Ryan Mallady @ryanmallady.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Amazing how much the Sulaco looks like an anime gun. 000
Ryan Mallady @ryanmallady.bsky.social · 11/10/2026When you find a nice spot to build Hale o Keawe next to the Valley of Flowers in Civ7, but then you think "actually, fuck those flowers" and you let the sparks fly. 000
Reposted by Ryan MalladyGhoul-in’ Dickey @colindickey.com · 10/10/2026I think maybe the best analog to Trump is Sapurmurat Niyazov, president of Turkmenistan from 1985-2006. It's not just the gold statues of himself, but the absolute *mania* of naming things after themselves and renaming everything just to prove their omnipotence 1245
Ryan Mallady @ryanmallady.bsky.social · 09/10/2026"lectures"static.klipy.comWormtongueALT: Wormtongue 020
Ryan Mallady @ryanmallady.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Limpid? Civ7? Oof, I don’t think I want to try EL II then. 000
Reposted by Ryan MalladyStephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Wanted: an antitrust policy that makes it so that newspapers can't run headlines that read, "creating a vast _____ empire" 513031
Ryan Mallady @ryanmallady.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I'm sure Torey didn't mind having Seattle's obvious interest become so public so quickly. 000
Ryan Mallady @ryanmallady.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Ironic because the whole point of 54% is to have a high enough floor to compete every year and maybe sometimes strike gold. The floor was supposed to be *the point* of their system. They're even failing their own poorly communicated metrics. 110
Ryan Mallady @ryanmallady.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Convince his co-partisans to abandon their propaganda channel and the rest will work itself out. 010
Reposted by Ryan MalladyJon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 30/09/2026listen everyone, i’m getting sick of all the criticism. this is my first blender project. i’m still figuring out how pivot points work. i am also aware that at frame 860 he teleports to fairfax along the x-axis. i’m working on it 303794357
Reposted by Ryan MalladyAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power" 345125044631
Ryan Mallady @ryanmallady.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I'm so used to nobody in a position of authority in society taking any responsibility whatsoever that the smallest, least acceptable glimmer of it felt at least a little positive. But everything you say is still true. 000
Ryan Mallady @ryanmallady.bsky.social · 28/09/2026By the end, you’ll want to watch more of these characters even if all they do is sit in a cafe and talk about acting. 000
Ryan Mallady @ryanmallady.bsky.social · 28/09/2026As a superhero story, wonder man needs another season. As a personal story (which is its strength), it ends perfectly. And the journey is worth it regardless, 100
Ryan Mallady @ryanmallady.bsky.social · 27/09/2026As it should. Political parties should suffer electoral consequences for behaving so ineptly and giving an openly wicked man unchecked power. Feels like a sci-fi movie where someone has finally turned the ship’s gravity back on. 060
Ryan Mallady @ryanmallady.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Just me thinking about literally anything in that trilogy after the first hour mark of Force Awakens...static.klipy.comMan's Unbelievable Headache ReactionALT: Man's Unbelievable Headache Reaction 020
Ryan Mallady @ryanmallady.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Dan Wilson somehow combined Jim Mora Jr-level team-building with Jimmy Lake-level in-game decision-making. It’s been truly remarkable. Can’t wait to find out which low-cost replacement-level manager Jerry chooses this time. 000
Ryan Mallady @ryanmallady.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Is Babylon weak? Eh, yes and no. And I wasn’t playing on Deity. Restrictive? Very. You really do have to constantly slot Corona Civica & Gordian Knot to get any decent settlement limit. Interesting build. Huge cities. But a Babylon that starts slow? Weird idea to implement, not my favorite. 000
Ryan Mallady @ryanmallady.bsky.social · 24/09/2026In a Civ 7 Q&A session on the upcoming Arc of Tomorrow and Earthrise expansions, this answer made me the most excited. Currently, the game turns into a visual mess halfway through the exploration age, and it needs these reforestation and green-space improvements to clean up the clutter. 010
Ryan Mallady @ryanmallady.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Sure, I'll take a +475 yield Ulema please and thank you. 100
Ryan Mallady @ryanmallady.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Base case scenario for the Kirimāḫu, surrounded by districts in a city that I haven't yet been able to replace with a wonder. My beautiful mid little Kirimāḫu. 000
Ryan Mallady @ryanmallady.bsky.social · 23/09/2026At the very least, they could've interviewed more fish before hiring him. 011
Reposted by Ryan MalladyCedar Riener @criener.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Every innovation and change in business these days is either: We took this product you like and turned it into a subscription We took this subscription you begrudgingly pay and added some ads We took these ads you found annoying and found more ways to find you 14713219
