Quote Originally Posted by Vyrerus View Post
Also though, it's something of a problem in this subforum for a lot of users to read someone's takes, and then write them off as trolls/bad faith etc. Simply for seeing the story in a different light. Ironically, it's also somewhat bad faith itself, because intent was presumed, and a step even further was taken in insulting or belittling the poster with aggravating takes.
It’s one thing to disagree based on the lore of what is actually in the game. It’s another to put a personal spin on it and go straight into phrases meant to start a fight like “Venat’s fascist agenda” and “doing a colonialism”.

If there’s any notion that we’re being lied to, while that hasn’t been hinted at yet, it’s certainly possible and I’d say is fair game to talk about. But going straight into “we’re colonizers for getting involved in someone else’s succession trial where it was explicitly stated that outside help is allowed and it’s considered political meddling for trying to stop one’s own small city-state from getting invaded much a much larger and more powerful empire” is a take that’s going to raise a few eyebrows and be considered to not be appropriate for discussion.

It doesn’t help either that the poster first came into this subforum by necroing a bunch of threads all at once, which is the same behavior seen by trolls here in the past.