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Robert Wood
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Just some Titans, coming together for a free and frank exchange of ideas (and perhaps some munitions). #Titanomachina
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My various thoughts and brain-farts, including ongoing promotion of a game I made I'm calling #Titanomachina, currently available on the Steam Workshop at: teamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2091149334'>steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2091149334
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Robert Wood
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Just some Titans, coming together for a free and frank exchange of ideas (and perhaps some munitions). #Titanomachina
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Robert Wood
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That question was probably addressed to his brain worm.
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Robert Wood
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How do they say, "We don't need eyes where we're going?"
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Robert Wood
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Math
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Robert Wood
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Doesn't this essentially authorize Biden to have Trump assassinated?
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Robert Wood
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Revisiting the great rivalry for the Throne of Heaven, Tethys (previous incumbent) and Rhea (current holder), for the Titanomachina DLC for Tabletop Simulator.
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Robert Wood
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I think the hashtag functionality is recent to Bluesky.
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Robert Wood
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Some more pictures of Titan configurations available on Tabletop Simulator's Titanomachina DLC. #BoardGames
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Robert Wood
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I realized I didn't have pictures of these up in the Steam Workshop.
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Jazz
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this is getting silly
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Andy Craig
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LLMs are useless for lawyering and other tasks involving actual analysis and understanding not because the technology hasn't gotten there yet, but because that's fundamentally not what statistical word association is capable of doing. Not only can't it understand, it's not even trying to understand.
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Robert Wood
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Low Earth orbit isn't it?
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Robert Wood
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The hypothetical being, of course, does going short on habitat buildings present an omnipresent advantage over going long? If so, is it a problem for the game. And if it is a problem, what form would a solution take?
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Robert Wood
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It's also somewhat easier to destroy opposing habitat blocks, but doing so does not affect your opponent's ability to reply. It's harder to score points attacking an opposing Titan directly, but damage to a Titan's systems can interrupt an opponent's strategy.
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Robert Wood
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Ooh, a belt-fed revolver
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Robert Wood
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It makes one wonder why not just score buildings to whichever player destroyed them? Because that makes for some perverse incentives where players don't want to place buildings for fear of giving away victory points. Instead, scoring points by placing habitats is easier than destroying systems.
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Robert Wood
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Additionally, and importantly, players most easily subtract their pool of spare habitats from 24 to know their current building score. It's easier than counting blocks on the board. That is not intuitive, and opaque scoring is a problem.
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Robert Wood
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However, a Titan with more habitats will lose habitats more easily, and at a faster rate, than with fewer. At 24 their habitat score cannot go up. Their configuration, their specific arrangement of systems, should be at a disadvantage to one with a lower habitat score.
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Robert Wood
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Here's a hypothetical, but first some context: Titanomachina Titans are built out of a pool of HR points, with the leftover going to purchase habitat blocks to put on the board. More points into the Titan mean fewer into habitats. Habitat blocks on the board score points. ATitan can have up to 24.
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Robert Wood
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Ultraman: Rising really nailed the same things that gave Pacific Rim's action such a satisfying sense of scale. Also, UltraDad!
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Robert Wood
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I mean, it's a fair point that I need a hook. The hook is supposed to be the Warhammer game loop, which is (a) design army/Titan, (b) get defeated in ways you never imagined were possible, and then (c) go to a. The demo games lack this and need a different hook.
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Robert Wood
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An antacid?
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Robert Wood
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Okay, so I have to ask, how goes one replay a cake?
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Bloomberg
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New AI data centers are coming online so fast that the electricity demand is straining global power grids and threatening clean energy goals. Read The Big Take ⬇️
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Robert Wood
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Titanomachina is a strategy wargame for 2-4 players. Card-driven deterministic action for ~120 minutes. Link in profile #Titanomachina
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Robert Wood
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The comment by David Kennedy is bizarre given the entire review seems to be about unpacking what the asshole in the title might mean thematically, mechanically, and socially. It's a heck of a hook!
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Robert Wood
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A deck pict for all you thirty crew #Titanomachina #BoardGames
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Robert Wood
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They haven't been sacrificing chiefs lately.
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Jazz
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Its one of those that don't return (probably)
#art
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Robert Wood
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A little scale comparison, thanks to Halifax, Nova Scotia!
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Robert Wood
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The one time my wife said that the dinner guest earnestly said 'I was raised in a barn!'
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Robert Wood
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Pick your battles
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Robert Wood
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It was written and released as comics before it was collected as a graphic novel. Each comic has a slightly difference theme. My favourite is 'Fearful Symmetry'
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Robert Wood
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Usually a Titan has four limbs, so they can walk each round if they spread their limbs evenly throughout the the deck. Some Titans only have two limbs, while others have six limbs. Likewise Titans have between two and four weapons systems, so every shot is critical.
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Robert Wood
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Players play system cards face-up to drive their Titan's actions, starting with a hand of 8 cards and then drawing 5 cards at the end of the round. At 23 cards a deck each player completes a rotation through their deck every 4 rounds.
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Robert Wood
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I had a game and now I want another one!
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Robert Wood
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Rhea carries it off with 19 VPs, to Eos' 16 VPs with Styxx at 15 VPs; it had been an ambush turned into a chase, with Rhea third in line and peeling off to detect more yellow buildings before blue and green could turn around and level them!
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Robert Wood
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They're collecting training data for AI detection
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Robert Wood
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Ugh, jonesing for a game...
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Robert Wood
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The other 43% was paying off references to things that were mentioned offhandedly in the original SW trilogy.
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Robert Wood
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I should really talk more about deck arrangements, because that is really important in Titanomachina. Each player has a deck of cards, systems, crew, and a personality, that they'll use to pilot their Titan to victory.
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Robert Wood
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I need to research up another flag for colouring. I swear, colouring stuff in 3D Build is my main hobby these days.
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Robert Wood
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As a technical writer board game rulebooks are a source of fascination.
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Robert Wood
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Eos, in the colours of the gay men's flag!
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Robert Wood
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Styxx advancing into the urban zone
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Robert Wood
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Styxx, in the colours of the trans flag!
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Robert Wood
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Speaking of Rhea, is She invincible?
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Robert Wood
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Next up is the mighty Rhea, in the colours of the lesbian flag!
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Robert Wood
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It's round 3 and already things are getting ouchy...
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Robert Wood
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Next up is Eos in the colours of the non-binary flag!
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