u/Arctem

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I hope posting about other games is fine here. I'm not the dev or anything, just someone who likes OpenTTD and stumbled across Distributrains.

Distributrains is a clearly OpenTTD-inspired game that adds roguelike elements, which effectively means that every X minutes you need to export a specific good (or grow a town) or you'll fail. It's missing some complexities of OpenTTD, but it does require you to acquire the resources to build and fuel your trains. This caused my first coop run to end as a result of failing to pay attention to our fuel usage (and not proactively setting up a fuel production line). I'm excited to play more of it and I suspect it will appeal to many OpenTTD fans as well. The timed objectives and more limited resources are a nice change of pace.

Steam link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4475930/Distributrains/

u/Arctem — 14 days ago
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I just started rewatching The Right Stuff. The beginning sequence implies that there is a long list of anonymous US test pilots that died attempting to break the sound barrier, but after a bit of Googling I can only find references to the British Geoffrey de Havilland, Jr. and the American Bud Jennings, whose death is portrayed in the film's opening. I can't find any other specific names of pilots, which is surprising to me. Is the movie exaggerating the program's fatality rate or are test pilot death records more obscure than I'm expecting?

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u/Arctem — 14 days ago