/int/ - certified time wasters

Upgraded my central hub a little, built storage with spare gear should an incursion into biter territory go wrong and added ammo production for rockets and mortar shells.

The former are needed for rocket half tracks that add much needed range to my mobile raiding parties, the latter gives stationary defenses very high range at mediocre damage but okay ammo efficiency.

Then I decided that edges of the new wall will incorporate laser turrets instead of flamers, setting them up was rather easy as I was able to leech products of a neighboring mall lane.
The factory needs more iron and there's a great patch perfect for testing reasons of the new wall system.
Also going to illegally download a chunk-based railway system blueprint book, as I could probably waste hours designing all intersections myself, just to have mostly the same tried and tested design anyway.

>>23859
It's sitting in the dark, untouched corners of my backlog for ages after some Bernd gifted it as thanks for the second copy that came with Risk of Rain 2 for some time.
Is it an adventure like Zelda with item based progression?

>>23867
I can't even remember what exactly Bastion was. Basically you run through a world that is rebuilding itself, but I can't remember if it had an item progression or anything.

Hopping in a command vehicle in person to throw down with them biters is still the most fun and efficient.
Explosions, bursting sacks of flesh and huge bugs everywhere, what a nice place.
AI half-tracks and tanks even come with a good inventory grid, so they may be fitted with repair packs and roboports for repair or light shielding.

Now with a more dedicated security layering the game gives me real Tiberian Sun feels.
And thank Buddha for finally setting up a robot network, having walls replaced automatically is a godsend.

With all that I finally also managed to connect some fat ore patches via multiple lines, set up some electric smelting and even bauxite was explored, so despite ammo production and the mall drawing bigly on resources, up to purple science can be done mostly fluently now.

At times I still have to haul a load of wood from the northern sawmills to the bio science plants because I never set up a line and the other input is biter parts which I handfeed anyway.

Turns out biters really hate it when you shell their homes.
But as long as they are out of the polution cloud, we always come to an equilibrium.
And an eviction team takes care of those that are definitely violating the law of factory expansion.

It's just beautiful to see them bots do their job after painting a large stretch of concrete paving
The game takes a 180 after getting them lil' critters.

Tech is a predominantly white predominantly male field, and many of the white men are also libertarians or capitalists. It's particularly bad in software development. I think only emotionally stunted immature people with power fantasies are even interested in software development, and only massive shitlords are able to use the programming language, which was invented by racist sexist men in the 1950s. This is why all software reproduces racism and sexism, and it is why it can be only be useful in capitalism. It also pushes the frail fee-fees of emotionally immature white men on wymyn and pocs, who are forced to do the emotional labor for white men who wrote the software. Many of these shitlords are so disturbed, it isn't enough for them to force their personal trauma on others by using software as a vehicle, they are violent psychopaths, who sooner or later seek other forms of harming wymyn and minorities.

Famous programmer Hans Reiser committed femicide. The software program he created is called ReiserFS. It doesn't occur to the other shitlords to change the name. They don't care how triggering it is for wymyn to use the software program of this murderer that even carries his name.

Sexist shitlord Ian Murdock appropriated the first syllable of his then partner's name for his software program Debian. He literally stole their name! Do you think he and the other shitlords ever changed the name after the relationship ended? They still call it Debian! Also, he is an insane racist who attacked his non-white neighbours and called them slurs, and he even was arrested. Do you think that would be a reason for the other white shitlords to change the name of the software program, so it isn't any longer names after a sexist and racist? Certainly not! That's because they are shitlords!

Insane maniac John MVaffee created a software program named after himself, then ran an murdered someone in Latin America and ran a drug lab. You can still buy the software program names after John McAfee.

The shitlords all name the software programs they produce after themselves, they see it as an extension of their selves. This is why software is dripping with racism and sexism and can hardly be used by women and pocs! It's a natural result of software being created by bigoted white men!

rember guys, don't feed the schizo

>>23893
A is virtue ethics.
B is dialectical materialism
And C is just retardation.

>>23895
Conversely you can say A gives that greatest benefit to all because they can make music and thus spiritually enrich the life of all the others.

Politics for me runs on vibes.
It's usually a good representation about how they'll act in office. Party platform and ideology literally don't matter - competency can make just about any system work.

>>23943
The changes that address the problems of the situation and liabilities of the current system are vastly more important then what the new system is or it claims to be.
If you are able to correctly assess the current moment, capitalize on a historical opportunity, and execute it effectively, then you are a good leader in my books.

