I suppose even cleaning a home is, in a way, a human mating ritual. Changes perspective on things a bit doesn’t it? Someone out there is going to feel more motivated to clean by imagining themselves like a little bird replacing the twigs and straws

When taking a break from studying at uni today I went to sporcle on my laptop (pro tip: use ublock origin), hopefully anyone nosy enough to spy on me was impressed at my flag-guessing skills. And y9u know what? I’ll do it again tomorrow, maybe I’ll try and name every country in the world again

I’ll be as honest and as thorough as possible. It’s because:

• Game clearly wasn’t as polished as the development team wanted it to be, but ubisoft the publishers know that allows them to squeeze a bit more money from DLCs. So content they would have released on day 1 was moved to dlcs down the line.
• The main campaign ends spontaneously at a stupid point in the game
• The main campaign presents two approaches in it’s second region but they are not balanced
• It had glitches upon it’s release.
• political reasons and woke. Anno 1800 already “went too woke” in people’s eyes by trying to push a vague sense of a society more equitable than it really was in the 1800s - I don’t mind either way because while that’s a good argument, the game is in a fictional world not perfectly resembling our own, so the creators have that freedom.
• How did anno 117 do this? Well it has a female emperor, her daughter does trade which should be illegal for the nobility, and women. And it glasses over slavery a lot.
• compared to Anni 1800 which has 4 years of DLCs (12 large DLCs), anno 117 had less content in release. It already feels like it is nearing 1800 is size, to me, and also that’s a stupid reason to dislike it
• it is needlessly more demanding for your PC. 1800 was already fun to look at. There are diminishing returns on the graphics.

Some stuff that I have a problem with but haven’t seen criticised:

• the pirates are way too tough to handle and make the game not fun
• economy is honestly badly balanced. I’m an experienced anno player and playing it on tough settings makes it really horrible to get big things like military excursions done. I’m pretty sure that only people on easy (aka default) settings are conquering other islands and conquering pirates with ease.
• adding to the economy: game gives you city walls but there is never any reason to build them, they are less effective.

I think the game tries too hard to be polished and ends up being clunky as a consequence. Moving troops, moving ships, placing buildings (especially the special ones like canals and aqueducts) juuuust doesn’t work.

I come back to anno 117 like a failed teetotaller. I’ve had a problem with just restarting each world because “it’s by challenging enough now” or “I want to see what it’d be like to start from…” Or I just lose my thread by expanding too fast. I think this time will be different but I’m going to commit to only playing on the weekends and not in my free periods.

It’s still so time consuming and the pirates are designed awfully, but I think the game is gonna rehab it’s image a bit over the coming years

Oh and I started playing braid to distract from an earache. So good! So challenging. One of the most nostalgic games for me because my dad brought it for me and himself when he first got a steam account; was transitioning me into pc gaming instead of playstation gaming. Thanks dad.

Couldn’t get very far with it as a kid I think but it was swag. Looking back, it’s kind of cool how you can just tell if a game is crisp and good quality. I was instantly bonded with it. Also a bit of a connoisseur with videogames now, like I only play arty graphics instead of flashy graphics stuff.

Happened to my buddy eric

Bandits in my fantasy world be like

Lack of success of non-far right (and non-right) in many areas where only far right provide answers, plans or solutions. Instead of accepting this people instead suggest it’s illegal to have different ideas to them. Lemmy is one such place. And then congratulations, you’re making the problem worse.

Also consider that the regime needs or thinks it needs a “far right” and “far left” so it can posit itself as the “reasonable centre.” Maybe when we analyse some things proposed by so called far right and far left they don’t look so “far” after all, and can even exist in synthesis with one another. But when you say far left or far right you think of the worst thing that you’re told to associate with that movement.

Professional thing up the ass taker

I have a sigmoidoscopy on the horizon and I saw the doctor’s referral and noticed it said something like “no anesthesia needed” - madam who made that decision? 😭

Yeah there are more important things than cumming and losing weight. A lot of more important things! Hope you’re thriving

Lol!

That’s really interesting! I don’t very often hear star wars lore i haven’t come across before

Like if i sent anyone I know this meme they’d think it’s real

Way too convincing

• Be the USA
• No real reason to join ww1
• But ahh when will we get to dress up in our sexy military boy uniforms, millions must land in europe

our son has heard category a hundred times more than he’s heard cat

Then you have failed him!

This is a ChatGpT prompt followed by a “make it sound more human” prompt 3-5 times

Yeah i would’ve thought it was hard but there seems to be just that many of them that it apparently can’t be

I’ve heard stories of people who’ve been overweight that’d never see lengthy lives because the burden of weight would be too much.

Absolute fear mongering! I see lots of people who comfortable being fat their whole lives and live a normal lifespan.

The hardest part from my experience of being slightly overweight is that it is harder to feel ready for any type of exercise, and I also got tired more quickly just from pulling the weight around when I walked to places.

Idk, it’s a cathedral so I don’t think they’re doing a gender neutral toilets thing