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Re:Playing Video Games with My Son Isn’t What I Thought It W... by gdubs on Saturday March 10, 2018 @09:20PM (#16561387)
I don’t have a source — lazy Saturday here — but I recall something about city planners using Sim City back in the day as part of their education, which horrified Will Wright since in his words (paraphrasing) “sim city is just cellular automata with some differential equations sprinkled on top.”
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Re:Playing Video Games with My Son Isn’t What I Thought It W... by ebcode on Sunday March 11, 2018 @12:11AM (#16561788)
Yeah, but who's to say that real cities aren't just cellular automata? They kind of look that way from space.
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Re:Playing Video Games with My Son Isn’t What I Thought It W... by gowld on Sunday March 11, 2018 @01:57AM (#16561981)
Even if they are, they don't have the same rules as SimCity's
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Re:Playing Video Games with My Son Isn’t What I Thought It W... by CalRobert on Sunday March 11, 2018 @10:39AM (#16563151)
Indeed, though in some cases it reveals that the problem is likely how we design actual cities.

http://humantransit.org/2013/05/how-sim-city-greenwashes-par...

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Re:Playing Video Games with My Son Isn’t What I Thought It W... by RandomInteger4 on Saturday March 10, 2018 @10:39PM (#16561584)
Dear god ... that game makes so much more sense now when seen in that light. I can't believe I haven't made the connection before considering much I enjoy cellular automata.
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