*A huge thanks to paradox for yet again being the greatest company to sponsor videos!* You can look at the game here: play.victoria3game.com/SpiffingBrit Anyway I hope you all liked todays video and if you want to see a VIC 3 Britain Secures the tea live stream then let me know Also because I could not feature it in todays video my current favourite vic 3 exploit is teleport hacks by double assigning troops to front lines. It allows you to literally teleport behind the enemy in a 1000 IQ move!

@hecker2485

Жыл бұрын

yes

@EEEEEEEE

Жыл бұрын

E

@acodplayer2956

Жыл бұрын

Hii

@shader1xderp778

Жыл бұрын

mashallah

@dinosirbone

Жыл бұрын

Drink Yorkshire tea

Gotta give Victoria credit, they recognized Spiff as a threat immediately.

@insaniam_convertunt_scientiam

Жыл бұрын

The machines are learning...from Spiff. Oh well, reality wasn't unpleasant while it lasted.

@retroficient

Жыл бұрын

Same with Russia and Britain lol

@ArturHedlund

Жыл бұрын

777 for the win amen

@thesteelrodent1796

Жыл бұрын

Vicky got nervous the moment Spiff entered the game

@randomdoomer8549

Жыл бұрын

It is too late because he's already in...

"Why is women's suffrage important? Well it's incredibly important because it gives us money!" Never change

@MarcusTalks123

Жыл бұрын

I mean it’s not completely inaccurate. Just like most other organizations, they usually end up profiting for someone.

@godofsquirrels494

Жыл бұрын

Thats a bit more real than one would think.

@boomerix

Жыл бұрын

@@godofsquirrels494 The bit about not caring about birth rates, because immigration will fix it could have been straight out of Brussels.

@WuCSquad

Жыл бұрын

Well it was the reason for it. More people in the workplace, suppressing wages and more output.

@boomerix

Жыл бұрын

@@WuCSquad For the most part of Human history most women had to work as well. The short period of time in the western hemisphere in which women did not have to earn any income and a Husband could support his entire family on only one income was probably one of the most privileged time to be a woman. The fairy tale that being a wage slave as a "strong independent woman" is far more profitable. Also most pro mass immigration arguments are essentially exploitative, as they are always seen and are used as cheap labour whose first generation is grateful for being underpaid. The best part in all of that, it is the "left" that always whinge about evil capitalism, who nowadays constantly promote the worst aspects of it. The big corporations have perfectly spun the social narrative into their favour. Just fun to see that we essentially got to see that in this video. (PS: Not saying immigration in General is bad, also Women should be free to work if they want to. Just the current elite in many western countries are overdoing it and it is harmful to society. Healthy families produce healthy people, strong communal bonds and are the backbone of society. This get's sacrificed for the holy GDP and get's spun into the narrative that it is actual good to be destructive towards families and young workers are as replaceable as cattle. Okay I've got way too political, I'll stop here, maybe I'll even delete this comment later)

20:40 "out of 151k residents, 750k voted for The Party" Seems highly realistic to me.

@YourLocalMairaaboo

8 ай бұрын

With wealth voting, rich guys got more votes. And since everyone is so wealthy, vote counts had some inflation even without rigging.

@MrMan-np9jg

3 ай бұрын

Average communist voting system

@DylanHabibi

2 ай бұрын

@@YourLocalMairaaboo interesting, thanks for an actual explanation!

@user-cu9rb9cx6m

Ай бұрын

Ik it's true but bro each civi must then have a minimum of 4000 VOTES I THINK. IDK MAYBE MORE

@booshmcfadden7638

Ай бұрын

Just like USA in 2020!

History lesson for people who didn't know Singapore exists

@ALT0_768

Жыл бұрын

ah yes. except we didnt process the goods: we just repacked it and sold it for higher price

@BrahmaDBA

Жыл бұрын

Spif Kuan Yew if you may lol.

@fish7598

Жыл бұрын

Yeah it's really funny because this doesn't even really feel like an exploit, just min-maxing. The main problem with something like this is that the moment you're not part of a customs union your economy WILL explode, meaning that there's a hard celling on how powerful you can ever become, as if you grow too big you'll end up being kicked out. It doesn't make it a bad strat, just one with legitimate consequences. I'm honestly amazed the run survived the war with Russia in all honesty - if they embargoed you the economy would be instantly vaporised, though with how large it ended up getting it'd probably also crash Russia

@mrbrown7668

Жыл бұрын

goods from Indonesia and Malaysia

@Alb410

11 ай бұрын

singapore is a bit bigger than this

sure a rock in the middle of nowhere might not be a potential threat, but a rock in the middle of nowhere being lead by spiff is a legitimate threat

@Kernwadi

Жыл бұрын

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@AndrewMitchell123

Жыл бұрын

yes, truly thats the case... but isnt it just beautiful, majestic and above all, perfectly balanced? I think it truly is!

@theteleportedbread8803

Жыл бұрын

Everything that is under spiff management should count as worldwide threat

@jaisummons2304

Жыл бұрын

AI Britain and India: Spiff just looks threatening even if he's on an island Me: I'm scared of the British as well hopefully they don't come back to America

@AndrewMitchell123

Жыл бұрын

@@jaisummons2304 oh, you didnt notice? THE TEA, I mean its everywhere, even in the heretical coffee drinking boston tea partying country as the US of A and by god and Spiff, isnt it just majestic? Lord, save us all

We never saw this coming 👀

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Жыл бұрын

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@thespiffingbrit

Жыл бұрын

you get what you pay for!

