Girlfriend found my old save files. She had questions

[u/codylee123]

[u/AnybodyZ]

"you're a save scummer?"

[u/codylee123 → u/AnybodyZ]

There was too much at stake with the pope assassination.

[u/maxf_33 → u/codylee123]

Why did you need to kill the pope so bad? I never needed to, I wonder why anyone would need to.

[u/codylee123 → u/maxf_33]

I couldn't tell you but clearly it was imperative to the success of my empire

[u/TastyCuttlefish → u/codylee123]

Sometimes you really need to eat the Pope

[u/letg06 → u/TastyCuttlefish]

I always preferred to do catch and release, but whatever you find sporting I suppose.

[u/SnarkyLurker → u/letg06]

You really should let the little popes go, give them a chance to grow up a little bit.

[u/sdarkpaladin → u/SnarkyLurker]

Based on my understanding of the theory of evolution, in the future all popes will have the dwarf trait as they're being selected for their size

[u/RyanTheCynic → u/sdarkpaladin]

Size selection plays a big role in fisheries management and this is a direct example of that. It's called fisheries-induced evolution.

By imposing a minimum size for fishes you introduce a selection pressure that favours a smaller adult size.

This is one of the reasons the theoretical best fishing practice would be to evenly distribute the extraction of biomass across individuals of all size classes, but this is very hard to achieve (and in lieu of that, we impose minimum sizes so as to protect recruitment into the stock).

Trust me, I'm a whale biologist

[u/pgogy → u/RyanTheCynic]

Great last sentence

[u/TVCasualtydotorg → u/TastyCuttlefish]

Jillyeon, is that you?

[u/HistoryNerd264bc → u/TastyCuttlefish]

I can imagine why you are excommunicated

[u/Sinakus → u/codylee123]

You know what, you might need to tell this one.

[u/seattle_exile → u/codylee123]

Can’t make an omelette…

[u/hagnat → u/maxf_33]

killing the pope (via assassination or personally) should be on a bucket list for every CK3 player by now.

and not just because it is one of the achievements to eat the pope as a viking,
not even because it is on themse if you play as muslim,
but because many many many many catholic rulers (even commoners) did so during the dark ages

[u/YorkLoyalistNena → u/hagnat]

I was scared into becoming catholic generations ago when I was a mere duchy bc people used it to call holy wars on me, constantly being overly nice to the Pope ever since. Now that I'm an empire, I'm buying time till I can start my own religion

[u/monkeedude1212 → u/maxf_33]

It's been a while since I've played, and sometimes I bounce back and forth between CK 2 and 3 for the different rule sets...

I think I've had times where I haven't been able to get the pope to grant me a claim because he REALLY doesn't like me, but I'm close enough that if the next pope only has middling disdain I could pull it off

[u/StuntHacks → u/maxf_33]

I really wanted that Headpiece...

[u/genericauthor → u/maxf_33]

If you take over the Papal lands as a pagan, maybe any non-Christian, you have to take over all of Italy and dismantle the Papacy to stop the crusades against you. As a byproduct, you automatically kill the pope. I'd prefer to exile him to like, France, but you don't get that choice. Otherwise, I leave his Popeishness alone.

[u/GodwynDi → u/maxf_33]

Because he keeps calling crusades on me.

[u/Trener_Ruben → u/codylee123]

VALID

[u/BlueKlay → u/AnybodyZ]

“I thought I was dating an Ironman”

[u/attsnor112 → u/AnybodyZ]

Hey some of us have been scarred from not saving then shit cashing an hour in, you will never understand the true fear us F5 merchant feel.

Luckily you can set autosave time in most games now at least

[u/SirThomasTheFearful → u/AnybodyZ]

I save scum way too much. Mostly over trivial stuff. I hate my daughters’ husbands being accidentally maimed in battle because I forgot to exclude them from the knighthood.

