"Wouldn't it be cool to delete all the bases you've built?"

it's where the Gallop polls are sourced from

Necessity maybe? Since older MMOs had to be built very robustly for permanent online connection and on-server processing before a string of glass or satellite rays could beam a movie right into our pockets instantly. I don't think tab-targeting combat caught on widely in other games, either.

I feel like this happens even in games in settings without smartphones or similar devices. Stuff that used to be in-world locations in RPGs that you had to walk to become mere tabs in a quick-access menu.

If I had a penny for everytime a supposed "civ killer" involved breaking new ground on the use of nukes I'd have two pennies which isn't much but I'd prefer staying this poor and not make it three.

and it turns out they're not using pizza or so as a code but simply write emails to each other starting with "hi there fellow pedophile" because using codes and acting clandestinely is done to avoid accountability and that's not something these people can even remotely conceive applying to them

And as a German, I'd like to highlight that "but I didn't vote for him" won't wash the blood off your hands in the history books. How your country makes decisions is your internal affair. When your country's entire culture and politics for decades culminate in it, there is collective guilt to bear.

We unironically need more brand accounts here for that, they're a good timeline cleanse and are the most reliable to stay, well, *on-brand* and post nothing else suddenly.

It even has a demo! My first impression was "Anno but for people with RL responsibilities" (laudatory)

His authorial intent is powerless against an ESL speaker misunderstanding a phrase, may it be due to missing on some vocabulary, cultural context, or whatever.

Like, congrats, the lack of loc just created an experience deviating more from the intended one than it would've with a mediocre loc.

I think he's also overestimating the authority of his officiality. Thinking you have definite control over the experience that forms in your audience's heads strikes me as a bit delusional about your role as an author.

Everyone in your audience is different and will receive your work differently.

Germany. For new orders, expected delivery there is 3-6 months now.

Congrats! Did it sell out or are there problems with international shipping? I preordered half a year ago and just got notice today that my order has been cancelled :(

Naturally, this means these posts gravitate towards simple and obvious ideas tapping into widespread pre-existing knowledge and beliefs and the chance that the devs had the same thoughts day 1 nears 100%.

Doesn't matter if that mental image of the idea is actionable. Doesn't matter if it's even the same as the one the poster had. All that matters is if the user *thinks* they understand the idea.

I call it the "lowest common imaginator" - ideas don't gain social media traction by being *good* but by being able to create *any* mental image in someone scrolling by within a second.

Modding communities have *a lot* of servers. It's just what you get when you combine a hobby built around making your own thing the way you want with infrastructure designed alike.

With civ we're probably much smaller than the sims but even we are currently active on at least a dozen servers.

Entrepreneurs today need more "if I invent steam power, I won't turn society upside down but *only* grill the kebab better" energy.

AI agents should just be party trick apps like those that let you "drink" a beer from your phone back when gyroscopes in phones were new. Just clowns in the machine.

Unironically so because lots of people in retirement homes are widowed and do indeed visit the cemetery often, while having impaired mobility.

Another connection that sometimes has them end up together IRL is when they both are services of the same church.

Not to throw shade but Steam Next involved a builder game invoking "zen" as a concept and idk, might be a good game, but from the visuals it was all just building concrete deserts?! If "cozy" means anything as long as *someone* grew up with it and associates it with "home" then we're wide open.

Their tech to penetrate bunkers involves literally bombing the *exact* hole the first missile leave with further missiles - if necessary dozens all the way down. That's how precise they can be if they want to.

Half their marketing so far has been "We're neither Sam Altman nor Elon Musk, therefore we are totally ethical and the good people." Incredible pickup to be able to add Trump to that.

If they get blacklisted by Kalshi then fuck it, let them burn down human civilization, they've earned it.

Explains why they don't allow AI written posts - it reveals how they actually long for sincere human interaction. And a lot of individual stories sound like they fell for "AI companionship" because they lack that positive human interaction, not because they see talking to AI as superior to it or so.

ah ok the UI is weird, I thought the button said "off" for easy, so I assumed that was hard already, lol.

Seems a bit sycophantic when I'm like "oh damn, I can't believe I was this far off, this is pretty hard" and the game is like "nice job, almost perfect, off by just one pixel" lol

It also leads to this odd mismatch when you do need help:

"Oh no big deal, I just contributed like 5%, a small thank you is enough, this was still your project overall."

vs

"The whole thing literally would not work without those 5%, otherwise I'd have done so, I am in your life debt forever."

I can also imagine everyone changing their stuff until last second - even though an earlier lock-in would help colleagues do their downstream work - because employment terms are shit and if you don't present yourself as essential every day, you're laid off quickly?

the location: LA

- rich guy just wants to make the game of his dreams (wcgw)