@@ManyATrueNerd No one's left, everything is gone. Snorf is burning. I'm receiving no communications from anywhere in the system.. n-not even beacons...
Jon, do NOT under any circumstances retreat from that starbase. You CAN hold out against that fleet with the help of the starbase, but only if you stand with it. Scorched-earth doesn't work in Stellaris, you need to ensure that they don't take you on piecemeal. Also, check your tactics setting under Policies, there should be something there, I believe it's the default, that gives you +10% firerate in friendly territory. Use that, it's excellent. Other than that, STAND WITH YOUR STATION.
I like how you specified "and three days," as though there was a serious chance that he'd make it through the first 42 years only for his entire empire to collapse in the space of three days.
Jon, surely you should be wanting these other empires to be fighting within your territory because that would mean you can swoop in with your science ships and basically steal all of the tech.
Since your government is the Snivlet Friendship, you should build PR firms on all of your branch offices to make sure everyone knows how friendly you are.
If you pull the fleets back from the spacestation a bit, with the bigger fleet slightly ahead of the smaller, they will engage the Spuxulac after their fleets have already targetted the station. This will give them a small window of unanswered fire, and might well allow you to defeat any invaders, especially with that badass cruiser being able to focus their ships down really quickly. It'll cost you corvettes, and if the cruiser goes down, you're done, but it's your best chance to scrap those fleets. If you do, you can probably defend your way to victory
A very important tip, the relic world is OP But if you complete the excavation you will spawn a massive monster, a one that you cannot take down in your current state, so colonize the world BEFORE completing the excavation
not only colonize it but halt the excavation at the last step and wait to have a fleet powerful enough to take on a leviathan. The rubricator is very powerful
I vote sell Rasalas and Abdrade to the friendly neighborhood hivemind you have a defensive pact with. They can afford to build a much harder border in your place.
There's kind of an advantage of declaring a rivalry with someone who can't get to you, because that way, you pick up the free rivalry influence, and you're pretty safe from them using that rivalry to declare war.
When I last played Stellaris, my militarist empire spawned right between two marauder states, with xenophobes and fanatical purifiers to the north and a fallen empire to the south. I get you, I really do xD
Jon the return command for ships always works you don't need any tech for it. It will let you get you ships out of a place is there is no route home for them the tech latter on (Experimental subspace breach or something) Is in the tech tree and only applies for science ships but lets you have jump drive like travel that takes a very long time
A lovely treat to kickstart the night. Though "lovely" might not be the best description for anything involving Snorf. Still, cheers to an impossible run!
5:41 A "war of rivalry" means that the Korinth are using the "animosity" casus belli which comes with the "humiliate" war goal. Whoever loses the war loses a lot of influence and pop happiness.
It help to disable enforcer jobs on every worlds. Normally, crime is completely harmless as long as it's kept under 30 (which rarely happens if you don't use slaves) and it frees you a pop. Also, negotiate with crime overlord gives +10 stability for only 25 influence which is amazing especially when you have only two worlds.
For those interested, Utopia Plantoids and Leviathan are all out on console. Currently playing hivemind plant/bears (intelligent, strong, rapid breeders [and thanks to gene mods] resilient)
Tips and corrections: The AI is now willing to accept 1-system gaps in its empire , so the Natfankan might send a construction ship through Rym to build an outpost at Saldar. I'm pretty sure that rejecting diplomatic requests only gives an opinion penalty when you refuse subjugation or don't join someone in war. If you gave the trapped science vessel a "return" command, it would have done the emergency FTL jump to get home. I strongly recommend that you colonize the relic world before you complete the archaeological dig.
My heart was breaking every moment you ignored the relic world. I have no idea what it may hold, but I feel like that would have been archaeology worth pursuing. ;)
I recommend studying spaceborne aliens over pacification. You can't tame the aliens, they just turn neutral to you. If you study them, however, you unlock a rare tech.
I just imagine the other side of the galaxy being really nice and just looking at the your side thinking "Wow that's a lot of assholes, wait how is there a friendly little Megacorp in the middle of that mess? Why are they there? Too bad they're too far away and we have to deal with kill bots right now."
Currently having a sort-of new run on console, and everybody but one empire (that's pretty strong and feels sorry for me) doesn't like me. Though I am a race of gross tentacle-ridden dog things, so...
