• hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
    ·
    3 months ago

    My favourite "civ is woke now" argument is that district placement emphasizes the local geography's influence on your civilization, which is marxist and woke. And like... how the fuck were you playing civ before? Even without civ VI forcing you to be more mindful of it geography is obviously always huge in a 4X. It's literally the first 3 Xs! And it's the 4th X in any game with remotely interesting combat.

    • UlyssesT
      ·
      edit-2
      2 months ago

      deleted by creator

      • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
        ·
        edit-2
        3 months ago

        They think the idea that geography and/or climate can shape a civilization is woke. Their idea is that civilizations and culture are something that I guess exists a priori as "good" or "bad", and "developed" or "undeveloped". The very idea that a bad crop yield or lack of local resources can shape how a society develops apparently contradicts with the reactionary worldview.

        • UlyssesT
          ·
          edit-2
          2 months ago

          deleted by creator

          • BeamBrain [he/him]
            ·
            3 months ago

            What the fuck do they think shapes a civilization? Some magically scarce yet potentially infinite "willpower" resource?

            It's not coincidence that one of the Nazis' propaganda films was literally titled Triumph of the Will.

          • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
            ·
            3 months ago

            I think it's either full calipers, or very terminal econ brain. I guess when the modern world is so focused on spreadsheets, it may be easy to forget that there is a world that humans are forced to interact with.

            • UlyssesT
              ·
              edit-2
              2 months ago

              deleted by creator

    • keepcarrot [she/her]
      ·
      3 months ago

      Silly Marxist, history is about who believes hardest in the idea of race and the nation and brings it into being. Everyone else loses and has their stuff taken from them, and rightly so.