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[-] happybadger@hexbear.net 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I saw a game on there called Big Ambitions, some kind of tycoon game where you're building businesses. The game starts by you having a wealthy uncle who gives you $13k and tells you to get a job for two days before having his friend give you a $15k loan to open a store selling cheap souvenirs from the wholesaler down the street.

It really is a capitalism simulator. I've been taking notes all night and the only one seems to be "Have an uncle".

edit: Actually, everyone should pirate it. It's not a bad game, in the vein of The Guild II, and I like the unspoken message about capitalism. I live in a studio apartment my uncle pays for, drive my uncle's car which I can't afford to repair, and the only economical food option for me is hamburgers from the grill between my souvenir shop and my empty apartment. I bought a business before I took a single course in business administration, and taking that course at the only university means spending $80/hr to sit in an empty room using a computer.

Despite all of that, I fancy myself a capitalist and my uncle is breastfeeding me to greatness. It's so goddamn bleak.

[-] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

Big Ambitions is such a silly game, watching northerlion play it was a hoot

[-] spectre@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

Have it on my wishlist seems like some good dum fun

[-] happybadger@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

It's too janky and bare bones to recommend buying, but it's interesting enough to pirate and fuck around with for a couple hours.

[-] citrussy_capybara@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago

when’s the Communism and Material Fest?

[-] zifnab25@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

Free Demo

Under capitalism, you get five minutes of free propaganda and are billed for the remainder.

[-] davel@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

WTF I can’t believe this is real. Now I want to make a Project Cybersyn game. #HateDrivenDevelopment

[-] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What in the ever loving fuck? Why? Like why would they title a sale as this? Glad I'm back to pirating, DODI and Fitgirl repacks are the shit.

[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

Isn't Gabe Newell some kind of weird libertarian or whatever? I figure that's why

[-] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

Idk, but he's a business man and built an empire of passive income for himself. Any pictures I've seen of the guy looks like he fits an archetype of a libertarian. Wouldn't be a stretch or surprise.

[-] XTornado@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What's the problem with the title? They have economical and capitalism related games...so it makes sense... Idk what your point is.

Oh god... You're right, they mean it literally!...

Prison Architect is part of the sale. visible-disgust

[-] rafflesia@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

Personally I'm holding out for anime hitler porn fest jfk-gaming

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

I still can't believe the Hitler bdsm series exists

[-] conductor@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

Rail route doesn’t even have money in the game, as far as I can tell. It’s just a game about making trains run on time … wait a minute.

[-] AcidMarxist@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

Its the capitalism and ECONOMY fest. The fuck isnt Soviet Republic: Workers and Resources on here?

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Presumably because to be part of these events developers have to opt-in.

I think we can take this as a sign that the dev is not a capitalist. Even if they did cringe support for ukraine stuff back near the start of the war.

[-] AcidMarxist@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

I'm starting to think they lied about making a Ukraine DLC. It wouldnt have taken them a lot of time to add a couple buildings and send the money to Zeldisney

[-] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't hate capitalism/economy simulators, to be fair. Games are precisely where immoral and awful systems should be confined, far away from reality.

[-] Grebgreb@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

:steamfront:

As Ulysset (who once awarded me kelly of the day) pointed out, valve is deliberately doing this at a time when capitalism is increasing the misery it inflicts on the world and causing a mass extinction event.

[-] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

at a time when capitalism is increasing the misery it inflicts on the world and causing a mass extinction event

Bit of a tautology, was capitalism ever not doing that?

[-] Bloobish@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

I think everyone was too distracted in the 30s-50s with legalized cocaine pep pills and beating their wives to understand they had signed a deal with the devil

[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What's the most communist game on sale in this? Maybe Time Bandit?

Edit: it doesn't look like it's on sale, but it's featured on that page for me - weird.

[-] Leon_Grotsky@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

Tropico VI, just make sure you throw all the capitalists in the dungeon

[-] Lesrid@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

I was going to say Victoria 3 but it isn't participating.

[-] Bloobish@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Potionomics is pretty cute, get to play as a post graduate alchemist with a ungodly amount of debt so it feels pretty chefs-kiss

Oh and also you're uncle leaves you his potion shop, so yeah there's that lovely taste of cash injection nepotism too

[-] Avnar@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Workers and resources: Soviet Republic was a part of that thing

[-] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

I'v never had an easier time resisting a Steam sale before.

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