R.J. Sikes
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Frostpunk’s Book of Laws & The Agency of City-Building Decisions
Frostpunk is awesome. I haven’t gotten that far in it, but I have played enough to get the gist of the game and to explore a few different styles of playing. It’s a unique twist on the city-builder genre because on top of building a city, you build a city that is in an intense freeze. There are the standard resources to worry about, housing and food and healthcare, but there is also heat. Buildings that are farther away from the center are colder, and are more likely to cause sickness.
By R.J. Sikesabout a month ago in Gamers
“The Common Good” and Necessarily Lukewarm Left-Politics
Robert Reich’s The Common Good is a good book, and a great book to recommend. It’s nothing revolutionary itself, but for someone who’s attached to some big names in politics (Presidents Clinton, Ford, and Carter), he’s surprisingly more left than center-left. I first noticed him from his Netflix documentary Saving Capitalism, named after his book of the same name. It was a bipartisanish approach at exposing lobbying. It looked at a real problem both sides should be able to agree on, and said, “Shouldn’t something be done about this?’
By R.J. Sikesabout a month ago in BookClub