So after a long while, I'm finally back to power scaling. In the meantime, I've had some length discussions with a very experienced power scaler and though initially our opinions differed a lot, I've finally come to accept his ranking. You can find his channel here (though he's Turkish and doesn't understand English): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1a6HgdrfWK-bKs4Zzew__Q If I start explaining everything in detail, this post will become way too long so I'll just briefly explain some importance changes and if you disagree with any specific thing, please let me know in the replies:

1. Ertugrul
2. Osman
3. DE Turgut
4. Sungurtekin
5. Bamsi
6. Gundogdu
7. Gunduz (estimated, may change drastically in the future)
8. Samsa Cavus
9. Noyan (all I'll say for now is he could only give 3 hits to Ertugrul in their fair fight and defeating one-eyed Ahmet Alp wasn't such a good feat as even a minor character like Atsiz Bey overpowered him easily while being wounded)
10. Tugtekin
11. Titus
12. Albasti
13. Balgay
14. Vasilius
15. Dogan
16. Claudius/Omer
17. Togay
18. Dundar (best possible estimate) (In Season 1 he had a boil disease, hence he lost to Balgay so easily. Note that when Noyan fought Gundogdu (who had the boil disease), he beat him like a common soldier)
19. Savci
20. Aliyar
21. Gunalp
22. KO Turgut (estimated)
23. Kalanoz (KO S1)
24. Titan
25. Dragos
26. Suleyman Sah (estimated)
27. Abdurrahman (estimated, DE S5 onwards he was one of the strongest alps and he got a lot more experience in KO)
28. Yavlak Arslan (estimated)
29. Ares/Ahmet (two-eyed, without armour)
30. Alincak
31. Korkut Bey (very rough estimate since we barely saw him do anything but I guess he could be relative to Suleyman Sah)
32. Deli Demir (estimated since he barely fought but he was pretty good and gave Tangut 2 hits very quickly, so he is at least much stronger than him)
33. Flatyos
34. Kurdoglu
35. Sultan Alaeddin (very rough estimate since he barely fought, but he stomped ordinary soldiers)
36. Goktug (In Season 1, he performed worse than Flatyos against Osman. And we have no evidence he got much stronger in Season 2 or 3. The only notable enemies he fought were Tekfur Yason and Commander Nestor, who themselves looked so weak Osman would probably one-shot them)
37. KO Umur Bey
38. Atsiz Bey (was much stronger than one-eyed Ares, but Titan severely injured him by himself, so he's definitely weaker than Titan)
39. Gumustekin

After S2's voting, and after my overly-serious takes on primaries and Japan which turned out to be wrong, I knew I'd got something wrong. What do we really want, I pondered, from the CBR? Well, let's face it.

We're here to enjoy a cast of 61 historical figures beating the crap out of each other with digitised spears and tanks, aren't we? Do the specifics of mod quality for each one really matter, when all we're seeing is the very outer edges of the code? Ee ja nai ka! ('Oh whatever, let's have fun!')

Hence, my contribution to campaigning this time around is gonna look rather different. The Ee ja nai ka guide to voting isn't supposed to be detailed. If I can't convince people to support a civ in one shortish sentence, I'm not gonna mention it. Sorry, I just can't get excited about The Phallocephalians or whoever, whatever their uniques are. Of course, if you know a lot more than me about any obscure civ and know they're actually historically kinda cool, then go ahead and campaign for them! I might change my mind! Likewise, I'm writing these roughly in the order that I think I'd vote for them, but go ahead and rank them completely differently if you want. It's CBR. There is no right answer.

Without further ado!

WEEK 1 (VOTE NOW!)

North Sea. The Faroe Islands are literally the Sheep Islands but are also so badass that their leader is shown knee-deep in whale guts. Alba has a very cool double purple colour scheme. The Isles are worth a look for any fellow fans of obscure outlying bits of Britain that want a chance to get even.

British Isles South. Mick Collins kicked the Brits out of most of Ireland and can make pubs appear everywhere. Pitt the Younger, Toryness notwithstanding, represents the time when scheming British prime ministers painted half the world pink. Tyrone gives you all the Norn Iron memes plus it's in EU4. Wessex is the cooler in every way version of the Anglo-Saxons.

France. Belgium because it's fucking Belgium and who wouldn't want to see them suddenly go mental in a BR. Robespierre because we already know what happens when he goes mental. Switzerland see Belgium. Anglo-Dutch cause he took over England just by waltzing into it at the right time pretty much, and also cause we still haven't had any Dutchies in Europe for some reason.

Iberia. Asturias or Leon for lesser known bits of Spain that don't usual

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

The nurse asked the rabbit, “what is your blood type?”

“I am probably a type O” said the rabbit.

Earlier today, I wrote a comment advising on how to make an easily written code that would be hard to crack. I figured many of you may find this helpful, so I'm sharing it here as a post.

Here's a few strategies that may help with coming up with a hard to crack script that's easy to write, using strategies derived from various languages that are hard to learn (or at least very different from English):

Strategy from Arabic: connected script with unique connected forms

If you come up with some kind of cursive, it will be harder to pick apart what the letters are, at least a little bit. At the very worst, you can have something like the Arabic alphabet, where most letters have four forms: isolated, initial, medial, and final. The letters look different when you write them by themselves, starting a word, between other letters, and ending a word. Most people who don't know this look at Arabic and don't even know where to start when picking apart words into letters. If you look at Arabic, would you be able to tell what the letters of a word are?

