Plagued /r/TNOmod and the Reddit HOI4 modding community - When a subreddit for a video game mod turns to utter insanity

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Very unrelated but it looks like Burt Colucci discovered his appearance in TFR.
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I actually do recall when The Ugly American update dropped and the minigame ran horribly to the point where the entire game could only run on 5x speed. At first, I thought my processor couldn't handle it which was lucky for me because I was in the middle of upgrading it from an i5 to an i7. As I then realized after playing the mod and reading some messages on the TNO subreddit and Discord it wasn't my processor at all. Granted, it was eventually fixed but it just shows how quality control is hazy at best.
It's was especially slow for the USA. To the point that the AI America almost never won any of their proxies because they couldn't handle all the units on top of the mini-games and the economy. The USA was literally unplayable during that patch and if you tried it usually crashes every few in game months. I remember the other nations running slowly as well, but nowhere as bad as the US.
 
Anons on 4chan leaked all of Brazil's content plans. Endless sea of centrism, some generic corrupt authoritarian politicians, and anything interest happens in the 70s and 80s and will not be in the current update.
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There's also this Brazil-Argentina war planning doc which has been a sticky in their threads for a while now in case anyone is curious how the only new war will look.
I actually do recall when The Ugly American update dropped and the minigame ran horribly to the point where the entire game could only run on 5x speed. At first, I thought my processor couldn't handle it which was lucky for me because I was in the middle of upgrading it from an i5 to an i7. As I then realized after playing the mod and reading some messages on the TNO subreddit and Discord it wasn't my processor at all. Granted, it was eventually fixed but it just shows how quality control is hazy at best.
I don't think it's a quality control issue as much as a political one. Whoever was in charge was hell-bent on getting this mechanic in because it replaces a something that used to be a proxy war for America with a preachy diatribe about how Nixon is and America are evil. So if you know the priorities of the leads, it likely passed the quality control stage with flying colors. Not being able to progress time normally doesn't matter when you're feeling the excitement of reading about how evil the Republican party is.
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Now that all three NA leaders have found out about the game, how long is it until we get a multiplayer session with the three playing themselves in the ACW?
 
Surprised nobody has mentioned this already in the thread, though I am a bit late to the news myself since I just found out recently.

MrMochaLover - A fairly prominent HOI4 Youtuber completely nuked his account about two months ago with no clear sign of why. He was known for pumping out tons of videos and would usually tow the line of edginess that landed him in hot water with Youtube's guidelines a few times. Examples below.

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His most well known playthrough was his KasierRedux KKK playthrough which had hundreds of thousands of views. In it, he would regularly say things like "We love the KKK, don't we, folks?".

While I have not yet searched through his Youtube Discord server, a simple search on Reddit reveals his name is Timothy Bulow. How do we know? He is a band teacher and has mentioned to his class about his Youtube channel and vice a versa. On the same Reddit thread, a Discord moderator admits Timothy has been accused of some pretty heinous crimes, which is why he nuked his Youtube account. That was two months ago.

What happens when you look up the name Timothy Bulow now?
 
Surprised nobody has mentioned this already in the thread, though I am a bit late to the news myself since I just found out recently.

MrMochaLover - A fairly prominent HOI4 Youtuber completely nuked his account about two months ago with no clear sign of why. He was known for pumping out tons of videos and would usually tow the line of edginess that landed him in hot water with Youtube's guidelines a few times. Examples below.

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His most well known playthrough was his KasierRedux KKK playthrough which had hundreds of thousands of views. In it, he would regularly say things like "We love the KKK, don't we, folks?".

While I have not yet searched through his Youtube Discord server, a simple search on Reddit reveals his name is Timothy Bulow. How do we know? He is a band teacher and has mentioned to his class about his Youtube channel and vice a versa. On the same Reddit thread, a Discord moderator admits Timothy has been accused of some pretty heinous crimes, which is why he nuked his Youtube account. That was two months ago.

What happens when you look up the name Timothy Bulow now?
This is the thread on r/hoi4 about him - https://www.reddit.com/r/hoi4/comments/1ju4je1/what_happened_to_mrmochalover/

If it is true, then is it a colossal shame in every regard. Some of his uploads are on Bitchute but they could be nuked at any time, so I'd suggest archiving them.
 
I don't think it's a quality control issue as much as a political one. Whoever was in charge was hell-bent on getting this mechanic in because it replaces a something that used to be a proxy war for America with a preachy diatribe about how Nixon is and America are evil. So if you know the priorities of the leads, it likely passed the quality control stage with flying colors. Not being able to progress time normally doesn't matter when you're feeling the excitement of reading about how evil the Republican party is.
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These are the same people that ask for unity whenever their guy's in charge.

Billions must play the extremists on HOI4 mods.
 
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Casually calling death on Kaiserreich developers.
We talked about this a lot on this very thread but these people have no historic literacy let alone media literacy. Huey Long himself was VERY much against anti-semitism. He has attributed quotes and writing that he thinks Hitler and Mussolini are fools for picking on the Jews as they are resilient and hatred toward them amounts to nothing good ever. Gerald K. Smith was a fascist and anti-semite but he and the Union Party members formed after Huey Long died. That is why I hate both KR but hate these faggots more. They ignore the good allies he has such as Norman Thomas who is a syndicalist or radsoc in KR terms. Huey Long was very much aligned with the Progressive democrats and progressive movements at the time. All Long slander comes from "It Can't Happen Here." Which is character assassination and slander of Long by Sinclair who ironically joined the IRL America First Committee. I hate these people so fucking much.
 
