When James Moore was 14 years old, he began playing Sid Meier’s Civilization II, a game in which competing empires vie for global domination. And he kept playing one particular scenario just to see how long he could last. Moore started in 2002. Fourteen years later, his world lives on—but it’s not one in which any of us would ever want to live.

In June 2012, after 10 years of playing, Moore took to Reddit and revealed his situation: