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So im playing vic3 with one of my girlfriends and she kicks serious ass. I don't want to be a drag and have fun with her, so im looking for ways to better play. Im russia she's china. Just general tips would be nice. I want to do the usual and reform quickly and expand my economy.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Love it. Do you know if it works on Linux?

In your opinion, is the game a good piece of propaganda for teaching materialist concepts or do most libs figure out the mechanics without internalizing their relevance to geopolitics?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

it officially supports Linux

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

I don't know how its linux performance is. The game gives a good representation of base and superstructure, but only in an abstract sense. You see the transition from the remnants of feudalism to early and middle stage capitalism, all tied to the material conditions of your citizens and how their ideology ontologically impacts their response to things. It makes you viscerally hate groups like landowners by juxtaposing their desire to hoard money with your need for tax revenue/legislation benefiting 90% of society. You get a good sense of what separates the petit bourgeoisie from the Ancien régime of the larger bourgeois factions, what separates the proletariat from the peasant, and how your relationship to the means of production shapes you.