Words can't describe how much I miss the period where people in the main sub pretended to be interested in ships because of the history

I sure do love my Navy game being filled with fictional Nazi ships that were never built and never did anything meanwhile Royal Navy gets treated like a minor faction

Me when the nth hitler ship instead of finally getting any Swedish, Dutch, or Spanish ship or that one angry Polish destroyer: (suffering)

I cannot find any reference to a Super Alsace outside of a game similar to stuff like modern warships ie fiction

Back during 2020 i alreasy dropped the game because of the community, got eventually back because bismarck war archive because in the past always got unlucky, got her and decided to play again a little, eventually got back and started to ignore community, occasionally looking in global chat and see people thirsting but i try to stay away from stuff like main sub were its really bad, i wonder how many people there even actively play the game and how many are just tourists

I was temp banned from the main sub once for calling a guy thirsting over Mutsuki a pedo. When I asked what happened one of the mods gave me the fictional character talk.

Well, the psychotherapist in me feels obligated to say that liking loli illustrations doesn't necessarily translate to pedophilia. A large part of AL players can be assumed to be lonely males, which more easily go down the maladaptive porn consumption rabbit hole, overexposing themselves to and thus normalising increasingly extreme content with time. There'll be some pedos, but some others might very well just be individuals who've degenerated to that level after excessive hentai consumption without any or little connection to IRL content. Then there's depressed people who consciously or unconsciously seek for more and more extreme content because it functions like a stimulant, dragging them out of their state of numbness (anhedonia) because the dubious content they consume gets their heart rate going (Coolidge effect). Humans are very bad at correctly interpreting the source of (non-sexual) arousal/excitement. That's why babies tend not to scream when something unexpected happens until after someone else shows worry. The body only knows "Oh, we're aroused. Something's getting our heart rate going and neurons are firing!" and then it's you interpreting your situation and environment putting those feelings into context. If a baby falls over, and their parents come running with anxiety plastered all over their faces then the baby's body 'thinks' "Ok, what I'm feeling is a fear response". If you're interested in this look up Schachter-Singer's two-factor theory of emotion. When people look at porn that lies right outside of their comfort zone but close enough for them to not look away for the first time, they'll eventually start to interpret the remnant disgust or apprehension as something positive, especially when it's surrounded by a bunch of other over-sexualised characters blending together whatever physiological responses they are experiencing. That circle continues, for some unfortunate souls even until they've consumed every kind of pornographic material there is at some point in their lives. Being part of Washington server I know there's definitely a large part of people who'd love to drag their fantasies outside into the real world - those are not the people I want to give face to. I know I'll likely get downvoted into oblivion and called a pedo defender or what not but I just hope that some of the people reading this might start to keep in mind that people aren't that simple. I won't go into the "akshually, pedophilia is the primary or sole attraction to prepubescent children, yada yada" topic because no one listens to it anyway and those who do listen are already aware of the term's misuse, or will look it up themselves. Have a good one.

Good news is that you can count the amount of people who still think like that. Down side is that they're often shameless, which is expected in the first place

That was a big crack for me yeah, the Anson debacle was another. They clearly are just trying to sell coom bait now - be it to pedos with lolis or generic gacha characters like Alsace and Mogador