@dailypositivity6659

Жыл бұрын

Holy shit it's them

@LocalSinkPisser

Жыл бұрын

Who need an empire with tea bags already when you can start from dirt and then make more tea bags then the British empire -Spiff's logic

@lupusalbus3795

Жыл бұрын

How did you not expect this? Are you the Spanish Inquisition?

To show how many people live in Jan Mayen: A preschool classroom has more people than in Jan Mayen 40% of people in UK have dated more people then the people on Jan Mayen You see more people in a day then you would the population of Jan Mayen You would actually matter if you lived on Jan Mayen.

@drew17210

7 ай бұрын

Dang that last one was good

@psymar

6 күн бұрын

most days I see maybe one person delivering my doordash unless you count the internet

I was waiting for the world conquest. But I love how the "exploit" is just doing things that worked in the real world before the AI figures it out at its own pace.

@josephleebob3828

Жыл бұрын

no

@Sewblon

Жыл бұрын

Is it though? I am pretty sure that the states that had the highest standard of living in the 19th and 20th century were not council Republics.

@popepiusxv

Жыл бұрын

@@Sewblon the highest standard of living for who? those who owned businesses and were good with the government had access to everything they wanted, but 90% of the people (even today!) couldn't afford basic needs and were often in debt. In contrast, the other Union-State of the 20th century transformed a backwater peasant country into one that rivaled the US in its size of economy, sent the first satellite and man into space, improved literacy, fed the hungry, made education mandatory, expanded womens suffrage, gave everyone a roof over their head a job to work all while keeping standard of living relatively well. Oh, and do I have to say? Also while recovering from three wars (WW1, Russian civil war and the incredibly destructive second world war, which they even won)

@Sewblon

Жыл бұрын

@@popepiusxv " In contrast, the other Union-State of the 20th century transformed a backwater peasant country into one that rivaled the US in its size of economy" That isn't true. The Soviet Union's GNP only ever reached 58% of America's GNP, in 1975. "all while keeping standard of living relatively well. " What exactly do you mean by relatively well? I ask, because in 1945, even the best paid workers in the U.S.S.R. didn't have access to goods that their equivalents in the U.S.A. had access to. Also, anecdotally, from Edward Frenkel, food was easier to get in the U.S.A. in the 90s than it was in the Soviet Union when it collapsed.

@le_meme_man8983

Жыл бұрын

@@Sewblon No shit food was easier to get in US than in a dying country

I can just picture a Jan Mayen leaving his home to head to the factory for work, he opens his front door and walks to the train station that sits in his front yard. He gets on the train. Then the train then moves about 20 meters and stops. He then gets off and heads into the factory.

@BSm2919

Жыл бұрын

Around the end there they had ~670,000 people on that island....Only around 4,000 people per square mile. Not bad at all!

@pnutz_2

Жыл бұрын

it's like lining the roads with bus stations in sim city

@BasileosHerodou

Жыл бұрын

@@cubefreak123 at that point they probably just imported massive amounts of dirt, stone and clay to artificially expand the island

@lifeofentropy

Жыл бұрын

@@cubefreak123 actually only a little over half the density of hong kong

@lifeofentropy

Жыл бұрын

@@cubefreak123 Yeah, orders of magnitude in difference. 4000 per square mile vs over a million.

I like how spiff describes how the global economy works irl as an exploit

@7fatrats

Жыл бұрын

To be fair, is he wrong?

@ThePiprian

Жыл бұрын

Because it is.

@LipziG3R

Жыл бұрын

I mean the entire "first world" is completely built on exploitation of "lesser" Nations. It is the biggest exploit we have ...

@ThePiprian

Жыл бұрын

@@LipziG3R And their own lower class people.

@talinpeacy7222

Жыл бұрын

I'd say the starting resources were well overblown and the island's surface area and climate would hard cap the number of people willing to even live there even if they had well paying jobs.

That reaction to going to war with a rock... Just... Wow.. I could actually HEAR old men going "what's the point in invading a rock? You won't get any land out of it!"

@crusadercameron353

Жыл бұрын

British say otherwise

@Xiborg1

Жыл бұрын

I mean, it is an uncolonized island with little to no people, the Brits love it

@hawwaulya326

Жыл бұрын

"We can get a live empire founding brit"

I like how the exploit for it is just... a normal supply chain

@mrlingshaun6269

Жыл бұрын

I think he wanted us to just watch him play the game lol

@masterdeetectiv9520

Жыл бұрын

it is an exploit cuz in reality russia wouldnt draft 300k people to invade a tiny island

@AaronCorr

Жыл бұрын

@@masterdeetectiv9520 honestly surprised this comment didn't get a ton of answers from people who do not get it

@picassoman4103

Жыл бұрын

@@masterdeetectiv9520 ukraine rn 💀💀💀💀💀

@beniaminpalgan2501

Жыл бұрын

@@picassoman4103 I dont know if you’ve looked at a map recently but Ukraine aint exactly a 2 square metre rock off the coast of iceland

Something to point out is that between 1640 and the 1882 polar expeditions, Jan Mayen was completely abandoned, 0 people. So those 5 thousand people were presumably kidnapped, dumped there, and then whoever took them there left.

@kabobawsome

Жыл бұрын

If I were to guess, the game can't really process a totally empty state, so it's just a relatively small population.

@thespiffingbrit

Жыл бұрын

@@kabobawsome It can! I have seen state populations drop to as low as 4 before.

