About this episode

Rowan and Luke discuss the class struggle in the context of feline-rodent relations within the city builder game Whiskerwood.

This week, Rowan and Luke contemplate the inherent class struggle implied by feline-rodent relations in another delightful, furry-adjacent city builder with Whiskerwood. In this world, the cat tax doesn't simply mean posting a pet pic to thank people for reading your wall of text modding tutorial. It's wealth extracted from the whiskered workers by feline overlords in a distant land. The solution, once again, might be trains.

People in this episode

Hosts: Rowan, Luke

Topics covered

• class struggle
• feline-rodent relations
• city builder
• Whiskerwood
• wealth extraction
• trains

Keywords

• Whiskerwood
• class struggle
• feline
• rodent
• city builder
• trains
• wealth extraction

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Whiskerwood

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