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Re:Maxis’ former “serious games” division (2020) by justinator on Sunday January 16, 2022 @08:30PM (#29962379)
I love looking back at Sim City and thinking, "damn - no 'pandemic' catastrophe!" and feeling that this is one reason why my generation is so ill-equipped to deal with present day.

But if there was a Godzilla monster, we'd be fine.

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Re:Maxis’ former “serious games” division (2020) by hnbad on Monday January 17, 2022 @04:27AM (#29964814)
As a kid I always struggled with Sim City because I couldn't make sense of the zoning. Only as an adult I eventually learned that the problem was that Germany (where I'm from) approaches zoning very differently from the US.
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Re:Maxis’ former “serious games” division (2020) by justinator on Monday January 17, 2022 @03:27PM (#29971329)
Ha! Too true.

It is very flawed. In the US mindset, so long as there was a freeway between commercial and residential, you are good.

I would enjoy, "Sim livable Small City"

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Re:Maxis’ former “serious games” division (2020) by pootlab on Sunday January 16, 2022 @08:56PM (#29962545)
There's a lot of truth to this.
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Re:Maxis’ former “serious games” division (2020) by rm_-rf_slash on Sunday January 16, 2022 @10:02PM (#29962902)
This is how machine learning works.
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