I haven’t seen a Darths & Droids reference in the wild in a while.

I remember just cackling the first time I read their Episode I comics.

Have you played Caesar 3 with the Augustus mod? Its like a whole new game. It adds a ton and there’s even a whole fan-made campaign.

I have somewhere in the neighborhood of 300 mods installed for Rimworld. The in-game mod management system is pretty basic and simply does not cut it. Definitely interested in more management options.

Do you have a fireplace or wood burning stove? Mosquitos hide dormant in dead wood over the winter, so it’s not uncommon to bring in some logs from outside and have the mosquitos inside wake up, thinking it’s spring in your nice warm house.

I learned this when I was getting bites inside my own house with sub-freezing temperatures outside.

You’re correct that Jupiter is the brightest object in the night sky besides (obviously) the sun and the moon.

The brightest star is Sirius, near the constellation Orion.

Polaris is absolutely NOT the brightest star in the sky. Not even close.

How to actually find it: Find the big dipper (I know you know what it looks like). Take the two stars at the front end of the “cup” part. Draw a line through them “up” and out of the cup until you hit a star. That’s it.

“Sorry, I’m under a pretty strict NDA and I’m not allowed to discuss it.”

If you like Mysterium, I highly recommend the successor game Obscurio. Its pretty much the same gimmick of art interpretation, but works way better for groups.

Instead of the “ghost” having to keep track of and pick art for each person, the “investigators” are making a group decision so you only need to pick one set of clue art. This means the ghost’s turn is way faster (doesn’t explode with higher player count) and there’s actually group interaction instead of each person in their own world, staring at art no one else cares about.

The way it’s set up also means the ghost can start working on choosing the art for the next round while the group is debating, not having to wait to see if they are correct or not, so it’s way more streamlined. All together just a snappier, more engaging version of Mysterium.

I love driving stick. Or I did up until the day my left knee fell apart. Now it’s just not an option for me.

Bullshit. You were singing Amish Paradise and we all know it.

Yup, I had someone print off Excel sheets, manually highlight and write in corrections, and them bring the pages over to my desk to have me fix them in the file.

I also once had the city reject a report I submitted because the width of the columns in the Excel file were different from the previous year and they wanted to print it all off on one page.

I used to work for municipal government in a major American city. The database for the entire city downloaded query results to your desktop formatted as Excel 95. Still does.

At one point I had to install special R packages because someone retired and I was tasked with taking over the worksheet they had been maintaining forever and the usual R packages to read data from Excel can’t parse Excel 5.0.

There was also someone in the office who still used a typewriter on the regular.

The UI just really lends itself to mouse and keyboard IMO

Yeah, that was my take as well. I tried playing for like 10 minutes and just the amount I was having to use the little thumb trackpad to do stuff seemed like way more pain than it was worth.

How is Rimworld on the deck? I’ve seen that it’s supposed to be “Verified” but it seems like a game with so much mouse-based activity that it would be really annoying to try to do on the deck.

Also, how does it handle mods? Because I may have… one or two… hundred.