I picked all the good options

Today we play CK3 witha bit of a twist. Usually this game is about using every advantage possible to get ahead, but not this time. We're going to be a morally good person and see if we can survive the brutal medieval era. We're also playing it such that we're always saying yes to everything as well so as to not disappoint people. Unfortunately, we get progresively less nice as the game goes on..
Is it possible to survive in CK3 by being the NICEST PERSON?
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[@Nexxill]

For those wondering, the philosopher in question was Immanuel Kant

[@jasonjohnson1824]

Was about to bring it up

[@WERTYUIO821]

He was kind of a Kant

[@Lucawee]

@@WERTYUIO821 Almost as much as Giuseppe Nons, who was kind of a nons

[@brutusthebear9050]

Ewww

[@ddrcrono]

Came to make this comment. Kant sorts into the "deontological ethics" bucket, whereas someone like Mill resembles a bit more how most modern people think. (Consequentialism)

[@Barista.Nathan]

A perfect embodiment of the fact that the people that are often the happiest and most outwardly giving may in fact be struggling inside. Mr Nice Guy himself was in fact depressed for most of his life but in spite of that had many friends and loved ones and was charitable and understanding kind to everyone.

[@PA_Sword]

Why would you make me cry?

[@spooknut8625]

All he needed to do is ask what he would do fir a Klondike bar. 😔

[@cba2make1up]

18:30 that made my day 😂😂😂 "barra" literally means "go" but when you say it in that specific tone it's basically meant to show frustration, and it's definitely a nationwide thing

[@SebHaarfagre]

I remember now a song from Black Hawk Down. Isn't it literally called "Barra Barra"? If you know the song I'm talking about (fantastic movie and maybe even better soundtracks, Hanz Zimmer and all that too), what does it mean in that context? The set location is another but the song I'm certain is at least Arabic or Tuareg or Northern African (can't remember)

[@cba2make1up]

@@SebHaarfagre I've just seen Black Hawk Down not too long ago and that song absolutely caught me off guard 😂 Yeah it's literally called that, it's an Algerian/Arabic song by Rachid Taha. I listen to him regularly along with a bunch of other old school Algerian Raï singers, worth checking out! I could be wrong about the meaning as the Algerian and Tunisian dialects are intelligible but still very different, but I believe it meant "out/outside" and saying it twice is just emphasizing it. In the context of the song Taha is describing the sad state of life in Algeria at the time (outside, on the streets), as it's actually a pretty depressing song referencing the civil war of 1991-2002.

[@zipforth]

I'd love to see more nice guy playthroughs in other games/regions. Very wholesome!

[@ChrissieBear]

Laith getting confused as to what he was even fighting a war over was hilarious. xD

[@Gamereal6286]

Welcome to the tenth day of historical facts! What an achievement! As requested by "Kris" I'm gonna talk about Selim the Grim. Selim I was born in October 1470 and died 22 September 1520. Also known as Selim the Grim or Selim the Resolute was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1512 to 1520. Despite lasting only eight years, his reign is notable for the enormous expansion of the Empire, particularly his conquest between 1516 and 1517 of the entire Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt, which included all of the Levant, Hejaz, Tihamah and Egypt itself. On the eve of his death in 1520, the Ottoman Empire spanned about 3.4 million km2 (1.3 million sq mi), having grown by seventy percent during Selim's reign.Selim's conquest of the Middle Eastern heartlands of the Muslim world, and particularly his assumption of the role of guardian of the pilgrimage routes to Mecca and Medina, established the Ottoman Empire as the pre-eminent Muslim state. His conquests dramatically shifted the empire's geographical and cultural center of gravity away from the Balkans and toward the Middle East. By the eighteenth century, Selim's conquest of the Mamluk Sultanate had come to be romanticized as the moment when the Ottomans seized leadership over the rest of the Muslim world, and consequently Selim is popularly remembered as the first legitimate Ottoman Caliph. One of Selim's first challenges as Sultan involved the growing tension between the Ottoman Empire and the Safavid Empire led by Shah Ismail, who had recently brought the Safavids to power and had switched the Persian state religion from Sunni Islam to Shia Islam. In 1514 Selim I attacked Ismail's kingdom to stop the spread of Shiism into Ottoman dominions. Selim and Ismā'il had exchanged a series of belligerent letters prior to the attack. On his march to face Ismā'il, Selim had 50,000 Alevis massacred, seeing them as enemies of the Ottoman Empire. Selim I defeated Ismā'il at the Battle of Chaldiran in 1514. The Battle of Chaldiran was of historical significance: the reluctance of Shah Ismail to accept the advantages of modern firearms and the importance of artillery proved decisive. After the battle, Selim, referring to Ismail, stated that his adversary was: "Always drunk to the point of losing his mind and totally neglectful of the affairs of the state". Selim then conquered the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt, defeating the Mamluk Egyptians first at the Battle of Marj Dabiq (24 August 1516), and then at the Battle of Ridanieh (22 January 1517). This led to the Ottoman annexation of the entire sultanate, from Syria and Palestine in Sham, to Hejaz and Tihamah in the Arabian Peninsula, and ultimately Egypt itself. The last Abbasid caliph, al-Mutawakkil III, was residing in Cairo as a Mamluk puppet at the time of the Ottoman conquest. He was subsequently sent into exile in Istanbul. In the eighteenth century, a story emerged claiming that he had officially transferred his title to the Caliphate to Selim at the time of the conquest. In fact, Selim did not make any claim to exercise the sacred authority of the office of caliph. A planned campaign westward was cut short when Selim was overwhelmed by sickness and subsequently died in the ninth year of his reign aged 49. Officially, it is said that Selim succumbed to a mistreated carbuncle. Some historians, however, suggest that he died of cancer or that his physician poisoned him. Other historians have noted that Selim's death coincided with a period of plague in the empire, and have added that several sources imply that Selim himself suffered from the disease. On 22 September 1520 Sultan Selim I's eight-year reign came to an end. Selim died and was brought to Istanbul, so he could be buried in Yavuz Selim Mosque which Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent commissioned in loving memory of his father. Sultan Selim I had conquered and unified the Islamic holy lands. Protecting the lands in Europe, he gave priority to the East, as he believed the real danger came from there primarily. Hope you enjoyed! :) I'm still a little sad I couldn't join the sunday game, but I will try next week again. Hope everything works out then and I don't get kicked by the game.

