Still wondering what heinous crime I'd have to commit to get my hands on some bungee cords or something to tie down the load.

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Well, so do I but that's neither here nor there. Would you prefer if a game just didn't work on Linux at all? At ~1%, this was not a situation where we got to pick "Works natively on Linux" or "Works via Proton translation". It was a situation where we got to pick "Ignored but it works anyway thanks to Proton" or "Ignored so it doesn't work". Even at 3%, which is fundamentally because of Proton, we are still mostly in that situation. Everyone writing for native Linux is the endgame, it's what happens after World Domination. And World Domination isn't happening without Proton.

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I respect Surviving Mars, but after one run-through I didn't really feel like playing it a bunch more. I find I replay Terraformers quite a bit, though. It's just more comfortable.

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One advantage of doing it now is, they're already maintaining an OS and Proton for the Deck, so it's not much more work to put that same OS and Proton on something else.

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I look at the title and the first thing I think is "I'm pretty sure the dawn of war was a long time before that, actually."

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I hoped for some new levels

Yeah, you'd think they could have managed "A Few Missions More".

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So . . . if this is Last Epoch, but it's season 3, does that mean the original was actually the Antepenultimate Epoch?

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That looks pretty cool.

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Used to be when we talked about "The way the future was" we were talking about the 50s version of the future, with flying cars everywhere and transparent weather domes over cities and huge talking mainframe computers but also intelligent robots.
Now we can also have the way the future was in the 80s.

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There was a REALLY old Civilization board game that was not actually derived from the computer game, and it's awesome. Just elegant, innovative, full of emergent properties. It's like multi-tier in what you're trying to accomplish. The end game is all about Civilization cards, which are like technologies. Most of them do something useful in the short term, although the arts less so. But at the end of the game, you don't win based on conquest or anything, you win based mainly on having the most points' worth of civilization cards. Philosophy isn't much use but it's worth more points than anything else; not gonna win without it. To get the civilization cards, you have to do trade. To do trade, you have to build cities--on a turn you draw one trade card per city, and they're in 9 tiers of value, so if you have just a couple you only get the crappy stuff. Every turn there's a trade round as everyone tries to swap cards to build valuable sets. To build cities, you have to have a decent amount of territory and population. If you start a war, you might get more territory but you risk nuking too much population and not having enough to support some cities. And, hidden among the trade cards there are disasters, ranging from earthquakes to civil war, that shake things up.
But it's an all-day game that's best with a bunch of players, so I haven't had that many chances to play.

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