it has a lot of different names, not sure if that will help or hinder

Yup not an ideal situation to spur on planning and preparation. They can’t scale up quickly enough in the relevant ways in the manner you’re suggesting (before Monday) can they? I see this more as a situation where they admit a large influx will break the site, plan for a general “all hands on deck” day to assess the issues (if any) as they arise, interpret, prioritize work. If hosts have issues with server migrations, deployments, etc. etc. it’s already the weekend and none of it is an option for Monday.

Yeah I mean I love Paradox and I love the Star Trek universe. Those two things have the potential to be amazing together and I think whoever was in charge of this trailer understood that. A quick cutscene saying “We’re doing a Star Trek thing guys” as an announcement and then off to work on the game.

Eh? For the trailer?? This 45 second announcement trailer with no game content has all the budget it deserves imo. Such a forgetful scene in general yeah? A generic cutscene of the Borg dropping their catch phrase on a nameless Starfleet captain is almost cringeworthy levels of basic and would only be more so if they hired good actors. I think it’s fine though, all they’re doing here is saying “this project exists, look it’s the Borg! stay tuned” instead of something with any aims to impress us.

Yup I remember thinking to myself at the time that I must be tasting incorrectly or somehow my tongue is different from everyone else lol.

Yeah I’d still need Windows every day for work

Windows is just so ingrained in everything. Like this job I’m starting soon I’ll need it. At the very least it would be like a dual boot situation and like I said, not even willing to spend a minute let alone begin a whole project. Cheers

I guess a combination of things. Bad early science that was easy to present in a little diagram. Then when it’s disproved, nothing similar to replace it with but the unglamorous fact that it all just sort of tastes the same.

I’m sure lots of other OS work but not really worth the energy for me to switch over and learn a new OS just because I’m annoyed by them wanting to update me to a new version. Once I’m all set up and have learned it, it’ll probably be better than Windows but I’m just not willing to spend even a minute on it.

I dunno… I’ve always used Windows, being annoyed by their requests to update me to the newest version isn’t enough to want to learn a new OS or anything.

I always think about when I was taught about taste and the human tongue back in grade school, they had these diagrams about zones on the tongue corresponding to sweet, sour, bitter, etc. like a “taste map”. I’m not sure how many generations were taught about it but turns out it just isn’t true at all. So, not like it’s important but you got a lot of misinformed folks out there in regards to taste lol

I’m holding out until they force me to upgrade from 10. They’ve tried probably a half dozen times or so already to have me choose to upgrade but it’s been a minute.

Yeah totally agreed. Especially if it’s made by Apple lmfao

Do we get a heads up like “You’re about to suddenly wake up a thousand years ago in England good luck!” BOOSH because otherwise it kinda matters exactly where you get dropped. For me it really wouldn’t matter much, I’d be dead pretty quick either way but someone with some skills might have a go at it.

I’m terrible too lol I only play on PVE servers. Big update 42 is coming down the pipe soon(ish), might be a good time for you all to pick it back up.

Steam tells me 4 games over 1000 hours. I had 6136 hours in Crusader Kings 2 when I stopped playing in 2020. 1018 in CK3 but I don’t play it anymore either. 1132 hours in Project Zomboid. 1210 hours in SCUM. Back in the day I put in a stupid amount of hours in Everquest and WoW though.

Any good alternatives? Everything I found has no content or pretends to have content so I can click the screen 1000 times for them. I took rarbg for granted for so long, I never realized it was in a class of its own.

Wow did not know that about MLK! Very interesting! Yet another reason to admire the man. Cheers.

Never paranormal. Everything has an explanation sometimes the explanations are beyond our comprehension and I think that’s the tricky little blank spot where people tend to insert whatever the fuck they want in place of the truth. To me being able to admit I will never know certain things is important, I can still keep a open mind while I do that. Basically I’ll believe it when I see it and haven’t heard a believable ghost story in my 40 years. People get scared and they lock that moment into time and refuse to budge on the fact that the reality may not be exactly how they always remembered it, or something.

I think it sort of says a lot about the job if it can so easily be replaced. That’s not a dig at the people who do the job, it’s just how we’ve always done it. For as long as we humans have been working we’ve been figuring ways to do less work and it appears we may have played ourselves here. But if you’re writing ads that a AI can spit out are you really living your best life? Is your job really one that encompasses your passion as a writer…? These things don’t matter if you just need a paycheck, I get that but I think you need to be real about what your job is. Like with the introduction of advanced mining tech manual labor in coal mines and steel industry etc. pretty much died off. To me, these type of writers are the coal miners.

I’m obviously not a writer myself but I always wondered about editors. That must be a job that is more secure because someone definitely has to lay eyes on the AI result before it just goes to print. That decision making person will keep their job. I’m worried people are almost at the point where we wouldn’t even need our ads to be proofread though and we would still get the point and consume the shit out of it either way. Buy I digress.