Having been messing arround with settings for some of my own games there is a way to make this even harder (yes its possible) and that is to max oujt the hyperlanes. What this ends up doing is it basicallly removes all choke points which would push border tension and expansion even harder.
@Many A True Nerd: Jon. DO NOT FINISH THE RELIC WORLD ARCHAEOLOGY SITE WITHOUT A 15K FLEET. A space dragon will spawn when you finish. It will wreck you.
jon if you click on the return home button of a fleet/ship that stranded with no valid path to friendly territories you'll have the option of having th eships(s) go MIA for x number of months and then having them reappear in an appropriate system
For military star base wouldn't Target Uplink Computer be a better choice, so it can start shooting the enemy sooner rather than later, than a tiny debuff to enemy shields?
I know it's 3 years later and you probably don't care, but; In my experience, the extra range to ship weapons only starts to matter once bigger ships enter the equations. Corvettes, which are all the Empires have at this point, are so fast that they'll close the gap and make the range buff irrelevant nigh immediately. So even if the shield debuff is barely helping, it's still helping more (especially cuz Jon has an unhealthy love of Lasers, which are bad at handling shields)
1:19:10 War report 21: After all Snivlet settlements were destroyed a large group of our soldiers located an archaeological dig site with a dozen life forms. We sent a squad in and head cam's show a single obsessed Snivlet brushing at the ancient ruins. Before the Snivlet could be killed he turned, holding an artifact in his hands that started to glow. We have lost contact with the squad and all further squads have had similar results Advisement: Quarantine the entire planet for 100 sol years
I played as a peaceful robot race and over half of the empires were spiritualist. And the was a spiritualist fallen empire next to me. And a war in heaven. It was a fun game.
Seriously if I was Jon I would've accepted the commercial pact from those guys up further north and built a branch office there because you can't afford to be picky with who you set up a branch office with, I'd say at least 25+ trade resource would be sufficient enough, and you can also become friendly with them, thus allowing for stronger alliances and moreso, you have a small compact empire with at least three colonies. You are playing a megacorp which basically means you are playing an empire that's all about making money. Now your alliances will help you in regards to warfare, if you make sure that your allies and yes I would say a secondary megacorp would be a good ally to have because then they won't do hostile takeovers of your branches. So accept things like commercial pacts from almost every empire that offers so that you can start expanding your trade empire, that's how I think Jon should be playing.
Jon you need to play Mark of the Ninja. It's an amazing 2D Dishonored style ninja-them-up with some amazing visuals and even better gameplay. The story is pretty cool too especially the end so try not to get it spoiled
Thirded (third? Thirdeded? Thirdud?) I recently got the platinum and its genuinely one of my favourites of all time! I got a slightly more murdery Batman vibe tho with the terrorizing mechanic and gliding and all the gadgets
Remember when Jon said he should/would be playing tall? Also, overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer. Another thing, if Jon let the Natfankans take those two systems that would be the border with the enemy, he wouldn't be having this problem would he
How? He doesn't have any of the techs or terraforming gas. I generally don't get access to terraforming gas until mid game (maybe I have bad luck), which he's nowhere near. Taking the perk for adding districts wouldn't help him right now either, since his population is so small.
1:15:00 Here I am losing my mind as to why he hasn't closed his borders to the people who are actively claiming territories while freely checking out what he has that they want.
I was playing Stellaris myself whilst watching, you're in for some fun with the Rubricator! Just be warned that it does give other empires a right to declare war on you with the war aim of claiming the Relic. Its one of the Relics this is possible with. Well done to survive this far, I tried a similar run earlier in the week and I didn't last long! Its pure luck as to when someone declares war on you. Oh, and don't put too much faith in defensive platforms, they're flimsy as flip, its a waste of alloys imo, unless you manage to get them ranked up with powerful weaponry and end up with a rating much higher than any attacking fleet. I tend to combine with them with my own fleet so that the fleet has cover. I'm guessing we won't see a Live stream of this at some point then!? ;)
Late game outposts are so fun. Especially with the L-gate. I've gotten to a scaling difficulty grand admiral playthrough where the ai has ungodly firepower and it took three fleets to crack my terminal egress at the same time. The L-cluster always becomes my capital sector.
