TheMarshmallowBear
Benelovent Chieftain of the Ursu Kingdom
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Hellenism Salesman
Emperor
Taking "To think like your enemy, you must become your enemy" to a new level.
Disgustipated
Deity
I thought this flood looked especially severe. It helps the river is a u-shape apparently.
Actually looking at it again (non flooded) that top tile doesn't connect to the ocean, the flooding with global warming just connected with the flooding of the river. A nice graphical touch.
Actually looking at it again (non flooded) that top tile doesn't connect to the ocean, the flooding with global warming just connected with the flooding of the river. A nice graphical touch.
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Disgustipated
Deity
I had to live my power fantasy of Communism taking over the entire world. Which is funny since in real life I'm very pro Capitalist.
Ordnael
Emperor
@Disgustipated
The cool factor (power fantasy) about Communism is more about the memes, the music from the proletariat revolution, the colour red everywhere from the flag to messages written in cyrilic, the propaganda posters, Stalin's hairdo and Lenin's beard...never the misery it brings...kinda wished for a Cold War Russian ingame.
This being said about the misery of communism, the utopia government from Star Trek feels like variation of communism fully implemented...it's strange!
The cool factor (power fantasy) about Communism is more about the memes, the music from the proletariat revolution, the colour red everywhere from the flag to messages written in cyrilic, the propaganda posters, Stalin's hairdo and Lenin's beard...never the misery it brings...kinda wished for a Cold War Russian ingame.
This being said about the misery of communism, the utopia government from Star Trek feels like variation of communism fully implemented...it's strange!
Star Trek is a reminder that if you look closely at any utopia, it is in fact a dystopia. Also that Gene had not even the most primitive of understanding of how human beings or life work.
(I do love Star Trek; it has its own charm. But I still enjoy ribbing Roddenberry's baffling inability to comprehend the most basic elements of human nature--what Michael Pillar called "the Roddenberry box.")Soviet nostalgia is real, no matter how familiar you are with its horrors, though I think 75% of the appeal for me at least is admiration for the fortitude of the Russian people in making due with their circumstances.
Disagree with this, though. The Soviet Union was emphatically not Russia, and a Soviet Union civ would be taking up space that could be filled by plenty of more interesting civs, even just from Eastern Europe (a 100% vampire-free Romania, for instance).
It's understandable. I'm a devout Christian, but on the rare occasion I even choose a Christian religion in Civ it's almost always a heresy like Arianism or Catharism (using Tomatekh's Historical Religions). Video games are for enjoying the things you don't do in real life.
Boris Gudenuf
Deity
One post on Communism, and then back to game topics, because I've studied the USSR off and on, personally and professional, for over 50 years.
My cousin, a little older than I, once took a college course on Communism and commented that for the first 4 weeks of the semester the entire class were devoted Communists, because they learned about all the theory and It Was Great! By the end of the semester none of them were Communists, because they had all been introduced to the reality, which is simply that Communism Does Not Work in real life. That, in a nutshell, is why the USSR Imploded in 1990 - 1992: Communist Theory does not match Communist Reality.
The dogged and ferocious resistance of Communist Russia to Nazi Germany had little to do with Communism as such: it had everything to do with Russian Nationalism, which Stalin was smart enough to invoke from the first months of the war. And that's a phenomena noted as early as 1757, when Prussian officers after the bloody battle of Zorndorf remarked on Russian wounded slowly crawling east - so they could be nearer to Mother Russia's soil when they died. At the time some of the Prussians remarked that they would not want to fight these people on their own land, an observation that both Napoleon and Hitler should have learned by heart.
The Communist Party under Stalin proved to be very good at organizing the nation to fight, but that had more to do with Stalin's terrorism than Communist Ideology, and owed much to the fact that for many Russians, physical life was improving under Communism in the late 1930s compared to the Czarist times, so they had something genuine to fight for. The comment is repeated many times in Soviet-era memoirs by both German and Soviet veterans, that local people remarked to the German invaders that "- If you had come twenty years ago you would have been welcomed everywhere, but now you are just destroying what we have built . . ."
My cousin, a little older than I, once took a college course on Communism and commented that for the first 4 weeks of the semester the entire class were devoted Communists, because they learned about all the theory and It Was Great! By the end of the semester none of them were Communists, because they had all been introduced to the reality, which is simply that Communism Does Not Work in real life. That, in a nutshell, is why the USSR Imploded in 1990 - 1992: Communist Theory does not match Communist Reality.
The dogged and ferocious resistance of Communist Russia to Nazi Germany had little to do with Communism as such: it had everything to do with Russian Nationalism, which Stalin was smart enough to invoke from the first months of the war. And that's a phenomena noted as early as 1757, when Prussian officers after the bloody battle of Zorndorf remarked on Russian wounded slowly crawling east - so they could be nearer to Mother Russia's soil when they died. At the time some of the Prussians remarked that they would not want to fight these people on their own land, an observation that both Napoleon and Hitler should have learned by heart.
The Communist Party under Stalin proved to be very good at organizing the nation to fight, but that had more to do with Stalin's terrorism than Communist Ideology, and owed much to the fact that for many Russians, physical life was improving under Communism in the late 1930s compared to the Czarist times, so they had something genuine to fight for. The comment is repeated many times in Soviet-era memoirs by both German and Soviet veterans, that local people remarked to the German invaders that "- If you had come twenty years ago you would have been welcomed everywhere, but now you are just destroying what we have built . . ."
