Just for my personal pride, I would like to state that the father of my children was the first american druid in diablo to clear abattoir of zir and ended that season as best in the USA. He was also ranking in Polytopia, and beat Felix himself at the game. I did observe these things with my own eyes. There are other witnesses who can verify this. That is all.
The continued polytopia mentions just keep reminding me of this take from Dave Karpf. Like, he’s not talking about incredibly deep games here (no offense to the people who love them) and in the context of him trying to take on the reigns of Presidentissimo or whatever all the arguing and doubting about his gamer cred is obscuring the arguments over how weird this is to try and focus on. Like, if he was trying to claim he was a Go all-star or something that would be one thing. Even Chess has tradition behind it, even if it’s actual utility for learning more general strategic thinking is more questionable. But Polytopia and Diablo? Really? If we did start apportioning political power to whoever can execute a basic strategy while clicking as fast as possible I think we’d all be bowing down to God-Emperor Flash or something.
Anyways, even if we put my unearned strategy gaming elitism aside this is such a dumb argument to be having in the first place and I don’t know that I can forgive Elon for making it part of the problem.
Misread that and thought the joke was about bowing down to people who are good with Adobe Flash.
Admittedly, being good with Adobe Flash would be more impressive than being good at a video game - at the bare minimum, it implies you’ve got some art skills.
Every serious political candidate should prove they can build an 100 SPM (at least!) base in Factorio and keep it running for some time before I even consider putting them in office, that’s just basic management skills
100 SPM? That is nothing. With the new quality and everything you should up that to at least 10K.
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