I’ve played every Civilization up to and including 6, but I’ve been playing Humankind and loving it. It’s by the studio that did Endless Space 2, the game I’ve put the most hours into, and that’s saying a lot. Humankind solves some of the frustrations with Civilization I always had. For example, wonders are claimed by a civilization and made whenever the user feels like it. There’s no wasting 20 turns only to be beat to the punch by a player you haven’t even seen yet. Stuff like that.

EA might just be responsible for an increase in literacy. Why play corpo trash when you can, I dunno, read books?

This is great! Now we don’t have to let any immigrants in. Instead we can have them do all our menial chores remotely with this robot and we don’t have to give them citizenship. Everyone wins! Huzzah!

On the plus side, I have rediscovered my joy of reading.

I love me some Mass Effect, but it’s less “choices matter” and more “illusion of choice”.

Huh. I wonder what will happen if you do the same on PC.

Sadly, yea, you’re not wrong. But consumers do have some agency, albeit a limited amount.

But this does damage the brand. Not only am I never going to buy another PlayStation, I’m not going to buy another pair of Sony headphones.