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• DrSleepless@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Video games aren’t supposed to be realistic, they’re supposed to be fun

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  • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨27⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Noo I want to spend 50 years before I can have a second well!

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  • DonAntonioMagino@feddit.nl ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s still interesting to analyse them like the cultural products they are.

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    • FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah, examining the ways they are inaccurate tells us a lot about ourselves.

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You can do all sorts of things with video games, even when sticking to realism, if it helps you achieve your goals.

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• MurrayL@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Written in 2020 but still an interesting read. I wonder what the author thinks of games that have released in the intervening years, like Manor Lords, Going Medieval, and Farthest Frontier?

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  • RipLemmDotEE@lemmy.today ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Well, it looks like someone did an interview with a medieval historian about Manor Lords.

    youtu.be/KS56GUgb-08

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• it_depends_man@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Pretty insightful. Key takeaways:

  1. linear growth didn’t really happen like that
  2. pre-planning would be good
  3. experience of tax collectors skimming the surplus, plus hazards of rural life.

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  • sukhmel@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Yeah, I thought life was hard but sustainable mostly, turns out one was always at risk of extinction:

    Medieval villagers were often living on the edge of subsistence. Agricultural surpluses were skimmed by the church and the feudal lords. Bad harvests, banditry, warfare and disease might decimate a village community at any time. For this very reason, the demography of many European villages remained relatively stable between the twelfth and the eighteenth century.

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    • leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      relatively stable between the twelfth and the eighteenth century

      Hm… wasn’t there like a 33% dip back in the fourteenth, not counting subsequent migration to the cities and whatnot…?

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• EarMaster@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Well then I guess the Wolfenstein games aren’t historically accurate either…?

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• HailSeitan@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Image

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  • Ephera@lemmy.ml ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s pretty much just a hook into infodumping about medieval cities…

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    • HailSeitan@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      In a games community…

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