@@belladonnalavender5493 they are, I just wish the late game tech's really beefed up the hull strength of the platforms, even the Ion cannon platforms don't stand up to a decent strength fleet.
I know I'm late to this series but hold on... Jon merged the Derelict Cruiser with another fleet! How did he do that? Is it a fix in one of the DLC that I don't have? Is it a mod? I have acquired that cruiser twice now and it just won't merge for any reason. I can't reinforce it with any ship design, including superior designs. Also again a little late but, @ 59:00 when a fleet is trapped just click on the "Return" button. This will open a prompt that will allow an emergency FTL jump. You will get a warning about potential damage and how the fleet won't return for some time. And Shirley :) you are aware that matching a researcher having the same expertise as the desired tech is faster than picking any other leader, e.g. A research leader having the Particles expertise is 15% faster when researching techs that are also of the "Particle" category. Matching research leaders to the tech requires a little bit of micro-managing but is definitely worthwhile.
Even though I just started playing this game, you make me feel like I'm playing it correctly because I also always say, "this is probably a bad idea" with every decision.
![[MV] A leap of faith...ความเชื่อใจครั้งสุดท้าย (From "Petrichor the series")](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/U1piZH2CNXA/mqdefault.jpg)
When there’s a galactic machine uprising, but you’re not important enough to know.
fully expecting 15 minutes of gameplay before the snivlet friendship is destroyed and an hour of static
I can confirm - if/when we die, I will not label the episode Grand Finale - we're not safe just because there's an episode number.
@@ManyATrueNerd so basically, a nice throwback to the suspense of Fallout YOLO where every video was possibly the last? Nice.
It would not be the first time he's done that.
@@ManyATrueNerd No one's left, everything is gone. Snorf is burning.
I'm receiving no communications from anywhere in the system.. n-not even beacons...
@@ManyATrueNerd You're the best kind of person.
Jon, do NOT under any circumstances retreat from that starbase. You CAN hold out against that fleet with the help of the starbase, but only if you stand with it. Scorched-earth doesn't work in Stellaris, you need to ensure that they don't take you on piecemeal.
Also, check your tactics setting under Policies, there should be something there, I believe it's the default, that gives you +10% firerate in friendly territory. Use that, it's excellent. Other than that, STAND WITH YOUR STATION.
Yeah this! I think he was panicking a bit and hopefully will come to his senses next part, though the real hope is that he won't get attacked.
@T. T But it'l cost you $10 of Corporate Snivlet Shekels.
This series is a wonderful combination of my favorite things: Stellaris, MATN, and ridiculous challenge runs. 🍿
Snivels - "Tiny Sands! Cute!"
Tabby's - "Litter Box! Practical!"
“If anyone’s willing to have me, then, that’s flipping great” it me
valentino10459 Jon's rebounded hard after the whole Raxar incident
It me too
P
42:34 Jon do you really think you will last for another 42 years and 3 days?
I MIGHT.
@@ManyATrueNerd No. Well, maybe the AI is bad. When you restart, push fleet cap fire rate and pop growth. Fanatical Purifiers are great.
I like how you specified "and three days," as though there was a serious chance that he'd make it through the first 42 years only for his entire empire to collapse in the space of three days.
"it's the Twitter hive mind"
I would've preferred killbots honestly.
*You have posted an offensive tweet 10 years ago, prepare to be assimilated*
Jon, surely you should be wanting these other empires to be fighting within your territory because that would mean you can swoop in with your science ships and basically steal all of the tech.
Not unless they changed it. No tech components
I don't think I've ever seen an opportunity to research the remains of a battle I wasn't a part of.
This is "A Series of Unfortunate Events" in the form of a Stellaris run
Since your government is the Snivlet Friendship, you should build PR firms on all of your branch offices to make sure everyone knows how friendly you are.
Jon, if you route home is blocked, all you have to do is tell your ship to go home. you will have an choice to go stright to the closest base
At least with Science Ships. I’m not sureif it workswith other types.
If you pull the fleets back from the spacestation a bit, with the bigger fleet slightly ahead of the smaller, they will engage the Spuxulac after their fleets have already targetted the station. This will give them a small window of unanswered fire, and might well allow you to defeat any invaders, especially with that badass cruiser being able to focus their ships down really quickly. It'll cost you corvettes, and if the cruiser goes down, you're done, but it's your best chance to scrap those fleets. If you do, you can probably defend your way to victory
Take the fleet off evasive to do experimental subspace navigation.
