Marrying into an Orthodox family has brought me into regular contact with some of these "Ortho Bros". Always such an odd experience socially, but I wouldn't say I found them any more off-putting than other exceedingly devout people, converts especially.

The lack of gaming mags in airport newstands has plagued me for years. Used to be one of the best parts of traveling as a kid.

I'm struggling with their decision to move the start date back. For a game about the Early Modern Era that I rarely reach the end of it sucks I won't be spending as much time in the Early Modern Era

Hopeful and excited, but I'm still disappointed they moved the start date back. Feels odd starting in the Late Medieval Period when it's a game about the Early Modern Era

Oh man I'm getting real tempted to dust off my old flight stick right now.

Love seeing Straftat. Absolutely phenomenal find by my Steam algorithm one day. Entire friend group plays it now. I agree with the one Steam review I saw describing it as an "after dinner mint" for gaming as it's the perfect game to just run a round or two at the end of a night

Was it a slower pace of play compared to twitchy-er arena shooters that caused it to bounce off you?

Holy shit I haven't thought about Protomen since HS

Probably never will get a nice solid answer is my totally unsubstantiated guess. Seems like a terminally online kid who's fucked in the head and totally desensitized to violence. Assigning some clear-cut ideology to him probably won't ever happen. But what do I know 🤷

The slav squat meme is pretty apolitical. His costume isn't necessarily a reference to the groyper pepe in a tracksuit

Bella Ciao is a famous anti fascist song from Italy. Paradox does make HOI, a WW2 game, and the song is probably in it, but I personally wouldn't say it's much of a meme at least as someone who plays their games

True I do think that may be the case with that one. But the Bella Ciao thing isn't something I imagine a lot of groypers are rushing to adorn their murder weapons with

Very true lol

Oh wait I think we got some wires crossed here. I'm trying to say that the slav squat thing is totally disconnected from anything pepe related and is a fairly apolitical meme that's been around for ages. And so therefore I think we might be reaching by just assuming he's a groyper

I feel like they should to some degree 🤷

I think I've seen all the messages and am curious which ones specifically connect back to 4chan in your opinion. I feel like we (leftists/libs) are all purposely ignoring the Bella Ciao and "Hey Facist" lines.