English cursive is at least connected, but we don't have unique forms for where each letter appears in writing.

In addition to this, Arabic has certain written ligatures where when certain letters are written together they form unique glyphs that are not obviously apparent what two letters are being combined. To make an analogy to English, we have letter combinations that are pretty common, such as

• double letters (mm, tt, ll, oo) and
• consonant combos (sh, ch, sk, ck, st, th, nd) and
• vowel comninations (ae, ie, ou),
• and common word endings (-tion, -ing, -ed, -ity, -es -ial)

If you were to come up with unique glyphs that decode to these combinations which are not visually apparent that they are composed of these letters, this alone would make cracking a written code a pain in the ass.

Strategy from Arabic and Hebrew: drop most of the vowels

If you drop most of the vowels from your words, but keep some rules for how to indicate vowels from words that can't easily follow this rule without being illegible (such as words that begin with vowels such as 'is', or short words made up mostly of vowels such as 'a') your script is usually still legible. For example, try reading this:

Mst ppl cn stll rd ths sntnc 'vn thgh thr 'rn't 'ny vwls.

Y 'r prbbly stl 'bl t rd ths ln 'f txt 'vn thgh thr 'r n vwls 'n 't. 'nglsh hs 'ngh cnsnnts fr 's t drp mst 'f thm.

If

Mentos

(I will see myself out)

The doctor says it terminal.

Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.

THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB

Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"

I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual

So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes

r/unclejokes for dirty jokes

r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC

r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes

Punchline !

Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub

Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat

Do your worst!

How the hell am I suppose to know when it’s raining in Sweden?

Mathematical puns makes me number

We told her she can lean on us for support. Although, we are going to have to change her driver's license, her height is going down by a foot. I don't want to go too far out on a limb here but it better not be a hack job.

Ants don’t even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.

But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.

They were cooked in Greece.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

He lost May

Now that I listen to albums, I hardly ever leave the house.

Said if she ever hosts a gender reveal party, when it comes time to pop the balloon she'll spray everyone with water.

Gender is fluid.

Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?

Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"

Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"

But let me give it a shot.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

He’s the new temp.

And now I’m cannelloni

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

But that’s comparing apples to oranges

And boy are my arms legs.

Amy

Put it on my bill

Heard they've been doing some shady business.

but then I remembered it was ground this morning.

Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale

Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments

BamBOO!

They’re on standbi

A play on words.

Calcium, nickel, neon

Overrated:

1. Gundogdu: The only feats he has is beating a drugged Turgut and an injured Noyan, both with heavy assistance. At best I'd put him around Gunalp's level but some people put him even above Noyan.
2. Tugtekin: He could hit Ertugrul (who still had a bandaged hand though by this point he appeared to be at about full strength) 2 times. Due to his good feats against Tangut and Noyan, I put him right above Albasti and Ares but people usually put him above Titus.
3. Albasti: He only hit Ertugrul twice and is around one-eyed Ares' level.
4. Titan: He could only hit Bamsi twice and defeated Samsa with cheating. Yet people put him above Alincak, Dragos and Ares, who hit Ertugrul 1-2 times. Ertugrul is noticeably stronger than Bamsi so in my opinion Titan is around Tangut's level (who barely hit Ertugrul once). Since Tangut cheated more while fighting an already-beaten Samsa, I put Titan just above Tangut.
5. Vasilius: I know he gave Ertugrul 1 wound but he never gave such a good performance in any other fight. In one fight he couldn't hit Ertugrul even once. Still, due to wounding Ertugrul he does make it to #5 in villains. However, several people still put him above Balgay, Titus, Togay and Noyan.
6. Dundar: He fought Osman for 16-17 moves but Osman was only defending. Balgay beat him in 7 moves. He did have a boil disease in the Season 1 but he has no good feats in the Season 2 and seems even slower in Season 2. I'd put him just above Kurdoglu.

Underrated:

1. Suleyman Sah: Is only marginally weaker than Ertugrul even in his old age as both he and Ertugrul defeated Kurdoglu without taking a hit. But people put him even below Alincak (who hit Ertugrul just 1 time) and Samsa (who hit Dogan just 2 times).
2. Noyan: Though most people agree he's the strongest villain, a lot of them put him below not only Ertugrul but Turgut, Bamsi, Sungurtekin and even Gundogdu. According to his feats in Season 4, no one except Ertugrul has a chance of beating him.
3. Ares: Even with one-eye, Ares hit Ertugrul 2 times, is still among the strongest villains and can only be beaten by a handful. Yet I've seen people saying Albasti, Dragos and even Titan can beat him.
4. Aliyar: Ural could only hit him 2 times before losing, and Ural hit Ertugrul 1 time. This should put Aliyar above everyone in DE except Ertugrul, Noyan, Turgut and Bamsi. But people don't even put him in the top 10.
5. Dogan: Kocabas only hit him 1 time and Kocabas lost very easily to Bamsi. But this