Jun 12, 2012 1 note  A decade-long game of Civilization II shows
how inevitable the apocalypse is     • The world is a hellish
nightmare of suffering and devastation.   This is the
fascinating story of a decade long Civilisation game, kept on by
redditor Lycerius. In the thread, he goes on to explain how a
1700 year long war has ripped the lands apart, killed off entire
towns and left them in a souring radioactive mess. In Lycerius
own empire, citizens are disgruntled with their totalitarian
leader and riots pop up evey now and then. Lycerius strikes them
all down mercilessly.  Many redditors recognized this scenario
from that in George Orwells ground-breaking dystopic novel 1984,
for example _Muad_Dib who says the similaritys goes ”right down
to there being three superpowers left in the world”.
TectonicPluto agrees and continues:  3 superpowers, a
“communist” leadership in which technology has reached as far as
it needs to go (end of technology tree), barbarian (resistance)
uprisings constantly being stomped