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- Comment on Got any must-play games for strategy fans? 2 days ago:
RTS: Zero-K RTT: Steel Division 2 and Warno TBS: Dominions 6. Songs of Conquest if you want a modern casual HOMM3 clone. TBT: Battle Brothers and Field of Glory 2 Grand Strategy: Basically everything from Paradox. Victoria 3 is my current favorite.
- Comment on What's the greatest joy you have gotten from a video game? 1 week ago:
As a millennial, I’m probably not alone when I write Red Alert, Atlantis, Diablo and Fallout 2 on a computer without internet connection. Also endless demos from PC Gamer CDs.
The more unusual game I want to add is Warlords 3. Got it as a Christmas gift from my cousins boyfriend (he was maybe 20 years older than me). Probably because he wanted someone he could play shared screen PvP with. Spent a lot of time with that game.
Also playing Tibia on a 33k dial up connection was special. A very laggy and expensive experience. Always afraid that mom would just turn off the connection because she had to make a phone call. And the true horror I felt when I encountered another player or a new monster deep within an unexplored dungeon. I didn’t like WoW when it came out. Probably because of emotional bluntedness that free PvP in combination with gear + xp loss causes.
And I’m still chasing the dragon.
- Comment on What's the greatest joy you have gotten from a video game? 1 week ago:
That must have been really awesome. ❤️
- Comment on what unbiased media sources do you use? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think unbiased media exist. But some are at least less biased. And you want some bias towards scientific reasoning, honesty and meritocracy. Otherwise you introduce too much noise (which is one reason why being absolute about free speech leads to less free speech, and also the reason electronic warfare is something prioritized by weak political and military state actors). Less noise usually correlate with what people perceive as left leaning or liberal bias. Also, I think it’s OK with biased media as long as one is open and explicit about it.
In Sweden I use Omni which is a commercial news aggregator, which I find relatively unbiased or balanced. Public service is pretty good as well.
For American news, I usually go for NPR first. Don’t know if they are super unbiased, but at least they are not full on crazy.
I’ve tried Ground News, but I feel it’s a bit too focused on politics of the English speaking sphere.
- Comment on Why is it considered sexist to ask women to smile? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know if it’s sexist but it sure as hell is annoying. Don’t tell people to smile if you don’t have a very good reason.
- Comment on Rainbolt never misses 2 weeks ago:
Ah! LOL!
- Comment on what was the last game you played in 2024? 2 weeks ago:
WH40K: Chaos Gate
- Comment on is feeling disrespected reason good enough to change jobs? 2 weeks ago:
Just quit.
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- Comment on Longtime buddy of mine just got a gaming PC. What games would make up a good "welcome to PC" care package? 2 weeks ago:
Total war: Warhammer 3? Baldurs Gate 3? Maybe those are available on console as well…
- Comment on What did everyone grab during the Steam Winter Sale? 2 weeks ago:
Also went for BG1! Seemed like a really good deal.
- Comment on What did everyone grab during the Steam Winter Sale? 2 weeks ago:
Lots of CRPG and TRPG. A few experimental indie RTS. And a few indie auto-battlers. Plus a few casual co-op shooters. Oh, and some indie horror as well.
- Comment on Age of Empires designer believes RTS games need to finally evolve after decades of stagnation 2 weeks ago:
Found the answers in the Bar FAQ: beyondallreason.info/…/what-are-the-differences-b…
TLDR: Zero-K and BAR is based on the same FOSS engine. Zero-K is less micro with better unit AI. BAR delivers a more vanilla and micro intensive Total Annihilation experience.
Supreme Commander is proprietary closed source and has some different mechanics. Larger but worse maps.
- Comment on Age of Empires designer believes RTS games need to finally evolve after decades of stagnation 2 weeks ago:
It must be playable for casual and single player gamers. I’ve never seen a casual friendly multiplayer RTS I believe. The FPS genre manage to do this, so I think it should be possible.
