didn’t @socialjusticemunchkin have something about playing strategy games as ethically as possible?It took me a weirdly long time to notice that you’re not playing as the emperor in 4x games, you’re playing as the empire.
This is a strange feeling for me, because instead of playing as a human person with human values, I am playing the character whose values are “become the most powerful”.
A bad thing isn’t “a million people died due to plague” a bad thing is “you lost 1 population unit”. You don’t get sad about the people who died. You do care if other people are sad about this, because people are less productive when they’re unhappy. It doesn’t matter you become the strongest empire, winning by exterminating everyone else is just as valid as winning by having the highest quality of life.
That kinda weirds me out a little.
I don’t think so, it most likely someone else. I was just hacking that “GOP ‘16 nomination blessings” game into outputting world domination. But if my input on the topic is required, I’d say that from a purely utilitarian perspective maximizing tech and taking over the world ASAP to minimize the terribleness of the pre-modern era and implementing a free world as its sovereign ruler seems a pretty promising approach.
Or possibly it might be that I wrote a post about playing Victoria 2, rushing a social-liberal welfare state (because there is no option to shoot the pinkertons and eliminate other attempts to coercively prevent free negotiations between workers and employers, de-land the aristocrats, re-institute basic income (fun fact: some parts of britain had it in the early 1800s until a bad politically-motivated study led to its replacement by bullshit) and otherwise non-interfere; so one can only be a crony capitalist state, a welfare state, or a failed state) with all other freedoms except the freedom to vote conservatives into power (because screw the evil parties) and taking over as much of the world as possible to destroy all fascist regimes the instant they appear. Or I could have just thought it in my head because my brain is bad at keepin track of “things I’ve said” vs. “things I’ve thought a lot about saying”.
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