New Mandela effect just dropped.
No, I always remember it being a forge mod, since the 1.15 days at least. Not sure what to tell you. Maybe they discussed Fabric but went with Forge in the early stages? Maybe you're thinking of being frustrated with it not being a Fabric mod and having to install Forge? Maybe you're thinking of another mod entirely?
Haven't done one of these in awhile. What are you guys up to now?
Haven't done one of these in awhile. What's up, peeps?
PopTop. Railroad Tycoon 2&3 and Tropico 1&2. They got bought by 2K, which eventually killed the studio. The Railroad Tycoon series is dead. Tropico is still around, but I'm not excited about the latest interation. Some of the guys tried to kickstart a new Railroad Tycoon but it didn't fund. Phil Steinmeyer was an underrated developer, though I believe he's retired today.
It's too bad it worked out that way. I think they could have been on the level with Paradox as far as strategy games are concerned, but focusing more on economic games, city builders, and the like. On Steinmeyer's blog he said he didn't think there was demand for heavier games anymore about mid 00s. That might have been true then, but so many games out now prove that wrong.
It's like that meme where it's the guy saying he just needs that one piece, and the piece is labeled "a billion dollars"
Yeah, mechanism is a lot more objective way to classify board games. We can argue all day about, say, what exactly a wargame is, but what games have hex grids, area control, and resource managements is a lot easier to agree on.
Not sure why it wasn't before, to be honest, but at some point that setting got changed.
Yeah, modded Minecraft is still a big deal. You can join us over at !moddedminecraft@sopuli.xyz if you want. The mod Create is a big deal right now, and rightfully so. It may well be the greatest of all time, as far as Minecraft mods go.
Edit: didn't mean to make this a comment reply instead of post reply, but it still counts
We've just found out about a relatively new indie game called Theocracy which the author @kaptainkook says is his personal homage to Civilization 2. On closer inspection I can also see some Civ 1, Sid Meier's Colonization and Master of Magic influences too as the game appears to be a fascinating...
Looks interesting. It has more of a fantasy-focus than its inspiration. Right now it's on sale on Steam, so it could be worth checking out.
On time as always, it's time to ask: What Have You Been Playing?
On time as always, our monthly "What Are You Playing?" post! Whatcha all doing, fellow blockheads?
From the creator of Brass and a couple other reasonably successful modpacks comes an entirely new experience: Rotary Skies!
You wake up and look at your floating rock of dirt. It seems so familiar, somehow, but then a massive meteor screams through the sky overhead. Welcome to Rotary Skies!
Rotary Skies is the authorized Rotarycraft-centered Skyblock modpack. The start seems similar enough, but as soon as you get steel, a whole world of engines, gearboxes, grinders, pumps, and centrifuges opens up!
Work through over eighty quests as you go from cobblestone generators to fusion reactors! The quests guide you but don’t hold your hand. They’ll tell you what you need to do next, but not exactly how. In Rotary Skies, the “how” is the fun part!
There is no sieving in this modpack! What are you, some kind of caveman? No, until our liquefaction machines and centrifuges are up and running, we hunt for ores in the nether, like men (or other strong, mighty genders)!
We also keep bees, and by “keep bees” I mean selectively-breed and genetically-modify bees in our quest for the uberbiene: the ultimate bee! We’ve also got trains and stuff, so that’s cool.
Eventually the day will come where we will obtain the elusive and mysterious Crystal, allowing us to escape from our Sky Island and into pocket dimensions of our own creation, full of resources and incredible creatures.
There's a pair of Beatles albums in this list. I don't mind "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" or "Revolution 9," but "Tomorrow Never Knows" on Revolver counts for me. Frankly, it's the worst Beatles song. I prefer the Daniel Johnston and Jad Fair cover of it on It's Spooky to the Beatles version. It's just that bad.
Yeah, it's hard to get people to care about stuff sometimes. Sometimes you just have to let it die.
This mod caught my eye. It's similar to a plugin that was on a server I used to play on. Nice to see it as a proper mod instead of a plugin. It's pretty configurable and could be a good addition to the right modpack.
Mostly just Minecraft out of the box. I feel that resource packs and certain performance mods like optifine could be accurately referred to as "vanilla with optifine" or "vanilla with such-and-such pack." Once you get into datapacks or Forge or Fabric or hacked clients, it's not vanilla.
Serverside, it's a little more dodgy. How many server plugins can you have before it's not vanilla?
That said, I don't think there's much reason to play Java Edition over Bedrock other than mods or wanting to play on older, pre-bedrock versions. Then again, I almost solely play modded anymore so I don't have a lot of vanilla Bedrock under my belt to compare the two.
Gotta love the projection. "They'll do to us what we did to the Indians!"
The trigger happy mergers probably helped me more than they hurt. At one point I dumped a spice company in the chaos and took the cash lead, letting me get a bargain on a rubber merger. It put me back into the game, but it wasn't enough to take the win.
I have played Bus at three. It's been awhile, so I can't say too much about it. That said, I do remember having fun at that count.
As far as expropriation, I felt confusion more than anything. It got better as the game went on, but it does take a moment to wrap your head around it. Still, I though it was an interesting mechanic.
New plays were:
- Mahjong
- John Company
- Sol
- Nana
- Kreigbot
- Kremlin
- Lifeboats
- Category 5
- Fresh Fish
- Santiago
2023 saw DoamCon return to Kansas City, so I made the drive to check it out. Here's my plays.
Nah, I probably won't make it to Pax Unplugged. I will be at Age of Steam Con, so I might get a play in there.
Horseless Carriage is great. SoPac is one I still need to try. There was a copy at DoamCon last weekend, but I didn't get a game in. I did get West Riding Revisited in, which is excellent. It's one of the few cube rails to have minor and major railways. I'd like to see it licensed, but it's a little unlikely
My list looks similar. Splotter is at the top. I did preorder Horseless Carriage back before we had much info about it and don't regret it. John Bohrer would be up there as well, but though various connections I've played enough Winsomes to know they aren't an instant buy. (Iberian Railways, Italian Railroads, and 1836)
Tangent, but I'm very split on 1836. The opening is incredible, but once you get past the first stock round all the interesting decisions have been made.
It's an authorized port, and it looks like most of the cart stuff has made it over.
We're changing the modded Minecraft landscape with the new Modrinth App, alongside several other major features we've been working on the past few months.
From Civ to Centauri and the Aztec to the Second American Civil War, everyone is asking: What have you been playing lately?
New month, new post! Spill it, peeps. What have you been up to?
Hello everybody!
When I initially created this community, there wasn't a place to discuss board games on Lemmy yet. I set up this server on sopuli.xyz because many people were gravitating towards lemmy.ml and I wanted to help counteract that somewhat, even in a minor way.
That said, activity here has been next to non-existent. The community over at boardgames@feddit.de has surpassed this one in every way. Personally, I'm fine with this, so I have decided to close this community and recommend people join that community instead. At the time being, there isn't a compelling reason for this community to exist as an alternative.
Should this change, I will reopen the community. That said, if anyone else wishes to take over this community, I would be happy to hand it over to them. Until then, goodbye!
A Minecraft coremod / Java Agent aiming to patch serious security vulnerabilities found in many different mods - dogboy21/serializationisbad
