edit - Yeah I play video games with violence too, my point is that video games are a mirror that exposes a less brutal image of ourselves than we are convinced of. The truth of what we desire is as often silly or altruistic as it is selfish or violent, even in the realm of fantasy where the violence is unreal as everything else.
Except I play Civ all the time but avoid power and responsibility like the plague.
Speaking of plague, adding a disease mechanic would be cool
Whenever I play Civ I try to go for a peaceful victory. Then someone picks a fight with me and that escalates with me going for the world domination victory.
I usually play as Victoria so I like to do themes. Like if there are a lot of other woman leaders I’ll do a Girl Power game and form alliances with them and kill all the men.
Or if there are a lot of colonizer countries I’ll do a reverse colonization playthrough and conquer them with the help of colonized nations.
Then there’s the genocides I’ve waged for the most sacred resource to the English: Tea.
I feel like Civ always punished you too much for being too successful in repelling another civ’s attacks. Like, what do you mean they can take a couple of cities but when I do it it sours my relations with every single civilization on the map? Always pushes me to a domination victory when that happens. Sometimes I can manage it without gaining too much of a warmonger reputation, but it’s too much of a balancing act
I’d be a successful xenobiologist.
That tracks actually.
I mine, I forage, I genocide. It’s a simple life, but a good one.
And you sometimes pick one dandelion too many and forget how to walk faster than 3 km/h.
I mine, I forage, I genocide.
Steve?
And anytime a wall looked a little weird I’d be trying to smash through it.
Commercial driver’s licenses?
Over 9 million copies of Euro Truck Simulator 2 have been sold, according to a Renault Trucks press release from March 2024. That’s a staggering number, reflecting the game’s enduring popularity.
https://achivx.com/how-many-copies-of-euro-truck-simulator-2-have-been-sold/
That’s pretty amazing. I’ve never played the game but it looks pretty chill.
Sometimes I really get in the mood for chill games like Stardew Valley or NetHack! Maybe I’ll check out ETS2 sometime!
ETS2 + Lee Hazlewood’s Cowboy in Sweden is just maximum aura.
ETS2 is getting a bus expansion too so you can drive buses instead of trucks of you prefer. The American counterpart ATS (same game engine, same studio and updated in lockstep with ETS2) is similarly getting a road trip expansion, where you can drive many classic American cars on a road trip.
Honestly I highly recommend the games because they’re incredibly chill driving simulators
I mean, I recommend Motor Town: Behind The Wheel, but ETS2 is undeniably awesome too!
Oh nice! I’ll check that out too! Thanks!
You obviously pasted the wrong link.
I believe this is the game you meant:
this game is great, i installed it just now. I heard the game is bad, but even still, i assumed the ui problems must have been from running the game through proton. but no, it’s literally just that bad
also, on wikipedia there’s a picture of the truck climbing a steep mountain. but what it doesn’t show is that the truck actually goes much faster up steep mountains than over flat land because the physics system is terrible and the car doesn’t slow down at all horizontally when it starts moving vertically.
Have you tried going in reverse? 😂
The play is fun, but you can get the highlights from watching the hilarious videos people have made on them. Just in case anyone wants to save the megabytes on the hard disk ;)
You’re winner
I would sell so many organs
I’d be an expert race car driver, or really good at parkour.
This just made me imagine a sport that contains both and it would be awesome, call it Guerrilla Valet.
I’d just be living in a small town, digging through trash cans, giving fish to the local homeless man, giving beer to the alcoholic and mostly just planting an ungodly amount of fruit trees on my land.
We would also all have our own mini farms and chests upon chests full of weird stuff.
You don’t?
Played too much Pokémon, now I run a bet-fueled dog fighting operation
I would be an amazing manager and be very rich
I remember in 1993 my dad tried saying that video games make kids violent.
For anyone too young to pick up on the obvious situation here, 1993 was the year the media started looking at games like Mortal Kombat, and saying video games are violence simulators. In those days, news was different. Today there’s heavy bias in reporting. Watching the same story from 2 different reporting sources will often paint a vastly different picture. In those days however it wasn’t nearly the issue it is today. Fox News didn’t exist yet I don’t think. And even when it first started, it wasn’t what it would later become.
The news was just the news. And the news was saying video games make kids violent. My dad was doing the modern day equivilant of parroting fox news talking heads points. No opinion of his own. Just parroting the news.
So when he said that video games make kids violent, I said “Dad, I have 3 games. Sonic 2, Madden 93, and Jurassic Park. By your logic, I should be a star athlete who can play in the NFL, who runs so fast that I become a blur , and is also a velociraptor. Teenagers in the early 80s would be great at tennis, crossing the road quickly, and know how to shoot down UFOs.”
He had no rebuttal, because nobody on the news made those arguements.
Fox news might only go back to 96 but it was almost always politically motivated, I will accept that it may be deteriorating though
Imagine a dad making that argument these days and then they look at their kid’s steam library and all they play is “shower with your dad simulator”
This is why I’m never getting into PC gaming.
Do it slaughter millions of humans in games across different genres? Yes, I do and it’s great fun!
Do I have any intention to kill even one human in real life? Hell no, I don’t even want to hurt others!
Wait until you get older and see how the world runs, you’ll get lots of reasons of wanting to hurt others!
Ah yes but video games are unrelated.
How much older?
I don’t know, I was only guessing. And having fun too of course.
So I was guessing 20 to 30 for you which would be an average I pulled out of my butt (and could of course be wildly wrong) I could be almost double your age.
Oh and also not being neurotypical adds to having a very dark world view (like, probably, we keep negatives while NT forget them).
I cant afford a spaceship though :(
