"no tech tree is unrealistic" jfc could this guy be any dumber
Still fucking love that his example for a truly advanced game is Polytopia, a mobile Civ clone
He loves it so much, it's one of the games that comes on Teslas
Yes, the cars
Simultaneously dunking on himself for being bad a chess AND civilization. Man's done a twofer.
Ya lol. It's a fun lil distraction... But the strategy is rather basic in the end. Like way easier than chess. Despite the tech tree.
I never heard before of Polytopia, so i searched and first article about it include:
The Rally Point: The Battle For Polytopia is this summer's low-intensity strategy game
Strategy games are the go-to option when you're looking for something to really get your brain working. But they can seem unreachable when your synapses are being melted from without rather than through overuse. Happily, we found an excellent solution last summer, and being a wily fox, I had a plan ready for this year. 2022's now-traditional Low-Intensity Strategy Game For When Burny Light Make Think Hard is, of course, The Battle For Polytopia.
Everything does one or two simple things, and statistics are kept to basic 1-4 scales for attack, range, movement and defence, plus a few simple special abilities. It means that turns are never very long, and fights take a little thinking over but no strain or advanced calculation.
There's never too much to think about, never too many chores, and between the cheerful cartoony atmosphere and low-stakes matches, any disappointment or frustration is quickly forgotten.
It's other shortcoming is its somewhat limited variety.
So a stratagy game that is designed to be simple and with no thought for our big brain apartide boy
Chess, the game which can famously be improved upon for an entire lifetime, was too simple for him at age 8? Sounds like he plateaued and didn’t know how to keep improving.
great game tbh love randomly hitting bombs and getting pissed off
Setting bombs for me is hit or miss because I giggle like a child when my opponent gets close to a bomb. My mind goes to looney tunes and I lose my tactical advantage.
The further a game is from Advance Wars 2: Blackhole Rising the worse it is. If I can't use Sonjas CO passive to kill my opponent's queen with no chance of retaliation then the game sucks.
how about your chess opponent's chair is in fog of war and they get given a double barrel sawn off shotgun at the start of the game
Yeah dude we all remember that time Japan was almost defeated in WWII and then they invented nukes and suddenly won because they killed the president
You know what's worse than chess? Poker. In real life, if you go up to someone and show them a royal flush, they don't just give you money. Plus two kings would have way more power than three "twos" (which, by the way, should be the same value as one six. Can the designers of this game not even do basic math?) Totally unrealistic, 0/10.
100% confirmed to have been one of those obnoxious kids that threw 'Bomb! It beats everything' after getting their ass kicked in Rock-Paper-ScissorsThere are winning moves that are so complicated in the sequences that they open or force that it seems like blunders to humans, it's so hard to see winning moves
chess is too simple game
It's remarkable how stupid this man is. A better evidence for the fact that meritocracy under capitalism isn't real than this blood-diamond-dipshit doesn't exist. also iirc "meritocracy" itself was literally coined as a satire term to make you laugh at the (I think british?) MPs being in leadership positions while blatantly being the most dumbass incompetent and vain people on the planet; but then the same people it was criticizing did what they did to "pulling yourself up by your bootstraps"
REDDIT MOMENT!
We've gone beyond "I need to play Chess so people think I'm smart" to "Chess is for idiots", and how many people will start thinking the same way because the government approved Smart GuyTM said so?
Just say you prefer video games because it makes it easier to suspend your disbelief, and has more things to do. No one will judge you for that, not even me. Hell, I'd agree with you, I wish that some video games were given more intellectual credibility.
well i play dawn of war sometimes so i guess im smarter than the bazinga genius
heck i have spent literally hundreds of hours in ARMA 3, if you want to talk about more rigorous realistic simulations of reality than chess lol, that turn based icon clicker shit is nothing compared to frantically scanning that treeline 1.5 km away with your thermal optics for the anti-tank launcher that just took out your tracks and killed your driver while your 'lock-on warning' indicator blares in your ears. what, you need infinite time to decide actions on your turn? even chess often has a timer lol
Waiting for any sort of support while OPFOR is slowly rolling in armor and suppressing your foxhole is definitely a relaxing spot to be in
Me having an existential crisis being a big CIV fan and never really getting into chess
Same man. Chess sucks. I'm surprised Elon doesn't love chess. It's huge with all the roman sculpture people.
Chess is for nerds. Video games are for nerds. Real men chase barrel hoops with sticks and get tetanus from playing around the abandoned car in the junkyard
"no tech tree no tech tree" Jesus shut up dude, sorry it's not warcraft 3
Does he think he comes off as intelligent with the lasers from space comment? He sounds like a child inventing a new game up.