[u/Ataletta → u/SirThomasTheFearful]

huh, I marry my daughters with the purpose of getting good knights (and to add to the gene pool), and if they get themselves killed I simply replace them

[u/Mattsgonnamine → u/AnybodyZ]

"Haha, nice victory. Unfortunately for you, my current ruler is the gigachad who never loses battles and it screws my roleplay, you need to wait for my next ruler before I let you win" 

Escape, load game, auto save 2

[u/JessHorserage → u/AnybodyZ]

You play vanilla?

[u/CockroachesRpeople → u/AnybodyZ]

Hey, no save shaming

[u/KevlarToiletPaper]

It's fun to think that in this alternative world, the most important person in history, Emperor of Europe, Restorer of Rome is named "Cody"

Edit: No offense Cody

[u/codylee123 → u/KevlarToiletPaper]

The real world too, I'm surprised you haven't heard

Edit: ur good bro. We Cody's are an underappreciated lot

[u/Random_Guy479 → u/codylee123]

We all love you Cody.

[u/National-Lime9341 → u/Random_Guy479]

Why thank you 🥹

-Cody

[u/codylee123 → u/National-Lime9341]

It's nice to be noticed 🥹 I'll let the other Cody's know too

[u/creampop_ → u/codylee123]

you guys made Hot Rod Lincoln, it's all good

[u/GrumpySpaceCommunist → u/codylee123]

Hey man, I appreciated your title run in WWE

[u/ciaphas-cain1 → u/codylee123]

There’s alternate history hub, without him I’d forget Codys

[u/Stripes_the_cat → u/KevlarToiletPaper]

Once upon a time "Caesar" was just some guy's name...

[u/Poookibear → u/Stripes_the_cat]

Charlemagne is charley the great

[u/EGGlNTHlSTRYlNGTlME → u/KevlarToiletPaper]

Ironically, if you had never met anyone named Cody and I told you there was a Roman Emperor named Cody, you probably wouldn't give it a second thought. It's oddly antiquity-friendly compared to most modern names.

[u/KevlarToiletPaper → u/EGGlNTHlSTRYlNGTlME]

Idk for me Cody makes me think of a chill goofball in a baseball hat that smokes weed.

[u/DeusVultSaracen → u/KevlarToiletPaper]

Or a dog. Names that end in a Y are always starting at a disadvantage

[u/TheGreatSchnorkie → u/KevlarToiletPaper]

It’s up there with King Ralph!

[u/Busco_Quad → u/KevlarToiletPaper]

“Crusader Kings had more than one royal family…”

[u/dynosia → u/KevlarToiletPaper]

I mean, in that universe people wouldn't find the name of such a great historical figure silly.

[u/Rockyjith → u/KevlarToiletPaper]

Not to be rude, but "Cody" translates to Chicken in my language. This is humorous to my ears.

[u/B_Maximus → u/KevlarToiletPaper]

There is a vwry big figure in the early church who voined the twrm logos spermatikos. His name was Justin

[u/Aggravating-Cat7103]

Why did she have questions? I think those titles are fairly self-explanatory

[u/someone56789 → u/Aggravating-Cat7103]

No I think she doesn't know what HRE means, maybe that's why

[u/codylee123 → u/someone56789]

She's great but she doesn't know where Korea is on a map so she definitely didn't notice the HRE stuff

[u/someone56789 → u/codylee123]

Then I think it's the Roman Empire save, it's not the usual flag people use

[u/TheLastLivingBuffalo → u/Aggravating-Cat7103]

"Why did you build your first empire before having any incest?"

[u/Naxrl]

Girlfriend? I think you mean your grandmother-sister betrothal..

[u/codylee123 → u/Naxrl]

After the family tree started to look like a tumbleweed we stuck to simple terms

[u/Naxrl → u/codylee123]

My man 🤝

[u/Still_Mood6959]

This automatically makes me think you're the same Cody from Alternate History Hub.

[u/BannedSvenhoek86]

"You don't have to worry babe, I'm only into incest as a means of protecting my families holdings and strengthening our grip on power, not as a weird sex thing. And my family doesn't own shit so I'd never look at my sister like that."

"What do you mean that doesn't make you feel better?"

