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Top City Homo posted:he is going to make communism great again
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Oct 25, 2017 21:05
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Epic High Five posted:so am i gonna get purged or what If you have to ask...
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Oct 26, 2017 05:46
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Jose posted:Aren't you in Arkansas Arkansas got pretty clean air so I'm not sure what point you're trying to make
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Oct 26, 2017 20:54
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Hilario Baldness posted:I remember in The Communist Manifesto where Marx endorsed universal healthcare and said, "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor." You didn't build that means of production, the proletariat helped you
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Oct 27, 2017 04:21
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Domai is the correct choice you loving talent scum
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Oct 27, 2017 18:36
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I'd agree if it wasn't for domai, the best boy who did nothing wrong, bitch
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Oct 27, 2017 18:40
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Infinite Legend had a decent counterbalance to overexpansion. I assume you mean endless legend? It's time to accept Morgawr into your heart
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Oct 27, 2017 23:34
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rudatron posted:Endles Legend is absolute garbage, drat what a wrong take The only thing I wish it would change is the endless winter late game
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Oct 28, 2017 03:12
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:The only bad thing about Endless Legend are the elves, who they didn't even bother to make sense within the logic of the setting. Are they native fauna, experimentations of the endless, shipwrecked aliens? Who gives a poo poo, their faction is lame. I can't even remember their gimmick
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Oct 28, 2017 04:38
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Calling it a remake is pretty insulting tbqh. It's not, it doesn't have any connection, whether setting, character, or theme, to AC. It's just a SciFi Civ 5 the bitcoin of weed posted:emperor is the title level above king and the holder receives corresponding bonuses to their prestige and piety It hasn't mattered since Victorian England, where being Queen outranked Empress
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Oct 28, 2017 18:39
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If you want a semi-realistic historical game, play EU4, Civ is gamey and doesn't try to be real, that's a positive
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Oct 29, 2017 03:38
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gradenko_2000 posted:My dad still plays Civ 4 with custom games starting at the WW2 tech level and plays it like a wargame, with naval blockades, grand amphibious assaults, aerial bombardment campaigns, and armored spearheads. seems like your dad should just play Hoi
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Oct 29, 2017 21:10
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Jose posted:i never used them because i didn't understand what they did as a kid Once you understand how the game works, and more importantlythe ai's blindspot the game invariably becomes trivial. That's why civ is always more fun to play with friends on multiplayer
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Oct 30, 2017 20:51
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Concordat posted:The game is supposed to stop you from building submarine aircraft carriers but I still managed to do it one time by just loving with the unit prototype interface till it broke. Typo posted:early conquests+probe teams + a homicidal ai personality
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Oct 31, 2017 00:33
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:boy howdy my security settings won't even let these patches run terran/x.exe even after granting full permissions Welcome to the world of pre-workshop game modding If there isn't a chance you're installing a back door for elite christian hackers, then the mods not worth installing
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Oct 31, 2017 18:18
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Typo posted:wait did no one else like pillars of eternity I liked it and i could never play the old Baldurs Gate games due to them aging poorly so I definitely have no nostalgia for them
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Oct 31, 2017 20:21
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Torment is worth it for the art direction alone imo, although the writing is also top notch and there's usually multiple ways to resolve a problem without going into combat as well. The combat is ok. It's literally 90% the interface that keeps me from playing those games. It's a shame cause in theory they're right down my alley, but a lot of old game sare just unfucking playable to someone spoiled on modern interfaces. I can only play Morrowind with dozens of mods installed, for example
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Oct 31, 2017 20:53
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:It's weird that you're complaining about interfaces, when Morrowind had one of the best interfaces for a PC RPG ever made. I mean, MCP and the Overhaul Project is essential now, if only to get the draw distance to something respectable - but the actual in-game interface is solid for mouse + keyboard. You could drag all of the windows to any size you wanted, put them where you wanted, and even lock them so they stayed visible in real-time. I guess the real problem is that there's no item sorting for your inventory, and there's a ton of items to pick up. I'm sure it was great for the time but the whole systems a mess in tyool 2017
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Oct 31, 2017 21:13
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Rudatron's avatar rules. I can feel the condensation
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Nov 1, 2017 17:12
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Human Hive and Spartans are the only factions that feel "right" nerve stapling. I could see Morgan doing it to the poors, and Miriam doing it to dissenters. Deirdre and Lal are the only ones that I think would be completely above such practice.
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Nov 2, 2017 04:04
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Socialism with Mindworm CharacteristicsPener Kropoopkin posted:Since this is basically the unofficial Alpha Centauri/CSPAM gaming thread, I'm encountering a catastrophic CTD bug with Yitzi's 3.5 patch that crashes every time after a massive fungal bloom from eco damage. It was fixed in 3.5b, which is an exe fix that you need the regular 3.5 patch to merge over. "Unofficial"?
