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Terrain tile art hard-mode: "This landscape consists entirely of bismuth crystals." (Yeah, this is what I'm doing right now.)

(Two things I'd like to do: 1. write a thing about the mechanics, and 2. make a game building off said mechanics ... minus the, ahem, colonization part.)

Oof. Well. I do actually think that Sid Meier's Colonization is a brilliant game mechanically speaking - up there with Alpha Centauri in some respects - just, you know, it's a problematic-as-hell fav for me. What with the bowlderization/whitewash of slavery and, like, genocide.https://twitter.com/Kotaku/status/1146758820598833152 …

Tweet background: I dreamed last night of playing some kind of version of Civilization 1/2. Pretty sure I played so much civ as a child that a part of my brain is hardcoded to think in Civ, and it recurs in my dreams fairly regularly. Same for Warcraft 2.

Finding photo reference for human characters in what is basically the perspective of Ultima 7 is no simple task, let's say.

(Controversial take?): Adulthood is realizing that 4x games are best played on a small map.

One more thing while we're doing this: forcing rounded corners on images is also bad. *narrows eyes at twitter*

In conclusion, they got some solid bureaucratic game going on at the SAAQ. (... Now let me tell you about the series of waiting rooms and tickets and numbered desks!)

Apparently for years my permanent residency card has given my height as around 5 feet because they put my weight (in lbs) in the height field (as cm). No customs or immigration officer caught it, the person who noticed was the clerk at the Montreal drivers licensing office.