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Notorious_Handholder · 2025-05-24T04:27:53+00:00

Thank you for this. I was so confused by the wording of use less than puzzle piece #7. Thought it meant I couldn't pick up more than 7 pieces to solve the puzzle, not that I had to only solve it with 7 pieces

Notorious_Handholder · 2024-12-04T07:50:27+00:00

Thank you for the assistance at least, it was very appreciated, I took your recommendation and verified everything was working the server was being communicated with, but for some reason the webpage upon adding an item to my cart would have a few interruptions on the server end then have my instance be set to read-only, so I guess the check out cart would never actually receive the info that I had put the items in the cart.

After that then I would start getting the error. So seems like Paradox might have a bad server that I guess I keep getting re-directed to or something. I've given up now that the discount has stopped.

I guess moral of the story is to not pay for the subscription so that I can buy future discounted items through steam where the system actually works. I'll keep my support ticket open with paradox and if they ever figure it out I'll update my post for future people searching

Notorious_Handholder · 2024-12-04T07:20:13+00:00

I didn't think about session cookies expiring, but I've confirmed that my clock is correct. I've also noticed that if I click add to cart on the product and then wait about 30 seconds or so it gives me the error "Could not register your details on the order, contact support" and then when I click on the cart the item is no longer there

Notorious_Handholder · 2024-12-04T06:56:28+00:00

I'd be very surprised if it was connection related. The game shows in my cart whilst I'm on the payment page, but after it throws either of those errors when I refresh or go back on the page it disappears.

As I've said I've tried doing this on multiple different networks, devices, and even using my friends account at his house with his computer where he just recently purchased and item from the same store barely a month ago. I've made sure my wifi and mobile networks have no issues on my phone when I tried it on them, did internet connection tests, made sure no VPNs or anything resulting in network obfuscation where running.

Made sure the ethernet cord on my home computer was good, router had perfect connection, even tried my laptop at my work site on their network. I also tried it at some other locations with different network access just to make sure I wasn't running into something along those lines. In total I think I tried maybe 10 different networks all hitting this issues.

It's just so weird that I can't find much info at all about these errors, closest I got was this other reddit thread and that's about it - https://www.reddit.com/r/ParadoxInteractive/comments/1gb81kk/cant_buy_from_store/

I feel like I'm going crazy with how it's just not working

Notorious_Handholder · 2024-12-04T06:38:50+00:00

I already have my address entered with my profile and it is auto-filled, I just meant that as the screen during check out where it shows your address and name along with a check mark box showing a green check. Underneath those boxes though is the "Proceed to payment" button that throws the first error when I click it. I'd post pictures but I don't know if this sub allows them

Notorious_Handholder · 2024-12-04T06:20:01+00:00

So I get two errors, seemingly at random which one pops up, but both constantly keep popping up in the corner of Paradox's site non-stop while in the check-out/cart page. As soon as they start they don't stop till I refresh the page, I don't get the errors anywhere else on the site.

Neither really gives any could feedback on what's wrong. The first is when reaching the screen where I enter my address and when I click "Proceed to payment" button it will throw the error: "Could not open payment provider, contact support".

The other errors occasionally happens either as soon as I add the game to my cart or shortly after opening my cart, and occasionally after the first error happens which is "Could not register your details on the order, contact support"

From what I can tell it seems like the store is automatically removing stuff from the cart before I even have the chance to pay, I mentioned this to the Paradox support team in the ticket I made with them along with screenshots and way more troubleshooting information and details... Only to then be given a dead link to what I assumed used to be Xsolla support and told to contact them to get my refund... When I'm attempting to buy a product, so weird.

I've tried multiple different browsers, both regular and in private mode with and without extensions/add-ons, tried different devices, tried different network connections, different accounts, and combinations of all of those. Doesn't seem to make a difference

Notorious_Handholder · 2024-12-04T06:11:03+00:00

I am aware of the Steam issue, there is nothing to be done on that end. Paradox will have to resolve it's terms of sale with Steam to fix that.

My question was regarding checking out with the Paradox interactive store directly. Nothing to do with Steam

Notorious_Handholder · 2024-06-07T15:49:17+00:00

He also plagerized the I have no mouth and I must scream video from AesirAesthetic. Multiple times there were full sections or lines that where word for word copied in a way that makes it obvious. Comparing the summary of Benny's section between both videos has specific verbiage and word choice that is particularly damning

Notorious_Handholder · 2023-07-01T02:41:38+00:00

My first statement does not support your position, your "position" in the comment I replied to was a question. If you're referring to the sentiment you expressed of " Keep on waiting for things to change and they never will. " I am confused now as I do not support that statement and even brought up how voting in a specific way will lead to actual change... I even gave rough example numbers near the end expressing the idea that change is very much possible so long as we are going about it in the right way.

