eRac

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[–] eRac 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Factorio is the best manufacturing/logistics sim by a huge margin. Some of that is technical things, but the biggest contributor is game balance and the complexity curve. They spent years iterating to find a sweet spot.

[–] eRac 13 points 2 years ago

The regulatory agency is pretty large, but it's headed by a 5-member commission.

[–] eRac 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The first game has a weird gameplay loop where you get to a city that is very similar to the previous one, have to do a some filler missions (often with no story at all) to unlock the story mission, then do the story mission and move on.

2-Syndicate are much more continuously story-driven. They all have quite a few collectables, but they aren't important to experiencing the game.

The 2 family is mostly set inside cities, while 3 and after have more world around the cities. They also lose some focus on stealth over time, though it still exists in all of them.

Origins, Odyssey, and Valhalla become much more RPG-lite, combat focused, and require you to do quite a bit to keep up with enemy level scaling.

Looping back to the root of your question, the 2 family is often seen as the peak of the core series, with 4 (Black Flag) being up with it but different.

The only downside of the 2 family is that there isn't much evolution between the three games to make moving to the next game feel like a jump to a new game, but progression is lost each time. It feels like one massive game with weird break points.

[–] eRac 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

They specifically used it to make major players blatantly cheat during a tournament so that it would be taken seriously and fixed quickly.

[–] eRac 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Chinese Chicken (The Harrison Ford Song) - RCMP

[–] eRac 1 points 2 years ago

Boeing doesn't make engines.

Also, this is a nine-year-old plane. It has had at least one total tear down by Southwest.

[–] eRac 10 points 2 years ago

Have you ever heard big cats? They sound like little cats but... deeper. I feel like dinosaurs would sound like birds with similar deepening, depending on the size of the dino.

[–] eRac 13 points 2 years ago

They are facing a genuine supply issue. A different company made a sudden move because they wanted to maximize profits.

Tyson, one of the main chicken processors, killed their no-antibiotics program at the end of 2023. They moved from claiming meat came from chickens that had had no antibiotics used (NAE) to claiming no human-relevant antibiotics had been used (NAIHM).

The rest of the market can't meet the demand for NAE, at least not in the short term.

[–] eRac 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, I've taken a breath in a high-CO2 environment a few times. The whole body freaks out instantly. Not fun.

[–] eRac 9 points 2 years ago (5 children)

There are a couple of decent reasons. One is that your servers may be a network of services that can't operate independently. Another is that they may rely on things you don't have a license to distribute.

[–] eRac 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I got most of the way through DoS2 and gave up. Every fight was a giant mess of surfaces. Reducing that makes BG3 far more enjoyable.

[–] eRac 3 points 2 years ago

I'm starting to suspect Oregon is cursed. All of these recent incidents, including the shroom incident, have been in Oregon.

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