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Stormcloaks or Imperials?

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WaterMage wrote: ↑ April 24th, 2025, 23:29
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Thanks for weighing in but this is a discussion for White people please consult the Nick Fuentes thread for discussions pertaining to your people. :salute:
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Vergil wrote: ↑ April 24th, 2025, 23:36
I have no creativity and will keep using the same insult against someone with lighter skin than me
Can't you be more original with your insults?
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Lhynn wrote: ↑ April 24th, 2025, 23:29
I think they tilted the storytelling heavily towards the stormcloaks in the game because they were worried no player would ever pick them.
I think the reason is because all of the major introductory events make you want to fight the Empire. Not just when you create your character at the start of the game, but when you also visit towns like Solitude where the very first thing that happens is that a guy is being escorted to his execution, and that is your moment to be a hero and get up on stage and save him. There are no other major introductory events like that in the game that make you want to fight against the Stormcloaks. I think some Nords in Windhelm badmouth some elves for a few seconds, and then everyone carries on with their day.
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The game seems to heavily lean towards Stormcloaks if you're new to the franchise. To me the Empire just seemed like the obvious and "right" choice because every other game's main story had the Empire be the side you're fighting on and always portrayed pretty sympathetically. But if you have no prior attachments to the franchise then all you know about the Empire from the beginning is they tried to kill you.
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Vergil wrote: ↑ April 24th, 2025, 23:52
because every other game's main story had the Empire be the side you're fighting on and always portrayed pretty sympathetically.
The Empire post Oblivion crisis is not the Empire pre Oblivion crisis.

Redguards managed to repeal Thalmor but the decadent empire failed.
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WaterMage wrote: ↑ April 24th, 2025, 23:56
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Why did you guys stop using the chihuahua I liked that little guy :(
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Vergil wrote: ↑ April 24th, 2025, 23:52
The game seems to heavily lean towards Stormcloaks if you're new to the franchise. To me the Empire just seemed like the obvious and "right" choice because every other game's main story had the Empire be the side you're fighting on and always portrayed pretty sympathetically. But if you have no prior attachments to the franchise then all you know about the Empire from the beginning is they tried to kill you.
Kind of person to see a serial killer wearing your friend's clothes and think nothing of it
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rusty_shackleford wrote: ↑ April 25th, 2025, 00:04
Kind of person to see a serial killer wearing your friend's clothes and think nothing of it
Remember how you still were pro-America even when Joe Biden was President?
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Vergil wrote: ↑ April 25th, 2025, 00:05
rusty_shackleford wrote: ↑ April 25th, 2025, 00:04
Kind of person to see a serial killer wearing your friend's clothes and think nothing of it
Remember how you still were pro-America even when Joe Biden was President?
Different America, and it still applies.
Ulfric is the leader of the new empire you tardo
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rusty_shackleford wrote: ↑ April 25th, 2025, 00:06
Ulfric is the leader of the new empire you tardo
This is what eating the yellow snow does to your brain
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Vergil wrote: ↑ April 25th, 2025, 00:08
rusty_shackleford wrote: ↑ April 25th, 2025, 00:06
Ulfric is the leader of the new empire you tardo
This is what eating the yellow snow does to your brain
Ulfric would have already defeated the empire without the Thalmor aiding them. Woops, turns out the Jew elves are working with the Empire.
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rusty_shackleford wrote: ↑ April 25th, 2025, 00:11
Vergil wrote: ↑ April 25th, 2025, 00:08
rusty_shackleford wrote: ↑ April 25th, 2025, 00:06
Ulfric is the leader of the new empire you tardo
This is what eating the yellow snow does to your brain
Ulfric would have already defeated the empire without the Thalmor aiding them. Woops, turns out the Jew elves are working with the Empire.
Ulfric literally got captured multiple times and only released due to the Thalmor lul
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Vergil wrote: ↑ April 25th, 2025, 00:12
rusty_shackleford wrote: ↑ April 25th, 2025, 00:11
Vergil wrote: ↑ April 25th, 2025, 00:08

This is what eating the yellow snow does to your brain
Ulfric would have already defeated the empire without the Thalmor aiding them. Woops, turns out the Jew elves are working with the Empire.
Ulfric literally got captured multiple times and only released due to the Thalmor lul
Never happened. Meanwhile, the start of the game happens because the thalmor told the imperial where he'd be.
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I accept your concession.
I'm just stating the facts.
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Lhynn wrote: ↑ April 24th, 2025, 23:29
jebacdrkac wrote: ↑ April 24th, 2025, 14:31
This might be the dumbest thing I've read on this forum...
To the average *****, the Stormcloaks are literally maga.
This isnt true, the empire is America, and the stormcloaks are basically lefties. The Thalmor are the ****.

