ErikTheBearik

It occurred to me that one of the strengths over other Civ games is that the setting makes it a lot easier to roleplay. Civ always tends to feel very game-y to me, but SMAC feels more like a story simulator in the way a Paradox game usually does.

A front facing image of an anglerfish

When someone says something thalassophobic and you have to hit them with that sub-benthic stare.

I think most of the target audience tried it once and then went back to DnD.

She's still preoccupied /
With twenty four-teen

Cover for Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri

I've been getting back into playing Sid Meier's Alpha Centauiri (directed by Brian Reynolds). It's definitely the game I come back to the most over the years, and each time I learn new things about it. It also grows more prophetic as time passes.

We were all really busy that weekend

A large mascot type costume of Woodsy the Owl, stomping across the earth

on that dad weed gummies that make you a dad

" you're no better than f Scott Fitzgerald"

@mizunotic.bsky.social : we used to have mascots. We used to be a real country.

You say that like it's a bad thing

Erik @erikthebearik.bsky.social and I have a theory that Arin Hansen and Dan Avidan were supposed to voice the ship in the bottle and time capsule in Date Everything, but for whatever reason, it didn't happen. They are kind of conspicuously absent from a roster of a lot of beloved VAs...

I MEAN

We're in the final stretch for the Tribes in the Dark #ttrpg Kickstarte. I've been putting some final tweaks on the text, and getting excited about the new art we'll be able to commission.

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Kim Kitsuragi was clearly written to appeal to straight cis white women, so true bestie.

Fandom wankery about Date Everything is 10x funnier if you've trained your brain to read DE as Disco Elysium.

It sucks so bad, man.

Politics, mostly

Cover of "One Day everyone will have always been against this"

Omar El Akkad never misses

Red Scare is the exception that proves the rule 🤣

Cover of "One day, everyone will have been against this" by Omar El Akkad

It looks like today (or some day soon) might finally be the day:

Companies will exploit any perceived weakness or vulnerability unless you force them not to.

If you don't want to ask for individual equity, ask for shared equity, where the workers as a whole control / own some percentage of the company.

If your company refuses even a high level "this is income, this is expenses", you know they're screwed.

Having been put in a similar situation where a company stopped paying me, the best solution is to obviously stop working there. If that's not feasible, you should ask for at least high level financial transparency and equity.

The lesson of Vshojo, just like with every other traditional company that claims to be pro-worker, is that unless you're in a worker owned co-op or have a union, you're going to get screwed.

Next time just set up a co-op or hire a manager, I guess.

I think operational costs / staff costs probably outpaced income, so eventually they were robbing Peter to pay Paul.

NobleJanobii: well i was talking to my coworkers about the horse gacha and we got on the elevator didn't realize it until it was too late but bernie sanders was on there so bernie now has cursory knowledge of the horse gacha ig

Today in fun working on Capitol Hill moments

Labubu is something a French yogi bear would say.