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I am back to playing some more Europa Universalis V. I took a break because the developers had taken a break, for Christmas holidays and to prepare a large patch. Patch 1.1.0 is now out for the release version, and there is a beta server with patch 1.1.8. It solves the problem of the AI being overly aggressive, but otherwise the patches are an endless story of game systems being...

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I am a German living in Belgium. 72% of Belgians own the house they live in. Only 48% of Germans do. That has a lot of significant economic consequences. Despite the fact the Germany has a higher GDP per person, and lower taxes than Belgium, the median household net worth per adult in Belgium is $250k, compared to only $67k in Germany. Wealth is far more evenly distributed in Be...

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Civilization 7 was released just over a year ago. Although Firaxis claimed that they had great sales on consoles, the success of Civ 7 with its core audience on PC wasn't great. Player numbers peaked at only half the level of Civ 6, and a few months later even Civ 5 had more daily users than 7. A number of updates and DLCs didn't change much there. Some of the core features that...

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Earlier this month, an unknown person made $17,000 on the prediction market Polymarket by getting 17 out of 20 bets right regarding the Super Bowl half-time show. The circumstances strongly suggest that this person had some insider information. Which isn't real...

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There is another board game drama, because the COO of a large board game company believes that in the future board games will be designed by AI. He said on Linkedin about AI: "Three years ago it was essentially nothing but a curiosity. Now it's useful but in limited cases. In a year or two it will be as useful as any new hire. A year or two after that it will be as useful as ...

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