Zagorath @ Zagorath @aussie.zone

Formerly /u/Zagorath on the alien site.

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I've watched enough Jet Lag: The Game to be very aware of your country's train problems, despite never having travelled on it (unless intra-city services count?) myself.

Should I? I don't think that's what I said.

Well, that's certainly better than remaining homophobic and disowning his daughter, which is the story we most often hear, sadly...

It's like @Shyze3D@feddit.nl said in a thread I can't reply to because my instance hadn't federated that Community (and won't retroactively federate comments):

it‘s an amount of micromanagment I don‘t want to deal with. There are already so many combat units with special abilities and specific counterunits.

You could rename them to "serfs" (or some other more period-appropriate term..."slaves" comes to mind, but would carry its own baggage) and "citizen-soldiers" (the latter term actually used in some documentation already) and do away with the sexism. But it wouldn't fix the annoying micro. That's a more fundamental game design issue.

Ok I played a game of it. Can't say I was super enthused by the experience. Unit readability was poor. The male/female thing is bad. Just putting completely aside the sexism, the fact that some of your military units can gather resources but some can't is very unintuitive, made worse by the aforementioned readability. And it makes it feel really bad when you have to decide between sending units to fight or build up eco.

I had, and still have, no idea what units are good at what. In Age of Empires 2, I can hover over the skirmisher and read that it's good against archers. In this game...no idea what units do what. You get overloaded with information when you hover over a unit, but none of it is easily actionable. I had skirmishers and slingers and archers but I have no idea which ones should be used when. The information is probably available in a wiki somewhere, but it really should be presented up front and clearly within the game itself.

My enemy was able to somehow convert my dock, shockingly quickly. But then I couldn't convert it back (or couldn't find any option that would allow that), and had to destroy it...which was exceedingly slow. Not sure what happened there. And speaking of enemy...I was playing against whatever the default AI difficulty is, so I didn't expect a serious challenge. But what I got was particularly weak. It put up a mediocre fight once, relatively early, and then after that died I sat back slowly building up an army and exploring all the different units & buildings. During this time, it sent a couple of individual units at me a few times, but never really even tried to pose a threat as big as the one it did early.

Default keyboard shortcuts didn't feel good. Maybe they can be changed, but the out-of-the-box it wasn't up to par with what I'd expect. I could find no way to "attack move", unit building and upgrades were inconsistent. I couldn't find any way to "go to TC".

The fact that it's downloaded by torrent was amusing. I can't help but feel it inherently limits your potential audience though. Torrenting was never properly mainstream, and it's far less so today than back in the '00s.

All in all, the game felt like a UX nightmare. Some of the problems might get better if you're familiar with it, but "better" is certainly not "good". The fact that it's still seeing active development two decades on is amazing, but it doesn't feel like it's progressed nearly as much as one would hope in that time, sadly.

I've not played 0 AD for like 15 years. It's honestly amazing that it's still being actively developed. I might have to try it out again. I remember way back then thinking the male/female villager thing was weird. But I do love the idea of an open source aoe alternative.

It's like the man who only starts caring about women's rights after he has a daughter. Like, ok, I guess it's nice that you've come around, but you couldn't have exhibited basic humanity earlier? ffs you presumably had a mother, a wife/girlfriend, sister, female cousin, female friends, female coworkers so even if you require a personal connection, couldn't you have gotten there earlier?

So uhh, how does this work? It looks like you're the only mod of this Community, and you're still listed as a mod. Can you still do mod actions here?

Here's a full map of the journey. Minor future spoilers if you just look at the map, potentially larger spoilers if you click on the icons for some of the places they haven't been yet. From the sounds of it the creator is still updating so there aren't too many spoilers for now.

I’m guessing it’s an actual quote and not a scare quote

As a general rule, a headline from a reasonably reputable news source is always going to be using quote quotes and not scare quotes.

I agree completely. I've never bought a porn game on Steam. I can't imagine buying a porn game on Steam. But I'll repeat my comment from last week when this news was fresh, in another Community:

I can't imagine buying a porn game on Steam. And even if I did, incest holds no interest to me.

Even so, I absolutely fucking hate this crap. Payment processors are killing off content despite the producers and consumers of the content being completely fine with it. This should be a Net Neutrality issue. But I'm not seeing anywhere near the same outrage over it that there was over ISPs doing the exact same thing.

At the end of the day, whether or not you're at fault or not, and whether or not you acknowledge as much, doesn't really matter nearly as much as the fact that you're a safer driver today. That's what actually matters.

Not a lot on today. Maybe a good chance to share the Locations in Dracula map (minor spoilers!).

I only shared my story as a cautionary tale to other readers.

Genuinely, I appreciate that. The importance of looking both ways when approaching an intersection, even if the road is one way, is critical, for the safety of cyclists and pedestrians. Your goal in sharing the story was a good one. It's just the tone of how you told the story that seemed rather off.

If you want to mention him, I won't try to stop you (not that I could if I wanted to). For me though, I'm pretty sure he's already aware of the existence of !notjustbikes@feddit.nl so he has the resources to follow threadiverse discussions of himself if he wants, and I'd rather leave it in his hands to control that rather than have it thrust upon him.

Your defensiveness doesn’t make it feel like you learnt from it. You might have learnt how to avoid that kind of crash (crash, not accident) in the future, which is fantastic, but you haven’t internalised that it was because of your own inattentiveness in operating a dangerous vehicle that the crash occurred, and not because of the perfectly acceptable behaviour from a member of a vulnerable group. A vulnerable group that you victimised.

I hope she was also more careful about going full speed on the sidewalk in the wrong direction of traffic.

Literally victim blaming. It's completely normal to travel in either direction on the footpath.

we even had bicycle lanes on the street

Paint is not infrastructure.

You were 100% liable for hitting a cyclist and you cheerfully admit to paying them off with a pittance of the damage you caused and forcing them to sign away their rights? That's pretty fucking shitty.

At least your last paragraph makes it sound like you learnt from the behaviour that led to your mistake in the first place.

Two wrongs, as they say, don't make a right. Or in this case, I guess, they do make a Right.

Happy cake day!

Does this mean Busan gets upgraded to capital city status? I think I could get behind that.