Nothguard, Dune: Spice Wars, Line Wars and maybe Total War, could be considered casual friendly multiplayer RTS.
Though I must admit I want a good e-sport RTS I can watch and maybe dip my toes in, now when SC2 and AOE both feel quite dead. It’s the only e-sport that really entertains me. (we’ll maybe chess is an e-sport as well nowadays)
- Comment on Age of Empires designer believes RTS games need to finally evolve after decades of stagnation 2 weeks ago:
I hope we will se more non-micro RTS games. More like HOI4, but that takes less than 1 hour to finish a game. Dune and Line Wars are on the right track.
- Comment on Age of Empires designer believes RTS games need to finally evolve after decades of stagnation 2 weeks ago:
How does it differ from Zero-K or Supreme Commander (or any other TA clone)?
- Comment on Should South Korea launch a preemptive attack on North Korea? 1 month ago:
True!
- Comment on Should South Korea launch a preemptive attack on North Korea? 1 month ago:
I don’t think so. Probably not, but I’m really not sure. It’s a classical argument when starting a war (Germany/WW1 and Japan/WW2), that’s why I brought it up.
I.e. if you believe there is a very high risk for war at SOME point, then you probably want to take control of the situation and start the war at a time and place of your choice. If you can destroy 90% of NKs ICMBs (or other kinds of carriers) today, it’s better to start the war now, if the new technology will bring that number down to say 50% by tomorrow.
The conspiracy theorist in me says that it’s not impossible that the recent coup attempt in SK was somehow related to this kind of thinking. This is how the military tend to reason after all.
- Comment on Went Off SSDI to work, hit with large FTB tax bill, lost power and can't pay for meds. Now what? 1 month ago:
Maybe you could move abroad? Canada or the EU? I.e. some western country with a better welfare system. If you don’t have friends or family, that might be an option. And if you’re healthy enough.
- Comment on Should South Korea launch a preemptive attack on North Korea? 1 month ago:
I guess the counter argument would be that the situation will only get worse the longer you wait. This has happened many times before.
- Comment on Should South Korea launch a preemptive attack on North Korea? 1 month ago:
That’s an argument I don’t agree with. I believe the perceived risks of nuclear fallout is negligible in most cases.
- Comment on Should South Korea launch a preemptive attack on North Korea? 1 month ago:
I agree. But hopefully I’ll learn some serious arguments.
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- Comment on Should Germany aquire nuclear weapons? 1 month ago:
Well, then just change the question. Should it be legal?
- Comment on Should Germany aquire nuclear weapons? 1 month ago:
Well, my guess is that there wouldn’t have been a WW1 if nukes were present. Also, there wouldn’t have been a WW1 (as we know it) if pre-war leaders had known it would be a trench war of attrition. Though we probably would have had WW3 if nukes weren’t present.
- Comment on Should Germany aquire nuclear weapons? 1 month ago:
Good timing. youtu.be/xSnZLWjOkHU
- Comment on Should Germany aquire nuclear weapons? 1 month ago:
I believe that with the new US administration (and popular US opinion), one could go from good terms to bad over night. I would not trust that the US adhere to article 5 if things become serious for real. Why should they start a nuclear war just because their semi-friend forces itself upon a woke central European country? Things were completely different during the cold War.
- Comment on Should Germany aquire nuclear weapons? 1 month ago:
Best thing you can do is to not fucking participate.
What if that’s not an option? It could for sure be rational for a violent actor to force it’s will on a non-voilent one. One only needs one rotten apple and the Nash equilibrium dissolves.
- Comment on Should Germany aquire nuclear weapons? 1 month ago:
Fair point.
- Comment on Should Germany aquire nuclear weapons? 1 month ago:
Good luck using them unless you’re allowed to. Might be an option if you have a couple of months. Though you would have to defend against two nuclear powers during that time.
Also good luck using your US made jets and critical components.