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No_one
Underemployed Slav. Likes playing Factorio.
User ID: 1042
Banned by: @Amadan
No_one
27d ago
The likeliest scenario imo seems to be a psychotic episode.
He got reported to the police for making the same threat last year. He was convicted for threats in '13..
No_one
27d ago
Unit design is in Endless Legend. It doesn't have geo-engineering though...
..neither floating cities, though a DLC brings in ocean control & resources.
Similar to Civ:
SMACx if you haven't played it, go play it. The graphics is a little rough but I think you can get used to it. The game itself is excellent, almost unsurpassed. Check if there aren't mods that fix AI, iirc there are some, the vanilla game has uneven AI that can be exploited. This mod is probably good.. Good writing & memorable leaders. Some quotes even made it into the real world iirc. Not the ones linked but I swear I saw certain phrases outside of the game context..
EDIT: the mod mentioned first is actually pretty good. But this mod is vastly better. The guy wrote a new DLL so he could patch the original game, the AI is now very, very good.. Well.. at building. At fighting - it'll send rovers into a killing zones.
Endless Legend. It's kind of like Civ V/SmacX except it has quests and researching or even stealing a tech makes all further research more expensive. Units stack, are pretty customizable and battles are tactical but not that long. Factions are truly asymmetric, unlike in Civ with significant differences in playstyles due to different abilities. The only downside I know is that there's really no religion / cultural layer to the game. AI is good on normal difficulty, to lethal on higher difficulty settings due to cheating.
Less similar:
Age of Wonders 2 +(Shadow Magic DLC). Hard to describe it, it's like a mix between Heroes of Might & Magic and Civ. Supposedly a remake of the old Master of Magic games. Every player in the game controls a wizard, whose magic can affect the entire map. In addition to the classic 4x resources, there's mana. You don't have to control mana sources but it's massively beneficial, as it allows casting and maintaining enchantments of ..units, cities, or entire map regions. If you're a water-magic based swamp civ, you can turn your entire domain into a literal swamp, hindering everyone's movement but yours.. etc. In addition, there's 3 underground layers of the map and certain units can tunnel through soil (but not rock).
AoW 2 is notable for having a religious system that actually matters and it's not just a few % modifiers .. you have to take your God into consideration. IIRC you need to build a temple to do so, then it starts. So If you worship a War god, war & genocide gets you in his good graces. He will grant you war-related boons... it's not very deep but it wasn't all that deterministic and was a pretty nice touch. E.g. if a War God commands you to destroy a city, and you don't do so because your impious ass cares about diplomacy, well..
Master of Orion 2 -needs dosbox, only 640x480 is a classic 4x game. Pretty much like simpler Civ except tech are exclusive - in most research tiers you have to pick 1 of 3, so there are trade-offs to make and combat is godly because it's done using starships and these are designed using your known techs and then the fight itself is iirc initiative & turn based. Ship design is about twice as complex than Stellaris and the turn based combat is pretty fun. Even with it, it's nowhere near as time-intensive or tedious as Stellaris, even a huge map can be finished in ~12 hours.
Endless Space 2: the economic / research system is pretty similar to Endless Legend,but it's a space based game. The combat is a little disappointing bc you can't control it, only select tactic to be used. So it's like Stellaris. Very stylish game.. Also disappointing: the blurbs/concepts for various economy-related techs are seemingly very low effort and nonsensical on second look. Sseth has a video on it.
No_one
28d ago
..hotly anticipated.. by whom?
These games have gone to shit. Civ 5 was only so,so. They're not even trying. You should have a fricking globe. You should have good AI. None of that is present.
No_one
1mo ago
Interestingly it doesn't seem to have been covered much or maybe I'm using wrong keywords in search.
Stanford Internet Observatory was one of these NGOs.
https://stanfordreview.org/stanfords-censorship-deceit-at-the-stanford-internet-observatory/
Mike Benz covered it in depth and maybe even broke the story. He's got a lot of info on it on his account.
No_one
1mo ago
Internet is enormously beneficial to people solving technical problems.
Asked someone I know who worked as a software developer before and after internet. She thinks it's at least an order of magnitude difference in efficiency/ output.
