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It is demanding but the devs seem very dedicated to optimization. I have never read a dev blog post entirely about CPU optimization that sounded so excited about it. For an early access game, it really is super polished.

I haven't tried scaling to super late game production levels, but you can easily finish the non-repeatable techs before noticing any performance hitches.

Horizon is a great game, it's probably one of my favourite game series of all time at this point. Zero Dawn hit all the storytelling tropes that I typically enjoy in games, and had amazing dynamic combat too. It reminded a bit of monster hunter with the preparation you went into big fights with, but also there was a degree of improvisation when stuff didn't go according to plan.

As someone who didn't think Zero Dawn needed a sequel at all, I actually really enjoyed Forbidden West. I think you'll be in for a good time when you get a chance to play it.

Since you seem to basically be me, I would recommend Dyson Sphere Program if you haven't tried it yet. My favourite of the factory games, and they have their big combat update coming in soon too.

This is probably my second choice, I have actually never made it to the "endgame" of ONI despite that. Never actually lost a colony, but I just particularly like those first 50 cycles of scrapping things together the most.

I love the Klei art style, and the more engineering style approach to colony building is one I don't see that much.

Rimworld.

It's kind of funny because I bounced off the game hard the first two times I played it. What really did it for me was the Ideology DLC, gave it a shot on a whim and the amount of structure it gave me for RPing colonies was exactly what I was missing.

Hundreds upon hundreds of hours in now, and it is the game I keep coming back to. Not to mention one of the biggest modding communities I have ever seen in a video game. The only video game subscriptions I maintain currently are to a few Rimworld modders whose work I really enjoy. When I am not playing it, I am working on ideas of themed mod packs to put into it.

Dyson Sphere Program is a close second, it's my favourite factory-builder. It is still in early access but is a VERY polished experience already. Amazing dev communication too.

Mods went basically hands off, the only things they would moderate are things that broke site-wide rules like child pornography. Anything else at all was fair game. It was a pretty good view of what unmoderated reddit would look like.

After the usual threats, mods didn't budge so were removed by admins I believe. Last I heard the place was still an unmoderated glorious trash fire.

That's all on Twitter really. Twitter shot themselves in their one remaining good foot just as Threads was releasing, Meta couldn't have paid for better timing.

All Twitter had to do to make Threads a pretty ineffectual launch was...nothing. They couldn't manage that though.

I remember a sub did that, I think they had a 12 hour approval window. I forget which one, but I think reddit already came down on them.

FInding willing scabs wouldn't be hard, finding willing competent ones would be.

Small niche subs would probably be fine, but any of the big megasubs would be a trashfire. It's why I wish every sub did what Interestingasfuck did. They showed exactly what the sub would look like unmoderated and stuck to it.

I quite like it, I generally like how it looks, and there was less of a learning curve than I expected there to be. Things mostly work without needing you to know HOW they work (though that is fun too). I am sure it will get more active as more people move over, but it's actually the perfect amount of activity for me right now. I can check in and there is usually some new stuff without worrying about things moving so fast that my voice gets lost in the noise.

Big plus is I can be fairly open about my leftist politics, at least around here, and not be downvoted into oblivion. Nor does everything thread even tangentially related to China devolve into racism within five posts.

Are there a couple niche communities I miss? Sure, I might recreate them myself honestly, somebody has to. Otherwise, I don't miss much.

A lot of the broader interest subs I followed have either migrated over or have local equilvalents.

I had a couple niche ones I miss. I work in hospitality so talesfromthefrontdesk is definitely one I miss, and I haven't seen a good version here as of yet.

Specific game subs are not as popular here yet, but honestly I am not sure how much I really need that. Rimworld is probably the only game I keep coming back to often enough to justify it, and I largely use discord for that. Only thing I use discord for really.

I have two. I have this one (lemmy.ml) as my broad-access instance. My other is lemmygrad, but as that is a bit more widely blocked I keep this one still. That one is used for most of my politics, and this one is my more general interest. It's kind of nice to have different communities died to different user registrations.

As to why those two in particular, I am a Marxist-Leninist so...yeah.