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During the game, I've completed thousands of infinitesimally trivial tasks: upgrading, improving, building, allocating, choosing, resting, moving, beginning and completing. This absolute transformation from beginning to end is glacial, impossible to comprehend at any particular moment. By sundown, that same village is a metropolis at the center of a hyper-connected world, the hub from which lesser empires are bullied, coerced and crushed. At each game's dawn, I gaze upon my solitary village, adrift in an ocean of wild tundra and untamed wilderness.
