I made this joke to myself a lot when reading 1177 B.C.

say what you will about Meghan Trainor at least “Made You Look” is a product of real human malevolence. I can’t deal with these music shaped objects causing me similar pain

by comparison, I can see exactly how EUV models everything described in the political biography of Count Duke Oliveres I’ve been reading almost like the developers were intentionally trying to create a simulation of exactly that (which I think they were)

Like the problem I ended up having with EUIV is that as evocative and interesting as it is it encourages you to dig into the history of early modern statecraft which in turn reveals how shallow it is in many ways

honestly whatever hope they fire me over it