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

Kanuckski said:
The TL;DR is that in the TNO:Redux community, somebody made a joke about having Pacifia's aka Fredick's (lead dev at the time) dox. This led to them freaking out and putting in place a ban on TNO:Redux content on the Reddit during the submod showcases, significantly reducing potential traffic. Under pressure the lead dev of the redux sepped down and announced an end to the project. A cohort of the redux devs continue the work and someone apparently got Paficia's dox. This caused them to suddenly abdicate their position as lead dev with very little warning. Valrin became lead dev after but left quickly and there seems to be a lack of higher leadership. Subsequently the Gitlab repo got leaked with the latest experimental build and contact information of the dev team. There was also a collection of google excel sheets used for communiation that were leaked that allege mistreatment of the team by higher-ups, frequent crunch periods, and an ineffective and poorly understood hierarchy with few systems in place to document and carry out actions. This situation has supposedly instigated a power struggle within the messy framework of the development hierarchy. The Discord mod team has been playing damage control and spent hours banning anyone who mentioned anything and playing it off as a raid. Eventually they got some sense in their heads and realized that being the victims in those they should make an announcement and farm sympathy instead of trying to suppress information in a server with 20000 people by banning users and deleting messages after they had already been seen. The announcement claims that everything is totally fine behind the scenes and that none of this really matters. Just that higher-ups will be taking a break from the limelight.
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"No Troll can reach the github. If one reaches the github, my name is not Pacfica, You may call me Frederick." - Frederick Wakefield
 
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Gonna do a little politisperging here but I find it funny how almost every AuthSoc country (Bar Suslov and Zhukov) is predicted as an evil homophobic dystopia and every LibSoc country is shown as a inclusive paradise. I mean it's kind of obvious looking just at the ideology icons with LibSoc icon being a raised red fist with a few red newsboy capped workers compared with the AuthSoc icon thats literally just a tank (LE TANKIES).
 
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Merry said:
Gonna try to refrain from doing multiple independent image dumps (thanks mods for cleaning that up)

But this caught my eye as a separate incident when I was skimming through logs

It seems they pushed a 15 y/o boy to come out as trans to their parents and try passing in the dev chat around 2019

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edit: more discord grooming shit

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edit 2: mild self awareness from one tranny and also men whining that women get mad when they play dressup and demand a seat at the table

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HOLY FUCK, i knew Dogs, i was friends with him back in 2018-2019. i always wonder what pushed him to come out as trans all of a sudden it seemed like someone was pushing him, now i feel complete pity on him, he always wanted to be in the modding community, and he did, but at what cost

Sorry dogs, but ywnbaw. I'll glady visit your grave
 
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this is a bit of schizo posting right now, but someone who was commenting on my channel a bunch when the pacfica stuff happened was called Enby Erin, they were responding to almost every single comment I left, and didn't stop until around 12 am. strangely, around the time that Pacfica deleted all of her information online, that account was also deleted. I know that Pacfica has used alts in the past, so it wouldn''t be impossible
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Anyone played the 1.2 leak? Is there more to it than Tabby warlords?
 
no not yet, but im starting it rn, im gonna see if anything changed
 
DukeFredrickofStLouis said:
HOLY FUCK, i knew Dogs, i was friends with him back in 2018-2019. i always wonder what pushed him to come out as trans all of a sudden it seemed like someone was pushing him, now i feel complete pity on him, he always wanted to be in the modding community, and he did, but at what cost

Sorry dogs, but ywnbaw. I'll glady visit your grave
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I regret to inform you I skimmed through his posts in most of the chatlogs for more content and a good 70% of his conversation wasn't even mod related, it was him talking about tranny shit, "transphobes", and wanting HRT. He seemed incredible lonely and isolated and was reaching out to people he thought were his friends. Really sad shit honestly, don't need a kid getting all the heat
 
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I was at first only monitoring this topic because it's a good sign of where Paradox fandom has gone, but I am looking at the story of this mod specifically and it goes too far into the not plausible territory. Right off the bat - Hitler being alive in the 1960s. Most historians believe Hitler had Parkinson's by 1942 and it was quite advanced and visible at the end of the war (famous movies of it) - Hitler almost certainly dies before 1950. The 'Fatherland' scenario of an 80 year old Hitler was never likely.

