The main problem would be the power draw dilemma and it unfortunately buffing small poles (which suck because they need wood and thus can't be automated gracefully).

It could be solved by just removing the power draw of lights, of course. Handwave it by saying it's powered by whatever powers belts.

It absolutely would be illogical. So is the ability to carry 50 nuclear reactors in your backpack, each of which was crafted faster than a car engine. Green chips are made out of exclusively copper and iron (both conductors).

Fuck logic. Tell me if you think it's a good gameplay idea.

Does China really benefit? They import a fuckton of oil/gas through the strait of Hormuz, so they'll face an energy crisis just like the rest of us. Is that worth a drawdown on US munitions and damage to the US's reputation? The former is temporary and the latter is frankly common under Trump. China's main concern is, or at least ought to be, getting their economy ahead of their population crisis (which is key to maintaining their claim to legitimacy).

They'll benefit from the boom in renewables that an oil crisis usually causes (generalising from a dataset of one), maybe that's the assumption?

They absolutely do give you access to the source files, if you pay $$$. They don't say the figure explicitly (they have a "contact sales" button instead), but I believe it's six figures.

https://unity.com/products/source-code

AIUI, Unity has two types of systems the sparkly new stuff, which has the cutting-edge features but is unstable, and the old stuff, which had cutting-edge features 5 years ago but was abandoned while unstable, except in the last 5 years the bugs have been mostly documented and worked around. So the only way you can get new features is by adopting the shiny new thing, and the only way to get a stable engine is to go write one yourself. The latter is a terrible idea, FYI.

Okay, hot take: people care about gas prices because it's how most people are exposed to politics. No matter how wilfully ignorant you are, you can't not notice gas prices spiking. Most of the rest of politics is opaque unless you're tuned in.

So why does that matter? Because it means everyone (with a car) knows there's another war in the middle east. So anyone who thought Iraq was bullshit and voted for Trump because he promised "no more wars" is painfully aware that he lied now.

The sequel was both such an upgrade and such a downgrade

How is the sequel a downgrade? (I don't know basically anything except playing one of the games for half an hour-ish)

Now I want to see Obama making this speech.

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Let's face it: lights are a minor annoyance that are juuuust inconvenient enough that we want lights, but not inconvenient enough that we actually bother placing them.

So, now lack of lights reduce total average production by ~40% (or however long night is).

As a bonus, it now makes it far easier to selectively ease off on battery/coal plants - if you want to run daytime-only assemblers and just buffer the output for night-time, you don't have to run an entirely separate grid or futz around with circuits, you just neglect to place the light on that assembly line!

And before you research optics, you can only operate your assemblers during the day! Better hurry!

[-] PuddleOfKittens@sh.itjust.works 49 points 5 months ago

Can cause physical harm

The irony is that they can't, but their greatest weapon is that the people they fight think they can, and flee without even trying. And this post is making the exact same mistake, while also assuming they're invincible. The answer to the post is the post. That or pointing to the post and laughing.

[-] PuddleOfKittens@sh.itjust.works 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is bullshit. Roman public fountains and baths didn't require any sort of license, the fountains (which were used for fetching water for personal use) had priority over baths, bathing in fountains was strictly forbidden, and also why the fuck is he getting water directly from a cistern? Those aren't even publicly accessible.

Also, why bring an amphora instead of just a bucket?

No feedback when hitting enemies, besides generic blood splashing and maybe a stumble

Way more health than is necessary or interesting on enemies

Combat system is mindless and boring

Quests are full of "go to this cookie-cutter dungeon, clear it out and bring me the MacGuffin at the end" on loop.

The game has lots of bugs that were in the previous 2 games, and were patched in the fan-patches of both the previous 2 games.

Ukraine has had a "no mercenaries" policy IIRC, if NK troops are seen as mercenaries then maybe it'll legitimize Ukraine shopping for manpower.

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