"I plan to live forever, of course. But barring that, I'd

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"From the delicate strands,
between minds we weave our mesh:
a blanket to warm the soul."
-- Lady Deirdre Skye, "The Collected Poems"

>>385005172
AnCap never worked and never will.

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Already we have turned all of our critical industries, all of our material resources, over to these...things...these lumps of silver and paste we call nanorobots. And now we propose to teach them intelligence? What, pray tell, will we do when these little homunculi awaken one day announce that they have no further need for us?
- Sister Miriam Godwinson, "We must Dissent"

>Resources exist to be consumed. And consumed they will be, if not by this generation then by some future. By what right does this forgotten future seek to deny us our birthright? None I say! Let us take what is ours, chew and eat our fill.

Best quote in the whole game desu.

>>385005690
Best in what?
Exposing the corpulent greed ready to destroy the future for no good reason but jealousy?

>>385005754
>t. liberal cuck
Kys

>>385005690
>Best quote in the whole game desu.

Nah. This one is better:
We are all aware that the senses can be deceived, the eyes fooled. But how can we be sure our senses are not being deceived at any particular time, or even all the time? Might I just be a brain in a tank somewhere, tricked all my life into believing in the events of this world by some insane computer? And does my life gain or lose meaning based on my reaction to such solipsism?
Project PYRRHO, Specimen 46, Vat 7. Activity recorded M.Y. 2302.22467. (TERMINATION OF SPECIMEN ADVISED)

>>385005690
That literally the paraphrase of YOLO.

>>385005172
Based Morgan and best faction.

>>385005934

It's also objective truth that we only live once so make of that what you wish

>>385005874
Alpha Centaruri is creepy game, famalam.

>>385005596
Morgan isn't ancap. He's not even a capitalist, he just thrived in capitalist environments of the old world. He's a collectivist.

>>385006102
Then you must subscribe to the idea of never having children.

>>385006120
All the leaders are bastards in some way. All of them.
Except based Foreman Domai.

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"What do I care for your suffering? Pain, even agony, is no more than information before the senses, data fed to the computer of the mind. The lesson is simple: you have received the information, now act on it. Take control of the input and you shall become master of the output."
-- Chairman Sheng-ji Yang, "Essays on Mind and Matter"

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"PUMPED KINNNNNG STUPID FAGGOTS, NO NIGGER ON THIS FUCKING PLANET CAN OUT DUE MY SLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK FAGS HOLY SHIT. GET FUCKED"
Anonymous, 2017

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"As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master."

-Commissioner Pravin Lal, "U.N. Declaration of Rights"

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"As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master."
-- Commissioner Pravin Lal, "U.N. Declaration of Rights"

>>385005874
How bout this:
"Clams that cannot be tested, assertions immune to disproof are veridically worthless, whatever value they may have in inspiring us or exciting our sense of wonder." - Academician Prokhor Zakharov, "For I Have Tasted the Fruit"

>>385006206
Expansion doesn't count. Shit like Data Angels, Planet of Cult etc are stupid and shouldn't have been brought into the game.

>>385005172
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdCB9yE9Hcc

>>385006425
fuck AMERICUNTS
>>385006442
FUCK AMERICUNTS

>>385006425
>denies ur internet neutrality

>>385006598
:(

>Commissioner Lal's Big Book of Recycling Tanks Humor

>>385006598
don't you mean burgerclap?

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>>385006782
AMERICUNTSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>385006563
I agree, except with the Free Drones. They found a niche to fill (focus on productivity, bad at research) and their ideology fit into the world (nobody gives a fuck about drones and everyone uses them).
It was a good faction. But yeah, the other ones weren't good.
It would have been better if the new factions had been smaller civs, a bit like the city states from modern Civ.

>>385006425
>the Net Neutrality controversy
I-is Alpha Centauri a glimpse of our future?

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>>385006425
>>385006442

>>385006782
Americlap
Clapistan
Piss Water Land
Land of the Free (wins)

>>385006478
Yeah, there's a lot of great ones.

Man's unfailing capacity to believe what he prefers to be true rather than what the evidence shows to be likely and possible has always astounded me. We long for a caring Universe which will save us from our childish mistakes, and in the face of mountains of evidence to the contrary we will pin all our hopes on the slimmest of doubts. God has not been proven not to exist, therefore he must exist.

Academician Prokhor Zakharov

>>385006889
No, history is contained in a very tightnit tube and so often repeats itself.

The Kings use to keep the peasantry away from education
The Church use to burn information that rampantly was used outside of the will of God
We have seen Russia, and Nazi's burn books that disagreed with their opinions.

If you need anymore evidence that Republicunts have no care for your freedom, simply look toward every supporter that claims "Fascism isn't so bad".

These people openly accept to not be educated and to be chained by powers greater than them.
They have made themselves into Uncle Toms.
They are King Faggots.

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>>385005680
>tfw the bible thumper is actually the most sane leader on Alpha Centari
Sadly I found her screams far too erotic to let her co-exist on Planet with me desu.

>>385005497
LADY DEIRDRE PLEASES WORM BOILS FOR ENERGY CREDITS!

>>385006425
>>385006442
>trusting the words of man still obsessed with his wife
Top Lal

Go through, my children! The time of miracles is upon us. Let us cast off sin and walk together to the Garden of the Lord. With God’s mercy we shall meet again on the other side.

—Sister Miriam Godwinson, “Last Testament”

I recently realized she commits ritual mass suicide in the cannon.

>>385007438
should have had her tied into the punishment sphere desu. turn the rest of her people into genejacks.

>>385007528
t. Yang

>>385006864
>shitposting faction
no thanks bro

>>385007605
correction the pirate lord desu
>not rising the sea levels of the world and making it into that shitty Kevin Costner movie, Mad Max on water.

"Mary had a little lamb,
Little lamb, little lamb,
Mary had a little lamb,
whose fleece was white as snow."
-- Assassins' Redoubt, Final Transmission

>>385006167
wtf I hate morgan now

How am i supposed to play with Free Drones on transcend?
The industry bonus gets really old when you are several techs behind secret projects.

>free drones
>DRONE RIOT
>nerve staple
Communism in a nutshell

>>385008859
>he doesn't use spies to steal tech
>he doesn't build labs everywhere
>he doesn't picked his value to knowledge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwqN3Ur-wP0
>that one autist who desperately argued that the self aware colony only tased them
>point out black chalk
>it's just a taser bro :^)
Can't remember if it was here or /tg/, but on the whole /v/ had better Alpha Centauri threads last time I was on here. Way less sperglords for some reason.

>>385005497
WHY THERE ISN'T A FULL BODY PICTURE OF HER

>>385009078
>WE MUST CONSENT
What did they mean by this?

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>>385005798
Not even liberal but I'm laffin at the duality of this line of thinking and also thinking global elite are all pedophiles bent on world domination deSu

>>385005497

I would serve Deidre

A handsome young cyborg named Ace,
Wooed women at every base,
But once ladies glanced at
His special enhancement,
They vanished with nary a trace.

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>>385005172
Why was this game so horrifying?

https://youtu.be/Lva8L-J8x04

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>"We shall take only the greatest minds, the finest soldiers, the most faithful servants. We shall multiply them a thousandfold and release them to usher in a new era of glory."
>Col. Corazon Santiago, "The Council of War"

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In the borehole pressure mines 100km beneath Planetsurface, at the Mohorovicic Discontinuity where crust gives way to mantle, temperatures often reach levels well in excess of 1000 degrees Celsius. Exploitation of Planet's resources under such brutal conditions has require quantum advances in robotic and teleoperational technology.

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>>385009616
https://youtu.be/EghMCc6ftoA

>>385009821
>that huge waist
>colonize
lmao

Morgan is right, technological development will render the environmental and resource problem moot anyway.

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>>385009137
Here ya go

Courtesy of the drawthreads

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>Not even Endless Legend, the one with a handful of OC, went this in depth to create characters that progress as much as AC

>>385009821
t. destroyer of Unity

>>385010272
Nigga, that's Frida Kahlo.

>>385010458
Was it not Yang who destroyed the Unity? Dem slimy scheming gooks man

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>>385005172

>>385010272
fucking finally

>>385009821
>when your models curves go the wrong direction because shes too fat

>>385010610
Yang is most likely the one responsible for Garland's assassination, but it was Corazon and her cronies that caused the coup.

>>385011696
Why did she cause the coup though
Was Garland a pushover numale cuck?

