Ugh, I try not to :[ honestly such an embarrassment for the whole country that the choices are between a senile old dude and a convicted felon dictator
I'm old enough to remember Trump gutting the EPA, approving oil drilling permits, and reducing national park land and that those are considered all negatives for the environment :/
I'm pretty stoked this came up in my feed today. I was actually one of the players in that campaign! We played in a small, virtual group during Covid. I sent this thread to Garlic~
The coffee shops weren't a big part of the campaign, but it was definitely a recurring theme. He did a great job world-building and there were backstory elements he added in for us. I did miss the Starbucks reference until it came up and I echo the collective groan we had. There were other puns and fun adventures we had in the campaign.
Oh DF is definitely a deeper world. There are a lot more knobs to turn (obvious or not). I've seen some really cool colonies and worlds. I'm just not very apt at building them myself.
Another comment made a good point that DF did come before, with Rimworld building on what DF made. It's difficult (for me at least) to go backwards. Like I really enjoyed Baulder's Gate 3 and tried the original but couldn't get into it :/
The world building element in DF is so cool. Like the world is generated and aged and has history. Rimworld's planet feels flat in comparison.
Huh, I didn't know that history. But that makes some more sense. It's always difficult going "backwards" in a game. Like if you play the latest in a series, the first is more "meh". Respect where due - I appreciate that DF paved the way.
DF definitely didn't feel as intuitive. A game like that needs a Weenie Hut Jr tutorial to introduce you since a lot of the mechanisms don't make overt connections (to me at least). I remember some elves came to trade and I offered them a bunch of stuff but they got pissed off and rejected it. Some googling later let me figure out they don't like wooden things :[ but I didn't know that going in and it would have helped to know
I hear that. I did try to pregame and watched a bunch of YouTube tutorials before jumping into DF. Still had to Google a bunch of stuff. I remember feeling frustrated trying to make soap (even with a flow chart). Like I made the workstation for it but no soap came. Then I learned I needed lye but didn't know how to make it. Learned it came from the butcher but didn't know how to hunt @_@ a lot of those stacked and I eventually gave up.
I only recently got Ideology for Rimworld and am exploring that now :) lots more in the other DLCs to play through too
I may be looking at it from owly playing on the Steam Deck too, like never having a keyboard and mouse made a lot of it difficult and gave me a sore thumb lol.
I wanted to play vanilla to understand the mechanics before modding, so I could appreciate the quality-of-life improvements. I definitely have a bunch I play with in Rimworld.
Very good points. My colonies haven't gotten quite as big as 50 - I think 14 was my max. I know about making zones and assigning people, but I haven't had a colony that warrants that kind of macro.
I feel more of a personal connection to my pawns in Rimworld. Like I want my shooter to have a good quality gun and armor, or my guy that likes melee to have good armor. DF was like "build gauntlets" and then "assign pawns to be in a garrison", but I didn't really know specific pawns. Too many to manage individually. That was my comparison with Sims vs Sim City (I hear you on the scale though)
Rimworld and Dwarf Fortress
I love Rimworld and play it a lot. I frequently see posts and articles comparing the two. I got Dwarf Fortress, watched tutorials, printed out flow charts, and really gave it a try for several hours.
But I didn't get into Dwarf Fortress :( some of the mechanics are weird. Many things are not intuitive or don't make sense. Like seeds that are needed for growing mushrooms are defaulted to be used in cooking and the setting to turn that off is difficult to find.
I finally realized an analogy today. Rimworld is like The Sims while Dwarf Fortress is like Sim City. Rimworld you directly control people and micromanage a colony. Dwarf Fortress is Sim City - you zone things and say generally what you want to happen, but don't control your meeples directly.
Thoughts on the comparison? Any other folks like Rimworld but not Dwarf Fortress?
Granted, she did pull an Uno: Reverse on him about a minute after this
I'd recommend to finish the books if you've started and are already on 5. The books do go past where the show ends. I did show, then books. In the lead up to book 5, I was anxious about finishing the story
This is the first step to having magnetic wheels become a thing. We know canonically Jim Kirk's motorcycle uses these, so it's definitely mainstream by ~2250.
Honorable mention: the Bell Riots happen September this year, and it seems we're on track for those too
To merge with another fandom, there is no Megamind sequel in Ba Sing Se 💡
It was over 410:1 when I started a job in 2012. My company may have been an outlier :/ I hope it improves
FML you're right :( just saw this pop up in a news feed. Party of law and order at work
My favorite part about the aftermath of this is that Convicted Felon Trump won't be able to vote for himself in the election 🥰
He did win against her. Until the Superdeligates swung the election in favor of where their money and the DNC wanted. I completely hold the DNC torpedoing themselves as the reason for Trump in '16.