AlexisBlackbird

I guess it depends how you conceptualize the automation genre.

W&R:SR is light on the "lots of little buildings turning a few ingredients to something else" of the genre leading games, but it's way closer to modded Factorio levels of logistic complexity than any other city builder I can think of. At least, if you're trying to make it so you don't have to micromanage your established industries. Logistics is such a core part to the genre that I figured this would be of interest to folks here 🙂

Barotrauma... Train...

I don't see myself resisting the early access on this one

Though, it's releasing at about the same time as the Captain of Industry update, and I was planning on giving that a shot...

Yep that's the one. For what it's worth, it doesn't come up again for a while, and when it does it's actually quite well done.

SNW is great. It is such a pure distillation of Star Trek

I don't really like the gorn plotline, but it's the show I recommend as a first for new Trekkies

The last term was an excellent example of it not quite being two party, with the NDP pushing a liberal minority for some significant gains. It's not nearly as good or democratic as it could have been, but I think it's important for us to remember what ground we do still have. This election could be an opportunity to galvanized support for proportional representation with so many people voting liberal out of perceived necessity.

It continuously astounds me than the NDP and Greens don't make more noise about electoral reform.

Agreed, but that just means we have to. Democracy is strongest when we're engaged in more than just elections. Check out https://www.fairvote.ca/ to get involved.

My concern with this trend is that without proportional representation, it will eventually metastasize into an American style two party system as the left is forced into ABC voting every election.

wjrii hit the nail on the head. If you categorically don't like the vibe it might not be for you. Like any true Trek show it takes time to find its feet. The plot is coarse and hamfisted (as a trans person, the trans allegory episode was hard to get through) but eventually turns around to be a good example of scifi for contemporary social commentary. The humour (both quality and balance) improves but it doesn't stop being a Seth MacFarlane show. I value its earnesty, but it's pretty far down the list for my suggested "Star Trek" viewing order.

Agreed. It's a decent action scifi show that is hurt by trying to fit the IP. It did do some interesting things with the mirror universe, and some of the latter season parts where it takes nonsensical one off TOS concepts and completely seriously says "that's canon, let's build a plot point on it" were entertaining, if not good.

But it just doesn't get Star Trek and it says something that I tell people getting in to the shows not to watch it.

Discovery gets more hate then it deserves, but The Orville is certainly more of a Star Trek show. I'm glad I stuck out the rough start (which is on brand for a Star Trek show lol)

I'm a big fan of the greens and all but isn't fairvote supposed to be non-partisan?

That's beans