I think we’re trying to say the same idea in different words

Wouldn’t it be tragic if aliens came to make contact and start a friendship with us…only to be laid low by COVID, which for us is like a bad flu, but for them ended up being more like ebola?

Oof.

Normal? Yes, I suppose so. I see people post about it enough.

Okay? Definitely not. Rejection hurts, but it’s no excuse to lash out like a toddler who didn’t get their way.

I used to get so mad at my grandparents for calling them that. They were COMICS, and it was Very Important to call them by the proper name.

I like to think I’ve loosened up a bit since I was a kid.

There is no such thing as a moderate conservative

IDK, I’d think most Democrats in Congress this decade are moderate conservatives (stupid Overton window shift).

Conspiracies or conspiracy theories?

There is a difference, you know.

“well, technically”

I think of it as a funhouse mirror. Everything online reflects something in the physical world, but there are a lot of distortions.

Heh. Anything on the internet invites comment. Who comments? People who feel strongly about the topic. Yep, it fits.

It can change, too.

When I was just out of college, I wanted kids “someday” (but was afraid of parenting badly).

Same when I met my wife, but she felt conflicted.

Fast forward a couple of years, she definitely doesn’t want to have kids.

I’m at peace with this path. I’d rather stay with my wife and have no kids than get divorced and try to find someone else who does want kids. My wife is amazing.

I’m actually not even mad on this one. The books are standalone enough that I won’t feel slighted if the next one never comes out.

Ahh, gotcha, yeah, I misread you there. Sorry about that.

besides not being physically colocated

This isn’t neglect IMO. Kids should have at least some time separate from their parents (tbf, this means different things at different stages of childhood).

The rest of your post, OTOH, is spot on.

I heard about voat back in the day and thought “Oh, cool, like reddit without some of the overbearing crap from the admins”.

Then I went to voat and read a few posts.

Well, shit. I didn’t want to be on a nazi site. So much for that.

Also, you don’t need to uncompress plain text.

Content-Encoding: gzip would like a word. :P

Agreed on all points other than that nitpick

IDK about this. Today’s extreme focus on helicopter parenting seems to view “having room to play” as CPS-worthy neglect. Shouldn’t there be a middle ground?

From playing through again today (this time on 1.26):

Text is still cut off at the tops, and the ship condition view hides the “Advance Year”, etc. buttons along the bottom of the screen. The other tabs still look OK. The colonist status screen is hilariously unreadable now, partway through this journey. The ship is in pretty bad shape, highlighted by the display corruption!

I do have text size set to 12 px in system settings, down from 14. I haven’t noticed any difference either way.

I can’t figure out what the SHOW ALL button does on the ending screen.

I just saw the text placeholder again

“{they} did not make it back…”

I’d really like a way to speed up the text rendering.

First ship-born adult event comes suspiciously late. Year 43 in my current run.

I used to. When I was a kid in school, I figured it was a holdover from “the racist times” back in the 1960s.

Then I saw how people treated Obama. Real eye opener.

Oh, I should add that everything I’ve said so far is in 1.13. I downloaded 1.26 this morning!

Oh, I just noticed one more thing. I just got a CRYO POD FAILURE event that ends with

The pod has been decomcallinged. The manifest has been updated.

Is this a typo in the text file or a side effect of AI being at 84% in this run?

Fun and stressful both! I love the tropes informing the setting. Playing through to try to get a colony going is cool.

But the limited resources and hard decisions are stressful, too. I want my colonists to succeed! It’s hard to make that work.

I do really want more in the gameplay. More things to do, more tweaks I can make. Some of the decisions might be nice as like policies you could tweak anytime, not just as events?

I’m still a little unclear on the research. I’m not sure if there needs to be more help text in-game or if I just need a few more playthroughs.

Oh, I should add - I’m playing on an older monitor, 4:3 resolution. I really appreciate when games either support that aspect ratio or have UI scaling so I’m not missing controls off the edge of the screen (yes, I know I should really replace that monitor - but it still works, and I’m loathe to just pitch it. We have too much e-waste in my country!)