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0.0 hrs last two weeks / 2.3 hrs on record
Posted: Jul 26, 2022 @ 10:01am
Updated: Jul 26, 2022 @ 10:22am

Despite my world views not necessarily aligning with this games direction, I learnt a lot from the game, and I enjoyed the concept. The creators (and by extension the original authors of the book this game is based on) very carefully blended utopian ideals, with the reality that change is hard and often damaging. Great so far.

The gameplay however is good but lacking. Some areas are very well made, such as the interactions between you and government parties, but even after a few games, the production screen however is utterly nonsensical to me. It's also useless, as the game funnels you down towards using renewables and no meat so every game you do the exact same thing (add organic farms and solar, remove livestock and fossil fuels.

I can't recommend this game as it flaunts itself as being educational, but the developers views on nuclear power are both incorrect, and damaging. Like fossil fuels it is demonised, and events surrounding nuclear power stations are often incorrect. These include:
-Nuclear reactors are unstable and dangerous. (They kill as many people as wind turbines do (deaths per GwH))
-Nuclear waste storage is unstable and dangerous. (They just aren't)
-They produce pollution that leads to global warming. (???)
-Breeder reactors are impossible magic fairy tales. (Several breeder reactors exist in Russia)

If you do not understand/are scared of Nuclear power, please spend some time researching it using trusted sources. If you truly care about the environment, like this game claims to be, you would be pro-nuclear.
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C o n r a d Jan 30 @ 1:38am 
Evidence:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19QBYMB5dOLDbGSWq5HphA4aErMUKspPS?usp=sharing

There are many uncounted deaths/birth defects/illnesses caused by nuclear catastrophe that have gone unreported (Japan).

Nuclear development is often used as an excuse to build Nuclear weapons.

Producing anything necessitates fossil fuel emissions, unless the mining, manufacturing and transportation processes rely entirely on renewable energy. Nuclear reactors are especially costly if their construction is indefinitely delayed and their cost to build far exceeds expectations.

There is NO effective method for long term waste storage. Any storage solution leaks eventually, and WILL affect the environment in which it is stored. This is especially important when you consider global conflict/war and the fact that climate catastrophes will only get worse, making fragile storage solutions even more vulnerable.

Before you reply to me I recommend that you read the sources that I have provided.
Foreskin Gamer Nov 9, 2023 @ 2:25pm 
Jackson P.

Why wouldn't countries or terrorists create dirty bombs without nuclear reactors? How is ordinary uranium any less bad than nuclear waste? I fail to understand the role that nuclear reactors play in the whole thing?
gmhs2 Nov 9, 2023 @ 12:18pm 
"Breeder reactors are impossible" is so dumb because to some extent every reactor breeds its fuel. Hell, thorium essentially *requires* breeding to be an effective fuel source, like depleted uranium (U238) it is not fissile, but upon neutron absorption it transmutates into a fissile material (U233 for Thorium, Pu239 for Uranium). The U238-Pu239 transmutation is how plutonium was made on an industrial scale for bombs.
ianthina Sep 26, 2023 @ 9:55am 
But the green goo I saw in the Simpson's was scary.

Another power thing that makes me mad, at least from what I could see (I barely played the game), SOLAR PANELS TAKE UP SPACE in the game. They're like 3 bars of space out of 4 or something.

Yeah, they do take a space, if you're an idiot Californian who thinks that we need to have a dedicated farm of solar panels in the middle of the desert. But any reasonable person will just put it on roofs that aren't being used for other purposes. 0 space used.
arakuii Dec 19, 2022 @ 9:16pm 
if you campaign against nuclear you are directly benefiting oil and other fossil fuel companies. this is one of the very few issues in the world that has literally zero grey area, nuclear is categorically and unequivocally the safest, most efficient and cleanest power source out there.
SDSkinner2011 Aug 23, 2022 @ 2:50pm 
@turtlebacons
They aren't stupid, they are evil. They can't say 'I hate human civilization because other people made it and it causes people to think highly of engineers, skilled workers and laborers' so they come up with a proxy. Thus the rationale is ever in motion and impervious to disproof, because the goal isn't to provide safe power, it is to have no one provide any power.
turtlebacons Aug 14, 2022 @ 8:25pm 
if you still think nuclear power is evil and unsafe after reading online trusted sources and this comment section then you must have done too much hard spar boxing sessions, or hit your head extremely hard many times, godspeed.
turtlebacons Aug 14, 2022 @ 8:25pm 
this thread is full of braindead mongoloids who think nuclear power is bad. i swear big oil really knows how to brainwash better than the CCP and the former soviet union.

wind farms: destroys entire ecosystems for it to be placed, kills tens of thousands of birds anually. the fiberglass blades cannot be re-used and end up in landfills. all this to barely power up a neighbourhood

solar farms: better than wind farms but they also kill thousands of birds by setting them on fire and also need large plots of lands. not only that but they require metals and resources that destroy ecosystems (heavy metals, rare metals etc.) all of this to barely power a neighbourhood

hydro/thermo: good sources of renewable power and relatively safe, but cannot power the world.

coal/oil/gas: this is what powers most of the world and what REALLY causes global warming and destruction of ecosystems, these companies also own most of the wind and solar farms and create propaganda against nuclear power.
Moon-and-Star Aug 14, 2022 @ 11:31am 
Nuclear power phobia is a psyop by the fossil fuel industry. Any "Greens" who try to campaign against nuclear power are sus af, as the kids say.
Of course, there is the issue of peak uranium to contend with, but it's a good stopgap for a few hundred years at least.
Falcon Aug 11, 2022 @ 3:53am 
If it funnels you to no meat, then they do not understand biology and regenerative agriculture either.