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  • a very silly girlie in her toxic femininity era (but like, in a I-support-women’s-wrongs kinda way)
  • Butlerian jihadist (machines should not think!!;! BAD!!) (techbros plz face the wall 🥺)
  • I do a little fedposting, as a treat
  • anarchist (I need to believe a better world is possible)
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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • It’s really more of an easy mode with a couple of super unlucky bullshit gameovers scattered around than a master mode. Look at how many builds have overtaken the Australian meta since their introduction: dogs, cats (okay, they’re an apex predator everywhere), foxes, rabbits, cane toads, mice, rats, deer, camels, scottish thistles, horses… I could go on.






  • I’ve been enjoying it a lot, but it’s clearly an unfinished product at the moment.

    To get into a little more detail, there’s not a whole lot of features at the moment, but that’s pretty par for the course. The launch version of VI seems similarly sparse in this regard, but its updates and expansions did a good job fleshing it out. What’s there at the moment is mostly just a barebones collection of core gameplay systems, but I already think they’re deeper and more engaging than in previous iterations.
    Grouping units up for rapid deployment under a commander? Love it. Navigable rivers? Sign me the fuck up. Making the game’s outcome feel like less of a foregone conclusion by half-time by soft-resetting at the start of new eras? Sorely needed. Love how they’ve re-worked independent powers (formerly city-states and barbarian encampments). Content is gonna come later.
    It’s a shame that the interface is total dog shit. People are complaining that it got dumbed down for parity with consoles, but if it’s as bad on those as it was using a controller on PC (at my gf’s place, so I was playing with my deck) then this is a sloppy execution that doesn’t work well for anyone.












  • Yeah okay, I agree with all that, but once someone has established a pattern of harmful behavior, it becomes dangerous and naive to assume that they’ve changed without any sort of evidence.

    We don’t get to just assume Felix is a changed man just because he has the self-control not to drop hard-Rs on stream anymore, but he has to actually disavow those past actions as something more than just a “heated gamer moment.”
    He has to disavow the members of his fanbase who do believe that sort of thing is okay and that he’s their guy because he’d say and do stuff like that.
    He has to actually do something to show people he’s better.