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Penny Arcade - Comic - Prioritas
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Penny Arcade - Comic - Prioritas
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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I still like the style of two changes ago
motherfucker looks like Athena is about to crack out of his skull
sounds about right. Utopia is a pipe dream and one to aspire to, but people respond and obey this police man more readily than these police men
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I have tried so, so very hard to win in a civ game by anything except burning the world to ashes around me. All the way back to civ 2.
So I have enough army to deter an invasion, but eventually the invaders are just too persistent - they can rebuild fast enough that wiping out their front line forces doesn't convince them to surrender. So I take a few of their border cities to drive the point home.
Then I find myself boxed in and being edged out in progress, so I pick a weak neighbor and trim off a few more cities, maybe the whole place.
Then I say fuck it, this game is taking too long anyway and I do something irresponsible like firing nukes or invading my allies unprovoked because GODDAMNIT YOU JUST WON'T LET ME BUILD MY SPACE SHIP WILL YOU FUCKS?
I did keep a game of Civ 2 going for a few decades after conquering the world except for one tiny Celtic town crowded out of land by the sprawling megalopolises surrounding it which I refused to just burn to the ground because I promised myself that just this once I would win without turning the world into some kind of horrific dystopia.
I mean, it was still a horrific dystopia, but a bunch of people got to leave it for Alpha Centauri, so win some lose some.
I'm not 100% sure I'm the series is "for" me.
My first initial ranking match for Starcraft 2 involved me doing reasonably well right up to the point where I told my opponent I wasn't having any fun and surrendered. That was also my last match.
I'm actually pretty good at math. I just don't like being under constant pressure.
Except, you know, the World Council decided it should ban export of bananas when my entire economy is bananas or some crap and apparently the smelly barbarian with no economy, science or culture to speak of is more important than me in deciding these matters.
So I go over and punitively smack him a bit to diminish his stature in the eyes of the world.
Which just puts some other smelly barbarian in charge. I might have a technological edge, but the hoards are unending. And it is at this point that I wonder if I shouldn't have made like the Roman Empire and just forced the entire world into my domain.
Has that ever happened? I mean sure when the Romans conquered the Greeks they pretty much adopted their entire civilization, but we still call it the Roman Empire and we often use the Roman names for things instead of the Greek's...
Not overnight or anything, and pretty much always with some sort of cultural fusion, but yeah, there's a lot of history of grand civilized cultures fusing with outside migratory peoples who either slowly or rapidly take over and then adopt much of the culture that came before them. For the Roman Empire, see the history of Byzantine Empire (which is the Roman Empire's Greek continuation).
Look at the time a French guy conquered England, and what came out of that.
It'd be an interesting way to bring in policies on cultural imperialism and genocide, as well. You'd be able to control how efficiently you establish cultural dominance over a conquered populace, at the cost of various penalties and/or getting other cultures really, really angry at you.
Well, Civ is turn-based, so you don't really need the multitasking. You take as long as you like.