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So you wouldn't play a video game inside which you could play a video game?Video games are for enjoying the things you don't do in real life.
shaglio
The Prince of Dorkness
I never really got The Sims. People would avoid the mundane tedium of everyday life by sitting in front of their computer and playing a game in which you go through the mundane tedium of everyday life.I mean, I occasionally play The Sims so...
Saxo Grammaticus
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One might gather you do not care all that much for 19th-century literature either...
Naokaukodem
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You'll have to teach me how an unrealistic government manages to spend nearly a century... Granted, Stalin was a great usurpator and I hate him. He basically robbed the power. He was comparable to Hitler, but communism is not comparable to nazism.
Boris Gudenuf
Deity
First of all, it was less than 3/4 of a century: 1918 to 1991.
Second, they started with Russia, a country with more natural resources than any other on the planet, and yet in 73 years they never managed to feed their own people - collective agriculture was a resounding and continuous failure. They (under Stalin) forced industrialization, but the the degree to which they copied Capitalist USA to do that is still not appreciated. Just for starters, though, the Chelyabinsk Steelworks complex was a copy of the Homestead Steel Works in Pittsburgh, the Stalingrad and Kharkov Tractor Works were both near-copies of Ford's River Rouge Plant, and that's because Chelyabinsk was designed by US Steel engineers and the two Tractor Works' construction was supervised by Ford engineers, and virtually all the Soviet industrial plants used the American system of continuous production assembly lines instead of the German/European system of individual work stations.
Third, the Communist Party and system received a huge burst of legitimacy because of the victory over the Nazis, a factor that still resonates in Russia over 75 years later. The fact that the victory cost them, by latest Russian estimates, over 35,000,000 civilian and military dead and was gained with the direct help of over 500,000 US Lend Lease vehicles, millions of tons of food, raw materials, aviation fuel, and goods of all kinds and the productive capacity of their US/Capitalist-model factories is not so well known or admitted.
I'm not trying to 'dump' on Communism. The ideology is imminently reasonable, fair and logical: the problem is that people are none of those things, so to make it work requires an all-controlling government propped up by a massive security apparatus and it still utterly fails economically when it comes to producing enough of what the people actually need or want.
To put it in perspective, though, Capitalism is the best system we've found for producing wealth, but also one of the worst systems for distributing wealth. Communism fails due its lack of efficiency in producing wealth/goods/services of all kinds, Capitalism fails because left unchecked, it concentrates the wealth into fewer and fewer hands until it produces either radical social/economic reform or a revolution.
Russia, unfortunately for the Russians, has suffered through the worst aspects of both in a single century . . .
Naokaukodem
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USSR collapse is comparable to Roman Empire collapse : the fact that it is still "recent" and overviewed by the "winners", who are capitalists, gives a capitalist explanation, with the exact same lure and belief that Capitalism is a maker of good and peace, which is totally wrong. In one hundred years when the whole world will be unified, we will see that there's no such thing as "differences" (of government and countries) and competition to favorize capitalism. Communism is just like the french revolution and the napoleonic wars : the whole globe must be part of it, because without enemy there's no need to have competition. We are all brothers, we are all the same species, there's no need to have competition nor even growth, that's a lure fabricated by the elite who wants to be on top of everyone else, and followed by nostalgics that see in their langages and cultures something not to be lost. Nothing will be lost, everything will continue, that's the same crap as the "big replacement" fear in France, that's just complotist.
As to USSR using American technology, there's really nothing new, industrial spying is not new, and when anyone is backwarded one has to go find the resources elsewhere. It's so common that's it's not even worth mentionning.
As to USSR using American technology, there's really nothing new, industrial spying is not new, and when anyone is backwarded one has to go find the resources elsewhere. It's so common that's it's not even worth mentionning.
Moderator Action: This is a funny screenshot thread, please get back on topic.
Disgustipated
Deity
You've heard of the underground railroad, now it's time for the underwater railroad.
Not sure if this has been posted before, but it's the first time I've seen this. Actually I don't even recall seeing this natural wonder in my games, certainly not one in my territory. I rarely if ever have a natural wonder anywhere in my territory. I always seemed to get screwed on those. Just too bad the city governor insists on working that tile when I'm a size 1 city with 0 growth.
I normally build railroads any place I have a road, so it's just chance that my trade route happened to go through this.
Not sure if this has been posted before, but it's the first time I've seen this. Actually I don't even recall seeing this natural wonder in my games, certainly not one in my territory. I rarely if ever have a natural wonder anywhere in my territory. I always seemed to get screwed on those. Just too bad the city governor insists on working that tile when I'm a size 1 city with 0 growth.
I normally build railroads any place I have a road, so it's just chance that my trade route happened to go through this.
Well, that's one way to effect mass baptisms.You've heard of the underground railroad, now it's time for the underwater railroad.
Not sure if this has been posted before, but it's the first time I've seen this. Actually I don't even recall seeing this natural wonder in my games, certainly not one in my territory. I rarely if ever have a natural wonder anywhere in my territory. I always seemed to get screwed on those. Just too bad the city governor insists on working that tile when I'm a size 1 city with 0 growth.
I normally build railroads any place I have a road, so it's just chance that my trade route happened to go through this.
