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I'm partial to Biotech. Mostly in the sheer versatility, depth, and replay-ability it adds to the game, have you ever wanted to:

• robot army? Sure!
• raise children? You got it!
• mess with genetics? Why not!
• diversity beyond the standard issue human? Done!
• become a vampire cult? It's an option!
• weaponize pollution? Absolutely!

The other DLCs aren't bad, but aren't quite as impactful/ noticable compared to the banger that is Biotech. Quick rundown for the sake of fairness:

• Royalty: adds a Royal faction with advanced technology and access to psychic powers. Unique win con is hosting/ protecting the emperor at your colony.
• Ideology: adds religion/ beliefs, that can shape how your colonists feel about various things (being underground, what they eat, how they feel about technology, and more) and other people. Also adds trees that spawn a dryad helper when your colonists take care of the trees. Unique win con is a treasure hunt quest line that has you partially restart your colony a few times.
• Anomaly: adds a horror twist to RimWorld. Fight and study monsters, raise the undead, and uncover horrors beyond comprehension. Unique win con is a study of the void and the entities beyond it.

I haven't had a chance to play with the new DLC yet (modder's curse), but it's looking to be a serious contender for my favorite. Odyssey lets you build a ship that acts as a mobile colony and you can travel both the planet and it's orbit collecting upgrades for your ship and other unique items. Unique win con is an ultimate showdown with the mechanoids in space.

RimWorld is meant to tell a story, so "despite our best efforts, we all lied on the ground, bleeding and dying as we watched everything we built burn around us. While the world continued to turn, indifferent to our struggles." Is a perfectly fine way for a story to end (though I will admit it doesn't always feel great to watch a colony die).

On a general note, weapons in RimWorld tend to be suited to different roles and fighting styles, and very rarely is it just a matter of "get guns (or whatever research), win game" (I'm pretty sure some bows can out DPS a gun, depending on the quality/ range (be sure to take a look at the info window on your weapons).

That said, other than the blanket advice of looking at each story as a lesson, it might help to know what kind of external threats are wiping you out.

Currently slogging my way though the late game (or at least I was until more pressing things came up), there's some slight automation towards the mid game that helps a bit, but the grind doesn't really go away. Mostly due to the fact that you end up spending Faith/ corpses/ gold way faster than you can get them. I find myself in a waiting pattern fairly often- there's still things to do, but progress on major quests feels super slow (and almost unrewarding). The DLC is mostly regarded as filler, but if you're a completionist (or like what they offer), it's not awful at the current sale price.

Note: there are achievements that are gated behind having the DLCs if that's your thing.

It's not strictly a bad game, but I'd almost rather play Stardew for the farming/ story or Factorio for the automation.

That's kind of awesome! I have a bunch of home lab stuff, but have been putting off buying a domain (I was a broke college student when I started my lab and half the point was avoiding recurring costs- plus I already run the DNS, as far as the WAN is concerned, I have whatever domain I want). My loose plan was to stand up a certificate authority and push the root public key out with active directory, but being able to certify things against Let's Encrypt might make things significantly easier.

Seconding the confused Voron noises. I mean, I'd be really curious to see the 3d printer firmware market share beak down, but I feel like anybody building a custom printer is going to have a far easier time with Klipper, just because of how much easier it is to get dialed in.

Oscar the Grouch in the first panel too

It's so weird seeing one of my mods on the list. Like one of my lost little orphans grew up and went off to college... So long Setup Camp 🥲

I'm not in a place where I can compare it to the artists you've mentioned, but maybe check out Ben Prunty? He's got a bunch of stuff in his catalogue (including an album that's meant to be on the darker side), but I think he's most known for the FTL soundtrack, which I'd probably describe as space, but pensive and curious.

Right? I tried to switch my primary computer (framework laptop) to Linux earlier this year and ended up going back to windows after I had absolute nightmares with my type-c KVM. Coupled with performance issues while gaming (and the absolute hassle of having to force games to use my graphics card). Add in whatever random issues I was getting trying to remote into other windows machines on my domain (for CAD work). My day job is in software engineering/ programming, so I'm not exactly a stranger to digging through documentation and fixing computer issues, but spending time fixing my computer instead of using it got old pretty quick.

Perfectly happy with Linux in my HomeLab and on my steamdeck though!

papyrus!

Not to burst your bubble (it's super neat to see a major company starting down the road to repairability; fingers crossed they commit to the bit), but this was posted to this community relatively recently: https://sh.itjust.works/post/37825020

I've never been a super huge fan of orange, but there's something about the white and orange color scheme that just looks sick as hell. I have a massive soft spot for the 07 - 09 Mars Mission line.