Ooh, nice! That should be interesting to check out. :smile:

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I've been playing the demo for a few hours now, and this is the closest game I've played to a mouse-driven Dwarf Fortress. (And I do like how fluid the workforce is in this game, with people instantly switching from hauling to constructing to having specialized jobs and back automatically without you need to specifically set their jobs.) The demo's apparently a version of the game from May of this year, so not up to date, but it's got a good number of features already. (If a somewhat…eclectic selection of them.)

Also, maybe it's better in the paid version but the demo is absolutely full of language mistakes: what I'm pretty sure is supposed to be a "Tome of Knowledge" is instead referred to (in multiple places!) as a "Tomb of Knowledge". :dizzy: I normally wouldn't bother pointing such things out, but in this case there are so many such errors that it might actually make it hard to figure out what to do from in-game tooltips. (Though like I said, maybe the paid version has corrected these by now.)

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Well, my PhD is hopefully wrapping up in the next few months and I look forward to ditching my university-provided MacBook Pro (:sick:) and picking up a personal laptop running Linux. And hey, pangolins are one of my favorite animals :wub:, so this might be something to keep in mind. :smile:

Quoting: The_Aquabatimho not a nice name considering the reputation of the said animal.

The reputation as the world's most illegally-trafficked mammal [External Link], with populations declining over a million in the last decade [External Link]? Yes, I think it's high time we set about improving this tragic reputation by making people aware of these majestic animals and working to protect them better!

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This sounds amazing, just need to convince a friend to pick it up. :happy:

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Quoting: razing32I love trailers that don't tell me anytihng about the game /s

I know right? A 52-second video—nearly a full minute long—that can be summed up with the 10 words "Hey, there's a new expansion coming called 'The Cure.'"

That said, it could be interesting to essentially play in reverse; I'll check it out whenever it comes out.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeSpeaking of drifting off-topic... I saw a video a while back that was all about some of the ridiculous creatures in Dungeons and Dragons throughout the years....

And now I want to see the specs for a Giant Platypus! I mean all other animals seem to have a 'Giant' version of them... Imagine riding one into battle?

Platypuses are like real-world Owlbears, except they're Duckbeavers.

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I remember when I built my first desktop in mid-2014 a few years out of college and used the opportunity to switch from Windows on my aging laptop to Linux on my desktop, and naïvely thinking Steam on Linux had been around for, like, basically forever, right? It was only a few years later that I realized how close I had been to switching before it existed. :grin:

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Played the demo and enjoyed it, might pick this up with the release sale going on.

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Quoting: PhlebiacNever heard it called ampersat before, but I guess someone decided that "ampers" as a prefix for & also works for @.

Edit: looks like atpersat would be more fitting:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/the-history-of-ampersand [External Link]

Yeah, that makes sense! I shall totally call it that from now on. :)

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Huh, I got the same notification (with the last update day being one day later). :dizzy:

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