The Nords didnt resist the empires colonization, they actually welcomed it by most accounts, it brought civilization to their lands.

Thats mostly been my experience in Elder Scroll RP servers. I actually played a Nord for one season, and the poor dude was conflicted, because his own people had forgotten their past and were all too happy to serve the empire, while to most the stormcloaks struggle was gay as ****.

I think they tilted the storytelling heavily towards the stormcloaks in the game because they were worried no player would ever pick them.
Altmer are spiritual **** who hate the world they live in because they will never be their zased ancestor spirits. They have never been a force of good in TES, and why the Chimer got sick of their **** and went east. So I agree with this assessment.

If we're going off the old examples of Nords, they would not have so happily submitted to the Empires customs. The entire theme of Morrowind is the Empire's imperialism and its ruthless assimilation of the provinces into its culture. Tiber Septim was a conquerer, not a diplomat. MK's original lore for the Nords was showcasing them as a people who had no desire or respect for other religions, and their own faith was just based on ensuring the end of the world didn't come sooner than it already was. They viewed themselves as eternal invaders with no kinship to the other races.

Then, all of a sudden in TES Skyrim, every single nord is fine with the Nine Divines. There is no attempt to even depict the truly "old ways" Nords, even the most traditionalist Nord you meet in the game is a progressive. You could argue that this is Bethesda showing us that the Empire has truly pacified Skyrim and repressed its ancient culture. I don't believe the game ever goes that far, however.

The Stormcloaks are watered down nationalists, just based enough to appeal to chuds but not based enough to do their duty of cleansing lesser foreigners from their lands. Still, I'd choose them over the Empire any day.
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To fight Thalmor, you must support a Empire that gives to the Thalmor the right to persecute, arrest and kill anyone who the Thalmor accuses with no evidence of following a local religion /Astarion avatar logic
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WaterMage wrote: ↑ April 25th, 2025, 00:36
Unless you support a Empire that gives to the Thalmor the right to persecute, arrest and kill anyone who the Thalmor accuses with no evidence of worshiping a traditional deity, otherwise you are helping Thalmor /Astarion avatar logic
The only excuse empiretards have is that they'll change in the future so you should go die for them now :)
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Vergil wrote: ↑ April 24th, 2025, 23:20
Stormcloaks are groyper coded
A Mexican Man wrote: ↑ April 25th, 2025, 00:36
Unless you support a Empire that gives to the Thalmor the right to persecute, arrest and kill anyone who the Thalmor accuses with no evidence of worshiping a traditional deity, otherwise you are helping Thalmor /Astarion avatar logic
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ThulsaDoomer wrote: ↑ April 25th, 2025, 00:18
. There is no attempt to even depict the truly "old ways" Nords, even the most traditionalist Nord you meet in the game is a progressive. You could argue that this is Bethesda showing us that the Empire has truly pacified Skyrim and repressed its ancient culture.
You could, but you could argue that they truly did benefit from the empire. They brought riches to the land, they did improve the lives of pretty much everyone there. And they were allowed to keep worshiping Ymir, as he was believed to be Talos.

End of the day im not too clear on why it was so easily accepted, but the game says they were.
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Vergil wrote: ↑ April 24th, 2025, 23:20
Stormcloaks are groyper coded
Ummmm Zased?
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Ligrev wrote: ↑ April 24th, 2025, 20:40
SniperChris wrote: ↑ April 24th, 2025, 20:00
rusty_shackleford wrote: ↑ April 24th, 2025, 01:28
Only thing close to an argument empiretards have is a letter. There's no evidence to back up what the letter says, and it could have been flat out disinformation purposely planted there. Nothing suggests he's ever a sleeper agent.

