Asetru
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- 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 3 days 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 3 days 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 3 days ago:
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Testtomcels
- Comment on testtomcels 4 days ago:
That image has been living in my head rent-free since I first saw it.
- Comment on explain deez nutz 2 weeks ago:
I’ll have two ingots of that, please.
- Comment on Book now for 2025's most on-theme cruise destination 2 weeks ago:
So sad that it… should end tonight.
- Comment on Also: "spend billions rescuing me, please" 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Anon gets lunch 3 weeks ago:
This, no?
- Comment on That explains a lot 4 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 4 weeks ago:
I’m not saying we shouldn’t do it.
- Comment on That explains a lot 4 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 Wish I could just keep drinking, but I need to cut back soon. 1 month ago:
at age 30
Our perception of age and oldness differ slightly
- Comment on Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of SCIENCE? 2 months ago:
signsmag.com/2018/09/fredericks-experiment/
The babies literally died for want of touch
vocal.media/…/the-king-who-isolated-infants-to-de…
The emperor’s experiment, however, ended in tragedy. Deprived of emotional and social interaction, the infants did not develop any language and eventually died.
historyanswers.co.uk/…/emperor-frankenstein-the-t…
Tragically for those involved, Frederick never got an answer to the question he posed, and the original language of mankind remained hidden from him. The children, starved of any form of affection, warmth and basic interaction, died, quite simply, of a lack of love.
- Comment on Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of SCIENCE? 2 months ago:
Just looked it up. They all died quickly. It’s literally just “they couldn’t live without it.”
- Comment on Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of SCIENCE? 2 months ago:
- Comment on Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of SCIENCE? 2 months ago:
But he laboured in vain, for the children could not live without clappings of the hands, and gestures, and gladness of countenance, and blandishments.
Am I the only one who interpretes this as “well, they died”?
- Comment on We overpaid you and need you to pay back $.23 2 months ago:
Yeah, should have added that “/s”…
- Comment on We overpaid you and need you to pay back $.23 2 months ago:
Are you suggesting that they’re not?
- Comment on Can enough solar pannels decrease the global temps? 2 months ago:
Yeah, so what? Eventually, it’ll be heat.
- Comment on Can enough solar pannels decrease the global temps? 2 months ago:
No. If a watt worth of sunlight hits the earth, it’s transformed into a watt of heat. If it hits a solar panel, it’s transformed into some heat and some electricity, which is then used to power something that then transformed it into heat. The only solar energy that doesn’t heat up the planet is the one that is reflected back into space, which, however, isn’t much for solar panels.
However, if you use a watt of sunlight to power your phone instead of a watt of energy you got from burning coal, this watt of energy instead stays below earth and therefore doesn’t heat up the planet. It also doesn’t release co2, which would otherwise reduce the atmosphere’s reflectivity, trapping even more sun heat on the planet.
So solar panels don’t reduce the temperature by not allowing sunlight to heat up the planet, they decrease the temperature by replacing other stuff that would otherwise heat up the planet.
- Comment on Greens are far-right? Bitch I'm Far-ting. 2 months ago:
They’re not?
- Comment on got one of the last ones for christmas 2 months ago:
- Comment on got one of the last ones for christmas 2 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 When your friend moves to Berlin to become a DJ 2 months ago:
- Comment on I don't know where I'm going to keep them all 3 months ago:
Any moment now.
- Comment on Anons share life hacks 3 months ago:
What do you think a cliff is?
