Congratulations!

more like they gave you corridors and 1 square kilometre heightmaps but gamers longed for just corridors

that avatar functions like seeing the fluorescent colouring of a poisonous frog

Screenshot of Workers & Resource: Soviet Republic. A night-time shot of a cargo ship leaving an aggregates dock. A factory complex is lit up on the hill in the distance.

really satisfying to finally set up proper medium-scale sea exports rather than have to rely on tiny barges

You're also encouraged to make use of dirt/gravel roads because none of your vehicles can even reach speeds high enough to make proper use of asphalt. In that same way though, when you eventually start developing things it ends up feeling very satisfying to think back on how things looked originally

The Early Start stuff is really fascinatingly implemented. Starting with steam trains, horse-drawn vehicles and really inefficient combustion-engine vehicles changes how you approach infrastructure and logistics, on top of the extra importance of bricks & boards for construction rather than concrete

Screenshots from Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic. A wide overhead shot of a complex developed area - urban, rural, lots of farms, railways, dock infrastructure, etc

Screenshot of Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic. A close view of a steam train pulling a series of dumper wagons loaded with coal.

it's been Workers & Resources time again for the last week for me. started in 1920 (it's now 1956) so I've been enjoying all the steam trains and stuff

thought this said facebook theory and I nodded solemnly and said to myself "good name for it"

yes 100%

tinc un veí qui es un home escocès molt típic - porta pantalons curts en tot temps. neu? pantalons curts. plou? pantalons curts (amb jaqueta)

"it's my record store life"

We don't know how much The National were paid to run an ad for nazi TERFs, but I suspect they've acquired a lot of subscribers who are LGBTQ+ or allies.

Time to start cancelling those subscriptions.

We're ten years into this culture war. There are no second chances.

Go fash, lose cash.

haunted meatloaf

that's my postal vote done and posted. is there any way to get this information to Anas Sarwar so that I stop getting his tedious unskippable adverts everywhere I go online

99% of teens don't post on forums anymore. If you're one of the 1% who do, put this in your signature

you know what's good

phpBB forums

today on separate occasions an hour apart, Bluesky has told me that I have no notifications yet and also that I have notifications for every interaction I've ever had (it was showing them as 'new' no matter how far I scrolled back)

Vibe Code Additional Pylons

here's some more info

Why @why.bsky.team 5mo Entering day four of "no phone because it broke and I can't get to an apple store", AMA Why @why.bsky.team 5mo I left it outside in the sun and when I went to pick it up, it was saying "temperature too high! let phone cool down before using again", and then within a few hours it was gone Why @why.bsky.team 5mo Okay, so full transparency. I did dip it in a pool after it said it was too hot. I was told not to do that before doing so, but my hubris said "nah these things are waterproof" and into the swim it went. I go in the pool when I want to cool down, why can't my phone?

I have not invented this

in addition to this I think it's worth bearing in mind that one of bluesky's tech leads once put his phone in a swimming pool because it was overheating then was surprised that this broke it

"bsky users blame every problem on vibe coding"

yeah, dude. if you got a dog to code this website i wouldn't be wasting time asking which of you was the source of each new bug

postscript to this sequence:

5. Bluesky keeps breaking every second day in new and exciting ways

1. people reflexively blame AI for problems because it's obviously harmful in many domains
2. Bluesky (now "entirely AI-coded" acc. to staff) keeps breaking
3. AI is blamed. Devs say no, it's web service issues, scold AI-blamers for their ignorance
4. devs admit it was actually AI code at fault

lol

happy taraday!

American guy: “Hon hon hon.” Haha. “Oui, le baguette.” lol. Nah, nah. It’s all in good fun.

French guy: Haha. “Ooh, I love to buy Funko Poppe and 326 dolleure gas at ‘obby Lobby.”

"aggrieved non-bender" sounds like it should be in a bluesky bio beside "Gen X, Liberal, Labour, LFC"

this is not true. no country has implemented communism but there are plenty of socialist economies to examine

the person quoted is a deliberate negator