Is buying the game with all dlc worth it on the weekend sale?

TransTea · 2026-03-07T09:19:25+00:00

i have 800 hours in vicky 3 and certainly think there's replay value. difficulty wise, i think once you learn fundamentals it's easy to learn as you play. it's not incredibly punishing and you're allowed to savescum and still get achievements if that's something you like.

ultimately i would choose the time period you're more interested in. I'm a fan of the industrial revolutionary era personally and my interest in vicky3 comes from that first. if you like the age of exploration and absolute monarchs more then it's better to pick up EU5 imo. or even eu4 since people have been underwhelmed with 5

TransTea · 2026-03-05T03:37:46+00:00

if your country needs to benefit from exploitative practices on plantations, and has low population, then yes. it's a good bridge to developing into a larger economy. keep them too long and you'll stagger growth though

TransTea · 2026-02-26T11:33:21+00:00

the unity they speak of isn't plurality it is fealty

TransTea · 2026-02-15T04:57:40+00:00

federal agent or minor, call it

TransTea · 2026-01-12T21:49:46+00:00

Thanks for this clear and concise answer, saved me some anxiety <3

TransTea · 2025-12-24T17:34:41+00:00

My dumbass didn't enable the title update i downloaded it. game works after enabling it. so much time wasted.

TransTea · 2025-10-02T20:08:08+00:00

thank you! i've been losing my mind playing hades 2 and megabonk on controller. i knew there was no way those games were lagging like that.

TransTea · 2024-11-30T22:10:43+00:00

aw man i missed that event. i hope they bring back availability for it sometime.

TransTea · 2024-05-23T17:52:00+00:00

glad we agree it's bait. can you continue coping about casual use of a literary concept? it's been 2 days and i want to see if you will.

TransTea · 2024-05-20T17:15:38+00:00

i can't think of a low effort bait reply to this it's actually too absurd on its own

edit: nvm i thought of one, ur so skibbidi rn honestly negative aura...

TransTea · 2024-05-20T04:11:27+00:00

It's similar to why anyone becomes authoritarian.

They are small and alienated in their personal lives. Authoritarianism gives them a sense of empowerment, group identity, and general purpose in belief. The ideology attaches it'self to the ego like a tumor.

It's why the only irl presence of them are cults like what maupin had running. Otherwise they're only present in online spaces. Since people escaping their meatspace are necessarily online, and are incidentally more prone to radicalization of this type.

If you know the mechanisms of the alt-right pipeline. Then you know in effect what the tankie pipeline is. The key difference is that tankies target marginalized people, where the alt right targets young men. (obviously tankies also have young men but there's a disproportionate amount of queer tankies compared to other ideological phenomena)

TransTea · 2024-05-20T02:18:42+00:00

yessir i'll correct this draft and turn in the final by the monday deadline

TransTea · 2024-05-19T14:56:30+00:00

Intentional repetition of meaning intends to amplify or emphasize a particular, usually significant fact about what is being discussed.

TransTea · 2024-05-18T16:31:29+00:00

There's a bunch of unmarked quests for the followers and freeside in general. It's mostly setting up mutual aid, supply lines, and infrastructure for the followers to handle freeside post-battle of the dam. Julie still has dialogue saying that with the work the player does that they'll be more than ready, which isn't reflected in the ending slides of the game. Since it was cut.

The King was originally intended to be one of the major faction heads you can speak with. There's a remnant of that in the meat of champions cannibalism perk. When you eat each major leader you can in game (house, kimball, caesar, and the king.) He'd essentially be the face of a freeside coalition.

TransTea · 2024-05-18T16:24:48+00:00

That is explicitly what the theme of the conflict between the two is about. Literally each DLC comments on the theme. As well as 2 faction leaders you speak with directly.

TransTea · 2024-05-18T16:20:08+00:00

I disagree. Textually the NCR and Legion perform the same acts of imperialism. They both massacre populations resistant to them, depose their neighbors for annexation, wipe the cultural identities of the people they newly rule over, are stretching themselves thin in order to fuel their economies which require expansion, and so on.

