If simulation was politics

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  1. mantasisg

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    I have this stupid post idea I was thinking about.

    If simulation was politics, far left side of spectrum would spread ideas how incredibly easy and simple no-brainer everything should be. Everyone should be equally capable and never defeated. It would go up to the point that everyone could have separate individual reality simulated and it would be huge mess and massive openly and officially supported lie. Skills and certain characteristics would be leveled out and made to be irrelevant and almost meaningless. People criticizing - discredited, cancelled, socially exiled and ignored.

    If simulation was politics, far right side of spectrum would spread ideas how much hard and complex everything should be. It would do so up to the point where things could become insufferably terrible and still have to be dealt with. Only the very best should be capable of certain things. Some dictator would alone control everything and hardly ever minding anyone else. Happiness of many people would largely depend on morality and mind clearness of "the boss". And just the same - the truth of simulation would depend completely on how realistic and honest "the boss" is himself, which is hardly expectable from "boss" type of personality. Which is hardly expectable that far right side person would be a honest leader, but not boss.

    If simulation was politics, centrists would have subtle opinions how ideas from the left and from the right are both correct and wrong and of course they would have little power and no support from right and left. They would either always conflict with everybody, or always sucking-up, depending on which opportunities they would choose.

    Fortunately simulation isn't politics and we don't live in simulation.
     
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    In a simpler way...

    If simracing was politics, iRacing and developers in general will be called capitalists by the left partie people and will be hacked in protest. Also those people will allways want everything for free... So in short, probably simracing didn't exist :D

    The right partie people will obvisously say that nothing comes for free and you should be rewarded by your work, which generates jobs and supports economy and keep simracing evolving!
     
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    Evolving and right parties seems mutually exclusive as they define themselves "conservative" in the U.S. so, things must remain as "the same old good days". AKA DX9, RF1 physics. :D Realroad is banned as a devilish device of doom and death.... think to the children!
     
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    Ahahah, good one! :D

    But maybe being conservative would mean being hard core simulated, like in the good old (conservative) times :D
     
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    I don't think conservative approach means resisting improvements and evolution. It is more about maintaining and keeping good stuff in check, so it is not forgotten and lost. Sometimes you can't be sure that anything that was done in different way in the past was wrong, and if change is always for the better. In motorsport reality it is always easy - tech just keeps on improving and getting better (although there also are debates for side effects, such as: F1 being spaceships is boring, and all the computers and smart phones makes people dumber somehow. In simulation it is easy to make something extremely good by just knowing some of the basics, and sometimes not even that is a must. To make stuff accurate - not too bad and not too good is extremely difficult. Perhaps even more difficult to achieve acceptance for that if you delibarately make some little bit "imperfect", like for example car has bit of twitch here and there if driven fast in loose control and focus... The paradigm that stuff should always become better (literally) is unfortunate for simracing when initial simulation is too perfect, degrading something is just not acceptable by many. I am yet to hear some pro real life driver, or pro simracer demanding something to be less perfect in simulation, I also haven't yet seen people in simracing admiting that they shouldn't be able to drive as well as they do, it is always the opposite lol with really very rare exceptions when in it is deadly obvious.

    As for economics. I think history has set stuff straight in there unless it gets forgotten. IMO piracy is slowly loosing the edge in the internet and physically, and more people happily spend money for what they love, supporting it to become even better. LOL even in iRacing there are so many people submiting to paying two times for everything - to have it, and to use it lol.
     
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    all politicians would say each and every issue is on their agenda and they will work hard to improve things :p
     
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    If S397 were the party in power (in charge of the evolution of rF2), there would be :

    - The opposition which complains all the time and which only knows how to do that (our friends the rF2 haters).

    - The people who would support excessively rF2 and S397 (the fanboys, we know them).

    - The centrists who would have balanced positions and who would say both what is going well and what is going wrong (it would be the real fans and the objective people).

    It is true that we can draw parallels with the polics. LOL
     
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    Not simulation, but actual driving and politics:



    :D
     
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    We aren't doing debates about politicians. We have set an assimilations between basic principles of views in politics and views about simulation. Debates about realism goes on forever and will go on forever, and they often are as heated up as politics, there is just no capacity to discuss actual politics. Or in other words, we have our own kind of politics about simulation. And doing this analogy with actual politics helps to break it down more clearly.
     
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