Notices by Alonealastalovedalongthe (alonealastalovedalongthe@toot.cafe), page 4

The good thing about horrible old white dudes who are ruining the world is that eventually they die!

David Koch is dead! 🎈 🎈 🎈 🎉 🥂 🥂 🎈 🎉 🍻 🎈

Ahaha notice I said "drive down to the studio" even when I was bashing cars

*facepalm*

I am part of the sickness

@phel

Cities on the east coast mercifully took their shape before cars could ruin them but the mass transit system is still embarassing for how dense the eastern seaboard is.

I swear it costs me more to get in my own car and drive to NYC than it does to take amtrak (from Rhode Island) and there is solid build up of cities and infrastructure all the way from here to NYC, it makes no sense.

@phel

If you have ever flown over LA it is horrifying. It is one endless mistake of super highways, gridlock traffic and sprawl.

I mean I have heard the culture in LA is awesome and that there is a ton of cool stuff there, I am not bashing that but the physical design of the city.

Ughhh.

It is such a glaringly obvious mistake even from thousands of feet up.

That feeling when a news program does a segment on how traffic in the US is horrible and getting worse in pretty much every city and at the end of the segment they throw up their hands and say "What do we do??? Can uber and lyft save us???" and you just want to drive down to the TV recording studio and bust through the wall like the koolaid man and scream "HOW ABOUT INVESTING IN MASS TRANSIT YOU IDIOTS"

It is really hard for me to not get frustrated when people dont care about monopolies in software. I talk to so many people that dont seem to care about how a browser is different than a search engine or that using only one company for both is a bad idea.

I mean I get that technology is complicated and people are busy but I die a little on the inside when I cant get across that what people love about the internet is being strangled because of it.

@starwall
My favorite BA game was when I was playing a team game and both sides had turtled a little too much and it would take basically nukes or heavy air to punch through and I improbably found a survivable route through a forest of doomsday turrets and laid waste to my opponents fusion plants. My opponent unfortunately had spammed crow gunships and steamrolled my air defenses and blew up my commander before I could win but whatever.

@starwall

Yah, I guess I was able to play Ballanced Annihilation somewhat competently against others online but balance and tight competitiveness arent really at the heart of the joy for me in TA inspired games. Ridiculous antics with insane units are.

Which I guess is probably why the RTS genre seems to have stagnated.

The spring engine besides being a littttle ugly is pretty awesome tho

@starwall

Yah, I guess I was able to play Ballanced Annihilation somewhat competently against others online but balance and tight competitiveness arent really at the heart of the joy for me in TA inspired games. Ridiculous antics with insane units are.

Which I guess is probably why the genre seems to have stagnated.

The spring engine besides being a littttle ugly is pretty awesome tho

@starwall

The thing about zero k tho is it seems mech focused and tanks are cooler than mechs (science fact), and especially in a game where you are so high above units most of the time skinny little mechs just arent visually compelling from above

@starwall

I mean I dont know how active development is but there was a post this year soo https://springrts.com/

Yah the ta inspired take on RTS games is way more fun to me. Bombers that you have to plan bombing runs lines around air defenses? Insane amounts of units? Yesss pleasssee

@starwall

Is the spring engine still going? I used to play Total Annihilation derivative mods on it and had fun, didnt play zero k much tho

@TheFourEyed

This fact does blow my mind and honestly proves we are living in a satire

@erosdiscordia

Good luck and I hope they work out for ya brain!