This week on the blog! We're finishing our Hearts of Iron IV series, discussing how the game treats strategic ends and the place of modding. In the end, I think there is a bitter irony that Paradox's least historically responsible game is their most successful. acoup.blog/2026/10/30/t...

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My culture is, in fact, your costume. (NOW GO VOTE!!!)

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Britain is running 10% fewer trains today than pre-COVID, yet ridership is up by 110%. This means more overcrowding (already bad in 2019) and less choice for passengers. The good thing? We can actually fix this quite quickly. My feature in RAIL: www.railmagazine.com/features-lan...

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this game has *tavern wenches* AND questions about Marxism?

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I guess I have to imagine it has some kernel of "reasonable concern" at the start, for my own sanity, because otherwise, that means someone just walked into Commons like okay lads today we ban "jeans face sitting" ....???

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