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[quote who="BionicDance" reply="25" id="3717542"]Granted...but I swear such games exist; like I said, I remember one where there was a conquest part to it, where players fought for dominance over a galaxy and, once achieved--or failed--the game would reset itself. Mind, that might have been back in the text-only BBS days--I don't remember--but I swear it's been done. [/quote] Yes, there are many examples in BBS door games of games that you would fight to win t

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[quote who="eride" reply="20" id="3717506"] If games stop having story-driven (or strategy) single player games.. I will never play a video game again. [/quote] I wouldn't do that, mainly because if I looked at the games in my backlog alone, I'd probably have a couple of decades worth of games to play still. If I went looking for old single player games that I haven't played yet, that would probably get me another 50 years.

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I tend to avoid multiplayer myself. Personally, I think Multiplayer is a bigger gamble since only a handful of these take off at a time since those who play multiplayer things tend to find one and stick to it for a long period of time, while single player gamers tend to play more serially and buy many games in the same timeframe. That means even if there's more people who play multiplayer, there's fewer winners in the multiplayer space. As for if I'll get Star Control Origins or

Reply to Why companies with long-term plans must make their customers top priority in Personal Computing LittleTinyFrogs Forums

Former Stardock OS/2 user here, and I still buy Stardock software. (Though, not quite as much as when I actually used Windows.)

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If I had less limited money, I'd be looking at a dual socket Epyc system with 64 cores total. As it is, I'll stick to my combination of a Ryzen 7 1700 and a Opteron 6176x2 24 core system. The latter is old, but it's not bad for compiling. Probably not as fast as an 18 core modern system though, as it just barely beats out my current 8 core modern system for highly parallel workloads.

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[quote who="hellknight55" reply="20" id="3688745"] 3.) Ostracize [/quote] I recently changed my default search engine to DuckDuckGo this week, and 3 years ago I moved my email domain off gmail. The email domain wasn't because of what they're doing now, but rather because of Google Reader, and what that told me about the company's priorities. I decided I didn't want to keep all my eggs in the Google basket, and I wanted to have my email in a place where I'

Reply to Economic Singularity: The Gods and the Useless in Life, the Universe and Everything LittleTinyFrogs Forums

[quote who="Gabberkooij" reply="44" id="3651145"] Quoting Kazriko, reply 19 It's not going to be a blood in the streets, lets kill all the useless people or let them starve sort of thing. But is what is now happening in the big cities with the black lives matter not a prelude on this? A lo

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[quote who="Philocthetes" reply="38" id="3650875"] Quoting Kazriko, reply 34 Aside from that though, the old adage in business is that if the business isn't growing, it's dying... In the long run, sometimes conventional wisdom turns out to be very wrong. For example, this old saw could also

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[quote who="zuPloed" reply="32" id="3650430"] Ok, so automation increases productivity per employee. Which means you can use your experienced employees to expand. So far so good. But what I can't wrap my head around is: Why is expansion allways favorable? To take the example of super markets, at some point you have good coverage, so everyone has one nearby. How do you profit from expanding then? Amazon could have more distribution centers a

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[quote who="zuPloed" reply="24" id="3650293"] Quoting Kazriko, reply 23 Note the larger lump towards the top of that graph, from the 50 to 67 range. [...] Just eye-balling it, that looks like about 30% of the workforce, which is in the 25-50% range you were highlighting Good. Now eye-ball th

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[quote who="zuPloed" reply="22" id="3650288"] Quoting Kazriko, reply 21 The point of a basic income isn't to make someone comfortable, but to allow them to survive and make it attractive for them to still try and find work. It does the latter by being barely enough for survival, but also by not disappearing if they do

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[quote who="zuPloed" reply="20" id="3650282"] Quoting Kazriko, reply 18 I don't mean a minimum wage, I'm talking about the universal basic income. Minimum wage causes problems by making labor more expensive which drives people towards automation for jobs that aren't worth the minimum wage. I t

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The real big question to ask about this is what the net effect will be on the population, and how it will be affected. Personally, I think they would try to find a way to set it up so that the decrease in the necessity of humans matches the natural decrease in the population due to affluence. In the developed world we're already running into the problem of aging populations and a decreasing workforce because our people are prosperous enough that they don't feel like having many childr

