So since I haven't been able to find it anywhere, does anyone know about the full release of MENACE an indication or solid date? Really enjoying the game but it is clear that the blackmarket, factions and Impetus probably will be improved upon and these are more refined drafts. Really hoping that they
>Add an Impetus with OCI’s being switchable between missions and or bonus placements and or upgrades being added.
>Blackmarket will be expanded upon with “blackmarket” being a general all rounder and Zayn-Breaker, Dice of the Gods & Backbone getting more faction specific items (and perhaps even pirates and other faction to be added)
>Expanded upon strategic layer with travel time implemented among other things.

Had a blast in early in my first playthrough, thought things were going pretty well until pirates started to increase in number and HMG trucks showed up followed by facing rogue army which was a hard change from bugs as well. I feel like all factions could deal with a more expanded roster. Menace themselves are in a placeholder state for now I feel, I thought that they were extra spongy in first encounter so you wouldn’t steamroll them the first time you encountered them, but it turns out there were just that tanky and dangerous.

Predictions for when the big civ 7 update is releasing fully?

Also I read somewhere they were going to bring back unique music for each civ per age, ala civ 6, any evidence of that anywhere? I thought that was bullshit because that seems like too much work for a free update

>>558326297
>civ 7
No one cares.

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>>558326616
Its in the fucking general name

>>558327464
it clearly says civ 4, tard

>>558327464
and yet no one cares about that piece of shit game

>>558324174
Shadow Empires seems cool, but also very autistic.

>>558327570
nice one

>>558329084
Its pretty cool, i really need to go deep into it someday.

>>558327570
Only the best Civ is welcome here.

One more turn

>>558327464
desu no one has posted a Civ 7 game here in a long time. I'm still waiting for it to get it's legally mandated 2 DLC before I think about touching it

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Thoughts on this bundle? I'm thinking of buying full price

>>558341276
>paying for shitfox game
>paying for DF
>ever
Bruh. Just buy SOS along.
>DF bundled with Warsim
I always had that game in my backlog, seems like something right up my alley.

>>558341276
>Buying Dwarf fortress
>A Game that has been free for literally decade+

I hear good things about songs of syx though, might be worth it it costs less in bundle than if bought separately.

>>558342993
dude if i had a penny for everytime someone told me to play the free version i'd be filthy rich, just let me spend my money how i want...anyway, i dont think syx will go on sale anytime soon since it almost never went, so i will buy full it at full price

>>558341276
Worth it.
The Steam workshop and the QoL of the paid DF versions are very nice.
SoS is practically feature complete. So you can have fun with it with virtually no problems.

>>558343941
DF goes on sale for like 23 euros, it's 5-6 euros cheaper than full price so who cares about it, i will grab when i get paid on Thursday. Syx interests me a bit more desu, i think it has immense depth like paradox games

Family's friend gave me 20€, might go to the bank and deposit it to buy either DF or SoS :^)

>>558346086
So much to take his virginity?

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>>558324174
OP you forgot the news.

Airships: Conquer the Skies co-op update: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/342560/view/528744981882471023
Foundation Devlog #20: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/690830/view/505101083838776367
C-Beams Devlog 51: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjXh42TOhAI

>>558349247
are there any games like airships: conquer the skies that have a much more detailed interior system? it would be cool if you had to manage more than just crew hallways. stuff like building fuel and water pipes around the ship and conveyor belts for supplies would be cool

>>558352212
Mmm. Cortex Command? I don't thunk anything is as autistic as you want, Anon.

>>558352212
From the Depths and I dunno what else.

>>558352594
i mean for vehicles
>>558352687
what kind of interiors does it have? i do still want to see all my guys running around

I'm playing Age of Wonders 4 and really struggling to defeat Grexolis. Can someone recommend a tailor-made build to complete that mission? I'm at my wits' end.

You should be able to blow up habitats with fleets cause wtf is this bullshit every habitat I find is stacked with 100+ armies.

>>558360152
but muh balance???

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You guys ever tried Planetary Annihilation?

>>558363606
Yes. It's weird. Kinda meh.

i've been wondering about EU5
does trade actually flow? does anyone know?
is it just between different market nodes?
or if you have a empire spanning a large area, will the raw resources from your colonies flow between nodes to your heartlands? i can never get a clear answer if one at all

>>558366835
>>>/vst/gsg

>>558367427
dumb nigger i'm on the 4x general asking a question on a 4x game

>>558363606
I think it's more fun in theory than in practice. The whole 3D aspect of planets just doesn't lend itself very well to gameplay (for a human anyways). A 3D planet is just a really shit "map" for any strategy game, it hides everything interesting beyond the horizon and because it opens up so many routes it means there's no natural "home" and "enemy" areas to help your brain to process what's happening. The air and space layers are frankly just boring. It's not strictly bad game but it leaves lot to be desired when pitted against the immediate competitors. Due to the perspective you "need" to play zoomed out to the max which means you don't get to see what units are doing except as moving icons.
The interesting part is the various super weapons and mega mechs but honestly there's probably a more interesting game buried in there and it's not worth playing trough PA just to get to use one planet buster more than couple times. Supreme commander is just lot better basically.

If you really like supcom and beyond all reason (which is literally free btw) it's worth checking out, it has a nice spin on the genre, but it's definitely not the game I actually come back to often or play in multiplayer.

>>558367485
Wrong general, tranny.

We will never get a Spore 2.

>>558363606
Dont support the devs after what they did the MNC/SMNC

They're grifters

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>>558373027
it already exists thought

>>558367694
The only game that did 3D planets right was Populous.

