You can’t exactly plan your Galaxy Trucker ship, it’s more “doing the best you can with what you’ve found.” For example: if you want to put a bunch of engines on your ship but don’t find very many, then there is nothing you can do about that.
Concordia. There are a lot of strategy implications in the game that we didn’t notice until a couple rounds in. There were a couple of times where I had the realization “Oh, that’s what I should have done 2 rounds ago!”
I love the ship customization in Eclipse, each type of ship (scout, fighter, cruiser) has a certain number of squares on your board that you can put any ship competent into. You can add more engines so it can move further in one action, or computers so you’re more likely to hit, or more guns so you roll more dice, or more shields so they are harder to destroy. You can find or research better components and all of your ships of the same class use the same blueprint.
I love how you can customize your units for how you want to play, but I’m not a fan of 4x games and wish there were other games with a similar mechanic.
Edge of Darkness is good, unfortunately they made a mess of the Kickstarter to the point that it’s not viable for it to get a retail release.
Deckbuilding + a board fits a sweet spot for me.
Tyrants of the Underdark is my favorite, it’s a familiar deck building formula but has a central board with area control zones for players to fight over.
I also enjoyed my play of Dune: Imperium, but it has a lot of other things going on as well. (Worker placement, area control, resource management, action cards)
This is a huge part of Arboretum (do I discard this card I know you want or am I safe to discard this other card I might need), and also big part of Fantasy Realms
This is more bullshit to distract.
This is saying it louder for the people in the back. Musk’s Nazi Salute isn’t getting the message across? Okay, how about this?
If I somehow accidentally did a Nazi salute my first response would be “Oh my god, I am so sorry, that was not my intention. Nazi’s are bad and I denounce all Nazis.” Then I would explain what I was trying to do.
Musk hasn’t bothered with the apology or denouncing Nazis, because it wasn’t a mistake and he was saying it nice and loud for the people in the back.
The most generous interpretation for people defending it is that they know it was a Nazi salute and they are trying to maintain “plausible” deniability. The only other explanation is they are complete fucking morons.
Another helpful phrase: “Am I being charged with a crime or am I free to go?”
If Apple changed the name to “Gulf of How The Fuck Does This Lower Grocery Prices” for a day in response I’d start using Apple Maps.
I’ll be happy with companies ignoring this to set the precedent that these executive orders are toothless.
You don’t understand. They should be free of your restrictions, you should be bound by their restrictions.
And they signed an executive order to do so?
The Constitution can be changed, we are talking about amendments afterall, but there are specific methods of doing so. None of those methods involve a King declaring it so.
Yes, Remember when that Democratic president signed an executive order banning guns?
They fuckers are not even trying to pretend any more
They’re still trying to pretend:
Alternative explanations for the gesture are plausible. Musk is socially awkward, and he may have been stiffly trying to throw love to the crowd for helping put Trump back in office. “My heart goes out to you,” he said after he did the gesture a second time.
No other reason they were willing to say out loud.
To be clear: It wasn’t the behavior of X or Musk over the past year that caused this, when he was already clearly being a Nazi pushing Nazi propaganda, it was the Nazi Salute.
I’m glad people are finally blocking X and I’ll take wins where we can get them, but this should have happened a long time ago.
The behavior of X did not change after his salute, it was already operating as a Nazi platform. My opinion of Musk didn’t change after seeing his Nazi salute, I already knew he was a fascist supporting the fascist party. My only surprise was that he was already willing to say it louder for the people in the back that he’s a Nazi.
It’s so frustrating that people are so unwilling to call fascists fascists until they go completely mask off. Musk can exhibit every Nazi behavior and people keep using X no problem, but it’s the fucking salute that gets them to finally block the platform.
So do people hate Nazis because of what they stand for? Or do they just hate the Nazi salute? Because by all available information it’s the salute that might get someone in trouble, all the other behaviors get ignored or excused.
I recommend checking out Arboretum: https://youtu.be/mmiXSOG1BtQ
It’s a small box game (just a deck of cards) so not too expensive, and it really hits that “If I discard this someone else is going to want it.”