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On The Revolutionary Potential of Automation Games (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

No, the game is really just pure, uncut heroin for engineering nerds. It’s designed to appeal to their deep desires for automation, clever designs, and optimization.

Those people don’t really care about economics, they care about creating little engines that process one type of resource into another.