>>558377453
And by that I mean Populous: The Beginning, specifically.

>>558377453
>>558377626
The Playstation game?

>>558377752
Yes.

I'm really liking AoW 4, you guys know any other games that scratch this same itch? Very combat heavy with some faction variety?

>>558391093
The other Age of Wonder... Endless Legend? Lord of Magic?

>>558392113
I'll check them out, I'm new to the genre.

>>558392294
Be aware that as far as combat go, Age of Wonder is a bit of an anomaly.
Master of Magic/Deity Empire also have turn-based combat but it's not as deep.
Otherwise, SONG OF CONQUEST is the current meta, but you might not like it, it's Heroes of Might and Magic like.

>look up prices for new computer parts a month ago
>check back over the weekend
>prices are up 200 USD excluding RAM
>meanwhile all the games I play are either 2D or were released in the 2000s
Looking forward to a few thousand FPS when I play something like Tropico 1

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Soviet Dictators raise up

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>>558396263
Sorry, Sumerian dictator here.

>>558396606
Show me the Ziggurat

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>>558397408

>>558397881
You spit in the gods' face with that temple. You need more layers than that

>>558398045
Yes.

The dev for Banished died to covid didn't he?

>>558392623
Yeah, hardware prices are up all across the board because the source component manuacturers are having their production bought up by big business. They're signing multi-year contracts and so there's much less being supplied for consumer tech. I really do hope any /civ4xgeezer/ who plays new stuff upgraded their rigs last year because it's probably going to keep getting worse long before it gets better. But I guess the true geezers are playing older games anyway.

Or one could buy chinesium, since that technically is an option I guess.

one
more
never ending war HOLY SHIT WHERE DOES THE AI KEEP PULLING THOSE TROOPS FROM

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Care package for you!

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We call that an Israeli drive-by!

>>558359448
I beat Grexolis at release and certain whatever I did to beat it won't work the same way anymore. That's even if I remember it. Roughly what I do recall
>night weaver ritual at the start gave me extra astral monsters to use as meatshields
>had some chaos affinity, chance of free t1-2 units on winning fights
>avoid contact with the big Onmar, until it actually happen, then fight as dirty as possible to cripple them
>pray allies keep the others away from you
People still say underground starts on that map are good but I forget how.

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Damn, Princep didn't skip workout.

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Timberborn is pure crack, it's somehow relaxing and demanding at the same time. Holyshit, what a game.

>>558420315
Yeees, yes, join us...

>>558420914
This might be the shittiest colony you've ever seen but it's honest work, i'm only 17 hours in in total. Yesterday it was sitting at 5 hours btw

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>spear not available on a horse
Weird, weird!

>>558421782
As long as it survives, there's no "shitty colony". You're too harsh on yourself.

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Heck.

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>>558422071
These are my plans for now, i'm lacking a lot of logs and trying to make up for it by planting oak trees.

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guys I found spiderfag

>>558422071
game?

Commander, the aliens continue to make progress on the Avatar Project. If we're going to slow them down, we'll need to move, fast.

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>>558433096
Yes, I know.

>>558433096
Oh, you were asking.
Ancient Wars: Sparta Definitive Edition.
Janky but very oddly fun.

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>biosynthesis perks allows you to assimilate hive mind pops from being drones
>except for wilderness, as they are a "mutualistic intelligence"
Well fuck you, too.

>>558436504
>Sweden
>Doing something fun
lål, lmaå

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rare armament hitting its targets moment

>>558453719
Why even use infantry when you can just have an APC?

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>>558454005
Concealment, supply cost and vehicles can't do certain objectives.
Also there's a certain bullshit enemy that just absolutely fucks up vehicles if you don't have a scout.

>>558396606
Oh this is one of the earlier levels.

does anyone know what the best way to play tiberium sun x RA2 widescreen is these days? I just wanna play the singleplayer not interested in MP, some modern controls would be nice too, and cutscenes should work
rn playing through cnc1 and ra1 in the remastered, plan to continue after that

>>558458961
Oh yes.

>>558324174
Spiderfag, did you ever visit Normandy?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_du_Roule

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>>558459056
man GDI feels like shit in this game, a single flamethrower blast just erased my whole stack xd
missile troops > grenade dudes too

>>558464098
ahh nevermind GDI also get rocket troops at least

>>558464098
>>558464407
this game is so hard man
getting resources takes forever, and the AI keeps pumping out attack waves, base defneses suck, if you're not careful your whole army can get obliberated by aoe damage

>>558464098
GDI sucks in this one. Play Tiberium Sun, with the fascists disc throwers.

>>558466836
man the whole game is kinda mid except the 10/10 soundtrack and cutscenes, like its retarded how much you have to turtle even on normal difficulty, the way combat is is so strange

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>>558468726
>kill hand of nod in my last attack
>AI instantly rebuilds
>troops are back
while I have to wait for the painfully slow harvesters to make 10 trips to get an army
its so stupid

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Getting the Hero of Humanity rank with Terrans was extremely easy. It has only taken me 6 hours.
Also those single stations engineers missions are hilarious.
>need 2 stars engineer
>my fighter has 2 service crew with 2+ levels of engineering
>send one of them to the stations
>???
>950k space credits deposited on my account.
Easiest mil I have ever done.

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Two miners mining ore and silicon. They are more to prop up the Terran economy against the consant Xenon meat grinder, than for actual profits. As even with the cheapest build my RoI would be around 40-50 minutes. They are a million and a half each, so I don't really mind.
Have the free Teladi ship on auto exploring. And going to use another scout ship to explore even more. Have to keep tabs on all the Xenon systems, and monitor how the other factions deal with them, and if needed, assistem.

