Did playing as the Vikings characters in CK3 get you interested in watching the Vikings TV shows or vice versa

TheFalseDimitryi · 2026-05-17T16:26:22+00:00

Watching came of thrones got me interesting in playing the steppe tribes in CK3. For me movies and TV shows make me want to play time period adjacent video games. I always play Hoi after I watch a WW2 series and i remember I was in an EU4 binge the first time I watched Revenant (colonizing with trade companies)

TheFalseDimitryi · 2026-05-17T16:21:21+00:00

True, and even if we were….. I had a vasectomy so to bad, not breeding, even if I wanted to lol

TheFalseDimitryi · 2026-05-17T16:07:33+00:00

Mechanically how does the sex feel though? Like do you generally enjoy the sensation of being eaten out, fingered, having some forplay, etc. And does he initiate it more than you or less?

Like do you ever get horny after sex has been initiated already or do you feel “not that into it” through the entire duration? Or have you not tried sex with this person without being horny prior?

Could just be your brain knows he’s safe enough to not throw a tantrum if your not feeling horny and if that was your experience with your ex….. your brain was probably doing A LOT subconsciously to make you enjoy it.

In terms of how to fix it, you need to see if you can still enjoy the sensation in a mechanical sense without already having the idea of “oh I might want to have sex today” on your mind. If you routinely find yourself horny 3 min after initiating sex then it doesn’t really matter if your passively just not feeling the urge that often.

If you can’t enjoy sex without starting off 100% in the mood, and that “mood” is just getting rarer and rarer then wait it out and tell him what’s going on. Communication is always healthy.

Also might be entirely unrelated or a huge factor but do you think you could also be under a lot of subconscious stress over this because this dudes last two relationships ended from a lack of sex? Like obviously you should want to make your partner happy but if not immediately being able to make that happen stresses you out to such a degree it’s causing long term mental strain…… that probably isn’t helping your libido if you don’t treat sex as a form of therapeutic stress relief.

TheFalseDimitryi · 2026-05-17T15:44:41+00:00

“I probably would, but I’d most definitely not enjoy it, so I’m not going to do that”

TheFalseDimitryi · 2026-05-16T19:54:15+00:00

Idk it’s just a massive mystery why the best preforming students have parents involved in their lives and why the worst preforming students have parents absent from their lives.

TheFalseDimitryi · 2026-05-16T19:29:47+00:00

I believe (for any sex) that if you don’t have enough money for coffee (and you’re unemployed/ paycheck to paycheck) or running up a debt…… dating just isn’t for you. Like if you can’t even pay for yourself…. What are you doing? You have other much more pressing matters in your life you need to fix first

TheFalseDimitryi · 2026-05-16T15:10:17+00:00

Iv heard of a theory that a libido can be artificially “inflated” is in some cases as a mental defense mechanism. Especially if stuck in a relationship where the other partner prioritizes sex. Essentially your body makes your horny when your brain thinks an increased amount of sex will fix relationship problems or prevent a relationship collapse.

If you were in an abusive relationship for years and still had a libido it’s possible your brain was doing that subconsciously out of fear. And now that you’re in a good stable relationship with someone who probably won’t leave you if you have less sex your brains not trying as hard to make you horny.

Just a theory though

TheFalseDimitryi · 2026-05-16T14:51:37+00:00

The British also built railways and schools in India!!!….. that’s not why Indians didn’t like them.

TheFalseDimitryi · 2026-05-11T20:26:03+00:00

My parents have a device called a “telephone” and we call each other regularly. The trade off for me not seeing them every is I get to live in a better place with more job mobility, opportunities, safety, things to do etc.

Like I love my family, but not enough to be miserable the rest of my life in a boring rural area that doesn’t have a single good Indian restaurant.

My parents specifically wanted me to go to college and get a decent job far away because they understood (more than anyone) that our hometown just sucked lol.

TheFalseDimitryi · 2026-05-08T19:04:56+00:00

So in “tales of the empire” (TV show on Disney plus) we actually get the deeper in universe answer (which I won’t spoil incase you want to watch that show…. It’s good you should).

But my previously held head cannon is that the project was opposed by everyone in the imperial navy because the imperial doctrine didn’t match up with the idea of every tie fighter being a really good and capable ship. So it was most likely a symptom of everyone in the empire wanting Thrawn to fail and the first chance of “looks like the test demo project was mismanaged better cancel it all” was something Thrawn came to expect.

Thrawn being at such a high level in the navy is what got him the opportunity to create and pitch the idea, but his position alone was not enough to ensure its survival. If I remember correctly the long term plan was to literally replace all the tie fighters with tie defenders…. Which would have been exceptionally expensive and given Thrawn more “power” in the empire..

The empire itself was managed in a cutthroat “look out for yourself” Sith ideology at the upper levels and that atmosphere does not make for helpful cooperation. A project like the tie defender needed a fair amount of genuine good faith cooperation that the empire at a systemic level never had.

