Por que no los dos?

Reading further, it’s a pretty compelling argument that sanctions are the root cause, and this kind of instability and pressure is exactly what sanctions are meant to bring about.

I think it would probably become “2X” in that case, given the “exploit” and “exterminate” parts. :P

Against the Storm is sort of a citybuilder/ 4X hybrid, that’s all about a bunch of fantasy species (humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies) working together to reclaim the world from this (un)natural blight.

The Bustling World is an RPG/ Citybuilder/ 4X hybrid that looks pretty interesting, but is not out yet.

I can’t really think of a 4X that leans towards the Grand Strategy side, that isn’t pretty combat-heavy. Distant Worlds: Universe can be played without focusing on combat, but it’s definitely still there.

I’ve played 8.2 hours of BO:BB according to Steam, and it feels much closer to the OG Ghost Recon ( +Desert Siege and Island Thunder)… BUT right now the AI is pretty mediocre (and often breaks entirely and enemies just sort of stand there), and the shooting doesn’t feel as good as Ready or Not.

Incursion: Red River is a singleplayer + co-op extraction shooter that feels very Ghost Recon.

holy shit, fucking MICROPROSE is still around!? LETSGOOOOOOOO

Little side-tangent, but @trslim@pawb.social if you like base-building RTSes, you should check out Earth 2150 if you have not already. It’s old, but it’s imo one of the best out there.

• There are 3 factions, each with their own campaign, and very different styles of units, and during the campaign you have a home base that you build, and from which you can build and send out units to your in-progress missions (i.e. build a tank in your homebase, load it into a helicopter, send the helicopter to your in-mission base’s landing zone, and unload tank for use… and vice-versa for keeping units that you build in the mission zone, etc).
• Eurasian Dynasty is very traditional tanks and helicopters, and ballistic weapons
• United Civil States is bipedal walkers and sleek hovering aircraft, and uses energy weapons
• Lunar Corporation is space-y hovercraft with arcing, electric weapons and AOE pulse weapons
• There’s tunnel-building and tunnel warfare, which is so damn cool…
• There’s unit customization, like choosing the types of weapons for the tanks, building giant bipedal walkers with 3 different weapon systems, etc
• There are aircraft and boats, not just ground units
• You are using the resources you farm in the mission locations to construct a giant colony ship to escape from Earth, which is a great mechanic to give you a reason to actually extract resources other than just to build more units

Now I have to go reinstall it… xD

There are also Earth 2140 and Earth 2160, but I never fell in love with those 2 (Earth 2160 isn’t bad, and has a cool alien faction that is basically a roaming mothership that builds units, rather than a traditional ‘base’).

Us Millennials and GenXers are old now. :P Fortnight used to be a kids game, because GenZ were still kids. Now they’re adults, and Fortnite ain’t a GenAlpha game.

That’s awesome, thank you for that!

Is this going to be Lethal Company, but in the Control world? 'Cause I’d play that.

Hey, folks who claim Israel is so moral and justified, and totally not ethnic cleansing! Where are you now? Got any new, novel defenses for their actions?

You’d be surprised how many won’t put 2 and 2 together (or will otherwise feign ignorance) without a news story laying it out in detail.

I’m the weirdo that thinks FF8 was the best one. Squall actually grew as a character, matured from an angsty emo teen into an adult who assassinates authoritarian leaders (or at least tries to)… And don’t forget that Rinoa launches her dog like a wrist-mounted crossbow, as an attack. Best FF game.

Main backlog I actually want to play currently:

• Greedfall 2
• Cassette Beasts
• Shell Runner
• Selaco
• The entire Atelier series (Ryza 1+2, Sophie 1+2)
• Isles of Adalar (note that this game’s development is on-hold currently)
• Construction Simulator 3
• Dishonored 1+2
• Monomyth

If you can’t tell from Isles of Adalar and Monomyth, any game that looks like a Morrowind knock-off is a high priority for me. :P

In reality though, I’ll just play more Avorion and Starsector.

One of the worst and most predictable outcomes of Marxist-Leninism is the meshing together of the post-revolution counter-counterrevolutionary force, with the single-party state.

Marx never intended for there to be a central government wielding authority to combat counter-revolutionary backlash, this was supposed to be a continuation of the proletariat revolutionary movement, that served both to prevent society from sinking back into top-down control during peacetime complacency, and to keep the productive, positive, unifying spirit generated in a freedom-seeking revolutionary movement from dying out once the revolution was complete, and seeing the proletariat become divided.

When Lenin (and drawing on Lenin, Mao) murdered the whole “stateless” part of Communism, that counter-revolutionary force became a tool for justifying suppression of the proletariat by the State, because the state was (not actually, of course) the revolutionary force. This also insulates the state against ever dissolving into the actualized stateless society that MLs still claim to totally be moving towards, because anyone seeking to dissolve the state to that end is, in the state’s eyes, indistinguishable from other counter-revolutionary forces seeking to dissolve the state to return to Capitalism/ Feudalism/ Monarchy/ etc.

*After all, how can the single-party State know if the proletariat are actually good Communists, or whether they’re actually counter-revolutionaries? Only by maintaining constant surveillance and vigilance (and continuing the State)!

Directly killing several million people with bombs is actually pretty tough. Killing many millions with famine is much simpler.

Israel manufacturing their very own Holodomor as the world looks on…

Netanyahu just full-on pushing Israel into a regional war to stay in power. Sadly, the US is probably going to help him.

Can’t wait to see the Israel apologists start arguing that Israel flattening city blocks in other countries is justified, but other countries attacking Israel in response at all, is evil and unjust. Looks like at least one is already here…

Armed with more of his infamous maps of the Middle East, the right-wing leader went on to claim that “Israel seeks peace,” while also pledging to wage war on Hamas-governed Gaza until “total victory” and telling “the tyrants of Tehran” that “if you strike us, we will strike you.”

Shockingly, they are real.

I mean, obviously? It’s over. You don’t leave your Christmas decorations up until next time 'round either.

Cool? It was surfaced in a port.

Finding them when they’re docked in plain view isn’t the hard part, when it comes to submarine detection.

How can you have a “positive problem” with something? That seems like an oxymoron.

There are tons of games that are playable on smartwatches. Apart from that, there are a lot of single watch-games from the past. McDonalds and BurgerKing have also had a lot of watches with games or toys, as well.

Tamagotchi watches came back in 2021, which is one great option.

There are a ton of retro LCD video game watches out there, but they can be pretty pricey.