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talkinggorillabutler:

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kontextmaschine:

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In retrospect a big part of the wonder of the \u201890s was that even trivial vidya entertainments would be, like, part of a competition between Peter Molyneux and Will Wright and Richard Garriott and Sid Meier to create the most accurate simulation of the entire world according to their own personal theories of the underlying metaphysics

\nThe audience is supposed to fill in that at the same time the ecologists (Kyoto Protocol), economists (early HFT), and politicians (Karl Rove\u2019s cutting edge get-out-the-vote-but-on-a-computer efforts of 2000-2004) were also doing world simulations according to their own personal idioms.

that\u2019s not at all what I\u2019m thinking of, I\u2019m thinking about how they did games about the Gaia hypothesis and gestalt psychology and metamythology and New Urbanism in the 80s-mid 90s (SMAC in \u201899, Black & White \u201801 at the latest)

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