Almost as many as there are in the colonial fleet in Battlestar Galactica. So does that mean we can expect that the colonial fleet had someone as prolific at shitposting as The_Picard_Maneuver? That’s encouraging to know if so

Yeah! I’m glad I could be of help.

I will say, the couple times my colonists got into nearly deadly altercations due to one of them being a pyschopath and going around starting fights was actually interesting. But that kind of conflict was much less frequent than 80% of my pawns being in the hospital due to an attack from neighboring clans

Well, I’m glad it wasn’t the main bridge for Galveston island, that would’ve been all kinds of bad

Yeah, I was playing on 3x for most of the time. I know, I was surprised that I didn’t really seem to get it

I’ve been playing not much else than city builders in the past year or two, for some reason.

Surviving Mars is good imo, and so is Frostpunk, but both involved a decent bit of trial and error to figure out. For Frostpunk that ended up being a strength, but not sure if I’d have just done a tutorial for Surviving Mars if I would have had fewer problems.

I have like 400 hours in Satisfactory, some people consider it a city builder, I guess for resource management reasons. But there aren’t cute little people to watch so I don’t know about that, haha. Fun though.

Kingdoms and Castles is a very cute game, but probably too easy. Still, very relaxing to play which is nice.

I also enjoyed Jurassic World Evolution, driving the jeep through the park you’ve built is very fun.

For the past few months I’ve been playing tons of Oxygen Not Included. It’s really fun, but tricky, and the simulation differs from how actual physics works enough that some mechanics are unintuitive for me. It’s a game that I had to figure out a specific reason to keep playing though, as once you get the main problems fixed you’re arguably “done”, but it’s not all that hard to get a self-sustaining colony.

I tried Rimworld, and found it a very weirdly unsatisfying game. Imo it’s too slow and tedious to be good as a “story generator” but the problems you face are also too banal but also devastating for it to be a good city builder. I’m guessing a lot of people would hate me for saying I actually prefer Stranded: Alien Dawn to Rimworld, even though it’s just a 3d copy. But Stranded Alien Dawn is more fun to watch your people do stuff and I enjoy being able to build 3d houses too. It’s almost more like The Sims.

I also briefly tried Against the Storm, but I dunno, it didn’t really grab me. Seemed really slow.

Timberborn is a fantastic game, and everyone should play it. Just fantastic. I started before the badwater update and I think there’s merits to either mode, so if you wanna play safer, you can turn off badwater for a game and it’s still super solid.

I just bought Manor Lords, but I’m gonna wait till it gets updated more before I crack it open. My ONI world has a lot of work still.

Also, like everyone else says, Banished is great (though the UI leaves something to be desired, but it’s also a custom game engine from the one dev) and Cities Skylines is good too. Haven’t tried CS 2.

I also really wanna try Captains of Industry, but I’ve gotta pace myself

Have you ever actually been outside the US?

Went on my first cruise just recently with my wife and two of my good college friends. We were interested cause we live in a city with a large cruise industry and I was very curious about it. I went into it with low-ish expectations, and was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the buffet food (better than my university’s cafeteria, which is what I was expecting) but slightly disappointed overall with the fine dining entrees, though the desserts were good. I only had like 2 alcoholic drinks on the boat the whole week, which I believe is atypical (friend of mine said the drinks package is totally worth it, but I can’t imagine drinking >4 alcoholic servings a day for a week straight, which is probably what you need to do for it to even out). Sea days were cool, I enjoyed the shows generally more than I expected, and the laid back atmosphere was cool. Excursion days were also cool, but not mind blowing. Had the most fun snorkeling (although it took me five minutes to figure out how to not freak out from breathing underwater but only through my mouth, that was weird). Didn’t really feel like going to a foreign country, like it does when you take a trip to Europe. I think the main perk for me was that I didn’t have to cook any of my own food or clean any of my dishes for a whole week. I would go again, like some other people have said I think an Alaskan or Arctic cruise would be cool. We had an interior stateroom and booked it due to a very cheap rate 8-9 months in advance

This why public transit systems generally include buses. I will concede no-one uses buses for off-roading, but I would guess 90% of Americans do not drive their car off-road more than once or twice a year total, so I fail to see why that would be particularly relevant for a mass-market appeal.

That’s interesting, I kinda get the wanting to get your moneys worth out of it. I am a little surprised that even though I only played Fallout 1 and 2 a few years ago for the first time (not old enough to have played them at release) I really liked both of them. I thought the story was really solid. Much simpler than F3 or New Vegas, but still very good.

Llama.cpp is relatively fast and might run on your Mac depending on how capable it is

I dunno. GNURadio uses Python and C++ and you can do a lot of the same things

What helped convince you to stop?