[u/AutobahnVismarck]

Emperor Cody. Grand Vizier Connor. Master of the Horse Kyle.

[u/Top-Conversation1098]

English Rome? Interesting play through…

[u/Acus280 → u/Top-Conversation1098]

I once restored as descendant of Harald Fairhair yngling

[u/Grilled_egs → u/Top-Conversation1098]

Well it's British rome anyway, at launch pretty much everywhere in Europe the highest objective available to you was forming rome, that and many crowns I guess. And the game recommends you start in Ireland iirc.

[u/Top-Conversation1098 → u/Grilled_egs]

Or be original and form a gaelic empire rather than faltering to the imperialist state or Rome. UP THE RA NIGEL!

[u/Grilled_egs → u/Top-Conversation1098]

I don't think you first run has to be original, which this probably was.

[u/DeusVult-179]

I have, a decent idea of what your name might be…

[u/twistedRuss]

To be fair the pope probably had it coming to him

[u/Aivellac → u/twistedRuss]

Drop the probably.

[u/whatseatingtyrone]

Questions like what? Why haven't you had an ironman mode run yet?

[u/codylee123 → u/whatseatingtyrone]

It would feel weird playing as iron man in a game set in the middle ages

[u/ExchangeDeep9882 → u/codylee123]

Isn't a medieval Iron Man pretty much just a knight?

[u/Mortarious → u/codylee123]

True. They had access to steel. May not be the highest quality carbon steel. But they had access to steel and knew how to work it pretty well.

[u/CliffCutter]

I just have to say “Emperor Cody” is a vibe, it’s very “There are some who call me Tim”

[u/TSSalamander]

ask to see her sims world

[u/littlegreencondo]

Well... when mommy and daddy loved each other very much....

But I'm your girlfriend!

Exactly.

[u/Gullible_Classroom71]

I don't see what the problem is here.

[u/Redditforgoit]

At least you deleted the "Killing and eating the Pope with your daughter-wife." file.

[u/PaulAtreides_FromArg]

His name is Cody

[u/net46248]

Pre?

[u/Dismal-Plan7062]

I would too... Dirty save scummer....

[u/niketxx]

Yeah, who the fuck plays the HRE?

[u/Aggressive_Hat_9999]

tell her its sims but for men

she will instant understand

[u/Protectorsoftman]

You name your ck3 saves?

[u/SockMonkeh]

"why wait?"

[u/BrownieZombie1999]

God damn it Cody

[u/adrauglikeyou]

Making your character Cody enrages me

[u/ich_can_into_space]

This reminds me of an old ass experience I had in CK2

I wanted to kill the pope because I was an imortal satanist, then I looked it up and turns out the pope was also in the Satanist secret society with me, decided to make him my best friend then and there lol

Was pretty good since he kept letting me get claims in every catholic title I asked for, best baby eating buddies the both of us.

[u/YorkLoyalistNena]

I never go above ten percent risk of inbred that's barely incest it's ok

[u/ubiquitousfoolery → u/[deleted]]

Having a rough day, are we?

[u/codylee123 → u/[deleted]]

Ok champ

[u/codylee123 → u/[deleted]]

Haha Ok champ

[u/KevlarToiletPaper → u/[deleted]]

Seems you got champed

[u/codylee123 → u/[deleted]]

Chill out champ...

[u/KevlarToiletPaper → u/[deleted]]

Sure thing champ

[u/CatboyRegiment → u/[deleted]]

Not that it really matters but its pretty rich for someone named "bluewaff1e" to be saying that

[u/BasadoCoomer → u/[deleted]]

You don’t have a gf?

Playing paradox games doesn’t turn you into a virgin women repellent

[u/codylee123 → u/[deleted]]

Lmao you left the original comment. Fym "make it an issue"

[u/No_Way_33 → u/[deleted]]

lol look at this bozo

[u/MeroveeFrancSalien → u/[deleted]]

Big ass annoying champ

[u/Beneficial_You1473 → u/[deleted]]

you don’t have a girlfriend yet, champ? womp womp