So your Snivlets are basically the Volus of this galaxy?
Should've gone Psionic Ascension.
'I AM A BIOTIC GOD!!!'
Jon gets excited about the derilect ship
No one tell him about the Titan Archeologists event
"Why attack the spuxulacs, you're bloody miles away" - I don't think John knows how big space is
Haha!
He isn't technically wrong though
A very important tip, the relic world is OP
But if you complete the excavation you will spawn a massive monster, a one that you cannot take down in your current state, so colonize the world BEFORE completing the excavation
not only colonize it but halt the excavation at the last step and wait to have a fleet powerful enough to take on a leviathan. The rubricator is very powerful
I vote sell Rasalas and Abdrade to the friendly neighborhood hivemind you have a defensive pact with. They can afford to build a much harder border in your place.
Actually, the Khan might be a good thing, since he'll wreck the AIs and you can just be his satrap.
There's kind of an advantage of declaring a rivalry with someone who can't get to you, because that way, you pick up the free rivalry influence, and you're pretty safe from them using that rivalry to declare war.
When I last played Stellaris, my militarist empire spawned right between two marauder states, with xenophobes and fanatical purifiers to the north and a fallen empire to the south. I get you, I really do xD
This whole let’s play is a bruh moment
No kidding
“The Rubricator will be fun.” Oh Jon. You will learn soon enough
Loving to see Stellaris on the channel! Quick tip: check out the planetary decision button. (It will help with amenities)
Jon the return command for ships always works you don't need any tech for it. It will let you get you ships out of a place is there is no route home for them the tech latter on (Experimental subspace breach or something) Is in the tech tree and only applies for science ships but lets you have jump drive like travel that takes a very long time
A lovely treat to kickstart the night. Though "lovely" might not be the best description for anything involving Snorf. Still, cheers to an impossible run!
Can't wait for the series finale next time!
Rewatching this series. Oh Jon, if only you knew how important and heroic Tiny Sands would be.
5:41 A "war of rivalry" means that the Korinth are using the "animosity" casus belli which comes with the "humiliate" war goal. Whoever loses the war loses a lot of influence and pop happiness.
Well... is 30 empires in this map, and now only 12 yours empire knows and only 2 allies, 🔥 this is fine 🔥
It help to disable enforcer jobs on every worlds. Normally, crime is completely harmless as long as it's kept under 30 (which rarely happens if you don't use slaves) and it frees you a pop. Also, negotiate with crime overlord gives +10 stability for only 25 influence which is amazing especially when you have only two worlds.
For those interested, Utopia Plantoids and Leviathan are all out on console. Currently playing hivemind plant/bears (intelligent, strong, rapid breeders [and thanks to gene mods] resilient)
One thing about that stuck science ship. If you click the return button, it will ask you if you want it to MIA and warp home if it can't find a path.
47:37 I wonder if fireball shooting weapons would work well against them...
Jon if you can rename the new ship you got to The Kraken
Tips and corrections:
The AI is now willing to accept 1-system gaps in its empire , so the Natfankan might send a construction ship through Rym to build an outpost at Saldar.
I'm pretty sure that rejecting diplomatic requests only gives an opinion penalty when you refuse subjugation or don't join someone in war.
If you gave the trapped science vessel a "return" command, it would have done the emergency FTL jump to get home.
I strongly recommend that you colonize the relic world before you complete the archaeological dig.
My heart was breaking every moment you ignored the relic world. I have no idea what it may hold, but I feel like that would have been archaeology worth pursuing. ;)
I recommend studying spaceborne aliens over pacification. You can't tame the aliens, they just turn neutral to you. If you study them, however, you unlock a rare tech.
I choose to believe the snivlet friendship corp is their equivalent of Facebook
"The crew has discovered upwards of fifty words for defacation..."
On the ship- This one means shit too!? How many ways do you freaking need?
Thanks jon, after seeing part 1 I bought more stellaris DLC and played it for 20 hours again so far with a machine empire o.o
Really enjoying this run and I can't help but giggle every time Jon says Snorf.
“These here dwameks are gonna be bash-bash,” May be the most British sentence I’ve heard in my entire life.
YAY more Stellaris : The Impossible Run !!!!
