Considering Gamers will bend over backwards to fawn over Caesar’s Legion as a masterful example of people (not) understanding Hegelian Dialectic, Gamers actually love politics in video games because they can completely misunderstand the point of them
They’re fun if rather tricky to play as. Wait until you can behold the Scorpion Spam armies.
The issue is: You’re not dealing with facts. You’re dealing with beliefs.
See also: Religion and conspiracy theories. If you bring facts to disprove them, they bring “alternative facts” or disregard you as part of the conspiracy. Or in tribal terms, you’re part of “them”.
It’s not a new issue, nor something exclusive to social media. But it’s quite a hot topic these days in light of the big Orange and his “Steal” narrative.
no but the caesar man said the big words and that makes me feel clever
A lot of this would bleed out if there was no financial incentive in misunderstanding and misrepresenting the reality of things. As ever, deplatforming is a proven remedy.
I’m just childishly fond of Asaph’s blessings letting mediocre skeleton archers out-pew-pew the elves.
So uh, turns out I do quite like Rimworld. Burned a good 8 hours into it after buying it yesterday. My whole evening disappeared in a blink.
I had the same with Mordhau recently. I had a bit of a break from it when SL came out and I played it again this week. I love it.
You misunderstand me, mortal. It is not a question of ‘if’ I will conquer your pitiful lands; merely a question of ‘when’. You wither and fade. I, in my majesty, am eternal, imperishable.
Settra is as inevitable as the sands and the dawn.
-laughs in army of chariots and angry stone cats-
I cannot imagine how much harder NV could have stressed the “reconstructing old world=bad” theme and yet people still somehow miss it
especially if you played the DLCs but even if not
wow wasteland so cool!!!
wait what’s that whistling noise over my head
Gosh, where to start. I may try and expand on this later but the short hand version is that SL feels less like an expansion and more like Blizzard trying to stretch as little content over as much time as possible.
Specifically the anime feels like moneygrinding in GTA Online: big investments, high prices on whatever it is you want to buy, the developer doing whatever they can to slow you down and the same tasks on repeat for little gains. Also shoddy servers and bots.
Any Rimworld dweebs have any good advice on what I should do when starting a game in a tundra? How does one grow crops there…
Raiders are crops if you think about it.
I’m not ready for such fine cuisine yet
Oh my sweet summer child.
Don’t bother with Anima beyond what you need for the renown quest. It’s a mostly pointless currency.
Yep, I accumulate all my anime points from the weekly and any of the daily Callings. I’m not in any rush because all the sanctum upgrades are cosmetic / purely optional
I’ll eventually get the cosmetic items and might upgrade some of the sanctum but its not really a very worthwhile thing to grind. So I don’t.
The only “mandatory” grind imo is Torghast and is a pretty finite grind, you’ll eventually get the legendary items you want and then you’re done with it.
One of many in this expansion.
I was already not bothering with getting anime beyond what I need. Likewise I was already not bothering with the Ember Court. Nor with Torghast or the Maw, beyond the weekly task.
It seems only natural I am not bothering with this expansion entirely.
so you’re… not doing the side content?
Presumably you’re also not doing dungeons/BGs/raids/arenas - ie. the main content?
The side content is basically my main content, lol. I indeed don’t PVP, will run some dungeons and sometimes tag along with my guild for raids.