Based on the national poem of Finland

Which inspired both (parts of) The Silmarillion and Noita, so you know it's good!

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This looks like a lot of fun to watch other people get very frustrated by. 😆

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I hadn't encountered this particular problem, but if this helps fix it that's a plus.

I just wish it didn't still take five clicks to give an award*. Imagine if you could simply hover over the "Award" button, a palette of options pops up (easier now, since there are fewer), you click the one you want**, then a "Confirm" button, and that's it.

*Click the "Award" button, click the award you want to give, click "Next", click "Give Award", then click the "Close" button.

**Or, even better, select more than one to give concurrently.

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Previously, baby mobs were just smaller versions of the adults.

Well, not quite – (at least) some of the babies had much bigger heads proportionally to their body size than adults did*. But this is a welcome change nonetheless. 🙂

*I don't feel like checking all of them, but it's true for chickens, cows, pigs, and sheep, at least.

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Ooh, neat! RimWorld has had the ability for mods to support different versions of the game for quite a while now and it's pretty handy, so it's good to see that capability expand. (It doesn't have the ability to mark a mod as simple enough that it'll likely keep working with any version, so that'll be a nice feature to have.)

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I've got Slay the Spire 2 and Witchbrook on my wishlist. Most of the other games on there that haven't already released have annoying release dates of "To be announced" or "Coming soon" (I thought that one wasn't allowed anymore?), but in theory the Colonies [External Link] expansion for Terraforming Mars is supposed to be releasing in Q1. Colonies might be my favorite TM expansion (vying for the spot with Prelude) so I'm excited it's finally happening, though the developer has a strong track record at this point of introducing a bunch of bugs of various degrees of game-breaking with each patch, so we'll see how that goes.

It doesn't have a date yet, but I'm also really hoping the digital version of Twilight Imperium [External Link] releases this year. Now in addition to 12-hour sessions with friends twice or thrice a year I can practice on my own! 😆

And it's not software, but I'm looking forward to the Steam Controller release for using my Deck as a living-room multiplayer setup.

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• Island maps can be surrounded by infinite water instead of void.


• Rivers can end in wetlands if unable to reach sea.

Interesting! I love OpenTTD (it's a great game for messing around in multiplayer with friends), and it's nice to see updates to its (rather simplistic) map generation for more complexity. I don't need Dwarf Fortress-level modeling of foundational rock types for simulating tunnel-building costs, but a little more visual interest sounds nice! 🙂

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Excellent, that means I now own a Limited First Edition model! 😆 In thirty years it'll be 'retro' and 'hip' again when we're all use eye-implants that form images directly on our retinas!

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"Stellaris Prime" sounds like a Paradox/Amazon team-up. 😟

But this does remind me of the Savage Planet series of games. I remember vaguely hearing about them on release, feeling mildly interested, but never following up and checking them out thoroughly, so I'll have to go do that. 🙂

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Not quite that long, but I did apparently put 193.7 hours in and didn't actually complete my first campaign…

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