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  1. #GrandStrategy is the closest thing to a time machine I have ever found. Games like #EuropaUniversalis, #CrusaderKings or #Victoria give me an entire world and ask: what if? What if a small dynasty conquered Europe? What if one single decision changed the course of history entirely?

    You rewrite the timeline, pull on one thread, and watch everything unravel differently. Every campaign is a new alternate universe worth exploring.

    And then there are titles like #DistantWorlds or #Stellaris, where the same depth applies but the sandbox is an entire galaxy. Civilisations rising, collapsing, first contact scenarios, technology trees that reshape everything.

    No other genre makes consequences feel this real.

    #Paradox #Strategy #Gaming #LinuxGamer

  2. Anyone on Mastodon fancy setting up a gaming community?

    I'm looking for #multiplayer games of #grandstrategy #Paradox games like #stellaris and also looking for people to play #Baldursgate3 with

  3. You arrive on an alien planet with spaceships and the knowledge of a spacefaring civilization.
    Within hours, the atmosphere fries every chip you brought. No electronics. No supply chain. No currency.

    3,000 provinces. Simulated population. Every person has food, employment, demographics — all feeding into the simulation.
    This is what I've been building for 3 years, alone, in my spare time.
    #grandstrategy #gamedev #godot #indiegame

    youtube.com/watch?v=3xKdKZrBatQ

  4. 3/20: Introducing: Extractive Hegemonism. Not isolationism. Not retrenchment. Something more aggressive—an attempt to monetize American structural power rather than spend it maintaining an international order.

    #ExtractiveHegemonism #NatSec #ForeignPolicy #GrandStrategy

  5. 1/20: Every analyst I know is walking around with the same quiet frustration. The old frameworks—realism, liberalism, constructivism—don't explain what we're watching. The map is wrong. Time to draw a new one.

    #NatSec #GrandStrategy #IR #ForeignPolicy

  6. INTRO/20: The frameworks we use to understand American foreign policy were built for a different game. Realism. Liberalism. Constructivism. None of them explain what we're watching.

    This thread introduces a new theory—Extractive Hegemonism. Not the security interest. The ownership claim. Twenty posts. Core theory, two live case studies, hard implications. I'll be rolling this out in four parts over the next several days.

    Strap in.

    #NatSec #GrandStrategy #ForeignPolicy #Military #Policy

  7. Huge news, #TotalWar fans! The original classics are officially live, #DRMfree on #GOG.

    We owe a massive thank you to the #GOG #Preservation Program for securing this essential #PCGaming history for good!

    Grab your copies of these #Strategy masterpieces:

    🔹 Shogun: Total War (2000)
    🔹 Medieval: Total War (2002)
    🔹 Rome: Total War (2004)
    🔹 Medieval II: Total War (2006)

    🔗 gog.com/de/promo/20251204_tota

    More titles are on the way soon. Time to dive back into the #GrandStrategy that started it all!

    #GamingNews #GOGGames #HistoricalGaming #PCClassics #Games #Gaming #VideoGames #Linux #DRM

  8. Come and join for Stellaris Straturday!

    19:00 CEST we go back to the stars over on twitch.tv/imperorthefirst

    Got questions about the game? We got answers (likely) but more importantly, we're a friendly and welcoming community, happy to have you! Hang out, chat, be EMBRACED BY THE IMPIRE... eh, be welcomed and valued!

    #stellaris #stream #streaming #grandstrategy #4x #imperor #twitch

    @[email protected]

  9. Come and join for Stellaris Straturday!

    19:00 CEST we go back to the stars over on twitch.tv/imperorthefirst

    Got questions about the game? We got answers (likely) but more importantly, we're a friendly and welcoming community, happy to have you! Hang out, chat, be EMBRACED BY THE IMPIRE... eh, be welcomed and valued!

    #stellaris #stream #streaming #grandstrategy #4x #imperor #twitch

    @[email protected]

  10. Come and join for Stellaris Straturday!

    19:00 CEST we go back to the stars over on twitch.tv/imperorthefirst

    Got questions about the game? We got answers (likely) but more importantly, we're a friendly and welcoming community, happy to have you! Hang out, chat, be EMBRACED BY THE IMPIRE... eh, be welcomed and valued!

    #stellaris #stream #streaming #grandstrategy #4x #imperor #twitch

    @[email protected]

  11. Come and join for Stellaris Straturday!

    19:00 CEST we go back to the stars over on twitch.tv/imperorthefirst

    Got questions about the game? We got answers (likely) but more importantly, we're a friendly and welcoming community, happy to have you! Hang out, chat, be EMBRACED BY THE IMPIRE... eh, be welcomed and valued!

