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"Yes! I've managed to get communists to rebel, now I'll disband the army and let the rebels take the capital!"
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Crazy question. I think I heard jokes about how people would love to see politicians play paradox games before making a decision to vote. I've got a friend who is running for Congress and she's thinking about doing some twitch streams to try and build some media buzz/do things differently. There's no way on earth this would help her political career, I don't play Vicki 2, but with the new DLC for CK2 the winning strategy seems to be "become a satanist and eat your own children."
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Crazy question. I think I heard jokes about how people would love to see politicians play paradox games before making a decision to vote. I've got a friend who is running for Congress and she's thinking about doing some twitch streams to try and build some media buzz/do things differently. just have her stream that CoD game where you press x to honor our troops and she'll win 100%
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corn in the bible posted:just have her stream that CoD game where you press x to honor our troops and she'll win 100% F
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Gonna have her play as vikings, capture the pope and sacrifice him to Odin. Edit: But seriously, I was thinking Brazil in Vicki2 is nice because right off the bat you can abolish slavery and become a bastion for immigrants. And also you have to focus early on improving literacy. Dr. Arbitrary fucked around with this message at 06:41 on Mar 11, 2017 |
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Mar 11, 2017 06:38
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Gonna have her play as vikings, capture the pope and sacrifice him to Odin. Has she even played the game before? Vicki2 isn't super user friendly so your politician friend is either going to lose immediately or everyone on the twitch chat is going to hear a dude explaining how to run a country to the woman they're supposed to vote for. How does any of this seem like a good idea? Also watching a real time Victoria game seems like the most boring thing possible, the only interesting part would be her deciding to not ban slavery for game reasons or something similar. If she wants to do a twitch livestream thing it should be an action game that she's good enough at that she can beat it while answering questions from the chat
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Mar 11, 2017 07:40
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Quit being pragmatic at my dumb goofball idea.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Quit being pragmatic at my dumb goofball idea. I just assumed you wanted your friend to win her election.
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Skwirl posted:I just assumed you wanted your friend to win her election. I'm just being a twit. I appreciate the feedback. It's a good idea to throw ideas past a few people before heading off to the races.
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Mar 11, 2017 07:48
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Quit being pragmatic at my dumb goofball idea. Take her to ubik's basement to play Magna Mundi and stream that.
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Just have her stream in skimpy clothing with a facecam, I hear that sells quite well. I can't stop laughing at the idea of someone publicly bumbling through V2 for the first time as part of a political campaign. Don't forget to annex all the African native states!
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Enjoy posted:Her opponents would have a field day. I'm reminded of that US (Maine?) politician that had her opponent run ads against her accusing her of being a bloodthirsty WOW player. I wonder if she ended up winning, I think I would have voted for her out of nerd principle.
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Kuiperdolin posted:Take her to ubik's basement to play Magna Mundi and stream that. cruel and unusual punishment.
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If she plays anything CK2 is the most interesting to watch, but yeah, even CK2 isn't that accessible.
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Just so we're clear, does this fit into a campaign strategy or just as a way to have fun and relax? Because I can see why playing a paradox game is fun, not so much how it can help one get elected*. *directly. Obviously learning when to backstab your erstwhile ally is a very useful political skillset that paradox excels at teaching.
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Mar 11, 2017 14:26
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If she decides to go with HOI4, be sure to point out that while willingness to play as Germany is a personal choice, it probably wouldn't be appropriate for the stream.
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Mar 11, 2017 16:05
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Not without an accurate flags mod anyway.
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Phlegmish posted:I'm reminded of that US (Maine?) politician that had her opponent run ads against her accusing her of being a bloodthirsty WOW player. She did but then lost re-election two years later. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colleen_Madigan quote:Colleen Madigan (born January 22, 1964) is an American politician and social worker from Maine. Under the name Colleen Lachowicz, the Democrat from Waterville was elected to the Maine Senate from the 25th District. Her race attracted international attention when the Republican Party of Maine issued press releases condemning her for playing the online video game World of Warcraft, claiming her "disturbing alter-ego" and "time-consuming double life" made her unfit to hold public office.[1][2] She was defeated for re-election two years later by Republican Scott Cyrway.
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double nine posted:Just so we're clear, does this fit into a campaign strategy or just as a way to have fun and relax? Because I can see why playing a paradox game is fun, not so much how it can help one get elected*. There's a lot of brainstorming going on right now, but the idea is to take a non-traditional approach early on to generate buzz in more traditional media. Probably a safer idea, if we're going to do a video game, to do something old-school and familiar like Duke Nukem Forever.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:There's a lot of brainstorming going on right now, but the idea is to take a non-traditional approach early on to generate buzz in more traditional media. What
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I like it, leaning into the idea that a good seasoned politician is way into strippers.
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Vote for me, I love Olsen Twins jokes that were already dated when this game came out
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:There's a lot of brainstorming going on right now, but the idea is to take a non-traditional approach early on to generate buzz in more traditional media. Let me be the first to offer condolences on your friends electoral loss.
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Mar 11, 2017 17:55
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you peeps are getting trolled
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Just copy this ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzjRwNUQDRU
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Mar 11, 2017 19:03
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She should play the Vicky2 modern mod and try to puppet the USA as Russia. 
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DrSunshine posted:She should play the Vicky2 modern mod and try to puppet the USA as Russia. No puppet! No puppet! You're the puppet!
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skipThings posted:you peeps are getting trolled Hey, this dude's friend could be Brianna Wu.
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Edit: nevermind, derail
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Yar The Pirate posted:Edit: nevermind, derail just post it, its not you'd be interrupting any stirring discussion
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https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3809077&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=2#post470062302 If anyone wants to play hoi4 on sundays, sign up please!
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https://twitter.com/TheWesterFront/status/841239274259390465 I keep thinking of Vicky II and cracking up.
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StrixNebulosa posted:https://twitter.com/TheWesterFront/status/841239274259390465 Hey, for me V2 checks a lot of those boxes! It just really fails at the "accessibility" one.
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It would be a lot more accessible if the in-game economy actually made sense instead of being a mish-mash of ideology, hacks and black magic.
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Victoria II is certainly an example of function over form.
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AG3 posted:It would be a lot more accessible if the in-game economy actually made sense instead of being a mish-mash of ideology, hacks and black magic. What kind of things are bad about the economy
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Enjoy posted:What kind of things are bad about the economy Prestige shifts cause huge spikes in resource availability Taxation/pop status is a giant black hole of poor information and unclear consequences. Learning how the economy actually works in V2 takes a lot of time and is basically impossible using the in-game information without a shitload of trial/error. And based on what Wiz's response was when he looked at the code, that's pretty much the case with the underlying code too.
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If people stopped playing Vicky 2 because they didn't know how it worked, literally no one would be playing it, ergo it passes the accessibility criteria as written. 
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Ein Sexmonster posted:Prestige shifts cause huge spikes in resource availability No it doesn't make more resources available magically. It just makes you have first dibs/or whatever country) on more resources. The only agent in the economy that can make resources appear out of nothing is Artisans.
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