Marissa, Prime

i can fly this plane.

we cannot reschedule this flight.

the weather is still good.

In some spot testing, I think these would be fine if I simply treated them as not having a heel at all. I prefer wedges but, like, this shoe model could well be part of Tumblr’s own history:

might not be true at all and might be puritan panic you bought into but ok

I JUST REMEMBERED HEARING AN ELON MUSK QUOTE WHERE HE TALKS ABOUT HOW HE BELIEVES CHESS IS "TOO SIMPLE" OR WHATEVER AND HE SAID HIS FAVORITE GAME WAS A GAME CALLED "POLYTOPIA"

I JUST REMEMBERED THAT IVE PLAYED POLYTOPIA

It being Elon's favorite game (or at least one so important to him that his biographer dedicates a lot of time to it) is.....really really funny.

Basically, imagine Civilization, but as a mobile game. So like if Civilization Revolution was even more dumbed down (that's a Civilization insult. That's devastating. It's devastated right now). For what it's worth, it's not a bad game. On the contrary, from what I could tell in the little bit of time I played it, it's a perfectly competent game with good design. But it's not a deep game by any means. I played through it once, won easily on my first go, then saw that the other playable characters had barely any differences between them.

Like, not to imply you can judge a book by its cover, but here's what it looks like

I came across an article by Dave Karpf discussing this exact thing, and I think it describes it wonderfully

Polytopia only has two win conditions. You pick one at the start of each game: Civ score, or Total domination.

Either you build the richest civilization in 30 turns.

Or your militarily destroy every other Civ on the map in as few turns as possible.

You can’t set a high score in either mode without focusing on the destruction of nearby civilizations, because they are all militaristic and expansionist. It’s colonialism reduced to concentrated essence. I am mediocre at it.

“Which mode does Elon play?” is a much more relevant response than shitting on a Civ-like for being lower density than Civ-actual. Go play Slipways and tell me how long it takes you to earn your sixth star on normal difficulty or higher. Slipways was a PICO-8 game before it was ported to PC. It took me eighty hours to reach a 6-star win.

Small games are not inherently worth being demeaning towards. Someone’s preference for a small game may simply mean they have severe ADHD. I’m perfectly capable of playing Civ, I just find it loathsome and boring after a hundred hours. Micromanaging people is a waste of time. Give me planets, like Stars! or Slipways. I don’t really enjoy Polytopia but I’ve played it. It gets boring quickly. I hate military conquest game.

The real reporting y’all are missing in your criticism of a video game is much more traumatic when you consider Elon’s origin culture and sociopolitical leanings:

The core win condition in Polytopia is to destroy everyone else.