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  • Belly_Beanis [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    I lost count of how many people I’ve met that saw “progress” as some Civ game style bar that only crawled upward toward specific goal milestones.

    As much as I love the series, Civilization has done irreparable harm to the public’s understanding of history and how technology develops. People seriously think you can just invent saddles for horseback riding even if you’re in a place without horses. G*mers are going to need serious re-education after the revolution.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netOP
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      2 months ago

      I still can’t get over Civ II having a “corruption” stat that only appears around the time communism is invented, but if you switch to “democracy” the corruption stat is nullified. pete

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        2 months ago

        The series is still stuck in the '90s. Belief in the End of History, Great Man, and so on. The least they could do is look into more systemic analysis and archeological discoveries involving our prehistoric ancestors.

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          2 months ago

          Even the typical “science victory” ideology is propaganda, unexamined ideology that only feeds into my-hero grifts. Go to other planet, plant flag, win, roll credits, show score.

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              One of my dearest childhood dreams and wishes was to explore the stars.

              Watching that dream get monetized and monopolized by techbro manchildren trying to sell that dream back to me was crushing to watch over the years.