I have for a long time really wanted to read an in depth article about the ethics / politics of city sim games. i feel like there was something pretty smart on Sim City and Will Wright awhile back, don’t know if it was just a post on here or a blog article or something* but i would be really tickled to see like, a fivethirtyeight style statistical analysis of Sim City vs. other city sims vs. actual city planning/historical data. But people don’t take video game writing that seriously I guess, idk.
*aside: How many clicks could certain quality sb posts have mined if they had been posted in a more visible situation? Even our outrage/meltdown threads would probably rack up massive hateclicks if given proper publicity. Total missed opportunity to bring in mad revenue by monetizing our content generation. Speaking of that, does anyone else miss the frontpage?