@kabobawsome

Жыл бұрын

@@thespiffingbrit Huh. Weird that it starts so big then lol

@thespiffingbrit

Жыл бұрын

@@kabobawsome it is a split state with the northern part of Norway so it gets a % of that regions population when it is released. Hence the higher than expected starting number

@kabobawsome

Жыл бұрын

@@thespiffingbrit Ahhh, didn't realize it was part of the same state region as that northern part. That makes sense.

Once again, spiff breaks a paradox game before it’s even released. Beautiful.

@EEEEEEEE

Жыл бұрын

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@thespiffingbrit

Жыл бұрын

a perfectly balanced business relationship

@Huzam001

Жыл бұрын

@@thespiffingbrit with no exploits I’m sure

@williamdory4375

Жыл бұрын

At this point he's QC.

@descuddlebat

Жыл бұрын

Paradox paying for an influencer and receiving a QA on top

For anyone interested in reference: The area and population of Jan Mayen (in this playthrough) ended up somewhere around modern day Malta, so the population density is not THAT outlandish. (though to be fair, Malta doesn't have a big-ass mountain on it)

@jtdiomond1

7 ай бұрын

Nor does Malta have nearly as many factories on it. The *factories* must be skyscrapers.

@stepmi

5 ай бұрын

@@jtdiomond1 wait a minute, a place near the Northern Pole that is just one giant factory, that produces everything, that is led by a bearded communist man. Why does it sound familiar?

15:50 Ironically this is exactly the plot from one of the stories from Issac Asimov’s first Foundation novel. Literally one of the merchant princes starts selling goods to a hostile planet in great quantities. Then when they finally did invade, he stalled them in a lengthy siege and eventually the local populace of the hostile planet overthrew the government because they were tired of laying siege to a rock and wanted their creature comforts and washing machines back

Spiff *discovers the reason that trade exists* Also Spiff: This is an Exploit

@user-td3yi1mq7p

Жыл бұрын

Well the exploit is enjoying the benefits of a powerful empire's large market without any of the drawbacks like, having to keep up and defend a powerful empire. And also the part where he won a war by being an island that the AI failed to invade even though no one was even defending it

@Tanuvein

Жыл бұрын

It's just a matter of days before Puerto Rico collapses the US and takes all their GDP

@poilk91

Жыл бұрын

I think an issue is he was able to import super cheap goods from far as hell away. There should probably be a distance modifier to goods to represent global shipping

@samuelskinner7704

Жыл бұрын

@@poilk91 Distance affecting trade wouldn't change much; England imported tea from China in this time and Jan Mayen isn't significantly more distant.

@Kikori_Fanri

Жыл бұрын

@@samuelskinner7704 Britain had the resources and navy for that shipping... they had the infrastructure so it would cost less by proxy... imagine a country of 35 doing global shipping...

I imagine that the population was so high and you had so many steel mills that the island heated up and became tropical.

@shorewall

Жыл бұрын

The residual body heat and industry made it tropical! :D :D :D That's hilarious!

@lucascurio8345

Жыл бұрын

That profile pic gives me bad vibes

@TheEldritchGod

Жыл бұрын

@@lucascurio8345 - I am a Media-American. I am being oppressed. I simply want my right to spread lies and fear everywhere. SINESTRO DID NOTHING WRONG

@Pop013

Жыл бұрын

@@lucascurio8345 Are you allergic to wasps?

That island popularity just spiked 467% after this vid💀💀💀💀

@Nevir202

Жыл бұрын

Just out of curiosity, I checked google trends, looks like it only tripled at most lol.

As the actual Governor of Jan Mayen, I'd like to say thank you - you've increased our tourism by an infinite percent.

@ciphergacha9100

5 ай бұрын

You fool, Jan Mayen doesn’t even have a govener

I did the math. Based off the size of Jan Mayen, at the end of the video you had 20% the population density of modern New York City. On a tiny rock in the arctic.

@bensoncheung2801

Жыл бұрын

🧠🧠🧠

@Runetrantor

Жыл бұрын

Without the technology for the tall buildings that tend to allow for such densities.

@kineticsyntax

Жыл бұрын

In other words, there are 2.16 people per meter squared living on a rock

@gm2407

Жыл бұрын

@@kineticsyntax Worse than that. As there needs to be space for industry they must be living in greater density or they have recovered land from the ocean. Which they will need to have done since all the heat and polution from the metal works will be melting the icecaps.

@nguyengary3780

Жыл бұрын

He basically made Singapore in 1800s

I love how the AI recognises Spiff as a threat immediately.

@Thatguy5606

Жыл бұрын

Britain: Hee-hee! I'm in danger!

@Wertsir

5 ай бұрын

PROTECT THE TEA RESERVES!

@Slipte

5 ай бұрын

That's quite funny

I've learned from this video that the smaller the island a British person is on, the more powerful they become.

“Women’s Suffrage is incredibly important because it GIVES US MORE MONEY!” I love how earnest he is in his pursuit of money 🤣

That tiny island in the middle of nowhere is such a paradise. For the time, the litteracy rate is astounding, standards of living are very high and there is full employment. I just imagine they excavated the island's underground, using the rocks and dirt to extend their landmass, with building rising high and digging deep, like some steampunk megacity. Absolutely glorious.

@GiblixStudio

Жыл бұрын

spiff didn't trade with The Netherlands for that landmass expansion technology. unlike the chinese who are taking over the world currently in a more rapid pace then ever before...

