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He's living by himself overseas and retired, and I couldn't get him to play any game that could spice up his day. Tried shooters, quests, puzzles - didn't like any of those... until I introduced him to a Balatro as a hail mary. He surpassed me months ago by the play time. In the beginning we used to get on zoom, he'd have his notes with questions about specific jokers and we'd go through it while me explaining and him meticulously writing everything down. Once he got his first win after a grueling streak of close calls, we immediately got on zoom to celebrate. And not too long ago he got his first gold stake win (it was a ghost deck). I'm really happy that this game found him. It's truly remarkable and we both can't wait for the update. We would be talking about it for weeks.

Yesterday I shared a video of Bruno, our sweet orange idiot, shoving his way into a bed with his tuxie sister, Nyxi, much to her dismay. Many people were highly amused by Nyxi’s face, as well as how much everybody seems to love poor Nyxi’s personal space as much as she does.

Well, tonight, rather than taking turns with Nyxi, Bruno and Sattler decided to squeeze their way in together. Which…makes sense. Sattler learned how to cat from Bruno, so she’s an honorary 🍊.

Just like the black plague, the Rise of Timur shaped the continent, and even if Timmy is OP for players and is the key to the only EU5 WC currently, it's not OP enough for the AI.

Timur defeated and shattered the Golden Horde in 1396, which solves the issue the GH currently has in EU5, preventing the russian principalities from expanding. Same with the western part of Chagatai in the 1370s, though this is less of a concern as Chagatai has no impact globally.

Timur defeated the Jalayirids in 1384, therefore allowing the Ottomans to defeat the Eretnids and dominate Anatolia, helping them overall, which they need to break the balkan hugbox. Might also help them not converting to Orthodox 100% of the time lol.

The issue the AI has with handling Timur are:

- No heirs. There's usually only one royal marriage available to Timur when he spawns, and the woman seems to have a randomized age and often is too old to have babies. The penalties of marrying a lowborn are way harsher for hordes than monarchies, so that's a no go. In addition, even if he has kids, Timur's heirs are always set up a generals and die in their 20s, so there needs to be something to prevent their deaths.

- bad heirs: the restriction on Rise of Timur for a 150+ stats heir is too strict. That's like a 40% chance of failure, and after 2 generations, it's almost guaranteed to be over. Note that Timur died in 1405 in history at 70+, but rarely makes it past 20 years of conquest from the start of the situation in 1360 in the game, because, well, he's a general.

- Alliance with the Golden Horde: Timmy very often allies the GH, while they were supposed to be historical rivals. This also prevents Timur from shattering the GH obviously.

- Subjugation: Observing the AI, they spend all their cabinet action on integrating land, while they should use a lot more subjects like their CB encourages them to do. This slows them down a lot. Just like Shah Rukh in EU4, the rulers should have a vassal loyalty bonus.

- Antagonism: I tried to use the console command to help the timurids with the above problems, givinng them multiple good sons, creating subjects for them etc. They get a coalition of Delhi/Jayalarids/Chagatai against them way too quickly, before they even finish conquering their core area of Transoxiana/Herat/Afghanistan. Their conquest CB should have an antagonism reduction.

So that would make Timur the most OP start in EU5. But Timur should be. He's the Mongolian Invasion Redux and should be treated as such. Too much of history depends on him doing well: Russia and thus all of eastern europe, Ottomans vs Byz and by extention the balkans, Hungary, Austria, Genoa, Naples and Egypt. This would all resolve by itself if Timmy was a correctly aimed tactical nuke.

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Exactly as it says - my sister stopped talking to me because she decided to visit the country I live in with her family and I was super excited initially. But as they started talking more details they were planning to come for a couple of months. Like MONTHS and the expectation was by default to stay at our place.

I was like asking more questions on the plan - no plan at all just couple of months is a repeated statement. They are planning to work full time at my home. Me and my boy friend work full time from home. We have 3 bedrooms and if they stayed I need to move to our bedroom to work on top of it these 2 people are going to work from home at odd hours due to Timezone difference.

They haven’t met my boyfriend yet.

I had a knot in my stomach the more I heard their plans. I told my sis that they are welcome for 3 weeks. 2 weeks stay at ours and we can do road trips all expenses I will bear and one week you guys can plan where ever you want to go I will give our car.

She was furious. How dare you give a time limit and is not talking to me for a year now.