u/EfficiencyFlat6746

everyone calls rust a survival/pvp/base-building game, but i feel like its real “genre” is political.

every wipe turns into territory control, alliances, betrayals, intimidation, propaganda, trade, taxation, reputation, class difference between nakeds/geared clans, and clans basically “governing” parts of the server.

it feels less like a match and more like primitive civilization rebuilding itself through fear, trust, force, and diplomacy.

am i reaching ?

everyone talks about being in a simulation, but what if that’s not random?

what if this specific reality was intentionally built to simulate what ‘base reality’ was like before simulations ever existed?