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Socialist

16 (32%)

Green

8 (16%)

Peace and Freedom

2 (4%)

Democratic

1 (2%)

Transhumanist

11 (22%)

Libertarian

8 (16%)

Republican

2 (4%)

Constitution

2 (4%)

Total Members Voted: 49

[Eric Blank]

I certainly strive to keep them alive and healthy. They make it hard sometimes, though.

[Sirus]

I quite like being nice to the NPCs, honestly. Helping with their troubles and hearing/reading their thanks releases all of those natural feel-good chemicals in my brain, lets me feel like a hero (or at least a decent guy).

Not that I don't cut loose and unleash my dickish side at times, but it really depends on the game and it's always the exception rather than the rule.

[MaximumZero]

Surprisingly, I enjoy running a "largely inebriated and peacefully bearded communism simulation" a whole lot more than "atom smashing mermaid harvesting nightmare". Put me in CK2 or 3, though, and I'm a warmongering psychopath who MUST HAVE MOAR CLAY.

[scriver]

Well ck is a "fill the entire hierarchy of the world with near-genetic-copies of yourself" simulator after all

Also o remember Halfway Haus

[wierd]

Also Fascis Pony Simulator

[Dostoevsky]

Also the case that CK2 is (in my opinion) isn't really fleshed out for those attempting to play as a not-horrible person. It's a jerk simulator, which is probably somewhat apt for the powerbase of the era.

Ain't much room for socialism or transhumanism in 1066 Europe.

[Maximum Spin]

Ain't much room for socialism or transhumanism in 1066 Europe.

Counterpoint: there was more room for transhumanism as an ideology in 1066 Europe, where people had less scientific awareness of what ways of transcending human limitations are actually possible (eg, any religion which aspires to apotheosis, including the Cathars, is essentially transhumanist), and you can in fact play as a transhumanist in CK2 in many ways, but being a transhumanist is entirely compatible with being a jerk and arguably encourages it.

[RedKing]

Well ck is a "fill the entire hierarchy of the world with near-genetic-copies of yourself" simulator after all

I thought that was Endless Space, when playing the Horatio.

[Dostoevsky]

Counterpoint: there was more room for transhumanism as an ideology in 1066 Europe, where people had less scientific awareness of what ways of transcending human limitations are actually possible (eg, any religion which aspires to apotheosis, including the Cathars, is essentially transhumanist), and you can in fact play as a transhumanist in CK2 in many ways, but being a transhumanist is entirely compatible with being a jerk and arguably encourages it.

Fair point, especially considering the supernatural stuff vanilla CK2 includes.

(Also fair point on being a transhumanist and jerk not being incompatible.)

[MaximumZero]

Well ck is a "fill the entire hierarchy of the world with near-genetic-copies of yourself" simulator after all

Also o remember Halfway Haus

I miss the Halfway Haus.

[scriver]

It was the only place I was ever truly happy

[Rolan7]

(Also fair point on being a transhumanist and jerk not being incompatible.)

"Baby I can change!  I'm going to be better!"
"You'll stop cheating on me?"
"I'll trade up, so technically yes?"

[Egan_BW]

None of my crimes will be relevant once we bacon eggs dogs, so it doesn't really matter.

[scriver]

He spelled out "bed"

[Loud Whispers]

I like how almost every forum member is a green socialist hipie. Until we boot up DF that is. There we rob the first elven caravan, proceed to burn the surface world with magma, and send any migrants we dislike to the atom smasher.

When you have a magma cannon and a choice of sacrifices to make, well, it changes a Dwarf