/gsg/ - Grand Strategy General

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/gsg/ - Grand Strategy General

Kevin Williams

We don't have an official steam or discord group. If anyone posts in the thread about any "official" or not steam or discord groups, promising MP or not, be sure it's a shitposter group known for organizing raids and shitposting in the thread. They are known for false-flagging.
Report and ignore it.

How fares your empire, /gsg/?

This day in history, September 22th:
1692 – The last of those convicted of witchcraft in the Salem witch trials are hanged; the remainder of those convicted are all eventually released.
1823 – Joseph Smith states he found the Golden plates on this date after being directed by God through the Angel Moroni to the place where they were buried.
1892 – Lindal Railway Incident, providing inspiration for "The Lost Special" by A.C. Doyle and the TV serial Lost.
1939 – Joint victory parade of Wehrmacht and Red Army in Brest-Litovsk at the end of the Invasion of Poland.

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September 22, 2016 - 04:13

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Adam Bell

Reminder to report and ignore shitposting.

September 22, 2016 - 04:13

Joshua Robinson

Seek help.

September 22, 2016 - 04:15

John Watson

r8

September 22, 2016 - 04:15

John Taylor

When's the new CK2 patch coming out?

September 22, 2016 - 04:15

Jacob Martinez

This dude is fast.

September 22, 2016 - 04:15

Cameron Lee

Is he EXTREMELY fast though

September 22, 2016 - 04:16

Christopher Evans

Reminder that R&I is a severely autistic and obsessed NEET, he seriously needs to seek psychological help of some kind, although preferably he should just be euthanized humanely.

He has been doing this months or years now: prepare /gsg/ threads every day, update them all the time, constantly check the current thread so he can make his own one about 20 posts early and then post the signature reply "Reminder to report and ignore shitposting" which makes no sense since it's an oxymoron.

Just think about it, think about all the effort he's investing in a shitty general that could easily be maintained by just about anyone else, not to mention that pretty much everyone here hates him.

And he does this every day, multiple times a day even. Sometimes he does miss threads, but it's still ridiculously obsessive.

As I'm posting this he probably has already prepared a thread for later today and is anxiously waiting for this thread to reach the bumplimit so he can continue the cycle as always. He's clearly a NEET who probably hasn't done anything worth of any note in months or years, so he can afford to do this 24/7.

What a sad creature. Please put him out of his misery, anyone. No one deserves to live like this.

September 22, 2016 - 04:17

William Rodriguez

based

September 22, 2016 - 04:17

Nathaniel Williams

R&I is white and based

September 22, 2016 - 04:17

Robert Wilson

help

September 22, 2016 - 04:17

Levi Harris

...

September 22, 2016 - 04:19

Alexander Diaz

uninstall.exe then reinstall

September 22, 2016 - 04:22

Ian Price

>Brandenburg finally became Prussia
I never thought I'd see the day.

September 22, 2016 - 04:29

Brody Sullivan

threadly reminder that there's literally nothing wrong with international communism

September 22, 2016 - 04:29

Cooper Brown

>Literally nothing wrong
>been attempted multiple times and failed each time

September 22, 2016 - 04:30

Ryan Johnson

Holy shit, that is a disgusting europe

September 22, 2016 - 04:32

Parker Brown

>been attempted multiple times and failed each time

that's wrong tho

September 22, 2016 - 04:33

Aiden Ward

you'r just a pissboy mr. r and i

September 22, 2016 - 04:33

Lincoln Flores

Where are all the communist dictatorships in Eastern Europe then?

September 22, 2016 - 04:35

Colton Cooper

Based Erdogan

September 22, 2016 - 04:36

Oliver Baker

fuck off roach

September 22, 2016 - 04:36

Lucas Sanchez

t.urk

September 22, 2016 - 04:37

Elijah Turner

t. urk PRO

September 22, 2016 - 04:38

Grayson Richardson

How do I make CK2 fun? I've tried time and time again and I end up getting bored after about 100-200 years.

September 22, 2016 - 04:38

Jacob Cook

socialist states

September 22, 2016 - 04:38

Evan Thomas

It didn't help.

September 22, 2016 - 04:39

Adrian Young

>socialist states

What do you even mean by this?

September 22, 2016 - 04:40

Ian Brown

precursors to a communist society

September 22, 2016 - 04:41

Colton Stewart

Did you buy it or pirate it?

