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and they have the fucking gall to call us "parasites" (slrpnk.net)
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[–] 7 points 1 year ago (10 children)

weird take. video games have to have a command economy because they are designed to be played. a free market city builder would just be a screensaver.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Cities are not functionally free market. You could have control of layout, zoning, regulations, infrastructure design and allocation, tax incentives, etc.

    Not sure how well this would model a real city where the "freehand" is guided by countless individual decisions.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (6 children)

    screensaver

    Definitely won't be a CPU saver though

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    fun fact, most old screensavers were super resource-intensive.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    Yeah, I remember a few of the Win98 ones.

    Which one would be harder on the old processors though? Pipes, or the one in which it put a moving magnifying glass or bubbles on an image of the current desktop?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    i think pipes was opengl and swirl was software, so probably the latter

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    On a Pentium 2 without Voodoo, both would be software

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    did pipes even work without a graphics driver? i know maze didn't

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago

    Hmm. Now my memory might be being a bit flaky with Windows 98 vs Windows XP (which was run on a Pentium 4 and that one surely had a onboard GPU on the motherboard), but I remember for sure that if there was a listing in the screensavers dialogue for it, it worked (because I don't remember any one of that not working).

    I do remember seeing the message about voodoo not being available, when I tried to install Desert Storm from a CD, so it definitely didn't have that (the computer was handed down and I was a kid and didn't open and see it).

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