I had assumed this mod started in the post war period presuming Hitler is incapacitated/dead by the late 40s (most likely).

The mod authors also seem ignorant of the actual Nazi factions. Yes, there is alot more to the world than just Germany, but since this is a 'what if Germany won' mod they ought to know a bit more about the history. One good (and true) storyline is that Himmler was not loyal to Hitler, a better story could have been built around this. Some other SS officers like Karl Wolff were selling out to the allies even before the war ended. Some even think Himmler knew of the July plot and allowed it to happen.
 
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Kanuckski said:
The TL;DR is that in the TNO:Redux community, somebody made a joke about having Pacifia's aka Fredick's (lead dev at the time) dox. This led to them freaking out and putting in place a ban on TNO:Redux content on the Reddit during the submod showcases, significantly reducing potential traffic. Under pressure the lead dev of the redux sepped down and announced an end to the project. A cohort of the redux devs continue the work and someone apparently got Paficia's dox. This caused them to suddenly abdicate their position as lead dev with very little warning. Valrin became lead dev after but left quickly and there seems to be a lack of higher leadership. Subsequently the Gitlab repo got leaked with the latest experimental build and contact information of the dev team. There was also a collection of google excel sheets used for communiation that were leaked that allege mistreatment of the team by higher-ups, frequent crunch periods, and an ineffective and poorly understood hierarchy with few systems in place to document and carry out actions. This situation has supposedly instigated a power struggle within the messy framework of the development hierarchy. The Discord mod team has been playing damage control and spent hours banning anyone who mentioned anything and playing it off as a raid. Eventually they got some sense in their heads and realized that being the victims in those they should make an announcement and farm sympathy instead of trying to suppress information in a server with 20000 people by banning users and deleting messages after they had already been seen. The announcement claims that everything is totally fine behind the scenes and that none of this really matters. Just that higher-ups will be taking a break from the limelight.
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Thanks a ton! what I dont get now is what the TNO devs did that was so bad that it made people make a redux version to fix.

Also can anyone in the discord post some funny bans if you have any to share? thanks.
 
BibiLivesMatter said:
Fucking trannies are just a ticking time bomb destroying any and all mod projects they are apart of. Also what's with the uptick of tranny news in recent time? Has Biden already poison the soylent with HRT?
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Because in Biden's America if there isn't a Tranny leading EVERYTHING then American's are just fucking *phobes and *ists and need to go back to reeducation camps sponsored by Facebook.
 
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BibiLivesMatter said:
Fucking trannies are just a ticking time bomb destroying any and all mod projects they are apart of. Also what's with the uptick of tranny news in recent time? Has Biden already poison the soylent with HRT?
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glad im not the only one whos noticed this, why is almost every single mod or fan project for a video game always flooded with trannie bullshit?
 
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General_Butt_Naked said:
Gonna do a little politisperging here but I find it funny how almost every AuthSoc country (Bar Suslov and Zhukov) is predicted as an evil homophobic dystopia and every LibSoc country is shown as a inclusive paradise. I mean it's kind of obvious looking just at the ideology icons with LibSoc icon being a raised red fist with a few red newsboy capped workers compared with the AuthSoc icon thats literally just a tank (LE TANKIES).
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The real irony is the few Russians who get asked about fictional warlord they would like to unify Russia typically answer with the more authoritarian factions because they might actually be able to stand up to further German encroachment rather then the LibSoc factions; They then proceed to get purged from the TNO discord in 2 milliseconds for racism/fascism/transphobia/etc.

What really seems to piss of the Devs is that they love Yazov, whose entire goal is wiring the Russian state solely for causing WW3 and surviving it in bunkers, loving the entire revenge story while devs get angry because, "it is supposed to show that vengeance is bad you can not like it, god I hate all russians!"
 
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