No_one
Underemployed Slav. Likes playing Factorio.
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No_one
28d ago
Factorio engine can manage hundreds of players - been tried, but I'm not sure how low overhead units are - I've read some problems with modded vehicles but even there, if the scripts guiding units are simple enough, it should work.
No_one
28d ago
I like EL more, because combat in ES2 is really simplified in that it's about finding out whether enemy is shield or kinetic heavy, refitting your fleet at the last moment and then pasting them.
EL2 has actually fairly interesting combat.
No_one
28d ago
mechanically under-designed
Endless Legend 2 is basically SMACx, mechanics- wise, although it has more tradeoffs in that researching any technology increase research costs of other technology, so getting all the techs is quite a challenge.
So .. under-designed? How?
I'll agree that it's insufficiently racist and something like the population system from aow would've been preferable, but apart from that it's as good as it's ever been outside of those games written by people who feel they should've been staff officers.
No_one
27d ago
It's attributed to Stalin, usually, but source can only be traced to some US DoD consultant in 1970s.
No_one
21d ago
That's a valid point.
I think India is seen as worse because in a way, Pakistanis being Muslims, they're seen as an enemy. Or should be, at least, as Islam seeks cultural hegemony and is very assertive about it.
India isn't seen as such, yet it has very similar problems.
No_one
21d ago
You forgot to mention incest, or more precisely serial cousin marriage which if done repeatedly results in basically brother/sister incest risks. Big past-time in Pakistan. Slightly decreasing as of late.
Meanwhile Indian castes give a good impression of being inbred and data shows basically reproductive isolation for perhaps 2500 years, at minimum 1600.
You can have populations more distinct than Spaniards and Swedes speaking basically the same language and having lived next to each other for millenia.
You rarely see such disturbingly looking people in Europe outside of narrow mountain valleys in the Alps, where half of the people look like they're related to each other and have unusual facial features.
India's special thing is that they religiously restrict meat eating and even eggs, thus their stunting conditions actually mildly worsened since 2000.
While it's valid to say that e.g. England had horrible slums before 1840s, we know that IQ wise, the populations are incomparable even if some castes (brahimns) and ethnics (parsis) are pretty much at white average or even slightly above it.
So India won't get much better unless the substandard human capital running it is substituted for by AIs, and you can bet their bureaucrats and politicians would not like that one bit.
Less hopeless than Africa, but I understand why everyone is trying to get away from there, and I also understand why that must be prevented at all costs.
Opinion of people I know IRL working in IT on Indians (N=4) is about on the same level as opinion of random eastern Europeans on the Roma.
~Yes, there's a few good ones. No, if I could I'd prefer never to come into contact with them, as on average it ranges from disappointing to having your day ruined and getting very angry.
No_one
20d ago
We know the IQ pretty much varies with white admixture.
So, it's not environmental.
No_one
20d ago
The truthful* novel set in 1970s India, written by a Midwest US writer who visited Calcutta in 1970s notes that western world used to have pretty horrible slums too before Victorians got disgusted with them and bulldozed them all & built sewers...
*half of the horror is basically just the things noted in this thread ..
No_one
20d ago
You don't get it, do you?
Japanese aren't docile. They're still the same people.
They're just not at war.
No_one
19d ago
That given a few years of the right propaganda and a state of war, they'd do the same stuff all over again.
People have a switch in their mind that allows them to wage war and to be at peace. For most people, tripping it takes a lot of social pressure , combat and deaths of friends etc.
True, the Imperial Army was extremely brutal but you don't need brutality to cause someone to be brutal.
Waffen SS had for the era rather humane training methods, and ones that were largely copied by western militaries, yet people who are barely criminal in real life were pretty good at being war criminals.
All that matters is that you have young men, lack of accountability and a hated enemy. That said young men are from a population that isn't fond of random acts of senseless violence doesn't really matter. In war, the stress ensures someone will snap.
No_one
19d ago
I'm not saying it can't be environmental, but cognitive ability in India is directly proportional to genetic closeness to the people who conquered the horrible place. (horrible because it's hot, full of bugs and worse)
Sure the stupid insistence on vegetarianism is probably lowering IQ by a few points. But genetically Indians apart from maybe Brahmins are far below snow people mean. You can probably even find hard data on that today, what with polygenic risk scores for education.
No_one
19d ago
India was conquered by the same people who conquered Europe. Steppe pastoralists, first people to develop horse chariots, a pastoral nomadic lifestyle and thus thrive in the trackless wastes.
This gave them a huge boost, they took over the entire steppe in 300 years and then went on to topple every adjacent civilization, ushering in a centuries long dark age, out of which we got the classical era.
