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China pursuing justice for all by arresting HOI4 modders for a chuddy "wot if the world went more bonkers after covid?" Mod (hexbear.net)

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[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 21 points 5 days ago (1 children)

What was the mod about?

[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 27 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

Seems like just some HOI IV chud mod created by chud devs who added their fantasies to the mod.

The year is 2020. The United States and Iran are locked in a Cold War-era standoff, while a mysterious novel virus has been spreading uncontrollably through central China. Russia, Saudi Arabia, and other nations brace for the shockwaves of a volatile oil market, and the Syrian Civil War enters an uncertain phase.

In America, tensions are reaching a breaking point. The nation teeters on a profound social unrest — just one spark away. Disillusionment with the government grows as Congress and the people drift further apart as it is seen more and more as an institution incapable of making meaningful change. Across the country, communities prepare for the unknown. Guns are being displayed openly in numbers never seen before.

The worst is yet to come.

The fire rises, and the stage is yours. The peace that has persisted across the globe for 80 years will falter, and war across all continents will bring about a New World, forged in the flames of war and christened with the blood of millions.

The Fire Rises is a mod set in a world not too far from our own, and it's small differences... a dead king here, some increased tension there... set its universe on a completely different path, but still a path that feels eerily familiar to our own.

All factions within TFR are real life organizations or closely built to mirror certain groups, and are represented as their organization would view themselves. Your play-through will always represent you as the right side of history, just as these groups believe. This mod is also very difficult and aims to provide a challenge to all of its players, so keep that in mind while playing!

[–] Edie@hexbear.net 52 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

The peace that has persisted across the globe for 80 years

What fucking world peace? Where was peace for the Koreans. For the Vietnamese. For the Iraqi. For the Libyans. For the Afghans. For the Yugoslavs. For all the many wars in Africa. All the wars in the last 80 years.

What "peace" was it for all the people in countries the CIA fucked with?

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[–] Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago

Yeah based on this description alone I am 100% in support of China telling them to shut the fuck up

[–] Mindfury@hexbear.net 37 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

while a mysterious novel virus has been spreading uncontrollably through central China

so mysterious that it had already spread through Maryland a year before and had already mutated lmao

absolute dog-brained dweebs

[–] makotech222@hexbear.net 36 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I wouldn't say its all that chuddy. The china paths in particular are basically

Win taiwan war, become super version of current china with Xi
Lose taiwan war, become super marxist-leninist version of china
Lose taiwan war, balkanize

I played the top two paths and they were fun. There is also a pretty underdeveloped path for Russia becoming USSR again which was alright.

Last, there is an America civil war between biden/trump which is fun, with a couple ML paths in there as well, underdeveloped currently.

[–] LadyCajAsca@hexbear.net 22 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

I agree too, it's fun to play if you consider the chuddy paths (especially the Gunther EU one the TFR subreddit has been cheering about) to be completely batshit insane and only an obstacle to world socialism. I'd say it's an overreaction, and a shame because I posted my HOI4 TFR China game here, got to larp a lot during so, and overall, I'm saddened by the situation, since now the China development will be unknown in how it develops, especially since I wanted them to develop a super ML China that you don't have to lose the Taiwan War for..

I'd say it has it's liberal and chud elements (especially in regards to the American Civil War and how they portray the MLs, compared to the main two Trumpist/Biden-aligned factions) but can overall be fun as a communist to play.

Though, yeah I'm curious why the PRC TFR devs withdrawed.. Maybe because of the whole Gunther Fehlinger (WEF-aligned ultralib) pretty much streaming and endorsing TFR while the devs are amicable? The detention doesn't seem to be confirmed just yet..

[–] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Gunther Fehlinger (WEF-aligned ultralib)

Hey, don't sell our favorite balkanization enthusiast short like that. gunther

[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 24 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I don't know dick about these confounded map games or this mod but this seems like a pretty wild overreaction by the authorities

[–] RamrodBaguette@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Unfortunately the American leftist paths kinda suck compared to China, Yurop or the neo-USSR.

You have:

Neosocialists: DemSocs trying to “reform” a system they literally just fought a war to tear down.
Octoberists: MLs who are largely portrayed positively but implement a sinister commie party-state with surveillance and censorship, and also SwCC even in games where China abandons it because why the fuck not. Content is most lackluster of the four.
Anarchists: A Chud’s idea of Anarchism.
Jacobins: PatSocs and all that entails.

In terms of ForPol, aside from a few focuses, you more or less just sit on your ass and do very little aside from sending a handful of volunteers here and there. You can’t even join the USSR’s neo-Warsaw Pact or intervene in the Great Asian War in support of China (even Kaiserreich lets Red America join the Third Internationale and bash some skulls and that mod is almost a decade old).

I recall the APLA paths are at least being reworked at some point but when that actually happens is anyone’s guess.