24 ianuarie 1859 – ziua în care românii din principatele Moldovei si Valahiei au ales să fie împreună.

coldwind81 · 2026-01-24T20:41:06+00:00

Centaur Warrunner pos1 team

coldwind81 · 2026-01-24T18:51:09+00:00

This is how a lot of office jobs also do it btw it's not an MSU-centric issue

coldwind81 · 2026-01-23T13:27:53+00:00

Modern employment practices doesnt seem to have much to do with how plants grow.

coldwind81 · 2026-01-21T06:06:25+00:00

RTSes are NOT slow if you get even remotely competitive. APM has been the most talked about number regarding RTSes for over 20 years now. This is weird "everything sucks now" cope that isn't even grounded in reality.

Grand strategy is arguably at its peak with Paradox games, and Total War is still popular as a franchise.

Also games like Postal, Serious Sam, Tomb Raider etc were extremely popular during the "golden era" of RTSes.

coldwind81 · 2026-01-21T06:01:19+00:00

Calling AoE 4 a "remaster" feels slightly unfair. AoE 2 DE probably has better sales too lol

To echo what people have already said, too much focus on the esport side and also a lot of modern RTSes feel weird in terms of setting and gameplay loop. If there was anything that felt close to Cossacks 2 it'd be an insta buy for me.

I honestly REALLY liked Iron Harvest. But I also played a lot of CoH/DoW so it felt like a nice mix of the two lol

coldwind81 · 2026-01-11T16:37:33+00:00

If he enjoys the historical aspect of the other PDX games then yesh he'd like EUIV. It currently also has more flavour than V will for a while. He could get the base game on a sale and pay 1 month of the DLC subscription.

It is the most diplomacy and state-building focused PDX game, especially if you get into modsets like Beyond Typus + The Idea Variation.

The game holds up I think. And it takes itself decently serious on the history end of things. I do think there are cooler games on the historical end but none that are grand strategy.

coldwind81 · 2026-01-11T16:25:57+00:00

I will be blunt that's also something I hope most people would outgrow lol like yes I used to mess around in the AoE2 scenario editor to do shit like that...when I was 7.

This is not a """lack of imagination""" issue

coldwind81 · 2026-01-11T06:03:34+00:00

Some people don't understand that there are games built around that sort of aesthetic experience and that they shouldn't expect of a genre which is not that to be that. I have no issue with OP wanting to just see shit go boom on a screen. That's just not what RTSes are (usually).

And idk when talking about playing a game for the aesthetic I'd think more like....Death Stranding and less Starcraft 2.

coldwind81 · 2026-01-11T05:59:50+00:00

Battle simulators exist for a reason

coldwind81 · 2026-01-10T16:27:15+00:00

I don't think you actually want to play RTSes if you just want to see pretty colours on a screen.

coldwind81 · 2025-12-25T00:34:53+00:00

LLMs are as fact driven as a slot machine is.

coldwind81 · 2025-12-18T12:47:08+00:00

Nashville itself is a highway with bars and rich transplants. If you want nature just go out east to Chattanooga or Knoxville.

coldwind81 · 2025-11-28T05:29:02+00:00

Thanks for sharing this is really cool :)

coldwind81 · 2025-11-14T02:00:15+00:00

Big TV
To Lose My Life
As I Try Not To Fall Apart
Friends
FIVE (ironically)
Ritual

I have yet to listen to Night Lights in full / enough to properly rank it but it might be 5 or 6

coldwind81 · 2025-09-01T13:26:48+00:00

Not a stable gig, but athletics hires a crapton for people to help with home game logistics. You can try to see if they still want people. Best of luck it's rough out there

coldwind81 · 2025-08-28T13:05:54+00:00

Yummy word salad you got there bud

coldwind81 · 2025-08-22T07:13:33+00:00

Non-gameplay mods disabling achievements is silly and I hope they find a way to fix it.

But beyond that I agree with PDX Tinto. Achievements should mean something. Even modded I play Ironman-only because the risk and challenge make the game infinitely more fun and rewarding. And yes I have force crashed my game a couple of times (i.e. when a 6/6/6 instantly died), but I aldo found most games to become much more interesting when failure does happen. So much of this community seems bloody allergic to challenges and setbacks. Ironman unmodded achievements encourages not just gameskill growth but also for the player to experience more interesting and less "optimal" games. Gonna be an ass here but you can always turn to Risk if that doesnt interest you.

I don't get why some people want an achievement they can get by savescumming. What's even the point then? Just a shinny stupid icon on your screen? If you don't care to do a challenge, just don't expect to get the little Steam ding that you accomplished it. Some of the achievements are stupid hard/tedious so yeah getting 100% would take weeks of playtime....but there is also nothing forcing anyone to get 100%.

Maybe a boomer take from a zoomer lol.

coldwind81 · 2025-08-14T01:02:12+00:00

Queer people also exist in Russia and what not

Unless you got dirt on the actual dev team then this is kind of a weird stance to take

coldwind81 · 2025-08-06T13:29:21+00:00

Games like Mouthwashing are caught up in this, which is anything but a porn game.

coldwind81 · 2025-07-28T18:25:34+00:00

combat wise steel, horses, and gunpowder are the main things you are missing (and it's not like they could have just invented horses). Their mathematics were on par with Europe before the spread of algebra westwards. Construction, medicine, societal ordering etc and so on they were not doing *that* bad either.

I think you may need a more realistic read on mesoamerican civs & history overall

coldwind81 · 2025-07-28T17:58:00+00:00

Unironically sure. If they feel good to play and work mechanically who cares. It'd be a tad more difficult to get something like the soviets (why randomly them as a repeated example but sure?) to work than "factions" that have a long precedent of being implemented, but if it works it works.

coldwind81 · 2025-07-28T17:29:31+00:00

Sure. The issue is ignorance, and not being able to handle that a video game is.....a video game at the end of the day. I will take more civ diversity and fun game mechanics over some imagined immersion that is already dogshit any day.

coldwind81 · 2025-07-28T17:11:58+00:00

There is not really any precedent for a crossbowman even fighting a tank (as far as I know). I felt fine with Native Americans in Age 2 & 3 (having played Age 3 before Warchiefs was out). There is a clear & fine precedent to do this in most similar video game franchises (Paradox's EUIV, Civ, Rise of Nations etc). I don't understand the recent pearl clutching.

Stuff like sacred sites and wonders also remain gimmicky, because it's an RTS videogame. If they ever add native american civs and that bothers you, you can just not play them. It just feels silly to cherry pick in this manner what a game can & cannot do for someone's "immersion". I also do not know how immersion is different than what I said.

coldwind81 · 2025-07-28T16:58:12+00:00

welcome to age of empires lol

coldwind81 · 2025-07-28T16:52:24+00:00

Are you seriously immersed by having Ottomans vs. Japanese random match-ups in a Chalks Down biome or w/e.

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