Will grind more missions with my starting Kukri, save for a mining trade stations, and start looking at refining ore on my own and sell it to Terrans.
Terran's economy and building uses different resources and components than ALL the other races. So they really need my help, even if that means I can't grind money as easily. Still, I may set up a trading station or two on Argon territory.

>>558483050
I remember trying to get into X3, but bouncing off hard because the tutorials were abysmal and trying to upgrade was a headache of nonsense ship classes and parts. And it ran like shit and I'd never played anything like it before.
Maybe I should give 4 a shot.

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Going to invest in another scout. I want two scouts exploring the Antigone flank of the Sol System.

>>558484402
>I remember trying to get into X3, but bouncing off hard because the tutorials were abysmal
Yes. The X games are notorious for being obtuse, vague, unintuitive and downright without ingame information. Althought it has improve a lot in X4.

>and trying to upgrade was a headache of nonsense ship classes and parts.
It's not that hard. Ships have a size, S to XL. With S being fighter-like, M corvettes/frigates. L cruisers and X/XL battleships.
Ship equipment are mainly weapons, manoeuvring thrusters, engines and shields. Which are very self-explanatory,
In X3 it was hell to figure out in-game where to get equipment and ships, but in X4 it is told where to buy what, specially if you do the recommended starts, as you have the classical "NPC tells you how to tie your shoes".
Now the hard unintuitive part is how to trade automatically, station economy and NPC ship/fleet management. Luckily there's a lot of mods for QoL that saves you a lot of micro with the janky interface.

>And it ran like shit
It always does. This game simulates each ship in the galaxy, with their AI. Including combat, mining and trading. So from the start you need a good rig, and by late game(if Xenons or other "end game crisis" doesn't wipe everyone out) it struggles a lot.
Luckily the mid to end game gameplay is virtually only CEO/grand commander. You buy your battlecruiser, outfit it like like a flagship, and control you economic and military empire from there. With breaks to lead your main fleet personally, for those high risk operations.

>got vegetation dynamics in my map simulator now
Just need a 3D ocean simulation and it should be ready for me to be disappointed with how the maps play in game

bump

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Play Age of the Ring OR ELSE

Anyone play Town to City? Looks sweet

>>558516607
*cuts your head off*

>>558527723
I'm still pissed that Elessar would do that.

I can't do math. If my fleets power is 2.4k, but I have the Vultaum Relic that gives me 40% of damage and health, how much would that put me up by? Because I got a Fallen Empire on one system and I have Shard the Grand Dragon on another. If I use this on my fleet, will it be enough to fuck both up?

>>558532098
Fleet power isn't linear calculation. If you want to know what happens just save and use the thing and see what happens.

>>558532098
Stop doing math.

first time playing civ 6, is theocracy not op? making money and training units both takes fucking ages in this game it looks like
with theocracy I just buy whole armies with faith which trickles in pretty fast, OP

>>558551505
>is theocracy not op
Most things in the game are "OP" if you are building in a specific way. Yes the ability to faith buy is strong and if you are going for a faith built you probably should go for it but it's not automatically best just off the back of that.

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>>558552285
I'm just messing around in singleplayer huge map 500 turn matches, pic rel was my final japanese empire
but basically i saw no reason to switch to fascism/democracy/communism, theocracy was so fucking good becuase I got a ton of faith wo even investing in it much, and I bought all my armies for the conquest with faith alone, also just spreading your religion + having the tithe bonus gives you easy income too, faith in general seems like a good thing to abuse?
i don't own any of the dlcs though, gonna buy those next week and try another playthrough with them

>>558552592
also goddamn map gen really screwed me over, ugliest continent ever

>>558552592
You can win with any government (and basically any build in general). It's just a matter of choosing one that fits your current build or playstyle and one that you enjoy. If you like Theocracy just pick it, but know that strength of a government is determined by how quickly you can win with it especially against competent opponents.

>>558552819
yeah that was on 4 difficulty desu, might try 5 or 6 next, i haven't played civ in years
but the AI was really passive in 4, declaring wars but not doing anything, barely resisting my conquest, maybe a little too easy, at the same time though it shat out wonders a lot so idk
shit builds so fucking slowwwwwww in civ 6, both units and buildings, I think I might be missing something, some district or tech or something that will make shit go faster

>>558552957
Just increase difficulty after every win and try to see what you can improve. Change up the civ and win condition and map you go for an try to have fun. That's the essence of the game.

>>558553380
does the AI start cheating on any difficulty? also is there some mod or something that will make continents gen better? look at that monstrosity >>558552592
i wanted something like 5-6 different but still big continents with distinct shorelines

>>558359448
I had a wipe on that scenario and came away with some lessons
the problem is your placement always seems to be in the middle and your allies are almost right behind you not leaving too much room
it's very easy to overextend and put cities too close to the Onmar. this is probably the biggest mistake you can make because you will pull his aggro. If you leave a lot of buffer space he'll probably focus on fighting whatever ally has more direct access to his territory
I took advantage of that and would just stage some guys in his vision if he started creeping a small army in so he'd back off.
since the other faggots were fucking with me right when my economy got going I dealt with all of them first, I think I was 2 turns away from magic victory when the teammates actually just went and killed him.

I didn't have any of the expacs when I did it so that simplified things not having all the little events. I don't know how fucked up shit would get if I tried it now.

has anyone played warfront turning point
smelling like another replay of that gem is in order
(yes i knew it before the mandalore vid its one of my childhood games)

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Terran forces are gathering a fuck huge fleet at Mars.
Hope it is going to McCallum's. That place is top in my list of Xenon sectors to attack.