No_one
1mo ago
It's really weird autism. I the guy not aware of the whole misinformation censorship complex where Dems had USG fund 'independent' NGOs to pressure platforms to censor?
No_one
1mo ago
Natural source is only in nuts. That's a very novel food source. Hazelnuts were sometimes a staple food, but generally before 10k yrb ago people were primarily carnivorous.
No_one
1mo ago
It's very rare no? Don't most people stay with their kids at home until maybe age 4-5? IRL I know of one person who was in early daycare, and my entire family sometimes (but rarely) talks that she's a little odd bc of that. She herself has said that. Her parents were careerist high flyers and very much in love. 1930s kids, so they considered their parental duties done when kids were fed, clothed and attending school.
No_one
1mo ago
Although he's still posting substack articles defending Letitia James's political prosecutions.
I find that hard to believe.
Link?
this query of google: site:substack.com ymeskhout letitia
only found him arguing with some other substacker, but no article.
No_one
1mo ago
Don't want to turn this into a CW but he deserves a post there. Disliked wannabe Overton window maintainer & spawn of a Russia looter.
No_one
1mo ago
Here mayo ..goes rancid (yellowish crust) on the surface I guess after a couple of weeks storage after opening.
No_one
1mo ago
"gluten intolerance" (that Americans don't seem to experience when eating bread in Europe)
Isn't it basically a fad, like women declaring they're bi etc? In Europe I know IRL like 2 gluten intolerant people out of say, 100. Real but rare disease. In US it's massively overrepresented
No_one
1mo ago
Actually, sunflower is the worst, canola best.
The whole thing is kinda dumb, the issues are marginal I believe. But it's hard to quantify. Best to avoid all such and fry in animal fats I guess. Ofc, pigs are fed omega-6 feed, so lard has a fairly high omega 6 content too.
No_one
1mo ago
I've heard some claims you can make a decent substitute using schmaltz but never attempted it.
Am a bit leery of working with uncooked eggs tbh.
No_one
1mo ago
The only kind of gardening I'd ever consider doing. It's a great spice and needed in small quantities. Wish I'd never learned of the whole seed oil controversy because crushed garlic in mayo is the best tasting thing I know of.
No_one
1mo ago
Yeah. But we live in a liberal society that pretends we're all equal in our decision making ability.
So very noble and conveniently also allows for the exploitation of the weak minded and willed by the clever and the ruthless.
No_one
1mo ago
The signal is a lot less informative when half of the people do it.
And christ, that Burnette version is nasty, in all kinds of ways.
No_one
1mo ago
I've always found the idea remarkably repelling.
I hate being in close proximity to people I don't know, I hate paying money for stuff I don't really need or enjoy.
No_one
1mo ago
They're an ethnic derived from a mostly criminal vagrant underclasses. Originally some low Indian caste, they interbred along the way with people who liked them and probably lost people who didn't like it. No doubt women ran off, maybe men too.
They're extremely patriarchal, routinely violent towards women, shun education.
Their entire culture was based on deliberately isolating from others (Gajos) who were believed to be unclean and could be exploited mercilessly through confidence tricks and stolen from. Yes, they have a myth how it's not immoral to steal. God himself gave them dispensation for theft bc s gypsy stole nails from Romans so they could only put the two in him.
Once they worked also as tinkers and farriers, but they were always quite malicious because the genocidal edicts pronounced on them in western Europe were simply unprecedented. Jews were hated but recognized as useful. Roma were literally declared vermin in Germanies, Netherlands.
The travellers who are genetically white iirc derived are similar. A behaviorally distinct roving criminal ethnic.
No_one
1mo ago
Indians who would make up the bulk of these are well known for being modest, competent and not over overconfident.
No_one
1mo ago
Bureaucratic institutions, if given access to funding are going to proliferate indefinitely.
Parkinson's laws are undefeated. Famously predicted RN with more admirals than ships.
Came true in '90s. These days, there's more army general in the British Army than there are tanks in it. Probably more generals than big artillery pieces too.
He hated Germans and threatened them repeatedly. If it's an act it was a years long performance.
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