>>385005874
>muh solipsism

>>385006478
>muh falsificationism

>>385007050
>muh positivism

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"Ideology is a tool of power. Anyone who dangles a bright, shiny ideal in front of your eyes is likely trying to distract you from the chains they're about to snap around your wrists."
-Datatech Sinder Roze, "Infobop"

>>385012052
>muh muh
kys metafaggot.

>>385012240

This game really was ahead of it's time when it comes to quotes like this.

>>385012523
>muh kys
just kys already.

>>385012603

kys myself yourself

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>>385012240
>Alien crossfire

>>385009821
I always forget Santiago exists

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The managers always talked about the view from 30,000 feet. The problem is at that height, everyone looks like ants.

>>385012930
The quote is really good though.

>>385012871
>>385012603
can you faggots get a motel

>>385005690
Literally said by a baby boomer

>>385013032
I really like this quote.

>>385013240
>boomer
wasn't Morgan born in 2000s or something

>>385012930
>not playing Alien crossfire with original factions
You must enjoy your buggy mess with few features.

>>385007156
>They have made themselves into Uncle Toms.
t. /v/ nigger

Is this the most thought provoking vidya ever? It isn't just meme deep like "what can change the nature of man?".

We sit together,
the mountain and I,
until only the mountain remains
Li Po

I still fucking love that quote

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>>385005172
IS THAT A

>>385006568
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez7AFPX9RYE

>>385009821
My girl Santiago knows what's up

>The tragedy of Earth is not that so many died. Death is an inevitable part of life. The tragedy is that so many died as victims. When the crisis came, they were helpless, unable to use their deaths to buy anything of value. Millions of otherwise intelligent people had been tricked into ignoring a fundamental truth: that no man has any rights if he is unable to personally defend them.
— Col. Corazon Santiago

>>385005690
>"Human behavior is economic behavior. The particulars may vary, but competition for limited resources remains a constant. Need as well as greed have followed us to the stars, and the rewards of wealth still await those wise enough to recognize this deep thrumming of our common pulse."

I don't even like Morgan that much but damn he has some good quotes.

>>385014619
What does "meme deep" mean?

>>385016394
Then Deirdre's hippies wreck her shit.

>>385016897
>Then Deirdre's hippies wreck her shit.
Mindworms are anything but hippies.

>>385017885
Hippies control them.

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>live for thousands of year

what's the capacity of the human brain for memories? like if you lived to be 500, would you even be aware of the first 200?

>>385018087
Surely it's the other way around.

>>385018345

Isn't it through a single life time that not even 10% of the brain is used?

>>385018345
an unaugmented regular old human brain, sure.

>>385018470
no that is a common misconception stemming from the time when people thought grey matter was useless

>>385018385
Whoah. Deep stuff. Really gets my pods launching.

Tfw no qt mindworm pet

>>385018385
>literally horde of civilization destroying brainless leftist hippies

>>385018470
>most of your brain is used for sensory processing and automatic processes
>only a small fraction is used for conscious thought
>"hurr when we ask people to think about stuff only 10% of their brain lights up therefore you waste 90% of your brain"

>>385019274
>automatic processes

Doesn't that also count as memory?

>>385019990
Yeah, memory is another thing your brain does that you have no control over. It's not really an automatic process like breathing/digestion though.

Let's face it. The only reason you like this game is because you are so poorly read that Babby's First Political Science Class 101 impresses you.

>>385018345
There is an upper limit on how much information you can retain, yeah. It's amazing how quickly you tend to forget about things once they stop being immediately relevant in your life too.

>>385020309
No, it's because it's a great 4X game with sci-fi elements in it.

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>>385012985
Santiago is less memorable because she's a reasonable leader unlike the others who are just trying to push their meme ideologies while their people are raped by mind worms

>>385020658
>great 4x
I disagree, even during release SMAC/X is outdated.

Beyond Earth and its expansion could have been the SMAC/X potential realized and more, but the opportunity was squandered.

>>385005596
>this is what statists believe

>Play as Miriam
>get really powerful only really rivaled by The Hive
>the Hive doesn't like my religious ethics
>try to keep on their good side by giving them some tech
>they end up backstabbing me anyway
>they end up completing Cloudbase Academy project
>they shit out hundreds of shard copters
>mistakes were made

>>385005690
Someone, post Morgan's quote about the recon rover pilot that scratched his eyes out or the one about the research hospitals.

