Why I hate people's "obsession" with reformed Fascist spheres.
I've followed this mod since before it came out, and ever since then I've seen and participated in the sometimes ironic, sometimes not "obession" (for lack of a better term) of correcting the grimdark, crapsack world of TNO.
Making Speer into a puppet of the GO4, Takagi reforming Japan, Reg Malding turning Collab England into wholesome chungus "JK we weren't ACTUALLY collabs, we were just taking the piss lol. sorry claude" (before the UK rework), or just get Italy to turn into a democracy.
I fucking hate it. I hate how some people act as if all you need to delete the past 30 years of fascism and genocide is just to get Schmidt to just soft-coup speer, and select the bluest/light bluest path in the Custom paths in the menu. Make De Gaulle reclaim France.
Want to know why I hate it? Because it doesn't fix anything. The holocaust succeeded. There are basically no jews left in Europe. Poland, Ukraine, the Baltic nations and St. Petersburg were germanised and ethnically cleansed. Half of africa has still been under the Nazis for ages. India was still split. Japan still killed probably 10.000.000 Chinese people. Korean culture and identity are dying, and so is their language. Guangdong as a whole is literally one big fucking sweatshop in which Cantonese culture has basically gotten the same treatment as Korean culture. If France wins the WAA, they literally have a colonial government opressing 3/4 of west africa.
And if- if you succeed in reforming that. If you succeed in reforming nazism out of the overton window; it still happened. All of it still happened. And what's worse, the men that commited the worst crimes in the history of humanity will die in their sleep, with no justice to be made for those millions they have killed. Because you can't revive cultures simply by having your leader be part of the light blue political party.
EDIT; some people seem to have missed the point. I'm not saying that i have problems with the mod or its writing, I just don't like how people seem to act like a democratic Germany or Japan are just these absolutely flawless "lights in the dark" when they're the ones who shut the lights off in the first place. I love idealism in this mod, and I love trying to find a light in the dark. But I believe that these stories of hope and dreams are better told and found in west africa, in Russia, in America and Britain. Not the openly genocidal superpowers, because then you're redeeming the irredeemable.
https://redd.it/1fairp2
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I've followed this mod since before it came out, and ever since then I've seen and participated in the sometimes ironic, sometimes not "obession" (for lack of a better term) of correcting the grimdark, crapsack world of TNO.
Making Speer into a puppet of the GO4, Takagi reforming Japan, Reg Malding turning Collab England into wholesome chungus "JK we weren't ACTUALLY collabs, we were just taking the piss lol. sorry claude" (before the UK rework), or just get Italy to turn into a democracy.
I fucking hate it. I hate how some people act as if all you need to delete the past 30 years of fascism and genocide is just to get Schmidt to just soft-coup speer, and select the bluest/light bluest path in the Custom paths in the menu. Make De Gaulle reclaim France.
Want to know why I hate it? Because it doesn't fix anything. The holocaust succeeded. There are basically no jews left in Europe. Poland, Ukraine, the Baltic nations and St. Petersburg were germanised and ethnically cleansed. Half of africa has still been under the Nazis for ages. India was still split. Japan still killed probably 10.000.000 Chinese people. Korean culture and identity are dying, and so is their language. Guangdong as a whole is literally one big fucking sweatshop in which Cantonese culture has basically gotten the same treatment as Korean culture. If France wins the WAA, they literally have a colonial government opressing 3/4 of west africa.
And if- if you succeed in reforming that. If you succeed in reforming nazism out of the overton window; it still happened. All of it still happened. And what's worse, the men that commited the worst crimes in the history of humanity will die in their sleep, with no justice to be made for those millions they have killed. Because you can't revive cultures simply by having your leader be part of the light blue political party.
EDIT; some people seem to have missed the point. I'm not saying that i have problems with the mod or its writing, I just don't like how people seem to act like a democratic Germany or Japan are just these absolutely flawless "lights in the dark" when they're the ones who shut the lights off in the first place. I love idealism in this mod, and I love trying to find a light in the dark. But I believe that these stories of hope and dreams are better told and found in west africa, in Russia, in America and Britain. Not the openly genocidal superpowers, because then you're redeeming the irredeemable.
https://redd.it/1fairp2
@tnomod
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