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Ok normie
Yeah, Paradox games are great!
If you pirate all the DLC
Okay but normies don't play Paradox either, so what gives? I don't want to play "dwarf fortress" or some fuckin "blowjob factory 2: electrification" or whatever it is channers consider weird, but I like playing "The Fire Rises" for HOI4 and I can't exactly talk to Jock Josh and his friend who's into spider man and DND about "yoo in the game you can kill penguinz0 as atomwaffen division isn't that crazy".
Honestly nothing ever has been more of a disappointment to me than anyone who plays Civ or tabletops of any kind, they always have absolutely no sense of fun and they're always extreme turbonormies, especially if they're fantasy people, good lord I'm sure there's lots of good fantasy media out there and I've enjoyed plenty myself (Berserk), but it either attracts the most simpletons or being into it turns you into a simpleton over time or something idk. They only know their dumbass DND, no they won't play something actually cool like Cyberpunk Red, no they won't help me try to DM it, they only like their DND and that's it, DND that, or DNDeezNuts this, it's aaaaaaagh.
In case you also wonder like op why no one likes you, it's probably the elite snobbery and superiority complex.
Cities Skylines is a pretty normie Paradox game imo
Yeah fair enough. I guess I meant something more like Vic3/HOI4. I want to say "yoo dude I gave Mexico to the United Fruit Company last night for the buff" and have them say "gave ur mum to pennsylvania forestries last night and she still wants more wood bruv" - or in other words I want to be understood, I would want this to spiral in an intertwined discussion about real history, politics, economics and its representation in-game between reasonable people with sane actual real life beliefs and an insatiable need for cognition and knowledge powered by hyperactivity and focused by stimulants and a lack of al-ghul circulating in the blood stream longterm, for whom there needn't be the discomfort of unfamiliarity, the guesswork of "are you really insane or just saying that" and weariness of being observed by the 'Other'. I want to tell someone about the Taipei rebellion for the first time, or to be told about it again.
I feel like civ players would leave the table if I brought that up at a theoretical gathering from my experience.
If only I could converse with others like I could with myself. Then again, I would probably be disappointed anyway.
Damn. With a friend like you I would play a lot more paradox games. I like them but there is so many other games stealing my attention :(
I have never played either games, but according to your entire comment, I am nothing but invested.
I can also see what some people mean by "Hearts of Iron 4 poisoned mind"
Hehe well I'm glad lol
Dwarf fortress is amazing. I had the best time playing it.
Get out of here you weirdo /s
I play tabletop, paradox games, dwarf fortress and a lot of other stuff. I also play with lego and have played Warhammer etc, both fantasy and 40k and other miniature games.
I don't buy or play a lot of AAA games if any at all. Large companies can fuck off.
What am I? An anomaly? :D
Just a patrician of some sort