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Phlegmish posted:But what if I set threads=100000, should be super fast then. You still have the same amount of cores that can run in parallell.... it probably will run it slower as the OS will try and context switch between the threads constantly. If you wanna have a try go into the properties of whatever Paradox game in Steam and then click on Launch options.
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Airfoil posted:Yeah, thanks Fixed that fer ya.
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John Charity Spring posted:This is weird - Hearts of Iron: War Stories has just been released, a choose your own adventure game on mobile about being a Battle of Britain pilot. It's free - or at least the first 5 chapters out of 22 are free - so I gave it a shot. It's, uh. It's pretty loving badly written, apparently by someone who doesn't really know what England is, or maybe even what the target age group for the game is meant to be. Also all the characters sound extremely American, and maybe as if they get all their vocabulary from Simple English Wikipedia. Hearts of Iron IV: A lovely name, for a lovely, lovely lady
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Does anyone even know who the target audience of the "literature" released alongside paradox games is for.
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Everybody should read Lords Of The Sky, particularly the chapters on the Battle of Britain, instead if that wierd, bad thing
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Neobdragon posted:Does anyone even know who the target audience of the "literature" released alongside paradox games is for. People who write and read those huge AARs that have only a tenuous connection to any actual in-game events. I remember a long time ago there was this massive, massive HoI2 AAR that was basically fanfiction starring Fu Manchu as the big bad behind all evil in the world, and co-starring every single fictional hero and villain who could conceivably be running around the time period. It had maybe one screenshot every five posts, each post being about a chapter's length in a decent novel. Phi230 posted:Everybody should read Lords Of The Sky, particularly the chapters on the Battle of Britain, instead if that wierd, bad thing I know the WW1 Biggles books were a decent lunchtime read, though I think I heard something about everything getting toned down and made more kid-friendly by the time WW2 rolled around. Tomn fucked around with this message at 19:36 on May 18, 2016 |
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My own genuine recommendation for WW2 pilot fiction is Derek Robinson's novel Piece of Cake, which is brutal and funny and horrible and just about as good as war fiction gets I think.
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"Emma, won't you take a look at my Spitfire?" "I don't see any planes here!" "I know... I know." Pay me for this, Paradox.
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Have any of you seen Emma Chase and Shadow Hitler at the same time? Makes you wonder...
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Slaughterhouse Five is the best WWII fiction imo
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John Charity Spring posted:This is weird - Hearts of Iron: War Stories has just been released, a choose your own adventure game on mobile about being a Battle of Britain pilot. It's free - or at least the first 5 chapters out of 22 are free - so I gave it a shot. It's, uh. It's pretty loving badly written, apparently by someone who doesn't really know what England is, or maybe even what the target age group for the game is meant to be. Also all the characters sound extremely American, and maybe as if they get all their vocabulary from Simple English Wikipedia. No NATO counters. 2/10
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Smoremaster posted:Slaughterhouse Five is the best WWII fiction imo You misspelled Catch-22.
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Kavak posted:You misspelled Catch-22. oh gently caress, you're right. catch-22 owns
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I want a CYOA as Soviet where every choice is a different to kill the fascists You question your orders, turn to page 84 Turns pages You've been sent to gulag!
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so you mean like the eu4 comet event that now has like 20 options that all have the same effect?
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Not WWII, but if anyone has a hankering for a good CYOA game here's one: https://www.choiceofgames.com/broadsides/ Set during the Age of Sail on Not Britain. ^^^^^^^^ every time they add an option to the comet event an angel gets its wings.
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Tomn posted:Fixed that fer ya. That so? Shame he didn't provide some interesting insight into Clausewitz now requiring 64 bit, then. Is it just future proofing, or will HOI4 actually be using huge chunks of memory?
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Koesj posted:How is >3GB RAM a huge amount of memory in tyool 2016? I think you can actually bump per-process up to 4GB on a 32 bit OS with some tricks. And, no, that isn't huge these days. I'm just curious if HOI4 will actually use lots of RAM if you've got it.
