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Sunday, December 14, 2025

Lightning Train - Buying on Pedigree

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The board game I have played most often over the last 2 years is Dune: Imperium, designed by Paul Dennen, and published by Dire Wolf. Paul D...
Friday, December 12, 2025

Shipping $5 items

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I ordered an item for around $5 from Amazon here in Belgium today. Amazon Belgium is relatively new, and Belgium is a relatively small count...
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Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Gaming status December 2025

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As expected, my gaming in the last month was dominated by Europa Universalis V, with over 180 hours spent in the game, and another bunch of ...
Tuesday, December 09, 2025

A triumph of capitalism

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If you are reading or watching international macroeconomic content, you probably encountered stories like this: Country X is worrying about ...
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Saturday, December 06, 2025

Railroad Tiles

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Most of the board games I bought at the Spiel in Essen this year still remain unopened in my shelf. On the one side I have been playing a lo...
Thursday, December 04, 2025

EU5 One Month Later - A Buying Recommendation

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One month and 160 played hours into Europa Universalis V I now feel familiar enough with the game to be able to say whether I recommend buyi...
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Tuesday, December 02, 2025

EU5 Portugal - The first century

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Europa Universalis V has been out for 4 weeks now, and I have 155 hours played. That is basically equivalent to a full time job. It also mea...
Thursday, November 27, 2025

The End of Mecklenburg

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I played my second run of Europa Universalis V in ironman to the end, and all I got was an achievement. It's an achievement that not man...
Tuesday, November 25, 2025

US political rhetorics disrespect history

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Words have meaning. Historical words have historical meaning, and often are a reminder of real history, which is important. Misusing these w...
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Sunday, November 23, 2025

A flurry of patches

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Europa Universalis V patch 1.0.8 is announced for tomorrow. And while some patches were smaller hotfixes, they didn't skip any version ...
Monday, November 17, 2025

Compound interest in EU5

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The graph below shows my current game of Europa Universalis V, which is my second game overall. It shows the tax base of my country, Mecklen...
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Saturday, November 15, 2025

Professional review bombing

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There is an argument to be made that the big gaming publications are increasingly irrelevant, and gamers find better information about wheth...
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