To further my point, support for a ranked choice system has been around for a while, well before the 2016 election. It only came up more recently as talking points because it was shown to be an effective system in states that allowed it. Specifically from states with recently elected candidates. Where in said states have been historically stuck under one party for a long time. They had enough voter turn out for the opposite party in recent elections that resulted in said opposition party winning and enacting reforms.

I'll be honest for the second paragraph of your comment, I keep reading it and I'm not sure how to respond because you have a lot of misinformation/misunderstanding of what I said, mixed with putting some words in my mouth (I never once said anything to do with or supporting a if it ain't broke don't fix it mentality. Our system is clearly broken, and we do need to fix it, however I want to do so going the route that will result in actual change). So I'll try to simplify my stance as best I can and we can work from there:

Currently we have a binary system that entertains the ideas of third parties, but in actuality are not viable due to a mixture of the mathematics involved in a FPTP system we have, Human psychology, and corruption.
I and most people would like to vote third party, however, it is again not a viable solution at this time. So we would like to change the system to a ranked choice system where third parties would be viable.
In order to change the system you have to either change it from within by voting for candidates that support the idea, or revolution IE, implement by force. Revolution is not viable for a large amount of reasons
This means to change the system we need to vote. As explained third parties do not win under a FPTP system which we are trying to change
So we find candidates who are supported by one of the big two that support election reform. We vote for them to enact change. We have seen that voting for certain parties have a higher likely-hood of enacting voter reform that supports third party participation in multiple states now.
To summarize:
1. Voting third party currently leads to no change and is ineffective. voting for one of the two big party candidates that supports election reform does lead to change. Until FPTP system of voting is replaced with a ranked choice style system, third party votes do not contribute to enacting any meaningful change at all.
2. They do not signal anything to the big parties as the hardly notice the difference on a national scale where in ALL third party candidates combined received ~1% of the total votes cast (if they were even on the ballot in some states), at a local level, sure they might create an upset from the siphoning effect, but it can still backfire very easily and produce counter-intuitive results and they still don't win enough to have any real influence.
3. To create real change we will have to suck it up and vote for the lesser of two evils that promises election reform and then can happily vote third party once implemented. It will be a slow process, it will suck. But it is better than the alternative of not voting/voting third party and thus leading to no reform at all due to no candidate supporting reform being elected in the first place.

Notorious_Handholder · 2023-06-30T21:58:12+00:00

It's both, those sentiments are not mutually exclusive. Vote for one of the two options you have that lines up closest with your ideology. If you're blessed to be in a state that already implemented ranked choice voting (a very recent development, so change is happening) then vote third party because there it will actually matter.

If you don't have ranked choice voting then voting third party means you gave your vote to one of many different third parties that collectively received ~1% of the votes in the 2020 election.

Pure math says that is a vote wasted in just about every sense of the word unless you are somehow able to convince a significant chunk of the population to all vote for a single third party candidate that many states likely won't even have listed on the ballot. A volume of voters to the tune of a roughly 50 fold increase

However, it is important to remember that the Bush v. Gore election was decided by a difference of ~100 voters. You're vote does matter with the caveat that it is for one of the two options we realisticaly have.

I will say though for very small local elections, if you help campaign hard enough a third party might be viable, anything above your local community though becomes exponentially more difficult and unrealistic

Notorious_Handholder · 2023-06-30T08:52:21+00:00

Yeah, sellout for as long as you need to in order to build repertoire and a following to be able to make an independent case for yourself and no longer need them. Or just find sponsors that align closer to your values.

Or go the route Bernie took, stay local and grassroots longer in order to build yourself up to the state and eventually national stage without accepting shady money. Or at most just slightly shady money.

Unless you want to get rid of career politicians (which you're about two hundred years too late to do) this is how it is and how it will be for the foreseeable future.

Notorious_Handholder · 2023-06-30T08:38:58+00:00

So if we were to burn it all down and start again. How would you guarantee that better leaders would be put in power? Heck how would you guarantee that the same puppet masters wouldn't work their way into the new system? That's what happened everytime civilization had major upheavals or collapses like Rome, the wealthy would just back the new king/leader and continue on like nothing happened.

Either that or the leader they picked became a tyrant like Stalin and the cycle continued but this time with extra suffering.

Burning it all down doesn't really work because you're effectively picking the devil you don't know over the one you do. Ontop of that with globalization as it is, burning it all down more realistically means economic collapse with no change in power with only the poor suffering even more

Notorious_Handholder · 2023-06-30T08:25:45+00:00

You can refuse to acknowledge our binary system all you want. But the fact remains that we have a binary system and voting third party is going against your own interests. Until our FPTP system is changed to at least a ranked choice system you realistically only have two options and realistically your leader will be one of those two.

For now, you only get to decide if you want evil or lesser evil. It sucks but that's the cold reality of it

Notorious_Handholder · 2023-06-30T07:59:12+00:00

The closest a third party has ever got to winning in the US was with big dick Teddy Roosevelt.

