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To be frank, I would not expect anything good from Bethesda for a long time, if ever again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46gaz6veVNQ

So this is a video primarily about the TES series, but it goes into good detail about how essentially Bethesda did, in fact, sell its soul to the devil.

tl;dr literally since before Morrowind the company forced out the founding (passionate, indie) developers and was taken over by (what apparently was) a cabal of executives and lawyers who placed much greater value on profitability--oh, and Todd Howard is an absolute piece of shit.

Beth might be late to the game, but due to Zenimax's control they are basically going the way of EA. Sorry folks.

Here are some shots of my iron age/early medieval period hill fortress!

Finished my first game with AH! Ended in '55 with 66 prestige. Beat France in my final war, sunk 4 of their BBs (and more BCs) with my BB squadron and there was crazy air combat during the battle for the Mediterranean! In the final years, it was like both sides losing 5+ subs every month during wars.

An increase in real wages doesn't necessarily mean anything, as some of the most important investments in life have exploded in cost, far beyond adjustments for the inflation of currency--like housing.

So sure, you might be making a tad bit more, but everything is still VASTLY more expensive than it was.

It's impossible to limit costs in any meaningful way without causing production of actually important goods to implode, and honestly im 100% fine with some people making a percentage more than others (hey, if you're old, you want to live off the fruits of your labor, and probably transfer a portion of that income to your children), but measures have to be taken to ensure that the excesses of a few do not affect the basic comfort and dignity of everyone else (and frankly, I'm pretty sure there are actually enough resources and services to give everyone a GOOD life, not just an okay or dignified or basic one, but one full of ease and happiness).

At one point Warren Buffett was making nearly $40 million A DAY. I don't care if he is a saint, that kind of accumulation of wealth is a violation of the social contract. We agree to live peaceably in a society that is beneficial to everyone, but if a single person can just go around doing nothing (if he wanted to) and make that kind of money he should be considered an outlaw. It's a zero-sum game, you are literally TAKING THE WEALTH FROM OTHERS to give to yourself.

The growth of the economy means nothing, more money does not equate to more value for the average person when any given worker is only actually receiving a fraction of the worth of his work in the form of payment (after all, currency is ideally supposed to represent how much work you do and you are to be fairly compensated for your TIME).

Coupled with morally reprehensible land rights, banking systems, and taxes--it's some fucked up shit. Communism... doesn't work, it just doesn't. Karl Marx didn't know how to reach his utopia back then and we don't know how to reach it now, but there needs to be CONSIDERABLY more regulation in how wealth is distributed among the citizens of the world.

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This chart is hella fucked up.

EDIT2:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_inequality_in_the_United_States

Even the wikipedia article is hella fucked up.

For the record,

Neither a strong economy, a growing stock market/growing # of industries & jobs, nor actually having a job correlates to a higher quality of life.

I would say, in many respects, it is preferable for a young person to be unemployed right now, to either live off the state or their families until they can get a job that pays them a livable wage or just keep going back to college if they can afford it until they appear more employable.

Getting people minimum wage jobs just creates pseudo-slaves with more problems and responsibilities then before. They still cost the state money too, as often they DONT HAVE LIVABLE WAGES.

I know its cliche, but the whole rich get richer and the poor get poorer thing is real. Large corporations, investors, and shareholders have to be limited in how much of a company's revenue they can collect. If the majority of the profit from an employee's work/value is not given back to them, then this is basically corporate feudalism.

Fuck efficiency or growth through the concentration of wealth, give people their lives back. TBH, I'd gladly give up most of today's modern amenities and securities for more time and space to just exist without expectation.

I'm having some trouble with my Mojang account atm, but as soon as I get it cleared up I will most definitely be joining for some light RP building!

I'm usually a creative person, but Vanilla at least beats all this crazy industrial mods--theyre hideous!

I am once again, 20 years into another AH run. This time I won a lengthy 1st war with Italy and took the torch to France's mediterranean possessions with modern 20-40k battleships (probably a bit ahead of their time in 1910-17).

I have mostly left the battling to the AI unless I see an obvious advantage to exploit, sometimes its too tempting to run two CAs past a damaged CL and DD to blow up 15 merchant vessels.

Likewise, I have avoided rebuilding ships. However, I am facing the problem of what to do with older designs. It was an easy decision to scrap Austria's disastrous legacy Bs, but in a campaign where I have to make some decisions its difficult for me to get rid of ancient CAs and CLs. Not sure what to do with them? DDs are both easy to replace and if its not financially feasible fine to keep around for trade protection, so no problem there.

Just made my first purpose CVLs so no conversions necessary.

ALSO, everyone has corvettes but im not sure what theyre used for? Minesweeping?

Loving the game so far.

Even after reading the (original?) manual, I do have some questions. How do you keep abreast the times in tonnage? I absolutely dominated Italy as Austria-Hungary in my first war, but by the time the second (major) war rolled around in the 20s my battleships were half the size of France's, my battlecruisers speedy as hell but getting sunk left and right, and all my other ships basically useless--during the decisive engagement of the war I was hitting their BBs and BCs somewhere in the vicinity of 4-1 to 10-1 as many times as they were hitting mine but they just bodied the shots.

Speaking of which, how important is overall tonnage, and is there a button to design rebuilds? I cant seem to find one?

Finally, any design tips I should know? Like a good speed to keep the ships, etc.

EDIT: I do not envy rebuilding what is essentially a 100% obsolete navy in 1927 My battlefleet is gone and the bulk of my lighter ships are approaching 20 years old or worse.

Also what are the different roles of cruisers and destroyers? I am having a bit of a design theory crisis.