January 2015 Media Thread

ArisKatsaris

This is the monthly thread for posting media of various types that you've found that you enjoy. Post what you're reading, listening to, watching, and your opinion of it. Post recommendations to blogs. Post whatever media you feel like discussing! To see previous recommendations, check out the older threads.

Rules:

Please avoid downvoting recommendations just because you don't personally like the recommended material; remember that liking is a two-place word. If you can point out a specific flaw in a person's recommendation, consider posting a comment to that effect.
If you want to post something that (you know) has been recommended before, but have another recommendation to add, please link to the original, so that the reader has both recommendations.
Please post only under one of the already created subthreads, and never directly under the parent media thread.
Use the "Other Media" thread if you believe the piece of media you want to discuss doesn't fit under any of the established categories.
Use the "Meta" thread if you want to discuss about the monthly media thread itself (e.g. to propose adding/removing/splitting/merging subthreads, or to discuss the type of content properly belonging to each subthread) or for any other question or issue you may have about the thread or the rules.

Rules:

Please avoid downvoting recommendations just because you don't personally like the recommended material; remember that liking is a two-place word. If you can point out a specific flaw in a person's recommendation, consider posting a comment to that effect.
If you want to post something that (you know) has been recommended before, but have another recommendation to add, please link to the original, so that the reader has both recommendations.
Please post only under one of the already created subthreads, and never directly under the parent media thread.
Use the "Other Media" thread if you believe the piece of media you want to discuss doesn't fit under any of the established categories.
Use the "Meta" thread if you want to discuss about the monthly media thread itself (e.g. to propose adding/removing/splitting/merging subthreads, or to discuss the type of content properly belonging to each subthread) or for any other question or issue you may have about the thread or the rules.

I've been playing Endless Legend and enjoying it a lot. It's a Civilization-style/4X PC game in a fantasy/post-post-apocalypse setting, but with some nice changes that elegantly improve on Civ in some ways. Also has good art, pretty decent world-building, and 8 unusually varied factions to choose from. On the downside it still doesn't solve all the late-game issues with Civ and the tactical combat is not very compelling (but can be skipped). Like any game in this genre, be warned that it can consume a lot of time.

Endless Legend has some improvements over Civ, but also some specific things that rub me the wrong way; as a lot of the changes I dislike are closely tied to changes I like, I expect this might be a taste thing.

Cities automatically work every adjacent hex; population can be allocated to any of the resources at some rate adjusted mostly by the hero governor, and cities can be expanded to be adjacent to more hexes. But there are predefined regions and cities can only work hexes inside their region, and there can only be one city per region- and so many spo

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