Transcending quickly

[bvanevery]

Last year I happened to end up at a Transfeminist conference in Pensacola.  One phrase that really stuck with me, is the person saying "We're literally fighting for our lives."  Suicides and murders of trans are all too common.

I'm afraid that the "Red shift" we've seen in NC in recent years, is because we now have a population worth fighting over in the Electoral College.  A lot of people moved here and last I looked, we were 10th most populous in the nation.  So apparently the Tea Party made a really concerted effort to take this place over some years back.  They've managed to make South Carolina look progressive by comparison.

There's some older weather lady on the W-S news that I find myself strangely fascinated by the dresses she wears.  I keep thinking she's showing up to some formal function in downtown W-S, like a Piedmont Craftsmen opening or something.

[Buster's Uncle]

Fang?  Middle-aged blonde who looks to have had a mild stroke 20 years ago and her mouths still a teeny bit twisted?  Karen Wynn?

Despite the ugly nickname, I actually think she's got a good figure and a nice face, and usually dresses well.

Maybe you're talking about ---drawing a blank on the other, Kimberly King and -AH- Jennifer Emmert.  She's sort of a chubby mess.  They both do live reports when it snows, though Alstadt and Wynn are the only actual weather ladies since they let Julie Wunder and her magnificent head of shiny hair get away...

[bvanevery]

No it's Lanie Pope, chief meteorolgist at WXII.  You know from a sci-fi standpoint, a "meteorologist" sounds a whole lot more exciting than it is.

[Buster's Uncle]

Lanie USED to be cute...

[bvanevery]

A partial excuse for Civ-likes is they're open ended and a bit sandboxy.  Somebody who fools around a lot, rather than focusing on how to win quickly, might not mind meandering through the tech tree.  I do wonder what good all the fungus production techs are going to do anyone though.  By the time you obtain those, you could have long since gotten your victory resources by other means.

When I contemplate possible RPG aspects of 4X TBS, I wonder what is supposed to make these changes in the game "interesting".  I spent an awful lot of this game just waiting for techs.  Hovertanks?  Useful in other games I've played, but not interesting in this one.

Only in the past few days, while completely revamping all the relationships in the tech tree, have I realized that half of the stuff isn't necessary to Transcend.  You don't need Quantum or Singularity engines, for instance.  This is not readily apparent to someone who always plays with Blind Research, the default of the game. (I regard otherwise as cheating, or mollification of people coming from Civ II.)