BatElite, Inactive here @BatElite@computerfairi.es

There is little clarity as to what is going in combat. Enemy troops (and some of yours) will have arrows in differing colours, but mostly no health bars unless you hover over someone. Everyone starts running into and through each other, with no indication of what side is winning. At one point I though the enemy were dead and it turned out they had a dozen or so left.

One creature description has already been unhelpful. "can keep our enemies off-balance" means they get flung in the air.

I've been trying Sacrifice over the past few days, which is a third-person RTS with the main gimmick being you can choose one of five scenarios each time. I like it so far, but...

From the two second-tier level I've played, the difficulty varies quite a bit on the same tier. The first let me just steamroll the opposing mage over and over, while the other starts them with considerable defenses and gives them an easy shot at your base, especially if you don't know about the teleport.

@lizardsquid I have slept well. Thank you.
I have a dentist appointment to go to though, so it'll be a little bit before I'm back.

Good morning all of you.

@Xkeeper Morning.

@charlie I love this

@lizardsquid Definitely, but the alien would have to make the first move.

@nyanuri It seems so. I'm fairly certain I've seen some people who do shitpost say that what they're doing is dumb and/or pointless, although if it entertains others I'd disagree with the latter at least. Anything that's a dumb (in-)joke seems to fall under shitposting as well.

@lizardsquid Isn't that what this instance was made for?

@nyanuri Not really, but I haven't seen social media describe itself that way. For example, the prompt when you haven't written anything is "What's on your mind?" when for me that would more often than not be inanity.

@squirrel Mastodos
Mastodo-over
Mastwodon

I use mastodon in a weirdly performative way, as in I don't see the point of writing anything that I don't think will interest anyone else.

@Xkeeper On the topic of servers, I've noticed that building elaborate (as large as I can be bothered with) stuff single-player feels more or less pointless without others being able to see them. Also, once I've amassed enough resources and built some stuff in the immediate area most of the impetus to do anything ceases.

I feel like my ideal server would make a new map every month or so (maybe a little sooner?) and then shove the old one into an archive somewhere.

Since Wily bides his time until either Mega Man or his robot bunch du jour have offed one another, and robot masters always take over some place to turn into their fortress wouldn't Mega Man be able to practically stop Wily by just not bothering?

"Well, we're down a couple of factories, an airport, a bit of ocean and two acres of forest but if this works we'll have achieved world peace!"

Wily wonders from his fortress what's taking so long out there.

Meanwhile Mega Man has taken a nap.

As far as I can tell, the history of computing is mostly people severely and consistently underestimating the future capacities and importance of computers.
https://computerfairi.es/media/15Br7NAYe71OUxZlxzg

Slightly macabre joke:

Did you hear about the man who wanted his own grave?

He's really digging it.

@turbodragon "A sofware update is available. One of our programmers will break in to your house to install it sometime in the next two weeks. This will take just a moment and possibly some of the contents in your fridge."

@lizardsquid I'm doing fine over here. Not much has happened in the past few days.

Good morning/day to you all.