Which is character assassination and slander of Long by Sinclair who ironically joined the IRL America First Committee. I hate these people so fucking much.
Let me tell an ugly little secret about the America First movement having socialists and commies in their ranks: they were ordered to be that way by Stalin. From 1933-39, you would hear nothing but "smash fascism", "stop the Nazis" etc. from the CPUSA and their more moderate allies. Then the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was signed. Literally overnight, the American hard left became anti-war and isolationist. They were the loudest voices saying Britain should throw in the towel by 1940, saying the US should not involve itself and cut off lend-lease, quickly becoming opponents of FDR who kept giving money and arms to the UK. And to show they had no morals or spine, by noon on June 22nd, 1941, they were the most rabid, pro-war, send whatever the US could to Britain and the Soviets especially.

Not that you'll ever hear about that. After all, it literally took the Iron Curtain falling to finally get the Russians to admit they signed a secret agreement with the Nazis in 1939. And you'll certainly never hear it from the living Dunning-Kruger victims that make up HoI4 modding, especially KaiserSyndiewank.
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(Literally from a day after the M-R Pact was signed. From the Washington Commonwealth Federation rag.)
 
This is the thread on r/hoi4 about him - https://www.reddit.com/r/hoi4/comments/1ju4je1/what_happened_to_mrmochalover/

If it is true, then is it a colossal shame in every regard. Some of his uploads are on Bitchute but they could be nuked at any time, so I'd suggest archiving them.
Literal thousands of hours of content spanning nearly a decade long now gone. I used to watch his stuff since it was the perfect background noise. Horrifying to hear what he did, but I'll miss his older edgier content like the KKK playthrough. If I remember correctly, during the long stretches where he wasn't talking, he'd play Instrumental versions of Johnny Rebel songs while fighting across the South.
 
Literal thousands of hours of content spanning nearly a decade long now gone. I used to watch his stuff since it was the perfect background noise. Horrifying to hear what he did, but I'll miss his older edgier content like the KKK playthrough. If I remember correctly, during the long stretches where he wasn't talking, he'd play Instrumental versions of Johnny Rebel songs while fighting across the South.
I enjoyed his KX Rockwell playthrough.
 
Anons on 4chan leaked all of Brazil's content plans. Endless sea of centrism, some generic corrupt authoritarian politicians, and anything interest happens in the 70s and 80s and will not be in the current update.
This content appears to be made for true Brazil lovers (as one, I'm loving a lot of what is being laid down in the plans), it seems. I can see why one would think that, but isn't really generic even in the 1960s, although the treatment of the military junta as a failstate seems strange. Are there any plans related to the military junta? Junta'd probably be one of the most important and interesting parts of Brazil.
 
This content appears to be made for true Brazil lovers (as one, I'm loving a lot of what is being laid down in the plans), it seems. I can see why one would think that, but isn't really generic even in the 1960s, although the treatment of the military junta as a failstate seems strange. Are there any plans related to the military junta? Junta'd probably be one of the most important and interesting parts of Brazil.
Maybe generic isn't the right word, but I look at what they're offering and see almost nothing that'd be worth playing it for unless you just want to read about the country. I don't trust their ability to construct a good narrative to keep me interested through the dozen of hours it'll likely take to get from start to finish. The minigames they've teased seem like a chore across the board and the devs themselves said that the war won't matter since it isn't canon. I can see why you'd be thrilled to see a country you love being represented the same way I'm thrilled on the rare occasions that my home state gets mentioned. But at the same time I just look at all the options presented and nothing looks like anything I got into TNO for.

As for what any of their plans are, I think it's just fail states. Not that it matters much, it took them four years to make most content for two routes with next to no regular gameplay. May seem strange to omit the one historical piece of content most HOI4 players would actually be interested in, but this is the team that has made it their mission to delete anything that made the mod popular in the first place.

Also, if I can't turn Brazil into a communist dictatorship and erase the very concept of "Argentina," then what is the point of living?
Been able to do that in Kaiserreich since before TNO was even a thing and I'd rather replay that than sit through ten hours of moral lecturing from an Californian liberal.
 
Maybe generic isn't the right word, but I look at what they're offering and see almost nothing that'd be worth playing it for unless you just want to read about the country. I don't trust their ability to construct a good narrative to keep me interested through the dozen of hours it'll likely take to get from start to finish. The minigames they've teased seem like a chore across the board and the devs themselves said that the war won't matter since it isn't canon. I can see why you'd be thrilled to see a country you love being represented the same way I'm thrilled on the rare occasions that my home state gets mentioned. But at the same time I just look at all the options presented and nothing looks like anything I got into TNO for.
I broadly agree. The narrative of TNO Brazil will definitely get carried by the fact that 1960s Brazil just was a very interesting time and place. I'll definitely play Crow and Bull.
As for what any of their plans are, I think it's just fail states.
That'd be very bad. Military Junta should be 50%+ of Brazil content, honestly.
 
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