Playing Video Games with My Son Isn’t What I Thought It Would Be

Re:Playing Video Games with My Son Isn’t What I Thought It W... by Retric on Saturday March 10, 2018 @09:09PM (#16561331)

I think the biggest difference is most games tend to have anything not dead + positive resource stream = a win. People tend to build city's / county's / etc that go through a major such phase to maximize resource collection.

In reality you generally don't want to have 40 years of suck to get to some long term gain, because you need to live those 40 years.

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Re:Playing Video Games with My Son Isn’t What I Thought It W... by lione on Sunday March 11, 2018 @12:44PM (#16563659)

You mean some sort of great leap forward produces negative results for your citizens until it's completed? I swear I heard a story similar to that in reality.

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Re:Playing Video Games with My Son Isn’t What I Thought It W... by Retric on Sunday March 11, 2018 @08:59PM (#16565570)

The thing is relative to most developing nations China has had very slow economic growth. Yes, with a massive population, but China ranks 110 by purchasing power per person. It's economy is terrible, the only thing it has going for it is scale. And it's not like it has a massive population density either ranking at #80 world wide.

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Re:Playing Video Games with My Son Isn’t What I Thought It W... by hobbes78 on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @01:03PM (#16577614)

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/wp-content/uploads/20...

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Re:Playing Video Games with My Son Isn’t What I Thought It W... by Retric on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @06:27PM (#16580439)

developing nations

USA in 1980 was already a developed nation with a high relative standard of living. It could only grow GDP by inventing new technology and process not simply import proven tech.

China's continued failures are massive and ongoing. Some numbers look ok relative to their past failures but that's about it.

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