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PowerCrazy

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  • A quick thought on Humankind and civ 7

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  • While you are correct that by the end of the game each civ looks the same, and at the beginning of game the initial starting strategy is basically the same, a lot of the civ customization is the flavor. England for example has a distinct art style, they have english music, their flag, and even their unit art. In Civ4 they reach their peak power at an era appropriate time, (red coats and banks) whereas Rome get's their legions at the beginning of the Iron Age.

  • A quick thought on Humankind and civ 7

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  • I played Humankind on release and yea it was a mess, but it worked somewhat because it was doing something intentionally different from the Civ formula and the expectations were that it wasn't Civ. As someone who loves Civ4 as the pinnacle of the series, I greatly appreciated Humankinds attempt, even though the game isn't all that great. I still have ~100hrs in it though.

    Civ7 was the last straw for me. Firaxis do not have any talent left and they are coasting on the brand. The entire idea of changing civs throughout the game is anathema to the entire concept of a Civ game. They've lost the plot. Forget any of the other mechanics they've implemented or moving away from board game mechanics, if they can't capture the extremely rough alt-history appeal of the franchise, they've lost anything that makes Civ interesting. They aren't making a civ game anymore.

  • A quick thought on Humankind and civ 7

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  • I mean some rigidity is perfectly fine, especially in a game like Civ where the whole purpose is that you get to play as Rome and conquer the modern world. But in order to "play as Rome" you need to the game mechanics to limit you as the Roman civilization to make sure that you are distinct, at least initially, from say China, or France, or the Aztec or whatever. A fully "custom civ" would be extremely out of place in a Civ game, not to mention would certainly be imbalanced.

  • Trump Officials Bypass Congress to Push Billions in Weapons Aid to Israel

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  • Why did they bother bypassing congress? I assume just for expediency, cause it's not like congress wasn't going to send unlimited aid without conditions anyway. Maybe this way Trump got to pick the grifters and so congress-critters are upset about that?

    Either way, who the fuck cares.

  • Zohran Mamdani faces progressive backlash after Katie Hochul endorsement

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  • New York City is beholden to the Governor of New York for a lot of stuff. Governor has a huge amount of authority over the MTA, Metro North, tolls into the City and I'm pretty a huge amount of city tax revenue is only authorized by the governor. It makes a lot of sense to be friendly even if she is a neo-liberal ghoul. An endorsement is pretty much the least he can do.

  • 'The Chinese government bans all new investment in Israel'

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  • That's cool, too bad they are apparently as morally bankrupt as the USA leadership otherwise they would advocate for the utter destruction of israel and the public execution of any Chinese citizen who had ever invested a single Yuan into genocide.

  • The US government is trying to make coal seem cute. It isn't. | Trump complained that coal needed better PR. Then “Coalie” showed up.

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  • Always has been.

  • Your friends are still acting like everything is normal in America. What do you do? All Americans live in a “dual state.” Here’s what that means — and how to help others see it.

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  • Sounds like democracy is a sham. Good talk.

  • Your friends are still acting like everything is normal in America. What do you do? All Americans live in a “dual state.” Here’s what that means — and how to help others see it.

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  • Same, but it can't stop with "republicans"

  • U.S. Military Tells Key Middle East Ally to Prepare for Attack on Iran

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  • Nah. Trump will bomb a couple of random Iranian targets, claim that the grand-pumbah of islam was killed and then he'll declare victory and leave, just like last time. Iran will shoot 1000+ missiles at Israel, Israel will spend $200million of US military AID to blow up 90% of the missiles and the remaining missiles will kill 17 people and then Iran will declare victory. Israel will sortie 2 American f-16's to blow up some long abandon "nuclear sites," and then Benjamin will get his propaganda win.

    At the end of the day a few billion dollars will be wasted, and literally nothing of substance will happen.

  • UN risks 'imminent financial collapse', secretary general warns

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  • Wow the international slush fund is running out of money because member states aren't interested in it's supposed benefits? Crazy.

  • Dev creates astrology-powered CPU scheduler for Linux, makes decisions based on planetary positions and zodiac signs — sched_ext framework informed by lunar phases, cosmic weather reports, and dynamic

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  • This is just using dev/rand/ but with extra steps.

  • Mexico Defends Cuba Oil Shipments as Humanitarian Aid

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  • Oil Shipments anywhere are the enemy of all people everywhere.

  • Neat little game

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  • Thanks! I'll check it out.

  • Neat little game

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  • I tried to look this game up on Steam but I couldn't find it. Could you put the steam link in the OP? I love Eldritch/Lovecraftian aesthetics.

  • Chrono Trigger is kinda insane

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  • Chrono Trigger also create the new game+ mechanic afaik it was the first RPG to have it. If you wanted to see all the endings, you didn't have to play from the beginning.

  • No, Tim Waltz and AOC, the National Guard Won’t Save Us - Left Voice

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  • Eh. The national guard could be used as a moderating force. For example they could require that ICE Officers be escorted by national guard members at all times while they enact their "lawful" duties. Failure to be escorted could be declared unlawful action and the transgressing ICE member would be arrested and turned over to federal judicial branch, after a lengthy bureaucratic process. Of course this would require democrat politicians to actually want to disrupt the very system they were elected to uphold.

    I also don't think the national guard gives a shit one way or another about any specific private property. In the aggregate as a construct of a capitalistic state, sure they will support capitalism, but in the reality of the individuals who make up the state national guard, they are being abused by the very system they are supposed to protect. They seem fertile ground for revolution. It's not oligarchs and billionaires who join the national guard. It's not senators' sons, and the daughters of NGO founders who are in the national guard. In short, the members of the national guard are not the ones benefiting from our current system, in contrast to the federal officers and police that do benefit.

  • Trump Is Making an Enemy of the Gun Lobby

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  • "Gun Lobby" is just another capitalistic industry that did successful regulatory capture a century or so ago. Who cares about them. The fact that guns are useful tools is beside the point. It's like claiming that Trump is making a an enemy of John Deere.

  • RAM Prices Got You Down? Try DDR3. Seriously!

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  • I'm still using DDR3 as I haven't upgraded my computer in like 6years. It's fine. I can play most games at 4k and I'm rocking an Nvidia 4070. I don't really see any compelling reason to upgrade until GTA6 comes out. (I can play gta5 just fine)

  • Games @lemmygrad.ml
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    Idle/clicker Games with a story/endpoint

    www.decisionproblem.com /paperclips/index2.html
  • United States | News & Politics @lemmy.ml
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    Student Loan Debt Forgiveness Program for Entrepreneurs

    democrats-smallbusiness.house.gov /news/documentsingle.aspx
  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.ml
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    Staten Island park road reopens to cars after 5-year closure

    www.silive.com /news/2025/04/staten-island-park-road-reopens-to-cars-after-5-year-closure.html