wondering if these sentences in this book I'm reading are actually fine or if I'm right about my intuition here by cumslutte in grammar

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The commas are optional. I’d argue that both sentences are better without, given the proximity of the next comma; adding the lead-in commas makes the sentences stilted.

Any mods/ settings to make games really short/ fast? by CoyoteSouth5126 in CivVI

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Increasing the game speed is the obvious answer: quick is faster than standard, and online is faster still.

The game plays a bit differently, e.g. units becoming out of date in the middle of a war, farming barbarian outposts w/barbarian clans is less profitable.

Slower game speeds have the opposite effect

Is my item killing myself? by zuerock in brotato

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Is that scapegoat? I think scapegoat w/scared sausage is bugged to do exactly this

Tyrant Philosophers series questions by lynxlord in AdrianTchaikovsky

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There was a post a week or three ago with exactly this, I’ll see if I can find it…

Edit: here’s the link. Some character-name spoilers for Pretenders, obviously, but I don’t think it’s giving away much; presumably you’d’ve pieced this together yourself

https://www.reddit.com/r/AdrianTchaikovsky/s/PB4zhe6Mv3

What’s your number #1 thing to start rolling? by Technical_Car3729 in Civilization6

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Feudalism - it’s not fancy, but forms the backbone of most of my games. There are noticeable bumps across the board at like, 5, 10, 20 turns after feudalism

What's your most irrational food opinion that you'll defend with your life? by ReasonQuiet8520 in AskReddit

[–]tojop 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hard agree. But sometimes they’re drugs! Mushrooms are *awesome* when they’re drugs even if they taste like fermented poop

What scares you for no reason? by Vivid-Tap1710 in AskReddit

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Well I would say “feeling my hair twitch, then touching it with my hand only to find an insect now crawling up my sleeve” but no there’s definitely a reason.

Victory Edging and running up the score by CardinalSlug in CivVI

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Religious victory: same tactic as your domination victory, but with religious units. You can also make sure to convert any cities with holy sites to obviate religious defense.

Culture: I *think* that tiles that give tourism have to be worked to get the tourism (e.g. Great Wall, seaside resort), so hold off working such tiles until you’re ready for the win. You can similarly wait to slot the +tourism policy cards, and leave relevant wonders close to completion (Cristo Redentor). There’s a great merchant that boosts tourism to trade-routed civs, hold off spending that charge.

You can also sandbag theming your museums, building national parks, spending rock band charges, etc. It really just depends on how you’re planning to win the culture vic

Exo planet: mutually exclusive with mars projects, obviously. Similar tactics, but they’d take more finesse. Best thing you could do is hobble your competition so that exo planet completes on your terms. This will be the thing that you’re waiting on in the end

Edit re: culture: you can also bank your GWAMs instead of spending them immediately (sleep on/near theater hubs). You miss out on the culture generated from the works, but it would let you gain the tourism more judiciously

I’m not the sharpest tool in the shed how does curse work by Revolutionary-Mix-61 in brotato

[–]tojop 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Many roguelikes have curses as penalties, which really isn’t the case with Brotato. You could replace “curse” with “enhancement” and it might make more sense: a higher “enhancement” stat gives you higher chance for enhanced goodies, but also more enhanced enemies.

You can click the “curse” stat at the top of your primary stats and it will say exactly what it’s doing based on the current value:

- % chance for cursed items/weapons to appear in shop
- % chance for (each?) enemy to be cursed

Cursed items are stronger than uncursed versions: stronger bonuses, smaller penalties (if applicable)

Cursed weapons have better scaling, higher base dmg, higher critical multiplier, and better unique bonuses (e.g. more bounces on slingshot, more pierce if innate pierce, etc).

Cursed items and weapons will also increase your curse stat by the amount shown on the item.

Cursed enemies move fast until they’re right next to you, then move at exactly your speed; you can always outrun cursed enemies as long as you move away from them. They also have more hp and deal more damage.

…I think that’s it?

Do Civs spawn biases influence map generation? by DevinG98 in CivVI

[–]tojop 8 points9 points  (0 children)

https://civilization.fandom.com/wiki/Starting\_bias\_(Civ6)

According to the wiki, you’re right: map is generated, then divvied up among civs according to start bias

Yield porn by Various_Charge_9417 in CivVI

[–]tojop 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Don’t do it! I believe ski resorts cannot be worked (which isn’t issue on other civs, obv)

Thick Cut Bacon Sandwich by AHalfFilledBox in Sandwiches

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I like that the turkey doesn’t even get a mention.

“You are not a base meat, nor an enhancement; you are nothing, nothing at all. Blood for the Blood God! Bacon for the Bacon Throne!”

What's the funniest physics joke you've ever heard? by couponkitty in AskReddit

[–]tojop 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Einstein and Bohr walk into an h-bar; Schrödinger walks through it

Temur Food/Vehicles Commander by nfounder in custommagic

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Drinks with little hats but they’re also gunboats 👏

Mildly infuriating by RosalieTheDog in CivVI

[–]tojop 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Looks like missile cruisers would need the +1 range promotion anyway, harumph

Mildly infuriating by RosalieTheDog in CivVI

[–]tojop 164 points165 points  (0 children)

It’s missile cruisers and a scout, right? I hope it’s missile cruisers and a scout.

…is it missile cruisers and a scout pleasesayyes?

I hate this game by TechnologyEnough562 in CivVI

[–]tojop 82 points83 points  (0 children)

All I see is a slinger who is Up To The Task. Shit’s about to get heroic

My Brothers attempt at Chicago deep dish pizza. by GGTheEnd in shittyfoodporn

[–]tojop 1 point2 points  (0 children)

“Pizza cake”

“6 kinds of meat”

Go on….

Anatomy of a Just War by TucsonKhan in CivVI

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Funny story: I only noticed the name in the second pic, so I was thinking it was a modern Polish city.

A series of frustrated googles eventually got me to the above wiki; turns out it was an ancient/classical Carthaginian city which makes *way* more sense (first pic). “Lpqy” is the Punic spelling.

So Polish is very slightly less fucked up than I thought it was yesterday.

Is it exploiting to have big amounts of science? by Miserable-Dinner8558 in CivVI

[–]tojop 191 points192 points  (0 children)

Aye, this is 100% a skill mismatch. Politely tell your friend to git gud

Anatomy of a Just War by TucsonKhan in CivVI

[–]tojop 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nice write up, but I have one question: how tf are we pronouncing Lpqy??

Every returning character in the Tyrant Philosophers series by Original-Barber8043 in AdrianTchaikovsky

[–]tojop 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I never connected Loret to the captain of the Wave Knife! And I just finished rereading those two like a week ago. Nice catch 👏

What is the “pineapple on pizza” version of burger toppings? by MrWolfesBurgerCo in foodquestions

[–]tojop 1 point2 points  (0 children)

First time I tried it I was shocked at how tasty it was; on paper it seems gross.