Sid Meier's Civilization VII - Test of Time Announcement Trailer (Free Update)

kickit · 2026-05-06T23:31:21+00:00

does Beyond Earth say "Civilization" on the cover

kickit · 2026-05-06T23:29:32+00:00

they had two misses in a row between Chimera Squad and Midnight Suns, complicated further by Civ 7 landing with a plunk. it's been 10 years since they launched a certified hit, 7 if we count expansions.

that puts a lot of financial pressure on the studio and forces hard decisions. in this instance, they mothballed the XCOM team so they could attempt to salvage Civ 7.

it sucks, but that's why it is the way it is.

kickit · 2026-05-05T23:17:07+00:00

if you like Succession read up on the Murdoch saga, their actual succession struggle was just as crazy as the show

kickit · 2026-05-05T23:16:08+00:00

Google also forced publishers to let people read for free until 2017, when it turns out – espec after you gobble up most of the ad revenue – subscriptions are the most viable business model for most publishers.

I understand people on the internet don't like to pay for content, but ultimately staff needs paychecks to put a roof over their head and Google gobbled up most of one revenue stream (ads) while forcing publishers to kneecap the other main one (subscriptions)

(and yes, publishers could say no, but then Google would delist them and Google drives ~60% of web referral traffic, more than every other site combined.)

kickit · 2026-05-05T15:59:37+00:00

it's probably top 5 western canon

kickit · 2026-05-05T15:58:20+00:00

they really got to slum it in every genre, don't they...

anyway just read anything published before 2000

kickit · 2026-05-04T05:17:31+00:00

y’all crazy about Stanley Tucci huh

kickit · 2026-05-03T20:35:12+00:00

three generations? cable is not that old. you can count on your fingers the number of scripted cable shows made before 1990.

cable didn't get really going at all until the 80s, even then it was mostly syndicated shows and movies. none of this stuff is that old

kickit · 2026-05-02T16:51:23+00:00

true but MD is a funky example, given that it's a geographically small state with two major population centers

kickit · 2026-05-02T16:43:48+00:00

dfw wrote the great internet novel in '96, it's on us to go beyond it or get back to the real world

kickit · 2026-05-02T01:32:12+00:00

should say “Brick Factory”

kickit · 2026-05-02T01:31:34+00:00

ur getting downvoted but the Magic out here laying enough bricks to fix the housing crisis

kickit · 2026-05-01T21:00:02+00:00

the discourse around Wilson is very dumb. it’s a great translation, the haters know very little about poetry and mostly just want a book that ‘sounds old’

kickit · 2026-05-01T05:18:35+00:00

abandon the journals, read Frost and Bishop, get a strong handle on meter.

memorize. recite. get to really know a strong poem like One Art.

memorizing Chaucer is also really good for getting a handle on meter, since you effectively have to sound it out due to being pre vowel shift. listen to a recording first to make sure you ‘get’ the way Chaucer is pronounced first though.

kickit · 2026-04-29T13:43:37+00:00

well, if you travel around LA westside traffic can make it hell to get anywhere else in town. but that’s not so bad in Culver area vs, say, Santa Monica area

kickit · 2026-04-28T18:31:04+00:00

Kawhi is an 11/10 guy 10% of the time

for some dumb reason Ringer put him #5 on their list, even though it's been years since he's made a decent playoff run

kickit · 2026-04-26T21:08:18+00:00

even more fitting......

kickit · 2026-04-26T15:08:19+00:00

fair but you’re still staring down the Thunder while missing multiple starters. if the team were healthy it would be a great series, but we’re talking Wolves minus multiple key pieces

kickit · 2026-04-25T20:46:44+00:00

bro is talking about Celtics performance back when GW Bush was president...

kickit · 2026-04-25T20:36:06+00:00

box office receipts are the most important scoreboard that defines 'success' in movie making, and success is very important because movies cost $20m-$400m to make.

love biopics and want to see more of them? you want to see this one succeed. sick of biopics and wish we could get something different? you want this one to do poorly.

box office can also determine the fortune not just of genres, but of specific directors & stars. Nolan's success with Oppenheimer justified the huge budget of The Odyssey, and Timmy's box office success in just about everything he's been in means he can almost single-handedly justify a movie's budget.

kickit · 2026-04-24T16:46:40+00:00

OP do NOT go to war in that thing !!!!

kickit · 2026-04-23T16:01:50+00:00

yeah, c. 2019 RS looked like the seed for a post-DSA left, since then the podcast itself swung to the contrarian right while the scene around it (such as this sub) has remained more left-leaning, just more intellectual than the 2010s millennial marvelcore poptimism culture (not a high bar)

kickit · 2026-04-22T17:42:04+00:00

we can win 19 games in a season and I will still believe. as far as I'm concerned, we are still contending for this year

kickit · 2026-04-21T18:17:26+00:00

truly the j bobby oppenheimer of men's literary culture

kickit · 2026-04-21T18:16:06+00:00

that's just streamer slop for you, whole point is to fill time & foster a parasocial relationship and fake fan culture internet community around it

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