Ultraviolet
As good as the Aeon’s End implementation is, it just makes me wish it had all the expansions available. I would sink so much time into a fully automated complete Aeon’s End collection.
Let’s use a simple metaphor. You have a bridge. One side of the bridge is heavier than the other, so it’s not balanced. You add a counterweight to balance the bridge.
Several years later, someone says “there’s no need for this counterweight anymore, it’s just unbalancing the bridge.” If the bridge was rebuilt to address the imbalances, you’d be right. But it wasn’t rebuilt, it’s the same bridge with the same flaws it had when the counterweight was put in place. In an ideal world, we wouldn’t need affirmative action. But pretending we’re in that ideal world isn’t actually solving anything.
I wanted to get into PoE, but seeing how endgame builds play really soured it for me. Playing through the story using a variety of skills and dodging the attacks in the chaotic boss fights was a lot of fun, then I learned that an optimal build spams one skill and kills bosses before they do anything, and if you’re not clearing that fast, you won’t be making any meaningful progress because drop rates are tuned around the assumption that you are.
In some cases, yes. Hiccup cures are all placebo, but the placebo effect is all you need to cure hiccups anyway, so in that case they’re just as good as a real cure would be if one existed.
But for something more serious where the placebo effect isn’t enough, it could be actively dangerous if someone chooses the placebo over real treatment.
Anything that’s safe to advocate for in a public forum is inadequate.
We need a use-it-or-lose-it clause for all copyrights. If the rights holder is not making a good faith effort to sell copies, they should forfeit their copyright entirely and the work in question goes straight to the public domain. 5 years is generous, I’d make the grace period 6 months.
My guess is it was part of a two-pronged election strategy. First, make COVID denial part of the GOP’s political platform, so that they’re more likely to be performatively reckless, including waiting on line in crowded polling places where no one is masked (which goes further to scare people away that were actually taking COVID seriously), while people taking precautions like voting by mail or by voting early when it’s less crowded would be disproportionately likely to vote Democratic.
Then, pass unreasonable regulations like “mail-in and early votes can’t be counted until all votes cast on Election Day are counted”, while pressuring election workers to post results as early as possible, skewing votes in their favor, or, failing that, point to the fact that the votes against them were counted later as evidence of fraud.
Start with the win condition and work backwards from there, then as you learn each action you can take, put it into context for how it helps you. Then play a few turns against yourself to get an idea of the flow.