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Nov. 5th, 2007 04:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bryantNot doing a lot of politics posting these days, cause the game of gotcha is roughly pointless, but Redstate just caught my eye with this post about Freeciv. Quote:
That's from the Redhot section, which is brief blog posts written by the editors, so I don't think it's unfair to attribute the sentiments to Redstate itself. Who's Jake Featherstone? He's a primary character in Harry Turtledove's Timeline 191 series, who serves as an Adolph Hitler analogue up to and including concentration camps and death chambers. He's racist, bitter, petty, small-minded, and his CSA is about as nasty an empire as Turtledove can write.
Who names their Civilization nation Nazi Germany?
It feels just so comfortable, so at home for me, that I stayed up far, far too late last night leading Jake Featherston's Confederate States of America to world domination by taking a commanding lead in technology, then grabbing air, land, and sea superiority worldwide, in order to be safe against the world war against me triggered by my (eventually successful) launching of an Alpha Centauri-bound colony space ship.
That's from the Redhot section, which is brief blog posts written by the editors, so I don't think it's unfair to attribute the sentiments to Redstate itself. Who's Jake Featherstone? He's a primary character in Harry Turtledove's Timeline 191 series, who serves as an Adolph Hitler analogue up to and including concentration camps and death chambers. He's racist, bitter, petty, small-minded, and his CSA is about as nasty an empire as Turtledove can write.
Who names their Civilization nation Nazi Germany?
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Date: 2007-11-06 02:14 pm (UTC)I do agree that it matters how they do it, but I'm really not sure what's a weirder "who am I, as I spend 6000 years conquering the world?" choice - Hitler, or Mohandas Gandhi?
Now I want to go through the default list of leaders available in freeciv and compile an Evil Index. But just to be on the safe side, I'm playing as Linus Torvalds from now on.