I just imagine the other side of the galaxy being really nice and just looking at the your side thinking "Wow that's a lot of assholes, wait how is there a friendly little Megacorp in the middle of that mess? Why are they there? Too bad they're too far away and we have to deal with kill bots right now."
Is it a good or bag thing today Matt's voice puts me to sleep? I love putting on a playlist and going to sleep to him.
This warms my heart. Bless, Jon. Freaking bless.
Currently having a sort-of new run on console, and everybody but one empire (that's pretty strong and feels sorry for me) doesn't like me.
Though I am a race of gross tentacle-ridden dog things, so...
Having been messing arround with settings for some of my own games there is a way to make this even harder (yes its possible) and that is to max oujt the hyperlanes. What this ends up doing is it basicallly removes all choke points which would push border tension and expansion even harder.
Episode I: "I'm going to play as a megacorp, I'm going to play tall."
Episode II: "What's next on my list of things to take!?"
When you in pause the video after taking a nap and hear Jon shouting “cocking slaves”
@Many A True Nerd: Jon. DO NOT FINISH THE RELIC WORLD ARCHAEOLOGY SITE WITHOUT A 15K FLEET. A space dragon will spawn when you finish. It will wreck you.
"It's the twitter hivemind, marvellous"
jon if you click on the return home button of a fleet/ship that stranded with no valid path to friendly territories you'll have the option of having th eships(s) go MIA for x number of months and then having them reappear in an appropriate system
I know this is how it's supposed to work, but it never does for me. The ships just get flustered and never move.
You should rush the L-gate
,ah the Rubicon, this will be fun, I had an interesting experience with it.
take the fragments of amoema you killed that could get the hull and the hangar thing that can help you out a lot
For military star base wouldn't Target Uplink Computer be a better choice, so it can start shooting the enemy sooner rather than later, than a tiny debuff to enemy shields?
I know it's 3 years later and you probably don't care, but;
In my experience, the extra range to ship weapons only starts to matter once bigger ships enter the equations. Corvettes, which are all the Empires have at this point, are so fast that they'll close the gap and make the range buff irrelevant nigh immediately. So even if the shield debuff is barely helping, it's still helping more (especially cuz Jon has an unhealthy love of Lasers, which are bad at handling shields)
@@Failuigi41 Well, okay, that's quite good point. Somehow I doubt Jon was as thorough with his decisions and picked it for that particular reason lol.
1:19:10
War report 21:
After all Snivlet settlements were destroyed a large group of our soldiers located an archaeological dig site with a dozen life forms. We sent a squad in and head cam's show a single obsessed Snivlet brushing at the ancient ruins. Before the Snivlet could be killed he turned, holding an artifact in his hands that started to glow. We have lost contact with the squad and all further squads have had similar results
Advisement: Quarantine the entire planet for 100 sol years
I played as a peaceful robot race and over half of the empires were spiritualist. And the was a spiritualist fallen empire next to me. And a war in heaven. It was a fun game.
33:19 "I got a plan..."
Super fun series so far, Hopefully you'll have more lined up if you don't get decimated by all the militarist factions
Seriously if I was Jon I would've accepted the commercial pact from those guys up further north and built a branch office there because you can't afford to be picky with who you set up a branch office with, I'd say at least 25+ trade resource would be sufficient enough, and you can also become friendly with them, thus allowing for stronger alliances and moreso, you have a small compact empire with at least three colonies. You are playing a megacorp which basically means you are playing an empire that's all about making money. Now your alliances will help you in regards to warfare, if you make sure that your allies and yes I would say a secondary megacorp would be a good ally to have because then they won't do hostile takeovers of your branches. So accept things like commercial pacts from almost every empire that offers so that you can start expanding your trade empire, that's how I think Jon should be playing.
I love these Stellaris runs. :)
"ive barely buy any corvettes right now soo.. "Everything's Fine"
Jon, the Baviir offered you a defensive pact earlier that you declined. Might be a good idea to see if they're still interested in that.
Anyone else play these in the background of doing something else, without paying attention, just for the sake of hearing Jon's soothing voice?
