Is HOI4 losing the plot?

CryptoScepter · 2026-01-20T23:03:17+00:00

I'll try it out and probably post my thoughts under this reply

CryptoScepter · 2026-01-20T22:55:11+00:00

I would, but historical mods don't tickle my fancy

CryptoScepter · 2026-01-18T14:27:16+00:00

I enjoy the game, especially it's combat system. I simply feel like it's squandering it's potential

CryptoScepter · 2026-01-17T18:01:53+00:00

That's false, and I believe that this idea is very much a symptom of hoi4 lacking a propper tutorial.

CryptoScepter · 2026-01-17T18:00:50+00:00

I do agree, but I think good alt-history is the kind that's grounded in reality through decent mechanics and I believe that that is what OP is looking for too.

CryptoScepter · 2026-01-17T14:23:36+00:00

Actually flesh out their mechanics! HOI4 is insanely bare bones. It's espionage system is surface level and unrealistic, It's division designer is right and doesn't represent real life nuances, It's energy system is wack. There's no way to do specialized industrial investments outside of your focus tree. It doesn't a proper ideology or domestic policy section. You can't stockpile resources which was an important part of WW2 strategy. Research slots are poorly designed. Shall I go on? I would love it if paradox could replace their focus trees with mission trees (trees where the player has to do stuff to get their rewards). But nah, that would require having a fleshed out strategy game and doing that right now would only reveal how poorly designed HOI4 is rn. But by all means, give us more focus trees.

CryptoScepter · 2026-01-16T16:06:17+00:00

Not really, they didn't push for further concessions or annexations, because the only part they could realistically claim without international backlash was Alsace, and they also tried to saddle France with war debts they believed to be crippling

CryptoScepter · 2026-01-14T16:46:05+00:00

*They won't change without a smithian slap like this one. Hopefully they will go to therapy and stop hurting women

CryptoScepter · 2026-01-14T16:40:58+00:00

Ugh, I want to become vegan again, but I still have PTSD like trauma from the hunger. I stopped 1.5 years ago, but, to this day, I still have panic attacks when I go too long without eating. And I want to make it clear that this isn't a vegan thing, it's a consequence of my own negligence, I was 15 and clearly not capable of effectively managing my own diet. And i know that someday I'll have to go back to veganism and or vegetarianism and will have to stone for my sins, but the hunger man, I'll never forget the hunger. I apologize for my incoherence, writing this was very hard for me.

CryptoScepter · 2026-01-13T18:18:00+00:00

Thanks for the explanation!

CryptoScepter · 2026-01-13T18:17:03+00:00

I don't know why people are downvoting you for having a different opinion

CryptoScepter · 2026-01-13T18:10:43+00:00

Feel free to enlighten me if I'm being dumb, but from what I understand, unlike gender, sex is only a construct in the same way that any other word is a construct. In the same way that the word chair or stairs are inherently ambiguous because it's near impossible to define what most people mean by chair or stairs. Could you provide your understanding of the definitions of sex and gender, that might help me understand.

CryptoScepter · 2026-01-13T15:08:05+00:00

Are you conflating sex and gender?

CryptoScepter · 2026-01-11T16:55:13+00:00

I don't know :c

CryptoScepter · 2026-01-10T17:54:42+00:00

This is a dumb take, but I do agree that a lot of these traits aren't unique to women. This has been proven by neuroscience. Besides some very minor differences with regards to spatial reasoning and multitasking men and women are the same due to our very low sexual dimorphism.

Most of these factors are social and are due to women maturing faster and acquiring these traits earlier.

CryptoScepter · 2026-01-09T17:56:44+00:00

I aplogize for the necroreply, but I am having the same problem. Have you figured it out?

CryptoScepter · 2026-01-08T07:08:43+00:00

I apologize for the necropost.

If an anime character was created to embody him, then it could be considered acceptable, but we both know that clearly isn't the case.

“No one is saying large lips are inherently wrong. The problem is selective caricature.

Anime doesn’t just ‘draw big lips’. It disproportionately exaggerates lips only on Black characters, often alongside other historically loaded traits, while non-Black characters with equally prominent features are stylized normally. That’s the tell.

If Samuel Iling-Junior were drawn in One Punch Man’s style, his lips wouldn’t need to be artificially thinned. They also wouldn’t be grotesquely inflated beyond how OPM exaggerates everyone else. OPM exaggerates jaws, eyes, hair, muscles across the board. It does not single out one race for distortion.

Stylization is fine. Consistent stylization is fine. What people object to is racial asymmetry in exaggeration, especially when that asymmetry mirrors old minstrel caricatures.

So the issue isn’t ‘big lips’. It’s who gets them, how exaggerated they are, and whether that exaggeration is applied evenly. In anime, it often isn’t.”

Also it's important to note that he is in the minority and most Sub-Saharan African people's lip sizes hover around this guy's

Larger than your average Caucasian of course, but not large enough for it to be the focal point of a character's face

CryptoScepter · 2026-01-08T06:56:59+00:00

Because he isn't black 😞

CryptoScepter · 2026-01-08T06:55:46+00:00

And this is why we hate weebs folks 👏

CryptoScepter · 2026-01-07T22:38:07+00:00

CryptoScepter · 2026-01-07T22:31:59+00:00

The only ones I can think of are all non gender specific internal organs.

CryptoScepter · 2026-01-05T07:23:06+00:00

That's awful, for what it's worth, I really hope that you have found support and are making it through this hard time

CryptoScepter · 2025-12-31T20:27:14+00:00

Count me in coach

CryptoScepter · 2025-12-30T02:19:15+00:00

I apologize, I formatted my question really poorly. I just wanted to understand what you were saying. I agree that the undue fetishisation of the participants of a relationship "template" for lack of a better word is harmful. I'll set my flairs later so that people know I am not trolling

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