I think a more accurate depiction would be sword vs spear/halberd.

Started playing Mindustry. It’s $10 on steam but actually pay what you want direct from the dev here.

I don’t mind the portal mats lockout. It forces you to explore more.

I did get a mod that unlocks mats as you beat bosses. So you can’t teleport mats until you basically unlock the tier above.

Unlock silver and you can teleport iron. As we all know you can never have enough iron.

Solo play is great. Team play just offers some amazing moments and game play.

There’s lots to do so in a team it’s divide and conquer.
1 goes to gather wood.
1 goes to gather food.
1 goes to gather ores.
Build new big thing.
Team up to explore new area together.
Big fight happen.
No one knows what to do.
Someone dies.
2 run away. 1 dies. 1 gets away.
1 helps other 2 get thier drops back.

Lots died but we’re laughing and having a good time?

Good game.

I bought a copy for a cousin who never gets to game. Told him not to look up anything. He tries solo.

So he starts. Makes a club. Stealth kills a few deer. Then summons the boss.

Now he’s got the first boss chasing him when he never figured out the work bench. Running away wielding a club and no pants.

Dies. Respawns. Boss finds him at spawn. Spawn camps him.

Calls me up. I’m dying.

I told him to start over, make the hammer, and listen to the crow.

I highly recommend this game and to play it without looking up shit.

Be prepared to die many times as you learn the mechanics and quirks of every biome, mob and boss.

Progression is smooth and at your own pace. You can play and building basic houses for months without the game getting harder.

Or you can rush all the best gear/boss kills you want.

Or expoit the AI and make a mob mine/chop copper or fancy wood for you before you unlock it. (Too hard to hit without a tool).

Or skip ahead a few biomes where you can get one shot to gather some mats way ahead of time.

Beat the game normally and install a overhaul mod for new game plus. Or add new magic to the game.

And it’s all even more fun with friends. When you die together and struggle to retrieve your lost loot.

I haven’t played in a bit but vanilla inventory pisses me off.

Not the size but the lack of quick stuff. I hear they patched QuickStore so you can quickly dump matching items from inventory to a chest you’re looking at.

Gather wood. Hit carry weight limit.
Walk to build site. Build workbench and chest. Open chest. Put away wood.
Repeat more trips to chop more wood and open chest to store. Build a few more. Chests and fill those. (I do 2 - 4 chests)
House time. Take out wood. Build. Repeat small reload mat trips until done with build.

Crafting? Gather all the mats you need from chests and hit the workstation.

I use mods.

Quickstore - press a key and matching items from your inventory auto store into nearby chests. Go adventure and come home, hit a key to dump inv into matching chests and sleep/save/quit.

CraftFromContainers - auto pull resources from nearby containers for building, crafting, cooking and more.

They’re just QoL mods that save me organizational time and let me play the game. It’s been a year tho.

I used to use a few other QoL mods. Vanilla gameplay with GUI or time saving bits.

I’d love being a holonovel author.

Reading The Beginning After the End I’d probably be nobody special without abilities in a nation at war… Fairly screwed. Might be an engineer or scientist working on steam engines or trains.

And then there’s Jessica Rabbit.

I’d play pattiecake with her all night.

So do a line after you dine?

Ruined

3d printing has helped accessibility loads. This one is simple and efficient!

Networking.

I job hopped a few times over the years and as I was shopping around last time an old boss pinged me to chat about the field. He left our prior company and went somewhere bigger. Got me an introduction.

So far best job ever.

Yeah when I get called by recruiters I open with an inquiry on salary range. If you can’t answer that or it’s low I’m out.

I enjoyed both Styx 1 and 2. Solid games if you like fantasy and stealth.

PipeWire is a server and user space API to deal with multimedia pipelines. This includes:

• Making available sources of video (such as from a capture devices or application provided streams) and multiplexing this with clients.
• Accessing sources of video for consumption.
• Generating graphs for audio and video processing

I love that movie. Super disappointed that the pig was essentially a baby. They didn’t have a adult pig in that movie to showcase how big they get.

I wanted a pig as a pet but the smallest pigs are 150 lbs!

Ditto. I also don’t use off brand plugins. Just the ones I need from major publishers.

“Honor is a grand thing for the dead, and a poor substitute for winning to the living”

-Alexander Brit