Quoting: Mountain ManIn short, it retains the core design of Civ VII while adding a more traditional points-based victory system.

I guess it had not occurred to you that someone would be asking about this precisely because they don't know what the core design of Civ VII is like. Nobody ever talks about it, people only talk about the heresy aspects, so it's not obvious that there are other significant elements of core design.

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Quoting: Cley_FayeI mean, it feels like I've just seen a flock of unicorns.

Just to nitpick, rather than "flock" I think it would be either "herd" or "scene". As in, I've seen a herd of unicorns, or, I've heard a scene of unicorns. 😁

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Divester Group

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Quoting: KimyrielleThe obvious question is - since this (IMHO) horrible forced change of civs was the anchor-feature of the entire game... is Civ VII now indistinguishable from Civ VI?

What kind of nonsense question is that?

A fairly simple one, I would have thought. To put it a different way, were there any features of Civ VII other than the civilization-switching, that distinguished it from earlier Civilization games enough to make it worth buying if you already have Civ V and Civ VI?

I also wonder this, since I do have those other games and haven't seen a lot of people saying much about what VII is like as a game and it's kind of expensive, even with a discount right now.

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Quoting: Philadelphus

We've made a few tags plural to match other tags: Dogs, Foxes, Vampires, Elves, Dwarves, and Assassins

I see they've gone with Tolkien on the pluralization of "dwarf". 😁 (Which makes sense, given the games using that tag…)

As far as I'm concerned, Tolkien officially changed English so that's the pluralization now. 😁

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Capybara?

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Quoting: walther von stolzingI've finally run emacs inside Minecraft ... fine; but I think what I really want to do is to run Minecraft inside emacs.

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In theory you would then be able to run emacs inside Minecraft inside emacs.

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Quoting: vic-bayIf microslop really wanted to prevent their games from running on Linux, they would just block it with some anticheat-like measure or straightly blocking it like genshin impact devs did.

You do realize they did just that with Call of Duty Black Ops 7, right? Don't think for a second Microsoft actually "loves Linux", they do, but in the classic "triple E [External Link]" ways, even if they at first appear to be more adept at hiding it.

There's no other valid explanation at this point. The Steam Deck absolutely sold "millions of units", aka, what Tim Sweeney want for him to have Epic reenable EAC for Proton, which was intentionally disabled at first for "that reasoning". Of course, that turned out to be BS, and his settlements in the Google anti-trust lawsuits show it, as does him never suing Microsoft for the same reasons of a "monopoly", which with the whole Windows 8 Microsoft Store monopoly attempts, actually started Valve done the whole Linux route in the first place. While that attempt failed, Microsoft still keeps trying to make lock-in a thing, just like Google and Apple.

The real reason he won't allow for Fortnite on Linux it is because he, like Microsoft, sees Valve as competitors, and Linux gamers as too free from his control, and he can't be helping his competition, can he? (Even if it means burning millions of bridges and more in the long run!)

And in reality, any "code" that runs at ring 0 that isn't the OS itself or FOSS (so independent people can see what it's actually doing) and even more so if it can detect a VM and refuse to run should be treated as malware. Do not run it! And don't fall for that lock-in!

I know it sometimes seems like it, but Tim Sweeney does not actually work for Microsoft. Him being a scumbucket is not genuine evidence that Microsoft itself is doing shenanigans.

I will never trust Microsoft. If anything, I am often surprised at the anti-Linux moves they fail to try these days, but I think it's more a matter of MS suffering from bureaucratic gridlock and inability to go after more than a few key objectives at a time than genuine lack of malevolence. But in this case, I really lean towards "The game was just coded lousy and they've barely managed to make their nonsense not crash it in Windows all the time, let alone Linux."

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Quoting: Chrisznix

Quoting: EikeThese posts are the first time I ever heard of this. And I have two young daughters...

DO NOT GOOGLE IT. Please. I did, and... believe them. Kinda like the german "Schnappi, das kleine Krokodil". *shudder*

Now this is reminding me of the Arrogant Worms' parody kids' song, Rippy the Gator.
"Rippy the gator went chomp, chomp, chomp
Rippy the gator went chomp, chomp, chomp!
Passing the time by ending children's lives
Down in the bottom of the swamp, swamp, swamp!"
The Arrogant Worms are a Canadian treasure.

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I love the way it starts moving around when it hits the deeper notes!

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