I am now obessed with Crusader Kings II.

[Arakhor]

I doubt that they had lily white skin as well.

 

[bhsup]

HONKY SHOWDOWN IN CFC! And the trophy for whitest honky in the room goes to...

 

[cybrxkhan]

Those aren't the worst. Just look at Arab portraits.

Ah, I remember the good old days when you had Arab Portraits Everywhere. Mongols, Africans, Arabs, Persians, Turks, Andalusians, all one big happy family that looked more like Indians.

Thank god that's over.

 

[PhroX]

Ah, I remember the good old days when you had Arab Portraits Everywhere. Mongols, Africans, Arabs, Persians, Turks, Andalusians, all one big happy family that looked more like Indians.

Thank god that's over.

A subtle recommendation for CPR?

 

[cybrxkhan]

A subtle recommendation for CPR?

Oh, er, yes, I am in no way affiliated with CPR even though it's maker has the same username as me, all an unfortunate coincidence really, I do think it is a lovely mod. That other cybrxkhan sure knows his stuff!

 

[Joecoolyo]

Oh, er, yes, I am in no way affiliated with CPR even though it's maker has the same username as me, all an unfortunate coincidence really, I do think it is a lovely mod. That other cybrxkhan sure knows his stuff!

Don't know about CPR, but that guy has fantastic taste in music, I tell you hwat.

 

[Mouthwash]

So I woke up this morning around 6:36 AM. Parents not yet up. After eating I decided that, with nothing much to really do, I would start up a game of CKII. Perhaps play for an hour or so, then shower.

I looked around the map and didn't see much exciting. Then I realized I had never played an as Aztec, in any capacity. I made myself the count of Connacht (867 start date) with ruler designer. Rather than a monstrous fleet disembarking on the shores, I figured this might simulate a Cortes-type arrival with an adventurer controlling a native polity. It would jive well with the late-game invasion fleets anyway.

After consolidating Britannia, I decided I was finished for the day. Imagine how I felt when I saw 7:30 PM on the right-hand side of the screen!

I need help.

 

[Ajidica]

So I woke up this morning around 6:36 AM. Parents not yet up. After eating I decided that, with nothing much to really do, I would start up a game of CKII. Perhaps play for an hour or so, then shower.

I looked around the map and didn't see much exciting. Then I realized I had never played an as Aztec, in any capacity. I made myself the count of Connacht (867 start date) with ruler designer. Rather than a monstrous fleet disembarking on the shores, I figured this might simulate a Cortes-type arrival with an adventurer controlling a native polity. It would jive well with the late-game invasion fleets anyway.

After consolidating Britannia, I decided I was finished for the day. Imagine how I felt when I saw 7:30 PM on the right-hand side of the screen!

I need help.

I thought you were in high school or college. Don't you have any classes?

 

[Mouthwash]

I thought you were in high school or college. Don't you have any classes?

Jesus no. I dropped out in ninth grade, got my GED.

I just spent the last four hours dubbing British duchies and counties in Nahuatl. At first I just grabbed names of Aztec deities, added "-tlan" to them, and used the name on a duchy as well as its capital county. Then I was researching each actual place in England to see what it was known for, how Mesoamericans might have perceived it, and finding a suitable name based on that. For instance, Moray became Mictlampa Ehecatlan ('wind from the north and/or hell'), East Anglia became Teciutlan ('place of much hail'), and Cornwall became Amuchitlan ('place of tin'). I obsessively reimagined the whole of the British Isles, some places in regards to their ingame historical context.

I think this makes me an official alternate history writer. I'm also learning Nahuatl at an unbelievable pace, without much more than an online dictionary and a few articles on the Aztecs.

 

[Arakhor]

Whilst that's somewhat impressive in a nerdy way, I'm not sure that East Anglia is really known for its superabundance of hail. It's very damp and rural and its chief geographical feature are the Fens.

 

[Borachio]

Wut?

True, the Fens are in East Anglia. And the fens are, what's left of them after the Dutch drained them all (you'll have a hard time finding any), damp marshy areas.

But East Anglia is the driest part of the UK. With the very lowest rainfall.

 

[Arakhor]

I suppose that rather throws its propensity to hail a lot into greater question as well, then.

 

[Mouthwash]

Wut?

True, the Fens are in East Anglia. And the fens are, what's left of them after the Dutch drained them all (you'll have a hard time finding any), damp marshy areas.

But East Anglia is the driest part of the UK. With the very lowest rainfall.

http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/reports/wxfacts/Hailstorms-in-Britain.htm

If this is misleading (and it could very well be), then what part of Britain actually receives the most hail?

 

[Borachio]

I live and learn! I didn't know this.

Geographically, these very intense events have most frequently affected the east Midlands, East Anglia, Greater London, and counties adjacent to Greater London.

I honestly can't remember the last time I saw any hail (I surely have seen some, though). And I've lived in East Anglia for all but about 5 years of my life.

Hey! Maybe hail is so frequent that I've come to ignore the stuff? (I don't think so. And I've never heard of East Anglia talked about as THE place for hail before.)

 

[Mouthwash]

I live and learn! I didn't know this.

I honestly can't remember the last time I saw any hail (I surely have seen some, though). And I've lived in East Anglia for all but about 5 years of my life.

Hey! Maybe hail is so frequent that I've come to ignore the stuff? (I don't think so. And I've never heard of East Anglia talked about as THE place for hail before.)

I thought you've lived all over Europe?

 

[Borachio]

Did you? I have travelled in France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Spain, Italy, Switzerland and Austria. But I've never been resident in any of them.

 

[Mouthwash]

Did you? I have travelled in France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Spain, Italy, Switzerland and Austria. But I've never been resident in any of them.

Oh. Well, it was a long time ago that you said it.

 

[Borachio]

You mean it was a long time ago when I said what you might have mistakenly thought I said?

Because I didn't.

Unless I'd lost my mind at the time. Which is, of course, always a possibility to consider.

I can't be held responsible for my own lack of sanity at any given moment.

 

[Mouthwash]

You mean it was a long time ago when I said what you might have mistakenly thought I said?

Because I didn't.

Unless I'd lost my mind at the time. Which is, of course, always a possibility to consider.

I can't be held responsible for my own lack of sanity at any given moment.

I don't remember what you said, really.

 

[Borachio]

So...

Are you less obsessed with CKII, now?