September 22, 2016 - 04:41

Bentley Allen

I was talking about the communist dictatorships in Eastern Europe during the Cold War, not the Nordic social-democratic states.

September 22, 2016 - 04:43

Easton Hughes

Some sort of character switching is usually the way

Either completely whack shit like switching to a random dynasty every time your character dies, less crazy like every 100 years, or just whenever you feel you've accomplished your goals

September 22, 2016 - 04:43

Tyler Carter

It wasn't communism.

September 22, 2016 - 04:44

Grayson Diaz

GALICIA IS SPANISH

September 22, 2016 - 04:44

Thomas Ramirez

Pirate because i thought i'd want to try it with all those DLCs before buying.

September 22, 2016 - 04:45

Eli Wood

You can buy the game and steal dlc.

September 22, 2016 - 04:46

Leo Edwards

>"Some will say they saw it coming. Both those who warned against the dangers of neutrality and those who extolled it as the savior of [Root.GetName] have found their prophecies made reality today, as the military in [Root.Capital.GetName] overthrew the [Root.GetRulingParty]-led government and seized power. [Root.GetLeader] is missing, rumored to have gone into exile, and the coup has been met with little initial resistance.\n\nThe new [Root.GetAdjective] leadership has no plans to allow resistance to grow, either. Martial law has been declared and with the changes that are underway, whatever comes after is unlikely to be very different."
WEW

How do I get a neutral coup in my country?

September 22, 2016 - 04:47

Kevin Cox

Those were socialist states.

September 22, 2016 - 04:48

Christopher Price

>It wasn't communism.

There it is. Good excuse, Vladimir. Until there is an example of a """true""" communist state, communism will be a total failure in the modern world.

September 22, 2016 - 04:48

Carson Cruz

okay, kiddo

September 22, 2016 - 04:50

Michael Butler

Something's wrong with your pirate then.

September 22, 2016 - 04:50

Charles Torres

But it worked fine for the first time i played, then tried to open it again and it kept crashing so i reinstalled, it worked fine for the first session again so i reinstalled but now it wont even let me run the "first" sessions.. Weird.

September 22, 2016 - 04:50

Joshua Kelly

>moving the goalposts

average capitalist slave right here, comrades

September 22, 2016 - 04:51

Juan Long

They were not in the slightest.

September 22, 2016 - 04:51

Kevin Myers

What exactly is communism then?

Anarcho-Syndicalism? De Leonism?

September 22, 2016 - 04:52

Robert Ortiz

>ad hominem

Those countries were communist, comrade.

September 22, 2016 - 04:53

Jacob Ortiz

They were. A true communist society has never been established thanks to the ruinous powers of the capitalistic west.

September 22, 2016 - 04:53

Michael Perry

>What exactly is communism then?
When there are no money and government.

September 22, 2016 - 04:54

Gavin Green

It's basically anarchy except not anarchy because everyone works together and friendship is magic
Not even memeing

September 22, 2016 - 04:54

Easton Edwards

10/10

September 22, 2016 - 04:55

Josiah Mitchell

this, unironically this
if you read marx he litterally writes about this

September 22, 2016 - 04:56

Cooper Mitchell

hey guys, how about we not feed the autistic underaged weeb replies to the bait that he posts with the same picture every single thread

September 22, 2016 - 04:56

Camden Turner

so you wanna go back to the stone age?

September 22, 2016 - 04:56

Nolan Richardson

>implying Tribalism isn't literally the comfiest shit

September 22, 2016 - 04:56

Chase Stewart

So while I was mucking around in Iberia/Africa, Europe has become a total shitshow.

Since I can't really blob any further east (the Karlings are unbelieveably strong now), I'm going to return Andalusia to its rightful Nordic Kang.

September 22, 2016 - 04:57

Jaxon Hall

It's an R&I thread, there has to be shitposting

September 22, 2016 - 04:58

Juan Stewart

>It's basically anarchy except not anarchy because everyone works together and friendship is magic

this could actually be achieved with the correct educational efforts and social imprinting. Human minds are extremely malleable.

>b-but muh basic human nature

everything that isn't hunter-gatherer society is against human nature

September 22, 2016 - 04:58

Logan Evans

Please remove your Stellaris shills from the thread pls, we don't care about contentless dlc cashcows.

t. /4xg/

September 22, 2016 - 04:59

Julian Howard

>/gsg/ subhumans
>ignoring the most blatant of b8
>ever

September 22, 2016 - 05:00

Oliver Myers

Communism is basically what happens within a (not financially wanting) family but upscaled
This is retarded for a lot of reasons but there it is.

