Sundar @digital_carver@social.cleverlibre.org

@theautisticcoach
Summer.
Indian summers get pretty hot, but I still prefer that to the (not even very cold) winters!
I find the sun invigorating, and I'm lucky enough to live in city where the divine combination - a refreshingly hot sun above, and a cool gentle wind blowing from the side - happens pretty often in summer.

@wolfechu

Yeah, even one of the in-game dialogues mentions that the story generated is the important part of the game, and so to not try to make the perfect characters. I guess people are just used to minmaxing in games, and it's hard to switch to this mode of thinking.

I think of it like Dungeons and Dragons - munchkining is fun in short bursts, but when you let the characters feel the story as it happens, and respond in at least believably realistic ways, you get a more complete and satisfying experience.

#Rimworld #DnD

@ladyteruki
That's an interesting idea, I'll definitely try it out especially for the building part of it. The bases I build always feel somewhat slapdash and unsatisfying to me. Having the set of characters be fixed will let me actually focus on the building side of things and figure out what feels right.

#DwarfFortress #Rimworld

Tbh, my main issue with Rimworld is that most of the visible community - i.e. people who post on reddit, youtube, etc. - seem to be focused on optimizing the heck out of everything, treating it like a 4X game or an RTS.

The Dwarf Fortress community seems a lot more open to the story-generator aspect of the game, letting the game lead them in all the weird and wonderful directions it decides to take.

#Rimworld #SimulationGames

Rimworld is a lot of fun as a game, but it starts to feel a bit constrainted and same-y from a simulation/story generation point of view after a while. (To be fair though, I haven't explored much in the way of mods, and I've heard they bring a lot of variety to the game.)

#DwarfFortress #SimulationGames

The Steam version of Dwarf Fortress looks really good! Neat little icons, the UI looks a lot more discoverable, but the charm of the simple top-down view is still there too.

@binsk
Not sure if this is what you're talking about - multiple boosts of the same post by different people - but if so, there's an option to group them as one in Preferences -> Other