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[quote who="JcRabbit" reply="9" id="3650191"] We have a minimum wage here in Portugal. Doesn't really help having one if it's 500 Euros (about $560) *per month*. You can't live on that, you merely scrap by (well, at least you *might* not starve to death). And even though it's pretty obvious how ridiculous this amount is, the EU is totally against the Portuguese government raising it any further. [/quote] I don't mean a minimum wage, I&#3

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Freefall, such a good comic. :) But yes, the revolution and the basic minimum income isn't a guarantee. But one thing to remember with prior changes in employment, such as the one from agriculture to textiles. The improvements in agriculture were not what lead to the textiles, but rather the sudden availability of cheap labor that was underutilized. Here, the minimum wage is o

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Honestly, what you've laid out there is precisely the only reason that I keep thinking we need to try a minimum basic income. I'm not sold on the idea really, but it may be the least bureaucratic way to transition to the automation future.

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Yep, on the GalCiv site the reCAPTCHA is showing "ERROR for site owner: Invalid domain for site key"

Reply to First World Problems: August 2016 in Everything Else LittleTinyFrogs Forums

#2: Yeah. Do the 3rd party monsters still count as monsters? :) #4: But... But.... but... someone could be dumb enough to eat not just 1, but TWO metal balls! We have to single-handedly prevent evolution from happening in the human species! #6: I think we're going to need a bigger office. #7: Can you make it federated so that anyone can stand up their own server, and yet anyone can read content from any other server? Personally, I'm trying to herd all the peopl

Reply to I hate forum editors in Personal Computing LittleTinyFrogs Forums

[quote who="scifi1950" reply="2" id="3628157"] That would certainly annoy the heck out of me. Couldn't you just write a big article off-line & then copy & paste when done? [e digicons]8C[/e] [/quote] I often start writing something small myself, then it grows to be huge before I realize it, then I accidentally hit ctrl-w or alt-left-arrow and it goes away...

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Yes, yes I do. That's something to be improved on. Kind of like how most email clients these days save drafts as you type. That could be really good functionality for the forums. Of course, then the same problem still happens everywhere else on the internet, youtube, disqus...

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There's no cards with 3 display ports for AMD? Man, I remember when their claim to fame was that they had a card with 6 mini-DP ports. Eyefinity edition card I think? Actually, I did a quick search on Newegg and found 5 R9-390/x cards that have 3 display ports (along with 1 HDMI and 1 DVI)

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I certainly used the wheel myself in the game, but I'm sure the game will be better without it! The reasoning is solid as well. I am glad you are including the option to turn it on. That's entirely too nice of you. I tend to be a very research-oriented player myself. I oriented the entire civilization towards research with a few planets tweaked towards manufacturing or capital. I'd produce small ships on most planets and big ships at the manufacturing focused ones. T

Reply to The Steam AMA thread discussion in Galactic Civilizations III LittleTinyFrogs Forums

Humans NOR AI, like it when people go through their territory. When an AI builds in your territory, it is annoying. When it flies fleets or colony ships, it's annoying. It annoys the player and the AI. One thing that annoyed me about the AI was that I had a pre-existing mining starbase, and many turns later the AI colonized a planet nearby, and started complaining about my starbase. I wish it would take into account if the starbase e

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[quote who="Starchaser12" reply="15" id="3564574"] 4. With the habitat improvement/etc interface it would be lovely to have a way of distinguishing the tiles that only habitat improvement or above can do from the ones that the ultra-terraformer can do later. I currently often wait to use habitat improvement and the like until I've researched ultra-terraformer so that I don't waste potential tiles on the planet. I do ultra-terraformer on every tile that I can do

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1. On the constructor spam thing, I'd like to be able to select what constructors are built by the automated constructor system, as well as specifying when you request the constructor what you want to build with it, that way it will arrive and build automatically without requiring your attention. I don't care too much how the interface is for that, but some way of queuing up starbase improvements or even having starbase governors, ala GalCiv1's colony governors, would be nice. It