So in terms of my comment, there’s no significant meaning to them. When I say “got the green out easy. Narrowed the yellow down to 6”, I didn’t know that they were green and yellow until after I had guessed them correctly and it revealed the answer to me. As you solve each row, it immediately shows you what colour that row was and what the connection is for that row. The colours could be, for the purpose of this discussion, completely random.

However, the colours aren’t actually completely random. They signal difficulty. Yellow, green, blue, purple, in ascending order of difficulty. It actually is explained in the game itself, if you press the help (“?”) button, but that button is rather small and easy to pass over.

Here late at night to whine about our late night public transport service. Last year I went to the /r/brisbane art show at Woolloongabba. I live in St Lucia, which is a convenient bus trip through the busways away. But after that event, I ended up walking ~4 km home because the buses were not operating at that time through the busways, and instead I would have had to take a different (much less frequent) bus into the CBD, followed by a walk, followed by another (infrequent) bus home.

Tonight was the next time I was at the Gabba since then. And again I’ve ended up walking home because an hour-long walk still managed to be faster than the massive detour via the CBD (and significant delay waiting for once-hourly buses).

It has a fucking stupid name, but assuming they don’t end up cutting back on their promises even more than they already have, the Brisbane Metro should be such an enormous boon to our public transport service.

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Didn’t take me too long after writing that to figure out a reasonable guess at blue.

I’m struggling today. Got the green out easy. Narrowed the yellow down to 6 but struggled really hard to cut out 2 of those (but did eventually make a guess and get it right).

But I don’t have any leads on the blue or purple yes, even though I’ve been staring at it on and off for hours.

I think I’ve been spoilt by the Definitive Editions of AoE too much. I find it hard to go back to older versions of those games. Not because of graphics, but because of the lack of quality of life features like universal shift-queuing and good hotkey systems.

Is glottalisation where [t] is replaced by a glottal stop, like is common in Cockney? Australian English is much less varied than American or British, but still varied enough that I can believe that, even though as far as I’m aware it doesn’t feature in my accent.

perhaps [i] (and potentially other vowels) block flapping for you.

Yeah I suspect that’s probably it. I recall seeing a list of vowels where it’s done in Australian English, and I think [ɪ] was on it, but not [i].

Yeah I mean, I know dogs come in a wide range of sizes, but I feel like default dog is a lot bigger thanks default chicken.

I don’t know anyone that owns a dinosaur

I do. It’s somewhat more common with people living in more rural areas than in the city, but I’d guess they’re the third most popular pet after cats & dogs.

Fyi Lemmy doesn’t do spoilers the way Reddit does. The syntax for spoilers is:

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They like him as a person.

or was it just that they’d not qualify anyway

Ha! Ouch.

But yeah, I didn’t include them because they voted leave. I didn’t even realise that there was controversy in that.

I’ve never actually played them. Would love to try them out, but I’m afraid they’d be too dated. Would love to see them get a Definitive Edition similar to what Age of Empires has received.

I honestly find the way the UK treats its regions really weird.

Like, technically the UK is a unitary state. The devolved parliaments in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland only have power because Westminster said they can have power. Very different from the federal states of Germany, the US, or Australia, which have a constitutional right to exist and govern themselves in at least some regard. In effect, UK regions have much less autonomy or independence than other countries’ states. But the UK pretends that they’re “countries”, which would imply that they have more independence than a state. It’s bizarre.

And I say this as someone who absolutely supports the right of Scotland etc. to become independent if that’s what they want. After the shambles that was Brexit, Scotland deserves to have another independence referendum.

It is in my time zone, where it’s Saturday already.

Hells yeah AoE4! I’ve been a Byzantines main since they released that civ as an option. Love the cistern & aqueduct system.

But I think the above commenter was referencing tabletop wargaming, not RTS.

Civ is prehistory to futuristic. AoE2 is mediaeval.

Empire Earth or Rise of Nations would be a better answer to @Agent641@lemmy.world’s question.

Pretty sure they’re talking about something more like Crusader Kings or Europa Universalis than Age of Empires.

Isn’t this basically the first episode of Castle?

also: happy cake day Picard Maneuver!

That Just Stop Oil is funded by the daughter of an oil exec is very easy to prove and not at all controversial.

Why she funds it is another matter entirely. If she’s sincere, she wouldn’t be the first child of a conservative billionaire to take a more progressive stance. On the other hand, if it is a false flag operation, it wouldn’t be the first time that’s been done either.

Here is her sharing her own perspective.

To take an Occam’s razor approach, that she’s sincere requires assuming…that she’s being sincere. That she’s operating a false flag requires assuming that she’s lying to the press by claiming to care about the environment, and that she has successfully fooled not just the press but also the people she’s giving the money to (or an even bigger assumption: that it’s a massive conspiracy and everyone involved in JSO is in on it, but nobody has leaked) of her sincerity, and that she believes the best thing she can do to prevent action on climate change is to fund organisations aiming to promote action on climate change.

It’s certainly not impossible, but yeah. Occam’s razor suggests to me that unless we get more evidence to the contrary, we should put more stock in the idea that she’s sincere.

How does it make you feel to know that a bunch of the best players (not the top 2, but a few of the top 20 and even more of the rising stars) weren’t even born when Age 2 first came out?