@neenm4299

Жыл бұрын

I imagined that they dug out the ground to build more of their factories!

@martinb4272

Жыл бұрын

Jan Mayen is literally an active volcano.

@jasonblalock4429

Жыл бұрын

Meanwhile IRL, less than 50 people are ever on the island, and the idea of trying to cram more than 800,000 people into 144 square miles before the invention of skyscrapers is, frankly, terrifying. My guess is that they're actually subterranean, and everyone lives and works in well-appointed caverns while topside is devoted entirely to transportation infrastructure.

@notreallyhere67

Жыл бұрын

@@jasonblalock4429 so they're the ancestors of the Morloks? :D

Fun Fact: In addition to being a barely inhabitet rock, Jan Mayen also is consistently the highest scoring commune on Norway's biggest "quiz" show: Alle mot 1.

@Runningfromtheredqueen

Жыл бұрын

To be fair, Jan Mayen has *the* highest average academic status in Norway, with a whopping 100% of its inhabitants (4 meterologists, 14 soldiers and intelligence officers from the norwegian military) having some form of higher education, easily leaving the rest of us dum-dums (36%) in the dust.

@anonymous71207

Жыл бұрын

@@Runningfromtheredqueen an uneducated rube needs to go there and lower the score Or they could have babies

it is terrifying how fast this guy must be able to learn

@mikesrandomchannel

7 ай бұрын

Well said. Every time Spiff says "And this is important because..." I hear the sound of rulebooks being riffled through for hours. Meanwhile, I'm the kind of gamer who gets into a fight by mistake in Divinity II and clicks desperately on the first available potion in the hotbar only to find out I just made my character drink poison...

@cloudtaker633

6 ай бұрын

You make yourself sound like if you played Minecraft, you would craft a hoe when trying to craft a pickaxe, or misclick on the crafting book and make 16 axes

most advanced AI i has ever seen, great britain smell your tea power just at the beginning of the game xDD

At this point I imagine the factories just being build over cliffs, mighty pillars jutting from the seafloor propping up these massive structures overlooking an endless flotilla of every flag imaginable.

@stalfithrildi5366

Жыл бұрын

Would you kindly vote for the Radical Peoples Party again?

@Jebu911

Жыл бұрын

Maybe they just built some oil rig like structures near the coastline

@kasperstergaard1592

Жыл бұрын

I envision this in glorious Steampunk now.

@lifeofentropy

Жыл бұрын

Actually less dense than Hong Kong weirdly enough and less than a quarter as dense as new york.

@glenmcgillivray4707

Жыл бұрын

I think instead it's a steampunk Pagoda tower. Built to protect the subsistence farmland that surrounds it. Which only a few hungry children operate to keep themselves fed as their parents labour to make money to pay for imported food.

Honestly, most of this didn't even come across as exploits. You really did just seem quite skilled at the game, and I can't wait to play it.

@deidyomega

Жыл бұрын

One could argue that, that island can't support the pop size he had. And in the "real world" wouldn't have worked.

@5Andysalive

Жыл бұрын

The game exploited itself by assuming a population that is literally impossible for that island.

@HermesHall

Жыл бұрын

@@deidyomega Well, think of Singapur. It has twice the size, but 5.68 million inhabitants (2020). The Spiffin Brits made them very rich, a trade powerhouse, they can import food (grain, rice etc) & basic resource. Also have so much uncontested ocean surrounding the island for fish/whales. So just for population size its not impossible, just highly unlikely

@eduardonunomarques

Жыл бұрын

@@5Andysalive He ended up with 700k people on an island of 353km2 (Jan Mayen is actually fairly large as ice-covered rocks in the middle of nowhere are concerned). That's roughly 2000 people per km2. Macau and Monaco have densities of 19000/km2. The Maldives have over 1800/km2 and people go there to enjoy nature and uncrowded beaches (yes, that's because the actual population is crowded on other islands, but still, there is plenty of room for that population on Jan Mayen). The "exploit" would be how horrendous the prices of food would've been when every single bean and grain of rice or wheat needs to be shipped in across a barely navigable Arctic Ocean, and in how many immigrants he's attracting when literally the only thing the place has going for it is high wages (which should've been eaten up by shipping costs anyway).

@Fulgrim88

Жыл бұрын

I think the game doesn't factor in import/export costs. You can't just put a factory anywhere on the planet with access to a big market and expect it to be uber profitable. How would a factory that has to ship every single good through a thousand miles of freezing water compete with anyone on the continent

I can just imagine a interstellar humanity from this timeline 400 years later seeing Jan Mayen as the case study whilst turning all of Earth or a different planet into one massive Ecumenpolis.

I appreciate the John Cena music hitting when Marx showed up.

@dwaters6274

Жыл бұрын

Thank you friend. Our glorious overlord spiff uses this in the Skyrim video and I could not for the life of me place it! Thank you sir!

Spiff exists on a rock in the middle of nowhere Brittish empire "hes too powerful to be allowed to live!"

@skygard49

Жыл бұрын

It's too much like beta england

@sergeysukhov635

Жыл бұрын

Too realistic!

@user-tc9sk4ei9y

Жыл бұрын

Anyone exists on a rock in the middle of nowhere British Empire: Why the hell it isn't our colony still?!

@klausstock8020

Жыл бұрын

At 1:00, I thought "wow, that's a lot of British humor crammed into one minute!" At 4:11 I was convinced that Victoria 3 is the epitome of British humor.

