half-ironic theory: the accuracy of our societal view of survival and the development of technology has been significantly damaged by how those things are presented in videogames
I remember reading about how a generation is growing up with a fucked up view of ecology because in Minecraft you can always just replace the fungible cubes you took away and everything is fine
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in RimWorld you harvest cotton and get.... cloth. the medievalists in the chat are weeping
the simplifications all make sense for gameplay but also, like, no Virginia there are some pretty fundamental issues with the idea of space colonization