u/OverBiscotti1568

In real strategy, how you win changes what comes next.

Burn a city to take it.. you have the territory and a degraded supply chain. Break a treaty to gain ground.. every other faction just updated their model of who you are.

Neither of those is in the score, but I think both of them matter more than the score.

The genre almost never models this. You win the tile. The calculation ends. Crusader Kings gets close - reputation is a real resource that closes doors downstream. Into the Breach gets close - every action has a cost even in a perfect turn. Both feel different because they model the aftermath, not just the outcome.

What I keep noticing: the games where winning feels meaningful are the ones where a bad win is actually worse than a narrow loss. Most designers never build that in because it's harder to communicate and players complain about it until they understand it.

The ones who get it never go back to games that don't have it.

So I started with an RTL-SDR and it feels like I spent most of my time staring at noise (I’m fairly new to this hobby). I’ve spent more time reading about gain settings than capturing anything useful. Is this normal or am I going about this wrong

Have a lot of people here sat down ever to figure out just how much their debt cost in interest every year? I did it this morning and I almost wish I didn’t, because it was worse than I expected. Significantly..just wondering how many people have done this

Genuine question. Every other industry moved to structured data formats years ago. CAD files get flattened to PDF on export and everything downstream - estimating, procurement, AI tools - has to work from what is essentially a photograph of the information.

Is this just widely accepted as cost of doing business?

So I went down a rabbit hole last month.

Civil engineers are still manually re-scaling drawings every single time a PDF gets exported - every single time?!

It’s because the software that runs this entire industry uses a font format from 1982, and because AutoCAD's SHX font exports to PDF as geometric line art — not text.

…so the drawing is effectively invisible to every AI tool, every search engine, *every modern platform*

Autodesk knows this - and they haven't fixed it in 40 years because fixing it breaks their export revenue model.

So thousands of engineers just... do it manually. Every day, in every project, everywhere in the world.

I built something about this. Not because I'm a civil engineer - far from it. I build products for people and this one came along.

It’s a strange set of circumstances - an individual in the right place at the right time with the right tools poking around in the right way for a bit vs. billion dollar industry behemoths and I end up making a better product *because the big guys can't fix what's broken without cannibalising themselves*

Anyway. Thought this sub might find the business angle interesting. The incumbents-protecting-a-broken-status-quo pattern shows up everywhere once you start looking for it.

Anyone else building in spaces where the big players literally cannot compete without self-destructing?

Genuinely - bright people with the right set of circumstances have a shot at massive corporations in a way that just did not exist a few years ago. I know because I got obsessed with building software 6 months ago and disappeared down that rabbit hole, doing little else, and figured it out for myself while doing preliminary work for a potential client. I built a demo and then an actual v 1.0 product that solves the problem of AUTOCAD drawings losing scale integrity…among many other things.

Who else is thinking in these terms? I think many billion dollar multinational conglomerate behemoths are becoming much like dinosaurs - too big for their own good, way too vulnerable and exposed to the small but persistent little insects such as myself that are annoying enough to derail the apex predators.

Thoughts?