Not on the first watch, but i pull up old playthroughs of his when im grinding on another game
the rubricator is not going to be fun for you. Everything is going to go so badly for you :D
Jon you need to play Mark of the Ninja. It's an amazing 2D Dishonored style ninja-them-up with some amazing visuals and even better gameplay. The story is pretty cool too especially the end so try not to get it spoiled
seconded, it's a fantastic game
Thirded (third? Thirdeded? Thirdud?) I recently got the platinum and its genuinely one of my favourites of all time! I got a slightly more murdery Batman vibe tho with the terrorizing mechanic and gliding and all the gadgets
Fourthed
Remember when Jon said he should/would be playing tall? Also, overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer. Another thing, if Jon let the Natfankans take those two systems that would be the border with the enemy, he wouldn't be having this problem would he
Down with the combine harvester!
Never give up! Youre doing pretty well up until now (except for the colonies...but thats just bad luck :/)
given how few planets you can live on, why not invest in terraforming when you can
How? He doesn't have any of the techs or terraforming gas. I generally don't get access to terraforming gas until mid game (maybe I have bad luck), which he's nowhere near. Taking the perk for adding districts wouldn't help him right now either, since his population is so small.
@@sharkofjoy I know, I'm saying to plan for the future, presuming he makes it there
Gonna be hard to get the Rubricator when there's a Leviathan that you have to beat before claiming it.
Don't tell him! Don't tell him! Let him find out for himself!
take a shot every time he says "Flipping"
1:15:00 Here I am losing my mind as to why he hasn't closed his borders to the people who are actively claiming territories while freely checking out what he has that they want.
Great run!
Glad its here
I was playing Stellaris myself whilst watching, you're in for some fun with the Rubricator! Just be warned that it does give other empires a right to declare war on you with the war aim of claiming the Relic. Its one of the Relics this is possible with. Well done to survive this far, I tried a similar run earlier in the week and I didn't last long! Its pure luck as to when someone declares war on you.
Oh, and don't put too much faith in defensive platforms, they're flimsy as flip, its a waste of alloys imo, unless you manage to get them ranked up with powerful weaponry and end up with a rating much higher than any attacking fleet. I tend to combine with them with my own fleet so that the fleet has cover.
I'm guessing we won't see a Live stream of this at some point then!? ;)
Late game outposts are so fun. Especially with the L-gate. I've gotten to a scaling difficulty grand admiral playthrough where the ai has ungodly firepower and it took three fleets to crack my terminal egress at the same time. The L-cluster always becomes my capital sector.
@@belladonnalavender5493 they are, I just wish the late game tech's really beefed up the hull strength of the platforms, even the Ion cannon platforms don't stand up to a decent strength fleet.
I usually make defense platforms for the sole purpose of slowing the enemy
hahahahaha... Rubricator...
1:05:42 Return of American Jon.
Jon is playing as space Poland.
Wait we are not monsters we are just dedicated to our cause!
Switzerland during WW2, colorized.
So many fantastic and thrilling developments!
1:05:44 guns guns guns, man the guns, light em up
Instantly Liked
When you set AI aggression high, one of the effects is increasing the chances of spawning a random militarist, xenophobe, or exterminator empire.
Oh.
That's pretty much what I figured was happening
It's clarkical work for clerks in the USA for us :)
Keep playing ancestors please. I really enjoyed it.
I find your lack of navy disturbing...
Losing it a little bit at the twitter hive mind
ooooh perfecttiming
This is the best run.
35:00 LOL
I know I'm late to this series but hold on... Jon merged the Derelict Cruiser with another fleet! How did he do that? Is it a fix in one of the DLC that I don't have? Is it a mod? I have acquired that cruiser twice now and it just won't merge for any reason. I can't reinforce it with any ship design, including superior designs.
Also again a little late but, @ 59:00 when a fleet is trapped just click on the "Return" button. This will open a prompt that will allow an emergency FTL jump. You will get a warning about potential damage and how the fleet won't return for some time.
And Shirley :) you are aware that matching a researcher having the same expertise as the desired tech is faster than picking any other leader, e.g. A research leader having the Particles expertise is 15% faster when researching techs that are also of the "Particle" category. Matching research leaders to the tech requires a little bit of micro-managing but is definitely worthwhile.
Huh, it doesn't say finale... Unexpected.
john look at this mod Gigastructural Engineering
Even though I just started playing this game, you make me feel like I'm playing it correctly because I also always say, "this is probably a bad idea" with every decision.