me

Banned for being a Persona protagonist who isn't mute. That's just confusing!

*bonk* Go to horny jail! Where we send all horny people! All the horny people, clumped up in a tight, confined space! ...I feel like somebody didn't quite think this concept through. Or maybe they thought it through very thoroughly and it's all part of their masterful (and probably horny) plan. They say that criminal jail breeds crime, so it stands to reason that horny jail breeds horny. I mean, I believe it's been recently established that Shrimpy = Rubenio. And Rubenio loves Fates. Well, at least the parts of Fates that include Garon.

Banned for turning Sooks into a Persona protagonist. Truly the greatest of bannable offences.

Continues to fight against cookies, which is just plain silly. I mean, who doesn't like a nice, delicious cookie? (By the way, who decided that a baked good should be named cookie? English, pls)

Should know that those the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. Maaaad! Mahahahahahaaaaaad! Contrary to popular opinion, a loud, healthy laugh is almost certainly a sign of a healthy body and mind. Among experts, the worship of a completely ordinary human (or even one that barely clings to what can hardly be called 'life' anymore) is seen as a much more clear indication of a slipping mind. As medication, cookies are generally recommended.

Yeah, that sounds about right. She's not that great because there's another fk-you dragon rider who's even better.

Another entry in the category "funny names" (for English speakers) is Felix Mendelssohn Bartoldy's sister Fanny Hensel. However, it would do her a great disservice to not mention that she was a very talented musician and composer in her own right - but because both Felix and their father Abraham thought that it would be unbecoming of a woman to earn money, they both discouraged her from publishing any of her compositions and the father in particular basically told her to get back to the kitchen, and sure, I fully support music as your hobby, but what would the neighbours think if they saw you getting a job? Felix's attitute seems to be more of a "yeah, well, if she decides to try and publish her work, I'll support her, but I still don't really want her to". Instead, Fanny was only able to show her talent in a more private environment. In 1821 (when Fanny was 15-16 and Felix was 11-12), their father held semi-private Sonntagsmusiken (Sunday musics) to showcase his children's talent. Apart from Bach or Beethoven, they also featured compositions of the Mendelssohn children. However, in 1829, when Felix left Berlin and Fanny got married, these concerts were discontinued. Luckily, her husband (the painter Wilhelm Hensel) was much more supportive of Fanny's musical career (and, probably even more importantly, less condescending about it). In 1831, Fanny reestablished the Sonntagsmusiken under her own direction, participating herself as composer, musician, and conducting both orchestras and her own little choir. In that role, she absolutely had a noteable role in Berlin's cultural scene - these little concerts sometimes had up to 300 visitors. It also seems that Felix managed to at least loosen that giant stick up his arse a little. To his (partial) credit, he never was dismissive of her musical talent - he "just" had that 19th century bourgeoise attitude of "woman's job is housekeeping", but he always valued Fanny's opinion and suggestions about his works above anybody else's, and the two of them had a close relationship for their entire (unfortunately both too short) lives. Fanny's first published compositions were actually printed under Felix's name in 1827, and while that would've been kinda shitty if he had appropriated them for himself, he didn't seem to be shy about admitting that six of the songs in two of "his" collections were actually Fanny's. Only three years later, London musical magazine The Harmonicon (which, two years later, would also do the first "official" publication of her work) noted that this was the case. Still, this led to a funny little embarrassment for Queen Victoria, who told Felix that his magnificient piece Italien was her absolute favourite, to which Felix had to reply that, well, sorry, that's actually my sister's composition.

Is upping the ante, eh? Is also a fool if he trusts in the benevolence of the Emperor.

-AND HEAVEN!

Not even close.

What-ever he says, deep down he knows that heresy is fun and good for you.

The Wyvern classes have never really been contained, really, as far as I'm familiar with the series. It's always good for a character to be a wyvern. If a wyvern rider is in the mid or even low tiers (well, I can't think of one that's actually bad. One of the T776 ones, maybe?), it's not because of the class, it's because of their joining time and maybe because they're underleveled. It's almost telling that Radiant Dawn took measures to stymie cavalry, while wyvern riders still reign supreme. "Staffbot" would seem like a good answer, but they're actually not that great in either Tellius game. Rhys, Mist, and Laura are all varying degrees of OK, but never really game-defining. "Dancer" is the more consistent utility class, I'd say.

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I like delicious cookies.