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[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 8 points 8 hours ago (16 children)

This is completely off topic I think but I need you all to see this, it's important on a spiritual level

This map is infinitely sneerable, every region you look at is somehow worse than the previous one, regardless of the order in which you do that.

Tag yourself, I'm Cracked Coast, population 17.

[–] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 8 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

someone needs to stop paradox gamers from interfacing with the real world

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Isn't there a huge neo-nazi subculture around Paradox games, with weird mods and stuff?

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

As a bit of a map painter, Paradox themselves nowadays takes a pretty anti neo-nazi stance. And most public places do so as well (this was a relatively recent change btw, people didn't seem to notice just how bad remove kebab memes etc were). There is sadly the general undertone of 'ironic' far right meme culture which is pervasive in gaming. So that will always be a problem. So neo-nazis not so much, but people making jokes about genocide, and the high risk of your fave content creator suddenly going some weird anti leftwing/culture war rant which makes it clear he (it is always a he) knows nothing yes very much. No idea how much of these people are crypto-fascists or not, as the rest of the space does seem welcoming to trans people and women. (this is my view of the general paradox gaming culture places I have been into, I'm not denying there are neo-nazi groups into paradox games, they just don't seem to be overt or liked vs the general edgelord gamer types).

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