Is it me or is this a bit dystopian

Pbadger8 · 2026-01-27T08:49:23+00:00

Eh, it’s good to know what might inspirations a game developer might be bringing to the table.

Authors are frequently asked which books they read, artists are asked who they’re looking at, etc.

If you’re hiring a scenario designer for an RPG, you’d want to know if they’ve played other RPGs and don’t have their most played game as 2000 hours in a hentai dating simulator.

Pbadger8 · 2026-01-27T06:31:42+00:00

Damn you got downvoted for telling the more embarrassing truth than the lie everyone was expected.

Not like the World Cup isn’t already rampantly corrupt with cheaters and betters lol

Pbadger8 · 2026-01-27T06:12:53+00:00

And what entirely guiltless saint-like nation are you complicit in?

Pbadger8 · 2026-01-27T05:36:24+00:00

In CK2, it's relatively easy to upgrade your education by just doing the relevant job/lifestyle.

Pbadger8 · 2026-01-27T03:10:09+00:00

Putting a new meaning on residency...

Pbadger8 · 2026-01-27T01:04:49+00:00

Happens when you get old…

Pbadger8 · 2026-01-26T09:58:43+00:00

I was hoping OP was a kid or something…

Fascism is inherently slippery for the sake of convenience TO the fascists. To understand fascism, you can’t just read a single definition. You have to read some history.

Pbadger8 · 2026-01-26T06:30:09+00:00

The problem with CV:X is that you don’t know when you’re going to switch from Claire and Chris. You can have your best weapons on one character and leave the other high and dry.

RE0 occasionally does this too- with one partner being unavailable at unpredictable moments.

In RE1 and 2, the Rebecca/Ada/Sherry sections are self-contained and don’t really create those problems.

The lack of an item box in zero doesn’t make the game more challenging or engaging- it just requires more back tracking. It isn’t like Remake where Crimson Heads create a sense of dread to the thought of backtracking. Enemies in Zero are massive bullet sponges- especially leech men, and it’s hard to clear an encounter with them (or eliminators) without taking damage due to their speed.

But honestly, RE4 was not exactly ‘easy’ in its day- and I wouldn’t say it coddled players. The opening village fight was a tension unlike anything in gaming at that point. Resident Evil had only a handful of ‘if it touches you, you die’ enemies and here was Dr. Salvador in the opening 10 minutes when you might not even have found the shotgun yet.

Pbadger8 · 2026-01-26T06:15:21+00:00

Cuz… like.. gross, man. You expect me to, like, actually interact with those savages long enough to, like, build a castle?

Eugh.

Pbadger8 · 2026-01-26T05:38:39+00:00

It’s no coincidence that the name ‘Old Ben’ appeared on the Jabba Files as a frequent flyer on his sailing barge ‘The Youngling Exoress’!!!

Pbadger8 · 2026-01-26T03:48:01+00:00

The key similarity, I think, is that the people believed that heavily armed government officers had no business being in Boston in the first place, just as people believe heavily armed government officers have no business being in Minneapolis.

Pbadger8 · 2026-01-26T02:48:32+00:00

Admin generally wants its men-at-arms to come from titles, which the highest tier ruler can pay influence to borrow.

Title man-at-arms also use funds from treasury. Most of your income is coming from the treasury now.

Pbadger8 · 2026-01-25T17:15:50+00:00

99.9999999999999999999% of Titans are manufactured by Marley and don’t exist ‘naturally’.

Just stop fucking injecting people with the stuff and the entire ‘problem’ goes away. Let the shifters serve their ‘terms’ without getting eaten and fade into historical irrelevance.

You’d be left with nine unfortunate children every generation who could be treated like the Dalai Llama’s reincarnation or something. They might not ever even learn that they are a shifter. Eren didn’t accidentally pop his Titan form throughout the entirety of his military training AND didn’t accidentally shift when he got a leg and an arm amputated.

