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Rumbled my way through the tutorial and post-tutorial squishing of the cats. Faintly impressed by what I've seen -- most things are very smooth, automation and whatnot is pleasing, etc., so forth, so on. Definitely feels like there's work still ahead, but what's there is quite well done.

Various thoughts:
-Enemy AI that's fleeing a space battle should probably be running away from enemy forces instead of toward them, ha. Looks like they just head toward the top right-ish of the battle map, but that tends to be directly toward hostile forces and that seems... a little silly.

-Economic plans that just won't work (like scientific on an exhausted planet, ferex) should probably be greyed out or somethin'.

-Realize it's probably for future builds, but I definitely missed "civilian", so to speak, research. Lots of shooty stuff, but very little in the way of improving the lives of my people, heh. Improved research/industry/etc. research would be nice... probably stuff for improving population limits, health (for whenever/if random events get in, resistance to plague or whatev'), stuff like that. High-end research enabling things like transhumanism/roboticization (population starts eating part metal instead of only food, with potential bonuses to research/industry/ground combat), planet construction. I've always preferred the sort of kingdom building aspect (building a small group to great heights, as opposed to empire building by way of conquering everything) to 4x games over the overt steamroll errytin' with dakka part. More stuff like the orbital research/factory things, basically. Terraforming would be wonderful, heh.

Of course, that sort of thing might not be intended for how the game is being planned out, and that's definitely okay. S'just something I personally enjoy seeing.

Which is surprising, since she is far from a trained hunter.

The thing that some people seem to forget, sometimes, is that there is no such thing as a cat that isn't a psychotic murderbeast. Even the ones that are declawed are fairly capable of killing things. Seriously, they're basically hardwired killers, one and all. They don't need training, they just need functioning lungs.

There are soo many games but they are almost all terrible!

There we go. Statement made accurate. Don't think I've noticed art games being particularly prolific or notably outside the curve in regards to the junk:playable ratio. Maybe they're just easier to notice?

Is madoka. Seems pretty accurate, to me.

I have no idea why, but snake crossdresses impeccably. There's something disturbingly enthralling about the MGs snakes in a skirt.

Yeah... don't have the latest expansion, but otherwise good to show. Been out of the cycle of mind-numbing pain and brain-addling medication for a few days now, which is quite nice.

As always, the first thing you do when playing online multiplayer with people you're not somewhat familiar with is to immediately mute everyone else playing. Always. Every game. You're there for smarter bots, not interaction with the dregs of humanity.

I can also reliably inform you that electrical fencing also isn't terribly expensive and, if you're careful, can be re-purposed to keep jackhats from sticking their hands where they shouldn't be. That's going a bit far, though.

Just... keep head down, heart up, do what you need to until you can get out, and then disown the buggers and move to the other side of the country. Best plan.

Though somewhat tangential to the discussion, I guess.

Yes, thank you dream brain. Pokemon's Together Forever is the proper soundtrack to electrocuting dozens of people to death with a fuckoff huge lightning cannon.

Pretty sure there's even a few that remain unlocked, heh.