Sunday, September 28, 2003

The Simlicans?

Andrew Cory has apparently been playing one of those "Run a city" simulation games, and he's come to a startling revelation about the political affiliation of the automata who live in his little metropolis. Hmmmm….he's probably on to something, but it seems odd that the default game setting is that people move away as soon as they're unhappy about something. Couldn't they program in some civic pride? Or, failing that, couldn't they have people who are, on the one hand, pissed off to the point of showing up at City Council meetings and bitching up a storm (all the while refusing to entertain the idea that maybe they'll need to raise taxes), but still too lazy to actually pack up and move?

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