“Grinches could be there!” Santa thought to himself as he fired a third barrage. “There could be Grinches anywhere.” The warm sulfur breeze felt good on his chest. “With a shotgun..." he said to himself, "...you can feel safe out loud.”

 

 

wtf

Should I move to bernd.group or catchan.pk?

Me on a vaction

I JUST LOVE IT SO MUCH

RING DINGA DING DONG DING I'M BASICALLY CHINESE

In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony god's blessing. But because, I am enlightened by my intelligence.

I've been playing a lot of city builders this year, the double A kind of city builders. I will write about a couple of them itt:

 

Farthest Frontier - It was fun, but desperately needs more content. Cozy,. not too hard, micro'ing your soldiers was funny. After my first playthrough I feel like I need to wait a year or more for more content to be added, no pull from this one but it seems to be promising. Your classic open sandbox neverending city builder that doesn't really have that much sim element to it.

 

Against the Storm - Absolutely charming graphic design, reminds me of a more tame version of warcraft 3 on steroids. The basic gameplay loop is as follows: You build a smol city from a pool of random buildings you get, you complete the random objective, go back to your hub, spend victor points on flat upgrades or new buildings for the random buildings pool, rinse and repeat. It's kind of weird, it feels too basic to me, it seems as if the whole crutch of the game is figuring out which mixture of buildings to select from the random pool, most buildings can create 3 things, and you just have to figure out what you're missing and what works best for the objective you got. Every draw you get to choose one building from 3 random ones. I've completed 5 cities but it didn't scratch my itch. I want to build big cities, the game feels somewhat like a Sudoku, cities are not self-reliant but are only needed for you to complete the goal as fast as you can.

 

Surviving the Aftermath - Paradox apocalyptic city builder, that one was fun. It kept me occupied for a week or so, classic city builder with a spin. You get heroes, send them on expedition on global map where they walk on tiles and gather resources or find other villages you can trade with. Very solid and fun. The world map get's cleared quite quickly though and there's just not that much to do in end-game except growing and growing. In my opinion the game has exactly the same issues as Farthest Frontier has, but at least it has the global map element which makes it a bit more interesting.

 

Ixion - Now this game is the reason why I wanted to start this thread, it's a very good looking city builder where you're basically building up humanity's "Noah's Ark" in space with which you can travel around galaxies. You either fly through the galaxy to complete the main quest and any side objectives, and once you're done you jump to another galaxy. It's very fun and annoying at once, you unlock next sectors as you grow and the sectors are like different districts, you need to create flows of resources between sectors to make sure everyone is getting everything because workers from sector 1 won't be able to automatically go to a stockpile in sector 2. You can either accomplish this by setting up required industries in sectors or having your stockpiles limited to a certain number and exporting any resources above that number to others in need, which if not set properly and with fluctuating income creates A LOT of micromanaging. The game is heavily narrated and the story keeps pushing you forward, as you travel through next galaxies you run into remnants of others who made the same journey as you travel through stars to unravel what actually happened and if there's anyone else out there alive except you. A LOT of micromanaging mid-game if you don't set up your sectors right, it seems I digged myself a hole by maxxing out every galaxy before continuing and I'm waaaay too overpopulated and barely able to sustain myself and I'm only about to leave the 3rd galaxy ;_; (you can't go back once you make the jump). The game is great and has the perfect depth for me, not too autistic like let's say Factorio (which is great btw) but also retains all the elements of a proper story-telling driven progression (unlike open-ended farthest frontier or rouge-like against the storm). I recommend, it's great.

tfw no wf (whale fren)

My only purpose in life is being an alcoholic retard cautionary tale to my nieces/nephews

 

I'm just a burden/warning to future generations and nothing more

Henlo bernds,

 

I recently landed a job over in North-Karelia, so I decided to visit one of my favourite place in Finland — Outokumpu. Outokumpu used to be called Kuusjärvi, but changed it name as the mining company Outokumpu became an integral part of the town's identity and townscape. The town literally grew around the mine over the years and as Outokumpu's mine was one of the longest lived mines in Finland the change was irreversable. The town centre is literally just 300 meters from the centre of the mine.

 

The mine lasted from 1913 to 1989, and because of that early date the envier omental protection and disposal of hazardous waste was to put it lightly neglected, but you know the war and eventual denbts had to be paid somehow...

 

The hazardous waste was dumbed to a place where a pond called Outolampi was located. After years and years of dumping hazardous waste mostly compromised of waste products from copper production such as ground up rocks, sulphuric acid, asbestos and unneeded metals accumulated to ground and polluted the groundwater. Outolampi was lost beneath all that crap. People thankfully understood what a problem a huge such a pile of waste was and "cleaned" it up. Outolampi was once again freed, but irreversibly changed from this process.

 

The pH of the lake is somewhere around 1-2, as in the summer it loses water and becomes more acidic. On the plus side, the pond water is great at conducting electricity, as the sulphuric acid has released all the harmful metals in the water. You can see the great colour from Google Maps. The pond releases a great rotten egg stench in the summer, but in the winter it is calm and not even that horrific to look at. Only with a strong flashlight and clear ice, you can see what horrid water lurks beneath you. I visited the lake at a prime time as there was no snow and a freezing weather that had formed small "frost flowers" on the ice. To you guys, this might seem like a banal thing to show, but I fucking love this little pond. Locals even call it sumppi (ie. coffee) for it's dark and mysterious colour. Trees around the lake are dead, but the small island on the lake has some majestic birches on it.

 

I would write more about this amazing pond, but my sauna is ready :3

I feel so much fucking rage.

 

I lose at all games, played some iOS golf multiplayer game on iPad, lose against fucking zoomers, trannies, little kids and whoever fucking normalfaggots play this game.

Another fascist removed from power. Now eating KFC in Florida.

Why even live when you know you can never drive this Italian prowess?

Good morning, Bernds. Wörk starts at 11:00 today. Have a nice day.