Ran rm -rf after copying filepath with a space. The directory up to the space did exist. Fortunately so did a backup.
Cleaned a secondary drive mounted at the same point without noticing I was on the wrong SSH terminal tab, at least twice.
Going one step deeper, at the source, it’s oligarchy and companies owning the law and in consequence also its enforcement.
About the city-builder early game experience - you pretty much nailed my feelings about the game.
I think the weakness of the game is that one needs to experience other strategy games (I played very little of city builders, but a lot of grand strategies and 4X) and have some level of self reflection or meta thinking to be immediately attracted to this concept (without trying out the game first).
Most people who didn’t notice that micromanaging already won late game is the bad, tedious part, would be reluctant to accept the inevitable destruction of their cities.
I think that there’s an untapped potential in increased complexity of the central City. What I mean is that if there was some metagame city building it would attract a bit more players.
Against the Storm
It’s a pretty fun rougelike rougelite city builder in a world where it always rains and every few decades a malevolent eldritch storm destroys most of the civilization.
But they have the testicles of their soon to be born sons.
I would say whether it’s greater than 1 or lesser than 1 is inconclusive without accurate data .
You would need to find out whether amount of men with removed testicles is greater than amount of women pregnant with a boy (after the average week when testicles appear). Also men to women ratio in global population needs to be accounted for.
He’s the owner. He won’t.
The thing is that Steam doesn’t have a history of shutting down a significant fraction of games they have available by themselves. Hence people don’t criticize them.
Also you can (not saying that you should, I personally don’t trust Gabe) put some tust in a private owned company if you trust the owners.
In case of public companies they are forced by law and major shareholders into making shortsighted decisions and prioritizing profit only.