Well yes but actual no. While 4X games are turn based strategies where most rules are implemented through simple math, the obscene scale and complexity means they'd be impossible to implement on a board. And that's before even considering fog of war.

For a TBS to work as a boardgame, it must have a real-world mechanical solution to its secrets (cards, Stratego units, etc) and it must be simple enough for humans to execute all of the logic within the game.

Nobody could have predicted this! :P

How many users did Jabber/XMPP have in 2004?

recommending everyone I knew to switch to it

I think we've isolated the problem. Everyone is aware of the risk this time. nobody is going to abandon their Fediverse accounts for Threads.

Even for experts the user experience is shit. Too much has to be done manually when the default should be automatic, like fetching before pull, recursing when working with repos that use submodules, allowing mismatched casing on case insensitive filesystems, etc.

I mean I like Jeff but the OW1 eras of pretty bad gameplay and pretty long time waiting fixes happened on his watch. He designed a crazy fun game, but I think his stewardship in making it stay balanced and various and fun once you get good at it was a bit more lacking.

And the top comments are all boomers typing "what about electrical fires!" never mind that half the people these days seem to sleep with a wired lithium-powered phone fast-charging next to them, if not in bed with them. Those batteries might be smaller, but that's surrounded by flammable wood and fabric not a concrete parking garage. But that's my phone and e-bike riders are other people.

There should be 2, one at each of the corners on the right. Label them L and R.

That one is caused by zoning.

If I can make a low-rise building and sell 12 units for $250k on the same property that I can build two detached houses to sell for a $million, I'll do the former, right?

But city hall is going to make me drag out the approval process for the low-rise for 3 years and grind me down to 6 units. I'll just save the ball-ache and build the mcmansions.

I honestly don't get what they're thinking. They make phones. They making gaming equipment. Why don't they integrate those together like they did with the Xperia Play? I don't necessarily mean taking another kick at that can (but yes, they should take another kick at that can) but why not work with what they're good at? Like they work with Backbone to make a Playstation branded version of it -- but it runs on iPhones only!

It seems so obvious - make an Xperia/PSP branded gaming-grade phone, offer a first-party Backbone-like controller, sell a Playstation Portal screen-and-wifi-only device that also docks into that Backbone-like controller, etc. The only real problem is Google's monopolistic rules against letting hardware companies offer alternate stores on PlayStore-based devices, or they could have a Playstation Android Store focused on gamepad-based games that are specifically targeting their gaming Android devices.

Bring back PSP as an Sony+Android gaming brand.

I haven't been looking into the meta at all, been enjoying farting around and experimenting solo, what's a Meefcake? Heavy biped with bazookas?

Edit: found the vid. The game came out two days ago how is there already so much content???

Anyhow, dual plasma I see. I tried rolling dual energy and hated it because of how rapid-clicking dual charge-weapons feels.

Oh, thanks!

Edit: there must be a trick to it, I just checked and it still sends shopping list entries to that weird Google Assistant List thing.

Edit2: found it! There's a Google Assistant setting. God damn the UI for this is so awful. First question it should ask when it finds I have no shopping list shouldn't be "shall I make you a shopping list" but "hey do you use Google Keep to manage your shopping? Should I switch to that?".

I actually have a dirt cheap $15/mo Public Mobile Canada plan that has 250MB data and 100 minutes.... and even that has unlimited SMS.