I really wanted this game to be better, and I still enjoyed it, but I found it to be so slow it just stopped being fun after a while, especially since it does seem to want you to play multiple shorter games. So much of the tedium in this game could have been automated but instead it's just a ton of micromanagement. Like, why can't your little drones just transfer from one controller to another automatically when the areas overlap, so that building multiple controllers just makes the overall controlled area bigger instead of creating discrete bubbles? It makes no sense except to increase boring micromanagement. Combined with the general obtuseness of the interface and reliance on slooow systems like waiting for research or materials to gradually stockpile and it just feels like it takes forever to get anything done, especially with that ten day waiting period that hits right as soon as you're ready to start expanding with colonists.
Not being able to have colonists travel between domes and forcing you to build small pipe/power resource networks is also I think the worst decision. It would have been so much more satisfying to be able to build tunnels or trains between domes so that colonists could travel freely to get what they needed. You'd still want to build bigger domes so you can have a big city center to provided services, but it'd let you focus the smaller domes more tightly on one thing if they didn't all need their own clinic/park/bar, and given the feeling of building more of a real city that needs to be managed as a whole than a series of discrete, continually needy outposts.
Man, talk about an absurdly spacious sewer. The crawlspace between the walls is wider than the actual cells they were in! Even for a game this is a pretty egregious example.
It sure isn't. Never tried square-space or one of the apparently two competing podcast mattress companies, and I'm already too good at cooking to care about blue apron, but I can say for sure that the audiobook of ready player one had me switching to something else in less than ten minutes.
Why didn't they do this from the studio, I wonder? Too late in the day?
yeah plus probably too much work to set up all the cameras and mics and stuff for a half hour video that pretty much boiled down to "every indy game is still coming to the switch, plus here's this truly haunted looking pikachu game, mario tennis, and a ten second smash bros teaser"
That was a good "would you rather" email. At first I thought, "I could go a week without electricity. I could charge up some battery packs beforehand, catch up on podcasts, read some books and magazines, get news and music on my emergency radio, maybe even go outside!" But then I realized that would also mean no electric lights, refrigerator, microwave, and very limited internet if I don't want to go over my data plan. And no heating/AC would suck too unless you live in a place with perfect weather.
One week without running water probably wouldn't be too bad if you could still use stream/well water. Just stock up on bottled water or buy some filters for drinking, sponge bathe instead of shower, and manually fill the toilet tank every time after flushing.
Brad's the only GBwester who knows what's up
After like nine goddamn hurricanes I can tell you that a week without power is a hot sticky obnoxiously boring time, where you'll read books for nine hours a day and go for a walk every forty minutes because maybe you'll see bucket trucks working to fix shit
But week without water is a goddamn nightmare where you wait at the red cross for two hours every day to get your bottled rations so you can take a dump and make dinner from the same bottle without having to get a shovel and bury your shame in the back yard. Like, precooked, food that can be heated on a camp stove sucks, but it's still better than living in any country where not everyone can vote. Getting a rash on the inside of your thigh because you've been using wet-naps instead of showering is a whole other story.
Obviously if you have a well or a nice fresh stream you can bathe in and drink out of with a little boiling then the whole question is pointless. It's also equally pointless if you have your own solar farm or coal plant.
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