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submitted 3 days ago by yuritopia@hexbear.net to c/games@hexbear.net

Plenty of games, especially strategy and simulator games, have game mechanics related to politics or economics. From Recettear’s “Capitalism Ho!” to Hearts of Iron 4’s focus trees, political descriptions can be added to flavor game mechanics, and because different game devs have endless variation in personal worldviews, these additions can be absurdly bad at times. Even if the mechanic itself is good, it can have dunk-worthy labelling. Post the worst that you can think of, even if they come from an otherwise great game.

I’ll start: In Civilization VI, different government types you choose have different slots for policy cards, which let you select political policy bonuses for your civilization. In the modern age, two of the government types you can choose are “Democracy” and “Communism”. Already this is liberal drivel conflating Communism with non-democracy and “authoritarianism”. But the policy slots for these governments are even dumber, as Democracy gets more “diplomatic” and “economic” policies, and Communism gets more “millitary” policies. Famously, America and the west (clearly what Democracy is inspired by) never destabilized the world with arms manufactoring and invasions, I guess.

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[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 34 points 3 days ago

Frostpunk's endings are all but at what cost?! lol

[-] KobaCumTribute@hexbear.net 19 points 2 days ago

I made it through with only one scripted death that happened because I built a state newspaper office and some guy was just really angry about that, and it still did that "wAs tHiS pAtH wOrTh tHe CoSt" shit. Like everyone is happy, healthy, alive, and the only loss was one asshole who got mad about a state owned printing press for ??? reasons, this is literally the best possible situation they could possibly be in.

[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 18 points 2 days ago

Plus you've automated all the dangerous mining jobs with robots but at what cooooost

[-] Edie@hexbear.net 20 points 3 days ago

It literally says "the city survived but was it worth it" if you "cross the line"

this post was submitted on 16 Jan 2025
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