Actually, the problem with it is that human hardwiring sets a limit on the number of people we recognize as part of 'us' before we start looking for distinctions to set priorities to and looking for distinctions so we can sort people into groups. Normally harmless, when interests conflict this swiftly becomes 'us' vs. 'them'.

September 22, 2016 - 05:00

Jonathan Smith

>this could actually be achieved
Two people disagree on what is best for society.

September 22, 2016 - 05:02

Cooper Clark

>Actually, the problem with it is that human hardwiring sets a limit on the number of people we recognize as part of 'us' before we start looking for distinctions to set priorities to and looking for distinctions so we can sort people into groups.

That's some really nice ass-pulls you've got there, why do huge nation states even exist then?

September 22, 2016 - 05:04

Ryan Peterson

No they don't, because they all agree with communism :^)

September 22, 2016 - 05:04

Julian Brooks

define human "nature"
or are you saying that what we are now was not caused by a natural course of things?

September 22, 2016 - 05:06

Noah Young

Does any Victoria 2 mod simulate The Great Depression?

September 22, 2016 - 05:06

Jackson Ward

>why do huge nation states even exist then?
Because they don't rely on nothing but goodwill and friendship like what communism demands. Huge nation states rely on shit like codes of law, punishment, military power, culture and benefits, etc. to hold onto their people.
>muh nationalism
Nationalism quickly fades when internal issues arise. With foreign issues it's 'USA vs. China', with internal issues it can become 'the poor vs. the rich' or 'the niggers vs. the whitey'.

September 22, 2016 - 05:06

Ayden Allen

>with internal issues it can become 'the poor vs. the rich' or 'the niggers vs. the whitey'.

That only happens in ethnically heterogeneous shitholes like the USA who basically have a make believe nationality rooted in fucking thin air.

September 22, 2016 - 05:09

Julian Young

>unbelievably strong
Really? They sure don't look like it. How many of those kingdoms are Karling kingdoms? I'm sure it's nothing you can't handle with an ally or three.

September 22, 2016 - 05:11

Austin Jenkins

Is there a spreadsheet or a chart showing which DLCs are savegame compatible with each other?

September 22, 2016 - 05:11

Camden Rogers

Vanilla Vic2 does because liquor is the most profitable :^)

Non-meme tho, Victoria 2's economy is shitty enough a mod isn't necessary. just extend the date until the 1980s and the economy will crash.

September 22, 2016 - 05:12

Hudson Cooper

>these are the sort of people who criticize the religious for being dogmatic, oppressive, and ridiculous, and foolish for believing in prophesies

September 22, 2016 - 05:14

Kayden Thomas

Nationalism is an overarching identity. Alongside that identity there are many others. You are French but you are also a man, heterosexual, >white, married, have a job, not a weeb, a football fan, don't like Russians, a Parisian, socially conservative, politically progressive, etc. etc.
All of these identities can become grounds for conflict. The reason communism works in small societies like families or small groups of friends or ancient communal societies barely 500 strong was because it was at the point where the common bond of 'we' was far stronger than any division possible. Unfortunately the way humans work is that the more people are involved the weaker this bond becomes, it's the same logic behind 'three thousand people died' sounding a bit weaker than 'Robert and Alice died'. Three thousand people is a statistic, Robert and Alice are people.

September 22, 2016 - 05:14

Mason Sullivan

>identity politics
YOU HAVE TO GO BACK

September 22, 2016 - 05:16

Austin Brooks

t. stalin

September 22, 2016 - 05:16

Owen Kelly

This isn't identity politics, this is just basic fucking psychology and the reason communism doesn't fucking work.

September 22, 2016 - 05:17

Zachary Gutierrez

Bavaria, Burgundy, Lotharingia and the Francias are all Karling. I'm allied with Leon, Seville, and Granada, but combined we're still outgunned. I had an alliance with the Byzantines, but it got dissolved by an event out of my power.

September 22, 2016 - 05:17

Mason Howard

He's fucking right dumb gommo

September 22, 2016 - 05:17

Kevin Jackson

I'm actually christian, but nice strawman.

September 22, 2016 - 05:18

Xavier Reyes

>he used a phrase I don't like!
>gb2 reddit xDDD

Epic

September 22, 2016 - 05:19

Ryan Gutierrez

He's literally right though

September 22, 2016 - 05:19

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