No politics, just status quo.
No politics, just status quo.
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I saw a game on there called Big Ambitions, some kind of tycoon game where you're building businesses. The game starts by you having a wealthy uncle who gives you $13k and tells you to get a job for two days before having his friend give you a $15k loan to open a store selling cheap souvenirs from the wholesaler down the street.
It really is a capitalism simulator. I've been taking notes all night and the only one seems to be "Have an uncle".
edit: Actually, everyone should pirate it. It's not a bad game, in the vein of The Guild II, and I like the unspoken message about capitalism. I live in a studio apartment my uncle pays for, drive my uncle's car which I can't afford to repair, and the only economical food option for me is hamburgers from the grill between my souvenir shop and my empty apartment. I bought a business before I took a single course in business administration, and taking that course at the only university means spending $80/hr to sit in an empty room using a computer.
Despite all of that, I fancy myself a capitalist and my uncle is breastfeeding me to greatness. It's so goddamn bleak.
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Big Ambitions is such a silly game, watching northerlion play it was a hoot
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Have it on my wishlist seems like some good dum fun
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It's too janky and bare bones to recommend buying, but it's interesting enough to pirate and fuck around with for a couple hours.
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when’s the Communism and Material Fest?
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Free Demo
Under capitalism, you get five minutes of free propaganda and are billed for the remainder.
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WTF I can’t believe this is real. Now I want to make a Project Cybersyn game. #HateDrivenDevelopment
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What in the ever loving fuck? Why? Like why would they title a sale as this? Glad I'm back to pirating, DODI and Fitgirl repacks are the shit.
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Isn't Gabe Newell some kind of weird libertarian or whatever? I figure that's why
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Idk, but he's a business man and built an empire of passive income for himself. Any pictures I've seen of the guy looks like he fits an archetype of a libertarian. Wouldn't be a stretch or surprise.
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What's the problem with the title? They have economical and capitalism related games...so it makes sense... Idk what your point is.
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Oh god... You're right, they mean it literally!...
Prison Architect is part of the sale.
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Rail route doesn’t even have money in the game, as far as I can tell. It’s just a game about making trains run on time … wait a minute.
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Personally I'm holding out for anime hitler porn fest
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I still can't believe the Hitler bdsm series exists
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Its the capitalism and ECONOMY fest. The fuck isnt Soviet Republic: Workers and Resources on here?
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Presumably because to be part of these events developers have to opt-in.
I think we can take this as a sign that the dev is not a capitalist. Even if they did cringe support for ukraine stuff back near the start of the war.
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I'm starting to think they lied about making a Ukraine DLC. It wouldnt have taken them a lot of time to add a couple buildings and send the money to Zeldisney
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I don't hate capitalism/economy simulators, to be fair. Games are precisely where immoral and awful systems should be confined, far away from reality.
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:steamfront:
As Ulysset (who once awarded me kelly of the day) pointed out, valve is deliberately doing this at a time when capitalism is increasing the misery it inflicts on the world and causing a mass extinction event.
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at a time when capitalism is increasing the misery it inflicts on the world and causing a mass extinction event
Bit of a tautology, was capitalism ever not doing that?
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I think everyone was too distracted in the 30s-50s with legalized cocaine pep pills and beating their wives to understand they had signed a deal with the devil
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What's the most communist game on sale in this? Maybe Time Bandit?
Edit: it doesn't look like it's on sale, but it's featured on that page for me - weird.
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Tropico VI, just make sure you throw all the capitalists in the dungeon
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I was going to say Victoria 3 but it isn't participating.
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Potionomics is pretty cute, get to play as a post graduate alchemist with a ungodly amount of debt so it feels pretty
Oh and also you're uncle leaves you his potion shop, so yeah there's that lovely taste of cash injection nepotism too
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Workers and resources: Soviet Republic was a part of that thing
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I'v never had an easier time resisting a Steam sale before.
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