The fantasy that players are choosing to play for their “escapism” directly lines up with what they are.

Ehh, I mostly play interesting (alt-)historical situations. A lot of it is stuff like re-forming old empires. Stuff I would absolutely oppose in real life. It’s not really ideological for me, it’s mainly about forming interesting borders.

“Life begins at conception” and the IVF process involves fertilizing eggs that might not end up being implanted for various reasons. If they’re against aborting even zygotes, then being against IVF is consistent.

Seriously, a man protected from arrest by a convoy of indigenous proletarian supporters marching on the capital to take back power after he was couped, clashing with police along the way. The only way to make it cooler is to take power directly instead of just registering as a candidate in an election.

If they stop him from being on the ballot or manage to arrest him, I hope his supporters won’t take that lying down.

lmao I guess Ukraine is losing more oblasts then.

It started replying with white genocide shit to completely unrelated posts. That would only really happen if its base prompt includes stuff about that.

to asking me to explain Ibrahim Traoré and the Sahel to them because they like his reforms(?!??).

Honestly I wish I could have done that. The only problem is I had no way to even realize that before going through puberty. How was I supposed to know I would hate what my body would become?

The earlier the better.

I think they added a communist path for Germany recently, but I haven’t played it yet.

CK3 is pretty good for losing time. It’s definitely the easiest to just go with the flow. Most losses don’t feel game ending and can give you something to go after. I got a friend really into it even though he doesn’t seem to have any interest in the other games.

Vic 3 is alright once you figure out how to keep things stable enough while still ignoring the more complex systems.

HoI4 is a horrible broken mess. I’ve been playing it a lot recently.

I’ve never played EU4 so idk there.

Same for Portugal. The Carnation Revolution was a huge change and afaik the only time a European colonizer just said “go on, you’re free now” to its colonies. But everything before that was :yikes-1::yikes-3:

Unfortunately my grandfather was drafted to fight in Salazar’s wars attempting to keep control of the colonies.

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I’m not well informed on the situation, but I can only imagine Turkey would take that to mean they can do whatever they want without resistance now.

It’s insane how they cling on to that 3 days thing when it came from an American general (who also specified a full scale invasion, which the SMO most definitely isn’t). Putin never said any such thing.

They didn’t even follow the desire path. People are literally telling them which way they’re going to walk but they’re like “nah, we know better, put a tree in their way”.

That’s enough butter for like 2 or 3 pancakes at most. Closer to 2.

I’m still waiting on my ballot to come in the mail. With only a week left I would think it would be here by now.

Another role for Rubio?

I think we’re clearly in the synthesis “Nothing is Always Happening” timeline.

an economic boycott of Israel

by September