They thought like would go up forever, and now that the line is starting to slow down, they gotta do a sacrifice to make the line look like it is still going up

I disagree as part of being a history 4X means that peopl will expect historical events to occur. And PI have repeatedly made it clear that they want their games to have an expansion/contraction element to make each playthrough feel unique beyond just the pop-up stories that occur. Civilizations trnd to collapse/struggle at the conclusion of theor Golden Age. Just look at The UK and US for a modern example.

The whole point is to shake up the game. That’s why CK2 and the mongols and Aztec invasions and Stellaris has mid game and end game crisis.

What’s the actual difference? You end up at the same place with either one.

They just do nothing to stop the fascists when they have power and do everything they can to compromise with them.

I live in Northern Ohio 40 minutes from Lake Erie. We have COLD winters here with wet air. Plus, my shitty soft top VW Bug with a busted window lets in more than enough cold air

It’s typically best not to use things dependent on wealth to assess age groups. A kid growing up in Hamtramck had very different experiences from a kid growing up in Birmingham Michigan, even though those two areas are only 10 miles apart.

Depends on the cutoff line. But i would typically say Zoomers are too young to remember 9/11 and old enough to have grown up with Marvel movies. Born late 90’s-early 2010’s. 30 is around the cutoff between Millennials and Zoomers so that wwill come down to individuals. But also, generations are pretty suspect as a concept outside of the Baby Boomers since that was an actual charatable phenomen

You know you can adjustt the temperature AND air flow, right? You can blast the air to accelerate to the desired temperature and then dial back on the air flow and temperature to keep the car actually pleasent. I only say this because i have a friend who cranks the heat full blast in the winter and then rolls down his windows while still max blasting the heating! Dude has serious brain worms.

Drug store literally made up the shoplifting spree to try and cover for piss poor sales reports.

Amazon has more money than most countries. They can outlast any company in court, or just ban you from their services in the future.

I have been pretty much tofu exclusive since it costs about $1.79 a pound here

Or you can get a window unit if you want your bedroom cooler in the summer and a heated blanket for the winter for a fraction of the cost. And once again, neither of those options will spy on you or stop working just because Amazon shit the bed 1000 miles away from where you live. My parents have a high end mattress that tilts but it doesn’t need an Internet connection, and cost half the price of this thing. IoT devices are a luxury tax on people too stupid for all their money.

The top 1% of earners in the US made over $1 million last year. I doubt any lemmy users are in that category.

I have a mattress i purchased for $100 of my buddy when he moved out the country. He ordered it online the year before for $400. I can just throw it on the ground and sleep on it no problem when i move. Not sure why a mattress would ever need an Internet connection other than to spy on you

On my 18th birthday i went to my dream school and found out i didn’t file my paperwork properly and would not be able to start that semester. Then i had a miserable time moving to Texas with my family before going to said dream school in the woring semester. Where i proceeded to crash out hard after my grandmother and uncle died a month apart, forcing me to go back to Texas for what was probably the most miserable year of my life. I didn’t party, i just stayed in and played video games like BF4, Civ V, and EU4 when I wasn’t arguing with my long distance girlfriend. Sometimes i worry that i really fucked my life up as a teenager, but i also doubt it would have made much difference.

Plus you could keep the phone in you pocket while you texted in class, meaning the teacher couldn’t see you

Except it didn’t matter if Blockbuster’s headquarters had a power outage since tour physical VHS from them worked fine where ever you were. Pretty much every major web service uses AWS, so if AWS goes down, so does the Internet.

Some of the smaller instances really struggle to load self hosted images during busy periods.

The author works for business inside. He’s 100 % on board with all the heinous shit tech companies are doing