Asetru
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- Comment on Nintendo is Bringing Us Kicking and Screaming Into the $80 Game Era with the Switch 2 2 days ago:
You’re paying double digits for your games?
- Comment on Civilization 7 Outlines Crucial 1.1.1 Update as It Struggles to Compete on Steam Against Civ 6 and Even the 15-Year-Old Civ 5 1 week ago:
You should replay it. It is imho the highlight of the series because of a few changes compared to other civ games:
- Focusing on the terraforming and colonisation of alpha Centauri allowed them to have an actual story where you uncovered stuff about the planet and its indigenous lifeforms while you played. It’s from the 90s, so there is no branching storylines, alternative endings or stuff like that, but even after repeated playthroughs it’s nice to have some progression that’s more than a tech tree.
- Having only seven leaders (and having them all in every game, no smaller or larger games) might seem weird and tbh, larger maps feel a bit empty. However, each technology, city improvement or wonder gives you some (well narrated) text bits of one of them, giving them so much more character than the leaders in your average game of civ. The hatred for Miriam has become a meme, which wouldn’t have happened if these characters weren’t extremely well written. Ironically this is imho of of the reasons why the add on didn’t work as well - the few bits that were added for each of the new factions just weren’t enough.
Although there are more differences, like eg a unit design workshop, the game loop feels quite similar to civ. It’s like they took civ 4, polished it and just decided to make it… Dunno, meaningful. And while that’s not per se relevant for in game decisions such as “where to settle” or “what to build”, it just makes the whole experience so much better. It’s still my comfort game that I boot up for another play on my deck every now and then.
- Comment on Civilization 7 Outlines Crucial 1.1.1 Update as It Struggles to Compete on Steam Against Civ 6 and Even the 15-Year-Old Civ 5 1 week ago:
Has there even been a Civ release that was great at the start?
Does Alpha Centauri count as a civ game?
- Comment on testtomcels 1 week ago:
- Comment on testtomcels 1 week ago:
Testtomcels
- Comment on testtomcels 1 week ago:
That image has been living in my head rent-free since I first saw it.
- Comment on How North Korea Launders Billions in Stolen Crypto 2 weeks ago:
Et tu brute force
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 4 weeks ago:
That was discontinued after two iterations. Was going to switch to ios just for their mini range after years of Android, then saw that they got rid of small phones as well. Like, what would I gain by switching ecosystems if I know that the next phone is still going to be huge?
BTW, I settled for an S24, which is considered “small” now but still way too big, but at least Samsung has a decent one handed mode that doesn’t hide half of your screen line ios or stock android but instead decreases the whole screen to bearable sizes:
Still feels like the damn clown mask meme, where, after years of increasing phone sizes, they now add a stupid software feature to virtually decrease screen size to remain usable.
- Comment on That explains a lot 5 weeks ago:
That shrinks in a vacuum but grows as other matter gets too close. Matter such as “the earth”. Explain how we’re not fucked if it escapes from its magnetic vacuum suspension because Kevin accidently drops it.
- Comment on That explains a lot 5 weeks ago:
I’m not saying we shouldn’t do it.
- Comment on That explains a lot 5 weeks ago:
Yeah.
Then somebody drops it and it just falls down to the planet’s core and eats our fucking world.
- Comment on Romantic 1 month ago:
What episode of interdimensional cable was that again?
- Comment on I miss when you could get a flagship phone that could fit in your hand 1 month ago:
IPhone 5, s10e, s24.
- Comment on I miss when you could get a flagship phone that could fit in your hand 1 month ago:
Bullshit. I have an s24. Before that, I had an s10e.
They both are too big for one handed use, but the s24 even more so.
Before I bought the s24, I even considered to switch to ios after years of Android only, just for their iPhone Mini range. Guess what, they cancelled that.
There are simply no phones by major manufacturers that can be used with one hand.
- Comment on Sonos Plans to Launch Apple TV-Like Streaming Box 1 month ago:
Who’s Analog Jack? And what kind of superpower is that even supposed to be?
- Comment on got one of the last ones for christmas 3 months ago:
- Comment on got one of the last ones for christmas 3 months ago:
So glad I could pick up some discounted stuff as well… Not in this picture: the Stargazer, which is gift wrapped and will be handed over to my son later today. These will serve as presents over the next year or two.
- Comment on FBI recommends coming up with a 'secret word or phrase' to make sure your family know you're you and not some hellish AI copycat 3 months ago:
So, let’s make the formula for concentrated dark matter our secret code.
- Comment on Mars' Leaky Nipple 4 months ago:
As you sound like you know about it: What is that cloud made of? Can’t be water, right? I mean, we have speculated for decades on whether there’s water on Mars, we wouldn’t have done that if there’s a yearly 1000 km trail of water that can be seen from orbit, right?
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 4 months ago:
“This waste shouldn’t be overly dangerous and the fact that it isn’t doesn’t say how dangerous it is”. Wow. How did you do this?
Here I thought you’re just slow and didn’t read what I wrote so I was already preparing to just explain what I said.
What does that even mean? How is that saying anything about the dangers of radioactive waste?
Did you read what I write?
I will rephrase you:
What does that even mean? How is that saying anything about the amount of radioactive waste?
This is where I realised you’re just trolling.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 4 months ago:
What nonsense is this?
Compare gloves that were used once to turn valve on pipe in reactor room to shit from coal in your lungs.
No shit, Sherlock… The reactor room is shielded by the water. Something you had in there once shouldn’t be overly radioactive and the fact that it isn’t doesn’t say anything about the dangers of radioactive waste.
Even most active kind of waste everyone thinks of - spent fuel - consists from about 90% of useful material.
What does that even mean? How is that saying anything about the dangers of radioactive waste?
Actually not.
new nuclear power costs about 5 times more than onshore wind power per kWh […]. Nuclear takes 5 to 17 years longer between planning and operation and produces on average 23 times the emissions per unit electricity generated […].
- Comment on I feel you, green guy. 5 months ago:
I can be a backpack while you run
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
This makes me wonder so hard why people don’t switch to Mastodon instead. Like… You have literally seen this before! Why are you doing it again?
- Comment on Magic Mineral 5 months ago:
Aw fuck l, I knew I remembered that shit from
childhoodThe Wizard of Oz. - Comment on Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants 5 months ago:
The person I replied to was talking about learning the basics of a language… This isn’t about searching for something specific, this is about reading the very basic introduction to a language before trying to Google your way through it. Avoiding the basic documentation is always a bad idea. Replacing it with the LLMed version of the original documentation probably even more so.
- Comment on Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants 5 months ago:
What about just reading the documentation?
- Comment on Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible 5 months ago:
You did not make fun of my typo? Believe it or not, also ban.
- Comment on Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible 5 months ago:
Obviously. Stupid sexy Finns.
- Comment on Your stupid decal finally makes sense! 6 months ago:
You think it’s the worst… And then there are those who want to ramp it up to 11.
- Comment on Your stupid decal finally makes sense! 6 months ago:
As somebody not from the US of A… What is a “salt life decal” and who would or wouldn’t have one?
