On the face of it, I agree. But 12 jurors who heard the whole story, probably for days or weeks, disagree with that.

Civ 3 was the first one I played so it sticks in my mind the most, that’s all. Any of the Civs would be fine.

I do feel like Civ 3 was a big step up in visual effects, though.

I’ve been lurking in threads like this for 2+ years, and coding accordingly.

To get the obvious out of the way: Pacman, Doom 2, Starcraft, Simcity 2000, Civ 3. All genre-defining milestones.

Total Annihilation. They’re still making sequels today (Supreme Commander, Beyond all Reason).

Warzone 2100 was the first 3D rotatable zoomable RTS which was pretty mind blowing at the time.

Leaving the 3 biggest news comms has been one of the best things I’ve done recently.

Googles knows a LOT more about you than what you watch on YouTube.

piefed.social now has a Zulip server too although the Matrix rooms are still open. Seems like the tide is going out on Matrix though.

If that’s been their goal for decades then there would be something written down to that effect. Policy statements, press releases, meeting minutes… Got anything?

I’ve used it in the past, it’s great.

Generally you get what you pay for. A paid course will have a proper progression and structure and while you can find the same into on YouTube it’ll be scattered and disjointed, making it kinda aimless.

Imagine a junior dev called “Big Balls” starting up Claude Code and telling it “Hey I need you to make this app great, remove all unnecessary code” and then just accepting whatever it proposes. This is an app with no unit tests, no dev environment, running in production, and if it crashes people die in concentration camps.

Literally vibe coding a country.

Starcraft

Locals don’t drink cocktails. They drink lao-lao or beer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lao-Lao