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You know how messed up SimCity is when you're trying to make a place like Copenhagen or Barcelona but it's always pushing you to make San Jose.
by viburnum 9y ago
You know how messed up SimCity is when you're trying to make a place like Copenhagen or Barcelona but it's always pushing you to make San Jose.
- ascagnel_ 9y agoI think that's a great example of implicit bias -- SimCity/Maxis has traditionally been located in northern California, and as such its modeled after cities in that region.
- clairity 9y agoa lot of the buildings are in southern california. i walk by the equitable building all the time. =)
- oftenwrong 9y agoRelevant http://humantransit.org/2013/05/how-sim-city-greenwashes-parking.html http://humantransit.org/2013/05/how-sim-city-greenwashes-par... https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/02/urban-planning-computer-games/470895/ https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/02/urban-p...