Is it because he claimed to be team TERF? How is that harmful to you or anyone else?

...these games started as a simulation of real-world societies throughout history...

Spoken like someone unfamiliar with the “playing tall” strategy or scientific/economic/diplomatic win conditions.

“What is a 4X game?”

What do you think we’re arguing about? Whether institutions are needed at all or whether the need for institutions is reduced? Because I’m arguing the latter. If you think it’s the former, you’re the one who’s lost context.

So I’m going to assume you’ve simply lost context due to the different conversations going on, rather than deliberately misunderstanding. Please don’t disappoint me here.

The same problem exists for non-NFT art. If two people claim to have created a single work of art, who has the correct claim?

“An NFT of a piece of art” IS a “certificate of authenticity that happens to be an NFT.” This is a fundamental misunderstanding that this whole “NFT art” thing caused. The NFT is not the art; the NFT is the certificate of authenticity for the art. That’s all it ever has been and all it ever will be (unless the…

Let me rephrase: it reduces the number of institutions that need to back your claim.

You get something that only has value because of the certification process (symbolized in a receipt).

What’s to stop you from buying an original painting that’s certified authentic by an NFT?

You don’t need an institution to back your claim, because its authenticity is mathematically guaranteed by the blockchain it’s on.

This is, more or less, how all art works.

So...what is it about THIS game, specifically, that has people so crazy about it?

My original post implied nothing it didn’t explicitly say.

No, what’s ridiculous is claiming a game’s ludonarrative dissonance bothered you so much and made you feel so uncomfortable that you felt you had to stop playing it.

Posing a solution is not alienating just because it isn’t the only solution.

They being Blizzard, as an excuse. It’s the classic act as if sexuality is the problem approach rather than acknowledging that it’s not the same thing as thier real world harassment problem.

What you need is to understand that people have different thoughts.

Oh hey, another assumptive take on this issue that it’s Activision running damage control...