At least he’s pretty based for someone in the niche of nerdy ass games. He said BLM during the 2020 protests and during the Palestinian protests in ‘21 he said Free Palestine, that US was backing an apartheid, and gave a bunch of resources to donate to Palestinians. Good guy and you should purchase his game because it’s pretty cool.

  • ilyenkov [she/her, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Also, the aristocrats in the game are parasites who basically add nothing of value to the dwarven settlements but just make unreasonable demands and punish people for failing to meet them.

    • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      I remember making elaborate death traps that would kill and hide the aristocrats bodies.

      • TerminalEncounter [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        No, you literally had to lol. They'd activate the capitalist economy and ruin your fucking fortress, dwarves would become homeless because they suddenly couldn't afford their homes, they'd drag money around and waste hours counting it. It was basically earthbound 3 :pigmask-off:

          • TerminalEncounter [she/her]
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            2 years ago

            Jobs paid different wages, one of the most important but boring is hauling stuff from a depot to a workstation or picking up trash. It was the least paid.

            Food and drink also cost money that they now suddenly couldn't afford.

            Nobles would randomly change prices of goods by like 500% because they really like green stuff.

            Nobles would (and still in DF) get pissed off if any normal dwarf had a better room or better quality items than they do - including dwarves who have become so proficient at something like Smithing or Painting or whatever that they've become legendary amongst dwarves.

              • booty [he/him]
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                2 years ago

                It's really not impenetrable. The interface is jank but it's not hard to use. It's so weird and unintuitive specifically because it's optimized to be easy / quick to use by people who already know what they're doing. So once you get over the initial hump it's not hard to play at all.

                Either way, the Steam version is out now and it's supposed to have a more intuitive interface. Haven't tried it yet, but it might be a good time to get into it.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      The fact that a "free market" simulator just got the longest lived creatures to game and rig it until no one else could meaningfully participate :chefs-kiss:

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      11 months ago

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          11 months ago

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      • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        You can make them an enormous dining hall and flood it. Or make their entire bedroom be supported by a single pillar that falls at the push of a lever. Or just make them cross a hallway with a minecart full of spears that's heading straight down at full speed. "Stupid dorf machines" as I think the community calls them are bounded only by your creativity.