The weirdest think about the CK community is that it seems like a lot of them have a better understanding of just what absolute pieces of shit aristocrats and royals are than liberals do. Probably because the game shows you what inbred failchildren they all are, and how it's always some aristocrat fucking up your plans of building a cathar empire that stretches from the Baltic to Mali to Tibet.
That and the game is basically the longest "The Aristocrats!" joke in history.
I unironically think that PDX games helped radicalized me. Part of liberal politics is divorcing politics from power. Thinking about things in terms of people, values, faith, anything besides material analysis is part of its foundation.
PDX games were my first exposure to "thinking like a politician." I realized that IRL politicians were looking at politics the way I looked at grand strategy, because the incentives were the same. Money, status, power, glory.
Part of being good at those games is literally applying material analysis to political situations. I think that helped me once I was finally ready to accept socialist ideas.
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Victoria 2: Unironic monarchists
Hearts of Iron 4: Unironic Nazis
Stellaris: Edgelords whose favorite game feature is the genocide button
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Stellaris has communism under fanatical equalitarian and only allow it with democratic goverments...
stellaris is a land of contradictions
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The weirdest think about the CK community is that it seems like a lot of them have a better understanding of just what absolute pieces of shit aristocrats and royals are than liberals do. Probably because the game shows you what inbred failchildren they all are, and how it's always some aristocrat fucking up your plans of building a cathar empire that stretches from the Baltic to Mali to Tibet.
That and the game is basically the longest "The Aristocrats!" joke in history.
I unironically think that PDX games helped radicalized me. Part of liberal politics is divorcing politics from power. Thinking about things in terms of people, values, faith, anything besides material analysis is part of its foundation.
PDX games were my first exposure to "thinking like a politician." I realized that IRL politicians were looking at politics the way I looked at grand strategy, because the incentives were the same. Money, status, power, glory.
Part of being good at those games is literally applying material analysis to political situations. I think that helped me once I was finally ready to accept socialist ideas.
nazis, medieval nazis, space nazis, etc