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How would you rank the AoW4 DLC in terms of buy order?
Which would you say adds the most for the price or is important for a better experience. Subjective flavor preference and power level (what is most OP) aside.

>>558562586
I wish I could give my opinion on that, but I got them all at once, so I'm not really aware of any big gameplay difference, only that I like some of the ethics/leaders.

>AoW4
is this game as hard as as the other paradox games
that dinosaur skeleton scares me
can i play it as a braindead command n conquer/civ player

>>558565027
I didn't find it particularly challenging, but I didn't play it at the highest difficulty so idk that much

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>>558565027
I had a very hard time against the AI, but most of your energy goes to expanding. At least in my experience. It's just that moving on from crashing neutral to fighting other empires is a huge spike in difficulty.

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>other factions:
>Sauron, a Maiar of Industry turned evil
>Galadriel, one of the Firstborn Elves, notorious for telling Feanör to piss off and kicking Sauron's ass so much he calls her mommy

>and then there's bilbo baggins

>>558552592
I generally switch to fascism for the combat strength bonus after faith-buying my units. The theocracy legacy card doesn't have the 15% discount, but more policy card slots helps more with keeping flexible
>>558553471
Try Perfectworld6, although the river shapes tends to make aqueduct/dam placement more difficult

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>>558565027
It's more akin to hex tactics and civ than a gsg, so yeah

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>>558575653
Play as sexo plantoid humanoids, or try this mod:
https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=2813732355
Worked for me on 4.2

>>558576102
based

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Grinded enough money for a M Katana.
x2 MK2 shield generators, x2 MK2 all round engines, x2 M Barrage Turrets for anti fighter, x2 frontal MK1 tracking missile launchers with x31 Windstalker missiles, and two frontal Meson Lance at a whooping 400k credits per unit, for when I have to deal with harder, bigger targets.

I have no idea what I am doing.

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It's fucking huge.

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The cockpit is huge.

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I love walking around the bridge while my captain flies.

>>558586223
Nice but so much wasted space.

>get to invading late classical AI in Caveman2Cosmos
>already got flintlocks since I use all means to get free techs
>can't take first 2 settlements for a while because there's 200 composite archers, hundred doggies and a bunch of other crap

That was a lot of slaves though. Murano glassworks were built entirely overnight by Sumerian slaves.

Tried out Whiskerwood. Didn't play much, performance was abysmal. I'm talking sub-20 FPS with a half second of input lag and citizens flickering because their fur shaders broke. I'll give it another shot when I have time to dick around with settings.

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So many fucking enemy contacts.

>>558590746
You know what that means?
Epic fight music time!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enpRj5BsYRA

>>558590746
KRUMP THEM

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bump, writing a big post

>>558607780
>posted picture early
Shit. Anyway, that was the hardest game I played so far.
>2vs2
>me (Gondor, aka the West aka what Elon Musk wishes he was) allied with Haradwaith (all kind of people enslaved by Sauron)
>versus Mordor (aka actual US) and Misty Mountains (they replace the Goblins, they're made out of all kind of disgusting, repulsive creatures, such as Elon Musk)
>start defensively, fortifying the perimeter with stone towers, garrisoned with fiefdoms troops
>slowly move on from fief troops to Minas Tirith troops while constantly pushing back Misty Mountains attacks
>notice ally is in trouble
>go attack the Misty Mountains, destroy as many buildings as I can before retreating
>while attacking, I was recruiting heroes, so Pippin, Boromir and Beregond wait for us at the fortress
>go north to defend out ally
>after a very tough fight, Boromir is grievously wounded, and Pippin has fallen, likely to be a pleasure object for orcs
>revive Pippin while making some cavalry to quickly counter the Mordor's archer critical mass
>move on to finish the Misty Mountain group
>fortress falls, unlock the Dol Amroth castle
>recruit Imrahil to lead my knights, use them for defense to snipe battering ram and archers, spearmen will get crushed by my defenses
>suddenly hear "our ally has fallen!"
>check north
>Harad fortress is nothing but crumbles
>Sauron will pay
>start to harass Mordor, destroying buildings left and right, try to target the siege camp to prevent that battering ram spam
>can only take down the orc barracks and troll pit before I have to retreat
>decommission all my remaining fief troops, now go fully upgraded Minas Tirith troops
>also recruit Faramir to have his rangers instead of Minas Tirith archers
>one last push
>the enemy fortress falls to a trebuchet stratagem, had to desperately defend it from orc spam
>mordor fortress fall
>now it's just cleaning up and sending the wounded battalion back home to heal and recover
P H E W

>>558590746
Does your ship have any autoturrets?

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>Didn't grab rare technology
>My overlord has been ruling over me since the beginning and has the strongest fleet
>I can't break free
>Have one ascension slot left
>Want Mega Structures
>Have Zero Point Tech, Citadel, and Battleships researched
>It won't fucking drop
GIVE ME THE FUCKING THING RNG

>>558532098
While fleet power means very little, I don't see any scenario where a 2.4k fleet wins those fights regardless of composition or modifiers.

>>558396263
turn on depthoffield or whatever graphics option i dont know what they fucked up but that does way more than it should

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Now it just needs wings.

>>558621052
Heavy Gunship. Have fun.
Or alternatively, just fill a transport with T1 bots.

I'm hungy

>>558631525
Hello hungry, I'm anon.

>>558636658
Hes hungy not hungry

Any Dwarf fortress updates that lets me finally lava all the trash clothes?