>>385020887
There are some factions that hate each other no matter what you do. Miriam and Yang, Deirdre and Morgan, etc. Their ideologies clash.

>>385020887
>theocracy trying to play nice with atheistic communism

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>>385005798
>>385005690
This is how it looks in reality

>>385020804
>Santiago is...reasonable
Bitch was the one who caused the Unity to fail and forced the development of the factions. She also infiltrated the Unity mission with her lackeys so she could do it from the very start. She doomed the mission to failure where the captain may have been able to hold everything together.

>>385016394
Favorite quote, desu.

>>385021060
Richard Baxton piloted his Recon Rover into a fungal vortex and held off four waves of mind worms, saving an entire colony. We immediately purchased his identity manifests and repackaged him into the Recon Rover Rick character with a multi-tiered media campaign: televids, touchbooks, holos, psi-tours-- the works. People need heroes. They don't need to know how he died clawing his eyes out, screaming for mercy. The real story would just hurt sales, and dampen the spirits of our customers.

Morgan Stellartots Keynote Speech, "Mythology for Profit"

>>385020804
>Santiago
>reasonable leader
Top lel. She's a glorified gang leader. She belongs in faction trash. She doesn't push any ideology because she has nothing to give other than murder, rape and plunder.

>>385021274
Ah yes, let's compare stupid niggers desperate for money with well developed capitalism

>>385021509
>implying here is a difference
ah right, when it's "bad" capitalism, it's the Niggers and the Jews

>>385021060
“Some civilian workers got in among the research patients today and became so hysterical I felt compelled to have them nerve stapled. The consequence, of course, will be another public relations nightmare, but I was severely shaken by the extent of their revulsion towards a project so vital to our survival.”

— CEO Nwabudike Morgan, The Personal Diaries

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Would you give up your emotions to join her?

>>385021789
What did the workers see?

What happens to your body when you get nerve stapled

>>385021715
>there's no difference between chopping down every tree in the country to sell as raw timber and chopping down trees to turn into paper to turn into books

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Drone riots.

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>>385021965

Reminder that SMAC would be considered SJW by neo-/v/ and would get shit on if it came out now

>>385007438

I think that's just the transcendence ending

>>385021949
It's never explicitly stated. You're just supposed to imagine terrible it is.

>>385021949
It's never specified in the game.
The GURPS SMAC RPG says it's about getting tiny wires into your brain or something, but I doubt it's canon.

>>385021952
Resource consumption is resource consumption

>>385022129
Sure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-28lRSJufc

>>385005690
>People ITT are living with the consequences of boomers doing just this
>Still defend it

>>385022110
True - look at Beyond Earth.
But, just to play devil's advocate, it is a different world now. Back then nobody would suspect that certain factions/races/whatever were included just because the developers wanted to pander to the SJW crowd. Now it's not that certain.

>>385022269
Except in developed capitalist countries we get stuff like digitatlization that single handed solved the lack of paper/trees problem in less than a decade.

>>385022110
>The genetic code does not, and cannot, specify the nature and position of every capillary in the body or every neuron in the brain. What it can do is describe the underlying fractal pattern which creates them.
Doesn't seem very SJW to me.

>>385021952
What does it matter? That lumber will be used all the same.

>>385022269
>breathing is breathing
>who cares if you're breathing air or pure helium

>>385022110
Pretty much.
>3 stronk womyn faction leaders
>cannon ending is hippie victory

Remember when Beyond Earth marketed itself as a successor to SMAC?

That was some serious bullshit huh.

>>385022556
you forgot
>only playable white male is a slav so is not technically white

>>385022517
Nice stawman that makes 0 sense

>>385022517
So you admit that Morgan's quote is bullshit?

>>385022472
Nice, now I wait for capitalism to digitalise my construction materials.

>>385022110
If it was released today would it present so many differing ideologies in such fair and compellign way or would they make clear "evil white male toxic" factions against "good poor stronk womyn" factions?

>>385022556
>cannon ending

>>385005172
"Do you believe in gravity?"

>>385022621
Yeah. I bought it and ended up disappointed.
Then the expansion was released and I bought that, hoping that would make the main game better - it didn't. I was throwing good money after bad at that point.

>>385012570
Nah, that quote / notion is much older than this game. But there are some things in AC ahead of its time. Basically, having the most detailed and well crafted cyberpunk philosophy ever written. Personally I think we are headed towards this type of future of ruthless ideological factions.

