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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

they really made a game simulating how communism is just better in every way and made it that way completely on accident

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Is it on accident? Isn't Vicky 3 a pretty detailed class conflict simulator? I mean they use the words "petty bourgeois"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think they set out to make it the "why communism is better simulator" but they did

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My point is that I think they did set out to do that - I think at least one person in a decision making capacity on that team is a comrade.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I remember someone mentioning on reddit that they modeled the game's economics off dialectical materialism, and also apparently called Marx 'the guy who explained everything', though there's some doubt as to the validity of that claim.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

oh yeah then you'd be right

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Rationalism is about rejecting academic peer-reviewed institutions in favor of making up percentages and giving them a Bayesian treatment that indicates it's actually quite likely you will be a god with superpowers or the world will end because your ass wasn't kissed enough. galaxy-brain