Partly because I think sims are generally built on false advertizing. Wikipedia’s definition of simulations is too broad to be useful here – Imma define sims within the field of video games as fundamentally deriving from SimCity. That is, a sim is a game where you try to derive the des...
a clear definition of Constantinople’s powers—and limitations—can be made. The “OCU” can be definitively declared non-canonical. Orthodoxy will have stood united against its greatest threat in a thousand years. Bartholomew will
All stories need some hardship in order to haveconflict and tension. Because of the extreme settings, hardships play an even more intrinsic role in dystopias, where things are bad by definition. Life is rough when you don’t have access to running water and grocery stores. Trials and tribulat...
Buying and selling things is not the definition of capitalism — that’s been happening for thousands of years. You can have a free market without capitalism. As Evo Morales said recently in Bolivia, on Earth Day: Either capitalism dies, or Mother Earth dies. Paul Douglas Rackemann May 12,...
“The future is now,” might be a true statement: we live in a present that’s in constant flux—maybe it even means we’ve entered the future as a state of mind, if not the literal definition of a fixed point in time. As fun as it is to debate,Josan Gonzalez‘sart books of th...