bulletin witch

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#3460

i hear about call of duty players being racist and sexist constantly actually. its horrible. ive been teabagged so many times by dudes with trump, n words and f slurs in their name/clan… the customization options for banners are full of pepes and rape jokes and dead poeple of color. like patricia hernandez got tons of shit from call of duty bros (which is a well known short hand for shitty dudes who play call of duty!) when she brought it up on kotaku

honestly I think people have talked about it less because its accepted that call of duty is the bottom of the swamp where the worst of the worst gamers hang out!

i also dont play civ because people tend to be weird classist dudes who hate taxes and think their country isnt stolen

like gamers as a whole have been under fire for this forever, i dont see why there would be LESS asshole racists in a game about taking shit over! any game where theres real world history or room at all for fascist RP attracts horrible people

i think its possible to enjoy these games without being a racist, and find other people who enjoy them that wont call you slurs behind your back, but pointing out a pattern in the playerbase isnt shitting on the game itself

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#3461

i just want to add that playing games like this as an afab is out, cuz even if the dude isnt racist or homophobic, as soon as he hears your high pitched voice they think you need a fucking mentor and if you dont they talk down to you endlessly OR WORSE HIT ON YOU OR DOUBLE WORSE THEY DONT HIT ON YOU AND MAKE INCREDIBLY DISGUSTING UNCOMFORTABLE SEXUAL COMMENTARY ENDLESSLY

i have NO problem with saying that most people who play crusader kings/civ/call of duty are sexist as shit

i kinda want a mic that pitches down my voice so i can just bro out and be normal. like im not even a woman but BOY LETTING THEM KNOW THAT WITH THIS VOICE IS EVEN WORSE. then they wanna PROVE youre a woman

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#3462

i played crusader kings 2 for about 45 minutes the other day. 10 minutes was waiting for it to load and eventually determining that it crashed. 15 minutes of that was trying to find the “unpause” button. the rest of it was squinting at the tiny menus.

i think this game might suck?

(i did end up scaling up the menus but you have to restart the entire game to make this apply. that was another 7 minutes probably)

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#3463

git gud casul

#3464

pdox games have only slightly more coherent UI than a fucking john tiller game which is one of the many reasons why I love them

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#3465

all I want is a tutorial that tells me to hit a button AND shows me where the button is, or at least shows me a picture of it!! Instead of telling me to “click the speed widget” which doesn’t mean anything!!!

#3466

The only way to learn how to play a Paradox game is to watch 40 hours of a let’s play on youtube

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#3467

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#3468

the only case where that’s both true and worthwhile

#3469

why are you trying to radicalize these upstanding posters

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#3470

I didn’t even know people played Civ multiplayer with randos.

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#3471

everybody who plays a pdox game should try the completely inadequate tutorials at least once. the hearts of iron 3 tutorial features Hitler trying to teach you how to play the game in the most awkward and strained manner while the game throws paragraphs of text at you comprised of only 15% useful information

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#3472

LOL what the fuck I can’t believe that they couldn’t at least pretend and use like, Rommel or something

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#3473

you know, for all the hitler portrayals out there, you don’t often see him only halfway making an effort at something he wasn’t really committed to

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#3474

like no shit he spends most of the tutorial like, sniffling while the game points out that he has a weird mustache. it’s so incredibly bizarre

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#3475

a tutorial by Zizek?

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#3476

Genuine question: Has a paradox game ever inspired the name of a far right wing youtuber?

You know, like Civilization did.

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#3477

I didn’t say this, though

My one issue is phrasing it as ‘most’ because that does impugn non-horrible people that are playing a game. most people who play crusader kings 2 don’t sign up on reddit to rant about “sharia law” or whatever. I brought up civilization games because yeah one of the most prominent hatemongers on youtube is a civ let’s player

#3478

the most thing is resolved i dont want to argue semantics

if you play any game, as a decent person, of course you want nothing to do with the shitty vocal fanbase that everyone complains about and of course you want to show that its not actually as bad as it seems.

but a small minority coming off as a lot more people to outsiders says something too i think!

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#3479

we agree! I think its great that pdox is taking steps to tell nazi fans to fuck off because they absolutely are an embarrassment

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