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Paradox announces Surviving the Aftermath, the next game in their Surviving franchise

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  1. [4]
    cfabbro
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    Oh, Paradox.... even your URL schemes are insanely over-complicated. <3 edit: Well that appears to have broken some things. Even the background color decided to give up about 1/4th of the way...

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    Oh, Paradox.... even your URL schemes are insanely over-complicated. <3

    edit: Well that appears to have broken some things. Even the background color decided to give up about 1/4th of the way through. :P

    4 votes
    1. [3]
      cptcobalt
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      It seems like this URL can be cleanly pruned: https://www.paradoxplaza.com/news?aid=Paradox+Interactive+Expands+its+Surviving+Franchise+with+Surviving+the+Aftermath I'm quite curious about what...

      It seems like this URL can be cleanly pruned:

      https://www.paradoxplaza.com/news?aid=Paradox+Interactive+Expands+its+Surviving+Franchise+with+Surviving+the+Aftermath

      I'm quite curious about what data is contained in that messy monolithic jumble of info, though.

      Edit: The jumble of data is the following, base64 encoded:
      {"title":"Paradox%20Interactive%20Expands%20its%20Surviving%20Franchise%20with%20Surviving%20the%20Aftermath","img":"//images.ctfassets.net/s1cu6ii344ub/49acASRtgslav4umBY8vbK/a451a07cff25e8e6526e8508ae4a7f97/Surviving_the_Aftermath_Teaser.png","description":"Post-apocalyptic%20survival%20colony%20builder%20launching%20late%202020%2C%20more%20info%20to%20be%20revealed%20at%20PDXCON"}7

      ...why? why would you need that in a URL? what system would ever put that in there?

      4 votes
      1. [2]
        Deimos
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        Link Parent
        It's just bizarre overall. If you mouse over the linked page's title, you get another different link format:...

        It's just bizarre overall. If you mouse over the linked page's title, you get another different link format: https://www.paradoxplaza.com/news/article/Paradox%20Interactive%20Expands%20its%20Surviving%20Franchise%20with%20Surviving%20the%20Aftermath/metadata/<same chunk of base64>

        But in that case, if you cut off the /metadata/ and everything after it, the link doesn't work. So the metadata is essential for that url scheme, but optional in this one.

        I also previously had to add code to Tildes specifically to make Paradox's forum urls exempt from the url-processing code that does some clean-up and modifications: https://gitlab.com/tildes/tildes/blob/master/tildes/tildes/lib/url_transform.py#L50

        Their forums use urls that are... well, I don't know if they're technically invalid, but they're not a normal url structure. For example, they look like this: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?forums/stellaris.900/ (note the query string of forums/stellaris.900/ after the ?)

        When I process that through standard functions in Python's urllib, it comes back as https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?forums%2Fstellaris.900%2F=, which doesn't work and just takes you to the home page instead (it seems to only be the = on the end that's a problem).

        I probably could have wrangled it into producing the same url, but the current code works perfectly for practically every other site. I don't know of a single other one with urls like that, so it was simpler to just exempt it from the processing entirely.

        3 votes
        1. cfabbro
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          LOL. What a mess. But as a Paradox fan, it makes me strangely happy to know there is an explicit exception in the Tildes code just for them. ;)

          LOL. What a mess. But as a Paradox fan, it makes me strangely happy to know there is an explicit exception in the Tildes code just for them. ;)

          2 votes
  2. [2]
    JoylessAubergine
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    I think i'm done with Paradox as a company. I've been playing since EU3 and put most of my time into CK2 but own nearly all their games but i've been down on them for a couple of years with lazy...

    I think i'm done with Paradox as a company. I've been playing since EU3 and put most of my time into CK2 but own nearly all their games but i've been down on them for a couple of years with lazy DLC, their disdain for their fanbase and the recent release of Imperator which was a complete joke. Now they are doing timed EGS exclusives. SOURCE Going public killed the soul of the company.

    Hard times for GSG fans.

    2 votes
    1. Bal
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      Getting an investment from Tencent is unfortunately a good indicator of a declining company.

      Getting an investment from Tencent is unfortunately a good indicator of a declining company.

      1 vote