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  1. Is upping the ante, eh? Is also a fool if he trusts in the benevolence of the Emperor.
  2. What-ever he says, deep down he knows that heresy is fun and good for you.
  3. 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.
  4. WAT IS HIER LOS VERPISST EUCH IHR LAPPEN
  5. The invention of margarine was commitioned by the French government, specifically Napoléon III, who was looking for a cheaper butter substitute for the military and the armed forces. It was invented by Hippolyte Mége-Mouriès, a male chemist confusingly named after the queen of the amazons. Mège-Mouriès later, in 1871, sold his invention to a Dutch company.
  6. Update 4: Heya! Welcome to Nashkel. Heya. Heya. Heya Heya. Heya. Heya. Heya.
  7. Note: This isn't a new update. I just messed up some formatting when I posted this one three months ago, and for some reason, even though I can edit the previous posts, this last one is locked for whatever reason. So instead, I copied my correction into this new post and will then report the old one so that a friendly moderator might delete it. Sorry for the inconvenience - I hope that I'll be able to post the 4th update later today or tomorrow. It's mostly done, I just need to proofread and upload the images. Update 3: To Beregost
  8. Prester John achievement requires you to remain Coptic christian (I did that one years ago. But a recent patch added "convert Egypt to Judaism", and Ethiopia is the only tag with Jewish provinces at game start. Not that I mind, the region is genuinely fun to play in) The "Meet the European Christians" events/missions seem to be still the same - Pope Man still quite likes me because of one of them, although Portugal didn't want to make an alliance. But that might just have been RNG, or them having claims on some of my land.
  9. And me: "Hm yes, this 9-year-old game is all I need for the forseeable future..." (Africa remains a very fun continent to play EU4 in)
  10. Maybe a bit ironically, given that the American right likes to fearmonger about the left's "War On Christmas", the original War was waged by the English Puritans, i.e. the religious group that the Pilgrims of New England were part of. In short-lived Commonwealth of England, the Puritan-led parliament decided to ban christmas celebrations as a whole. In their eyes, christmas a) smelled like popery, b) the date was picked to match the heathen Saturnalia holiday and c) had no actual basis in the bible. But worst of all, d) people were having fun. And if there's one thing that a good Puritan just can't be having with, it's people being happy. And maybe setting up an interesting little historical "What If" scenario: Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell, at the time some rather unimportant backseat MP in the monarchy of England, noted that if parliament hadn't passed the Grand Remonstrance (a big list of grievances given to Charles I.) in 1641, he would've sold all his belongings and crossed the Atlantic to leave England behind forever.
  11. Nice Be a large city in the south-east corner of France. For the longest time, it was part of the Duchy of Savoy, and later the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia. However, in exchange for France's support for the unification of Italy under the king of Piedmont-Sardinia, Savoy and Nice were ultimately handed over to Napoléon III. In the videogame Europa Universalis IV, Sardinia-Piedmont Be a formable tag; quite popular for its toothpaste blue map colour.
  12. Or maybe you're both imaginary friends... The angel and the devil on the shoulders of some poor kid that just wanted to discuss his favourite video game online and is now trapped in 4980 pages of tee-heeing. Not sure who's supposed to be sitting on which shoulder though
  13. If Wraith is US-american, we should be impressed that he confused Spain with another mediterranian country and not Sweden or Switzerland. Or Swasiland Eswatini. I mean, a country that's regularly called S_____, but calls itself E____... It's an easy mistake to make!
  14. Banned, unless you eat the delicious cookie.
  15. It's an interesting coincidence (if it's not deliberate) that you talk about the Wicked Bible right after I mention Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, since it's brought up in their joint work Good Omens from 1990, as well, alongside the Discharge Bible, the Treacle Bible, the Standing Fishes Bible, the Charing Cross Bible, and the Buggre Alle This Bible. I'm not certain at all how genuine most of these are - the Wicked Bible obviously exists, but there are subtle signs that the last one of the list might be made up. In particular, there are three verses added to the third chapter of Genesis after the 24th: 24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life. 25 And the Lord spake to the Angel that guarded the eastern gate, saying Where is the flaming sword which was given unto thee? 26 And the Angel said, I had it here only a moment ago, I must have put it down somewhere, forget my own head next. 27 And the Lord did not ask him again. A footnote all but outright says that the same Angel (one of the main characters of the book, Aziraphale, or Mr A. Ziraphale, by which he went by at the time) added these verses to the proof sheets of the publisher, which might not be historical fact. The name Buggre Alle This Bible, of course, comes from another lengthy printing error, in the Book of Ezekiel, amid a bunch of "By the border of X, from Y to Z, a portion to A" verses: 5 Buggre All This for a Larke. I amme sick to mye Hart of typefettinge. Master Biltonn if no Gentelmann, and Master Scagges noe more than a tighte fisted Southwarke Knobbefticke. I telle you, onne a day laike thif Ennywone withe half an oz. of Sense shoulde bee oute in the Sunneshain, ane nott Stucke here alle the liuelong daie inn thif mowldey olde By-Our-Lady Wordefhoppe, @*Æ@;!* 6 And bye the border of Ephraim, from the east fide even untoe the west fide, a portion for Reuben.
  16. In August 2017, a bit over two years after Terry Pratchett's death, a hard drive containing his unfinished projects was crushed under a steamroller. PTerry had made that request to his friend Neil Gaiman, and his assistant Rob Wilkins ended up fulfilling it.
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