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Hell, Dol Guldur is a vile faction.
They expand extremely quickly, making them very good in early game defense, BUT they can't send their units away from their buildings unless they're specialized units (like corrupted entwives or blighted trappers) or they're led by a hero (armored Castellan, the Necromancer).
Their basic units are the broken rabble (wanderers and adventurers captured and horribly tortured until they're insane), and their only value is that if they reach level 2 before dying, they come back as undead.

>>558647521
Hasn't that been in the game for decades?

>>558610738
I was doing one of those anti Xenon war mission. The one about dropping satellites and turrets, so I used my Kukri.

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>sit on bridge
>send orders for docking/traveling
>take up helm when there's combat
>the rest of the time I just watch the map and give orders

>>558653052
No. You couldn't really collect items with quality below average so your fortress would just fill up with thousands of worn down items unless you manually set them as discards one by one.

>>558656208
>sit on bridge
That's right, the chair is for the flying crew only, not for the owner.

Thinking of just beating cnc 1 on easy, this is the most frustrating rts I've ever played

>>558668107
The game has almost a puzzle like quality to it with the way the missions are set up and with the huge money buff they get. Some of the missions are pretty difficult if you don't cheese them.

>>558671495
More like you're just incentibized to save scum, there's 0 resources on the map, if your attack doesn't work it's gg, you just have to restart, it's rly frustrating and aids, I like the way the game looks and feels otherwise but yeah the missions aren't very fun, I hope ra1 is better

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>>558672793
for some reason the village is flagged as hostiles on this map
maybe Nod is right...

>>558462229
Or Britany? Spider?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Nazaire_pocket#/media/File:Grand_blockhaus,_Batz-sur-Mer-4866.jpg

>>558565027
Dunno about AoW4, but in earlier games some campaign maps could have annoying bullshit starts where you need to rush.
In AoW1 I often relied on leader, heroes and some top tier units to capture a breathing room, maybe raze some enemy cities. But AoW1 is a different in balancing than later games.

How come no other game ever used Simcity 4's neighbor system that lets you connect regions?
Imagine your favorite city builder, now imagine your saves can interact with each other.

>>558696698
Does that not happen in Anno? I thought it did, tho it's been ages since I played any anno

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gyat

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>>558462229
Don't think I ever did.

>>558679217
I am from Britany, so yeah. Visited Rennes, Brest, had a job in Lamballe, and gf was in Caen. That's why I like boats so much.
Wouldn't get in one, though.

>>558699794
Kinda, sorta, it just feels less organic than it did in simcity 4.

>>558701282
Oh, cool. Do you speak or understand Breton language? I would assume not, but still.

>>558701983
No, sorry. It wasn't taught in school. Literally all I was taught was kenavo, it's goodbye.
There's also "Ker", it means something like castle, I think. A few village around here are called Ker Omnes, Ker Opers, Kermilien, and so on. And also Plou, not exactly sure what this one means. There's Plouvara, Ploufragan, Plougastel...

>>558701983
stop flirting with spidey

>>558651410
should I play battle for middle earth 1 before 2? Both have their own unique campaigns right?

>>558702928
I just want to cheer him up (and myself).
>>558702827
I see. Also, how's the weather during summer in those parts?

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>>558702962
BfME1 and BfME2 are a lot different, and they both retell the same events. I went in BfME2 without playing the first one, and I still got to ravage Middle Earth.

>>558703107
>how's the weather during summer in those parts
Britanny is famous for its rain, so... rainy. Usually. Even a bit floody: the sewers in the garage overflew and I might have to use the broom to clean my garage now that it's settled.

>>558703492
just googled it, redditors say 1 has a better campaign but 2 is the better more polished game, regardless I guess I'll try 1, more freedom with base building or something too, in my yearly rts binge so I'm playing all kinds of games at once, cnc series, warfront turning point may as well try bfme too, never played bfme

>>558704486
The game I've been posting isn't BfME2, by the way, it's a stand-alone called Age of the Ring: https://www.moddb.com/mods/the-horse-lords-a-total-modification-for-bfme
Similarily to that Chinese mod for American Conquest that added the Chinese and their weird cheker formation: https://www.americanconquest.info/

>>558704696
oh cool, wait, these campaigns are basically total war/dow soulstorm right? Or are they linear in 1 and 2, should I just skip to that mod instead of they're iso

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>>558705484
Can't speak for 1, but in 2, the campaigns are linear. That is, the story campaigns are. What you're thinking of is the "War of the Ring" mode, which is pic related.
Dunno if it's in BfME 1, so can't help with that.

>>558703492
Beyond place names, language, do you know of other stuff about Breton culture? I assume you consider yourself one, regionally, even if you don't speak that language.

>>558706624
Not really, sadly. The Bretons were extremely troublesome people for the French to rule over, and even today, there are still cretins wishing for independance.
Anyway, most of the Breton history I know is about Anne de Bretagne, and how the Bretons opposed the French Revolution of 1789.

The rest is anecdotal, like the fact that Brittany was really big in ranches, orchards and fishing. There's a reason the Breton speciality is the apple cider. Thank heaven we never invented the stargazing pie or the boiled beer.

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After around 13 hours, I'm finally selling the shit I had in my inventory.
I was told that in X4F you can make a lot of money by simply picking up cargo from destroyed ships in warzones. Should give it a try.
There's also something called "close loop economy", in which you can make ships by recycling the hulks of destroyed ships.

I should start learning how to set up stations and crank out ships. As I have modded the Xenon to "evolve" every 10 hours. And their fleet, number of stations, and station defence will increase each 10 hours.

