They actually moved some of the base game content from the starting planet to other planets with the DLC. And you can transport things between planets to kick start your factory, so each new planet should take significantly less time than the starting planet. So it’s not really as long as playing through the whole base game then 4x more.

Still takes longer to beat but not like 5x. Closer to 2x for most people I think. Don’t be afraid. The interplanetary factory must grow.

Freighters aren’t difficult to get now…

You gotta assume paradox is fully capable of breaking your game saves without mods involved though!

This actually kinda exists, but appears to be implemented in Chrome on Windows only (sigh), and I’m not sure anyone uses it:

https://github.com/WICG/isolated-web-apps/

From the conclusion of the UN report you linked:

Serious human rights violations have been committed in XUAR in the context of the Government’s application of counter-terrorism and counter-“extremism” strategies. The implementation of these strategies, and associated policies in XUAR has led to interlocking patterns of severe and undue restrictions on a wide range of human rights. These patterns of restrictions are characterized by a discriminatory component, as the underlying acts often directly or indirectly affect Uyghur and other predominantly Muslim communities.

But this is all just whataboutism anyway. We can be against human rights violations regardless of who is doing it and whether they condemn each other.

Tip: you can use the WhatsApp web site for text messaging (I don’t think it works for audio/video?) and if you want to use it in a standalone window you can “install” it as a web app (in most browsers). It’ll use way less RAM running in your existing browser than running a separate electron instance.

No, catios are pretty common in Australia, but a lot of people do just let their cats roam outside too (at least here in NSW). I’m not sure why this was news, maybe because it’s quite elaborate, or they just needed more cute cat content.

Generally agree, but your idea that native games are safer than websites is backwards. Browsers are basically hardened sandboxes for running untrusted code. Even though steam does a good job of detecting and taking down malware it’s still downloading executables that run with full access to your system (unless you run steam in a sandbox of some kind). Playing games in a browser is no less safe than loading any other website.

And TIIIIIIIIIIME…

Well, there’s a “no tip” button that is always there, and it’s entirely reasonable to press here in Australia

I wish this was real. I would 100% press this button every time.

Wow, you hated Gleba so much you went back in time a year to stop playing factory games?! (Space Age came out just under a year ago)

I loved Gleba because it makes you rethink how you build a factory to avoid stockpiling and storage and instead keep everything moving. If you’re struggling with it you can also just use bots a lot and it works pretty well. If you’re struggling with the enemies you just need to defend your pollution cloud and they basically don’t attack at all.

Because then logically extending this you end up with JavaScript, where “1”==1 and it’s super hard to reason about what will/should happen

Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands is a Borderlands spinoff shooter/RPG that’s co-op and happens to be free to claim on Epic games store this week. I haven’t played it yet but really enjoyed the Tiny Tina DLC for Borderlands 2.

FAF is Forged Alliance Forever, a community launcher/patcher for Supreme Commander Forged Alliance (the expansion). It has an active community and adds a multiplayer ladder, balance fixes, quality of life improvements, co-op versions of campaign missions, and more. It’s great!

It’s ok the BG3 patch isn’t out until next year. You’ve got at least a month to finish Factorio. You can do it if you use all that time you normally waste on non-Factorio things like sleeping!

Non-spoiler tip: you can alt+click just about anything in Factorio 2.0 and get more info on it. Good luck escaping Vulcanus!

they might have changed a little more than his tie colour. Here’s a side by side picture from an interview:

Yep, very little of the main page is links anymore.

The article actually does make an interesting argument that the web is becoming a legacy format in favour of generative AI and social media interaction, and takes this as an example of that trend.

Clickbait headline. What Google did was add a new tab for web results (only) in their search page, similar to images and news.

I do find it interesting/funny that Google felt the need to actually provide this, as a sort of acknowledgement that their main search “results” page is so full of random info boxes and generated content that people can’t find actual links anymore.