In 2015 I started playing age of empires three on pee see eee ess online, the first since a global macintosh operating system update nuked gameranger ~2011. I was a french main. On mac fp 1.2a was the fp. On eee ess online I became brit main lusting over aiz and giveuanxiety gameplay. I printed out images of buildings cut them up and taped them to keyboard keys because the british civilization was hard, is hard. It's manually driven and I was smelling clutch.
I improved / somewhat but gears got shot. I explored... alternatives.
China was the obvious answer (fuck this civ). Raphael lost ezly. It felt good letting the game win for me.
Competence by constructing villagers is false. I banked on that statement's truth value going into DE, making quadruple tee sees, never hitting vee and hitting 99 vees.
I learnt halbs. I learnt banks make coin macro for you. Make a bank making automatic macro gives xp to send speedy halb card making automatic micro. Suddenly brit and lakota were impossible MUs vs pure halbs. Shrines make coin or food or wood macro for you. Swedish torps could make all res macro at once for you. It was... my own industrial revolution! There was a loss of art at the old ways / but / who cared. There was money Elo to be made. Only honorable gamers like crabgot held fast to tradition, considered the ramifications / ridiculed.
Machines make machines that don't stop. You started this hungry for pixel points. The beast has accrued existential momentum.
It was just in jest joking about automatic slash manual macro and micro. Of course it wasn't really automatic and manual, and never would be. Couldn't be! It was old purists hyperbolzing an end of times, salty losers.
May 26, 2022. Microsoft division releases Knights of the Mediterranean, downloadable content for Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties, Definitive Edition. We were warned and now it's too late.
