That kind of ecology focused game I think could be pretty popular, it's something I would love personally.

The standard counterexample is UO, which ended up ripping out all of its ecology and economics code because deer stopped spawning and the players thought it was a game breaking bug. Just like real life, nobody noticed or understood their own contribution, but got very angry about suffering the consequences of it.

Ultima Online or what?

It seems like that game stardew valley is pretty popular with frustrated millenials who want to homestead but are priced out of the market. Combine that with their obsession with 'permaculture' and if they think theyre learning and simulating their off grid food forest paradise/simulating the evils of capitalism I think you could throw in so microtransactions and loot boxes and make a **** load of cash dude

Like the whole point of video games is to give the player more power than they have IRL

I dunno i alternate between desperate nostalgia and schadenfreude over seeing us **** up our environment in the same hour most of the time I dont think im that unusual

For example, Pac-Man let’s you simulate eating cherries, even if you might have a food allergy.

So how about Watchmen, huh? I liked it, but the politics of the show make it pretty distant from ideas behind the original graphic novel.

Can we please just skip that joke. I already have to read it on every other website.

D:

harder difficulties require strict steady state economies

In real life, steady state economies is hard mode b/c the US bombs or sanctions you.

So where do people stand now on the "we're descending into fascism" angle?

Fellow-Countrymen:
At this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. Then a statement somewhat in detail of a course to be pursued seemed fitting and proper. Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of this great conflict which is of primary concern to the nation as a whole, little that is new could be presented. The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself, and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.

On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it, all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union without war, insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war—seeking to dissolve the Union and divide effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.

One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union even by war, while the Government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it. Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered. That of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes. "Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh." If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether."

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.

So where do people stand now on the "we're descending into fascism" angle?

So where do people stand now on the "we're descending into fascism" angle?

I had no idea H.P. Lovecraft could travel through time and was friends with Edward Snowden.

Did you even read the page? The Necronomicon is traveling through time not Howard.