I gotta be honest. This is the first time Spiff has ever made a nice place to live.

@stevenn1940

Жыл бұрын

I think we've seen spiff actually trancend capitalism; the best way to make money... is to not exploit your people

@reverendofwar2796

Жыл бұрын

It’s also the first time a communist country had any sort of standard of living.

@Martin-df4xk

Жыл бұрын

@@stevenn1940 except the woman suffering...

@Stevonicus

Жыл бұрын

@@Martin-df4xk but the women wanted to suffer

@normieloser6969

Жыл бұрын

@@stevenn1940 IT'S TO EXPLOIT OTHER PEOPLE AND THEIR CHEAP RAW GOODS!

Currently studying economics and darn this is more helpfull than reading books about theory and more xD

@idontknoq4813

Жыл бұрын

What kinds of theory do you read?

@ntenhoum

10 ай бұрын

​@@idontknoq4813 Karl Marx

@idontknoq4813

10 ай бұрын

@@ntenhoum Based.

27:00 it should probably be elaborated that by unemploying half of the workforce in an industry, that frees them up to work somewhere else, effectively removing unnecessary jobs to make way for money makers. Very useful if you have a particularly small population but you want to fully staff something that is only partially staffed.

It should be noted that Jan Mayen is (1) a volcanic island formed by a hotspot like Hawai'i (2) it's land area is about 373 km² (compare New York City with all boroughs is 778km² just by land area) (3) some of the land is covered by glaciers and, you know, *a volcano*

@SephirothRyu

Жыл бұрын

The volcano merely means they need less coal for smelting all that steel!

@tadx6184

Жыл бұрын

Great! Free heating

@benwest2112

Жыл бұрын

@@tadx6184 yeah thermal heating would work great there! And with this country’s money, literacy and innovativeness. They will probably invent the technology much quicker than we did.

@noahworcester9320

Жыл бұрын

I just imagine they are building up their buildings into the sky like Coruscant.

@shadowyzephyr

Жыл бұрын

If 8 and a half million people can fit into NYC, 600K can fit into Jan Mayen reasonably without overpopulation, in terms of size. The fact that it's so isolated is the real problem.

When Spiff revealed that he was playing Jan Mayen, I assumed it was because it had something similar to Vic2’s Jan Mayen where you can replace the human population with polar bears

@Tekisasubakani

Жыл бұрын

Right? Where mah polar bears!?

@DBZVelena

Жыл бұрын

that would explain the voting situation though.

@AmUnRA256

Жыл бұрын

@DBZ most underrated comment here

@MrToberton

Жыл бұрын

@@DBZVelena 🐻‍❄️🐻‍❄️🗳️

Spiff: Becomes protectorate of Russia Also Spiff: gives the ottomans who are at war with Russia guns and cannons

I imagine San Mayen as a city that mostly sits on water, standing on poles and made out of boats. An entire state that's half afloat like that is pretty cool.

Ive actually heard of this Island. I was playing Uboat and crashed into it while fast travelling

@jeremylackey6587

Жыл бұрын

Also the setting of an isolation horror podcast called The White Vault. Fantastic story.

@jamiekamihachi3135

Жыл бұрын

Honestly that’s the best reason I’ve ever heard to know about an obscure place in the world.

@matsv201

Жыл бұрын

My parrents went on vacation there once becasue they love unpopulated cold barren wastlands. They also been to swalbard, greenland an iceland 3 times... and Namibia for some reason, the odd one out

@SkeeJ88

Жыл бұрын

@@matsv201 are your parents’ names Jeremy, James and Richard?

@matsv201

Жыл бұрын

@@SkeeJ88 no... aparentlly this is a fairly large turist industry. And also, when they want to greenland they where working. So that might not count. But they specificlly looked for short term job there.

"Last time a British person raised taxes on tea" And we witness first hand Spiffs actual /fear/ of Coffee drinkers...

@bensoncheung2801

Жыл бұрын

They tossed crates upon crates of it into the ocean! The fish drank deeply of the resulting concoction that day. 🎩🎩🎩 🐟🐟🐟

@gm2407

Жыл бұрын

@@bensoncheung2801 Aquaman's ancestors drunk tea. In fact they breathed tea. What could be more British than that?

@DrBunnyMedicinal

Жыл бұрын

Ahh, but the triggering event *wasn't* that Parliament raised taxes on Tea, it was that they LOWERED them. (For the East India Company, anyway.) This would have severely cut into the profits of those smuggling in untaxed Dutch tea and then selling it as if it was taxed. Limit our profits! HOW DARE! Into the harbour with it all! 😁

@KopperNeoman

Жыл бұрын

@D R Bunny And then the soldiers get attacked for investigating the terrorist attack, defend themselves, and the rest is history.

@garlottos

Жыл бұрын

You can type _ on each side of the word to _italicize_ it

"We are going to buy the cheap resources, make goods from them and sell them back." Indian cotton and textile industry: "Yeah we have seen that one before."

@twistedtachyon5877

Жыл бұрын

And spiff wonders why they see him as a threat...

For the votes number disparity, it could be that the voting system is based on party lists. If so, you get several votes per voter. Here in Luxembourg, you have as many votes as there are offices, between 6 and 24 depending on the election. Pretty sure it's a similar system in the game for Jan Mayen

@MyDude199

9 ай бұрын

That is my guess on how this is working, but it be intresting to see the actual thing, there is probably a thing in the game telling you why.

