Paradox, Strategy, and Player Autocracy
Rosencreutz
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I'm told I overthink things. I don't think that's so bad. There's a lot of topics I cover but a core of it would be history and games, and games about history. "Media analysis" in all the vague ways that means anything.
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Games are, of course, exercises in fun rather than frustration, and that lends them towards giving the players a lot of control, but I'd like to suggest there's been an... overcorrection, of sorts. __________________________________ My links: Twitter: https://twitter.com/KRosencreutz Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/rosencreutz.bsky.social Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Rosencreutz Discord: https://discord.gg/cZNHhHAMzJ _________________________________ Timeline Intro: 00:00 Who is the player 02:35 The Other Player 05:23 Vic2 vs Vic 3: 10:31 Player Autocracy 25:58 Absolute Information 29:46 Forbidden topic 39:17 Conclusion 48:30 Outro 50:15 What’s a dinosaur? 52:20
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