They were likely proportionately a far smaller population than in Europe, and it's also unclear whether in India they practiced genocidal policies like in Europe. E.g. from grave DNA it seems for several generations after the conquest, men from the conquered populations weren't procreating much, or at all.
No_one
19d ago
Yeah, pretty much. Although Calley was just stupid. Terror tactics can't be used in the age of TV when the domestic population isn't a blood frenzy like today Israelis are.
And even then, they're of dubious use as even if the terror successfully intimidates Arabs, the loss of support due to the disgust and horror of Israeli's naive foreign allies might outweigh the benefit.
that we are all I'd say you'd be hard pressed to find a population that would not commit atrocities in warfare if they had impunity. Certainly, the rate at which they would behave so would vary a lot, but in the end, no matter how good our impulse control is, we're all humans, we're not infinitely moral angels, and we're all descended from a long line of animals who generally picked the right choice when they had to decide between becoming a killer and becoming a corpse.
No_one
19d ago
It's an interesting question why no seemingly no one was interested in it in the 1950s.
If anyone has an idea, let me know.
No_one
19d ago
Holocaust was a furtive, secretive policy of getting rid of millions of useless mouths deemed to be dangerous, and contain and destroy through labour fit adults of the same ethnic.
Rotterdam was obviously very public. It doesn't get more 'public' than flattening a major city. Lidice were a punitive measure meant to scare Czechs. If it had been kept secret, it'd not have worked.
No_one
19d ago
I read the book but I didn't notice any major mistakes re: history, physics. Was very disappointed by a few technology and arms related idiocies. McMeekin clearly was never into weapons or has not even a layman's interest in nuclear energy etc.
Considered writing him an email, offering to at least proof-read his next book so that he avoids such embarrassment in the future.
Can't say whether the book is true, as I'm not a period historian, but given Stalin's personality as portrayed by respected historians, it all hangs together pretty well.
No_one
19d ago
That's all irrelevant because groups that lucked into right beliefs thrive, those that had bad luck die out.
Thus over time, the rules of the groups that survive start to look pretty wise.
No_one
19d ago
Uhh, a stable configuration of stars close by ?
I don't know about that. Even just two stars rotating around each other lose energy and end up in a gamma ray burst inevitably.
No_one
19d ago
Why not just try the insomnia cure ? Apparently Italians are keeping severely depressed people up for like 3-4 days straight and it resets their brain to factory setting or something.
Or the botox cure?
So many fairly low-risk therapies out there.
especially given our advancements in biology
Bro, our gene pool is mostly decaying. Accumulating mutations. People who were pre-adapted to modernity aren't even breeding at replacement levels! We-on a societal/species level don't understand anything and don't want to understand anything.
We can't even safely rewrite a fertilised egg's DNA at more than single digit spots because of the error rates.
There have been no successful eugenic projects. Human nature is largely fixed because we're too pussy to do anything about it. All your mushy-headed idealistic bullshit is just putting lipstick on a week old stinking corpse of a pig.
Thanks to the religious, and by that I mean communists with their infinite malleability due to material conditions we're pretty much screwed. There's no good policy, most 'intellectuals' are deluded etc. Only animal instincts of people liking healthy partners are preventing total insanity.
it's that adaptability and change are at the heart of what it means to be human.
That's only true on a timescale of centuries and with very high losses involved.
Yeah. That's why Australian Aborigines after getting unceremoniously yanked from their stone age are now deeply involved in Australian's Aerospace industry and not being subjected to PSA's about the inadvisability of sleeping on the road or sniffing petrol.
Another shining example of 'human adaptability' were Norse in Greenland going extinct because they refused to eat fish, sticking to increasingly desperate farming until the bitter end.
No_one
19d ago
Things have changed. Industrial revolution, science, you ever heard about those ?
It's all irrelevant now. The bleeding edge of humanity is close to fulfilling their purpose which is bringing into being a mechanical civilization that's going to replace our own. Logic of economy and competition will then ensure our gradual deprecation.
No_one
18d ago
This is not chronic, they do it once or maybe several times a year.
But I mean go read up on it, there's probably some papers out there on sci-hub on what the Italians are really doing.
No_one
18d ago
Yeah, I got pwned by Khan who for some reason claimed steppe herders caused a dark age and my sleep-deprived self messed it up.
There was nothing worth writing about going on in Europe before the classical era except maybe Minoans who probably haven't even noticed anything having happened. Nevertheless, it must have been traumatic, getting conquered, enslaved and cucked for generations. Still, not a dark age.
The various invasions by steppe herders were finished mostly in the early bronze age.
Endless Space is kinda .. simple, especially combat wise, but Endless Legend is definitely not 'shallow' in the slightest. Sure it looks simple, however..
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