George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four

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Orwell's '1984' Getting New Film Adaptation at Imagine Entertainment (Exclusive) - Hollywood Reporter

 

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So it turns out that if you play Civilization long enough, it turns into... 1984. Pretty much.

From Civilization to Big Brother: how a game recreated Orwell's 1984 | Books | guardian.co.uk

There are three remaining super nations in the year AD3991, each competing for the scant resources left on the planet after dozens of nuclear wars have rendered vast swaths of the world uninhabitable wastelands.

I wanted to stay a democracy, but the senate would always overrule me when I wanted to declare war before the Vikings did. This would delay my attack and render my turn and often my plans useless. And of course the Vikings would then break the ceasefire like clockwork the very next turn. Something I also miss in later Civ games is a little internal politics. Anyway, I was forced to do away with democracy roughly a thousand years ago because it was endangering my empire.

Sid Meier was one thorough sonofabitch.

 

[sparkchaser]

I am convinced that Sid Meier is either an alien from some far away star or a visitor from the future.

 

[sparkchaser]

beer good, the dude posted on reddit and there is now a subchannel devoted to it.

Very cool.

 

[Peder]

beer good, the dude posted on reddit and there is now a subchannel devoted to it.

Very cool.

Great link Sparky!

Maybe if I got into gaming I would stop buying books. And give up eating, and sex, and sleeping, and reading, and BAR, and . . . wait a minute! Give up BAR? Impossible.

Gotta repeat: great link Sparky!
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[beer good]

beer good, the dude posted on reddit and there is now a subchannel devoted to it.

Very cool.

Woah. Reddit people are busy people.

 

[sparkchaser]

Never underestimate the power of bored, pasty white nerds.

 

[Dan Brown]

Read both 1984 and Animal Farm. Both are masterpieces. I prefer Animal Farm, though, as it was less bleak. Not that it wasn't bleak, but nothing like the hopelessness of 1984. 1984 greatly depressed me while Animal Farm (which was based on the Soviet Union) did not. Maybe it's because the Soviet Union no longer exists, but "Big Brother" is here to stay.

 

[Zach Ezo]

1984 is brilliant, that's a given. But Orwell's distopian future doesn't seem to me a future only brought on by communism. Sure communism is what Orwell seemed to be most passionate about. Him and Rand. But the only difference between a communist future and a corporate-ruled future (or corportocracy) is that it would be much cleaner and sanitized. Either way you are still cogs in a machine, it's just a choice between a governmental machine or a corporate one. The difference isn't that great.