>>558709621
Damn, so you're on a global timer, like in Space Rangers?

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>>558709735
>Damn, so you're on a global timer, like in Space Rangers?
Basically, yes.
In X3 the player ends up being the "end game crisis".
In X4 it seems there's research that unlocks "crisis" for end game fun. One for robot death by Xenon spam another one by insect Khaak death and finally one that triggers conflict randomly between all the factions.

I'm a retard, so I installed an overhaul mod and cranked up Xenons on my first play through in this new X game.
Larping as Terran supremacist.

>>558710323
I remember really wanting to get into this game, but then I googled it, and found pages and pages of forum posts to report all kind of stuff not working so it scared me away.

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>>558710627
>pages and pages of forum posts to report all kind of stuff not working
/indie/ studio, please understand.
That's the reason why I haven't try to play it in 8 years since it came out.
13 hours in, with 62 mods, including X4 Reemergence, VRO and DeadAir eco/warfare/scripts. And ignoring that I have to launch the game with:

# Define arguments to pass to X4
$ArgList = @(
"-nosoundthrottle"
"-nocputhrottle"
"-showfps"
"-debug all"
"-scriptlogfiles"
"-logfile $ArgLogFileName"
)

For it to not crash a few seconds after loading the save. I can play actively for 4-5 hours without crashes. No mayor bugs so far. The piloting AI glitches a bit every now and then, but if you go outside the sector, the ships aren't simulated, so they go back on working order.

>>558711230
Yeah, I think I'll pass, I'd rather play an uncomplete old game over a better but unstable one.

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>>558711354
The vanilla game with all its DLCs is 100% stable. People leave it all night and during the work day running, for their stations and ships to grind money, then come back after work and play. It has been a staple tactics to cheese the game, and people do it in this version too without any problem.
I am the retarded one that has decided to mod the shit out of it as my first playthrough. Every crash I get is because of my own doing.

>>558706370
Suppose I'll play the normal games for the story mode then go the mod for war of the ring

>>558717860
???
I guess you can do that? Good luck getting the "normal games", though, I couldn't find them online. Gotta buy a CD.

>>558717953
wat? Instantly found both on 1337x

What about Gary Grigsby's games?

>>558718396
Heck's 1337x?

>>558718596
They're expensive

>>558718680
Torrent site man
Ur so innocent

>>558719562
Oh, okay.
Last game I tried to pirate was Stubbs the Zombie and it killed my PC, so I completely swore off pirating games.

Movies are fair game because eat my dick, I'm not buying a Blue Ray player just to watch the old Godzilla movie.

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>notice "alternate faction: grey company"
>don't remember where they're from
>try them
>they mix fiefdom units and dol amroth units with a few of dunedains units, and a LOT, LOT of heroes
Damn, they're fun to play. Shame they have no hobbits units, the dunedains get bonuses to them.

Game is mid imo, but easily the best OST of any rts I've played
https://youtu.be/wE07lSSEFQ8

I think i hit my head while sleeping last night cause i got an odd urge to play Civ Beyond Earth.

>>558562586
The ones that add new lords take precedent over any others. Most notably the dragon and giant DLC, those seem to be the most well received. Weather you get the Vampire or Eldritch one is up to you if you like those themes or not. I think people were pretty whelmed with the eldritch lords. Never really looked around much to see how people felt about the vampires. After that you pick which theme looks cool to you and go for it. I haven't kept up with balance for the game so i have no idea whats op or meta these days.

>>558735387
>urge to play Civ Beyond Earth.
It did have a sort of redemption arc with rising tide. I'm not sure if you can call it good but it's at least not nearly as bad as it was on launch and honestly I can forgive anyone who dropped it and never looked back but it's at least mediocre in the state it was eventually left in at.

>>558735387
BE needed more time to develop its own identity instead of being a spiritual remake of SMAC

Are there any city building games that incorporate snow mechanics including snow plowing, snow removal and alternative parking demand during snow removal?

>>558752360
based snow autist

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>>558752360
W&R has the plowing

>>558775604
Your mum has the plowing too.

>>558752360
uhhh frostpunk?

>>558777906
Eh, your folks don't seem to care so much about the snow itself and your roads automatically melt snow away.

Did any anons here ever play Close Combat games?

>>558790148
Yes.

>>558790531
Which ones?

>>558790764
Only Gateway to Cane or Caene or whatever is spelled.

>>558792456
I see. I played Invasion Normandy, remake of it and I think one other. Kind of why I was pestering spiderfag about Normandy, desu.

>>558792586
It was bad.
I'm looking now into weather get Flashpoint or Panzercorps 2.
May even give a try to Battlesector or Terminator Dark Defiance.

>>558792456
Caen, you fucking retard.
I could show you a gif I recorded in Caen. It'd get me banned, but it'd be fun.

>>558796397
Please spider, keep your Caen pegging to yourself.

>>558796546
Weak.

>feel like playing Ymir, it's that time of the year
>get kinda shit farming cap but large copper, silver and even tin within cap reach
>because of said shit farming can't deal with barbs before they rekt my shit

Okay, duly noted. Fuck barbs even if pops suffer a bit.

>start new game
>nice oceanic peninsula, perfect for farming, no barbs in sight
>get tin ore exploring from event that let me research bronze working while I hunt for tin

Fuck the north of this peninsula is mountainous as shit and one of those cavepig packs must be sitting on tin.

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I have to find a specific ship that is in Xenon controlled space.
I'm zooming around in my Kukri, praying that I don't get a stray shot that disables my travel mode. I really need HOP rep to keep the eastern flank stable.

