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has anyone tried out the realism mods, like the one that involved hypothermia and eating and sleeping? Forgot the name but I think there is an all-inclusive realism mod out there, read it a few weeks ago.

Anyone tried it? Does it add fun and challenge or just a tedious chore. Not sure how that would play out.

I'm currently playing with the following: Imps More Complex Needs(hunger, thirst, sleep deprivation, food poisoning) and Frostfall(hypothermia). To me it's not at all tedious and adds a lot of immersion. There is so much food in the game that you run at little to no risk of running out. Occasionally I would eat raw meat and get sick because of it. Hypothermia is more dangerous. You have to be careful for example if you get wet in a cold biome you can freeze to death and the malus from being cold makes combat difficult.

That pretty much sums it up but with much better wording than the OP.

Also I would like to overstate the futility of trying to "understand" Q-M by describing its processes using intuitive common-life terms. It is much safer to simply take their mathematical implications at face value rather than attempt make intuitive what is inherently unintuitive.  Our senses are what we use to describe our surrounding nature and they were not evolutionarily designed to perceive the world in the way it "truly" is on a microscopic level but rather to maximize our chances of survival. This is why the more intricate properties of reality are so difficult for us to understand.

You wanted random ideas so here you are.

Not so long ago I messed with the idea of making a humorous hack and slashy roguelike based on time travel. Different playable classes would come from different ages. You could be a time traveling medieval wizard, modern scientist or futuristic commando. Each one would have different mechanics for warping through time as well as a different end goal. Gameplay would revolve around arriving at random time period / locations combinations and trying to find a way to trigger a time warp to the next zone.

Obviously every time travel gimmick/ cliche would be free game here. Taking a major action/killing a unique character in levels placed in the past would effect all levels placed in the future. The basic ideas I had were for example to have the far future controlled by either a malevolent AI with cyborg minions or a man made distopia with thought police depending on whether the player destroys a random laptop in the present. Or having the player easily defeat an aged old geriatric dragon in the middle ages only to later be teleported to prehistoric times and face him again in his prime and much more dangerous.

It's nice that they added the option to play as Pagans/Muslims in CK2 with only minimal option changes. Currently however they play exactly like Christians which is kind of silly.

I hope we'll get an expansion/update someday that fleshes out the Heathens that correctly models their hierarchy, harems, alliances and succession laws.

"oh shit, this pesky brat now is duke" or like moments lead me to frustration 

"oh shit, this pesky brat now is duke" sounds like Crusader Kings in a nutshell

I reccomend shock therapy.

Play MoBA games like HoN, LoL or DoTA.

You will either rage so hard at your incompetent teammates you'll have a stroke or you'll learn not to treat competitive video games too seriously.

I started a thread not so long ago about ports of classic pc games to Android and other mobile operating systems: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=98997.msg2902084#msg2902084

I actually got Baldurs Gate 2 to work on my Samsung Galaxy S2.

- it has ponies.
- it has mechas.