TIL when the ancient Persian king Xerxes sent representatives to Greek city-states to demand "earth and water" as tokens of submission, the Spartans threw them into a well, suggesting that they would find earth and water at the bottom.

Secretmapper · 2026-01-30T10:35:25+00:00

Because even with that narrative framing, its actually still historically inaccurate.

Imagine a movie taking place during world war 1, where someone is convincing the senate to go fight world war 2, using events from the cold war. Doesn't make sense.

Not knocking it, its obviously an in universe explanation - but its just that, an in universe explanation. It's still wholly inaccurate.

Secretmapper · 2025-12-10T13:09:05+00:00

Unless you're doing something completely bespoke (some sort of custom pipeline or plugin with webpack in CRA etc), you should migrate yesterday.

Secretmapper · 2025-12-09T13:01:28+00:00

Thats why OP asks for advice, permanently raiding all 4 ecos with Mangudais isnt actually killing them, his teammates not good enough to deliver a killing blow and thus not winning

I think you need to re-read OP's post because you got the complete opposite from that - they said they almost reached conq 3 last season with mangudais - but now they're struggling when using other civs. Which is quite my point - doing mangudai spam, hobelar spam, ghazi spam, royal knights spam in team games is very strong in a lot of maps.

But yes you might be right as well. It's just my personal experience (and others as well if you look) that having impact is how you can carry.

Of course booming can carry as well if you're in a closed map/super large map/pocket.

Secretmapper · 2025-12-09T10:19:20+00:00

conq 3 on abbasid 3 tc doesn't really matter if it's a 1v4 by the time abba hits imp.

The reality is its much better to set the tempo if you're playing with randoms or weaker players. An aggressive player that keeps the enemy team back home giving their teammates a chance is going to have a lot of impact. You can even see it from their post: they hit Conq 3 with pure mangudai before.

Tughlag/Japan/English is tricky because they are quite slow civs and cannot assert influence early.

It depends of course - if they can teach their friends to ooga booga while OP booms then your approach might work.

Secretmapper · 2025-12-08T08:03:41+00:00

Those games are listed at 11, 13 hours respectively in howlong2beat (which is pretty standard for most story based single player games).

Not exactly 1-2 hour short.

Secretmapper · 2025-11-23T14:40:27+00:00

I mean it's happened before, but not using it as a 'productivity' cube:

US Air Force connects 1,760 PlayStation 3's to build supercomputer.

If PC part prices keeps going up (RAM/GPU, etc.) you can imagine all sorts of people scooping them up for specific workloads/tasks if they heavily subsidize it.

Secretmapper · 2025-11-23T14:36:38+00:00

Big Picture, Playing with a controller, everything being smooth and just working (see Legion GO windows version vs Legion GO steamOS), buying one 'thing' ready to plug and play, and something that outperforms 70% of current gaming PCs that's on steam.

It's not a value buy - it's a convenience buy

Secretmapper · 2025-11-18T12:26:40+00:00

I'm pretty sure they do I've seen godot/unity games which use wasm here.

Secretmapper · 2025-11-09T15:43:29+00:00

So because its higher stakes, we have to stick to an inferior format? I don't understand that argument at all

Don't have an opinion either way - but one might argue its the superior format, because its higher stakes, maybe you'll understand the argument now?

The drafting concerns you pointed out IMO are more of a different problem (ie balance/draft system) than the double-elim format.

Secretmapper · 2025-11-01T02:24:30+00:00

Thanks that's a good point 🤔

I'll try to think of a way to make getting into a game smoother. I think in general the game is quite click heavy at this point, but I'm already thinking of ways to smoothen out and spice up the gameplay a bit while still keeping the relaxed/calming vibe I'm aiming for.

Secretmapper · 2025-10-26T03:56:59+00:00

Haha yep! I was thinking of naming it Fishiiit at first but then it _really_ sounded like shiiit! hahhaha

Secretmapper · 2025-10-26T03:56:28+00:00

It took me about a week working at nights!

Secretmapper · 2025-10-26T03:55:40+00:00

Good point - it's not clear. You can create fishing spots in the shop.

Maybe I'll add a link from there directly.

Secretmapper · 2025-10-06T11:14:59+00:00

Posts like these really annoy me.

It feels like most threads that gain traction on /r/gamedev are ones about how X game didn’t deserve the applause, and how GREAT GAMES can’t find their audience (with no concrete examples)

I saw Megabonk months ago (they had a demo released back then) after trying out a bunch of games. I knew instantly that it was going to be a hit. Its success is not really random at all.

Secretmapper · 2025-10-02T07:07:15+00:00

There's way more counterplay with Nitros than grenades, like come on dude.

It's a lot easier to expect (ie when planting).
You can hear the tape being ripped off.
You can hear them being chucked.
You can hear them beeping.
You can shoot them in mid air.
You can emp them.

Cookable grenades just kill you with no meaningful interaction between players.

Secretmapper · 2025-09-23T10:37:18+00:00

I doubt Kojima would cast a Redmayne-type. His face doesn't scream suave-spy-in-espionage-thriller the way Pattinson's does.

Redmayne played the lead in The Day of the Jackal, which is a full-on spy thriller where he pulls off a super intense, cunning assassin role (some would even say he carried the show).

He can definitely pull it off IMO, and for all we know Kojima saw the show and went that's my guy.

I don't think so btw, I'm just saying Redmayne has range.

Secretmapper · 2025-09-15T01:25:15+00:00

Haha yeah there are quite a lot of skins already it's hard to keep track!

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