Quoting: brokeassbenAlso, why is Gandhi such an ass in this game? Declared war on me for no apparent reason.

In-joke for the series I'm guessing (haven't actually played VI myself yet); in (I think) the original Civilization all civs/leaders had a signed integer representing their aggression level. Gandhi/India had the lowest possible value, i.e., least aggressive. However, taking democracy as a government (available later in game) would lower your civ's aggression level, leading to Gandhi's aggression to wrap around to becoming the absolute most aggressive civ in the game, leading to very commonly seeing the memetic picture of Gandhi threatening "Our words are backed by nuclear weapons!" As a result, India's typically either had really high aggression or a particular love of nuclear weapons in every Civ game since.

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Ooo, Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun is on sale for $19.99! I can absolutely recommend that—a very fun and professional-quality game. Also Human: Fall Flat is on sale for $7.49, huge fun if you've got a friend or two to play it with.

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Finally people are getting around to making the Sim Ant remakes I've been wanting for ten years. :) We've got multiple Sim Tower-alikes to choose from (though I haven't actually tried any), now we just need a good Sim Farm remake and my childhood will be complete.

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Thanks for the reminder—I got the video edited and uploaded this morning (will make a better thumbnail when I get time!). :)

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I backed this on Kickstarter and tried it our last night, and yeah…this is a very complicated game, and no tooltips makes figuring out what buttons do rather…"exciting". ;) I figured it'd be your fairly typical "start in a dinky, one-person ship and work your way up from there while learning about new systems as they're introduced", and nope! You start with a huge ship with a crew of ~20 people, all of who can individually level up and have their own skills and traits.

On the plus side, this is (or at least appears to be) a very deep game; lots of systems to interact with each other and get to know, so I expect to get a lot of play-time and replayability out of it. On the downside, learning to play without tooltips is pretty daunting; I was constantly worried one of the buttons I was almost randomly pressing would do something catastrophic. :) I figured out enough to get around, but I may wait till the tooltip issue is fixed before coming back.

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Quote[…]and also a whole range of casus belli to pick from[…]

Would the plural of "casus belli" be "casi bellorum"? Any Latin scholars out there better than I that can confirm or deny?

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QuoteI’d say it’s possible to expect to be fighting a better land war in Asia before the end of the year.

You fool! You've committed one of the classic blunders! Never start a land war in Asia! :P

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Came here to give a shout-out to Defense Grid 2—I'd never been into tower defense games until the original Defense Grid came out (back when I was on Windows), then I was hooked. :D (Too bad that one was never ported…)

DG2 runs on my Debian testing setup with an nVidia GTX 750 Ti just fine; I fired it up to check before writing this post and before I knew it it was 2.5 hours later.

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Hoping to try out Don't Starve Together with a friend this weekend, he's played it a lot and I've watched him a little but never felt like trying it myself until he gifted me it just this past week. I'll be going in with basically no knowledge of what to do, so it should be "fun" for him. :P

That and probably some more Human: Fall Flat. Such a fun game.

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Wait, so…the news yesterday is that AMD is working with Intel to create integrated graphics solutions to add to Intel CPUs, correct? And now Intel is turning around and going to start competing with AMD (and nVidia of course) in the discrete GPUs market? Huh? :S:

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