OTOH:
Empire is incredibly weak. They rely almost entirely on nords for their military at this point.
Tying back into that point, the redguards seceded from the empire and continued to fight the Aldmeri to a stalemate and secured a treaty on their own terms, by themselves.
The empire willingly accepted a treaty that placed undue burdens specifically on the one peoples that made up the bulk of their fighting forces in the war.
The empire is crumbling, there is nothing to gain from staying in it. They couldn't defeat the Aldmeri with a larger, more powerful empire β€” why would a weaker one protect them?


The story is written so in favor of the Nords that anyone actually pro-Empire is just being a contrarian or connects it to real life issues and therefore opposes the nords because "muh nazis"

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Forgot to add that the same document empiretards cite specifically says they do NOT want the nords to win the war. Which destroys their entire argument.
What annoys me is I think Ulfric is a bad leader. Dragons appear and until the Dragonborn forces him to the table, he still wants to focus on the civil war. Wish we could make Jarl Ballin the leader. πŸ˜”
For me the poll's question is inseparable from the fact there is a Dragonborn and he is a big, ******* deal. Skyrim doesn't need a dum dum High King, it needs a godlike person that will unite Skyrim, then the Empire.

Ulfric as a whipped altmeri ****** imbecile actually forces the Legion to enforce the Talos worship ban.

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I actually prefer Titus Mede to Dumbfric.
Blaming Ulfric for this is like blaming Hitler for the British attitude towards Germany. "We were content to let you be our slaves who sold your own daughters and mothers into sexual slavery after we starved millions of you to death, but HOW DARE YOU ELECT A MAN TO LEAD YOU OUT OF DARKNESS?!"

The Dragonborn isn't an option for king of Skyrim. And he should have become Emperor, anyhow. And he would have, if Beyond Skyrim ever released.
rusty_shackleford wrote: ↑ April 25th, 2025, 00:37

The only excuse empiretards have is that they'll change in the future so you should go die for them now :)
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SniperChris wrote: ↑ April 25th, 2025, 02:11
Vergil wrote: ↑ April 24th, 2025, 23:20
Stormcloaks are groyper coded
Ummmm Zased?
You handed your legacy off to browns and women so this tracks actually.
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Vergil wrote: ↑ April 25th, 2025, 02:14
SniperChris wrote: ↑ April 25th, 2025, 02:11
Vergil wrote: ↑ April 24th, 2025, 23:20
Stormcloaks are groyper coded
Ummmm Zased?
You handed your legacy off to browns and women so this tracks actually.
If you were a real racist, you would know the Stormcloaks are obviously the setting's version of the Southern Patriots and therefore the good guys by default... or are you a degenerate Lincolnite?
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SniperChris wrote: ↑ April 25th, 2025, 02:18
If you were a real racist, you would know the Stormcloaks are obviously the setting's version of the Southern Patriots and therefore the good guys by default... or are you a degenerate Lincolnite?
I don't recall the Stormcloaks dying for the right to keep ******* in Skyrim :scratch:
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Correct answer is to take over Skyrim yourself but no one at Bethesda can think of it.
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skyrim is some brainded theme park
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Vergil wrote: ↑ April 25th, 2025, 02:19
SniperChris wrote: ↑ April 25th, 2025, 02:18
If you were a real racist, you would know the Stormcloaks are obviously the setting's version of the Southern Patriots and therefore the good guys by default... or are you a degenerate Lincolnite?
I don't recall the Stormcloaks dying for the right to keep ******* in Skyrim :scratch:
Fact: The Stormcloaks hate Dark Elves and look on them as subhuman trash.
Fact: The city with the highest number of Dark Elf NPCs in Skyrim is Windhelm.
Fact: The Dark Elves in Windhelm occupy service positions (or are criminals) such as farm workers, live-in nannies, and day-laborers.

Stormcloaks are the South confirmed.
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Edit: For any fellow Southerners, I know we don't hate the help, but I'm proving a point to this degenerate Yankee.
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