Fun story: My first real brush with unironic fash was posting on the Hearts of Iron forums about ten or so years ago and I made fun of Himmler for being such a fucking loser (seriously, dude was a massive loser who probably joined the nazis to get revenge for Jewish kids giving him wedgies or something, he absolutely would have been a /pol poster), and all these people came out of the woodwork to tell me how he was so successful and managed a whole branch of the state and at least he did something with his life, unlike me who of course lives in my mother's basement and contributes nothing.
At the time it was such a jawdroppingly bizarre experience, even for such a cursed forum, and it's striking how that sort of response would probably be pretty normal these days.
This was back in hoi2 days, and all the paradox forums had their After Action Reports where people would make sort-of novelised stories out of their campaigns from the perspectives of the higher-ups in the countries. They were dorky but harmless except half the hoi ones were these stories from their german campaigns where they had Goering and Himmler etc chatting as the protagonists, it was really fucking creepy. Germany was kinda their default "can you change the course of history?" campaign but it always felt way too gross for me to ever play as them.
Yeah the hoi games might be cursed, but my best g*ming moment was the desperate defense of the USSR against the fascist hordes in hoi2, where the 1941 disorganisation penalties were absolutely brutal. Just absolutely desperate fallback after fallback and delaying counterattacks to avoid overrun and encirclement, till finally winter hit when they were almost at the gates of Moscow. And then the beautiful cathartic pushback to sweep Europe clean of fashy filth and get the naval bases to build some carrier groups and go Red Dawn some fuckers.
Entire holocaust could have been averted if /pol/ was around in the 30's. They all would have stayed in the house posting "dank memes" and owning the German libs.
Fun story: My first real brush with unironic fash was posting on the Hearts of Iron forums about ten or so years ago and I made fun of Himmler for being such a fucking loser (seriously, dude was a massive loser who probably joined the nazis to get revenge for Jewish kids giving him wedgies or something, he absolutely would have been a /pol poster), and all these people came out of the woodwork to tell me how he was so successful and managed a whole branch of the state and at least he did something with his life, unlike me who of course lives in my mother's basement and contributes nothing.
At the time it was such a jawdroppingly bizarre experience, even for such a cursed forum, and it's striking how that sort of response would probably be pretty normal these days.
hoi4 forums are the worst
This was back in hoi2 days, and all the paradox forums had their After Action Reports where people would make sort-of novelised stories out of their campaigns from the perspectives of the higher-ups in the countries. They were dorky but harmless except half the hoi ones were these stories from their german campaigns where they had Goering and Himmler etc chatting as the protagonists, it was really fucking creepy. Germany was kinda their default "can you change the course of history?" campaign but it always felt way too gross for me to ever play as them.
That's why you play as the soviets and DON'T STOP.
:stalin-shining:
"NOOOOOOOO You can't just invade germany in 1936, you're breaking the hecking gamerino !!!"
"Haha, 40 width divisions go URAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"
something something fomenting world fire
Yeah the hoi games might be cursed, but my best g*ming moment was the desperate defense of the USSR against the fascist hordes in hoi2, where the 1941 disorganisation penalties were absolutely brutal. Just absolutely desperate fallback after fallback and delaying counterattacks to avoid overrun and encirclement, till finally winter hit when they were almost at the gates of Moscow. And then the beautiful cathartic pushback to sweep Europe clean of fashy filth and get the naval bases to build some carrier groups and go Red Dawn some fuckers.
ten years ago would prob be hoi2 which was probably way worse with the nazis.
Man I'd rather be a guy living in the basement for 45 years than a fucking psycho mass murderer who probably couldn't keep an erection.
Entire holocaust could have been averted if /pol/ was around in the 30's. They all would have stayed in the house posting "dank memes" and owning the German libs.
I remember when I was ~15 some girl was talking about how hitler had done all this great infrastructure work.
The "Hitler built the autobahn" crowd must kneel before TRAINGANG