Malcador

France recalling ambassadors from Australia and US now, hm. Guess the Japanese might get a chuckle out of all this, they got sniped out their bid to equip Australia with subs by France - Australia's military procurement seems lousy in all of this.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58604655.amp?s=09 Well US admits they screwed up and wasted 10 people for nothing.

I knew I should not have bought Titan Quest 4 years ago

Have to admire such brazen hypocrisy.

Debit cards are pretty popular up here, although a bit dangerous as the default tap amount per day is ~500 so if you lose your card you can lose that amount and the bank is no help. Credit has overtaken it over the years, at least what I see, due to apps and devices. Oh and that sweet 1% cashback.

First mission in Gamedec is fun enough, some rather interesting characters, if not somewhat tropey, so far. Will need to screw up that unicorn guy on another playthrough, am a super charismatic hacker type - even though I managed to piss off two hookers or something so no information from them. It's no Disco Elysium, but feel confident I'll get my money's worth.

The French strike back! https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/09/16/us/political-news/expressing-fury-over-the-australia-submarine-deal-france-cancels-a-gala-celebrating-relations-with-the-us But in all seriousness, seems like an unnecessary situation to generate.

Decent enough reviews, PCG gave it 58, did say it was very buggy. But I paid for it, so will see how my low standards self finds it. Adventure games, evolved.

Thought Gamedec was out yesterday but guess it's today. Caesar 3 is almost done, using Warehouses to route food around is unsightly but is working well enough. Seems warehouses do not need roads when "Getting Goods" though, so that is something interesting to learn about a game 22 years late. Also left my beloved Brno in FM18, for Arsenal. Who are 17th. And have signed strikers who are mediocre all earning 150k a week. Was funny when I let the AI manage them against my Brno team and Brno beat them 4-0. Might just go back to my old save

I like how the T&T minister of health got involved - https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/14/rap-artist-nicki-minaj-faces-backlash-after-tweeting-inaccurate-information-about-covid-vaccines.html Best thing for Trinidad was exporting her

Hah, thought I imagined that, was eating dinner and half listening.

Reminds me I haven't turned my camera on on calls ever. So my coworkers haven't seen me in 18 months

Well, the IPCC as well.

Never really found him all that funny, but is shame to die that young.

I can still fit in my 16 year old suit, although the pants is beginning to, shall we say, experience structural stress when I wear it. Clearly the fabric shrunk. Somehow did manage to shed 10 lbs over the past 2 weeks, I guess cutting out bread helped. Had two days off this week for appointments but the hospitals are having anti-vaccine passport/anti-vax/muh freedom wackos protest outside them so those got moved to phone ones, so hooray, can spend the days learning something.

Canadian politics also has its share of, uh, interesting people as well. https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkb95z/this-guy-running-for-canadian-parliament-wants-men-not-to-ejaculate Bernier is too desperate to grow his party, seems their vetting is making sure you have a pulse.

These huge patches are an annoyance for me.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/572087-larry-elder-campaign-spreads-baseless-claim-that-recall-election-ended-in Interesting tactic.

Got a creative insight here, I can't feed the plebes with fish alone, the patrician area is swamped with food, but if I link their networks, everything goes to hell as the ladies go to get wheat instead of nearby fish and then nothing evolves. And you can't have a granary servicing two road networks as the walkers can use it like a road, so that's out. Then I remembered, if all granaries are full, food goes to warehouses, and then that I can transfer between networks Well, so far so good, feeding people a bit more. Not sure if I have a path to victory here still.

Also you're in the wrong thread for all that

I beat Caesar 4 10 years ago or so. Pretty sure I cheesed that game (or just did things like some pants on head fool would do). I did like the different market system - people went to the market rather than the ladies coming to them, right ? And you can block filthy plebes from them, as well.

Yah, control over the market ladies would please me greatly. So far using the warehouses as a go between is working well, still can't sustain palaces, but getting there. Only problem now is the population limit, as the remainder of my city is obsessed with the scarce fruit and ignoring the abundant fish. Grr. I guess I should just not bother feeding the plebes anything but fish. Hm..

No, you don't . Right now I have a palace block...kind of planned out. Problem I have is I have to import clay, that given I want to have the palace block separate from everyone given market ladies obsession with wheat, so the plebs can eat fruit and fish. But not seeing a way I can get pottery to both without linking them up. What I could try is some lame thing and have a warehouse that's connected to the two networks but they're not connected to each other, actually... hm.