[aaron695]

> Why would you code something that complex to simulate stuff that game engines are already capable of?

Because game engines are for games. They fake a lot of stuff in their models.

The brilliance of humans is their ability to turn airports into Excel spreadsheets.

This bit of the thread is interesting - "The increasingly blurry boundary between games and life".

I'd say elections are going a bit this way, along with a lot of other stuff.