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[–] folshost@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago (7 children)

Almost as many as there are in the colonial fleet in Battlestar Galactica. So does that mean we can expect that the colonial fleet had someone as prolific at shitposting as The_Picard_Maneuver? That's encouraging to know if so

[–] folshost@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

The other day my dog was sniffing something in the road, and for some reason it made me think of the theme song "What's the story Wishbone, what's the storyyy Wishbone"

[–] folshost@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Yeah! I'm glad I could be of help.

[–] folshost@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago (5 children)

I kinda get that vibe too. But without knowing more about him, I imagine what I perceive might also just be someone who's very confident in themselves who doesn't necessarily care very much what others think about him. Which, Linus has built his own company from the ground up, and it has made him very wealthy, so, he has some legitimate reason for that confidence, in his competence and his f you money. I suppose that might also co-occur with easily overlooking other people's problems, or being narcissistic though. Which is bad for a boss (e.g. Elon). Still, hard to just summarily judge without more information

[–] folshost@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I will say, the couple times my colonists got into nearly deadly altercations due to one of them being a pyschopath and going around starting fights was actually interesting. But that kind of conflict was much less frequent than 80% of my pawns being in the hospital due to an attack from neighboring clans

[–] folshost@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

Well, I'm glad it wasn't the main bridge for Galveston island, that would've been all kinds of bad

[–] folshost@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, I was playing on 3x for most of the time. I know, I was surprised that I didn't really seem to get it

[–] folshost@lemmy.world 24 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (11 children)

I've been playing not much else than city builders in the past year or two, for some reason.

Surviving Mars is good imo, and so is Frostpunk, but both involved a decent bit of trial and error to figure out. For Frostpunk that ended up being a strength, but not sure if I'd have just done a tutorial for Surviving Mars if I would have had fewer problems.

I have like 400 hours in Satisfactory, some people consider it a city builder, I guess for resource management reasons. But there aren't cute little people to watch so I don't know about that, haha. Fun though.

Kingdoms and Castles is a very cute game, but probably too easy. Still, very relaxing to play which is nice.

I also enjoyed Jurassic World Evolution, driving the jeep through the park you've built is very fun.

For the past few months I've been playing tons of Oxygen Not Included. It's really fun, but tricky, and the simulation differs from how actual physics works enough that some mechanics are unintuitive for me. It's a game that I had to figure out a specific reason to keep playing though, as once you get the main problems fixed you're arguably "done", but it's not all that hard to get a self-sustaining colony.

I tried Rimworld, and found it a very weirdly unsatisfying game. Imo it's too slow and tedious to be good as a "story generator" but the problems you face are also too banal but also devastating for it to be a good city builder. I'm guessing a lot of people would hate me for saying I actually prefer Stranded: Alien Dawn to Rimworld, even though it's just a 3d copy. But Stranded Alien Dawn is more fun to watch your people do stuff and I enjoy being able to build 3d houses too. It's almost more like The Sims.

I also briefly tried Against the Storm, but I dunno, it didn't really grab me. Seemed really slow.

Timberborn is a fantastic game, and everyone should play it. Just fantastic. I started before the badwater update and I think there's merits to either mode, so if you wanna play safer, you can turn off badwater for a game and it's still super solid.

I just bought Manor Lords, but I'm gonna wait till it gets updated more before I crack it open. My ONI world has a lot of work still.

Also, like everyone else says, Banished is great (though the UI leaves something to be desired, but it's also a custom game engine from the one dev) and Cities Skylines is good too. Haven't tried CS 2.

I also really wanna try Captains of Industry, but I've gotta pace myself

[–] folshost@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Have you ever actually been outside the US?

[–] folshost@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Definitely looks like him

[–] folshost@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I look forward to seeing this post every week. It's encouraging that Mr. Krabs is proud of me

[–] folshost@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

I wonder if it isn't a symptom of things going from high competition environment between new internet services and older stuff like cable to more established systems of revenue which don't have as much incentive to compete for workers or market share. So maybe that's the end result of approaching monopoly.

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