History, owing to the fact that it’s primarily written by white men, tends to be very white and very male. History is, ultimately, a narrative with facts chosen and framed to fit that narrative. Disagree? Look at how the Civil War is taught and remembered in the American South; it was firmly impressed upon me… Continue reading A Civilized History
Tag: Civilization
Unrealistic
Board games aren’t realistic. Monopoly doesn’t look like any metropolis and the geography in Settlers of Catan makes Giant’s Causeway look conventional. The diseases in Pandemic are translucent cubes instead of microscopic blobs. This all makes sense, of course. Board games are an abstraction of reality, paring down big concepts into statistics. This can be… Continue reading Unrealistic
One More Turn
The first time I played Civilization V on my computer I ended up pulling an all-nighter. While in college. When I didn’t have homework. It was not the best of life choices. But it was a lot of fun. I dug into Civilization VI last night, not heeding the various other games I’ve been meaning… Continue reading One More Turn
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