#A COFFEE COSTS MORE!!!

[meyerlansky]

what is special about civilisation vi? (i really love strategy games and i want to know if it's worth buying during the sale :)

tl;dr ABSOLUTELY worth the sale price, which is, holy shit, 95% off? that's SO STEEP, literally everyone on the planet should buy it right now

uh that totally threw off my train of thought, that is. so cheap. ANYWAY. with the caveat that i haven't played previous civ games, and with the second caveat that i am the type of person to sink hundreds of hours into a single game as a matter of course [please do not ask how many hours i have in patho 2, dwarf fortress, or crusader kings 3], there is something REALLY addictive about the gameplay loop in civ vi, and the many varied routes to victory opens up so much potential for replay value. i also really enjoy that there's built-in challenges in the achievement list [in steam, at least] for every civilization, in addition to the "win with x civ" chievos—they're fun hints for different ways to play a given civ that's not necessarily what that civ is suited for. i'm thinking specifically of the genghis/mongolia bonus achievement:

as fits his whole shtick, genghis is suited to an early/mid-game domination victory, so going for the cultural victory instead opens up other options, ones a player might not think to try were there not a reward for doing so! there's a lot of stuff like this in the bonus achievements, and it definitely makes the game even more fun for me

the gameplay itself is... i think if someone doesn't have experience with strategy/4X games, there's a bit of a learning curve, but i did find the in-game hints system pretty useful for my first few runs. if you DO have experience with those kinds of games, i get the sense civ vi isn't very far outside the expected format/play style, so it should feel pretty familiar. firaxis has also put out a LOT of updates; they've almost tripled the amount of leaders playable since launch, added new modes, and introduced different playsets you can turn on or off at your leisure. a lot of the DLC is on sale as well as the base game, and the total's pretty steep if you're buying every pack, but that 95% off base game is doing. a LOT of heavy lifting. good god that's such a discount.

[leastrife]

Don’t think I’ll ever get over the fact that Kaz Brekker nearly shifted the economy of Ketterdam

Like if the crows managed to ruin all of Van Eck’s silos and taken out a large huge amount of the sugar supply. That’s not something that will go down anytime soon it would take years for sugar to go back to the price it was to match up with supply and demand.

This 17 year old kid who likes dogs and can never figure out how to talk to his crush. Kaz “I protect my investments” Brekker almost caused a complete disruption in the stock market and with how strongly Ketterdam is built on their economic system-

Please I need someone else who think economy is a really cool topic to understand just how much that’s insane. A 17 YEAR OLD NEARLY CAUSED A SHORTAGE OF A HIGH DEMNAD COMMODITY ITEM.

Kaz would go insane in America

[italyveneziano]

Obsessed with what America and England have going on in HetaOni. America's like "I keep having to watch my dad die from overusing his magic in past timelines and not knowing how to stop it is killing me inside but I'm not going to talk to him about it" and England's like "I can't seem to hold a conversation with my son without insulting him but I won't hesitate to use my dying breath to ensure I can protect him from beyond the grave"

[symbieote]

My mother, at the home goods store: what's that photo frame for? You never have photos out or frame things.

Me: nothing. Just for some decor.

But reader, it wasn't for nothing. It was for something very important. It was for the photo card that came with a Gintama doujinshi by adashino. The first time I've ever voluntary put something in a frame. Not a diploma or a photo of a family member or friend, but yeah. Still a picture of my loved ones though, so it counts!

[anetherealpoetess]

i laughed when i saw someone on tiktok say how can anyone ship lucy with the ghoul when he sold her for parts and let me just tell you right now, if one character sells another character to a gang with an organ harvesting robot, i will immediately ship them. immediately. zero hesitation. that's peak romance to me.

[andromedasummer]

you know the market is fucked when youre told the number of people who applied to this job through the site youre using alone and youre one of 300+ nearly every time

[highspeedinterconnect]

this week has been fucking awful I just wanna lay down somewhere quiet w my gf and cats. holy shit

[sullina]

now that i managed to get meds for my adhd a couple months ago, i actually find it quite funny how so many people who "aren't addicted to anything" will look down on drug addicts who are addicted to "illegal" drugs like idk heroin or meth or what have you

and then turn around and go "i can't function without my morning coffee, but I'm not addicted, it just gets rid of my common caffeine withdrawal symptoms like headaches, dizzyness, tiredness (fatigue), general irritability, mental fogginess, nausea and my general bad mood in the morning, but seriously, I'm not addicted at all, I can just overall function way better with coffee in the morning and also throughout the rest of the day!"

yeah i bet you can function a lot better in your day to day life when you're not actively going through withdrawal and can get your fix several times a day at work or for less than 10 bucks at every corner in every city with even some fancy stuff on top that makes it taste even better.

yeah, you're SO much better and SO above the people who DO have a drug problem and have to spend half their paycheck or even more on their daily fix because their drug isn't so normalized that it's even considered a necessity of daily life and therefore can be gotten for cheap and the price of which is even regulated by the government is some countries.

and when i said "funny" i actually meant " incredibly infuriating and two-faced"

[thedrotter]

finally tried the coffee vending machine that's at my faculty's floor as i was stuck working on finals for 10 hours its so fun its such a silly machine... i could finally experience the college student stereotype of drinking coffee at campus to function this is like. so collegecore its so silly☺️☺️ /lh /hj

[mildmayfoxe]

not only did a i go to the grocery store after work i also banged out a huge pan of taco filling and made a really great burrito with it even though i forgot to get sour cream and the bag of microwave rice i had banging around actually expired summer last year and i didn't feel committed enough to cooking a pot of regular rice. but overall huge success

[aprofessionalwithoutstandards]

We 100% say "we're not here to fuck spiders" and any Aussie telling you they've never heard it is a city roo. Folks in the bush/rural towns say it all the time, or its alternative "We're not here to finger/bugger dingos."

There's also "they have some roos loose in the top paddock," meaning someone's crazy or stupid. "May your chooks turn into emus and kick your dunny down," which is a general insult/curse. "Don't come the raw prawn with me," which is basically telling someone to rack off if they try pulling one over on you, and if you say "I'm dry as a dead dingo's donger" in a pub expect to be served a tall glass of beer.

In the U.S. we pour popcorn and Pepsi in a cup when we go to the movies it's called "pissy shitties" you should try it

[hannie-dul-set]

self perpetuating torture cycle: getting instantly nauseous when drinking coffee but coffee is the only thing that helps u stay awake.

[cappucosmico]

going to kill myself over the state of my wallet rn

[delusionalinsecurewreckpiningphd]

Personally dislike the fact that urban street is littered with corporate storefront and franchises as the ultimate goal of economic growth and modernity. Bring back indie local store, mom and pop shop, smes, for that chaotic all-over-the-place aesthetic and actual livelihood

[paverics]

i know some people say girl math and girl dinner etc etc etc has kind of been hijacked and used to push this “women are being infantilised and this is being used to re-enforce gender stereotypes or promote right wing/conservative lifestyles”

but i honestly just think it’s just women having fun. it’s like an inside joke. the girls who get it, get it. i think it’s about taking pleasure in the things. it’s not serious, so the people who do see it something else were probably already prone to certain ways of thinking to begin with

[ricoka]

at this rate I could also just stay home, instead of going to the office. when you're surrounded by people who spend like 2 hours out of 8.5 at their desk and a colleague who can't even greet, let alone take off his headphones for more than 5 minutes