@Skyblade12

4 ай бұрын

I mean, he created a communist state. More votes than voters is not exactly unusual.

The fact that the tiny island almost has more money than the entire of the British Empire is hilarious

@kv2menacing176

Жыл бұрын

It still has more than the modern British economy. Speaking of which the ghost of the economy would be a good Halloween costume.

@blackjak4185

Жыл бұрын

That’s unfair, currently Britain barely has an economy to speak of

@emilyeatsramen332

Жыл бұрын

@@blackjak4185 true lmfao

@samreid6010

Жыл бұрын

It’s like the South Sea Company, an economy built on the base of nothing that keeps expanding. Spiff created the North Sea Company

@theendersmirk5851

Жыл бұрын

I mean, when you think about it, there's probably an alternate reality where people talk about the idea of Britain being a global power relative to the great Jan Mayen empire is ridiculous in as many words. I mean, Britain happens to also be this one rock in the middle of the ocean after all, it's just slightly taller.

Honestly I think Spiff is actually playing the game as intended.

@Cheesblenders4all

Жыл бұрын

Yes this id basically how small successful economies function in real life. Lichtenstein is the best example of this

@RanEncounter

Жыл бұрын

@@Cheesblenders4all I did not know Lichtenstein was a communist utopia.

@jonnymur3808

Жыл бұрын

@@Cheesblenders4all Rather Singapore. Liechtenstein has no people and pretty much no economy ^^

@fico1557

Жыл бұрын

@@jonnymur3808 no offense, but you are incedibly wrong, it has about 7 bilion gdp, 37k population and half of its economy is INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION, if I had to pick a country most similar to the spiffs economy, it would be Lichtenstein

@fico1557

Жыл бұрын

just for comparison ukraine has had 183 bilion gdp, with 44 MILLION population, the Lichtenstein gdp per capita is 20x higher than ukraine

Spiff *existing on a rock in the middle of no where* Britain: and I took that personally

Spiff, HILARIOUS! I actually sailed past Jan Mayen in 1978 when I was working on a research ship (little did I know it was a covert operation for Paradox Interactive). All Hail Karl!

Spiff is just Paradox Interactive's unofficial beta-tester.

@thespiffingbrit

Жыл бұрын

Its great they even pay me in tea bags!

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Жыл бұрын

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@Mazereaugh

Жыл бұрын

@@thespiffingbrit phrasing.

@somethingelseidk1035

Жыл бұрын

@@thespiffingbrit Will you ever make a 1 hour long video where you just make tea and drink it???????

@Orthanderis

Жыл бұрын

@@somethingelseidk1035 why woulsd he DRINK TEA when he can HAVE TEA and NOT drink it. Drinking tea uses the tea. Unacceptable.

Jan Mayen skipped the underdevelopment phase and jumped straight to Nespresso phase: buy cheap raw materials, sell overpriced capsules

@Jamlord2061

10 ай бұрын

don’t think that is the technical term. then again i don’t know the objectively correct term.

@SebHaarfagre

5 ай бұрын

@@Jamlord2061 Espresso capsules are the perfect metaphor, though! I can't think of a worse waste of money off the top of my head. Hotel shampoo bottles if they were sold at retail markets maybe? Selling individual rice grains, each wrapped in plastic?

15:15 Never in my life did I expect a moment where Spiff would be this excited to see Karl Marx, of all people

@jackm2293

9 ай бұрын

its sad. not surprising. he(spiff) is an exploiter. and Karl was a champion of BS exploitation.

@winnerdiego4562

7 ай бұрын

@@jackm2293bringing politics to a yt comment section is another kind of cringe man 💀

@arandomcommenter412

7 ай бұрын

@@jackm2293calm down there Leonardo, next you’re going to be talking of the aryan race.

Dude literary just invented Taiwan

@unholydarc1967

Жыл бұрын

Including the voting system!

Wow, in the end the population had ~0,45m2 of space per person. I can only imagine the glorious lighthouse-style Victorian-era steel skyscrapers they had to build to fit in there.

@kringle7804

Жыл бұрын

Imagine New York but less dense The country is dense but its not impossible

@sandearcubus9299

Жыл бұрын

With a population of about 800000 in the end and Jan Mayem having about 373 km2 that'd be about 2145 inhabitants per km2 (or 0.00215 per m2). New York has about 10000 per km2, so there's room for improvememt.

@bachvandals3259

Жыл бұрын

@@kringle7804 you cant build houses like ours back in those days... Some of Victorian house still have wooden pillars and stuff.

@kringle7804

Жыл бұрын

@@bachvandals3259 by the time he ended the run I'm sure they'd be able to figure it out

@connorbarton4308

Жыл бұрын

@@bachvandals3259look into world fairs the empire of tartery and the old world

Major powers: Ah a small island is no threat to us. Major powers: Oh, spiff is leading it. Probably fine he might be doing a normal or challenge run. Major powers: OH HELL NO HE BROUGHT A FACTORY THAT SEEMINGLY NEGATIVELY IMPACTS HIS ECONOIMY! I NEED PROTECTION! HES GONNA EXPLOIT!

@pamelasmith4230

Жыл бұрын

I would start to worry if Spiff was leading a leading it

23:50 - my favorite clip of this whole video. I laughed so hard I had trouble breathing - that's always an indicator of a great video!

so you’re telling that by the 1880s Jan Mayen has just as big of an economy as the Ottoman Empire.

