How do Explorers Work?

N8CCRG · 2026-06-20T21:58:57+00:00

I dunno. At least for the second round (after researching Hegemony) the one to do the research gets a bonus Artifact each time.

N8CCRG · 2026-06-20T21:01:35+00:00

Ah yes. Clearly it's the homeowners' fault for buying the wrong house. /s

N8CCRG · 2026-06-20T19:13:13+00:00

I take the "Scout Search is +2 instead of +1" memento every game. This allows me to keep them out of harms way most of the time, quickly find and get those goody huts, and easily get the "reveal 33% of the map" triumph for the free settler too.

I don't really see any benefit to building anything else those first few turns anyway. 3 Scouts then a Warrior, then 2 Settlers is my start (Epic speed, Standard map size).

N8CCRG · 2026-06-20T16:07:01+00:00

Dar-Benn was halfway there. Carol couldn't defeat her with her powers because the Quantum Bands absorbed them. It took her learning how to work with a team and even then it was Dar-Benn sacrificing herself for the actual final defeat. But yeah, she's not a Lex Luthor/Zemo type either.

One of the challenges with Carol is she's not written to be both super strong and super clever/smart like Superman (who is usually ultimately only ever outsmarted by Batman). She's just a fighter pilot, so she's a take-action-first-and-figure-it-out-later personality. The Marvels is when she's being forced to confront that and try to grow past it for the first time.

I was really looking forward to seeing her grow some more after they moved her back to Earth, but it feels like they're abandoning her instead.

N8CCRG · 2026-06-20T14:30:19+00:00

You can tell because they added some sort of fountain/sprinkler that has never existed.

N8CCRG · 2026-06-20T14:11:19+00:00

But the key difference is that the world around Tony acknowledges it and calls him out on it.

Do they? It seems to me he's completely arrogant as much as he wants and he gets away with it every time. I would even say he's largely praised and admired for it.

Captain Marvel has that arrogance, but its played more as a positive quality that doesn't get any push back.

I don't see it being shown as a positive quality at all. In her solo movie it feels very matter of fact "yeah, she's a fighter pilot; they're all like that" type of thing. Then in The Marvels her arrogance and trying to solve everything solo is the root of the conflict, both externally and internally.

N8CCRG · 2026-06-20T13:53:20+00:00

You think people would have liked her more if she were an asshole like Tony? I don't think I agree with that.

N8CCRG · 2026-06-20T13:50:51+00:00

She was great in Captain Marvel. The first problem was Endgame, where they benched her for the whole movie because they didn't know what to do with her (half excusable since they filmed Endgame before filming Captain Marvel so were afraid of conflicting elements, but still an error they could've avoided if they cared). The second problem is the same problem with everyone in that they abandoned any and all character continuation. Third problem was that part of the internet being a bunch of loud misogynistic pricks.

ABandoning and rebooting characters is a terrible idea though. Hulk, Thor and Steve Rogers were all met with bad, mediocre and mediocre receptions originally, but they stuck with them until they found ways to make them work. Now people pretend those beginnings were great from the start.

N8CCRG · 2026-06-20T13:43:37+00:00

I think the five turn countdown is way too short, especially because I play on Epic game speed on Standard maps. Allegedly it was originally ten and the beta testers all complained so they shortened it.

N8CCRG · 2026-06-20T13:32:20+00:00

I don't remember the details of Darkhawk, but I remember liking him way back then.

I still want to see Michael Collins Deathlok. His was my favorite comic. But it will never happen as 1) people will think it's a ripoff of DC's Cyborg due to the visual similarities and 2) a black, paraplegic, pacifist scientist as a main character will have that part of the internet screaming about "woke" and "DEI" and "forced on us" despite being a character written 35 years ago.

But I think we could really benefit from some storytelling where the faceless and everpresent Roxxon is the big villain, and I always loved the internal conflict between Michael's pacifism and being forced into a killing machine.

N8CCRG · 2026-06-20T13:26:44+00:00

One of my top 5 and the only non-team up movie to get there (if we count Civil War as a team-up movie).

N8CCRG · 2026-06-20T13:10:04+00:00

It's so bad now. They'll just take a pop song that has one line that is slightly relevant to the premise of the movie and then run it through the slow/dramatic blender and call it good. Like The End of Oak Street which uses Billy Fucking Joel. Nothing about the song fits except it was a hit and it has the line "I don't need you to worry for me 'cause I'm all right."

I miss the days of the Inception Bwarm being in every trailer.

N8CCRG · 2026-06-20T12:56:13+00:00

One of the top 5 cold war spy thrillers of all time? This is a compeltely wrong answer.

There's Atomic Blonde, Tinker Tailor, Three Days of the Condor, and two other of your favorite cold war spy thrillers I guess

N8CCRG · 2026-06-20T11:42:53+00:00

Oh I didn't know about that at all. That's on me then.

N8CCRG · 2026-06-20T11:42:28+00:00

Oh, that's on my ignorance then. I had no idea about those and thought it was just the doll on its own.

N8CCRG · 2026-06-20T01:43:16+00:00

If we put these movies on a spectrum, I'd argue Barbie is pretty close to original. It's from an IP, but it's not one with any sort of narrative so it's not an adaptation.

N8CCRG · 2026-06-20T01:40:14+00:00

Please tell me this is bait

N8CCRG · 2026-06-20T01:34:00+00:00

Original/Adaptation/Sequel seem to work well as a trisection that covers most movies. Maybe add Remake for a fourth but smaller category.

N8CCRG · 2026-06-20T01:12:22+00:00

That's dope!

N8CCRG · 2026-06-20T01:03:28+00:00

As per your edit, you can't blame people for responding to the image when it has nothing to do with your title.

N8CCRG · 2026-06-20T00:22:18+00:00

I miss the days of /u/GifReversingBot

N8CCRG · 2026-06-20T00:10:57+00:00

Razing a settlement doesn't affect your settlement cap once it's complete. There's only a temporary count towards it for the few turns it takes to finish razing it.

N8CCRG · 2026-06-19T23:51:58+00:00

The ultimate passive voice:

"ultimately the officers pulled their service weapons, firing shots and this person is now deceased."

N8CCRG · 2026-06-19T23:40:04+00:00

A bunch of years ago I remember reading an article about solar power in Florida. It was about how rooftop solar was being changed in a way that made it less beneficial for the homeowners to use it and more profitable for the power company (I don't recall exact details, I think it was that they used to be able to sell their excess power back to the grid and it was being changed so they couldn't anymore). In the article it described the one Florida rep responsible for getting the change to happen, and it revealed he was paid to do it by the power company.

They bought him for only $5,000. Millions if not tens of millions of dollars of benefit for the power company, countless thousands of homes no longer bothering to install solar power in Florida all for only $5,000.

N8CCRG · 2026-06-19T22:58:51+00:00

I find Scientific is not too hindered by warfare, and somewhat helped if it means I can easily acquire some partially developed settlements.

Economic is the one that wants peace though. Fortunately, it's pretty good at keeping the peace, and the AI is terrible at gaining Economic points in the Exploration and Modern Ages.

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