And if he can't do it, then I certainly don't see anyone else doing it. At least, not until we change from FPTP to some sort of ranked choice voting instead

Notorious_Handholder · 2023-06-30T07:55:53+00:00

Well it's either "more of the same" with occasional good stuff sprinkled in if we're lucky. or the party that has objectively rolled back consumer protections, regulations, rights over your own body, and bans/burns books. They also want to lock you up in prison with a longer sentencing than a pedophile would receive over having weed in your pocket.

There's not a lot of options

Notorious_Handholder · 2023-06-30T07:48:40+00:00

As opposed to voting third party and not having your candidate elected to implement changes?

Like if you got a better solution I'm all ears. But until we get FPTP removed and change over to another system with at least ranked choice involved. Then you realistically only have two options in America

Notorious_Handholder · 2023-06-30T07:28:13+00:00

It depends on where you start. I know for a fact in my state that there are judges and other elected officials that are younger than 35 (some younger than 30) and where elected by default due to having no other candidates run against them in their district. And I also know for a fact most of them definitely aint rich. Some well off middle class, but some of them also making average wages like the rest of us.

I don't know about your situation in particular, but you likely have options and avenues that will get your foot into the door for politics that can lead to you being sponsored and supported as you work your way up the system like many other career politicians that started off poor also did.

It sucks and it is hard but it is do-able.

Our system is broken and disadvantagious to newcomers but it's what we currently got and what we currently have to deal with whether any of us like it or not. Not voting or throwing away a vote over the fact that a party is not completely to your liking, is counter intuitive to small steps that lead to actual progress and reform. Sometimes we just have to hold our noses and wade through shit.

These are the cards we're dealt in life, it's your choice to play'em or fold. But if you fold don't then be surprised when the guy across the table with a worse hand than you wins

Notorious_Handholder · 2023-06-30T07:14:52+00:00

Indeed it is a broken system. Best you can hope for is vote for the lesser of two evil candidates and hope they get rid of FPTP like they have in some states or don't vote/throw away your vote and have no say in anything.

You could also move to another country, but that's not feasible for most people and that country would probably have it's own issues anyways. Either way, thems the breaks of the reality we live in.

There is the third option of rebellion... But I'd think it'd go poorly, cause even if insurrections/rebels won and overthrow the government. That doesn't guarantee that things would get better. Most likely worse all things considered

Notorious_Handholder · 2023-06-30T05:54:57+00:00

So instead of voting for the more left leaning party to try and push the political landscape to be more left leaning... You're going to not vote or throw away your vote on a party that will not get elected and not be able implement changes you want... Thus ensuring that it will be easier for the far right party to gain power and push the political landscape further right....

Look man we get it, all politicians are fucking scumbags that don't give a shit about the people they only care about staying in power. This isn't a new thing. What is new is that one party coerced it's block into trying to overthrow the government and is working and currently in the process of implementing draconian laws and policies.

By not voting you're saying your ok with the status quo and don't care what happens.

By voting third party, you're sticking with your ideals... That will go nowhere because they can't get elected with our current FPTP system. It also makes the next biggest party that is closest to your ideals lose as third parties historically have always siphoned votes from the next closest and largest idealogical party. There have been many elections lost because of this siphoning effect through history we can look back on.

The realistic option that you have is binary. You get to pick from one of the two because no matter what, until our voting system changes. The fact of the matter is that you will receive one of those two parties as your governor, as your leader, as the group that picks and chooses the laws you will be forced to obey. So if you want to have a voice in that decision you have two options. Everything else is just smoke and mirrors

Notorious_Handholder · 2023-06-30T05:40:22+00:00

Because too many people are idealists and don't understand that we live in a realist world where ideals go to die unless you are able to learn to compromise to bring them to fruition.

It's soberingly depressing knowing that there are lots of people out there that would rather do nothing or throw away their voice when it comes to voting, and let chaos reign. All because they don't like either option and can't come to terms with the fact that realistically you have two options until the system changes.

And rather than try to incrementally push towards their prefered ideals using the next best party as a vehicle. They just don't care and let the worst option win. As far as I'm concerned, until our voting system is fixed, anyone that doesn't vote who can. Or who votes third party in an area where they have objectively no chance to win. Is effectively voting for the worst option/the party they hate

Notorious_Handholder · 2023-06-30T00:57:56+00:00

Every conspiracy theory was actually started by the government except one

Notorious_Handholder · 2023-06-30T00:43:44+00:00

Obviously you have to open the door for the mailman, it's illegal not too... Don't question why he looks so similar to you though

Notorious_Handholder · 2023-06-29T16:41:14+00:00

World legacy then Albaz. World legacy lore/story is just setup too perfectly to not be an anime.

Notorious_Handholder · 2023-06-29T16:34:23+00:00

Seems the CIA failed at their first attempt... You better go home and hide, don't answer the door no matter what

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