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>>385022714
well duh
the best businessman on the planet would obviously advocate for consumption that would destroy the planet in one generation because rich people are evil and only care about immediate gratification

>>385022761
Eternity lies ahead of us, and behind.
Have you drunk your fill?

—Lady Deirdre Skye,
“Conversations with Planet”, Epilogue

>>385022694
not an argument

>>385021509
They both are the same niggers. This is the same island.

>>385022621
>leaders were separated based on geography instead of ideology
>instead of communism, theism, atheistic scholasticism, militarism, environmentalism, corporatism, and supranationalism, we just got "humans cyborgs and ayys"
>none of the leaders were interesting
>just played like a reskinned Civ V
They set themselves up for failure the moment they tried to even reference SMAC.

>>385022880
>Implying this isn't actually realistic.
People really will do anything for immediate profit.

Look at leaded petrol. The petrol companies knew full well they were poisoning people to death, but funded propaganda saying it was safe. People are actually retarded, so a fictional setting where people act retarded in a similar fashion isn't much of a stretch.

>>385022823
Most of the notions are older than the game. It's like The Art of War. It's about people and how they affect the world around them and how the world affect them. And people are basically the same.
Stuff like this:
“When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.”
“When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.”
“The greatest victory is that which requires no battle.”

The quotes and ideas in the game are great because they are often timeless. They've been given a sci-fi twist, but it's still about people being people.

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"Once a man has changed the relationship between himself and his environment, he cannot return to the blissful ignorance he left behind.
Motion, of necessity, involves a change in perspective."

I wouldn't say SMAC was ahead of its time, actually. Rather, it was a product of its time, and the current times are somehow not even living up to it, much less improving on it.

>>385014865
Also one of my favourite quotes of everything, ever. So much contained in so few words.

>>385023252
>being this stupid
lead stopped engine knocking and improved performance
gas companies weren't just trying to kill people for shits and giggles retard

>>385023723
>instead of existentialism, phenomenology, politics and economics games today would rather discuss gender issues
What went wrong?

I loved smac, but I feel like a lot of people fellate it a little too much for having muh deep quotes

>>385023854
They already knew that ethanol stopped engine knocking and improved performance, but the whole industry opted to use lead-based additives instead.

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>>385023982

>>385022269
You cannot stop consumption and resource exhaustion, it's better to allow the economy to flourish and with it research and technological advancement that eventually solves these problems.

>>385024145
>research will solve everything
We should make a religion out of it.

>>385023982
you fight so hard but in the end you're just an idiot sitting in a gigantic pile of your own shit. we can read every comment you try to support and how its all wrong.

>>385024145
And this is what all the retards ITT are missing.
Morgan advocates consumption that drives innovation, not mindless hedonism.
Mindless hedonists are useful since they dump huge amounts of money into the company, but catering exclusively to them always leads to failure

What I like about SMAC is how you can have your playstyle reflect your ideology.

Mass produced cheap units with hive.
Highly trained super expensive units with Santiago.

Environmentally friendly cities surrounded by forests playing as Gaia
Industrial cities surrounded by boreholes playing as Morgan

etc

The unit customizer, terraforming, dynamic weather and sea level allows a lot of freedom.

>>385023854
performance is worth filling the smoke with poison, right?

though lead paint is bad in the same way
as is treated wood
so not a unique occurrence

Canada still sells asbestos to the third world, as well

>>385024279
no don't

>>385009919
We Must Dissent

were civ 4 quotes better, on par or worse than SMAC quotes?

>>385011828
because she's a dumb nigger who wants to hijack someone else's investments and hardwork.

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>>385024941
>DEY WUZ KILLIN N SHIET FOR FUN
>no they used lead to stop engines from destroying themselves
>UHH DO YOU WANT TO BREATH POISON?

>Human behavior is economic behavior. The particulars may vary, but competition for limited resources remains a constant. Need as well as greed have followed us to the stars, and the rewards of wealth still await those wise enough to recognize this deep thrumming of our common pulse.
Nwabudike Morgan, "The Centauri Monopoly"

Best project video in the game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO_xh7xIabk

>>385018930
>said leftist hippies utterly rekt social darwinists
Top kek

>>385024743
The entire character of a base and its inhabitants can be absorbed in a quick trip to the Rec Commons.
The sweaty arenas of Fort Legion, the glittering gambling halls of Morgan Bank, the sunny lovers’ trysts in Gaia’s High Garden, or the somber reading rooms of U.N. Headquarters.
Even the feeding bay at the Hive gives stark insight into the sleeping demons of Yang’s communal utopia.

