Can we drop the snake on the baby ad?

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OP has a valid opinion on the topic. It isn't everybody's cup of tea, so no need to be rude. But yes, I can also suggest the OP might look for other games if some game content strikes a nerve. Look, as a child I liked those soft-dart-guns or what they are called. Now, having children of my own they give me the creeps when watching children play 'war' with those. Maybe growing up and serving a year in the army might helped a bit to change views. I as well do not really like the idea of the snake pic. As father of an infant it makes me feel a bit uncomfortable. Yet, I recognize it as part of a game and not the real thing and as such this helps me preserve my sanity. Also, joking about the game helps. The mileage of feeling uncomfortable might vary from person to person. At least it is good to have that opinion voiced.
 

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And I don't think anyone ever assassinated an infant via asp.

Are we sure that it's an asp, and not some other kind of snake?














Yeah, I know, that wasn't the point, but I've already expressed my opinion on the ad itself in at least 2 other threads.
 

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Seems that PC Gamer/Paradox went with another ad here for CK3.
 

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You're wrong.

Baby will think the snake is his sister and end up engaged with it till he grows up to be old enough for marriage.
 

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Baby will think the snake is his sister and end up engaged with it till he grows up to be old enough for marriage.

Heck, maybe it IS his sister. Or his mother. Or both.
 

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Seems that PC Gamer/Paradox went with another ad here for CK3.
So the boy survived the assassination attempt and now he rules the country. I hope they make future ads as highlight of his life.
-Assassination attempt as a child
-Coronation
-Marriage
-Strategies in war room
etc...
 

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Heck, maybe it IS his sister. Or his mother. Or both.
But of course! When fertilising a snake you have 50% chance it will be a human baby, and 50% it will be a snake. 1 baby or 2 dozens snake eggs.

I hope we will eventually get crazyness in ck3.
Please devs, can we at least have centaurs? It would give legitimacy to our relationship with Glitterhoof!
 

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So the boy survived the assassination attempt and now he rules the country. I hope they make future ads as highlight of his life.
-Assassination attempt as a child
-Coronation
-Marriage
-Strategies in war room
etc...

Maybe he really is a Child of Destiny.
 

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I think the child is meant to represent the heir to CK2, namely CK3. So, I must assume it will keep ageing, and become an adult at the time of release...
 

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Of all the years playing Paradox, I never played CK. This is my first read of the forum because the new one is coming out. I saw this three page post assuming by its very size, this was interesting. Are most CK threads like this?
 

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So the boy survived the assassination attempt and now he rules the country. I hope they make future ads as highlight of his life.
-Assassination attempt as a child
-Coronation
-Marriage
-Strategies in war room
etc...

Hint: look at the emblem on the boys tunic
 

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Of all the years playing Paradox, I never played CK. This is my first read of the forum because the new one is coming out. I saw this three page post assuming by its very size, this was interesting. Are most CK threads like this?

About the morality of killing babies, manure explosions, assassination attempts, inbreeding and worshipers of the forces of darkness? It's more the game than the forum. Yet even in Stellaris there are memes about genocide on a galactic escale, so i wouldn't worry too much for CKII or III :)
 

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Now that i think about it. How do we know that the child is male? Lets call our Greek Eunuch Court Physician, surely he will know and will make sure that the bloodline stop at the boy by trying to cure him of the cold :D