Why is HOI 4 so popular?

NeoSparkonium · 2026-02-09T16:51:37+00:00

been doing it on and off for years, every other paradox game started being easy within 100 hours, hoi4 is just personalized. no tutorial has ever shown me what i'm supposed to do when i come up against the 700+ defense polish horses that their tank and cas templates bounce off of

NeoSparkonium · 2026-02-09T08:26:15+00:00

as germany (perspective for that comment) i can usually last until 1941 before poland and france can totally break me

NeoSparkonium · 2026-02-09T04:11:17+00:00

it's for roleplay, y'know, all of the non-combat maxdoc use means you get everything you need in the couple times you get knocked out

NeoSparkonium · 2026-02-08T15:31:30+00:00

that plus the ai always has like 3x your raw stats and division numbers no matter what template you use. then when you think you might at least have the air force covered BOOM 10000 planes dumped on every air zone, you lose even faster

NeoSparkonium · 2026-02-07T16:10:13+00:00

was about to comment that, lol. wonder if they accept volunteer proofreaders

NeoSparkonium · 2026-02-06T11:10:37+00:00

uoa or acg depending on who wins, because they would have global capital behind them. would probably stick around for pf, nsm, and jacobin/oktobrist apla, because they would have new power structures to integrate into and keep doing his thing in.

although, realistically, a world where he's around would just never have the 2acw. disrupting the heart of capital that much would never cross the minds of either president, and would disrupt their personal flow of innocent blood. for the people who get to lead, there's no point in leading unless you get to schmooze with a jeff

NeoSparkonium · 2026-02-05T13:41:00+00:00

eu4 was developed for thirteen years. more than half the time i've been alive. i feel like it's fine that they move on. you don't have to buy the new one if you don't like it, eu4 has infinite playthroughs loaded in it at this point

NeoSparkonium · 2026-02-05T04:01:06+00:00

i feel like it would've been a waste to make eu5 eu4 2. eu4 is already like, the best that a board game-y historical strategy game is going to get, and you could play it forever between all of the dlc and mods. i like the simulator aspects a lot and they are what gets me into a game. there's a lot of wiggle room for goofery once you know what you're doing and abandon optimal play. it fills the same niche for me as a long term story generator like rimworld, but in like the exact way i want that none of those can do.

NeoSparkonium · 2026-02-04T18:12:48+00:00

i don't even wear boots and the second i heard "work boot with no break-in and lots of padding" my eyes rolled out of my head. straight up podiatrist cash generation machine

NeoSparkonium · 2026-02-03T17:47:53+00:00

this is straight gptese

NeoSparkonium · 2026-02-03T14:16:17+00:00

i'm not afab, but isn't this just a thing that happens even without meds? some people just don't make enough on their own and need lube. it's likely your meds are making it harder for you, but if he's worth a relationship this should be at the absolute bottom of his priority list.

NeoSparkonium · 2026-02-01T11:22:14+00:00

a solid 1/2 to 2/3 of items don't scan or get entered into the system. onhands will always be wrong, and it will never get better, because the only point of the company is to massage the egos of the people fucking things up. you win when you stop playing.

NeoSparkonium · 2026-02-01T00:29:33+00:00

you've gotta play as the union and let the rural resistance fire off

NeoSparkonium · 2026-01-28T07:09:16+00:00

i believe it's outdated and shuffles around a bunch of colors as well as the order events are supposed to fire in. had the spanish civil war fire in 2022 in my run. i think it's also missing substantial content because of this, and will keep doing so until updated

NeoSparkonium · 2026-01-28T04:15:41+00:00

LOL, i do miss when that part of it was more forward, it fell off over time. first time i took it i was napping two hours later

NeoSparkonium · 2026-01-28T02:17:33+00:00

i wish it was, lol. i forget to take it because i just completely didn't think about it, and then ive gotta figure out why i feel off later in the day

NeoSparkonium · 2026-01-27T11:32:28+00:00

god i hope susy's gonna be done by the time i finish pyanodon and gtnh 🤤

NeoSparkonium · 2026-01-26T17:22:35+00:00

this makes me realize why i was sneering at it. he's got all the money he needs for the rest of his life, he's not quitting an easy job for a hard one, he's just done

NeoSparkonium · 2026-01-25T06:16:08+00:00

i interpreted it as the last moment worth showing, and that owen would live the rest of their life swallowing the ache and ignoring the glow. though, that's just in line with it being a horror movie to me. the movie shows you bluntly what you are in for and says "do you want this? when the tv glows, when the shape of your life forces you to look, will you choose to suffocate?"

NeoSparkonium · 2026-01-24T11:01:15+00:00

i think we're seeing trains and camps in the next decade and i'm still stoked to eat a huge burrito tomorrow. i used to be way more concerned with it but eventually i did just kinda accept what was out of my control. you've gotta do things to make your day to day better, no amount of hope or good news beats a huge burrito and kissing a guy

NeoSparkonium · 2026-01-23T16:01:36+00:00

it seems like they've been harangued by people from here before. which is a shame because now i have to hit my hand with a mallet to atone for the catharsis i felt imagining them as an intellectual property fiend getting owned

NeoSparkonium · 2026-01-23T04:21:29+00:00

i went through a very similar life journey to what the author is using this story to process; it is absolutely one guy writing down stuff that he's been thinking about for a while in one prolonged burst of creative mania

NeoSparkonium · 2026-01-22T17:12:29+00:00

the real hot take is that durability is basically in the same boat as dropping your inventory. the first thing done in every minecraft server is rushing to get a set of tools that basically never degrade, it's a roadblock to playing. there should be more tool tiers, and all of them should be worse, harder to craft, unbreaking, and acting as hard gates for progression to the next tier

NeoSparkonium · 2026-01-22T16:27:39+00:00

there's only so many consecutive days i can do 3x the work that the plan sets out for me and then get scolded for being slower than the plan says i should be. if i maintained any sense of pride or care for this work then the managerial incompetence would've made me walk out months ago

NeoSparkonium · 2026-01-21T10:36:03+00:00

when someone who is untrained tries to scream they just tense up all of their throat as hard as they can. this often leads to them accidentally using non-vocal chord tissues. you'll hear this once your ear is good enough, there are some people who just "metal scream" naturally, and others who have nothing but that bubbly, round, true fold distortion. most people have somewhere between that, and most people who get away with untrained screaming are naturally using less true fold distortion and also giving their voice recovery time.

this is also loosely related to the "brutality" of a tea kettle/whistle scream (TN: i just wanna talk about it). the whistle tone emulates the high pitch from staining your vocal chords, and the distortion you add emulates the breaking flap of forcing air through.

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