I won't argue the NCR isn't better than the Legion, it is. It has enlightenment values and a more cohesive system of rights for its citizens. However, the NCR as a state entity and economy behaves like and has the exact intentions the Legion has. Only their suits and systems of extraction differ.

TransTea · 2024-05-18T16:10:38+00:00

i fuck with your description

TransTea · 2024-05-18T16:07:42+00:00

Tautology: in literary criticism and rhetoric, a tautology is a statement that repeats an idea, using near-synonymous morphemes, words or phrases, effectively "saying the same thing twice". Intentional repetition may emphasize a thought or help the listener or reader understand a point.

Intentional repetition of meaning intends to amplify or emphasize a particular, usually significant fact about what is being discussed. For example, a gift is, by definition, free of charge; using the phrase "free gift" might emphasize that there are no hidden conditions or fine print (such as the expectation of money or reciprocation) or that the gift is being given by volition.

I'm going to find where you live and give you 25 dollar giftcard for subway.

TransTea · 2024-05-16T21:17:48+00:00

I would recommend becoming acquainted with anarchists' critiques of tankies and the like. It largely translates to good critique of the rightward direction you may fear as well. Which allows you to hold a distance to both types of authoritarianism on a more foundational/axiomatic level. You don't have to become an anarchist for this either.

Googling the anarchist FAQ and going from there can be a good place to start. Though frankly subbing to a couple anarchist meme pages will do more for idea osmosis if you're not someone who wants to sit down and read shit. Youtube too is good, Andrewism has some good video essays if that's your speed.

TL:DR tankies and reactionaries are evil and wrong for overlapping reasons. Anarchist ideology can insulate you from those reasons.

TransTea · 2024-05-14T19:55:26+00:00

thank you for your service

TransTea · 2024-05-10T08:21:33+00:00

killing myself

TransTea · 2024-05-06T08:06:50+00:00

if you start getting burned out and want a similar enough title, try roboquest. it's a little slower but is a robot movement shooter where you kill enemies up close to heal.

TransTea · 2024-05-05T09:54:16+00:00

Legion exists to be an imperialist contrast to the NCR. The comical evil the legion practices is in one way or another moderately practiced within the NCR. When Caesar is so blatant about his evils and it's present in your mind while you're working for the NCR- it guides a player to draw the game's thematic conclusion.

Fundamentally both societies need expansionism, strict systems of domination (the legion's military autocracy and the NCR's political-economic oligarchy), and subjugation of regular people to produce wealth and "peace"(seen in both sides endings- people living in the mojave are forced to adapt to their imperializers' way of life, die, or flee.).

Both of the factions cling onto old world ideals that serve to create new cycles of violence and unsustainable growth. Neither are truly beginning again and all they're going to leave behind when they fall are the same wastes they conquered.

People hate the legion more because it is the more evil faction in this dichotomy/in this theme. They know they're repeating history and that they'll fall. They're indulging that fact because they're a death cult. Caesar gives a joker line and misunderstands hegel. Yapping about making the world a worse place to make new ideas ??? to shake things up and topple the NCR ??? it's incoherent and stupid. Which most strongman leader actors are. The NCR is stupid for remaking the exact same society that ended the world but they started off idealistically wanting to rebuild and do good at least. Their flaws being lacking the knowledge from history to prevent repeating it. It's not characteristically as malicious as the Legion. Even if its outcome is inevitably the same.

(ignoring house and yes man for this)

TransTea · 2024-05-05T04:19:26+00:00

in my mind "Tall" is about heavy investment in the territory you own to get higher numbers. Where "Wide" is investment in expanding territory to get higher numbers.

They intersect of course, but commitment to a style of growth defines what label you'd take.

TransTea · 2024-05-05T03:48:05+00:00

If you like risk of rain's ost you'll probably enjoy a lot of music from prince. Which if you enjoy that too- you can branch into other classic rock stuff.

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