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Why, as a responsible adult, SimCity 2000 hits differently (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 week ago by misk@piefed.social to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
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[–] TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 62 points 1 week ago (3 children)

TL; DR: Author played chaotic evil as a child, and lawful good as a he matured with adult life.

Saved you a couple of minutes.

[–] misk@piefed.social 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Saved you a couple of minutes.

For some of us reading for leisure is the whole point of having minutes to spare.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. Ferris Bueller

[–] TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 11 points 1 week ago

I am in that camp, and expected a more profound message. My disappointment encouraged me to write the TL; DR.

[–] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Subtly it's probably just the music that gives them the vibes and they don't even realize it.

[–] bear@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago

It is a great soundtrack

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 5 points 1 week ago

it wasn't chaotic evil, it was chaotic good. she details the various ways she realized the chaotic hacky fixes would create chaos.