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ViolentSwine[it/its]

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Civ 5 was fun but despite its harsh review Civ 6 is kind of better in every way. The lekmod for Civ 5 is so pervasive and totally changes the game, which is necessary for balance and so the game is a bit more reasonable. Civ 6 on the other hand has the BBG mod which changes far less and remains basically the same game. Civ 6 also makes certain things more intuitive, like movement. Initially, moving from 5 to 6, it had a lot of trouble with the movement but once it understood it it loved how intuitive it was. You can only move if you have enough movement points left. Simple as that. No “ending on a hill” or other counter-intuitive tricks you have to remember and do in Civ 5 every single turn.

Civ 6’s big big flaws are that on release it was broken due to infinite production exploits they wouldn’t fix, and it came with spyware which they did not apologize for so you shouldn’t buy it or anything from Firaxis from that matter.

Civ 5 was fun though. it wrote a huge, one hundred page document on how to play it well to catch its friends up. A lot of it was just detailing random counter-intuitive bullshit. That’s the big issue. Both games are fun, but their limitations require just so much patience it isn’t really sustainable and pretty soon, competition becomes more frustrating and a chore than fun.

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Also, one thing not included here is the AI problem. The 4X games with the best and most challenging, clever AIs, perfect for training competitively when you can’t get together with all your friends, are also single-player. Ditto for 4X games that randomize tech trees and policy trees and the like to make the game more principled.

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it does not understand what you’re saying or where you’re coming from. Not sure what tankies have to do with this. You’re interpreting and speaking from a context that everyone else is missing and so what you’re saying does not make sense to anyone else. Like apparently there’s a tankie and an anarchist involved and there’s some kind of internet drama you’re referring to that involves your irl friend? But from its point of view it has zero point of reference for what you’re saying or what tankies have to do with either this website or your friend who runs the discord.

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Well it does seem like you two started two communities with different and incompatible principles. That’s all it was pointing out. it isn’t in there so it’s not like it affects it but it’s just an interesting observation. it was confused but it wasn’t planning on dwelling on it.

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it was super into this game as a teenager and it still comes back to it after getting a philosophy degree. Really, really bizarre experience.

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lmfao wtf if you don’t recognize them as a legitimate country then what is your argument with @josie@vegantheoryclub.org like even if you think Israeli is a national identity, if you agree there is no such country as Israel and the image is listing COUNTRIES with the highest veganism rate, then what is the problem

You’re saying the list is correct. Like…?

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Noticed that the Discord advocates a more pro-domination/anti-conflict stance to community than this post. A bit confusing…

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