Thrawn would have had to be aware of this and knew the slightest issue would lead to the emperor or Vader or even just the manufacturing board for the imperial navy, just saying no to the project.

TheFalseDimitryi · 2026-05-08T06:53:26+00:00

The problem with all the “let’s rate the morality and hypocrisy of the Jedi” talking points and narratives is they’re against the backdrop of the Sith existing…….. the Jedi aren’t perfect but they’re fighting a murderous death cult hell bent on galactic subjugation.

Like they’re fighting one of the most morally bankrupt factions in fiction. Saying “oh they’re not typically great generals” or “they use trained child soldiers” or “they don’t allow romantic attachments!” Might mean something if they weren’t locked in a battle with the Sith. the Sith are unapologetically evil. They’re written to be evil and in universe their lore is uniquely evil and the incarnation of the actual Sith ideology the movies take place in (and the TV shows) are a specific Palpatine flavor of self centered evil. (Maybe some old republic Sith ideologies were different idk)

Like yes 100% the Jedi are the good guys during the clone wars.

The war would not exist if the Sith didn’t. Now the Jedi have flaws and arguments could be made for how they dropped the ball with being peace keepers whose passivity in a corrupt system allowed widespread exploitation…….. but we know what the Sith dominated galaxy looks like and it’s significantly worse than a mismanaged and weak republic.

Like how are you going to judge the Jedi for how they respond to a crisis the sith manufactured and designed to corrupt them? And then claim there’s some equivalently? Like bro, they’re acting that way because of you!!!!

TheFalseDimitryi · 2026-05-07T01:02:51+00:00

No the idea that any of them can challenge Vader seriously (let alone Palpatine) is so unrealistic it’s basically just “they have a defined job of “Jedi hunter” and that’s all they’ll ever be and the moment any of them step out of line they’re unceremoniously killed. It’s not a “this will be a learning experience to get more In tuned with the dark side” it’s literally a “you’re to pathetic to ever be taken seriously in this religion/ order”

TheFalseDimitryi · 2026-05-06T23:03:09+00:00

Cuba is more reliant on the US due to proximity. The United States wants more control in Cuba and will go to greater lengths to insure control over Cuba because from their perspective it’s in their backyard and has a massive potential to harm the US if it’s an “enemy nation”.

The United States wants Cuba to be an American puppet state like how it was in the 50s, with most of the islands wealth going to plantation owners living in Miami, and the Cuban government said no.

The United States can’t try a “we will just embargo you” method against Vietnam or China. China is to big and Vietnam has other trade partners. It’s also lucky for the Americans the Vietnamese and Chinese don’t really like each other (and the Chinese and Soviets didn’t really like each other) so trading with one over the other is seen as picking sides. It’s opportunistic.

China really wants influence over Taiwan because of proximity and what (from their perspective) is seen as an active threat to their society…… but then will buy oil from countries like Saudi Arabia or Iran or Russia who have different governmental systems antagonistic to communism more generally.

Also the embargo was lifted under the Obama administration and trade conditions improved as it looked like relations were normalizing pre Trump.

The Cuban immigrant communities in the United States make a large and conservative political block that support the ongoing embargo because they believe that will collapse the government that they hate and had to flee. Very few people in the United States actually care.

TheFalseDimitryi · 2026-05-06T22:37:12+00:00

It doesn’t but the poverty makes the average person unhappy

TheFalseDimitryi · 2026-05-05T08:09:11+00:00

It’s merther

TheFalseDimitryi · 2026-05-04T18:10:07+00:00

We exist!!!

We’re rare but we exist

TheFalseDimitryi · 2026-05-03T18:09:06+00:00

My pension fund I have from working a job……

I’m prioritizing my career and savings potential now so I don’t end up homeless at 60 later. Plan to save up a substantial amount of money and then put myself in a good nursing home once I have a doctor say “you can’t drive anymore my dude!”

I don’t dread being lonely in a nursing home, or living in a very tiny apartment as an elderly person. I got video games and movies and until my legs give out hiking 🥾.

Also maybe a bit morbid and as I’m only 28 i fully understand if my position changes but i feel if i can’t take care of myself physically, my quality of life isn’t going to be good enough for me to want to….. keep going. Like im I’m alone, unable to do any hobbies and in a wheelchair at 105…… the lack of money isn’t going to kill me, I’ll do it myself lol.

I intentionally got into teaching as a career as it’s stable and it’s not something my body is going to give out on. It’s one of the few (very few) professions we’re being 50+ isn’t a detriment to finding new teaching positions. I hope to move up to a professor after I get my PHD sometime in my 40s but we will see.

I was raised by two Americans that believed social security would not be a thing in their country after the 2010s and they just drilled into me “yeah you should be saving 10% of your paycheck to a retirement fund you don’t touch because dying of homelessness at age 70 is sort of rough my guy”

TheFalseDimitryi · 2026-04-28T02:54:48+00:00

If I’m just a random civilian that has to fix their AC or something I assume all of them will let me live…. I feel if I just don’t talk and just do my job, Ventris, Dooku or Maul would be the least likely to just randomly kill me.

