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Cake day: July 20th, 2024

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  • This is a fair point, though I will say for most Paradox games the majority of the changes come out in free updates when the DLCs drop. And I’ve found (coming from Europa Universalis IV) that there are only a few crucial DLCs that really feel necessary to the experience, many just add cosmetics or minor changes that get balanced out with free updates anyway.

    Doesn’t solve the problem, you still feel like you’re missing out, but for example EUIV has like 20 DLCs, only 5 or so I would consider mandatory, and they go on sale in packs so often I don’t think I’ve paid more than $50 for the full game and all necessary DLCs for any paradox game.











  • I was lucky enough to snag a couple of Honeywell Nikor tanks from ebay for cheap, they’re compact, don’t consume a lot of chemicals, and i like how the metal reels load once i got used to them. I have two tanks and four reels for about the same price as a single patterson tank. Highly recommended, even though the plastic patterson reels might be easier to load, i wouldn’t know, the metal reels haven’t really given me much trouble with normal film stocks.








  • I found a way to use my old Nikon as a webcam using an HDMI capture card. Hooked it up to the camera’s mini HDMI port and wham! had a working webcam!

    But after thirty minutes, it would always switch off the live view, so i was left with a camera feed of the menus. Turns out this is an import restriction so it can be imported as a “still camera” and not a “movie camera” for significantly less taxes.

    Enter some wonderful soul who found a way to hack the firmware to allow live view to stay on continuously, so now it works great as a webcam!



  • Can confirm. For the curious: wing mirrors should be set wider than you might think. You shouldn’t see any part of your car in each one, you should only see what’s in the lanes next to you. Someone walking behind your car should appear in one wing mirror, then your rear view, then the other wing mirror, and not in any two of them at the same time.

    Still, I glance over my shoulder when changing lanes :)