—Commissioner Pravin Lal, “A Social History of Planet”

>>385020804
>Local cholo ruins everything

Reminder that you will never get games with controversial and intelligent writing like this ever again.

Reminder that everything goes into games nowadays has to be approved by committee to make sure that absolutely everyone who ever plays the game will be able to understand it and not be offended.

>>385026748
Not the case with indies and crowdfunders though. They can still get away with some things.

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daily reminder that pandora first contact has a SMAC faction mod

>>385027016
Only until the social justice twitter brigade finds them

>>385026748
>>385027161
Reminder to stop being such a sad cunt

>>385013240
Morgan is Gen Z

>>385027770
>tfw Yang got old enough to post on 4chan this year
>Miriam was born in 2014
>Deidre will be born in 2025

>>385022621
It was the last day one purchase i ever made. Played a 10 hour campaign and then never touched it again.

>>385024357
You keep saying Morgan apparently acted for the greater good or some shit, but where's the evidence? I don't honestly see someone who basically says "fuck the future" ever caring about the well-being of his people.

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>>385014865
*terraforms your philosophy*

>>385025912
>Best project video in the game
>not the longevity vaccine
Get off my land you peacekeeping son of a...

>>385027452
Pillars of Eternity had an offensive joke written on a gravestone. They were forced to remove it.

>>385028508
"Fuck the future" isn't the motto of someone who plans to live forever as in OP quote

>>385028573
>mfw my army of armored terraformers submerge my enemies into the sea

>>385028639
>Get off my land you peacekeeping son of a...
well that one is hilarious but Aestetic virtues is deep and funnily enough I detest communism

>>385028508
>being so biased against rich people you hear "we should make use of resources now to better ourselves" as "fuck the future GIBS ME DAT"

>>385028686
They asked the backer if he wanted to change it, and he agreed. Nobody was forced.

>>385028976
You mean they gave him an ultimatum to change it or have it removed.

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>>385007430
>loving your wife is bad

>>385027016
Didnt a recent indie game just get shat all over by the media because it was claimed to be set in a feminist/sjw ruled dystopia?

>>385028808
Ascetiscism has nothing at all to do with communism. Yang (and China as a whole) also have nothing to do with communism, it's just a way they found to be miserable, which they love.

>>385027452
>>>/tumblr/

>>385028936
He says that we should use resources, but not how. It could indeed be to the benefit of technological advancement (which I could live with as long as it's only a temporary measure) as much as for pure and simple hedonism. Maybe there's a quote I'm ignoring that would clarify his ultimate motives though?

>>385029572
>You ivory tower intellectuals must not lose touch with the world of industrial growth and hard currency. It is all very well and good to pursue these high-minded scientific theories, but research grants are expensive. You must justify your existence by providing not only knowledge but concrete and profitable applications as well.
Yeah, Morgan Industries creates mindless pleasures for the retarded masses, but Morgan seriously wants technological innovation

>>385029054
yeah if you just make stuff up I guess that is what happened

>>385029515
I know but Yang (the guy narrating) has a lot to do with communism

>>385029962
Do you honestly think they would have left it in if the guy said he didn't want it changed?

>>385021952
There was a difference here, considering how Haiti HAD to chop down that timber because of France calling down all the debts they made in Haiti's name, and the USA demonstrating that they'll be happy to collect on France's behalf.

>>385030052
They offered the guy a chance to change it so if they were determined to remove the offending material then surely they would have just straight up removed it without asking him.

>>385030269
maybe Haiti shouldn't have spent borrowed money like retards

>>385030472
That money was spent while they were under French control. This was France getting revenge for the Haitian revolution in the only way they legally could.

>>385030380
That's because they were coerced into doing it. They were fine with the joke, which is why it made it into the game in the first place.

>>385029873
I'm not sure I like how he seems to be belittling researches that can't be turned into profit, but yeah, he still sounds a little more reasonable than what I initially assumed.

>>385027452
>>>/reddit/