These are my favorite leaders/politicians based on this criteria:
Hjalmar Schacht, Emperor Meiji, Lee Kuan Yew, Mahatma Gandhi, Deng Xiaoping, Henry Kissinger, George Marshall.

>>23945
Kissinger is debatable.

>>23945
Although giving favorite politicians like this is a bit retarded.

> Let's look at the history of post-war Albania. In 1944, the communists came to power there. At first, Albania became a satellite of Yugoslavia, and there was talk of joining the SFRY as another federal republic. However, in 1948, local leader Enver Hoxha did a political somersault and reoriented himself toward the USSR, declaring his former overlord enemy No. 1.
> In general, this is normal. In the early 60s, Albania, however, declared the Soviet Union the flagship of revisionism, broke off diplomatic relations with Moscow and became a Chinese puppet. Okay. This is already exotic, but still possible. But in 1978, a "Chinese conspiracy" was uncovered in Albania, relations with Beijing were reduced to zero, and in 1981, right at the plenum of the Central Committee, the second person in the party, Mehmet Shehu, committed suicide by shooting himself in the back of the head, and he was declared an American-Soviet-Chinese spy.

The hoxhism was unusual even compared to other socialist regimes:
> 1) The only country in the world where practicing any religion is officially prohibited
> 2) On a tiny territory, 700,000 bunkers with machine gun nests were built (one for EVERY FAMILY). The bunkers covered the whole of Albania, from each one you could see several neighboring ones, often they were connected by underground passages.
> 3) Around EVERY HOUSE in the countryside, long poles were installed for impaling paratroopers.
> 4) Albania for two decades was the only satellite of Maoist China (while being located in Europe and bordering Yugoslavia, Greece and, across the sea, Italy).

Photos of bunkers:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunkers_in_Albania

>>23909
Hoxhaists were a significant political force between '74 and '76. Out of all the countries to look to, a not insignificant amount of people looked to Albania.

>>23911
*in Portugal

>>23911
It's not a phase, mom!

>>23745
>I've never heard about tourism there

It became a tourist destination during the last years and is on it's best way to become a sort of Croatia after that one got too expensive for Western Europeans. Cheap, sea, mountains, sun.

The idea is thus hardly controversial anymore.

>>21043
I had a dream where there was a cave, and the entrance to which looked more like ordinary doors to rooms; there were spiders, someone's poems, a table made of stone and food in clay pots, everything was lit by kerosene lamps, and you had to get to the cave using an old tram, which had no windows and grass grew out of the ground, but the weather was good and the tram ran as usual

>>23879
Even if it was a recognized popular tourist destination, the idea is still controversial. Why should my mom tell me where to go on vacation? In dream it was assumed that me and gf (without mom) should go to Albania, spending our (not mom's) money.

>>23877
Thanks for the link, I've read it with auto-translation.

>>23879
The entire fucking world is now a tourist destination. Can we please lock all the Americans, Russians, Chinese, Brits and Germans (except for me) in their own respective countries?

>Will my art be scraped by AI bots?
Absolutely.
if you say so!

Just noticed during the whataboutism discussion, that if you take out the "bo", we could combine German autism and whataboutism to coin the term "German whatautism".

>>23824
What about :-) Gertismus, GERtismus, GERtism, Gerdtismus, Gerd-tism, Gerdtism?

>>23826
I like gertism, sounds crisp, but it feels like the "what" and the "autism"-part have been lost on the way. Maybe we can take gertism for something else?

I*t should be illegal, fatistan

Holy Christ it's been so long since I been back to me own cultire. I forgot how hard I jated all the othjer fucking USA Americans.God I hate you all. No idgaf whonyall voted for. You're all dumb cunts words couldnt evene describe what I justseen in walmart over the fucking pandmeic, holy christ.

sorry i took today off an am hella drunk si fuck word eduting

>>23852
Once.

>>23697
You drew that? Pretty nice. Reminds me that we used to have a drawing/art thread years ago. Not that I could contribute anything, but that was a nice thread.

>>23699
yeah that was me who drew it, thanks!
>art thread
can we have another one? according to banners i saw a talanted artists who contributed to EC, so maybe we can find more hidden gems :D

>>23711
>art thread
Somebody should make one. I would happily post low effort Ernstwurfs. My bread and butter. Brick usually did the OP with reference links and such, which I am too lazy to replicate. Also, I know I have a bigger version of this pic somewhere. My files are a mess.

>>23733
>Also, I know I have a bigger version of this pic somewhere. My files are a mess.
I got you, mate.