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I only recently learned that The Witcher was originally based on a series of books by Andrzej Sapkowski. I'm now reading these and really enjoying them! Everyone probably knows stories like Harry Potter, The Wheel of Time, Game of Thrones, Dune, or The Hunger Games were all books first, but this made me wonder what are some other popular shows that many may not realize were originally a book (or book series)?

The general consensus is that a book is better than its adaption to screen, so I usually prefer to watch a show first, and read the books after, to avoid disappointment of poor adaptations. But do you prefer book or show first? Do you have some favorites or any fun surprises in thi

How do you have more players completing Solaris than Solar Power? I was also surprised to see only 18.9% have ever built an Assembling machine. That has to be wrong, doesn't it? How do you produce 1M circuits without ever having built an Assembler?? Made we wonder if that was a new Space Age achievement, and then I wondered what the percentages really meant. If a player hasn't purchased SA yet, would their lack of completion factor into the SA achievements?

Looking through the achievement list overall though, it surprises me how low a lot of those numbers are. I know many players don't care about them, and/or play with mods and otherwise disable achievements, but I still would have ex

I searched for this but came up empty... for those of you who have run out of Lithium in your initial patch, do you run piping from your main heat towers, or do you build a new heat source out on the new lithium island? That's my question.

In my case, the distance to the next closest lithium source is more than 650 heatpipes. I'm hoping to avoid setting up logistics all the way out there to support keeping a heat tower functional, but that seems like such a long ways away. Not to mention, I'll have to heat that 650 tile stretch anyway, for the fluid piping.

Love to hear from anyone who has already done this.

Lots of room for improvement here, I'm sure, but here's my first attempt at a platform. It works well for easy growth -- just expand the foundation three rows of tiles at the bottom to add two more assemblers.

The main issue is clearing out the non-ice chunks when the outer loop eventually fills up with carbon and ore. You'll notice the top blue inserter is filtered, which is my short-term manual solution because I couldn't figure out how to get a circuit network to enable/disable it the way I wanted. (I've never really been able to figure out circuit networks, they confuse the hell out of me.)

Also, once I figured out that you can deconstruct (ALT-D) the foundation to reclaim material,

https://preview.redd.it/4zfeu4tt2dwd1.png?width=1288&format=png&auto=webp&s=6cb69d5dd51149b48a6b220b2b3a691166856b8a

Lots of room for improvement here, I'm sure, but here's my first attempt at a platform. It works well for easy growth -- just expand the foundation three rows of tiles at the bottom to add two more assemblers.

The main issue is clearing out the non-ice chunks when the outer loop eventually fills up with carbon and ore. You'll notice the top blue inserter is filtered, which is my short-term manual solution because I couldn't figure out how to get a circuit network to enable/disable it the way I wanted. (I've never really been able to figure out circuit networks, they confus

Green circuit fields in the background...

I got this game a little less than a month ago, not really knowing what I was getting into.  It was recommended based on my love of Rimworld, and because automation is a core function of my job.  Turns out, it was a amazing terrible recommendation, as I'm a couple hundred hours into it now, my wife has left me, and I can't remember what my kids' names are.  (Hint: only one of those three are true statements.)

While learning how to play, I saw there's new DLC coming soon that changes some things, so I decided to try and knock

This (rather long) post seeks to explain what you might be missing about the fragments system, and to demonstrate the math on why it's not as bad as so many people think. In fact, hopefully you'll see that it is actually a slight improvement on your chances to get Legendary heroes.

This is mostly a perception problem. You are now seeing 1-5 fragments when summoning, instead of a full unit. Because Legendary summons are so rare to begin with, I think people made the incorrect assumption that these fragments were in place of full Legendary summons. Below are some of the arguments I've been seeing (on reddit, Discord, and in game):

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***They Replaced Legendary Units with Fragment

I’m a fan of deep strategy games, I love 18xx and most euros, and I generally adopt Dr. Knizia’s philosophy where I always ‘play to win’ but with the main goal of having fun. This sometimes results in not playing as seriously in lighter weight games, by not analyzing every decision, tracking opponents moves, and reviewing all options. In these more casual games, I often rely more on instincts and what feels best in the moment. Which leads to my Dominion Story…

My siblings and I are typically rather competitive, even now that we’re into our late 40s, early 50s, with kids. But this holiday we included nieces and nephews in a game of Dominion it it was far more casual than usual. Late in t

I haven’t played a lot since the change from CMC to MV, and I’m concerned that I don’t fully understand how things like additional costs and alternate costs affect how MV is determined, especially when playing a card like [[Mizzix of the Izmagnus]]. The gatherer rulings are mostly focused on the second ability, and the reduction aspect seems pretty clear.

With regards to the first ability on Mizzix, however, when determining the MV of spells with additional and alternative mana costs, there is conflicting information online. Rule 202.3 seems to answer this, but either I am missing another relevant rule, or some online judges are wrong (or rules have changed and those posts are old). To h

Let’s say I have the following in play:

• [[The Great Henge]] - “put a +1/+1 counter on it”
• [[Renata, Called to the Hunt]] - enters “with an additional +1/+1”
• [[Hardened Scales]] - “that many plus one” … “instead”
• [[Branching Evolution]] - “twice that many instead”

Then I play [[Walking Ballista]] where X=1, so it “enters with”

How do these various forms of counters being added interact with each other? Will Scales trigger on both the Ballista ETB and the Great Henge separately, since the Henge isn’t a replacement effect?

What’s the correct way to stack the triggers for maximum benefit, and how big will it be in this scenario? I know doubling goes on the stack first (to resolve l

I am nearing the end of the first trilogy, and I just got royally pissed off when >!Cassius kills Sevro!<, to the point where I turned off the book (listening via Audible). I was almost as angry about >!Ragnar’s death earlier, but at least his had meaning and some closure (with both his sister, and with Darrow). But it also pissed me off that Aja wasn’t killed in that fight.!<

!When Cassius kills Sevro though, just after his epic and masterful “…and what do we do with murderers” scene (one of my favorite scenes in the trilogy), and right after his wedding…!< man, I was ready to just be done with the entire bloody damn story! >!Cassius, supposedly someone who values h