Good god those comments. So many people see this and think, wow, guess it’s ok for me to bring it all the Nazi Jewish tropes

You start building a space elevator from orbit. So unfortunately no.

They are fun games that you can get lost in, I can’t really say any more than that.

What a clown country

I just remember the AI being a push over. You could declare war, beat on them for a bit then extract huge amounts of money out of them through diplomacy and declare peace. Then do it all again, over and over. I always remember enjoying the diplomacy phase of that game

Honestly, the number of travellers I meet who are terrified to eat anything outside of a very narrow range of what they consider safe food is depressing. Even westerners who chose to travel are chauvinistic when they do it

Cool. I did have a couple of Chinese teachers a few years back but I fell out of the habit. I’ll be in China again next year so hopefully I can make it stick. The apps I use are basically useless.

May I ask what methods you use to learn? I’ve been plateaued for over a year.

If you haven’t, I’d definitely try the stand alone trilogy. Best served cold, is a classic revenge story, Heroes covers just one battle but is mostly just incredible dialogue, and Red Country is a Western. They are definitely my favourite books by him. They flesh out the world a lot and are very well written

I’m so shit at this language

Really? Oh man I loved how unfair it was. The second trilogy is much better, stand alone stories. Third trilogy is extremely bad imo

I must have imagined riding all over China on their high speed rail

Yeah, you can’t beat concise code

谢谢你。我的汉语不太好。我总是忘记了对的语法和词

Hungarians really are the worst. One right winger for another right winger

You read the First Law books by Joe Abercrombie? There’s a lot of very fallible characters in that. Done if them are very skilled at certain things, but they mostly suck at everything else. Great dialogue and exceptional narration by Stephen Pacey in the audiobooks.

I appreciate you don’t want recommendations.

Anyway, I also hate books with overly competent characters. Going back and rereading name of the wind made my eyes roll out of my head

Learn it. Is fun. It doesn’t have to be a chore, it can be a hobby.

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You could be an absolute bastard in Rome total war diplomacy. I feel they never really got it right again after this

I think season 1 had a relatively sympathetic (for lib brained TV) take on the Soviets. And season 2 doesn’t play them as complete monsters. However it’s brain worms all the way from season 3 onwards.

I’ll never make an account on that dog shit site to comment, but fuck this article. Glad to see at least some pushback in the comments