You don't even need to go that deep, just have a quick look at literally any Chinese game on Steam and you'll notice the vast majority of players are also Chinese. Many times I was like "Oh, why does this game I've never heard about has over 10,000 positive reviews on Steam? Oh, game's Chinese and so are basically all the reviews", seems to be a trend with these games.
That's fair, but what I really like about Dwarf Fortress is the complexity, especially the industry chains you can create, some forts can become almost factory like, not to mention the world simulation is unmatched.
I have many of these colony sims sitting on my Steam wishlist, some from many years ago, but ever since Dwarf Fortress got that graphical rework and launched on Steam they mostly lost their purpose for me. They always felt like "Dwarf Fortress at home" with the advantage being that they had better graphics and were easier to get into than DF, now that's not case anymore, at least for me, and I really struggle with reasons to ever play some of these instead of DF.
Must suck being one of these devs that wanted to make their own more accessible version of Dwarf Fortress, then a few years later Tarn and Zach announce the update, and now you not only have to contend for attention with RimWorld but also Dwarf Fortress on Steam.
Thank God that plane crash that killed over 60 people didn't hurt me or my house, what a merciful God!
I get that it's their way of coping and rationalizing something horrible that just happened literally in front them, but to an outside observer it's such a bizarre way of seeing things.
Well that's the problem though isn't it? If to use the website you need a literal tutorial, then something is fucked. I realize the irony of saying this on Lemmy, but the platform just isn't very user friendly at all. Hell, you could say the same about the whole Fediverse, it's an interesting idea and technology, but for the average person it's too much of a hassle compared to normal social media.
BRICS was always about money, it was never about "posturing at the west" no matter how many paranoid schizoid American journalists want it to be. Kind of sick of hearing people acting as if BRICS is some kind of new Axis.
No shit. Everyone was saying this from day one, but Sweeney was too stupid to realize it.