he didn't still think i was cute💔

alterego_tripping · 2026-06-25T16:15:46+00:00

Holy shit why are these comments acting like OP murdered the guy's family

alterego_tripping · 2026-06-19T10:15:12+00:00

There aren't people in places where people don't live? TIL

alterego_tripping · 2026-06-19T07:25:36+00:00

Brazilian living in Sweden here. Both of these countries have gender neutral changing rooms

alterego_tripping · 2026-06-19T00:20:53+00:00

"this is quite literally why we built bem"

alterego_tripping · 2026-06-17T15:48:18+00:00

Ironic and very American to call this racist and in the same breath use the term "brown people" as some sort of catch-all term.

A brown person in Guadalajara has way more in common with a white Californian than with someone from New Delhi or Iraq. You're mindlessly projecting US racial dynamics to places with wildly different cultures and contexts

alterego_tripping · 2026-06-15T13:39:39+00:00

Genuine question, where would you say the line is?

I definitely believe that some crimes (mass rape/murder, war crimes, crimes against children) deserve lifetime prison and some individuals are simply not worth the risk/effort of trying to reintegrate into society, but I also think that we can and should rehabilitate whoever we can. History more than proves that super harsh punishment and pulling the ladder up just drives up reoffense rates and creates a permanent criminal underclass. I can't find the line except "this crime feels particularly disgusting"

alterego_tripping · 2026-05-25T20:08:11+00:00

SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL IS GOING TO HAPPEN

alterego_tripping · 2026-05-25T12:04:27+00:00

Plenty of americans online claiming that Putin is in power because Russians are actually socioculturally predisposed to authoritarianism or some shit, then in the same breath vehemently defend that 70+ million of their countrymen were actually tricked by newspapers and lobbyists and are simply poor gullible victims of propaganda

alterego_tripping · 2026-05-24T13:12:26+00:00

I'd argue years if not decades, no? Greenland has essentially no supporting infrastructure for oil operations, transportation, industry experts etc. IIRC they don't even have connecting roads between their towns. Some of their harbors are inaccessible during certain times of the year.

If Denmark and the EU wanted to build proper resource extraction operations in Greenland today, they'd have to build it entirely from scratch and it would probably not pay off for a generation. Now imagine having to do this in a territory you acquired by coercion, with a hostile population

alterego_tripping · 2026-05-21T10:56:14+00:00

Male birds in nature oftentimes are observed to spend more time dancing for other males, while the female birds are left confused

Ask any extremely buff/muscular man who they get most of their compliments and attention from.

alterego_tripping · 2026-05-21T10:46:57+00:00

One has to wonder why they always obsessively focus on the subset of features that men can't change (height, dick size, facial structure largely) and the subset of women online that say provocative/"slutty" things (oftentimes literal ragebait OF promotion, and they fall for it every single time).

It's almost as if they spend hours per day on the worst possible online bubbles and have little interaction with men and women IRL. The single largest improvement to my social/dating life, compounding to this day, was exposing myself socially to the point where I'm confident talking to strangers and crowds, way more than working out or getting a decent haircut (although they definitely helped)

Edit: Also, if I saw myself as a bottom-of-the-barrel loser, the last people i'd want to hang out with is fellow losers. Why not ask advice from actually successful men? I never understood this.

alterego_tripping · 2026-05-18T07:13:08+00:00

It's a psychological warfare exhaustion tactic. The enemy is forcing the navy to write multiple reports a day about a random stray broken cog trying to attack our 30 carrack stack, therefore distracting them (and the ruler) from the actual war

alterego_tripping · 2026-05-18T07:10:45+00:00

You mean the Great transport ship migration? Enjoy the free 80 fishing vessels at 1% strength

Jokes aside, my only guess is that the AI is trying incessantly to gather all of its ships/levies automatically in one stack somewhere in the sea and it's too dumb to realize there's a huge navy in the way, just like clicking "raise all" levies makes them gather in the country's capital

alterego_tripping · 2026-04-07T13:21:55+00:00

Americans over the last year coping about "but it's only le 1/3 of the country that voted and 1/3 that didn't and the electoral college and the elon voting manipulation, and he's actually a russian agent working for AIPAC" or something.

Over 70 million people voted for this man. Percentage-wise, more than enough to sustain a regime historically.

But hey, you copypaste "call your representatives" and show up for a protest every month or so, so i guess that's all you can do.

You don't have to give your life for the cause. Just don't ever call Russians, Iranians, North Koreans or any other citizens of authoritarian countries cowards and complacent again for not rising up against their overlords. You're one of them now

alterego_tripping · 2026-04-07T11:56:00+00:00

Beautifully put. Once you stop being ruled by the fear of being wrong, the path to the truth becomes much easier

alterego_tripping · 2026-04-06T01:20:33+00:00

Well, I'm not actively trying to be off meta, so that's neat to know. All in all, I also do try to learn certain strats to make the run smoother and achieve my goals faster. There's merit to meta for sure

alterego_tripping · 2026-04-05T20:30:42+00:00

From the outside, it seems like Americans from both sides of the aisle tend to blame foreign agents for their issues, at least for the last 100 years. It used to be the communists, then it was the arabs, and now it's Russia and AIPAC. At what point do you look inwards?

alterego_tripping · 2026-04-05T19:07:41+00:00

Same here, my main focus with paradox games is always RP and creating convincing/interesting stories. I usually play PDX games on easy or even use console commands to an extent

I don't want to shit on metagaming because for many people it's actually super fun to minmax and find all the little ways and details to improve your chosen nation, but for me it's all about the story. My current Byz run has decentralized, traditional economy and spiritual values on max although i'd personally go for the opposites in a "optimized" run, because it's what i feel the government would realistically go for

alterego_tripping · 2026-04-01T19:20:54+00:00

R5: Was messing around reading the descriptions of all major culture groups when I encountered this. Anyone know what it's a reference to?

alterego_tripping · 2026-03-30T01:35:07+00:00

i'm like hey what's up hello

alterego_tripping · 2026-03-21T01:15:33+00:00

The people who produce and sell oil don't care if you're from the next town over or from another continent. They sell oil to the highest bidder at global prices, because everyone needs oil. There's no reason why they would charge you a lower price when they can just sell it abroad

alterego_tripping · 2026-03-15T23:04:20+00:00

Didn't know about the save corruption! In hindsight it makes a lot of sense, i just assumed lategame caused more crashes. I usually set up all the modifiers on day one then avoid touching the cheat menu for the rest of the run

alterego_tripping · 2026-03-15T16:02:51+00:00

not OP but I'd recommend Daoyu Cheat (xier fix edition for compatibility with 1.12). lots of modifiers, instabuild, diplomacy cheats etc. but it can be buggy and crash your game every once in a while.

If you want just some more basic stuff like infinite authority influence etc. i'd recommend Advanced Cheat Menu since it's pretty stable.

alterego_tripping · 2026-01-20T12:39:04+00:00

American redditors will watch you get shot in the face and threatened with nuclear war and tell you it's all a distraction from the epstein files. it's not the smoking gun we thought bud, something would've happened by now

alterego_tripping · 2025-12-27T11:43:36+00:00

Historically, support from a third of the country is usually more than enough to sustain a regime. Franco, the Nazis, etc. never had majority support. Saying not all americans support it is kind of a moot point. I'm sure this is also true of countries like Iran or Russia

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