[@irishlordgonk2875]

Could you do Fionn McCumhaill of the Fianna OR High King Brian Borough of Ireland? Love your comments!

[@camberr]

Haven't seen the other nine days so it's possible you already covered him, but could you do Basil I of the ERE?

[@jacksonner]

Damn bro can you do one of matthias corvinus? This some good shit

[@gohanr1271]

i was literally just thinking about if this type of play through was possible and/or how successful it could be! this was a delight to watch!!

[@easy_peacy4691]

R.I.P. mr nice guy :(

[@crocworks]

Waiting for the alternate universe where it's the r/niceguys version.

[@bomtettley1540]

This video is so wholesome, its lovely to see what a good time you have being nice to people

[@lapisdragon1237]

It's hard to be a saint in Fire Emblem, where killing is mandatory. Day 16.

[@kyrin4558]

😭😭

[@samvanderstaak7296]

"Murder is okay" - Saint Seiros, Fire Emblem 16

[@anonymooseplays3905]

Woah, you can play CK3 without acting like a terrible human being?! Write that down!! I think I prefer your challenge to Simo's, as you actually enforced a set of rules enforcing moral behavior where Simo and Koifish kinda just played it for laughs. I think an interesting variation of this would be to restrict a run not by contemporary standards of morality, but instead by some religious law or cultural expectation for a righteous ruler at the time. There's already a video of a challenge following the ten commandments, but the interpretation of the "Thou shalt not kill" rule wasn't really in line with how Christians practiced at the time, a lot of wars were sanctioned by the Papacy.

[@kylearcenal4792]

Niceeeee!!! Laith is playing the county where my city was named after. Cadiz, Philippines.

[@crossedhen]

now we need a "i was forced to always say no" video

[@Delusional_Dio]

I believe that philosophy you were talking about Immanuel Kant and his categorical imperative.

[@avakiin6614]

23:40 Pretty sure Ryan in a podcast has stated he doesn't care if people use his music, considering that's literally how he started---How to be Ninja lol which I now realized he used the (Chinese) Kung Fu fighting song in a video for a (Japanese) ninja hahaa damn what a throwback

[@marcus4046]

Me: Oh great a Game where Laith plays tall wonder how it will go? Laith:Makes his children Pun names

[@stranger88]

You could have swapped the n and i in the word "nicest", and in the context of CK3, it would still make sense.

[@cedricofcanteburry]

“We’re gonna depose our liege who’s an evil black guy” -Laith

[@dubbelkluts96]

the philosopher you are taling about is Immanuel Kant. He was a nice guy and liked by most in his time.

[@Empereur1805]

When you have ck overdose you read incest instead of nicest

[@kindadumb916]

As a hardcore ck3 role player that speed 5 is giving me really bad anxiety

[@Bhoope]

I can't be the only one who loves the new thumbnails

[@TwigMan]

After Laith said "my day has been instantly ruined", that ruined my day.

[@coolykid443]

Laith should land on Layth in Kerbal Space Program Multiplayer (just so people could help him, like advisors!)

