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I like city building games and puzzles. I like other things as well, but that’s not important right now.


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Cake day: November 12th, 2025

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  • The first thing everyone that I’ve recommended Lemmy to sees is massive amounts of porn when they make their accounts. Telling them they need to block instances is a major hurdle as they don’t even know what an instance is when they migrate over.

    Most end up not bothering and going right back to Reddit.

    That really sucks! Next time maybe point them towards piefed, where it actually prompts you to filter out NSFW stuff in account creation. I haven’t seen any porn on my piefed account.








  • Here's the Risk or Civ perspective, i.e starting out there from scratch:

    Australia’s isolation is bad. Since the ecosystem there is pretty murderous and the natives seem to have not developed very sophisticated agriculture, they would have benefited from constant contact with other civilisations on-par with them early on.

    Switzerland and Britain, on the other hand, are examples of places that benefited from geographic isolation because their climate is good. Even then, their “isolation” is better described as “natural barriers” because they actually have immense proximity to other cultures. I would argue that places like Iceland are akin to Australia - an unfavourable habitat and equally isolated, geographically-speaking.

    However, Australia's modern nation state was planted there by an established civilisation. So...

    Australia’s isolation would certainly be of benefit here, theoretically, but i don’t think it has faced a situation where that was important - i.e no nearby conquering states. What protected it from conquest in world wars was primarily its size - Germany would absolutely not spare troops to settled a larger nation in another continent when it was surrounded by enemies.

    I think travel is advanced enough now that we cannot consider australia isolated anymore, either. If China wanted to attack, they could do so. They are probably the only country that could do so, though.


    How long would it take for their air force or navy to reach them?

    Air force apparently 2-3 hours, Navy apparently 20-45 days.

    Why are australians so concerned with Iran, though? From what i’ve gathered they haven’t been involved