Those goalposts shift a lot. You are just guessing at this point despite the evidence being pretty much against any actual simulation happening.

What you call a “bug” everybody else sees as fake.

They literally didn’t implement a simulation, they simulated the simulation.

You’re just making excuses at this point.

No it wasn’t finished but they shipped it as a full priced finished game and deceived a lot of people.

They weren’t honest about the state of the simulation either, the UI updates as if there’s a full simulation running but it’s all magic fairy numbers to appear as if the simulation is functional. They faked it and just hoped nobody noticed.

It’s like releasing a factory game but you don’t have to link anything up to churn out products, instead you can just plop down the final stage factory and call it a day. This isn’t just unfinished, it’s deceitful and unacceptable.

Oh it’s fake.

The shops do not need to be connected to industry nor to residential or outside connections to function. It just fakes all of the commerce information.

The devs might call that a bug to save face, but it doesn’t mean they didn’t deliberately ship it like that.

I am a big fan of city building games and took a chance. Fuck me for wanting a new game to play after work I guess.

No Linux support won’t even be the worse thing about this game.

I sadly bought Cities: Skylines 2, a simulation game like this from the same publisher and they got caught faking the simulation in it.

Personally I like Connect even though it’s not FOSS because it’s layout is similar to RiF.

They claim it’s to generate your encryption key but then I don’t understand why you can’t just give it a passphrase instead. Pretty dumb for a so-called privacy related app.

This game (and the people behind it) are definitely deserving of the price if you have any love for this genre of games at all. I wish all games had this level of attention to detail and love poured into them over the years.

I too was a bit skeptical at first when I bought it on the Steam release but its been one of the best game purchases I’ve made in years easily. This is one of those games you’ll come back to time and time again over the years.

I still don’t know how a lot of the tools in DFHack aren’t just baseline in the game at this point they are that good.

Ten years is an extremely long time in tech and we might not even be using phones as we currently know them by then.

Why wouldn’t you just install uBlock Origin on them though?

I’m surprised that Vivaldi isn’t more popular next to Brave tbh.

You get Chromium with a bunch of other features if you want them, but no crypto crap. They even run their own Mastodon instance with built-in functionality out of the box.

Never trust anything sold to you with crypto incentives honestly.

Games, software, no matter what.

You’re got going to magically turn into one of these people by using Brave btw.

No.

I say use the best tool for the job and that tool sadly is usually Windows for most games if you demand top performance and minimal fuss especially when your free time is limited.

Linux has come leaps and bounds from a time where just getting a AAA game running was a feat. But it’s not quite there yet for myself at least.

I like how Firefox doesn’t shove crypto shit down my throat nor want to monitorize my web browsing experience at all.

Google saw the enshitening of the web and went “hold my beer, I’ll show you how it’s done!”.