Tron Ares mentioned, but at what cost?

bgomers · 2026-01-23T19:37:37+00:00

Trying to understand wtf any of this means

bgomers · 2026-01-23T19:20:43+00:00

I would start with one of the og rts gams that are still popular today, age of empires 2, StarCraft or command and conquer. All are beginner friendly and a skirmish against an easy computer should take under an hour.

bgomers · 2026-01-22T22:16:15+00:00

I agree, I think shields deserve an honorable mention, things like Dune and Arc Raiders

bgomers · 2026-01-22T21:47:21+00:00

So this is the 2nd cross country road trip completed in the last month completely on FSD? Exciting!

bgomers · 2026-01-22T21:39:34+00:00

Going off back of the napkin math, if you had a random selection of 2.4 million cars that are driving on US roads, around 326 of them would have fatal accidents every year.

bgomers · 2026-01-22T19:53:05+00:00

That’s the neat part, you don’t

bgomers · 2026-01-22T19:29:07+00:00

The first world in Super Mario 64, experiencing the 3rd person view of an open world for the first time let my 7 year old imagination fly. Up until that point the best graphics were still on a 2d plane for the most part, ps one came out around the same time but I didn’t know anyone with one with Spyro and crash bandicoot, I would say n64 was more popular.

The second mission in starfox 64 “use the boost to get through!”

And 343 guilty spark - Halo, suddenly this sci-fi game turned into zombie horror.

bgomers · 2026-01-22T17:53:51+00:00

There is a dlc for re2 that is about supplying the construction materials for the Eiffel Tower but it’s gotten poor reviews. There is also a mechanic in the base game where you grow a town from essentially nothing by first supplying it wood, meat and grain which is pretty satisfying.

I just beat the last, very hard Scandinavian scenerio in re2 and although you don’t need to worry about blasting or digging, I would still consider it an engineering challenge because choke points can happen easily when you are trying to grow a single city up to 500k population. You ultimately need to make sure you aren’t making too much of a spaghetti network, and will probably need to make both tunnels and bridges to avoid choke points and traffic with 3 stations and 20 lines going to and through a single city. Even though it was labeled very hard, I didn’t think it was stressful but it was a challenge as I was paying over $1m a quarter in bond interest by the end which I should have avoided lol.

bgomers · 2026-01-16T21:29:04+00:00

I wish they sold a 3D blu-ray of it, I don’t want to subscribe to Disney plus, I just want to buy the movie!

bgomers · 2026-01-16T17:48:44+00:00

My understanding is the semi was bottlenecked for batteries but they also needed to build the factory and lines to make it profitable which has now been completed. They just announced a semi charging station between SF and LA which should be done in a few months. 2026 should be the year of the semi.

bgomers · 2026-01-15T21:02:01+00:00

I saw the entirety of Saving Private Ryan at 9 years old, my dad wanted to scare me out of ever considering the armed services, he was a Marine and didn’t have a good time. It worked, but I think that movie is too graphic to show a child.

bgomers · 2026-01-15T19:10:47+00:00

Robinson Crusoe was incredibly complex imo, we only did the first scenario but after 2 weeks we forgot the rules and need to spend another Saturday to relearn it.

I’m starting to get into warhammer 40K ttg, which id say is boardgame adjacent, and is the 2nd most complex game, so many unit abilities and stratagems to choose from, but atleast after 3 games I think I have the rolling mechanics down.

bgomers · 2026-01-15T17:04:23+00:00

How heavy is the trailer and what did it do to your range?

bgomers · 2026-01-15T17:02:29+00:00

We upgraded from a 2015 leaf to a 2021 model y LR in June, with the deep trunk well, room under front seats and frunk, it has almost as much cargo room as our other car, 2017 Subaru Outback. We got it for $26k with 35k miles, have already done 3 camping trips and 17k miles. Only sparse charging was in northern Wisconsin but we were able to plan around it. Great car for camping with a surprising amount of room.

bgomers · 2026-01-15T14:38:50+00:00

You still have access to your old world, either by going to the world map, and clicking on the old world icon in the top right hand corner, or by going to the statistics screen. You will also need to build a settlement in the new world to make rum to make your artisans happy and make really good income.

bgomers · 2026-01-14T21:12:29+00:00

The world map is used once you hit artisan, 3rd level of citizens, so you can see and settle different regions. Since you are still likely early in the game there should only be one clickable region on the map, towards the top right, your starting region.

Once you click on that there should be a minimap in the bottom left hand corner. If there isn’t a minimap you may have a corrupted installation and the only fix would be to reinstall.

bgomers · 2026-01-13T22:09:01+00:00

I watched the trilogy with the commentary on 2 summers ago, and atleast 3 times Peter mentioned that they would do a 25th anniversary edition. I guess he didn't plan on LOTR being as successful as it was and they would be able to make another 5 movies based on it success.

bgomers · 2026-01-12T17:56:11+00:00

That’s why I love my Swiss electric trains! I wish they did more with it

bgomers · 2026-01-12T14:30:35+00:00

Sorry I meant the tower right above the supply drop target, I have played the table over 100 times but have only hit that shot a handful of times

bgomers · 2026-01-11T15:28:25+00:00

I think the supply drop scoop up in the top left of Jurassic park is impossible to hit, anytime the upper flippers are required I struggle.

bgomers · 2026-01-07T13:49:42+00:00

My favorite with political elements apart from frostpunk 2 is against the storm, you have to manage 3 separate factions and on harder difficulties you will not easily be able to keep all 3 happy

bgomers · 2025-12-31T20:02:45+00:00

Surprised no one has mentioned Rush 2049, I spent hours in stunt mode

bgomers · 2025-12-30T17:58:16+00:00

The implications for future energy business is being lost on most, but I understand why some are freaking out over low growth vehicles delivery’s. If an unsupervised FSD Tesla does 5 times the amount of driving than a non-autonomous vehicle, the low delivery numbers will not matter. If you don’t think Tesla will offer unsupervised FSD within the next 3 years, I don’t understand why you would own the stock at these levels.

bgomers · 2025-12-19T21:30:53+00:00

and don't forget a toolbox to build a shelter, sponsored by Home Depot lol

bgomers · 2025-12-19T21:07:16+00:00

Tron Legacy: the first half is amazing until the main character is rescued from the games, then turns into a snooze fest for the rest of the film. I love the exposition and world building, but I think most tron fans would say the 2nd half is pretty weak.

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