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Reply to FELH 3.01 beta fix for AI Tactical Summons on Steam in Fallen Enchantress Stardock.net Forums

Hey all — just dropping by to share some exciting news for anyone still keeping an eye on Fallen Enchantress and the Elemental series. We recently announced Elemental: Reforged — it’s basically the “finally doing it right” version of what the original Elemental games were aiming for back in the day. It pulls together mechanics and ideas from <e

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Reply to The Political Machine candidates update request in Other Stardock Games Stardock.net Forums

Hey Ranger — just came across your post (apologies for the very delayed response!). Really appreciate your suggestion about being able to toggle candidates for a more realistic election simulation in The Political Machine 2024 . That’s a smart idea, and I’ve passed it along to the team for consideration. If you’re still

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Reply to Forever Internet and GenX in Life, the Universe and Everything Stardock Forums

If Gen X catches heat for being blunt online, I’d argue Boomers often skip the filter entirely. Generally both understand the rules—namely, how free speech works—and they also mostly understand you can simply ignore someone. The real divide traces back to how we raised and educated people. We moved away from schools rooted in Christian morality and classical education—designed to shape minds throug

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Reply to "You are what you eat." in Artificial Intelligence WinCustomize Forums

It makes me wonder if AI will ever truly function without human oversight. The more I use it, the more I see how quickly it can hallucinate or completely lose the plot—especially with each loop of revisions or input after the original request. OpenAI’s image models have improved a lot lately (especially with text), but gibberish still creeps in. I’ve started feeding images back into the AI to ask it what went wrong. Sometimes it catches the

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Reply to Adventures With MacOS in Personal Computing Stardock.net Forums

Congrats, Kona! Installing Windows 11 on your Mac mini and having it outperform Windows 10 is no small feat. It sounds like you’ve struck gold with stability and game compatibility. One thing that’s helped me in similar setups is simply disabling any unnecessary startup apps before booting into Windows—frees up RAM and cuts down on background noise without diving into driver tweaks. <p data-start="371" data-end="651" data-is-last-node="" da

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Reply to PC Gaming in 2025 in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Jafo" reply="2" id="3965762"] Someone will hit me but I'm still playing Spider Solitaire....the one that dates back to XP. [e digicons];)[/e] [/quote] Bringing back the nostalgia with that one—my parents loved that game too. 🙂 Since we’re talking about what we’re all playing lately (and what we always seem to go back to), for me it’s my Nintendo 64 and Legend of Ze

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Reply to View Desktop in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

That skinny “Show Desktop” strip is easy to miss, so a wider click target makes sense. Start11 v2 doesn’t expose a setting for it yet, but the dev team watches threads like this when sizing up new options—your idea helps bump it up the list. Until then, two low-effort work-arounds might spare some mis-clicks: <p data-sta

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Reply to Where to start in Help WinCustomize Forums

I stumbled on this thread while poking around—had to say, seeing your progress from those first screenshots to now is really impressive. I’ve never made a skin myself, but watching you take this on (and with Paint Shop Pro no less!) makes me think maybe I should give it a try. I don’t have an answer on the “exact slice sizes” but your approach of building the full image first sounds spot on. I

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First Impressions: Fences 6 Is the Desktop Organizer I Never Knew I Needed in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

As someone new to Stardock’s Fences, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect when I installed the newest version. Within a few minutes, it became clear that this is one of those “why doesn’t Windows already do this?” kind of tools. If you’ve ever used your desktop as a catch-all for everything—downloads, shortcuts, quick notes—Fences makes that chaos manageable. If you use your desktop as a task list—you will be in he

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Reply to Are Iconians really “good guys” in Galactic Civilizations? in Galactic Civilizations IV Stardock Forums

Who judges “good”? Iconian virtue shifts with the era you focus on. Pre-Yor, they look like utopian engineers; after creating—and later trying to leash—the Yor, their halo slips. From my (Christian-flavored) lens it echoes the classic fall: a maker facing rebellion and answering with control, not humility. Yet their culture still reaches for something better—maybe redemption. Game-wise, that baked-in +2 Benevolent ideology per colo

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Reply to Adventures With MacOS in Personal Computing Stardock.net Forums

Your Mac-mini detour echoes my own OS hopscotch: cut my teeth on MS-DOS, laid out high-school yearbooks on a set of four Beatle-named beige Macs (Ringo, John, Paul and George) then spent years shuttling print files between both worlds. I still default to Windows—compatibility is king—but I miss macOS’s application structure, its easy system font management, and the way ColorSync keeps images honest. My biggest hurdle is muscle memory: Cmd-versus

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Why CursorFX Is Still Fun After All These Years in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

What is CursorFX? CursorFX is a Windows customization tool that lets you replace the standard cursor icon set with almost anything you can imagine. Originally launched in the early 2000s, this little gem has never lost its appeal. <img src="https://cdn.stardock.us/forums/75/4/7504932/557cc6c8-8a96-4b13-922a-9783a9751b19.png" alt="" widt

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Reply to How F’Rak and D’Ara were made in Life, the Universe and Everything Stardock.net Forums

Your write-up on F’Rak and D’Ara is a great peek behind the modding curtain. If you’re up for it, maybe share the campaign file or a Steam link so other players can see how you paced their story beats. I’m curious—did the game’s AI ever catch you off-guard, especially in scenes where the two pilots interact? And if you’ve thought about porting them into GalCiv IV, how might the newer ideology system reshape their relationship? Anyone else tried turnin

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Reply to Recommend me a book for 2025 in Movies & TV & Books WinCustomize Forums

Love seeing Bobiverse mentioned—it’s one of the few series that made me laugh, think, and root for AI all at once. I’ve read and enjoyed The Expanse too, which totally scratched that space-politics-meets-action itch. I also liked Ready Player One for its fast pacing and fun tech nost

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Reply to "Tales of the Arnor" DLC Launches Today for GalCiv IV in GalCiv News GalCiv4 Forums

This weekend looks like the perfect time to dig into Tales of the Arnor , so I’m setting up a fresh playthrough. Has anyone taken the new Nyx civ for a spin yet? I’m curious how they differ from the Yor after a few turns. Do they feel over- or underpowered, whether you’re playing as them or facing them? <p class="" data-start="309" data-en

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WindowBlinds: For the Novice and the Pro in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Everyone loves a personal touch—I certainly do. From the clothes we pick to the way we style our living rooms, customizing is in our DNA (remember coloring on the walls with crayons and getting in trouble for it?). That urge to make things uniquely ours isn't just about the real world; it applies to our digital world, too. Sure, you can swap out your wallpaper in seconds, but

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