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1800 is really good. The game only gets really satisfying for me when you start to open up new maps and make your first cross-continent trade routes, mind you.

I suggest trying again, yeah; initially it is indeed pretty frustrating - never enough workforce and you suddenly need 150 of them for the next tier, etc. - but there is a balance, and once you get it it's extremely satisfying. Restarting any time you feel like you messed up initially is also probably a good idea.

Also I don't think I've ever played this game with agressive or even competent AI; they exist and are quite good IIRC, but I always select a single AI opponent, the one that never ever attacks you and is always nice and wholesome and even gives you gifts when you struggle (in 1800 it's Bente Jorgensen, she's incredibly nice and even ask for permission to settle new islands). The pirates are enough of a headache honestly, and once the game gets going you've got so many fucking things at the same time on your plate an actual competing AI opponent on top of it (never mind three, which is the default) would be too much IMO.

I really like the Anno games (well, at least Anno 1404 and Anno 1800, the only two I've played)

They go real fast from "develop a boring village and wait for it to populate" to "holy shit I'm juggling real-time with 15 settlements on four different maps with crazy complex production chains and like 12 trade routes while dealing with pirate attacks and doing quests for NPCs and going on RPG-like small adventure scenarios with dice rolls"

Also all the NPCs in these games are strangely wholesome. They're nice and charismatic, even the pirates

One of the only places in our system where you could feel the wind of another planet in a cool 25C against your face without protection except for eye goggles (not for very long though, again, acid).

The idea of floating outposts there is at least 50 years old (and comes from a soviet scientist originally IIRC); balloons filled with breathable air - which is a nice reserve for the same as a bonus - would have enough buoyancy at this altitude to support relatively large outposts attached to them. Not only that, the cosmic ray protection afforded by the atmosphere at that altitude is basically similar to the one on Earth; and those balloons wouldn't need to be pressurized either, just filled, meaning if you get a leak you have potentially hours to fix it (or even days / more if you connect several such balloons together with some buoyancy margin).

Making a vegan Daube Nicoise with TSP and it just went from that stage where the whole kitchen smells horribly like wine to the one where it starts to smell like delicious cooked wine sauce, hell yeah

lmao, iMessage again ? zero user interaction needed, again ?!

Well done Apple

Don't you worry - looks at CO2e levels - we are

At 50km high it is literally the most Earth-like environment in the whole of the solar system (outside of Earth / the ISS / Tiāngōng obviously)

You wouldn't even need a spacesuit or a pressure suit to stand outside, just a respirator and some light protection against acid

If I were to write an updated opsec guide today, I'd add "don't post images generated through text-to-images models that are not offline and entirely under your control"

Those generated pictures are unique, OpenAI stores them, and will freely exchange data with intelligence services. I wonder how many "anonymous" accounts on various platforms on the web could be linked to a non-anonymous email or IP used to access the API on OpenAI's website.

Smoking a cigarette when half your mouth has been pumped full of lidocaine by a dentist is weird as fuck

So is drinking from a glass

Try those youtube cat vids, in fullscreen; I was surprised too the first time but mine is obsessed with them, sometimes for like 20 minutes