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Cake day: July 6th, 2023

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  • I was looking for the changes - I hope I found them at the right place:

    
    Resolves  - Fix ancient ruins not spawning as much as they should
    
    Maybe fix Android dev console - will require testing
    
    Fixed Happiness being found as a global stat
    
    Resolves  - trigger conditionals are a superset not global uniques
    
    "Unowned" capitalized for consistency, whoops
    
    Added "unowned" tileFilter for 
    
    
    
    By SomeTroglodyte:
    
    - Move parsing of localized numbers to UncivTextField 
    
    - Better Validation of Nation colors 
    
    - Avoid List.removeFirst() not being available on Android API 21..34 levels 
    
    - Minor Unique documentation improvements 
    
    - Fix doc writer escaping 
    
    
    By RobLoach:
    
    - When capturing settlers, fix finding the Worker units with conditionals 
    
    - Add ability to remove policies with ModOptions 
    

    EDIT: Lol, how the heck do I remove colour highlighting if I want to keep the code style otherwise?


  • Oh, if anything, unless it’s in the last element, it’s easier to see paired items in the list ( ‘,’ -> next element; ’ and ’ -> still the same element, with ‘and’ inside). When it’s the last element, it’s indeed ambiguous. And then there’s /u/hakase 's comment:

    “They went to Oregon with Betty, a maid, and a cook”, where Betty is the maid mentioned.


  • I see where you’re coming from. In school we were also taught to NOT put a comma before ‘and’ if it’s a list. I also didn’t quite get it, and found it weird. However, if you consider ‘and’ and a comma serving the same purpose (linking the elements in a list), then putting a comma before ‘and’ would just make either of them redundant. I’m not saying I prefer either of the two, but at least there is a reason to it.







  • You’re right about tetanus not being caused by rust. But it’s not caused by sheer punctures, it is a serious disease of the nervous system caused by a toxin-producing bacterium called Clostridium tetani. It can often be found in soil, but yes, if you leave a perfectly clean silver nail in that soil (which is infected by the bacterium), then yes, you can get infected.




  • I was so shocked first! Back when I was a kid I was super hyped when a Hungarian team had announced that they would make a Doom knockoff called Boom! I bought the game as soon as I could, and while I still played it a good bunch, I was a bit disappointed that it was basically an old RPG style 90-degree-turns-only, central projection kind of shooter with mostly static (non-moving) sprites and joystick aiming. And that was pretty much all that they could squeeze out of the hardware, spread over several floppy disks.

    Since the map was mesh/cell based, and every enemy was in the center of one cell, it was faster to just turn-move-turn-move-turn and shoot with a centered crosshair than aiming with your constant speed joystick.

    Even THAT game had serious frame rate limitations, so I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw the gif.