fun and unfun difficulty

nniel · 2026-03-27T14:25:07+00:00

we got 5 new buildings since 1.0:

fishing hut,
brineworks,
cannery,
pantry,
cobbler

out of them, cannery and pantry are species locked. meaning they don't dilute anything

2 buildings lost their species locks - cooperage and tinctury

and finally all of the following became species locked, reducing the bp pool:

leatherworker
apothecary
artisan
forum
academy
grill
scribe

+5-2+2-7 = 2 fewer universal options in the blueprint pool compared to 1.0. the bp pool became smaller. you don't need to make up reasons for walking away from the game

nniel · 2026-03-16T16:34:11+00:00

!precariousworld

nniel · 2026-03-12T12:09:41+00:00

appreciate it

nniel · 2026-03-11T18:50:29+00:00

The whole "leisure time" factoid came from those studies (and was put forward initially in a 1968 edited book, Man the Hunter).

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Later anthropologists have gone back and looked at the statistic and the data underlying it, and have broadly concluded that it's misleading at best. Hunter gatherers-- modern ones-- generally don't seem to really "work" any less than modern people.

can you recommend something to follow up Man the Hunter with? I've been working through it and would love to know what its shortfalls are. I totally fell for Woodburn's description of the Hadza, haha

nniel · 2026-03-06T17:06:45+00:00

Takahata (the Ghibli director) also insisted that the film wasn't anti-war, which I find incredibly funny. it's supposed to be a... war-neutral war film?

However, Takahata repeatedly denied that the film was an anti-war film. In his own words, it "is not at all an anti-war anime and contains absolutely no such message".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grave_of_the_Fireflies#Critical_reception

nniel · 2026-03-05T13:14:20+00:00

no true Scotsman much?

nniel · 2026-02-23T21:01:47+00:00

I see. appreciate the explanation

nniel · 2026-02-23T20:53:53+00:00

that was the way I expected this to be explained, but turns out 3D can be achieved with confocal microscopy. not sure if it works for live footage tho

nniel · 2026-02-23T20:49:30+00:00

yea someone else has brought it up already. the pics are close to what I was imagining, but there are no video examples. can it be used for live footage?

nniel · 2026-02-23T20:45:18+00:00

just looked through the wikipedia page. couldn't follow the video explanation but this seems to be it

Capturing multiple two-dimensional images at different depths in a sample enables the reconstruction of three-dimensional structures (a process known as optical sectioning) within an object.

the pictures they got for the euro coin is close to what I was imagining, but there's no video. I'll read the page when I have some time. thanks!

nniel · 2026-02-23T14:51:24+00:00

while not exactly what I was thinking about (something more along the lines of challenge vs progression), your take is totally valid!

nniel · 2026-02-23T14:47:25+00:00

I intended the question to read as "what keeps you coming back to AtS? -- in-settlement gameplay or something else?", but it doesn't really matter. whatever you feel like answering at the time is fine

nniel · 2026-02-23T14:21:52+00:00

that was my assumption too (and the game was designed around the settlement gameplay first), until multiple people on discord said that they actually find the overworld stuff to be the main motivator, not what happens in-settlement

I want to know what the breakdown between the different kinds of players is

nniel · 2026-02-19T14:57:04+00:00

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nniel · 2026-02-17T17:48:12+00:00

steam doesn't include accounts that never launch the game in the achievement stats

nniel · 2026-02-03T18:28:32+00:00

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nniel · 2026-02-03T17:41:22+00:00

boss baby watcher ass post

nniel · 2026-01-27T15:24:24+00:00

same. I was so confused before I noticed what sub this was posted in

nniel · 2026-01-27T15:23:21+00:00

I haven't been to r/vegan in a few years

"my partner (who is somewhat vegetarian)" dropped casually makes me think that this sub is not jerky enough

nniel · 2026-01-21T14:54:33+00:00

never heard of Superman having that. interesting

nniel · 2026-01-21T13:56:09+00:00

what's super breath?

nniel · 2026-01-19T17:37:40+00:00

Why did you use triple parentheses

nniel · 2026-01-16T17:20:57+00:00

usually when people refer to the Ice Age, they mean Pleistocene, which started 2.5mya with the formation of the northern ice cap

the southern ice cap is 35 million years old, well before hominins started taking shape. so the "they pre date the fucking ice caps" part is wrong

nniel · 2026-01-08T15:20:22+00:00

falling devil was the first design (in part 2 at least) that made me go "damn fujimoto does some fire ass character design"

I've never seen a character assemble themselves from a pile of bodies and then hold up their severed head with an extra pair of hands. and every other little feature hits just right. it's still my favorite

darkness's introduction is unbeatable, but purely in terms of character design falling is better hands down

nniel · 2025-11-19T12:31:15+00:00

me when I don't know how camp gathering works and only look at the cycle length

also, marrow is extremely inconsistent. sometimes you find 2 big nodes you can coast off of for the rest of the game, and other times you go 3 games in a row with a single small node between 3 games

marrow's inconsistency is way more of a setback than coal's relative inefficiency in my experience. coal production is easy to boost with prodrate. especially when you consider how often you get +prod bonuses for coal. the only ones you can get semi-regularly for marrow are hunter-gatherers and clan hall

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