Amen to Victoria 3. Man I played the hell out of Victoria II. My favorite run I triggered the civil war early and crushed the south, then invaded Mexico and added another seven states or so. A few administrations later I launched an invasion of China and by the time the game ended Ghanzhou was the most productive state in the Union.
Canada was there too.
Distant Worlds 2 is on my radar. Distant Worlds was fucking great, loved how it tried to simulate population and supply lines in a space setting. I can't think of another space game where disrupting enemy logistics is a thing you can do with noticeable impact on their ability to wage war. Not exactly a pretty game, to be expected given its age.
And of course, Frostpunk 2, also already mentioned. The first was a great game, quite hard and I enjoyed my time with it. It is rare to have a city building game you can actually lose.
I guess building and strategy games are harder to shove woke shit into, so guess I'm lucky that is my preference. Although somehow BattleTech managed to fit in a tranny pilot and a hijab wearing engineer, so who knows.
Edit: how fucking sad is it that everything I'm looking forward to is a sequel? I hate that new properties are automatically suspect in this day and age.
$800 is what I paid for my acer nitro 5 a year ago and it crushes everything I throw at it. Has a 1650ti GPU in there, which is plenty for basically anything you're going to do at 1080p.
In fact, you're going to be hard pressed to find a laptop that isn't a 1080p display at that price point, which means essentially anything with a dedicated GPU will be just fine.
Edit: If you plan to attach a VR headset to it then you should aim slightly higher for a 2060 or 3060.
I bought this game on GoG last year and enjoyed about 12 hours with it. Kind of like a reverse darkest dungeon, where you are the bad guys and fighting your way out from underground while upgrading your dark lord lair. The length of each 'campaign' was closer to a slay the spire run, however.
It was in early access then, and it has a DLC now that I have not played, but there was absolutely nothing woke in there at the time and I have it flagged to come back to again for another playthrough. Certainly worth picking up for zero dollars.
Treasure Fleet is a half-decent modern attempt at remaking Colonization.
Yeah seriously, they trespassed inside the capitol after officers opened the doors for them, the most horrible thing I can imagine. If they'd just molested kids, faked a hate crime, or pointed a gun at a pregnant woman they'd be out touring the fundraising circuit already.
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Original vs Copy is irrelevant to digital copies. The blockchain showing you paid for your copy is meaningless when it comes with no further rights. It isn't a copyright or an exclusive use contract or anything else with legal meaning.
Really, the proof, in the blockchain, that you paid money for something freely available is closer to a 'proof of retardation' than anything else.
I had a roommate who played this game. Specifically, she was a whore in the game. This is how she paid her part of the rent. She wasn't shy about it, and she wasn't very good looking either. I don't think she'd have made as much in meat space.
Pretty much only came out of her room to eat, shower, or visit her son. Yes, that much of a winner, didn't have custody of her son despite being the mother and in a leftist state. I have no idea what she did to create that situation, but always speculated it was her choice so that she could spend more time in second life.
CDC's death data does not show a rise in old people deaths, so this isn't people getting fat and getting covidedead. These deaths are happening to working age people.
Data is here, scroll down to options and pick 'weekly number of deaths by age'. Very noticible spike for people 25-84, and barely any difference for the oldie hawns. Data is sent to CDC by local governments, the most recent data at the tail end of the graph will not have them all yet. ~2 weeks to get to ~60%, somewhere around 6-8 weeks to be completely accurate.
I have some hope that things like this obvious death spike which is not hidden at all and only not talked about will eventually become common enough knowledge to put a stop to this before we start injecting boosters 3, 4, 5, etc.
But hope is all I can do, because 120k extra dead working class people in America in the past three months (per the government's own data) is not enough to trigger mob justice, then I sure the fuck have no idea how high that number has to get before we start getting some solid rule 2s.
The tranny mechwarrior is one of your starting four and based on the tranny lead developer. Might be possible to dodge that with mods, but regardless the game also makes you pick your pronouns when you start, which was my first encounter with that bullshit.
I was a kickstarter backer for Shadowrun and BattleTech, but I won't be doing so for Hairbrained studios again. I was not a bottom tier pledge for either product, but damned if I'm going to overpay to be lectured to by leftists in my entertainment.
The Hijab engineer might have gone unnoticed without the tranny insertion putting me on guard, because you're right that it would have otherwise been fairly unremarkable in setting.
Got any particularly good new properties to recommend? I'm playing Rogue Lords right now but will be fishing for another title in a few weeks or so.