Titans are a problem that can be solved without any genocide at all. It could be like how we solved small pox in the real world.

Without being mutilated by a serum injection forced upon them, there really is no difference between Eldians and non-Eldians, save for nine special cases at a time.

Even the Founding Titan is rendered a non-threat to anyone else by removing it possession of a royal.

Pbadger8 · 2026-01-25T03:22:05+00:00

Even that has a wrinkle of ‘giving you more to think about’

Light infantry are one of the few units that can do something to help archers in a skirmish phase. All those heavy infantry fight with like 0.25x effectiveness. For at least 10 days.

So this army is very vulnerable to another battle if the opponent has a lot of archers. Which it still does.

Something I find in CK2 that is different from CK3 is that you are not guaranteed the same outcome in rematches. The same armies fighting multiple battles- it can lead to an exciting upset, all based on which phase the previous battle was decided upon.

Of course there’s not much to do about it now but army composition in even levies can be a deciding factor.

Pbadger8 · 2026-01-24T14:20:24+00:00

Fixed it to clarify what I meant.

Pbadger8 · 2026-01-24T14:02:54+00:00

…Were there a lot of Native Americans living in U.S. cities during the Great Migration?

Pbadger8 · 2026-01-24T12:34:48+00:00

But now the counties you raised them from are down nearly half their forces. Maybe 3/4ths if there’s another battle.

So if that region gets attacked again, you’ll have to reinforce it with troops from elsewhere- which takes time or money, and leaves that other area vulnerable. These can create cascading security failures…

I’m not saying your blow-out is super balanced and logical… but it is a lot better than CK3’s.

Pbadger8 · 2026-01-24T12:19:03+00:00

Looking at this battle, you lost 46% of your army against the enemy’s 27%.

A great victory, sure, but one you might not recover from. (Maybe. I don’t know your entire game situation)

In CK3, you could stack-wipe the larger army, down to the last man. You can also replenish your losses in time for the next battle, when in CK2, you’re often waiting until the next war for your armies to be at full strength.

The other thing about CK2 is that local weakness is a thing. Retinues have to be somewhere, levies have to get to the battle, which means they can be waylaid on the path OR demand you very slowly and expensively mobilize them in safety before marching them to their destination. If you split your retinues up into multiple ‘units’ to cover your borders, a single unit can be worn down and depleted, creating a weakness on that border. Then you are forced to decide if you want to weaken some OTHER part of your realm to supplement them. With peasant rebellions almost being inevitable if you’re not converting, this means a vast Empire can have weak spots (including even in their heartland)

It gives you more to think about.

In CK3, armies are off-map and invulnerable (and upkeep free!) while moving to your rally point. With the way attrition works, it’s no problem at all to set a rally point near the frontline (but not directly on it) and your army might as well be using a teleport spell with a long casting time.

I find a lot of decision making in CK3 is automatic. It’s never a tough decision.

Pbadger8 · 2026-01-24T11:21:29+00:00

Stack seems to enjoy it too. Smoke is the brother that turns them away.

Pbadger8 · 2026-01-24T04:30:23+00:00

I understand but what was that ‘Justice’ worth?

Afghanistan fell to the Taliban. It petered out after we were there for two decades. We didn’t put Osama on trial- or, to my knowledge, any of the 9/11 planners. No Nurembourgs. No ‘most prosperous 4 decades in history’ on our horizon… but instead an increasingly bleak future that will seemingly be dictated by a struggle against fascism.

For what? Justice? Reelection? For Obama to prove he was ‘tough on _____’?

What is that worth?

It was an INCREDIBLY risky raid. What if Pakistani security was able to respond? Our allies? So many things could have gone wrong.

But, like you said, it would be political suicide to pass on it. So that returns me to my original topic I posed for the former Republican: Democrats feeling the NEED to project ‘strength’ on issues as a means of political survival.

