Comment on Civilization VI: Just another knowledge check 4X game

• SolOrion@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  OP seems to want a very competitively focused tightly balanced experience, and Stellaris is absolutely anything but that. I enjoy the game, it’s fun, but I can’t imagine anyone considering it to be particularly balanced or enjoyable as a PvP/Versus experience.

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  • SwineBearingViolence@vegantheoryclub.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Thank you to both you and @db0@db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com for discussing this. This does match with what others have said. That said, it’s okay with roleplaying too, it often hosts roleplaying-only Twilight Imperium IV games, or one-shot TTRPGs (D&D is banned, Pathfinder is banned, any other system is okay).

    But yes, a much bigger hole in its heart is competition. Girls just like to have fun, and for some girls, that means merciless (but trauma-informed and respect towards boundaries around competition) competition.

    There are some multiplayer roleplaying video games. Baldur’s Gate 3 has been quite engaging. Sometimes just one of us watching the other play Disco Elysium is enough. But competing strategically without it becoming unpleasant…that’s a harder find outside of board games.

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  • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I think it can be, but only as a role playing experience.

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• SwineBearingViolence@vegantheoryclub.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Use it/its and not you/your, please. its heard Stellaris has great narrative elements but it’s very hard to play in a reasonable amount of time and there’s some balance issues that can make competition feel really unfair. Maybe will still get around to it some day.

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  • Shizrak@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Was going to say how absurd and difficult to understand those pronouns are, and how they make communication very unclear.

    But fuck it

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    • Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Especially when they aren’t even using its vs it’s properly

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  • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I consider myself pretty progressive and am friends with nothing but progressives. And lots of people in the LGBTQ+ community. This is the first time I’ve ever seen someone want to have their second-person pronouns changed… It does not make communication easy.

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  • brian@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    If it want a really good 4X game

    Is this for real?

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    • SolOrion@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’ve never seen some specify that they want different second person pronouns, but hey new things every day.

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      • Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It doesn’t really make any sense since first and second person pronouns aren’t gendered. When I refer to “you” it means “whoever I’m talking to” without implying anything about the person or persons other than that I intend my message for them. There’s just no reason to change that. Not “no good reason” but “no reason”.

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      • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        They even refer to themselves as ‘it’ in the first person, which just breaks comprehensibility entirely if you don’t already know what they’re talking about.

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    • archonet@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      y’know, when people started getting snippy about pronouns, I often said I was just going to start calling them an “it”.

      I never thought someone would want that.

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    • Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It puts the lotion in the basket.

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• Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Stellaris REALLY needs AI mods to be any good in single player though.

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