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I’m guessing you want fantasy/history, but since you didn’t specify it, if cyberpunk is something ypu’re interrested in, I highly recommend store.steampowered.com/…/Heart_of_the_Machine/. It’s a unique game. Not exactly 4x, but kind of choose your own adventure / rpg / 4x game, where you play a newly awekened sentient android/AI in a dystopic city, that is left alone by corporation because they want to see what you do. There’s extremely branching story that works across timelines/playthrough, you have a lot of options from “fuck humans uplift animals” through “i’m your god”, " I house the homeles", to “this is my city now” or “VR torment nexus”, with numerous civilization destrpying dooms you’re trying to solve along the way. It’s pretty cool, and I don’t think I’ve seen anything like it. While it doesn’t have dynasties or span ages, it does work with time travel where you affect your new/other timelines, which are new playthroughs. So, it’s probably not the fantasy kingdom management sim you’re looking for, but just in case you don’t mind cyberpunk and a smaller scale, I highly recommend this. It’s my top 4x hybrid I’ve played so far.

I mostly work in gamedev where they aren’t that much feasible so I don’t have much real experience working with them and I might be wrong but from when I looked into it a while back, it’s basically just a docker container that you specify in a .devcontainer file (at least for VSCode, but other IDEs probably have something similar) and when you need to develop, compile or run your code, it runs it in the container. It also doesn’t have to run locally on your machine, if you can run docker somewhere else (i.e on a more powerful shared server). I can see several advantages (but I never really tested it in practice, so I’m mostly guessing) - containers are usually quick to start, you have the same and stable and replicable dev/build environment for all devs (since you just commit .devcontainers), so there aren’t some hidden dependencies and “works on my machine” shouldn’t happen too often. It also helps you keep your OS clean, so you don’t end up with 5 versions of python, 3 JDKs and 20gb of random NPM packages installed in your OS after 5 years of development - which is the most important advantage for me.

Devcontainers are awesome once you set them up properly, no need to run a VM.

This is my favorite sentence from Wikipedia about the trial. While Wilde won the most laughs, Carson scored the most legal points.

I’m used to just sitting to pee, exactly for this reason, but there’s a rare case where I give up and pee standing, i.e when I’m already dressed and it’s way easier, where I used to risk it and pee standing. I stopped doing that even in those rare cases when we’ve gotten the blood/horror bathroom mat, something like this, but not branded and from what I presume is the original source (Aliexpress). It’s horrifying when you see the mess you’re making, even if you really try not to.