Can’t get popular if you can’t download it easily.

I mean, space travel is not free energy. These aliens would have to evolve and invent interplanetary flight. Then be able to travel FASTER than the speed of light to get to us. That’s if they are located in our Milky Way. If they are not, they probably need wormholes or some science fiction level imagination to get to us.

Water is nothing but 2 hydrogen molecules and 1 oxygen. They bond fairly easily at room temp. While yes, it would be faster to just suck up water from our oceans, it’s extremely more energy intensive to travel to our part of the milky way. They could literally hit up a hydrogen intense moon/planet and another oxygen one and just make it themselves with the little energy it needs for it to bond.

I think the main difference between our planet and others like ours that would be more rare is life. Being the only sentient planet that we know of makes us more special.

So potentially they are just abducting us to probe our butts.

I still can’t get a loops account.

I guess fossil fuel would be unique to our planet.

So basically we are a natural resource.

If you look at where we are on the milky way, we are pretty far from all the other clusters. Like they gotta REALLY want something here they can’t find elsewhere. Maybe life is what they want and maybe we are the natural resource that other planets don’t have.

Keep in mind that they have near limitless energy if they are able to travel here.

It’s like asking ants to help my excavator dig a hole.

Real talk. Would aliens even want our natural resources? Like they could travel the cosmos. Our planet is made up of elements that are already available to them before they get here.

Like our planet doesn’t have anything special when it comes to resources.

That’s a ProTip.

Yes, not giving CIV a pass. They dropped the ball here. I was just pointing out the root of the issue.

CIV has Mac players, but you might be overestimating with the word “lots”.

According to Steam and other sources…

Windows: Dominates the platform with approximately 96.78% of users. macOS: Accounts for about 1.30% of users. Linux: Represents around 1.92% of users.

Source: https://pcx.com.ph/blogs/tech-news/steam-hardware-software-survey-reveals-user-trends-for-march-2024

Even if Civ has more average Mac players, let’s just say 4 times more than the Steam figures, you’re still looking at 5.2% Mac vs PC that plays CIV. Those figures would be considered a rounding error.

I think my point is not CIVs commitment to Mac players. It’s Apple’s lack of commitment to gamers. Until Apple opens up 3rd party hardware support, developers will continue to treat you and your cohort a niche segment.

I game on a PC exclusively because all games are optimized for the PC and everything else is an afterthought.

It makes sense tho.

Mac lacks 3rd party video card hardware support so why would developers try and develop for a system that the company doesn’t care about gaming.

100% those vac seals are crazy. You want to remove as much air from it so you can minimize freezer burn.

Bro. You’re a dick for suggesting a Chinese bakery is not real bakery. We start our dough the day before and start baking at 4am and don’t leave until 4pm. All the breads and pastries are all hand made.

A toaster for a few minutes will bring your bread back from the day you froze it.

I worked at a Chinese bakery for 5 years shipping our breads all over the USA.

We literally freeze it and seal it before we ship it out to our customers.

There are some breads that don’t freeze well and that’s because some of our buns have ingredients in the middle but by and large all regular bread can and SHOULD be frozen to preserve freshness.

https://www.foodnetwork.com/how-to/packages/help-around-the-kitchen/how-to-freeze-bread

ProTip: before you vacuum seal any bread, put it in the freezer until it’s solid and then pull it back out to vacuum seal.