*spiff enters the game* *england: starts sweating nervously Only a tea drinker can beat the tea drinkers

@habilterserah4075

Жыл бұрын

Of course

@sonofthebearking3335

Жыл бұрын

😂

To be honest other than jan mayen's starting population and maybe some immigration maluses it ought to have for being an inhospitable frozen rock the only thing that struck me as a problem that needs to be solved is the AI when waging war on tiny countries should probably do more limited troop mobilizations. It would make way more sense in a situation like this for Russia to send like 5000 guys rather than seemingly attempt a full mobilization and crash their own economy for no reason.

@theantagonist801

Жыл бұрын

Nah that's just Russia's thought process.

@theKashConnoisseur

Жыл бұрын

You'd think that but Ukraine.

@sintua

Жыл бұрын

And also the whole... 400% of the population voting thing. And having space for all that industry and people. The malus for overpopulation is capped at -100% but the population itself has no cap!

@ed6705

Жыл бұрын

@@sintua I suspect that's individuals getting to vote for multiple positions, rather than a massive stock of mystery votes.

@aminulhussain2277

Жыл бұрын

@@theKashConnoisseur Putin wasn't in power in the 1800s

As an american, i love every time you reference america the ways you do. 32 freedom units and boston tea party references specifically

23:59 and the creation of the strong military in the world and despicable coffee drinkers

When the video began and Victoria recognized the tiny Island as a threat I thought to myself "ha, Spiff is going for the Cuba playthrough", little did I know that he was going for the PERFECTLY BALANCED Cuba playthrough.

The John cena intro to Karl Marx honestly had me rolling and I laughed even harder when Russia got mad about it 😂

@caad5258

Жыл бұрын

haters gonna hate

@FwendlyMushwoom

Жыл бұрын

Gotta love absolute god Norwegian Karl Marx turning a frozen rock in the north sea into an industrial powerhouse where the workers keep all their massive surplus value

@npcperson2158

Жыл бұрын

Technically correct.

Amazing seeing the difference in a livestream vs your produced videos. I laugh my ass off the majority of the time. Great comedic timing spiff

Fun fact: Jan Mayen has Norways only active volcano, it last erupted in 1985.

Fun fact: In the norvegian tv-show Alle mot 1 (Everyone against 1) where everyone could quess on stuff via an app. And in the show they rank the municipalitys on who did best and Jan Mayen has bean almost all of the time on top.

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Жыл бұрын

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@megastizz

Жыл бұрын

That is the most perfectly broken norwegian english sentence I have ever read.

@miser2570

Жыл бұрын

​@@megastizz I dont know much norwegian at all, but beyond some typos i think he is just mixing two ways of phrasing what he wants to say, so seems more like he lost his train of thought midway writting it,

@MikaelLV

Жыл бұрын

@@megastizz 🤣🤣🤣

@Orthanderis

Жыл бұрын

15-35 people are most likely all scientists if its that far north

“Drafted 300,000 people to invade a rock….” Heh….TOPICAL.

@kinagrill

Жыл бұрын

And then get flipped off by a soldier.

@Gradysmokestoomuch

Жыл бұрын

And crash their economy.

@jimtalbott9535

Жыл бұрын

@@kinagrill topical…..

@jimtalbott9535

Жыл бұрын

@@Gradysmokestoomuch TOPICAL!

Ma man turned piece of rock into taiwan and further

I will never refer to Fahrenheit as anything other than freedom units for the rest of my life.

So you survived the war with Russia by... not having an army and not doing anything? This game is amazing.

@enriktigasna

Жыл бұрын

Also it's pretty realistic, since the army irl would also likely just mutiny and not understand why they are invading

@fearedjames

7 ай бұрын

It's pretty much just non-sci fi Foundation at this point

@Nik072WarpDancer

4 ай бұрын

- Так, собираемся и идём войной на Ян-Майен! - Кудаблин? - Ян-Майен! - Это где вообще?! Покажи на карте! - Вот. - ...Так. Ты собрал триста тыщщ человек чтобы идти войной на голый камень посередь нихрена?! - Да они там офигели! - Да ты сам офигел, не пойдем мы никуда! Нафиг надо! As a Russian, I just imagine this dialogue. It's kinda anachronistic (and a bit polished in terms of swearing 😁) but anyway😂

Nothing more British than owning a rock in the middle of the ocean

@scragar

Жыл бұрын

Makes sense at the time because a rock you could restock on meant you could sail further and "discover" more stuff.

@miguelpadeiro762

Жыл бұрын

@@scragarMost of the world, save for Oceania, was already discovered by the time the English ever went beyond Ireland

@thesultryhippo9184

Жыл бұрын

Say hello to the Falklands!

It amazes me that after all the wonderful vidoes i have consumed from this channel. we still have that beautiful backround noise

I absolutely love the style of this with all the stoke images

ah yes, playing the most remote and undeveloped place on Earth in a map game. My favorite playstyle!

Spiff: “I don’t know how we got about 700k people to live in sub zero temperatures” me …. The Brit’s forgot about Canada.

@Nestor__Makhno

Жыл бұрын

I think Canada is a lot bigger than that rock island in the middle of the ocean thats the difference

@mohammedabdul4832

Жыл бұрын

@@Nestor__Makhno 🤓

@Nestor__Makhno

Жыл бұрын

@@mohammedabdul4832 Counter🤓

@DragonReaver

Жыл бұрын

@@Nestor__Makhno Well if we are being nerdy that is only 2000 people per km which is nowhere near the densest population per kilometer of a country.