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Nov 2, 2017 23:35
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rudatron posted:There's too much negative energy itt, its ruining my chakras Typical Gaian 
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Nov 4, 2017 00:10
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Zakharov is a "I loving love science!" guy
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Nov 4, 2017 00:11
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jBrereton posted:he's space peter thiel. Zak actually knows what he's talking about so nah He's what happens if you made Sagan an autocrat
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Nov 4, 2017 00:16
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Yang listens to a lot of "dark" music and complains about normies not getting him Santiago is the gorilla warfare copypasta personified
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Nov 4, 2017 00:18
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Baloogan posted:there are some good characters atm that would make GREAT faction leaders in a game like SMDH Musk is almost literally Morgan except for the racial difference
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Nov 4, 2017 00:19
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Yang is a firm believer in the power of NoFap Deirdre has banned WiFi for fear of it's carcinogenic effect
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Nov 4, 2017 01:22
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Lal moderates a subforum
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Nov 4, 2017 01:22
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Ulrik has a blog concerning cryptocurrency speculation and mining tips and tricks
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Nov 4, 2017 02:26
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:tooday ve vell be pooting mind worlm in hydraullic pbress Here I have captured Miriam, let's see if she can dissent against the crushing force of pressure
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Nov 4, 2017 02:29
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gradenko_2000 posted:Keepin' it 4.367 Lightyears Weaboo is cultural, rather than racial imo Any Westerner over obsessed with Japanese culture and media is a weaboo, even if they have Japanese blood
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Nov 4, 2017 06:59
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Baloogan posted:lol i know everything about japan from hentai
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Nov 4, 2017 07:00
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R. Guyovich posted:the sky's been clear or close to it the whole time i've been here, though that's about to change. i have 3M masks. What part of China, you can be vague if you want, are you in a heavily industrialized area?
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Nov 5, 2017 00:00
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Trump seems to genuinely like Xi and thinks they're friends. I've got no snide remark to make I just think it's cute
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Nov 10, 2017 04:01
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Yandat posted:trump loves this part of the job he's basically in what he probably thinks is an asian themed amusement park and he gets to feel appreciated and important without having to do any real work Hell same International Trump is best Trump
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Nov 10, 2017 05:15
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I can understand China being hard to immigrate to, given that they are the most populous country on the planet. If anyone can say "gently caress off we're full" it's them. This will probably have to change though, thanks to the one child policy loving with the gender ratio. Also, North America is pretty unique wrt immigration. I don't think one can assimilate into Western Europe. For example, I as a Hispanic American, could never be a Swede, my Sweden-born children probably wouldn't be either, the same can't be said of America, I'm proof of that, imo. This cultural assimilation came at the cost of possibly the most complete colonialism (read genocide) of a continent. So I don't think it's fair to hold other countries to North America's standard. Pener Kropoopkin posted:I maintain nonetheless that yin-yang dualism can be overcome. With sufficient enlightenment we can give substance to any distinction: mind without body, north without south, pleasure without pain. Remember, enlightenment is a function of willpower, not of physical strength. Yang was a poster
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Nov 10, 2017 22:14
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Baloogan posted:"don't sign ur posts" "Turn on your monitor" --Prokhor Zakharov Accompanies the Secret Project "The Neural Amplifier"
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Nov 11, 2017 00:48
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:All of the factions have a clear ideology, even the SMAX factions. The Hive is a blend of ancient Chinese Legalism and Maoism, that sees the temporary sacrifices of humanity as necessary for its eventual liberation even from base material existence. It's an absolute authoritarianism whose end goal is Eudaimonic, although Thought Control could end up being an equally valid choice. Yang also has a hard on for Nietzche, but he inverts his theory, for Yang the nihilstic Last Man is the ideal. Data angels are more edgy cyberpunk hackers, they were more inspired by the 90's optimistic view of the internet, rather than any actual anarchism. The drones are apparently syndicalists in presentation. Edit: it's important to understand that the base game factions were definitely taken from the geopolitical ideologies of the time. The expansion got a bit more imaginative with the ideologies, for better or worse. Dreddout has issued a correction as of 07:12 on Nov 11, 2017 |
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Nov 11, 2017 07:09
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:I wouldn't say it got more imaginative. Imaginative was the wrong word. I should have said "speculative". In general the SMAC factions were based on what was at the time the powerful geopolitical ideologies, more or less taken to extremes. Morgan and Miriam pull double duty for conservatism. Morgan being the finance corporate aspect. Miriam was specifically an American Evangelical, and boy howdy it shows Deidre is clearly an analogue to the Global Green movement, Zak is actually the most interesting and funny in hindsight. He was clearly a stand in for the then new Russian Federation, at a time when it's future was uncertain and could have gone in many ways, but was generally looking to be a neoliberal technocratic regime. Boy did that prediction not age well. Lal is just literally the UN. Santiago represents authoritarian juntas that dominated much of Latin America. Yang is the oddest. He's got this weird nihilistic, legalistic, collectivism mix going on. But ultimately he represents 90's China as a growing power. The SMAX factions clearly have a unifying thematic descision of being speculative. Rather than modern global forces taken to ideological extremes of SMAC; they were more fantastical imaginings of sci-fi societies. Transhumanism, Cyperpunk, Pirates, An eco cult led by an indigo child. They felt more like something you'd see in speculative sci-fi, rather than the geopolitical commentary of the SMAC factions. Ultimately, it was a good counterpoise to the base game from a writing perspective. Many of them also serve as narrative foils to the base factions. Sadly you are right that the expansion factions didn't get their due diligence of flavor text, and feel hollow in comparison to the base factions. But the germs of ideas behind the SMAX factions aren't any less interesting, it's a shame they didn't double the tech tree.
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Nov 11, 2017 09:45
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Homeless Friend posted:research nukes Slow down there, Gandhi!
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Nov 12, 2017 04:38
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