@Grifter Nope, they're not. Britain did a weird stupid law and now that function would invite legal trouble, apparently. Liam had to do a number of unhappy changes to how the place works.

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Odd. First off, "village builder" and "10-21 minutes" don't go together in my mind.
Then there's "roguelike". So, what, all your villages die?! I don't want my villages to die!

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Say, eldaking, I tried The Last Federation years ago and I kind of liked it but I ended up stopping because I couldn't tell whether I was doing well or not. I found it very difficult to figure out whether I was really making progress towards the goal, how important it was to research technology and how much would represent doing a good job at that, how well I was doing on the diplomacy side and stuff. Got any tips? How do you move from "Seem to be doing OK making dough on missions" to "Getting somewhere in the bigger picture"?

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Hardly a surprise. The current British government is completely useless. (The previous British government was a wrecking ball operated by clowns)

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Ten years?! It can't be that long . . . I bought it when it had come out pretty recently and I still haven't gotten around to playing it yet!

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Mint is not Ubuntu, thanks awfully.
Meanwhile, waitaminute, Windows 10 is rising? How does that work? Are we talking rise in Chinese language (which I'm imagining is more likely to use probably-pirated Windows 10)?

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Not so many lighthouses left to track, these days. They keep phasing them out, replacing with automated systems. It's kind of melancholy.

. . . OK, OK. What's a lighthouse tracking system?

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Sony? Learning things?!

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I was thinking "Whoa, the animation seems really stiff". But then I read that it was rotoscoped. And I thought about the movement a bit more and yeah, it doesn't feel like bad-animation stiff. It feels like stiff actors. Like when a guy gets shot and falls down, it's like when you tell someone "OK fall down now" and they carefully fall down in this very controlled way.
Might still be quite a good game. But that did sort of stand out to me.

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I like the first one. Definitely interested to see what the second will be like.

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