>>558777543
ooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhh brr brr brr brrrrrrrrr (air horn sounds)

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I'm assuming Falling Frontier is dead, since anon who normally posts latest pics about it hasn't been around in a while.

>>558751753
>>558741894
I think it would be really good if it got that last expansion, kinda how much better Civ 5 was after BNW came out. I never played Alpha Centauri but to me it always felt like a overhaul mod for Civ5.

>>558815743
Comfy

>>558775604
W&R snowplowing is so gay, the "storm" is over before the plows can even leave the TO and then they spend the next in-game week clearing the roads before the next storm makes them instantaneously snowy again.
Plowing should be a "battle" against the storm where the plows slowly clear the roads while the storm slowly fills them up over the course of several days. The mechanics for this exist already with varying degrees of snowiness which affect how fast vehicles can drive, but practically there is only clear or 100% snowy because of how fast the snow builds up. Only the few meters behind a plow at the very end of the storm will be have a level that isn't clear or 100% snowy.

I'm thinking about becoming Cybran

>>558829741
>W&R snowplowing is so gay, the "storm" is over before the plows can even leave the TO
>Only the few meters behind a plow at the very end of the storm will be have a level that isn't clear or 100% snowy.

>>558835589
Based.

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I am angry.
Angry about Dorwinion!
I read the Hobbit, I read the Lord of the Rings, all the Appendixes, I even read the bloody Silmarillion, and I have no fucking idea what the fuck Dorwinion is, why they look Roman, why they have Chinese-looking allies, or why they're so about wine!

>>558844306
>Dorwinion
Pretty sure it's a case of not having much if at all official information so they just made something up.

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>>558846735
No, that faction has too much soul for that. The men of Dorwinion use Roman architecture with late Roman armies.
I mean, look at these fuckers: banner carriers in the base game walk in front of their units, while slave drivers in the expansion walk behind them.

The Dorwinion decurions (except they're 30 and not 10) walk on the side, like they historically did.
Fuck me this mod is so good, I feel like I stole it.

>>558847123
Just making something up doesn't mean it's bad of course. There's plenty of legitimately good fanfiction out there.

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>>558847263
Dude.
Chinese Elves (I think?).

I hope they can make Dorwinion into a full-fledged faction, like they did with Rohan or Dol Guldur. Especially Dol Guldur, they made an anecdotal faction into a giant pile of shit that I hate because of how evil it is.

bumperino

>>558815743
No they just haven't been posting interesting images on their discord. Also I'm too busy playing bannerlord.

>>558847123
LotR aesthetics were fucked by movies, that added plate armor. LotR should have been early medieval setting.

>>558856276
Unfortunately I started watching the movies before I read the books so I literally cannot imagine them differently.
Through I imagine how the Orcs looked like in Bakshir's movies were scary.

>>558815743
Falling Frontier is weird because it's still in development, but the devs don't post updates very often (at least outside of Discord, but fuck normalfags for abandoning forums for a closed chat platform that is now succumbing to the gay retarded shit like all of its predecessors). They're published by Hooded Horse, who apparently are willing to keep funding long dev times up front. The idea is that if they make enough money on their on-time/released games they can support the ones that take longer in the oven, then in the long run those become profitable instead of never getting made at all.
>source: Mandalore doing a podcast with some of his buddies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9Nyjy9iXVw

>>558853680
I would love to play Bannerlord, but since I am busy and they still update it and break mods, I decided to put it off for now.

>>558790148
I used to play 5 like 25 years ago

>>558865870
>5
So that Normandy one, yeah I played that one too, had a CD, maybe it's somewhere still.
I have also played the remake of it Longest Day, which was nice.

>>558790148
no

>>558871940
oh...

>>558860272
yeah bannerlord is pretty fun

Do you care about your troops?
Like give them custom names, if game allows you to rename them, give them histories?
I know that this is autistic, but...

>>558885481
No.
I do, however, feel like losing people is a failure. They're easily replaceable but it's not the point.

>>558885481
Depends on the scale and the game, but like the other reply says, I always hate losing troops even if it's a game winning trade.

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The Xenon managed to pop one of my scout ships. The crew managed to bail on a scape pot but got popped too. The pilot managed to eject and is floating in his spacesuit, with his oxygen going down fast.
I wonder if my Sentinel will manage to pick him up before he dies.

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Nope.
The pilot is very much dead. The HOP destroyer can't attract enough agro to let me close in without having half a dozen enemy lock alarms.
Well, valuable lesson learned. Do not auto explore Xenon sectors.

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>>558891842
>The Xenon managed to pop one of my scout ships
RIP bozo

>>558885481
Depends on the game. Primarily if the game has low enough amount of units that it's meaningful to track them individually and if it's the same units doing things all the time or just a group of generic 5 marines or what ever it is.

>>558891842
>>558892717
I don't know what is happening here but it looks kind of cool.

>>558562586
Just pick whatever faction you wanna play.
I like architects and primal.
I never bothered with dragons giants or eldritch sovereigns. Elder Vampires are fun as fuck tho and feel very strong

>>558565027
The campaign missions will expect you to play very aggressively and expand fast.
However if you play on low difficulty it should be ok.
Builds and expertise in tac combat makes a big difference.
The most important thing is to just keep fighting and feeding your guys XP (tho Aperently they’re changing this to be less of an issue)
Also if you’re having a hard time expanding fast enaugh. Oi can always run with chosen destroyers and just unga bunga the game which is a great way to break the game in single player

>>558885481
I try to force myself to do that because it makes the game more fun.
When I was younger this would happen automatically.
It’s very easy to do in Songs of Syx, slightly works with fleets In stellaris.
Surprisingly difficult in Age of Wonders

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>>558894051
x4 is a game about angry triangles killing other angry triangles

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>kept wondering why my units took damage in ancient war
>notice the centurion didn't take any damage from a mysterious explosion
>realize Exterminate doesn't check for friendlies, and damages everyone around
I don't want to punch down a game that's in early access, but damn.

