Hi folks. To all HOI4 players, not that I’m an expert, here’s a quick guide. The HOI4 wiki is unfortunately not really made for beginners, but you could try to read about some things, but it's not pedagogic, let's just put it that way. But there are essentially two modes of war: either you're defending or you're going on the offensive. Generally it is easier to defend, the Soviets being the big exception because the front is like 2000km long and the AI will just crash its army into yours WW1 style. Going on the offensive requires some basic knowledge and that's in particular where things like META become important. You can do as the AI, just crash your army into your opponents, but that is super expensive and you might just fail, or you could be more careful and create units with the ability to attack certain weak points and that way try to hit them in the rear by outflanking them. You could also try to just overrun them, but that's hard, and is going to require a combo of a lot of CAS and mobile units that can basically outrun the routed armies. Begin with learning to defend properly before you worry too much about large scale offensives such as operation Barbarossa, which are easy once you get the basic understanding. I am better at defending because I am a little bit too cautious on the offensive which is why I tend to take a lot of time before I finish them off. I am just autistically obsessed with casualties. So if you’re playing HOI4, you can pretty much skip the HOI4 wiki, because it’s not made for casual players. Anyways, I thought I’d mention this, because I am in a place in life where I am not sure what to do, but I do know this much that it will be okay. Yes, that’s true, it will be okay. Whoever you are, even if you have stage 4 cancer, it will be okay. People have to stop taking themselves and this absurd state called life too seriously. There are simply too many things outside of your control that can go wrong and the quicker people realize this the better, the better for them and for the rest of us as well. It’s okay, you don’t need to understand everything, and you don’t need to understand the universe and why something exists and what non-existence means. None of these things actually matters. They only seemingly matter because of you, or because human beings need to make sense of the world. But you don’t have to make sense of the world, that’s the fallacy to begin with. You don’t need to care what will happen in a billion years or what happened 14 billion years ago. Really the only thing you actually need to worry about, and the word worry is not quite the right word here, is yourself and what you can do to find less suffering in life. See, the reality of your life and my life is that suffering is the baseline, suffering is to say the normal, and you have to put effort into not suffering. In a sense you’re a very sensitive machine that just suffers unless you do what you need to do to stop suffering. This is the human state whether you or I like it. This is why I view the enterprise of science as a way to create less suffering in life. This is why I don’t put that much importance into things such as theoretical physics, because it – generally – does not create less suffering, even though it probably will in the long run. Ethical science should be about this goal, to in the end make the suffering less and therefore life easier. Again, you don’t get to choose these things, they just happen whether you like it or not. In that sense suffering or the guarentreed suffering has to be viewed as a law of nature or a law of the universe. It’s not that you suffer when you do something wrong; it’s that you constantly suffer, especially when you’re not doing the right things. I don’t believe in embracing suffering, but I do believe in understanding suffering, if not just to make it easier to make it stop. Is it wrong to suffer? I’d say yes, because it’s not funny to suffer. It’s not great to suffer. Whatever suffering is, it’s bad. If there’s such a thing in the universe as bad the most basic and the most primitive form of bad has to be to suffer. Does this mean that life is bad? In a sense yes, but then again that is also a nonsensical question, because life just is. Life is not something you get to opt out of. Life is something that you have to deal with, and it’s not always pretty, but do know that it is going to be alright whatever happens. Anyways, I don’t want to go on about existential questions, because quite frankly I’ve got real issues to deal with, but I am tired of not being able to just relax. Why the fuck should I even begin to take life and exitance seriously? I mean, I think that’s the real problem people make to begin with, and this is incidentally, or perhaps not so incidentally, the problem with both science and religion. Who cares? I mean, really, who cares? Just be you and life while you can live and try to not suffer too much. For me, life isn’t about finding out if there’s an afterlife in the religious or profane sense. This is why I’ve never felt that I owe any allegiance to the future. One of these days the future will fuck me over and you over, that’s just life. I suppose the idea that you can’t do anything about it is what makes people afraid. But the problem is actually that you don’t just live while you can. Just as you wouldn't waste any time on thinking about people you don’t respect, why think about the future? Well, that’s a choice I suppose, but for me one thing is clear: I don’t respect the future. Sure, some things are worth taking seriously, but that means that you need to actually be good at detecting those things, instead of getting upset over nonsense. Yes, climate change is nonsense, because I can’t do shit about it. The planet is going to do what it’s going to do, with or without my human permission. So why the fuck waste effort on it? Again, these are questions for everyone to answer. I’m not saying that you shouldn’t waste effort on climate change; what I am saying is that you don’t have to. Please, go ahead if you really want to, but don’t expect the planet to give in to your demands. If you want to do something about climate change you need to find solutions that work with the planet, and with humanity, since these two forces are kinda crashing into each other right now. I am by no means a so-called “climate denier”, but I recognize the fact that it is very likely not going to be solved, which means that humanity will have to find a way to live under new conditions. This is why diversity is so important. What is more important, civilization or living in the stone age? Well, I’ve always been in love with mother nature and all animals, but I can’t solve climate change. I know that I’m just rambling on right now, because I don’t know how to solve the issue. It’s okay to not know, as I’ve already stated. It is important to have standards and beliefs. It is important to be judgmental. It is important to reject and accept things based on your morals. Never let anyone dictate to you what is right and wrong. Other people can believe whatever, but you need to stand up for yourself. This requires conviction and strength; such qualities that come along with life. It is okay to be you. You’re not a parasite, don’t you ever let anyone label you that. Anyways, I'm gonna go blasting some sweet reggae and pretend that I'm in Jamaica and that all my problems have disappeared. Signing out.
Btw, Rest in Peace Gene Hackman and Co.
Reginald Drax – February 28, 2025.
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