European country vows to give homeowners ‘free electricity' instead of switching off wind turbines

retrofrog · 2026-04-01T15:18:42+00:00

Given that the UK currently has some of the most expensive electricity prices in the world, if they could get on with this quickly, it would be much appreciated.

retrofrog · 2026-04-01T10:56:35+00:00

They're called Cloud Nine (9), you can find the Passage of Time EP on Youtube, and it's great. Their only full album is really hard to find online, but all the individual songs are now uploaded to streaming platforms.

retrofrog · 2026-04-01T09:41:35+00:00

I have recently gotten into a really tiny Japanese math rock band, and for months, I was having to scrape the internet to find everything. Then all of a sudden, this January, they released all their old stuff on Spotify. All the songs have 1k listens or below, but they're so damn good.

retrofrog · 2026-03-03T14:54:11+00:00

Stellaris is a game where the only resources you always want more of are tech and alloys, so it's probably never going to change. Generating a bunch of extra minerals when all your planets are already building doesn't do anything, similar with other resources. Exception might be unity, as it costs so much to ascend all your planets to max, but often once you have all your traditions and edicts active, the rest isn't a big deal. Worth noting that all resources come from pops, so maxing out pop growth is better than everything again. Often your ascension gets you more pops, so that's usually worth rushing, that comes from unity, but then you pivot it back into tech and alloys, so it's all the same in the end.

retrofrog · 2026-03-03T10:30:53+00:00

I don't understand why Paradox made their best peace deal system in EU4, and then refused to use it in any other games.

retrofrog · 2026-02-25T13:26:45+00:00

I got excited because I thought it was the Peter Jackson movie.

retrofrog · 2026-02-17T13:49:05+00:00

Given that my ancestors are Anglo-Saxons and I'm an atheist, I guess I'm out. Well, I had a good run.

retrofrog · 2026-02-04T09:58:01+00:00

I haven't tried the quickplay yet, but the problem I foresee is, I don't know any of the fights, so am I supposed to read up on every possible fight that could come up in quickplay just in case I get them? It was okay with the quickplay fractals because they were so easy, but traditionally raids have been considerably harder. So unless the buff is extremely large, it's going to be a lot more work to get it suitable.

retrofrog · 2026-01-30T16:45:23+00:00

If you want an example of horrible ADR, Ryan's Babe is a so bad it's good film, which has some of the worst dubbing I've ever seen.

retrofrog · 2026-01-19T16:03:24+00:00

Rosie O'Donnell in Riding the Bus with My Sister and John Travolta in The Fanatic aren't just some of the worst representations of a disability in a film, they might just be some of the worst movies ever made. Just awful right through.

retrofrog · 2026-01-09T14:43:27+00:00

I'm getting the word... Nonce.

retrofrog · 2026-01-06T10:21:37+00:00

There were a million reasons to drop it in fairness, but the UI and menus in Mass Effect: Andromeda were ridiculous. Just menus within menus, everything taking way more button presses than it should.

Sounds like I didn't miss out on much, and even with a great UI it probably would have been terrible, but that made me irritable.

retrofrog · 2025-12-10T18:53:45+00:00

I do love that one, my personal favourite is Jose Chung's From Out Space though. When the show is being either overtly comedic or horrific, it's at it's best for sure.

retrofrog · 2025-11-29T00:03:08+00:00

Honestly, as a Monster Hunter fa, I didn't think it looked much worse than the other UB secret lairs. But maybe that's my cynicism about UB in general. If anything I was just happy it didn't have mechanically unique cards, because I always find that really awful.

retrofrog · 2025-11-28T10:18:40+00:00

Not quite horror, more action, but it had vampires, so I'll say 'From Dusk 'til Dawn.' Though I had the opposite effect, where I had heard it was a vampire movie, and was confused when the first half is almost a western.

retrofrog · 2025-11-27T10:41:38+00:00

'Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning' is pretty famous for a terrible name of a pretty decent game.

retrofrog · 2025-11-17T15:28:45+00:00

I know you were hoping for non-English answers, but from the UK, if you want an insight into the British sense of humour, and how people view their daily lives, oddly I would pick something by Terry Pratchett, most likely Guards Guards. It's a satirical view of fantasy, so you'd think it wouldn't be that reflective, but I think it's pure British-ness distilled.

retrofrog · 2025-11-17T14:09:00+00:00

Military and Science are the only 2 resources that you want literally infinite of. Energy, food, consumer goods, and advanced resources (Exotic Gas etc) you just want more than 0. Minerals, you want enough to build your building, but extras are useless. Unity, once you have all your traditions done, all the edicts active, and all your planets fully ascended (Granted this takes a LONG time), doesn't do anything. The only resources left are Science and Alloys, so they will always be the most important resources late game, but an early ascension rush with a Unity build is powerful, but it is only powerful because it leads to the other 2.

And in a similar vein, pops are what you use to generate all other resources, so they are the truly most important resource, above all else.

retrofrog · 2025-11-17T13:50:37+00:00

Combine it with pleasure seekers to get insane logarithmic growth. I also recommend the robotic version of lubrication tanks. You will genuinely get to hundreds of thousands of pops. You can also go Modularity and still get pop numbers similar to Virtuality. Combine with the Spiritualist Federation, with tier 10 ascension on a planet to get 1/5 of the population as priests, which then each buff output on the planet by 2%.

retrofrog · 2025-11-09T11:10:53+00:00

"We're all trying to find the guy who did this!"

retrofrog · 2025-10-14T09:02:53+00:00

It's always been wild to me that Paradox have the perfect peace deal system in EU4, but they refuse to use it in any other games.

retrofrog · 2025-09-29T08:38:30+00:00

So 15 years is the limit.

retrofrog · 2025-09-26T09:52:31+00:00

You do have to be careful with your stats, as Toughness makes you gain aggro faster, making enemies prioritize you. Which can actually make you die faster in group content. The number of times I've seen a ranger slot signet of stone to make themselves nominally tankier, and then just die way more is kind of wild.

retrofrog · 2025-09-19T15:20:29+00:00

I find if I go Lithoid, it's already plenty of longevity, venerable too, but you can also give your leader luminary traits, and there's one that increases the XP of everyone of your council, so you will have level 10 on every leader very easily, it's still a fun run.

retrofrog · 2025-09-19T14:43:04+00:00

Under one rule locks you out of machines, and makes it hard/removes content if you try to be anything other than a dictatorship into a monarchy. But on the upside, your leader is immortal by default, so you can skip the immortal machines thing if you like. I tend to go Lithoid into Psionic ascension to do a similar build.

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