>>558885481
i customize the uniforms of my elite soldiers but the grunts are all random

>>558885481
I could never, I would get too attached.

>>558836534
Yes, on the subsequent storm while they're still clearing roads from the first one.

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I'm getting tired of doing mine/turret removal missions. Going to bully the Xenon a bit.

>>558900283
Reminds me of Particle Fleet and that other game where you fight computer viruses in some cyber reality world or something. I forget the name.

>>558890819
>>558888762
I don't mind loosing them personally, at least in most games, or most units.
>>558895272
>>558901039
>>558901346
It's usually better if it's some sort of tactics or squad game, so you can rename whole units. Total War games, or Fantasy Wars, especially if you can take them on a long sandbox campaign or multiple missions campaign.

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Riddle me that: hastatus at level 1 (they start at level 0) have 203 HP. At level 2, they have 284 HP.
Calculate how much HP they get between levels, since I forgot.

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Not very profit at all hunting Xenons.
I got 250k for around 10-15 minutes of fighting.

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>>558907287

>>558876896
The lighting is a bit off sometimes since the new update. Also I had a stutter that made the game unplayable until a couple of weeks ago. They still need to add more diplomacy options and things like feasts. The boats are really nice though.

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Too many contacts.
I'm going back home and will bring a bigger stick later.

>>558917835
Or better yet. Pack a gun.

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>>558917835
Get a fleet bro
Apes together strong

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I liked the personality trait thing from Beyond Earth, i wish they stole it for other games they made.

>>558944031
Hope you're hanging in there, mon ami.

>>558945560
Barely. I play games but nothing feels entertaining.

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Been playing picrel. It's okay, but I find the A.I, especially vehicle path finding, to be terrible. The UX of issuing orders is a bit shit. It's virtually impossible to figure out elevation at a glance.
Is there something similar but better?

A reminder that AI Opponents harder than intermediate or normal in most games literally cheat to win, but for Japanese 4x anime games it's the easiest difficulty.

>>558948846
Wrong. They don't cheat to win, they cheat to be a challenge.
>japanese 4x anime games
What????

which rts has the best enemy simulation that tries to avoid impossible actions?

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>>558948965
Enough about Total War, not every game is that.

>>558949072
>avoid impossible actions

>>558949563
the ai should be restrained by resources and explore the map with fog of war instead of knowing where everything is

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>>558949440
I have no idea what this is. Is this like Langrisser or Fire Emblem or Nobunaga's Ambition? No, these are not 4X since you don't explore or exploit in these.

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>>558949932
None of them.
The AI knowing your location is how it attacks. The AI with a resource handicap is how it bounces back after a snowball of failure.

For games that don't have base placement, the AI only targets control points and objectives as movement nodes. Some exceptions such as purpose built units that hunt vehicles will map hack your vehicles that were not seen yet. Last of all the AI knows where you click on the map, and uses that heat map to avoid units or flank on a different path. The AI will most likely counter by the structure built and units in queue before it ever has any of their units see your base.
There is no secret that the AI also likes to envelope on the weakest player on the map, and that is usually the only human player in the game, and a generalized tactic to win.

AI in most games are unable to defend and fortify objective points. But AI in most RTS's are either dumb or cracked on trainers. Most startups are wave defense games because of that. But the irony is most players can't play the game better than the easiest of AI, and that is why I have 6:1 wins multiplayer in one game so far.

>>558950007
Do you not have Youtube? Wikipedia? IGN? Fandom?

>>558953384
yeah well i want a game where it doesn't do that

>>558953525
Do you guys not have phones?

>>558953574
The Advanced Wars trilogy, formally Famicom Wars has good AI reacting to Fog of War rules. They don't target units outside unit visions, or in hide-able tiles. AI units also will collide with hidden units, ending their movement and removing turn's attack action.

>>558953682
Well first you must answer that phone. Ring Ring

>>558954431
Ring ring ring ring banana phone.

>>558941270
Aren't mementos sort of that?

>>558954681
I got this feeling, so appealing

>>558955023
Yeah i can sorta see it, but like most things civ 7 its a lot worse then it could or should be.

>>558954681
I've got this feeling

>>558959031
Deep inside of me.

>>558946658
Yeah, I kind of stopped playing for now as well.

>>558968009
I hate that I keep finding fun/cute stuff, and I'm like "hey I'll show that to my mother", then I remember and I get sad.

>>558968902
Yeah... but maybe you have somebody else to show something? Dad, other family members?

>>558969757
None of them really care about odd stuff I find. They're not nerds interested in art of animals, I can't go to them and go "hey you know there's a viscacha? It looks like a bunny mixed with a squirrel!"

>>558954431
Hullo?

>>558970231
Hey, boo. It's me.

>>558970351
Hey, babe. Y'all an your way home?

>>558969931
Then you should post that stuff to us, anons.

>>558970592
I'm still at the 7-Eleven. I forget what you wanted. Again.

>>558970727
Y'all can't never amember nothin'!

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>>558970848
Just post the gif, faggot.

>>558968902
:(

What's the weirdest rts game you ever played?

bump

>>558985492
Populous: The Beginning. Just everything from the graphics to the sound effects. I remember it being fun though.