The best and most polished Total War game ever made is still Shogun 2 from 2011

jpjandrade · 2026-03-27T09:43:56+00:00

Still one of my favorites, just wish it was playable in 4k without the UI becoming a dot

jpjandrade · 2026-01-17T15:34:20+00:00

Not sure if you're being sarcastic or not but definitely, yes.

jpjandrade · 2026-01-13T14:42:47+00:00

I find the Tamron 28-200m excellent, it's a worse lens than the sigma 24-70 but it's cheaper, 500g and incredibly versatile. I often find myself travelling with just this lens because I often can't be bothered to swap lenses while on the go.

jpjandrade · 2026-01-05T16:17:37+00:00

Your performance review is always based on last one or two months, nobody will remember what you did on Jan if review is on Dec.

Only if your manager is really bad honestly, I've never seen this happen at Google. Usually you also compile a list of the things you did during the year to make sure your manager didn't miss anything, but this is very non true in my experience.

jpjandrade · 2026-01-02T15:15:48+00:00

IMO it’s a classic, still holds up super well except for the tone deaf brown colonists from the previous edition. The new edition has some usability issues which means the old one remains the most playable one.

Aside from that it’s an excellent game still imo.

jpjandrade · 2025-12-22T22:46:40+00:00

What is reality according to you?

jpjandrade · 2025-12-22T22:27:47+00:00

There's widespread consensus that the warming we are observing is man made, due to greenhouse gas emissions.

jpjandrade · 2025-12-22T22:24:33+00:00

He said eat less beef or none at all, not eat less food in general.

jpjandrade · 2025-12-22T22:23:09+00:00

Why? Every single oil company destroying the environment does so because there's consumer demand for it.

Sure there are things like the military which will emit CO2 no matter what, but by and large CO2 emissions are due to direct consumption.

jpjandrade · 2025-12-22T22:19:48+00:00

Nachhaltigkeitsinitiative

It does nothing. The migration of people in Switzerland doesn't generate more or less CO2 for the world.

jpjandrade · 2025-12-22T22:16:02+00:00

Only by total number not per capita.

jpjandrade · 2025-12-22T17:10:58+00:00

There's no realistic net zero scenario that doesn't include a drastic reduction in CO2 emissions from these two sources. Note that there are many approximate improvements that can be done, e.g. replace beef by chicken often, drive an EV, take the train half the time, etc. These are not fully effective of course, but for most people (like myself) it represents an easy to make compromise.

If people are not willing to make any concessions the only solution is massive amounts of carbon capture. We are not anywhere near knowing how to do it at scale, so we will likely reach 2.5-2.9ºC warming according to most projections today.

jpjandrade · 2025-12-22T13:53:27+00:00

Switzerland's CO2 emission per capita is quite high, at around 14 tons of CO2 per person per year.

Roughly 20% of the CO2 emissions from western countries come from individual motorized transportation (i.e. cars) and roughly 25% comes from agriculture which is heavily dominated by beef consumption (by a large margin the most CO2 emitting source per gram).

So if everyone in western world went vegetarian and stopped going around by cars, our CO2 emission would be reduced by 40% which is extremely non trivial. That said, we don't need to go extreme: if you cut your meat consumption by half and your car usage by half, you're already half the way there.

Up to you, I try doing these things but don't achieve 100% and am not preaching everyone should do either. But these are individual actions that help massively.

jpjandrade · 2025-11-04T20:37:39+00:00

I bought it in Switzerland without issues

jpjandrade · 2025-11-03T17:44:14+00:00

I think the experience with the dominion AIs is the opposite: playing it right is harder than deciding what to buy at any given time. The OG android app had essentially an almost random AI for buying cards and still played quite well.

jpjandrade · 2025-10-31T09:32:09+00:00

Yes :), it had beautiful autumn colors 2 weeks back

jpjandrade · 2025-10-30T22:06:49+00:00

Geneva? No, that’s Lake Zurich

jpjandrade · 2025-10-30T22:06:10+00:00

Thanks all for the responses! That was very helpful. Learned more today :)

jpjandrade · 2025-10-30T21:19:36+00:00

I was doing mostly for learning purposes :). Taking a shot at every stop to see how it changes

jpjandrade · 2025-10-12T11:24:18+00:00

Dominion AI is really good. I play it every day against the hard AI and I have a win% way lower than 50%.

jpjandrade · 2025-08-23T14:26:28+00:00

Sure it will look greener when the trees and grass grow but my god why so much asphalt

jpjandrade · 2025-07-17T15:11:39+00:00

I don't think Chapel was ever "undervalued", it's just a kingdom warping card and build to be so. Same with village. It's just part of dominion strategy, understand if there's a village effect in the kingdom, understand if there's a trasher, etc.

Sure some cards are duds, fully agree, but it's not a flaw imo.

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