@Nestor__Makhno

Жыл бұрын

@@DragonReaver 🤓

love how he says qing like an english word

Another masterpiece about Victoria 3. Keep up the good work 👍

"you will produce nothing and consume nothing" and be happy -the spiffing brit

I love Paradox just outsourcing their QA for Spiff content. Its a perfectly balanced relationship, those geniuses!

Part of me now believes that Jan Mayan is actually Atlantis 2.0

Basically Spif is doing for Russia, what Russia couldn't do for it's self.

I burst out laughing at the Karl Marx part, "Please Marx come over!" 🤣🤣🤣 And the John Cena music match perfectly balanced with the moment.

@fugitiveunknown7806

Жыл бұрын

Jr: "OH man gawd king. THATS KARL MARX's MUSIC!!!!!" King: *abdicates*

@carcharoclesmegalodon6904

Жыл бұрын

Zhong Xina moment

@dopesickdog

Жыл бұрын

@@carcharoclesmegalodon6904 HA

I'm just imagining that island entirely covered in an industrial city, with the coasts lines with docks and smokestacks never out of sight. I actually love it.

@TrueLimeyhoney

Жыл бұрын

Jan Mayen is actually quite a large rock. The population density is relatively low. Well it’s actually incredibly high considering it’s a rock in the Arctic, but compared to other industrial cities in the world, very low.

@wisecrack4545

Жыл бұрын

I'm imagining that, plus the island is secretly a hollowed out rock full of subterranean caves that house entire underground city districts, inhabited by a sizable population of cave people which in turn accounts for all those extra votes.

@chazchoo99

Жыл бұрын

It's about half the size of Singapore, and roughly a third of it's total area is covered by glaciers. That leaves ~259 sq km (or ~161 sq mi) of hypothetically settleable land. Singapore's population is about 5.6 mil, so assuming Jan Mayen had the same population density, that's about 2.8 mil. Fun fact, the population density of Manhattan, NY, is roughly 3.5 times higher than Singapore. So hypothetically, you could almost fit 10 mil people on Jan Mayen and it be about as densely populated as Manhattan! P.S., sorry if my math is off. I'm not normally a math person. I just had an ADHD need to churn out some numbers😅

@not_that_person

Жыл бұрын

@@chazchoo99 I think we should factor in that this game is in the Victorian era, so they wouldn't have high-rise buildings like Manhatten. Also the enormous amount of factories would take up more space than office buildings.

@chazchoo99

Жыл бұрын

@@not_that_person very true! Do you think even 1 mil would be a bit of a stretch?

The British see a tiny rock as a threat, *Falklands intensifies*

this is the best add i've ever seen for a game i've never heard of. buying immediately. and so nobody thinks i'm kissing up to spiff too hard i'll throw in that i think coffee is far superior to tea

Imagine a collab between The Spiffing Brit and LetsGameItOut. Absolute mayhem

@EffieTM

Жыл бұрын

The poshest, most chaotic world ending Event imaginable

@slandshark

Жыл бұрын

There's not enough imagination in the world to understand what might become of that combination.

@ethanstyant9704

Жыл бұрын

Spif will analyse the game to find out what makes it work LetsGameItOut will brute force every aspect of it until his computer hire a hitman

@BuilderB08

Жыл бұрын

@@ethanstyant9704 And the game will (if it fits to Paradox “lore”) end in an invasion by the Prethoryn Swarm because it took so long. The Prethoryn Swarm is a Stellaris Endgame Crisis if you did not know.

@rainmannoodles

Жыл бұрын

Spiff: "Perfectly balanced!" Josh: "Hold, please!"

Sponsoring Spiff is just an advanced way to check if your game has exploits. (It does, and he will find them.)

@agustiomaitimu144

Жыл бұрын

no game is safe

@thesultryhippo9184

Жыл бұрын

The answer is always "yes"

Jan Mayen: gets factory Great Britain: *Now this is an avengers level threat*

more more more! I love seeing such crazy powerful strats that shouldn't work and just od xD

Imagine the skyscrapers on that little island. They'd be gloriously huge!

@the-letter_s

Жыл бұрын

or gloriously deep into the earth, considering skyscrapers are a unique invention in the game.

It's still super funny they gave you this and said "Go wild" lol. It's so much fun watching the chaos.

This wasn't the kind of challenge I was expecting, but this is great!

Paradox: We need to see if our new game can be broken. Spiff: Hold my tea.

Thank you for explaining in freedom units. Much better understood now

a great video as always, very fun to watch the little rock conquering the world

If you've never actually seen the island if Jan Mayen.... It's roughly the size of a large town and half of it is a volcano.

@SebHaarfagre

5 ай бұрын

It's 55 km long and 373 km². If anything, it doesn't sound like _you_ have seen it lol. For comparison, Paris city is 102 km². So no, it is not "roughly the size of a large town".

@Rybakov22

4 ай бұрын

@@SebHaarfagre 55 km sounds like a little city for me. But then, I live in a country that considers a half-day trip on 90kmh a _local_ trip.

An exploit so good that it's regularly used by IRL economies!

@XykonOverlord

Жыл бұрын

If only more countries would use the communism exploit.

I enjoyed learning about a place that I never knew existed. Thank you!

Great video, earned yourself a sub!

Perfectly balanced as it should be.

@Kernwadi

Жыл бұрын

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Жыл бұрын

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@Kernwadi

Жыл бұрын

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