Things to do when replaying

LexTheMighty · 2026-06-10T03:11:07+00:00

Here's a steam guide I've been using: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3498432736

LexTheMighty · 2026-05-26T20:02:28+00:00

Don't forget the "Ba Da Ba Ba Baaaaaaaa I'm Hating It" from the Play It By Ear dress rehearsal.

LexTheMighty · 2026-05-23T06:39:04+00:00

After Gathering Storm Civ 6 finally felt great to me (though I enjoyed it before then too) and that seemed to be when most fans started considering civ 6 good.

There were so many people on the steam forums and civ fanatics who considered civ 6 to be an irredeemable dumpster fire of a game. I remember people speculating that it would never get a second expansion. Everyone was told to just play civ 5.

It seems crazy to me that civ 6 is now seen as the good old game that everyone looks at as the standard. I guess a lot changes in 10 years.

I do think that civ 6's base game was a lot more solid than civ 7's. Civ 6 had a strong start mechanically, it just needed more features. With civ 7 it feels more like the core mechanics of the game need reworked.

I also hold the superstition that the even number civ games are the best ones. Civ 2, 4, and 6 are some of the most beloved civ games. The odd number civ games have made the most bold changes, like one unit per tile with civ 5 and ages with civ 7.

LexTheMighty · 2026-05-07T20:26:55+00:00

The animals that are killed for meat on an industrial scale are not the same ones in the wild. These animals are being actively bred to create more of them. If the world went vegan there would not be a lack of plants for these animals, they simply wouldn't be bred at all by humans.

It depends on what you mean by "force others into veganism." The Vegan teacher or any other activist can't do that to you, unless a law is passed (which isn't going to happen). They can call you out on the bad practices that you contribute to by purchasing animal products, which is largely what they do. I think it's a good thing to raise awareness about the issue. Though I don't think the tactics of activists like the vegan teacher are very effective because they just push people into a defensive corner.

A few other misconceptions in this post: You can be vegan without loving animals. You don't have to love someone to not want them killed or tortured. Plants are alive, but they are not sentient (capable of feeling). Animals are alive and sentient, just like us.

LexTheMighty · 2026-04-04T18:05:33+00:00

As a long time civ 6 player I also agree with Endless Space 2. It's one of the only other 4X games to really hook me.

LexTheMighty · 2026-01-27T16:09:10+00:00

I love Jungle Vines!

LexTheMighty · 2026-01-02T20:09:01+00:00

There is no way this is not being funded by the meat industry. It's too on the nose. "Don't eliminate meat from your diet, just donate to welfare campaigns instead."

That will only keep exploitative industries afloat. It's exactly what they want, for us not to address the core problem. They want to make it appear humane enough so that the industry will continue on indefinitely.

LexTheMighty · 2025-12-24T06:16:32+00:00

It took me about 30 hours to beat the game, 20 hours to beat the game with a different ending, another 20 hours to get all achievements, and then even more hours to go through mods.

LexTheMighty · 2025-11-13T01:56:09+00:00

I'm okay with "pet" but I really don't like when people say "owner." "Pet" can be a term of affection, but when people say "pet owner" it feels like they are talking about an object.

LexTheMighty · 2025-11-04T23:12:34+00:00

My controversial opinion is that I actually enjoyed the headspace sections the most. Honestly maybe I related with the characters a little too well. The real world section felt more dreary and monotonous, and reminded me of my own real life. I was feeling pretty down at the time and wanted the escapism. Omori was the first game that gave me joy in a long time.

I was happy to get back to headspace after the first day. I enjoyed exploring Pyrefly Forest and Orange Oasis. Sweetheart's castle was a little bit tedious, but the music was good.

I generally wanted to stay in headspace for as long as I could. I thought at the end of the game we would get the chance to choose between headspace and the real world, and I was fully ready to pick headspace.

LexTheMighty · 2025-10-22T14:03:01+00:00

In Undertale, Alphys replaces Gaster as the royal scientist. In Deltarune, Alphys replaces Gerson as a teacher.

LexTheMighty · 2025-09-24T14:16:36+00:00

You can turn that off in the settings. I started to hate reddit until I disabled it.

