Because a well designed game does not include drudgery

Better remove Ship graveyard simulator from that category…

I think Shapez levels become procedural after a certain number of predetermined ones?

“merchants objecting to the use of a derisive term suggested an alternative derivation”

Yeah, the “magic” elevators were a bit disappointing in highrise, and Sim Tower was the one mentioned in Howard Payne’s DEFCON22 talk on elevator optimisation strategy.

(Project Highrise is a newer game in this same style)

Tables like https://www.generatorsource.com/Diesel_Fuel_Consumption.aspx suggest that even just a 2.2MW generator would use that fuel up in about 30 minutes.

Generator fuel consumption tables give an even worse answer, about half of that theoretical value.

Tuvalu is of course part of the commonwealth. Meanwhile the Marshall Islanders are moving to Salem, Oregon.

think they mean a plastic jug to fill up from the tap and pour over your head

could also make them a available as asset libraries for other people to make into games - it seems hard to find consistent sets of 3d models for games

No, just a thin salt crust over deep mud:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Gear:_Botswana_Special

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makgadikgadi_Pan

Has anyone seen the movie Children of Men?

The final scene with Bexhill immigration camp getting bombed may have been the best depiction in film of Palestine right now.

To New Zealand, apparently: “New Zealand, Iceland, the UK, Tasmania and Ireland are the places best suited to survive a global collapse of society, according to a study”

If you don’t like the idea of being dragged along the ground, then be very careful around trains! Example, example, example, example.

If it was really to power the fridge then it would be better to turn the compressor directly rather than with electricity?

“Project Highrise” is another nice calm relaxing game, although in the other dimension to most city builders

Why would you use packs of string? Just leave the manufacturing machine running and don't cut it into packs.

WikiData is a database-oriented version of Wikipedia intended for categorising relations between concepts.

For example, Google (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q95) is "owned by" XXVI Holdings (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q100292691) since 2017.

XXVI Holdings similarly shows that it is owned by Alphabet Inc (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20800404), which is owned by a list of people and entities with various different voting rights.

There is also the "Parent Organisation" relation (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P749) which links Google to Alphabet directly.

These should all be computer-readable.

“Are you sure that’s wise, Sir?”

Ah yes, the classic game of “Professor Farnsworth or James May?”