[@KingJupiter]

I wanted to know how the Jihad went...

[@sahilhossain8204]

Lore of I was forced to always say "YES" in CK3... Momentum 100

[@Josiahiswatching]

Sometimes life is good to the Mace Tyrell’s of the world

[@paulschumacher4308]

I did a nice guy run and got murdered. My evil intrigue sister inherited. Game got real after that.

[@awesomepork101]

Laith on his good arc

[@schwoondoggle]

Honestly Laith, uploading at half 12, its way past your bedtime. Get some rest pal, we in the UK need it right now lmfao.

[@somemeansfish8987]

Yooooo I did a similar thing as Capet lad once,it was hard but I managed to justly conquer France

[@Amy_the_Lizard]

Just offering a third option in cases where someone is trying to seduce your character, and you want to be nice and not cheat on your wife: if your faith allows multiple marriages (which yours does in in this playthrough) just marry the new person (assuming they're single.) Problem solved, no cheating involved! Edit: Wait you actually did that, nevermind! ^_^ Edit 2: "I don't need mercinaries anymore, I have friends" sounds like a quote from some kind of Shounen anime... Edit 3: This is also pretty much how I play the game usually, I look around, find a jerk, steal their land for the sake of the people, and eventually have a horrendous border-gore country. That said, if some dude keeps telling my character they're an idiot every time I try to write them a nice letter, I consider that justification for war (looking at YOU Kajit emporer who keeps harrassing my poor Bosmer dude - once we're done beating up that pirate who keeps abducting my courtiers, you're next...)

[@Cohor101]

It is day 123 since I asked you to do the challenge with Croatia in VIC 3 but in one of the videos, a good person named Andraip (Thanks for all the help) said it has a few flaws so it's time to correct them. So when you start playing as Croatia you have 15 years to get your independence, after that you cannot ally, get in a defensive pact, and you cannot be under any kind of protection and you must rival these powers as soon as possible: Austria, Russia, Serbia, Montenegro, Ottomans, and all nations from the Italian boot. You also must embargo all those nations and cannot enter their custom union nor can they enter yours. You cannot be in an alliance with any of the top 10 nations, including a defensive pact custom union, or protectorate, but you can trade with them. AI must be put on the default settings in case it isn't. If you ally let's say Portugal, and later on they get into the top 10, you must break the alliance. You also must stay monarchy all the time. Form the Danubian state with Croatia following these rules. (FYI incase I didn't make it more specific, you cannot join anybody's custom union you must always at all times have your own market)

[@kindlytoxic1472]

playing as john seed from far cry 5

[@hypovolemia]

"He's nice, but he's not an idiot", but you did not consider the concept of boundaries much in this run. Saying yes to everything may not in fact be nice, and is also how you get in situations like having to pick between two lovers. Similarly, if you want to be nice, how do you arrange marriages? Is it "nice" to set your toddler up with an old man for an alliance to help you win a war against a liege that has treated your family poorly the entire time? The rabbit hole is so deep when you start to think about it Incidentally, love the characterization of just wanting to talk about diplomacy when exchanging letters with other rulers but not realizing they don't care. "Sorry, buddy, really hyperfixating on the intricacies of courtly etiquette atm, didn't mean to make you feel stupid". Been there PS: Kant sucks :(

[@GileadGaming]

Day 20 of asking for a reverse colonial and Pacific Imperialist playthrough of the Philippines. Goals being to colonize, capture all of the South Pacific territory, colonize capture the Oceania territories, and capture Japan. Basically, all island nations in the south and east pacific belong to the Philippines on Victoria 3

[@NON155]

TRY TO BECOME JAPAN AS THE NICE COUNTRY EVER VICTORIA 3

[@ATemplarIGuess]

Continue this playthough but make the next episode you being an absolute twat to everyone and name all your rulers "Noh-Mor"

[@nathanhaywood273]

SCOTLAND FOREVAH!!!!

[@CowboyTheMonkey]

This video's pretty nice.

[@-walkersgaming20-57]

Is this a far cry 5 reference?

[@morginstjarna]

Scotland!

[@isaacrubin9291]

Wow what a nice guy!

[@brutusthebear9050]

You should try to follow different ethical frameworks. Like, virtue ethics: you start with the virtues of your religion and follow what they would do. Consequentialism: you do whatever leads to the best outcomes. Duty ethics: you have strict rules that you must follow regardless of context.

[@anubarak9184]

always did say CK3 was an RPG

[@FunkyMonkeyI]

Awesome

[@DoggoDutchman]

Day 24 of asking for laith to play Morocco in vic 3

[@goatpapayt2294]

day 23 of asking for Bavaria to Germany run

[@epicnesssss]

This is day 17 of asking you to do a mega campaign from ck3 to hoi4.