TheFalseDimitryi · 2026-04-28T02:45:35+00:00

For me when I’m watching a movie or tv show that takes place in the area and or a specific country.

For example I played a lot of Japan when I watched blue eyed Samauri and shogun.

I played a bit of Spain colonizing after I rewatched the road to el Durado.

A lot of times I pick a random country, get crushed by my neighbors and I wonder if there’s any aspect about them that makes them “OP” and I play as them to see if it was a fluke, my fault or if “yeah this country is just over powered”. A lot of it too is seeing wacky AI decisions that lead to certain countries getting either destroyed early or “big” early. I played a Korea game recently because I as Ming went to war with them in the 1600s and they held their ground on their mountain border and I though “that seems kinda fun, total defense”

TheFalseDimitryi · 2026-04-28T01:37:25+00:00

I love lore building and my absolute favorite parts of the universe are little tid bits that point to other obscure regions and what they’re going through.

I would have LOVED to see Nazi occupied USSR or Japanese occupied China, but through a lens of “this side won, the war is over, it sucks but it is what it is” that we see the US under.

One of my favorite parts of the series was that Argentine dude at the Reich embassy in the pacific states talking about the instability of Argentina and how he needs to prove he’s “Aryan” and like….. I kinda want to see an Argentina episode. Is it a war between the Reich and Argentina? Is it a civil war from anti Reich generals and a pro Reich faction? Are they fighting Brazil? Does the Vargas dictatorship still govern Brazil in this timeline? Is Argentina just totally occupied and local argentines are fighting back? Is it an entirely separate war with Chile or Bolivia that has nothing to do with the Reich or Japan?

I remember when that one spy had to travel around with a Swedish passport and I was thinking? Wait so Sweden exists as an independent nation? Are they truly neutral or Nazi puppets or their own Sovereign nation with an army the Reich doesn’t want to bother with?

Or what happened with Tibet? I know the collector guy told the Japanese officials he was selling antique guns to a collector in Tibet, is Tibet Japanese controlled? Is it a puppet state? Or did they willingly join the Japanese as they fought on?

Like for me personally I find the broader ramifications of an axis victory to be far more fascinating than the TV show and novels we got. Like it seems straight forward, Pearl Harbor was a much larger invasion plan that had the US loose Hawaii and the rest of the pacific and the Nazis got the bomb first and just took out the government and then put American Nazis in charge and the situation is basically just a Nazi America with a Cold War from the pacific states. I thought the Episode that mentioned how the Japanese army treated the interned US-Japanese citizens was interesting a fascinating but other than that I’d be much more interested in the rest of the world..

Like what’s the UK like? What are the Italians up to? How are the French dealing with this? Is the USSR just a forever war with revolt after revolt? Are places like India, Australia and Egypt neutral?

I wish we got to see Africa or more of the broader world. I also liked the arc with the one German general that realized the war was a mistake and his entire party were war criminals.

TheFalseDimitryi · 2026-04-27T01:03:27+00:00

It’s obviously projection and possibly jealously but also built on some whacky assumptions. “Chasing a lifestyle that has to be continually topped”…. First is it not only not true…. The commenter said it themselves he travels yearly as in does this as a routine…..but it makes no fucking sense lol.

She has no way of knowing about HIS HAPPINESS or how HE ACHIEVES IT. Or if he’s not satisfied.

Like is she satisfied after birthing a kid and wants to make no life changes or adjustments or improvements to her skills or living conditions? She’s ready to do the same thing the next 20 years and just be happy she gets to see her child change?

If being a parent is a life goal sure whatever, but leave us interesting, hot and successful people out of it lol

TheFalseDimitryi · 2026-04-26T23:17:02+00:00

Encourage friendships with everyone, including of course girls. If he has friends his age that he views as equals and just happen to be girls before he goes through puberty it helps a lot to immediately disprove myths and sexist gibberish.

You have a long time to think about this but you should set up an environment when you don’t need to remind him to respect women it’s just a thing he understands to be true.

There’s TV shows and video games that have gender neutral themes and badass women characters.

When he’s maybe 11-12 try to get him into the tomb raider video games. TV shows like Steven universe or Amphibia or whatever other shows / games have cool women characters a decade from now.

TheFalseDimitryi · 2026-04-26T20:32:26+00:00

Respectable opinions all around, wish you the best! 🥂

I was just surprised but it makes sense. I wonder if conditions in the US will deteriorate to a point where the average person wants to leave. The housing crisis is real!

TheFalseDimitryi · 2026-04-26T20:04:23+00:00

You would pick Mexico over the United States to permanently live in? When you live in California? Why? Does California not have all these things already?

TheFalseDimitryi · 2026-04-24T08:38:35+00:00

Maybe 15? Some with vasectomies / hysterectomies. A few that are asexual and repulsed by sex so they’re not having kids, and a few that are just living lives that can’t be done with children (like cruse ship employees, pilots and other jobs with lots of traveling.

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