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I remember there being a lovely spot for a mountain hideout, next to the river in Holy Nation territory, near the slave mines and not far from their capitol settlement. There's, like, a natural stone gateway hiding the entrance, that you can fortify. It's generally very atmospheric.
But you absolutely need that mod that overrides buildings snapping to the ground, and lets them overlap the terrain a bit. Otherwise you'll end up with structures at disgusting angles and holes in the walls.

for once I don't think I can see a way that Russia could be behind it.

For one, it could be spreading and reinforcing the meme of a coup through its social media trolls. Sowing discord is what they do.

Zaluzhny going out was long in the talks. It's hardly an out of the blue decision.

(speech recognition is woeful with Scottish accents)

Eleven!

Two episodes into Severance. It's great.
It's about people who work (?) on data (?) so sensitive, that they have to undergo a procedure that separates their memories in and out of work. So they're essentially signing off a part of their life to oblivion, while creating another person whose entire world is confined to the work environment where they toil endlessly (since that part of them doesn't experience any downtime after they clock out).
A simple idea explored carefully and cleverly, like in a good sf short or an episode of the Twilight Zone.
There's this wonderfully unsettling aura of existential dread permeating everything. Something very Lynchian about it. Possibly a commentary on modern life or life in general, but it doesn't hit you on the head with its metaphors.
Quality production and a few well known faces in the cast (Turturro, Walken, Arquette).

Ok, that was a binge. It's the best thing I've seen in a while. Go watch it.

Remember to put out food offerings each winter for your local dinosaurs. This sacred covenant is the only reason they let us mammals scurry in the dirt below.

Thanks for that, Jerick. Spotlighting the Troubles as a proof that reconciliation through communication and compromise is possible, despite so much bad blood, is important.

But there is another, more important, dimension of this war. So often ignored. RELIGION. Israel occupies zero % of Lebanon and yet there is a war with Hezbollah.

Isreal and Lebanon have a harsh history together, including supporting religious militias, mutual invasions, and being complicit in massacres. There was never any proper reconciliation, just repeated bouts of violence. We could spend another dozen pages or so talking about how big a part does the religious fanaticism play in this conflict. But I think bringing up religion at all here is not useful. Whenever it's brought up, it's never to steer the discussion towards solutions, but rather to justify staying the course. To convince others you can't reason with >these people<. And when you can't reason with them, violence is the only option.
I don't know why anyone would want to go there.

Does the game have Dominion-style MP? i.e. "one turn a day"

It's different in that it's play-by-email, i.e. each player sending their save to another player in the turn order, and not using a dedicated server to host turns simultaneously. This means the turns can end up taking a loong time to go around if you have more than two players and the game is in an advanced state. Especially later on, as it can easily take an evening to process everything for a single player (and procrastination-related delays get multiplied too).