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Neobdragon posted:Does anyone even know who the target audience of the "literature" released alongside paradox games is for. I think it's people who just accidentally buy everything listed under DLC they don't own yet.
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Phlegmish posted:I think Emma Chase is the love interest. They've really captured that HOI atmosphere. Eagerly awaiting the CK2 dating sim. Way of Life has been out for months.
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Zohar posted:confession: I like stellaris It has a lot of flaws and a lot of parts that basically scream "I was made to be expanded on in a paid DLC", but after years of soulless MoO2 clones you have to admit that Stellaris at least loving tries to be original.
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Zohar posted:confession: I like stellaris I like it a fair bit too, but I don't want to spend a whole lot of time on it right now because I have a feeling by the end of June it will be VERY good.
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Drone posted:Hearts of Iron IV: A lovely name, for a lovely, lovely lady I second the motion.
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Tomn posted:People who write and read those huge AARs that have only a tenuous connection to any actual in-game events. Not gonna lie, that sounds like it could be super fun. I assume it was on the Paradox forums and was not.
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Zohar posted:confession: I like stellaris I know at some point I'm going to burn out a bit on it, but even right now I'm having tons of fun with it. Its future looks bright as hell too.
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BadOptics posted:No NATO counters. 2/10 "She slid her hand down to her  as he pulled out his throbbing  "(I put way too much thought into which symbols to use)
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COOL CORN posted:"She slid her hand down to her This book is rated three infantry units
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Tomn posted:People who write and read those huge AARs that have only a tenuous connection to any actual in-game events. My favorite thing about AARs is when the author gets bored or fucks up his game and gives the excuse of "my hard drive died" Then again, they could all just be playing games on poo poo piles. I've come across a few decent AARs on the paradox subreddit that I've read to get ideas on how to play some countries and Chief Savage Man's Kaiserreich LP is wayyyy better than a narrative AAR has any right to be but the Paradox forums have some hilariously bad ones.
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Slaughterhouse-Ive posted:My favorite thing about AARs is when the author gets bored or fucks up his game and gives the excuse of "my hard drive died" I appreciate the kind words but I've also done the first thing before, lol. It was going to be an HoI3 AAR and I was so excited I started writing and posting before the game was even out, then it came out and well...
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Groogy posted:You still have the same amount of cores that can run in parallell.... it probably will run it slower as the OS will try and context switch between the threads constantly. If you wanna have a try go into the properties of whatever Paradox game in Steam and then click on Launch options. 
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Chief Savage Man posted:I appreciate the kind words but I've also done the first thing before, lol. It was going to be an HoI3 AAR and I was so excited I started writing and posting before the game was even out, then it came out and well... Totally understandable. But if your "hard drive dies" before your Combined Syndicates LP is finished I will track you down and eat you. 
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Airfoil posted:I think you can actually bump per-process up to 4GB on a 32 bit OS with some tricks. HOI3 TFH tries to use 4gb of ram anyway which is why it crashes so loving often
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Kavak posted:Totally understandable. But if your "hard drive dies" before your Combined Syndicates LP is finished I will track you down and eat you. Its all on the cloud, so blame Microsoft.
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Chief Savage Man posted:Its all on my butt, so blame Microsoft. Doesn't seem the safest place to store data to me.
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catlord posted:Not gonna lie, that sounds like it could be super fun. I assume it was on the Paradox forums and was not. I honestly don't recall what the quality of the writing itself was like, though I did read a fair way through when I was young and stupid and still thought Paradox AARs were pretty neat stuff. What I DO remember was that it kept adding subplot after subplot after subplot with no end in sight, ever. If you're curious and want to see for yourself, I dug up the old thread here. Notable points: - Apparently there were actually two AARs - the first in HoI1, the second in HoI2. - There are 165 pages in the second thread, albeit not all of author posts. - The first post of the second thread was set in October 21st, 1939, and was written in 2005. The last post was set in September 20th, 1940, and was written in 2011. - There are 22 paragraphs in the prologue of the second thread alone describing what happened in the first thread. - Apparently there never was an end and the whole thing is incomplete.
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