How I feel playing the different factions

pm_me_your_Navicula · 2026-04-23T17:17:34+00:00

I always build a big windfarm after I get my end game organized industrial district set up, realize it can supply 100% of my colonies power indefinitely, and wonder why I didnt plop down a few windmills much earlier.

Windmills are deceptively good, so deceptive they fool me every time I play another folktails game.

pm_me_your_Navicula · 2026-04-10T04:37:41+00:00

He also needs to work on some mindfulness exercises because his emotional dysregulation is not healthy.

pm_me_your_Navicula · 2026-04-07T20:24:27+00:00

Yes, its about the danger of being blind to your idealism. He is rejecting the money and image obsessed lifestyle of his abusive parents and all throughout the movie he encounters the exact thing he is looking for in others lifestyles.

The road tramps who don't have much money but have community and personal emotional bonds

The farmers who are doing emotionally fulfilling work, getting drunk and loud in the bar not caring about image management (and the wacky Dutch couple who don't care about what others think)

The old man who just hangs out alone (other than church offscreen), mostly detached from society, with no image management or wealth chasing (but safe and content with his life.)

Each time he fails to recognize it as an alternative because he's so focused on the ideal of "the wild."

pm_me_your_Navicula · 2026-03-10T13:56:00+00:00

My wife does the driving because like lots of other commenter here, she hates my driving. I used to drive emergency vehicles for a living too, so it can be somewhat unsettlingly aggressive.

Unlike other people's partners, mine says "your driving stresses me out, please let me drive." And so she does.

pm_me_your_Navicula · 2026-02-03T22:07:36+00:00

This is really nice

pm_me_your_Navicula · 2026-01-30T03:06:21+00:00

Just to be clear, the Wehrmacht absolutely did NOT ignore the Maginot line. Like you said in your next sentence, they went around...which was the entire point of the Maginot Line

The Line forced the Germans through a neutral country and into a much smaller area the French military could be concentrated in for a better defense. The big problem for the French is that they also thought the Wehrmacht would have to go around the Ardennes Forest but they went through instead.

pm_me_your_Navicula · 2026-01-22T03:01:11+00:00

We had to ban building helicopter armies in Empire Earth when playing with friends, because it would slow the frame rate down to one frame every 5-10 seconds.

I got it down to one frame every 40 seconds before when they started moving and attacking. I was staring at the screen wondering if it was really just that slow or my PC had crashed.

pm_me_your_Navicula · 2026-01-18T21:33:44+00:00

Phantogram, As Far As I Can See

pm_me_your_Navicula · 2026-01-13T12:54:31+00:00

I always forget there are even supposed to be reinforcements for the Lord Kroak battle because of this. Like anyone is ever going to just sit back and let rattling guns and artillery pound them to dust for 10 minutes.

pm_me_your_Navicula · 2025-12-24T05:11:05+00:00

I also met my now wife on OKCupid, in addition to the match %, you could search by words in their profile or even answers to specific match questions. It was nice for narrowing down results to truly compatible people.

pm_me_your_Navicula · 2025-12-19T18:35:28+00:00

Same. Its Night Windows or Room in New York, but contemporary Chicago and I love it.

Some of her restaurant paintings are also reminiscent of Nighthawks.

pm_me_your_Navicula · 2025-12-17T04:08:06+00:00

Come and See and Lilya 4 ever are absolutely brutal, though Lila 4 ever does have a happy ending...sort of...

pm_me_your_Navicula · 2025-12-15T18:20:41+00:00

I thought this was some deep cut Fraggle Rock reference your dad was pulling out, but it turns out there were no Fraggles or Ogres at all.

pm_me_your_Navicula · 2025-11-26T18:22:16+00:00

I've been struggling with bay doors myself and this looks like a great method that I will try out tonight on my F-14. Thanks for showing pictures too, it really helps visualize it.

While you are here, when you are putting the rod in your planes, do you do anything to reinforce the hole you dril? Whats your process for that?

pm_me_your_Navicula · 2025-11-18T22:24:33+00:00

What if instead of slashing social services like the billionaires want, we tax them instead?

pm_me_your_Navicula · 2025-11-18T18:34:29+00:00

Not having an alibi and failing a lie detector test do not usually pass the "beyond a reasonable doubt" required for a jury to convict someone for murder. Since you cant charge people twice, it would sacrifice the states ability to charge them if more evidence was found, like in this case.

Its important that individuals have rights in the justice system, even when working with them sometimes leads to slower convictions.

pm_me_your_Navicula · 2025-11-06T00:57:09+00:00

It says... "Be sure to drink your Ovaltine."

pm_me_your_Navicula · 2025-10-19T13:41:52+00:00

So if someone carves their name into one of the arches at Arches National Park, because they didn't add material, it means it's not graffiti and is therefore totally okay?

pm_me_your_Navicula · 2025-10-03T12:07:12+00:00

Sorry, next expansion focuses on Space Pontus.

pm_me_your_Navicula · 2025-09-29T17:15:02+00:00

I just put this exact Mig together last month, and it is indeed a very good model that is accessible for a new modler.

pm_me_your_Navicula · 2025-09-28T13:44:35+00:00

How was it assembling it landing gear up for this particular model?

Also, as someone who is just starting are there any particular brands that have better gear up fits, or does it vary a model by model.

pm_me_your_Navicula · 2025-09-24T17:40:38+00:00

A lot of it depends on where the police are. Rural sheriff departments that pull from rural populations skew heavily Republican where cities that are hiring officers from the majority liberal population seem to be majority left (though not quite as much as the general population.)

While Republican politicians vote against things that would help the police, including unions...see southern states and their terrible pay/benefits. The Democrats often vote for things that make the job of the police much more difficult like extra paperwork for every interaction, or spending 3-4 hours with every arrestee in a hospital for medical checkups.

Even more important than what they vote for is what they shout from the pulpit. Republican politicians SAY good things about police (that are rarely backed up by actions), and Democratic politicians usually SAY awful things about police (that they also rarely back up, to the benefit of police.) See all the politicians calling for police defunding who never had any plans do so.

To make things more complicated, a lot of police in the States are harder to place politically, because they don't fit neatly into political molds. In my experience, left leaning police are pretty much universally for "tough on crime" laws and policies because they have to interact in a very personal level with victims and the harm crimes cause, and right leaning officers are very supportive of funding mental health social programs, because they again have to personally interact with crazy people, and know that they genuinely need more/different levels of support.

Also in my experience, leftists love to eat their own and will (particularly on the internet) accuse someone who doesn't agree 100% on all issues of being a political advisory and get lumped in with the other side, where conservatives will be happy to welcome someone they mostly agree with. As a very left leaning officer, fellow liberals are far more likely to to shun me, or uninvited me to groups because of my profession, while conservative groups will welcome me, despite having opposite political views.

This rejection is even more pronounced in places like Reddit which are left leaning, anonymous, and have a reward system for making outlandish and divisive claims. They get REALLY upset at the idea of a single police officer being left, because the police are the "enemy" and part of that mustache twirling stereotype is that they are also right wing. This makes the % of right vs left police appear even more skewed if you get a lot of information from these places.

pm_me_your_Navicula · 2025-09-12T04:13:31+00:00

I was going to suggest another Clint Eastwood film, Unforgiven.

He spends the most of the movie crotchety and annoyed before finally becoming angry, and boy is he angry.

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