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Is 'SimCity' Homelessness a Bug Or a Feature?
sarahnaomi writes: SimCity players have discussed a variety of creative strategies for their virtual homelessness problem. They've suggested waiting for natural disasters like tornadoes to blow the vagrants away, bulldozing parks where they congregate, or creating such a woefully insufficient city infrastructure that the homeless would leave on their own.
You can read all of these proposed final solutions in Matteo Bittanti's How to Get Rid of Homelessness, "a 600-page epic split in two volumes documenting the so-called 'homeless scandal' that affected 2013's SimCity." Bittanti collected, selected, and transcribed thousands of these messages exchanged by players on publisher Electronic Arts' official forums, Reddit, and the largest online SimCity community Simtropolis, who experienced and then tried to "eradicate" the phenomenon of homelessness that "plagued" SimCity."
You can read all of these proposed final solutions in Matteo Bittanti's How to Get Rid of Homelessness, "a 600-page epic split in two volumes documenting the so-called 'homeless scandal' that affected 2013's SimCity." Bittanti collected, selected, and transcribed thousands of these messages exchanged by players on publisher Electronic Arts' official forums, Reddit, and the largest online SimCity community Simtropolis, who experienced and then tried to "eradicate" the phenomenon of homelessness that "plagued" SimCity."
host the Olympics?
If this dude is morally outraged by the way people play Sim City I can only hope someone alerts them to the way people play Dwarf Fortress.
If it were, I'd be upset at plumbers who think that the way to solve problems with fungi is to stomp on them.
The homeless people are who lived in all the neighborhoods of players who no longer play the game due to being locked out by intrusive DRM.
Note to self: Avoid Santa Monica. Non-zero probability of encountering strange person trying to make an obscure point while disguised as a homeless person.
Yeah, like we cannot take on more than one problem at a time, right? Face it: homelessness in Sim City IS A PROBLEM. It needs to be addressed NOW. It's not like all those homeless are going away if you ignore them. What are you going to do, force them to emigrate? To where, the Mushroom Kingdom? In case you haven't noticed there's a permanent status of civil war there. Some of these homeless people are veterans with severe psych issues and they're of all ages - from Battlezone tank crewmembers to Call of Duty former SpecOps - they need HELP. So get off your high Skyrim-imported horse and press F12, dammit!
Geeks are so full of shit that "beating the crap out of them" takes a whole new meaning.
Facts? Here? How DARE you?
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