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Sep 29, 2020 35 tweets 10 min read Read on X
New @CrusaderKings patch means... NEW PATCH NOTES.

Twitter, let me take you on a brief journey through the beautiful, twisted world of gaming's premier medieval incest and murder simulator.

Let's start here.

"Honey, have you been seducing the Pope again?!" #thread A Head of Faith will no lon...
Positively or negatively? Only one way to find out... Devouring people will now h...
...unless you're the Pope. The Pope can no longer publ...
Can we patch this out of Twitter too?  A faction will no longer c...
We've all been there.  If you instantly regret ro...
When you drunkenly agree to babysit. If you promise a vassal to ...
"Bless me father, for I have sinned."

"What is it, my son?"

"I have less wives than God would like." The Piety hit from being be...
I mean, it's the least they can do. Courtiers you have a kid wi...
CAN EVERYONE STOP TRYING TO SEDUCE MARRIED CHARACTERS PLEASE. Added more restrictions to ...
ALSO, CAN EVERYONE STOP KILLING PUPPIES PLEASE. Added a 10 year cooldown to...
This is basically me, IRL. Reclusive characters will n...
"If you two don't stop fighting back there, then I'm turning this car around and committing one of you to the Church."  The 'Take the Vows' intera...
Anyone with a toddler will tell you this 100% isn't true. Children can no longer star...
Farage will be happy. Turks are now more likely t...
"And this is little johnny."

"Congratulations! He looks... um..."

"Lustful and sadistic? Yeah. We're not sure why." Reduced the chance of child...
Oh great. MORE jobs lost to computers. Gave the AI dancing lessons
Good news for Trump supporters! Bad news for the rest of America.  It's now possible to negot...
Obi-Wan will be disappointed. Fixed typo the name for the...
I HATE it when you visit a National Trust house, and this is happening. So awks.  Barons married to other la...
DON'T TELL ME HOW TO LIVE. Characters that should be n...
This the problem with kids today. Their parents don't let them do anything for themselves. - Child preacher in event m...
Indeed, what they need is the good, old fashioned slipper! Naughty children go straigh...
"Darren, I feel like you should have brought this up earlier in our relationship." People will no longer judge...
If only reality were like this. Sneaky people will now wear...
I'LL TELL YOU WHEN I'VE HAD ENOUGH, THANKS. The game will no longer tel...
There is a LOT to unpick in this situation. When being courted by a pre...
Seems fair. You will no longer be stres...
Women have been waiting for men to patch this, in real life, for centuries. You will no longer refer to...
Honestly wish this had been true of me as a teenager. You will no longer think le...
It can get messy, true. Made cannibalism more hygie...
Is nobody at @PdxInteractive married?! This is TOTALLY possible. Spouses can no longer be bo...
Similarly, has no one at Paradox been a teenager?! 😁 An appropriate sexuality is...
And finally, humanity's greatest achievement: create AI and watch it get addicted to Jerry Springer. Restricted the Intrigue(Sch...
Anyway, there you go. A brief glimpse into the weird and wonderful world of playing Crusader Kings 3.

Don't forget: I stream it most Sundays over here. If you are sufficiently WTFed out by these, stop by. Honestly! It all makes sense in game! 😆 twitch.tv/gariusthebrit
Or, if you just want to buy me booze for being that guy who actually bothers to read patch notes, then you can do so here. Every little helps!

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That made them VAT liable.

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And thus getting UTTERLY undone by not making even the tiniest changes to adapt to a local political and legal market.
The MOMENT they submitted themselves to an employment law case where the Duck Test would be applied under English law, they were fucked.

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As is always the case, doesn't credit himself. Blames himself for not somehow saving more.
Flicking through it now and it's heartbreaking. As with Smallbones' papers or Mary Burchill's writings, just good people who stood up, but then cannot forever escape the guilt of thinking they could have done more than they did.

Even as they were doing more than anyone else.
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Here's how that happened. 1/🧵
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Backed by Nokia, Confinity is making a way to 'beam' money between PalmPilots by infrared.
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