It’s called laughing, and the ghosts are angry.

Ah, the less intelligent half that is left has arrived 😜

These are the furries to be worried about.

Humanity is a great Civ alternative. Much more responsible and responsive developer and publisher. They also do the endless legend and endless space strategy games.

Fantastic soundtracks and art style. Very well polished games.

The learning curve is quick, it has different AI “Storytellers” called Phoebe Basebuilder that can give you a more chill experience.

And then there is Cassandra Classic for the dev curated experience that is challenging without being impossible.

And then there is Randy Random for when you absolutely have to have the slavers abducting your colonists get hit by a chunk of Uranium from space.

Without a doubt, this game has the highest levels of replayability I have ever seen in a game.

A lot of the Civ displeasure, is related to the scummy practices of the publisher. They tend to release a game with very little content and then proceed to sell you dozens of overpriced DLCs for features and content, that the previous entries had in the base game.

Just avoid the second one. Take2 abandoned it and closed the developer, but left it unfinished in early access, so they can still scam people out of money.

Rimworld, the best war crimes simulator.

Open transport tycoon, open source remake of the best transport simulator ever.

Oh, so you’re one of those fake MacBook Pro users who actually care about their productivity, not the real ones who care about looking productive in coffee shops and open plan offices. 😉

MacBook Pro users on their tiny little laptop screen

Surprising overlap with web developers for some reason.

They need this to compete with Apple, apple runs on a lot less Ram because it imposes such limits already, simply by not having as much RAM to begin with

JavaScript was a mistake.

I would like to change my answer. We need this avatar.

With a side of them

I am thinking this is the one we need

And we need to start calling it, sucking up economics.

Also to add to your list.

• Patriot act, establishment of the surveillance state.
• Obama betrayal to the Oligarchs.
• You will own nothing and be happy.
• 2008 recession and ongoing housing capture
• America exiting the rules based international order.
• Climate denial turning into climate-“fuck off, we are a death cult”
• Growing wealth chasm.

The way I understood it, it was more about joining the allies in case the soviets decided to go from WW2 directly into WW3.

They are real people

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