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Too simple to be useful in real life: a mere 8 by 8 grid, no fog of war, no technology tree, no random map or spawn position, only 2 players, both sides exact same pieces, etc.
honestly if he wasn’t evil and rich, his childlike conviction that his favorite video game is the Greatest Game Objectively would be charming. Like that’s how I thought when I was 10 years old.
Too simple to be useful in real life: a mere 8 by 8 grid, no fog of war, no technology tree, no random map or spawn position, only 2 players, both sides exact same pieces, etc.
Polytopia addresses these limitations.
Lemme find that substack article that breaks down how psychologically revealing this statement was
edit: here it is
Fucking hell, I thought this was a joke.
honestly if he wasn’t evil and rich, his childlike conviction that his favorite video game is the Greatest Game Objectively would be charming. Like that’s how I thought when I was 10 years old.
That was a cathartic read