![]() ![]() Sorry, this has just been on my mind for the past week or so and felt the need to get it out. All the people who died for dynasties and empires of the past, and all history will remember is the ruler, and maybe a dozen or so other people.ĭoes it make life meaningless or pointless that we too will be lost to time eventually? No, but we should all have fun and enjoy our short ride on this planet and be grateful for getting a shot at this great galactic lottery of life. We'll just remember things as "The Boston Tea Party", or "Occupy Wall Street", or "Victims of Terrorism", just these names attached to them, but not of the people involved. All those people had lives, lived full lives, and loved, had friends, might have been artists or poets or actors who have been swept away with the river of time, and will be forever forgotten. People singing songs in taverns hundreds of years ago. Of parties and get-togethers the common people had during the reign of Alexander the Great. After five minutes of chitchat, suggest getting a cup of coffee or. A young couple living in one of the Chinese dynasties centuries ago, gazing up at the stars. HOSE WHO, LIKE KELLY FUTERER, COME HERE TO work and love soon enough free myth from. It makes me ponder about people of the past. Maybe you'll be remembered by a grandson or a great-grandson, but that's it. Still, it’s a classic title, and an experience social sim and RTS fans should play. Nearly a decade has passed since the last game debuted. ![]() The Sims is like zooming-in the experience SimCity is like zooming out the game to get the full picture of Maxim’s franchise. But there are over 7 billion people on this planet right now, and almost all of them (probably, including all of you who took the time to read this) will be completely forgotten in the next hundred or two hundred years. SimCity is always a companion title for The Sims. How many specific people can we name that lived between 1000 AD and 1100 AD? 1600 AD and 1700 AD? 1900 AD to 2000 AD? Sure, the more we get to the present, the more names we'll have - musicians, artists, politicians, etc., who will be written down in various history books. I mean, just think: how many of the ancient Greeks do we remember? I mean, maybe we can name 30-50 if we dig as deep as we can, but think of the thousands upon thousand of others who have been forgotten. Does anyone else ever think about how insignificant we are in the grand scheme of things?
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