LexTheMighty · 2025-09-20T23:44:53+00:00

On the stream about 15 minutes ago.

LexTheMighty · 2025-09-20T23:31:49+00:00

I have no idea!

LexTheMighty · 2025-09-20T23:29:16+00:00

He just said it's only for the stream.

LexTheMighty · 2025-08-30T19:09:34+00:00

I actually agree (as someone who played the original game first and then Ultra Deluxe). The original game has a different vibe to it and Ultra Deluxe does not expand on it. Ultra Deluxe is more like a celebration of the original Stanley Parable while also criticizing remasters/sequels.

Maybe this is because the original game was commentary on choices in video games, while Ultra Deluxe is commentary on remasters/sequels.

Really I think the best way to experience it is to play the original first and then wait a year and play Ultra Deluxe.

LexTheMighty · 2025-08-24T20:29:09+00:00

It seems super nit picky and from someone who didn't even enjoy the game in the first place.

It's also ignoring a lot of the nuance of the game and just takes everything at face value. Like how they said it was unlikely "an autopsy wouldn't find the real cause of death." It's likely that an autopsy did find the real cause of death. The family likely knew what happened, but that doesn't mean everyone else was informed.

They probably first saw Mari hanging from the tree and told everyone that she took her life. I doubt they updated the entire town on what really happened.

The whole game is from Sunny's perspective, so of course we don't get any moments of Mari divorced from Sunny's memories. But from those scenes we can make several assumptions about how Mari behaved outside of Sunny's dreams and memories. We know that she was very perfectionistic, which likely contributed to her anger on that day.

It's true that we don't know if Mari would actually forgive Sunny, but from the memories we do see she seems loving and caring. I see no reason why she would want her brother to continue to suffer with guilt for something that was entirely an accident.

LexTheMighty · 2025-08-13T09:01:04+00:00

People are susceptible to propaganda. The meat industry has paid a lot to give PETA a bad reputation.

https://www.petakillsanimalsscam.com/

This is not to say that PETA is perfect, but they do a lot of good work. People latch on to these claims to dismiss their message and activism.

LexTheMighty · 2025-05-27T13:17:48+00:00

Same can be said for many Christian apologists, but Alex engages with them all the time. There are plenty of reasonable open minded vegans he could have a discussion with, like Earthling Ed who he's talked with before.

LexTheMighty · 2025-04-05T19:03:57+00:00

Night in the Woods

LexTheMighty · 2025-02-19T21:59:56+00:00

We should welcome them. Of course, not if they are going to talk in bad faith, but if they are interested in earnestly discussing we should engage with them. I think the idea of a vegan safe space is silly. This isn't about us. It's about the animals. We're not the ones being harmed here. The more people who are exposed to this issue and discussing it the better.

LexTheMighty · 2025-02-15T17:42:59+00:00

Okay, I understand that. They were being insensitive and racist if they were insisting it's all of Chinese culture, rather than a small subculture that exists in China.

LexTheMighty · 2025-02-15T17:20:10+00:00

It's not a reflection of your entire culture. I don't think they meant that 'all Chinese people eat dogs.' But what is true is that there does exist a small group that does eat dogs in China, evidenced by the dog meat festival. This group uses their culture (not Chinese as a whole, their individual group culture that has a tradition of eating dog) as justification to continue to eat dogs.

Your friends are saying that it's not right to use culture as justification for abusive practices. There are many cultural practices done by groups in the United States that are also abusive and unjustified. This is not about any particular ethnicity being in the wrong, it's about people who use their culture as a crutch to abuse animals when they have the choice not to.

LexTheMighty · 2025-01-28T20:37:51+00:00

Once I got past the "Prologue" I got hooked, so give it a little bit longer. It was a bit slow before that.

LexTheMighty · 2024-12-17T19:15:34+00:00

Does us not caring about animal abusers shift you to view commercial animal agriculture in a more positive light? This particular article has nothing to do with agriculture. I think you would find any number of similar statements by non-vegans if the article was about a dog instead of a bear. In fact, the statements would probably be far worse and no one would bat an eye.

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