warlords are born, not made

I decided, after completing a few rounds of CIV, that I was ready for the next level, and by next level, I mean Warlord. Because, seriously? If you get to pick a name for yourself, wouldn't you want to be a warlord? In the end, this decision was a mistake.

My game ended so quickly. Even quicker than my first game, where my cities were raped and pillaged by the barbarians because I didn' t have a military. No matter how hard I tried, I could not keep up with the development of the other nations. They were growing exponentially AND we're being mean to me in the process.

I had been so used to everyone being friendly, or if they weren't having a good day, hesitiant. No one had ever felt such animosty towards me at first meeting. The Japanese must had been born with some kind of inherent intuition to be nasty to my people. An hour into the game, I had multiple countries ready to declare war on me if I even breathed too loudly.

Okay, maybe that's a slight exaggeration, but I think I'll stick to Settler from now on.

This just goes to show that people who are not ready to run a country, should not. Here we are just playing a game, we can experiment how we like and destroy the lives of our "people." But these days, doesn't it seem like we're the ones being played in someone's (ahem...government's) life-sized game? It seems to me that non-chalance that we feel when we push a key to make a decision in CIV, is the same emotion that a lot a world leaders have today when running their countries. That their people's well beings aren't at stake, becasue they're just running their own perverse experiment.