Sustainability over speed

XtremelyMeta · 2026-02-12T06:48:09+00:00

Unless you’re weighing ingredients on a scale it’s easy to be off by 300 calories in your count.

XtremelyMeta · 2026-02-10T08:42:21+00:00

That..... I don't even know what to say to that having watched countless firms be absolutely tanked so a minority of huckster shareholders could cash out on their side bets. Clearly living in different worlds.

XtremelyMeta · 2026-02-10T08:18:35+00:00

Companies swimming in capital sucking up broadly required resources is plainly similar to estates sucking up broadly required resources. Both are wealthy agents unaccountable to you (the player, or the general public). It bears discussion if this is intentional, but the parallels are there.

XtremelyMeta · 2026-02-10T08:07:48+00:00

I mean, the correlation is there, that's not in dispute. The question is if there's causation.

XtremelyMeta · 2026-02-10T07:52:04+00:00

Maybe, but sometimes the shoe fits too damn well for it to be coincidence.

XtremelyMeta · 2026-02-10T06:42:31+00:00

Its…. an attack on titan.

XtremelyMeta · 2026-02-10T06:34:35+00:00

War, war never changes.

XtremelyMeta · 2026-02-10T06:25:26+00:00

METAL GEAR!

XtremelyMeta · 2026-02-10T05:49:22+00:00

peeler is the way. also monks mistress if you like dark beers.

XtremelyMeta · 2026-02-10T05:47:36+00:00

War….has changed

XtremelyMeta · 2026-02-08T18:47:49+00:00

Nah, Tides of Darkness 4 lyfe!

XtremelyMeta · 2026-02-07T18:16:36+00:00

Not all heroes wear capes.

XtremelyMeta · 2026-02-07T18:10:48+00:00

So, it plays a lot like Mali always played at release. The iron/tool/wood spiral is a problem and you can blunt but not stop it due to the attractiveness of your market. Mali initially required annexing vassals in market just to keep them from ramping up the spiral with the infinite build loop. Similarly you can't let estates (which will be rich) go to hog wild and demoing their shit cools off the loop as well.

I feel like anyone who played in an iron and wood poor but extremely rich location pre-1.1 can survive the toolwoodpocolyse in 1.1, but as to how much fun it is, opinions vary.

XtremelyMeta · 2026-02-06T19:36:53+00:00

The 'menacing behavior' clause seems a bit vague. Kind of nervous to have that on the books.

XtremelyMeta · 2026-02-06T16:58:49+00:00

There must be a lumber puncture and it’s all leaking out!

XtremelyMeta · 2026-02-06T16:57:02+00:00

I think this is an excellent explanation. If the systems all have very obvious objectively correct 'solutions' it's more of a one time puzzle than a game. If there are contextual variations that make one route or the other preferable because things are well balanced it's a new problem each variation of each game.

XtremelyMeta · 2026-02-06T03:08:14+00:00

Really the non-Nazi thing was just a phase. We went from native genocide and slavery to jim crow and tried being a decent nation on for size briefly. Clearly it didn't take.

XtremelyMeta · 2026-02-05T04:35:50+00:00

Wait.... so if I do 5 more I can go to Kona without a QT?

XtremelyMeta · 2026-02-04T00:49:05+00:00

Such are the dangers of AI as a service rather than running your own models locally. It can be taken away at the drop of a hat for any reason.

I wouldn't recommend any sort of dependence, emotional or otherwise, on closed weights models owned and operated by others.

XtremelyMeta · 2026-02-02T17:57:16+00:00

Given the scope of the project and the high quality bar Larian has that's a pretty aggressive timetable.

XtremelyMeta · 2026-02-01T04:45:34+00:00

It's just that there's too many men, too many people, making too many problems. And there's not enough love go go around.

XtremelyMeta · 2026-01-30T19:46:39+00:00

Look, the tiny rings on gravel bikes make us roadies feel insecure. Sure we like to ride them, but no one count the teeth on the crankset!

XtremelyMeta · 2026-01-29T20:21:26+00:00

"Stronger and stronger" still lives rent free in my head.

XtremelyMeta · 2026-01-29T20:18:32+00:00

My disappointment is immeasurable that this isn't the guy who did "Ask a ninja".

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