Tag: Strategy
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Can You Build Communism in Civilization VI?
The Civilization series of games have progressed from an electronic version of Risk into a deep and complex strategy game. You’re free to pick what ideology you want to use for your civilization, with each roughly corresponding with an actual ideology from your current historical era. Late game options usually offer a communism ideology label that…
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Is There a Link Between Intelligence and Playing Video Games?
The stereotype that gamers are lazy slobs has been floating around ever since video games were first invented. Although I don’t see anything wrong with leading a chill life, there’s now scientific research to prove the haters wrong. A recent study was conducted by the University of York (United Kingdom), on the link between video…
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Tropico’s Glorification of Dictatorships and Banana Republics
Anyone that’s versed in Socialist/Communist thinking will understand that any transition that takes place within a ‘people’s republic’ also includes a removal of the old system to be exchanged with an era of Authoritarianism otherwise known as ‘The Dictatorship of the Proletariat‘ for the final stages. But as history shows, this yields horrific results. The…