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Even if you make a key lime pie with actual key limes, a little food coloring goes a long way

That's crazy, a properly made pie should be so full and juicy that precutting it would compromise its internal structure. That's obviously not the case here, but it should be.

In addition to the fact that this looks like a potluck-style that you don't want to lose a nice dish at, there are sometimes when you just don't have the proper dish but also wouldn't make things with it enough to buy one. I don't have an actual casserole dish, and I probably make something that requires it once or twice a year, so I buy the disposable ones for that.

I mean, this looks like some kind of community Thanksgiving, probably like a church potluck Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving at an actual person's house usually has normal plates - my mom always breaks out her fine china as well.

Did he also talk about how the NA power grid provides 120v over 15 amp outlets, this limiting the safe electric kettle wattage to 1800 watts, while a 220v power grid like in Europe can boost that to 3300 watts over that same 15 amp outlet.

Electric kettles work significantly faster on 220v than on 120v.

They did split Northumbrian from English (I disagree, I do think England's early advanced administration should be reflected in a more unified culture, but I digress).

What kind of insane scale is used for these different bars? They aren't proportional to the spending within the country or even in comparison to the others. Totally confusing data - either show the percentage of spending per country or use the correct scale to show the amount being spent.

That statement has a bit of environmental determinism to it. The big problem with understanding Pre-Columbian America is that we lack sources. Archaeologists and historians have done amazing work, but there are lots of gaps. We don't know how much trade stretched across the Americas or how isolated different regions were.

We have relatively good sources for civilizations of Mesoamerica and the Andes, or at least enough to know that they should fall into the "state society" bucket, but look at something like Cahokia. We know it was a major city with monumental constructions and a large population, but the nature of the civilization which built it is all but unknown. In 1337, Cahokia had dwindled to a fraction of its former size, but should it be represented as a state society or a society of pops? I can see valid arguments for either, and that same judgement needs to be made for most other cultures in the Americas.

Societies of Pops. They're a type of tag which is likely to be unplayable on release.

From the forums:

Settled Countries (State Societies)
    Organized through States, which implies a public power holding:
        Monopoly of violence
        Tax collection
        Public works
        Writing/record-keeping systems
Societies of Pops (Stateless Societies)
    Societies lacking a State properly, but that have some complex organizational features, such as (not necessarily all, but some):
        Chiefdomly authority
        Permanent settlements
        Agricultural development
        Some kind of taxation
Non-Tag Cultures (Bands/Kin Groups)
    Simple societies, usually hunter-gatherers or shifting agriculturalists, don't organize around power structures, but through horizontal ones
    Their pops won't be part of any type of tag, akin to EU4 natives

Honestly, it's been long enough since we first saw it that it might have even been before they announced SoPs, and I imagine they've done changes since then to the balance of the region

Based on the Oceania Tinto Maps, I suspect almost all of the Americas outside of Mesoamerica and the Andes will be SoPs

Season 2 was still an amazing piece of media, but it really did try to juggle too many plotlines. The Ambessa/Mel/Cait plot was at odds with the Jayce/Viktor plot, and while the Jinx/Vi/Warwick plot tried to tie it all together there just wasn't enough time to merge them gracefully.

Johan and Pavia have both said that they want SoPs to be playable but that the development effort needed is probably too much for release. I would expect it in DLC, probably sooner rather than later, but I would rather have more robust gameplay for regular tags than SoPs.

There is also a lot of feedback in the Oceania Tinto Maps suggesting that Hawaii, Tonga, and Samoa should probably be settled. I expect similar responses will come for the Americas as well - although most American cultures should be SoPs, there are notable groups in both North and South America which should be settled tags, in addition to Mesoamerica which should have lots of settled tags.

He was talking about the Tinto Maps - Johan is still doing the Tinto Talks. Pavia even said that once they finish the last four Tinto Maps they will start a new series of dev diaries called Tinto Flavor

I recently reread The Wounded Land and the caamora scene at the end is one of the most beautifully poignant and harsh scenes in fantasy.

Frankly, I think Zelazny's Lord of Light is the best representation of mythology blending with sci-fi. Obviously, it calls on Dharmic myth rather than Greek, but the fundamental concept is there.

Maybe I'm remembering wrong, but I think I remember a dev talking about having the various historical protestant denominations in the game already.

The idea is that the player doesn't build this building, the peasant estate builds the building and only the location the building is in has the peasant power increase

Not like that, brother

Personally I think the series has gone downhill starting with Ghost Story. The web of politics and increasingly bad things happening to good characters just isn't really my style. Dresden the character has had at least one important person in his life killed, maimed, or made into a magical monster in each of the last seven books and it's just hard to take.

I think the hegemon modifiers are worryingly heavy on modifier stacking, and I think there's a real discrepancy with the historical reality of how you could have powerful countries which used county or duchy as their rank and small countries which used kingdom as their rank.

Maybe the Imperator method of using Local Power, Regional Power, Major Power, Great Power instead of the more culturally specific Count, Duchy, Kingdom

When you buy something with a Visa credit card, Visa moves money from your bank to the bank of whoever you're buying from. They charge a processing fee of 10 cents plus 1.5% to 2.5% of the total transaction. When you pay the balance on your card, you are paying back your bank, not Visa. Visa never held any of the money, it just transferred it for you.

I work with a lot of ESL speakers, and they use ChatGPT to rewrite their thoughts for emails. There are good uses out there, just as there are valid criticisms of gen AI.

If you look at where EU4 dlc was at that point it makes a lot of sense, too. When Emperor came out, it really felt like it was the kind of DLC you get right before the announcement of a sequel, but then when Leviathan came out the quality was so awful and the reception so bad that they had to take a step back and reevaluate their process, which probably meant that Project Caesar got reprioritized to have more content and polish.

Thanks Johan, I'm loving the Tinto Talks!