Merzbow
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(Note to moderators - I debated posting this in Off-Topic, but it specifically discusses Civ4 and is meant to inspire intelligent discussion. Nevertheless I won't object if you find it too inflammatory and thus want to move the thread to Off-Topic. I would only object if the thread was closed/deleted instead - it's not a troll.)
The recent thread on Dan Quayle inspired me to list the ways in which Civ4 reflects a liberal bias. To wit:
1. Umm, Dan Quayle, of course. Yeah we all can laugh at him for his obvious Yogi Berrisms, but a far better choice would have been Jimmy Carter (who considered 'killer rabbits' more of a threat than the Soviet Union).
2. The all-powerful Civ4 UN. An obvious example of where the authors' biases led them to make decisions that have a severely negative impact on gameplay. In almost all other aspects Civ4 provides multiple paths to get where you want, with differing trade-offs. But if I'm playing an OCC game, say, and I'm voted out of Bureaucracy, I may as well quit. It certainly should be possible to violate UN resolutions, but with a cost, as there is in the real world. (To make it even more accurate they should put in votes for rotating leader of the UN Human Rights Commission, with the only two allowed candidates being Motezuma and Isabella.
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3. Let's make nuclear power plants useless by having them melt down every few turns. Anyone ever played a game with 10 or so cities, every one of which had a nuclear plant? Enough said. It's simple fact that modern nuclear plants are the safest and most reliable source of energy there is.
4. For even more laughs let's make the nuclear plant meltdowns cause global warming. There is no evidence that global warming is caused by any human activities at all. Whatever climate variations we see are explained far more robustly as just being part of the natural cycle. The false spectre of human-caused global warming is nothing more than an anti-capitalist political ploy.
5. Why FDR and no Ronald Reagan? They both defeated horrible enemies, and are both dead, but FDR gave us the legacy of New-Deal socialism while Reagan tried to reverse that trend.
6. Political correctness taken to the point of ridiculousness with the presence of Jewish missionaries and other religious incongruities. Either go all the way or don't. If you want to give us equal religions, then don't call them by their real-world names.
7. Fascism enabling the building of Mt. Rushmore. Moral relativism at its most disgusting - i.e. equating American patriotism with Fascism.
The recent thread on Dan Quayle inspired me to list the ways in which Civ4 reflects a liberal bias. To wit:
1. Umm, Dan Quayle, of course. Yeah we all can laugh at him for his obvious Yogi Berrisms, but a far better choice would have been Jimmy Carter (who considered 'killer rabbits' more of a threat than the Soviet Union).
2. The all-powerful Civ4 UN. An obvious example of where the authors' biases led them to make decisions that have a severely negative impact on gameplay. In almost all other aspects Civ4 provides multiple paths to get where you want, with differing trade-offs. But if I'm playing an OCC game, say, and I'm voted out of Bureaucracy, I may as well quit. It certainly should be possible to violate UN resolutions, but with a cost, as there is in the real world. (To make it even more accurate they should put in votes for rotating leader of the UN Human Rights Commission, with the only two allowed candidates being Motezuma and Isabella.
)3. Let's make nuclear power plants useless by having them melt down every few turns. Anyone ever played a game with 10 or so cities, every one of which had a nuclear plant? Enough said. It's simple fact that modern nuclear plants are the safest and most reliable source of energy there is.
4. For even more laughs let's make the nuclear plant meltdowns cause global warming. There is no evidence that global warming is caused by any human activities at all. Whatever climate variations we see are explained far more robustly as just being part of the natural cycle. The false spectre of human-caused global warming is nothing more than an anti-capitalist political ploy.
5. Why FDR and no Ronald Reagan? They both defeated horrible enemies, and are both dead, but FDR gave us the legacy of New-Deal socialism while Reagan tried to reverse that trend.
6. Political correctness taken to the point of ridiculousness with the presence of Jewish missionaries and other religious incongruities. Either go all the way or don't. If you want to give us equal religions, then don't call them by their real-world names.
7. Fascism enabling the building of Mt. Rushmore. Moral relativism at its most disgusting - i.e. equating American patriotism with Fascism.
