It’s still on and will close at the end of the month. But yes I’m very annoyed that they didn’t share much of the instance outside a small notification on the admin.ch website. But the goal of this whole pilot test is that if Mastodon became big within the year, they would already have an instance running with officials accounts. But instead I guess they will focus on Bluesky.

Missed the opportunity to put a golden watch on that picture.

For the mods at least, the dev interview at PAX clearly had a moment when one guy said "the possibilities of combination with civilizations switching is going to be higher, especially with the modding community adding custom civs.

But since they said a huge part of the playerbase is console, I’m guessing mods won’t be using the steam workshop but the launcher so that consoles can have mods…

As for Linux support yeah I would like to hope, maybe the stats of Civ6 on the steamdeck could push them to make it compatible but if they have denuvo I doubt it…

The USSR (then Russia) did this in the 90s, first prototype was a 20m wide reflector. Second prototype failed and then interest and money went away. Originally it was meant to also test solar sails feasibility.

If you have Nebula, Mustard did a 10mn documentary on it.

Project Znamya on Wikipedia

Also noted :

• Navigable rivers
• terrain has cliffs
• armies seems to be condensed, with generals leading them. Fighting looks to be constant in some way? (or that’s just the render for the trailer)
• cities seem to expand much more
• the leaders looks to have some stats which can be improved

I still enjoy a game of Planetary Annihilation every other time, might not float your boat if you’re looking for a much more classic RTS. But smashing moons to the enemy’s base has never felt so awesome.

Can they add an option to show roads with more twist for us riding a motorbike? I’d love to road trip without having to look too closely at the map for nice roads.

Switzerland does have a mandatory service for all men, and doesn’t have belligerent neighbours… But the Swiss army is still very much stuck in the cold war mindset of being afraid of an invasion. Last time there was a vote, the people refused to abolish the militia system.

Tbh I don’t think military service is a problem as long as it’s only used for defence and is properly setup, instead of have nutjobs running the small professional army and wanting war because they trained their whole life for it…

Damn, this looks pretty fun actually.

For those that didn’t see it, Switzerland has a pearl in their movie industry called “Mad Heidi”, if you enjoyed Iron Sky it’s very much the same type.

Wait that’s not an April’s fool joke?

I thought this was going be a more technical oriented video about what I’d sound like with the performance of the sound chip and the speaker, and the cartridge memory size limitation, bit sad it isn’t :(

Yup looking at the components around and the layout, it does look like a quartz crystal, especially considering it’s right next to the microcontroller, and the 2 beige components above are the matching capacitors.

But yeah I’ve never seen a package with an open window. Maybe it’s an ultra high precision that has been tuned with lasers (usually done for patch antennas).