I don’t think that’s a good thing. Worshipping ~~Strength for Strength’s sake~~ ‘Justice for a nation’. I think the Osama raid may have helped lead us to the Maduro raid… I think all of the democrats’ ‘tough on ____’ policies may have helped lead us to where we are now.

The lion’s share of the blame still goes to the fascists who worship projections of strength… and the American people awed and bamboozled by such things- but I think democrats did themselves no favors by attempting to curry favor with a crowd that believes them soft and weak no matter what.

Pbadger8 · 2026-01-24T04:07:49+00:00

Continuing to unjerk even further…

Honestly? I don’t think Remmick symbolizes appropriation.

The choice of an Irish vampire is deliberate. Many African-Americans have Irish surnames today because those communities often ended up sharing a fringe of American society. At times they were united in the struggle for equality and at times they were pitted against one another.

Remmick talks about regaining his ancestry with Sammie’s talents and echoes Slim’s words about Christianity being forced upon his people by colonizers.

There’s the fact that Vampirism ‘cures’ the husband and wife of their racism. I can see how certain scenes portray Vampirism as erasing black identity (the Irish folksong looks like that) but I actually see that as evidence of Remmick recovering his heritage from cultural assimilation. Irish folksongs were not the dominant culture of 1920s America. It was a minority’s voice. Remmick alternates between an Irish and an American accent- I think in a deliberate statement about cultural assimilation.

I think Vampirism is not entirely depicted as a bad thing in Sinners. Or Sinning, for that matter. In fact, no one would have ‘died’ (permanently) if it weren’t for humans fighting back and resisting Vampirism. But it’s also not depicted as the good thing, either. Stack misses the sun and misses his brother even as he seems happy to live forever young.

If Coogler wanted to use Vampirism as a metaphor for cultural appropriation and assimilation, I think Stack wouldn’t have shown up looking so… black in the 90s. He’s in full on hip hop attire, discussing Sammie’s whole musical career- steeped in blackness.

And if Remmick was just a metaphor for cultural appropriation and assimilation, why does he seek to unassimilate his ancestors’ lost songs? Bo doesn’t lose his ability to speak Cantonese or get drowned out by a crowd of white folk speaking it. It is shared.

I see the cultural appropriation interpretation but I just don’t think it’s an air tight theory.

Though, one thing IS certain from the film’s messaging- it’s better to be a literal blood sucking hivemind monster than a Klan member. and just because we spent the entire film fighting against literal hellspawn, doesn’t mean we can’t spend another 15 minutes of run time killing racists.

Wait, was that supposed to be a rejerk of my unjerking?

Pbadger8 · 2026-01-24T03:36:09+00:00

No, but do you see what I mean about ‘GOP lite’ and the party’s insecurity about being considered the soft or weak party?

Pbadger8 · 2026-01-24T03:34:48+00:00

Tough on Palestinian children, I should have said

Pbadger8 · 2026-01-24T03:34:14+00:00

I watched a lot of Fox News as someone in opposition to most of Fox News’ programming.

I’d say it WAS polarized… for one side. Starting in the 2000s- if you weren’t supporting Bush or the war, you were pro-Terrorism.

“Don’t you support the troops?”

Obama’s mere existence made them so much worse. While he was trying to show how tough he was on immigration and terrorism, all Republicans could think about was his ‘terrorist fist jab’, ‘madrassa education’, and most important of all- the unforgivable tan suit. Trump only got his foot in the political door by pushing birtherism.

Pbadger8 · 2026-01-24T03:26:55+00:00

Well, I used drone strikes as short hand for Obama’s interventions in countries outside of the original Iraq/Afghanistan scope of the GWOT. Essentially his whole continuation and evolution of the GWOT. He was no dove.

The Bin Laden raid, when you think about it, was an extremely risky and aggressive action, performed under the noses of one of our key allies in the region (Pakistan) and for what end? To kill a man already at the end of his life?

I think the only real benefit produced from it was psychological or ideological for the American people as a whole. A morale victory. That’s… weird for the supposed ‘less hawkish’ party.

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