[@hotsteam5800]

Day 5 of asking for eu1

[@lsdrad]

Day 29 asking for a warhammer total war vid

[@thatone_cat]

sounds like a skill issue

[@spudzzy0373]

First

[@microwavegoesmhbmhbhmhhmhm5225]

A

[@andrewgreenwood9068]

My favourite way to play is super nice. It probably comes from playing Catholics in ck2 and stacking saintly bloodlines.

[@carltonleboss]

HE'S A SAINT?!

[@_Lakerg]

Playing as a catholic in CK2 is great. Choose theology focus, get a ton of piety, scheme to kill your neighbor. "Oh no, the only heir was his infant daughter!" Request claim from the pope detailing how virtuous of a christian you are and get a claim on their entire realm from the pope. Steal the title from the weak infant child and be declared a saint for your virtues. Repeat.

[@FrostReave]

Complete opposite of my games. I love playing as a evil bastard and love going the lowest possible diplomacy

[@andrewgreenwood9068]

​@@FrostReave I also tend to only play democratic or democratic socialist paths in hoi4 because playing as a fascist or a Stalinist makes me feel icky.

[@Varun37251]

I usually do orthodox play throughs and go completely insanely zealous and crusading against Islam, it makes you feel kinda badass

[@poignantkraft39]

This is weirdly wholesome

[@d66niel]

was not expecting the scottish england jumpscare at the ending, jesus

[@ddrcrono]

A lot of people don't seem to understand that you can be a nice guy without being a doormat.

[@skylark1491]

"This guy is evil.... You can't do that that's evil."

[@Rockxtheworld]

Alternative title- Laith being himself in a CK3 video

[@nedaraid3372]

Missed opportunity to call the dog Good boy

[@Zelein]

I want to see more of this type of gameplay. Being a nice guy obviously works!

[@barituned]

Day 10 of asking laith to play among us in ck3.

[@ChrissieBear]

TIL the chess in this game has predictable mechanics and isn't random chance rolls. 😅

[@elwhite83]

"Who's Holy War is this?"

[@awaken2049]

Good Joe ***

[@ryannowo5954]

now do one where you only do bad and evil things :D

[@richardsantosgarcia8972]

So a regular playthrough then XD

[@shaneoneill2233]

The Supreme Gentleman are calling

[@EinFelsbrocken]

The holy war was ridiculous 😭 20 years of attrition and so much lost money and time and economic possibilities all for... what exactly? xD

[@maxsilva11]

Around 18 minute mark: wait did you seriously rename the child who was going to be literally named "friend" just so she could be an English language pun? Anyway, very cute video, 11/10 would watch more

[@tsibdatixpayac9594]

I speak Lushootseed which has a translation of that word, barra. We say ʔačəda (ah-chuh-DAH) and its basically ugh, omg, ffs, something like that. I hear it all the time hahahaha

[@MunchKING]

What about the idea of an opposite playthrough where you are a mean contrarian who can't do ANYTHING other people ask you to unless they force you to. :D

[@humanhaggis]

Kant is the philosopher you were thinking of.

[@1perspective286]

I approve of big Scotland.

[@Ymylock]

You should try to form Livonia. It’s not hard, but you get a nice little reward (also literally nobody is doing it)

[@sizanogreen9900]

*NICE*

[@Piratejoe44]

Day 11 of asking for a National Supremacy Oranje Free State Playthrough of Vicky 3.

[@paulschumacher4308]

❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉

[@danteaghoulfromspace2996]

imagine that the nice guy dynasty gets sick of all the ill treatment that they become the no more mr nice guy dynasty, what a transformation that'd be

[@Gamereal6286]

Normally I don't write two comments but I have a feeling he might be a little bit pun-ny today.

[@SebHaarfagre]

Honestly this was fun to watch :D And LOL that ending

[@nanoqht285]

Finally, Laith gets to act himself in a video!

[@Theophily]

Man, that first guy made my day. What an absolute legend

[@damirk3]

This shows that nice guys have hard life

[@borkbork3513]

Take a shot every time Laith says nice

[@relenltlessgoat7603]

more multi-player games?

[@hiimanoob-hz2bt]

I love you laith

[@zachmoore6084]

Awww, this was nice

[@SvastaOG]

Good and bad are social constructs created paralel with our natural emotions which helped us survive, with that being said, we no longer hunt or chill in the woods out of necessity, so following them most of the time is out of personal gain. Life is not far from a video game with many more features, and as soon as you start living in a 5d world you will dominate everything you touch.(no its not manipulation as everybody does it, the only difference you will be aware of it and you could argue that in return that could make you a "better" person.)

[@germssssss]

so wholesome 😭😭