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Quote of the moment Vol.2

“We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera.” – Illustrated London News, Jan. 17, 1931 G. K. Chesterton

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"I am the last monarch of the old world. As Emperor, it is my duty to protect my peoples from their politicians" -Franz Joseph, Emperor of Austria-Hungary

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In Which the Civ 5 mod Vox Populi has balance issues...

Good morning, my friend, dear reader of this post! Wish you a happy Friday, and an excellent weekend that is to come next! How are you? How have you been across the week? As for me, I am okay, overall. The weather on my end has been more consistent, as the days have been relatively hot over a number of them. Not ideal, I hope for more rain to cone at some point!  I, for some reason, decided to take the dust off Civ 6, and play it a bit. I trust this is due my Civ 5 current fatigue. Is it my favorite civ? Absolutely. But that said, as I already saw what I wanted on the vanilla, I did mention this time and again, I have since shifted towards mods such as the big Vox Populi one. That gave this entry a rich afterlife with me, specially as Civ 6 fail to sit well overall.  Alas, this mod is not a silver bullet to revitalize a game that I have play more than enough at this point. I am happy to still try it, but this particular mod has a huge issue concerning wars, which is borderline...

In Which we Wrap up November 2023: A musical Retrospective

In Which we Have a nice Tablecloth and 500 grams of Sugar

In Which we Remember and Praise Empire Earth

In Which I journal a bit further! Life stuff and writing for amusement and work

In Which The Season is for Celebrating! And other topics of talking

In Which We have a Happy Thanksgiving 2023, and how Madame Du Barry was not well portrayed in my favorite movie

In Which We Discuss some 18th century Thinkers and their ideas

In Which I conquer Roma as the Byzantines, and other stories

In Which I go Back to the drawing board with the Byzantine Dream

In Which we have not the most auspicious start to November…