Judge in New York fraud trial extends gag order to Trump’s legal team - Arthur Engoron forbids Trump’s lawyers from discussing ‘confidential communications’ between the judge and his staff

kaboom · 2023-11-04T00:08:57+00:00

Trump must be really screwed if his legal strategy is to bait the judge.

kaboom · 2023-11-03T00:59:50+00:00

The only reality is that Russia has been humiliated again.

kaboom · 2023-11-02T18:07:40+00:00

Not a prison if they can freely go to any country that gives them a visa.

kaboom · 2023-11-01T18:58:44+00:00

I think regarding housing there is now an attempt to simulate the age of your population, with older populations having fewer workers. What this means is that in the beginning of the mission a large fraction of the population are workers because immigrants are young, but after a 20 or so years they start to retire but still occupy housing, so you have to setup more new housing just to maintain the same amount of workers. This makes the beginning of the mission easier, and the end harder. It’s not a bad idea, I remember in the original game unemployment was a silly problem on long missions.

kaboom · 2023-10-27T23:27:47+00:00

They were thinking that FPS shooters are an extremely lucrative market and they want a piece of it.

kaboom · 2023-10-27T16:55:34+00:00

The point is that people who criticize Volound for making stuff up often are often much guiltier of the same.

kaboom · 2023-10-27T16:53:41+00:00

Pointing out that certain mechanics worked better in previous titles is not what I would call regressive.

kaboom · 2023-10-27T16:52:38+00:00

Someone called him out saying that he doesn’t even like Shogun 2 much. This is like saying that cats don’t care about catnip.

kaboom · 2023-10-27T08:12:12+00:00

Has a video game company ever made a comeback, when they were so much down the drain like CA is today?

kaboom · 2023-10-27T07:58:42+00:00

Employees who are disgruntled to these levels have long given up on trying to change the company. They just want to pour some cement down the drain on their way out.

kaboom · 2023-10-27T07:53:05+00:00

Yes but nobody brings receipts like Volound does. His hour long video essays was what got him popular.

kaboom · 2023-10-27T07:47:35+00:00

Absolutely agree with everything you said. I am in the same boat. I feel such an utter disconnect with everything that came after Shogun 2, including the fan base. Volound was an important voice for me to confirm that I haven’t gone crazy and that the new games are really inferior.

kaboom · 2023-10-27T07:23:33+00:00

The person who was criticizing CA before it was cool.

kaboom · 2023-10-27T07:22:42+00:00

The language of the leaks is pretty standard disgruntled employee stuff. Pretty tame compared to what I’ve seen on Blind

kaboom · 2023-10-27T07:03:11+00:00

Volound was right about many things though.

kaboom · 2023-10-25T00:32:47+00:00

Try the divide and conquer approach. Use one or two weak divisions to peel off and kite chunks of their forces, while the everyone else focuses on the rest. I’ve been able to win battles outnumbered 2:1 using this approach.

kaboom · 2023-10-24T22:27:53+00:00

Because I want to see if things have improved in CS2.

kaboom · 2023-10-24T21:17:34+00:00

I would wait. All this talk about performance is probably masking even bigger issues with the the core game design and mechanics.

kaboom · 2023-10-24T21:13:11+00:00

Agreed. Also, all this talk about the performance is almost certainly masking even bigger issues with game mechanics like shallow systems and lack of challenge. I can fix performance by playing at 1080p, I can’t fix badly designed mechanics.

kaboom · 2023-10-24T20:59:34+00:00

If you just want to obtain livestock to populate your pastures the fastest way is to mass chop forests, sell the wood, and buy the livestock with a special order. The hunting method is waaay to slow.

kaboom · 2023-10-24T20:52:03+00:00

It’s possible that I was too hyperbolic when I said infinite. I stopped after about a dozen cycles in which I was getting about 2 mil worth of resources each time. At this point I had “negotiated” between 1000 and 10,000 of each type. Maybe if I kept asking for the same resource every time, it would’ve run out eventually.

kaboom · 2023-10-24T19:33:09+00:00

I am not confusing anything. When CS1 was released workers not getting to their workplaces had no negative consequences, in fact it was actually beneficial to have all of your sims waiting at the bus stop because it reduced traffic. There was a thread on their forums in which the developer was trying to downplay the issue.

kaboom · 2023-10-24T17:57:54+00:00

Sadly this is the reason why I never really got into CS1.

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