• Buildings are more resistant to hack damage with higher increases for some defensive buildings, such as Towers and Fortresses.

• Towers and Fortresses now deal significantly more damage to help players defend their bases.

Niiiiice. This is sorely needed!

Fixed cases where units could be produced from some angles on production buildings and end up stuck inside pockets in the treeline.

That’s really interesting. How effective will it be, in practice? I wonder if a fix like this might also be made to aoe2?

Sentry Tower: adjusted as follows

• • Damage increased from 5 → 8 pierce.

This, plus the fortress-type building 50% damage boost, seem interesting. I’m sceptical that it’s going to be enough of a damage boost to overcome the problem Magic noted in this video, but it’s a start. Fighting under a fortress with equal total resources should be a fairly overwhelming victory, IMO; maybe equivalent to if you had, like, 25%–33% more resources in a units-only fight.

Halo of the sun (Helios): adjusted as follows

• No longer affects Fire Ship range and damage.
• Now also increases Arcus range by +1.

I would love to see a dev note explaining this one. I think I like the change, I just want to know why.

Probably for the best. If you’d let him onboard it might have ended up like this story.

Might be interesting, but I’m not taking conspiracy theories (to be clear: this is a conspiracy theory. Even if it’s true, it’s a theory about a conspiracy.) from the Nazi blogging website seriously.

they should not meet in session 1.

Strongly disagree. Nothing wrong with doing that, but nothing wrong with having them meet in session 1 too, as long as you have built characters who will be willing to go along with the GM’s hooks.

And even that part is flexible, depending on the nature of the hook. If the hook is “you see an ad look for rat exterminators”, then you better have a character who wants to be an adventurer and will cooperate with other would-be adventurers. If the hook is “you’re prisoners being ordered to go explore this dungeon by order of the vizier”, there’s room for slightly less cooperative PCs, as long as you PC is cooperative enough to go along with that order, even if (at first) reluctantly.

Let me guess, you also tried

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Oooh, Dracula has received a shipment of empty boxes. What ever could they be for, I wonder? 🤔

Omg thanks for linking that thread. The amount of removed and deleted content on Lemmy is so frustrating. I hate the fact that removed or deleted posts also completely nuke all the comments on it.

Reddit’s approach is so much better in this respect. A removed post removed the OP’s text, but if it’s a link post the link remains, and all the comments remain.

Happy cake day!

That was my exact response, too. Apparently he’s the NZ PM and leader of the conservative National Party, in coalition with the far-right libertarian ACT and the far-right populist NZ First.

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Yeah exactly. He chose to get rid of it 40 years ago this year.

Not nearly to the same extent as America, but in general, yes. Same direction, just less extreme.

Hey now, he might have been born here, but he’s not our arsehole. And he hasn’t been for 40 years.

just use double-sided tape

Could be a good use for one of those cases with slots for cards. Slide the drive in the slot, cut a hole for the USB C jack at the bottom, et voila.

Yeah tbh the Mastodon formatting was annoying me too. I was surprised at how short each of them were; I thought Mastodon supported much longer posts than Twitter, but these seem basically the same?

Thanks!

Comments from the original post on !australia@aussie.zone:

there have been a series of lies from our Lord Mayor and his council over this. Starting by blaming the pedestrian path closure on ex-cyclone Alfred, and then saying they needed a couple of days for inspections before it could be opened. We know now that the closure had nothing to do with Alfred, and was in fact damage that they’ve known about since at least 2016.

We haven’t been given any timeline for when it will reopen, so our best guess is not until next year.

they claim it’s impossible to close a lane because one lane wouldn’t be wide enough, so they would need two. If that were true, then fine; the answer is to do that, close two lanes. There’d still be 4 for cars. But it’s not true. In fact, while the pedestrian paths on the bridge are wider than what would be left of one lane after water-filled safety barriers are installed, the paths on the on-ramps up to the bridge are already narrower than that.

they lied to the press and public by claiming the protests are linked to the Greens, that they’re related to Extinction Rebellion, and that they’re illegal. None are true. Every protest has gone through the accepted process of declaring intent. Instead, BCC & QPS have wasted their resources fighting the protests in court with multiple expensive Silks, against the self-repped organisers. And they lie, inventing nonsensical security risks, in order to get the court to block the protest.

(the protest pictured here is a different one to the one that BCC and QPS lied to get blocked. A weekend march through the CBD streets that make up the official detour. Instead of the originally-planned peak-hour block of the Story Bridge)

For context, “silks” is a term used by lawyers in Australia to refer to experienced barristers who can command the highest prices.

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You’ve posted today’s (Sunday’s) answer in the thread for Saturday. Today’s thread is here, on your instance.

Oh huh. The message is in French, so I guess they’re banned from their own instance? I feel like the “banned” message should make it clear whether it’s a community ban, a ban from my instance, or a ban from their instance.