Ugh, I had written a lengthy post and lost it. I haven’t played Widelands itself much, but I have played Settlers 2 a lot. If anything I explain below is different in Widelands, please correct me ;)

Anyway, a TLDR for those that have no idea of what to expect: The Settlers 2 is a lot more about logistics and planning use of space than anything else. It needs very little input most of the time, it’s a very slow paced game.

The main things to keep in mind is available space, roads and resources. The game is separated in hex-ish tiles. Depending on how much free space there is, you can build a basic, medium or large building. As a rule of thumb, basic buildings require no resources to function (one exception being mines, which need food); medium buildings receive either 1 or 2 resources and deliver the worked result; large buildings are usually farms or a fortress.

So, imagine Age of Empires 1, but if you had to connect every building with a road network, with every worker and every resource traveling through it, one at a time. Once you set up something to be built, you’ll see a worker walking his way there, as well as resources being carried towards it. The busiest roads can receive a donkey that will also haul resources between the connected flags - you cannot manually upgrade roads, even if you have a surplus of donkeys.

Unlike AoE or pretty much every RTS, you don’t train units at all. You need a minimal military to garrison military buildings, which will increase your borders. Once any of these is fully built, a number of soldiers will come out of HQ and move to occupy it. HOWEVER, if you are attacked, only the soldiers within that building will protect it. You don’t participate in combat at all. The soldiers just line up and fight. When a military building is occupied by the enemy, it and everything that was within the lost border is destroyed.

Better title: Kadokawa employees are reportedly “optimistic” about the takeover. Subtitle: Kadokawa owns FromSoftware

Kadokawa suffered a ransomware cyberattack earlier this year, but employees were left disappointed by the response from current president and CEO Takeshi Natsuno.

As a result, employees are said to be “thrilled at the prospect of an acquisition by Sony”, according to a new report from Japanese outlet Bunshun (via Automaton).

HAAHAHAHA, Oh The Onion, you guys are… It’s not The Onion… (for anyone that doesn’t get it, PSN has been hacked a couple of times)

Anyway, the “thrill” comes from the expectation that the current Kadokawa leadership will get the boot from the acquisition.

A number of times. One of the most memorable to me was when it really wasn’t what it looked like. Case in point

I’m white, my family is middle-ish class, I don’t pay rent.

Simpler plastic design I mean. I know that beyblades were always radical-goofy looking, but older ones you could still make out most of the shapes from a distance. Newer ones look like the one in the pic, 5 layers of different whatever just on the upper part. Maybe the plastic ones always looked like that and I’m just that old, ugh

Hate it as much as you want, it brings in money. Corpos can’t hear you over the sound of their profits.

I thought they were much simpler back then, no?

Israel also bombed the Syrian Navy, sinking 15 docked vessels. In self defense, of course, because those ships would be used against them. /s

One ended up working on a McDonalds. Fucking traitor

Depends. For turn based, or slower strategy, or where you don’t need too much info on screen, mobile works. If it’s something fast paced (Command&Conquer) or with lots of stuff going on at the same time (SupCom) or with lots of micromanagement needed, mobile might feel awful. It’s like only ever having a mouse with a working scroll wheel to play a game.

FreeCiv plays more like Civ 2 by default, while Unciv plays like Civ 5. The latter is also available for Windows and Linux, it’s java

But having four different coats? Hard to believe.

It wasn’t a man, it was 3 kobolds in a trenchcoat, so it’s perfectly plausible

Also, a lawsuit last year was accusing the company of using AI to automatically deny claims - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/unitedhealth-lawsuit-ai-deny-claims-medicare-advantage-health-insurance-denials/ — https://www.reuters.com/legal/lawsuit-claims-unitedhealth-ai-wrongfully-denies-elderly-extended-care-2023-11-14/

“This is an example of how AI is being utilized not to help people but to line the pockets of corporations and their shareholders,” Clarkson said. When these coverage denials are appealed to federal administrative law judges, about 90% are reversed, the complaint said, demonstrating the “blatant inaccuracy” of the algorithm. Only a tiny fraction of patients appeal the denials at all, Clarkson said.

though tbh, listing all games that taken the funko brand would be a massive task lol

That’s what the brandshield “AI” was supposed to automate. Hell, I could possibly cobble some python script to crawl through itch and create a list of infriging games/devs, something that wouldn’t take more than 1 day.

No analogue stick, so a significant number of Dreamcast, PSP and N64 will be directly affected. It probably has 8 buttons (4 face, 4 shoulder), but the video never shows anything other than the front. I’m basing this on the other models the company sells. Also, considering several other models come with 2 analogue sticks, I’d say this one is a pass, unless you want something that’s easy to put in the pocket

BTW, the GBA SP form factor is already for sale as the RG35xx. From the looks of it, all these portables run EmuELEC

> join north korean army
> hopes to be sent to ukraine
> gets sent to work with infrastructure within nope korea
> have to dig with shovels and pickaxes
> literal backbreaking labor
> cannot slack or officer will whip my ass
> 100g of rations for the day
> cannot complain or officer will steal it

I’d probably die of hunger or from being overworked for a minor fault in a year or so.

I could try to create some sort of boat with a low profile, using whatever trash and wood is available, in order to flee by sea (can n. koreans even go to the beaches alone?). Supposing I actually managed to build something that works, supposing that nobody ratted me (from my understanding, family and neighbors are your worst nightmare and will rat you out), supposing that no n. korean patrol boats caught me, I’d still have to manage paddling/rowing on an open ocean for a week or more. No way I’d manage to get enough food and water for that long time. Depending on the time of the year, the sun could prove fatal. Storms are another danger that could fuck me up big time.

Should everything work out fine (it wouldn’t), I’d reach s. korean shores and turn myself in for asylum and maybe aim for a different continent. Supposing I kept my originally learnt languages, by now I’d know 3 (native br-portuguese, english and native korean), so I could try any anglophone country, or return to Brazil if I’m feeling stupid.

You make it sound like it’s trivial to get a position of political power when said position is already being vied for by several people, many of which have way more money and resources than the average lemming

A giant ship that can transform into a giant robot maid, complete with a vacuum to suck planets’ air.

We need to train more medics in the Team Fortress 2 university, so they can shoo AND shoot vaccines at vaxx deniers