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    New indie game release: Manor Lords

    Today the game "Manor Lords" has become available in early access, after being for a long while Steam's most anticipated game. This city builder has been developed by a single person, and is published by Hooded Horse, who have also published Old World. The setting of this game is in medieval...
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    Millennia | 2024 Roadmap & Update 1

    I have the feeling that there is one detail in this update which will be universally loved...
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    PCGamer: A new physics paper suggests that we may all be living in the ultimate 4X strategy game after all

    This news article is a bit bonkers, and only barely related... I might regret this thread lol: PCGamer has today published an article called "A new physics paper suggests that we may all be living in the ultimate 4X strategy game after all". Most people here have probably watched the Matrix, a...
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    Nature: Long online discussions are consistently the most toxic

    I think uppi mentioned it already, but this should mean the relative thread length, from first to last. They are over their length probably toxic. I'd be curious if the splitting made them less toxic. These aren't real discussions though. They didn't check on that, I think that would be hard...
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    Earn £80 - Games Testing Research - LONDON, UK

    To clarify, we checked that this is a valid company, which also in general does this kind of work, that @Lawrencef21 works for them, and is an actual person. If we had suspicions, then we'd not have approved it :).
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    Nature: Long online discussions are consistently the most toxic

    Now, that is some research we can relate to: The Nature magazin has just this week published an article called "Persistent interaction patterns across social media platforms and over time", together with an perspective about the article, called "Long online discussions are consistently the most...
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    Search by Likes Option?

    We're not in charge of the forum software, can't say :/. I guess Xenforo could add it if they wanted to, but no clue if they have any plans for that.
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    Earn £80 - Games Testing Research - LONDON, UK

    Please report back, we're curious to hear :).
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    Search by Likes Option?

    This doesn't seem to exist, I'm afraid :/
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    Millennia: Age of Verbosity [long-form review]

    I got pointed out on Mastodon that mods apparently already exist, e.g. one where you can play consecutive variant ages. I'll post the link when I get it.
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    Altered maps IZ: gib clay!

    Not altered, but we can relate. From Twitter, .
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    Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

    Thanks for notifying @Valka D'Ur @Jabbaro the normal limit for you to change most things should be 5 days and 5 posts. So if there are issues after your next post, then let me know, I'll have a look.
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    Youtube: An archeologist plays Civ, using only archeology for culture victory

    This was live, and I am too late to post it :blush:. Bill Farley, a professor in archeology, and very active on Twitter, has shown that he also likes games, and went on a live stream with Civ6, trying to achieve a culture victory while only relying on archeology (just for the giggles). His video...
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    Memoriapolis

    Very nice, thanks :hatsoff:. It seems this will have a feature which Civ really needs: New/different mechanics per age. Could be very interesting :cool:.
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