Annoyingly buggy. Played for about two hours before the game stopped accepting input (it wasn't hung, just not accepting any input at all). Guess I'll be starting over again from scratch, this time with auto-save turned on. And I really miss time units. And incremental movement. And larger squads. Yes, I'm a grumpy old man. Get off my lawn.
Ouch. That's not good for anyone.
I really like my Nexus 7, so I'll endorse that option.
I went with 3/3/2. Essence is invaluable under the current mechanics, and you need to grab land as quickly as possible, which means building Pioneers, which means materials.
That's fine, since they're making that decision for themselves. It's their choice, and it's not at a genetic level so it doesn't affect any children they may subsequently have. What worries me more is people making those choices for their not-yet-existent children, at a genetic level.
I really like my Nexus 7. Same size and price as the Kindle, but no ads! Screw you, Amazon!
Sure, I guess I'm just pessimistic that humans will be able to resist the urge to use such technological capabilities on much more frivolous or bizarre stuff. "I want my child to have dimples!" "I want my child to have freakishly long arms so he can be an Olympic swimmer and make me rich!"
Ow, my eyes!
I prefer the old one, it gets me nostalgic for playing Ultima IV on my Apple II. I kid, I kid! The new one looks much better.
I've refrained from commenting on this subject so far, and will continue to do so, as it's the court's job to deal with it, not mine. I enjoy living in a society where disputes are settled by courts (as imperfect as they are) and not by lynch mobs and posses. However, what I do find fascinating is the escalating viciousness with which third-party observers are tearing into each other over this (not even into the people involved in the case, but into other th
Clearly they've decided to scrap the entire original design of FE and turn it into a Dwarf Fortress clone. I look forward to many hours of harvesting wood to build tables.
You can actually rephrase it in a much more immediate way. The cures you mention are likely quite a way off, but there's something looming much more immediately. If we pinpoint which genes are responsible for everything from cancer to near-sightedness, it then becomes possible for couples to custom build their offspring, and never need cures for those problems in the first place. But should we? If you think having humans consciously designing organisms (in this c
Oh, my comments weren't meant to address the issue of what we should actively do going forward. I am fundamentally opposed to anything like China's One Child Policy, let alone any sort of Logan's Run scenario of mandated death! I hope that goes without saying... Similarly, yes, human ingenuity may very well eventually allow us to be effectively immortal without dire consequences. My comments were merely meant to address whether or not death is a biologica
[quote who="SpardaSon21" reply="23" id="3223801"] Quoting Cauldyth, reply 18Plus, we all have built-in expiration dates. Human beings, like all organisms, are designed to die. Death is not a bug, it's a feature. Death by old age is definitely a bug. The sooner science removes that from our code, the better.[/quote] I assure you it's not. Immortality for members of a species means the doom of that species. There is an upper limit to the popu
Plus, we all have built-in expiration dates. Human beings, like all organisms, are designed to die. Death is not a bug, it's a feature. :)
Also, in all likelihood, there will be no cure for cancer. The best we can hope for is a cure for colon cancer, a cure for breast cancer, a cure for pancreatic cancer, etc. What I mean is that each type of cancer is different from the others in how it operates, and it's highly unlikely there will be a magic bullet that treats all of them. Each form of cancer will need to be studied and addressed separately. To make matters worse, cancer is a living thing, and lik
As someone who works in the field, I'm not sure I'd claim that this is the breakthrough that finally unlocks the answers to the big problems in medicine. It is an important breakthrough along the path to unlocking those answers. comparable to many of the breakthroughs that have preceded it, and to the breakthroughs we still need to make. Yes, this is an important discovery, but as Nasarog points out, this is not some recent revelation. There has been mounting evide
Dungeonz gud!
Sort of, yeah. I should emphasize that what I did here is not something novel or difficult. VNC technology has been around for many, many years. This is just a demo of what it can do, and I just used pre-canned solutions. It took no technical expertise to set up, this is all consumer-level software. Install software on desktop Install software on tablet Create account Log into account on both devices Done<
Keyboards are a wonderful thing, as are UIs where I can see 10 different apps at once. Tablets have their place, but I don't want to live in a world where desktops are extinct. Fortunately, technical applications and business environments alone will ensure that desktops have a long life ahead of them.
Hah, yeah, I won't be posting any graphical glitch bug reports from that setup. I think Stardock would promptly ignore them. ;)
Ta da! Fallen Enchantress on a Google Nexus 7! Okay, okay, it's not actually running on the Nexus 7. It's running on my Windows 7 desktop, which I'm then using from the tablet via a VNC-type application. Fortunately, Android actually has support for mice, so all I had to do is pair a bluetooth mouse with it (seen on the right), and a mous
Ahhh, thanks Kongdej!
Should be "murmurs". :)
[quote who="GFireflyE" reply="24" id="3218193"] The more I play, the more I also dislike the unique abilities the factions seem to have. Paridan's Scrying Pools: Every faction should have these. Other factions should simply be getting them later and with less benefit than Paradin. Magnar's Population: Every faction should gain some population for humanoid captures. Magnar should just gain more. Gilden: Every faction already gets some special equip