    #stellaris #stream #streaming #grandstrategy #4x #imperor #twitch

    @[email protected]

  12. Come and join for Stellaris Straturday!

    19:00 CEST we go back to the stars over on twitch.tv/imperorthefirst

    Got questions about the game? We got answers (likely) but more importantly, we're a friendly and welcoming community, happy to have you! Hang out, chat, be EMBRACED BY THE IMPIRE... eh, be welcomed and valued!

    #stellaris #stream #streaming #grandstrategy #4x #imperor #twitch

    @[email protected]

  13. Join us tonight at 19:00 CEST for Imperator: Rome

    It has been 5 years since last I played this game. Let's check it out as the Langobards over on twitch.tv/imperorthefirst

    Come by and see if the game ever managed to shape up to be playable, or even enjoyable!

    @[email protected]
    #twitch #twitchstreamer #gaming #grandstrategy #strategy #paradox #imperatorrome #rome #imperor

  14. Tonight we go back to WarCraft and Azeroth with Cho'Gall!

    We're in a bad spot, let's see if we can manage to build up and out. Join at 20:00 (GMT+2 (Berlin)) over on twitch.tv/imperorthefirst

    We're playing the CK3 mod "WarCraft II - Guardians of Azeroth". Come for a chat, hang out, let's have a good time :)

    #streaming #stream #twitch #pcgaming #ck3 #crusaderkings3 #paradox #grandstrategy #warcraft #azeroth #ogre

  15. April 3, 2024 - Day 459 - NewPlay Review
    Total NewPlays: 488

    Game: Victoria 3

    Platform: Steam
    Released: Oct 26, 2022
    Installed: Apr 3, 2024
    Unplayed: 0d
    Playtime: 21m

    Victoria 3 is a grand strategy game from Paradox Interactive. It's the first game in the April Humble Choice bundle, and if you're a Paradox fan who doesn't already own it, would probably make the whole bundle worth the purchase.

    Strategy games are not my go-to choice for gaming. It took me a long time to connect the dots between my general lack of enjoyment, and my ADHD.

    The number of things a strategy game requires me to keep on top of simultaneously, is inversely proportional to how much I enjoy the game.

    Then there are games with a steep learning curve. If a game requires me a drop a dexy to stay focused long enough to learn the game systems, that generally doesn't go well.

    Paradox Interactive's games tend to be both of these things at once. They are deeply complex games, with steep learning curves, that require patience, tenacity, focus, and the ability to multitask.

    I already have a day job, I don't need a second unpaid one at night.

    21 minutes is not enough time for me to make a fair objective judgement of Victoria 3, but this project was never about objectivity. It was about whether I enjoyed a game enough to keep playing it.

    Victoria 3 seems to be a well developed, and incredibly deep grand strategy game. Will I play it again?

    1: Nope

    #Victoria3 #GrandStrategy #Gaming #ProjectONG

  16. Three years ago I made a playlist on #CK2 #CrusaderKings2 about how to play as a Merchant Republic.

    My #youtube channel is really small (I just pretend it's niché and artisinal instead of having zero broad appeal) but having this playlist consistently being accessed and viewed makes me really happy.

    I set out to help people get into the awesomeness that is #CrusaderKings2 and I might just have done a good job with that one.

    youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXK

    #gaming #strategy #grandstrategy #paradox

  17. Three years ago I made a playlist on #CK2 #CrusaderKings2 about how to play as a Merchant Republic.

    My #youtube channel is really small (I just pretend it's niché and artisinal instead of having zero broad appeal) but having this playlist consistently being accessed and viewed makes me really happy.

    I set out to help people get into the awesomeness that is #CrusaderKings2 and I might just have done a good job with that one.

    youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXK

    #gaming #strategy #grandstrategy #paradox

  18. #CrusaderKings3 is currently on #sale over on #steam store.steampowered.com/app/115

    Not sure you're up to it? It's one of the easier entries in the #paradox #grandstrategy catalogue and I got a longer #video #playlist explaining what I'm doing while I'm doing it over on #youtube

    youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXK

    While I love #CrusaderKings2 I think #CK3 is a decent heir to what #CK2 was and is.

    #gaming

  19. #CrusaderKings3 is currently on #sale over on #steam store.steampowered.com/app/115

    Not sure you're up to it? It's one of the easier entries in the #paradox #grandstrategy catalogue and I got a longer #video #playlist explaining what I'm doing while I'm doing it over on #youtube

    youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXK

    While I love #CrusaderKings2 I think #CK3 is a decent heir to what #CK2 was and is.

    #gaming