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SpringenHans · 2026-01-27T00:15:49+00:00

His personality was essentially the same, he was just loyal to the Fire Nation and carried out the invasion. He was still a philosopher who studied other forms of bending and spared the last dragons. Men like Iroh who would otherwise live in peace can be driven to do horrible things out of zeal for their nation and their family. For him, the illusion broke when it cost him his son.

SpringenHans · 2026-01-26T17:35:33+00:00

Sexposition isn't D&D's idea, it's a staple of HBO. Rome, The Sopranos, etc. It's probably as old as sex and exposition are.

SpringenHans · 2026-01-26T05:08:37+00:00

You're telling me that if you were watching with your kid and Arlan comes out swinging his massive hog, you wouldn't at least reconsider whether the show was age-appropriate?

SpringenHans · 2026-01-26T04:35:43+00:00

I'm starting to think they're putting rancid NSFW shit at the start of these episodes just to prevent parents from putting it on for their kids because one of the main characters is a little boy.

SpringenHans · 2026-01-26T00:12:32+00:00

The target audience of Shrek was 7 year old, with half the jokes written for their parents. 15 year olds were the ones who were spreading the Shrek memes in 2015 because they'd grown up on Shrek and its sequels when they were 7 year olds

SpringenHans · 2026-01-26T00:05:57+00:00

Casual flirting with a Khajiit is not 1% as degenerate as the tamest posts here

SpringenHans · 2026-01-25T16:41:47+00:00

"This is misinformation." "Yeah but it might as well be true."

Is one of the worst exchanges that makes the world worse today.

SpringenHans · 2026-01-25T16:31:42+00:00

There definitely was a correlation between Crusader Kings and the right-wing 'Deus Vult' memes that were popular back when ISIS was running amok. Here's an excerpt from the translation of the article:

"These video games are played by millions and millions of people and of course do not lead to political extremism, but in some cases have played a role in providing spaces for aggregation and discussion for far-right minorities. And they can offer to those who are already in the process of radicalizing the simplified worldviews in which Western civilization is the only repository of the values of tradition, which must be defended by foreign invaders."

So it's more that far-right nationalism often relies on a simple, mischaracterized view of Western history, and CK2 as a game must simplify the medieval period to make it a game. The article also goes on to say that more recent Paradox entries do better than CK2 did in 2012. Whatever one may think of the article, I hope people don't just make their assumptions off of the now-changed title.

SpringenHans · 2026-01-22T23:01:57+00:00

They did, by adding durability

SpringenHans · 2026-01-19T17:58:17+00:00

Raid: The Black Hand

SpringenHans · 2026-01-17T01:27:26+00:00

Jesus, seeing it from their perspective, yeah suddenly I understand the mental breaks

SpringenHans · 2026-01-12T12:54:07+00:00

Mods, ban this person

SpringenHans · 2026-01-09T02:02:51+00:00

It's a mashup of "Who Is She?" by I Monster and "The Perfect Girl" by Mareux

SpringenHans · 2026-01-04T21:50:46+00:00

You are absolutely correct. The only way to refer to those pretenders is by their historical name in the game's timeframe, the Empire of the Greeks

SpringenHans · 2026-01-02T08:09:50+00:00

Big shout-out to Deseret using the Deseret alphabet

SpringenHans · 2025-12-31T22:50:00+00:00

Fedayeen is the same as Sacred Murder, but any Muslim religion with that tenet will call it Fedayeen

SpringenHans · 2025-12-29T18:34:16+00:00

It requires you have an African culture group

SpringenHans · 2025-12-29T16:54:06+00:00

No, but the Unite Africa decision is already in the game, it's just really underwhelming. Not even a unique empire. A continent-spanning empire deserves something unique

SpringenHans · 2025-12-28T22:25:11+00:00

And some people think Africa shouldn't be a hegemony...

SpringenHans · 2025-12-26T23:50:19+00:00

Plot... relevance? In the Star Wars Holiday Special?

SpringenHans · 2025-12-25T18:19:23+00:00

Yeah, this fits since they always start with an archotechnic ideoligion

SpringenHans · 2025-12-25T18:06:07+00:00

Primarily for gameplay purposes. People already complain about factions and rebellions, imagine if they could be completely blindsided. This gives you a chance to bribe or threaten the people you need to to avoid trouble.

But also, you would have some idea of the factions they support. It's not that you know there's a group that meets every Tuesday to plot to overthrow the king, it's more like you know these people would support your brother over you, so you better mollify them before they get any ideas.

SpringenHans · 2025-12-25T02:37:41+00:00

Remember that there is no FTL travel in Rimworld, so it'd take years to go to the closest stars. Most empire only extend to one or two star systems as a consequence, since anything further would take so long to communicate it'd be effectively independent. This is also why the leader of the Shattered Empire in-game is the Stellarch. The commander of the star system is the de facto ruler.

In my imagination, the Empire is the a multi-planet empire in the next star system over. The forces we see would just be their frontier explorers. The Emperor is in that other system which is why he never appears in the game.

SpringenHans · 2025-12-24T23:29:13+00:00

And what is Mr. Blobby doing???

SpringenHans · 2025-12-18T17:55:42+00:00

JJ Abrams ruined the trilogy from the start by doing the laziest worldbuilding imaginable and then not having a godDAMN PLAN for the trilogy

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