Reposted by Ryan Malladyjenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"i have created the machine that thinks." you fucked up a perfectly good graphics card is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety 3570081627
Ryan Mallady @ryanmallady.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Lastly, Babylon leans hard into specialists. It's nice to have niche civs, but I don't like how specialists are handled now. It's a puzzle with only one right answer (surround a key quarter with wonders) that lacks choice and creativity. The numbers go brrr is fun but wish there were more options. 100
Ryan Mallady @ryanmallady.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The Kirimāḫu has to be one of the weakest uniques in the game. You don't need the early food because you grow by wonders & buildings, then you grow so big you outgrow food entirely. Placing it centrally in your city gives the most food adjacency, but that's better used for a wonder. Nearly useless. 200
Ryan Mallady @ryanmallady.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Tried the new Civ 7 Babylon this weekend. Typically love my Mesopotamian civs, but it's weird to play a cradle of civilization civ that's so weak in antiquity. The early city growth is nice, but the settlement cap is so onerous it feels like it takes until exploration age to finally get going. 100
Ryan Mallady @ryanmallady.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Me hitting like on this thread.static.klipy.comWill Ferrell as Buddy the Elf Pressing ButtonsAlt: Will Ferrell as Buddy in "Elf" gleefully pressing all the buttons in the elevator. 001
Ryan Mallady @ryanmallady.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Elizabeth always wanted to reclaim an English presence on the continent. :) With her attention focused on France, and the Privy Council watching her cousin Mary, nobody noticed the rise of the true usurper back home, the Countess of Lovelace. 000
Ryan Mallady @ryanmallady.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Wish there was a way to better incorporate the city-planning introduced in 6/7 without losing the continental scale of previous iterations. 000
Ryan Mallady @ryanmallady.bsky.social · 18/09/2026No equivocating. -- "Well yeah, of course we will" should be the matter-of-fact response of every Democrat to the question of whether they'll tear down all these vast and trunkless legs of stone to this half-sunk man with frown and wrinkled lip. 000
Ryan Mallady @ryanmallady.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I stopped giving my money to the bank. Why keep losing money like that? It’s simple really if you think about it. 000
Ryan Mallady @ryanmallady.bsky.social · 16/09/2026No shade on the artists, who absolutely cooked on this one. This is just about how the game was designed. 000
Ryan Mallady @ryanmallady.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Culture needs an entire expansion to flesh out, bringing back great works and national parks etc. The restriction of one great work type per age - with no art, music, or literature - is absurd. Excited to see how they handle films, but skeptical considering how shallow the other great works are. 000
Ryan Mallady @ryanmallady.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I imagine the science civs will be mostly saved for Arc & Earthrise. 010
Ryan Mallady @ryanmallady.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Is Civ 7 an aesthetically beautiful game? Yes, absolutely! And also, uh - no. 110
Ryan Mallady @ryanmallady.bsky.social · 14/09/2026"Architect" is a bit much though. That implies ideas, or a plan of some sort. 1101
Ryan Mallady @ryanmallady.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I don't care what that one guy said, those two cities aren't *that* far apart... 001
Ryan Mallady @ryanmallady.bsky.social · 10/09/2026"Believe me, Daredevil is our true public enemy!" 000
![Niyazov became a substitute for the vacuum left by the downfall of the communist system, with his image replacing those of Marx and Lenin. During his rule, Niyazov created a strong cult of personality around himself, which resembled the one around the Kim dynasty in North Korea and the Gaddafi regime in Libya. He renamed the town of Jaňga and city of Krasnovodsk after his nickname Türkmenbaşy, and renamed schools, airports,[72] Ashgabat streets, and even a meteorite after himself and members of his family. The city of Kerki was renamed for his father, and city of Ýylanly for his mother. The doting actions of the official Turkmen media supported his cult of personality. The government renamed the months and most days of the week after symbols Niyazov wrote about. The national anthem of Turkmenistan referred to him. According to the newspaper Neytralny Turkmenistan physicians were ordered to swear an oath to the President, replacing the Hippocratic Oath.[64]
Statues and portraits of him were put everywhere throughout the country. In Ashgabat, he erected a rotating, $12 million, golden statue of himself that always faces the sun.[73][74][75] Niyazov gave every citizen a watch with his portrait in its dial.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kqqqm4rtbbwi4pnoptlgxqoe/bafkreigb2bs63eji6hhjrualhwhnpe3kcqymi7iqw57brpb73uhx2ku2s4)
