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[–] TheVelvetGentleman@hexbear.net 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Look, I understand that people are upset, but she's crossing her arms in the picture. We haven't had a chance to oggle her cans. She could have F cups under there.

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 3 points 15 hours ago

now we're really getting into the big questions, folks. RELEASE THE TWINS

[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why is it always the leaders remembered as heroes who are in games? They should add some of the bad leaders as well, Nicholas II, the most inbred of the Habsburgs, Gorbachev, Liz Truss, all the kings with names like "Hunger" and "the Mad".

[–] Z_Poster365@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

they all have to be pretty ancient. Can't really have Hitler or Trump or Obama without enraging a bunch of the playerbase

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 day ago

they used to have Mao in civ 4 :(

[–] GrosMichel@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If they put Obama in the next Zelda game I'm gunna' be pissed.

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 2 points 15 hours ago

ganondorf getting btfo by link's new mq4 reaper drone ability

[–] Z_Poster365@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago

uhhhh let me be kokiri... if you like your deku nut, you can keep it

[–] kittin@hexbear.net 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I like Tuabman and I like diversity in my games but I hate the implication that the USA is sufficiently not fascist and white supremacist to have her as a leader.

[–] Z_Poster365@hexbear.net 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

in the civilization universe, all civilizations are a blank slate that start during the early agrarian era. They don't yet pick an ideology or colonize others or do anything at that point. Also, in civ 7 she can be the leader of any civilization, leaders aren't bound to specific civs

That's how I justify it to myself at least, it falls apart upon any introspection but that's how it goes with a silly 4x game with hammers and beakers

[–] shath@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"fascism is just more industrial resource and nothing else!!!" i do not like modern civ games

[–] Z_Poster365@hexbear.net 7 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I agree it should have some type of penalties, but it’s hard to implement fascism if you aren’t willing to include dirty historical realities like genocide and ethnic cleansing and colonialism.

I understand why Civ doesn’t want to allow naziboos to roleplay as a genocidal maniac in their game

[–] shath@hexbear.net 5 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

then don't implement fascism as a playable option shrug-outta-hecks

[–] Z_Poster365@hexbear.net 3 points 15 hours ago

Then we will lose communism as a playable option. The moment Firaxis removes fascism the “both sides” whining will be overwhelming

[–] kittin@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago

Yeah for sure I don’t actually object to this.

[–] Esoteir@hexbear.net 78 points 1 day ago (2 children)

harriet tubman never held public office!!!! pronouns

the humble gandhi since civ 1: rizz

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 2 points 2 hours ago

Isn’t Amaterasu in at least one of the Civ games as a national leader for Japan? If they can have a literal god as a leader then this checks out.

[–] Z_Poster365@hexbear.net 44 points 1 day ago (2 children)

plus civ 7 is purposefully adding a bunch of leaders that weren't officially national leaders, people like Da Vinci or Benjamin Franklin. It makes added sense since you play as 3 different civilizations throughout the game and your civilization changes but your leader stays the same.

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[–] BoxedFenders@hexbear.net 65 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The US doesn't deserve to have someone as heroic as Harriet Tubman to represent it.

[–] Mindfury@hexbear.net 40 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

luckily, Civ 7 is kinda doing the Humankind thing and separating the leaders from the civs to some extent

meaning, Harriet Tubman doesn't have to lead the yankoid shitheap afaik

[–] CthulhusIntern@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I know we're getting into more Paradox than Civ here, but I'd like to see it as, if John Brown or Nat Turner succeed, then she's the leader of the new America.

[–] Sulvor@hexbear.net 5 points 20 hours ago

John Brown as a Great General when?

[–] CoolerOpposide@hexbear.net 33 points 1 day ago
[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago

I am immensely unentertained by the Civ franchise and its model of taking a selection of cities and people and tossing them haphazardly on a random-seeded map.

Game Category

  • Shit's Boring, Who Cares
[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 58 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Literally everything Gamergate dipshits said about "SJWs" was projection:

  • They're ridiculously sensitive and easy to offend.
  • They want to force the entire industry to conform to their politics.
  • They're single-minded obsessives who go nuclear the moment a game fails a single one of their myriad purity tests.
  • A large portion of them are tourist outsiders invading the hobby who see it as nothing but a tool to push their political agenda.

pronouns

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[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 3 points 15 hours ago

le illiterate

she was a slave from the 1800s who are these morons dunking on

[–] CoolerOpposide@hexbear.net 39 points 1 day ago (1 children)

“I’ve played every civ game” no you haven’t.

[–] Z_Poster365@hexbear.net 29 points 1 day ago (12 children)

I've played 2, 3, 5 and 6. Never played Civ 1 or Civ 4.

My biggest gripe is not enough USSR leaders

[–] combat_brandonism@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

missed the one civ with a USSR leader lol

[–] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

1 has Stalin, 4 has Stalin and Mao

[–] combat_brandonism@hexbear.net 3 points 12 hours ago

lmao OP missed em both

[–] Z_Poster365@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago

just my luck

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 21 points 1 day ago

Missed out on Stalin and Mao in Civ4

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[–] Sulvor@hexbear.net 44 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Not having a twitter account continues to pay dividends

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[–] TomBombadil@hexbear.net 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sometimes I remember I'm not entirely unintelligent. Reading these comments really reminds you of the utter smoothness of most westerners brains

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 23 points 1 day ago

It’s even a joke I have with myself. One second this is my internal monologue:

“Oh come on, Zinn. You should feel lucky material conditions happened the way they did where you found the left before fascism found you! You’re not immune to propaganda, you got lucky it’s not your big brain!”

Reads a comment section

“On second thought, maybe it is your big brain that allows you to handle the truth.”

[–] shreddingitlater@hexbear.net 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

new civ announced

denji-bored I don't wanna play these games anymore

it's part of the culture war now

kiryu-pain I don't wanna play these games anymore

[–] Z_Poster365@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

speak for yourself, civ rocks and it's been 8.5 years since the last one

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Jesus it's been civ 6 for that long?

[–] JustSo@hexbear.net 4 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Civ 6 so old Luigi Mangione an intern at Paradox working on it. yes-honey-left

[–] Z_Poster365@hexbear.net 4 points 15 hours ago

Paradox doesn’t make Civ, Firaxis does

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 3 points 15 hours ago

fuck civ 7 I'm not playing a game made by people who didn't kill a CEO

[–] godlessworm@hexbear.net 17 points 1 day ago

"oh but if i said hitler should be a leader in civ then i would be called a nazi. ok i see how it is. still waiting for my white privilege check"

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ok, Harriet Tubman is great, but I'm still not playing as Amerikkka when qin-shi-huangdi-fireball is right there.

[–] schlongjohnson@hexbear.net 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

leaders are detached from civs this go round, so you could have china ruled by tubman

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 26 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Oh wait, that's awesome. Sounds pretty cool, can't wait to pirate it.

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Big news for people with enough time and money to play civ 7

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