Recent content by Dhoomstriker

Watching on Invidious is like watching on YouTube but without most of the tracking. Video links and even playlists from YouTube can instead be added in the same location within a URL on an Invidious instance website. Adding &local=true to the end of a URL removes even more of the tracking, but...

If you are interested in simply learning more, while being open to the possibility of getting involved with similar such causes, you can better keep on top of some of these issues by bookmarking and regularly visiting the following websites: https://act.eff.org/ The Electronic Frontier...

It does sound excessive, but a good place to start would be to see where the website is hosted. If the website's host seems reasonable toward privacy, check the privacy policy to see how your data would get used. In this case, it appears that Amazon is the website's host and I would suggest...

Thank you immensely for taking the time to read this thread and for anyone who took action to share their opinion with one or more Senators. Unfortunately, the Senate has voted to pass the RISAA bill. A bit more background info...

FISA is going to be renewed as RISAA: Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act, which grants a lot more power to surveil people. What you can do: Use the Electronic Frontier Foundation's easy website for connecting you with your US State's Senator(s)...

I would like to propose that you look into an alternative product, Matomo. They have a comparable offering with their own Tag Manager and Analytics products that work quite similarly (there is even an import utility to bring your existing Google Analytics data into Matomo), but with a...

Yes, I'd be fine with Events being on in Challenger games when said Events are on in Non-Challenger games. I'd also be fine with a general heuristic of not having Events (and Huts) enabled for the Higher-Difficulty "stream" of games (Emperor through Deity as the Contender Class). Although...

I would like to register my extreme objection to this change. Images now appear to be hosted on a surveillance capitalist provider, Cloudflare. The domain name that they are using is a subdomain of the "community.forum" domain: civfanatics-data.community.forum If you don't yet know what...

Thanks for the very clever and fun setup of a game! After playing so many games where I intentionally avoided triggering Domination, it's nice to win a Fastest Finish for that Victory Condition. Following a general strategy of avoiding a Victory Condition also means avoiding earning an...

I played Contender as I lacked the time thanks to the other, recent games. Challenger would have been quite a challenge on this map, as well as extremely time-consuming. I started off with a Cultural Victory in mind. Thus, I spammed Wonders. I tried to avoid meeting the AIs, but I messed up...

I sense that LowtherCastle is setting up a joke about dental work. Victoria seems to have wisely kept her lips sealed in her picture, thereby thwarting some of his effort. Maybe you'll have to talk about her number-one Spy (Austin Powers, of course; Yeah, baby; yeah). Hooray for the...

I wonder if you'd consider adding extra time for this game, maybe an extra 3 weeks, or even longer, to allow for late-game-Corporation Cultural Victories. It is the game's settings that really dictate a later Cultural Victory than normal, and it's the timing of other games that have made this...

Rules The rules for an AI creating a Colony: 1. The player's Palace must exist on one landmass and the Potential Colony must consist of 2 or more Cities on a second landmass. Obviously, the game's settings must allow players to create a Colony. If Vassal States are disabled, Colonies cannot be...

By starting with Fishing, we cannot do the early Engineering-Lightbulb gambit with a Great Scientist. It wouldn't be that great on a Hub map, though, as Hub maps tend to have a relatively large amount of water squares and thus a decent amount of seafood Resources. In addition to Fippy's link...

Settling Location As probably most people did, our Warrior's movement 1NW to the G For made it clear that our prediction of more land being eastward was correct. Our Settler proceeded 2NE to the GH Riv For. That location looked great, with 2 Deer, Gems, and 3 visible G Riv squares which were...