I’m playing this game for the first time right now. It’s safe to say that it captivated me. The world they created is astonishing. Even after well over 50 hours I’m not bored at all.

Your post really captures the beauty that can be found if one takes the time to look. Thank you for your relentless posting!

I’m glad to hear it. Sometimes posting stuff on lemmy feels like talking to yourself, especially in a smaller community such as this one. Looking forward to the new season with the bunch of you.

Never tried it before but why not?

I really liked the game something like 15 years ago. But it seems like a bad idea to get back into it now with only a few very dedicated players left.

I disagree. Improving an existing concept and changing it to make it more practical or easier to produce for example is innovation.

The examples you gave in the introduction are examples of that: The parts that make an automobile existed when it was invented and you could argue again that it wasn’t a completely novel idea but an improvement of the steam engine and horse-drawn vehicles.

The airplane massively relied on improvements in engine and material design.

Your assessment that innovations used to be completely original in their design and are not any more is a fallacy.

I prefer if you refer to procrastination as “working in mysterious ways”. That’s what I’ll do from now on.

You mean like a hermit? I think that’s a rare fantasy. But if you want to do it, sure, go for it. Isn’t there a lot of space and wilderness in Canada?

The issue, as I see it, is that most people struggle to envision a society beyond capitalism. Capitalist ideology is embedded in every aspect of our lives. It appears in our mindset, in books, movies, and even in children’s television shows. The narrative that anyone can succeed if they work hard enough, and that poverty is simply the result of laziness, is both powerful and pervasive.

The idea that everyone should live in isolated cabins is neither a realistic vision nor a desirable goal for society.

That’s a nice quote, thank you. I looked into it. It’s by Andrew Collier:

To look at people in capitalist society and conclude that human nature is egoism, is like looking at people in a factory where pollution is destroying their lungs and saying that it is human nature to cough.

Agreed. The reviews are way too good for a Civ game on release. Would be the first in a while that doesn’t need DLCs to be really good.

I agree with you on that, late stage capitalism in full bloom. I was thinking about the time multiple decades ago, at the beginning of the last century.

It is really sad to see that we as a society are past our prime in multiple areas. At least when looking at it from a “western” perspective. And when I consider the political climate it seems that things have to get a whole lot worse before they can get better. I resonate with the shower thought.

That has always been the case. I’d even say it got easier in the last decades, in general. That does not mean people are no longer struggling, of course.

I love the idea! It would be fascinating to see how the richest humans alive try to give away as much money as possible, as quickly as possible. I’d watch that show. Hell, I might want to live in that reality!

No worries!

Correct.