#Civilization

Ed Beach says that players "had not been given full service by the game as the way it first shipped".

Rope is easy to take for granted. It seems obvious and straightforward. But of course, it had to be invented. Early humans discovered that by twisting fibers around each other, the resulting structure would be something durable and strong.…

From Dev.to - opensource: Future AI Should Belong to Households, Not Only Data Centers — YueYun Framework

Civilization OS Validation Note #1 Why Systems Repeat Failure Repeated failure emerges when impact fails to become constraint. This note validates the structural mechanisms introduced in Design Notes …

The Russian philosopher has sparked outrage, but his target is not race – it’s the liberalism and nihilism of modern Western civilization

From Kotaku RSS Feed: CEO Admits Civilization 7 Was A ‘Bridge Too Far’ As It Ditches Its Most Controversial Mechanic In New ‘Fundamentally Game-Changing’ Update Over One Year Later

Following more than a year of small and mid-sized updates, plus free content drops, Civilization 7 is getting the game-shaking 'Test of Time' update this month.

Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick said that Civ 7 has been "a profitable enterprise" while acknowledging that they got aspects "wrong."

From Pcgamer RSS Feed: Civ 7 is getting 'by far the most-requested addition' later this month, but I'm more interested in whether it'll finally feel fully baked

From Reddit - r/longform: A New Theory of Western Civilization - Could a marriage policy first pursued by the Catholic Church a millennium and a half ago explain what made the industrialized world so powerful—and so peculiar?

The famous framework ranks civilizations by energy use — but ignores a critical factor that can halt their progress.

How would people react if an alien civilization actually made contact with us? Space.com talked to experts, who shared a variety of opinions about a possible real-life "disclosure day."