It might be worth to link to the original source: https://www.designroom.site/spore-an-oral-history/

Design Room is a new online magazine authored by one of the writers laid-off by Vox Media when it acquired Polygon.
You can read the Oral Histories after a free subscription.

Have you played it? The main setting of Spore is the Creature Stage. So far, in Thrive, only the microbe stage is available.

We remember it as awesome, because we played it when we were very young. The Creature Stage still almost is, but the rest of the game is not.

I think they are referring to one of the showcased demos of Spore, of which the most prominent is the 2005 GDC one.

https://spore.fandom.com/wiki/Removed_features#Creature_Stage

Behavior of creatures

The behavior of the creatures also had more depth than the final game. In today’s Spore creatures rarely leave the perimeter of their nest, and possibly has a simpler ecosystem (until Space Stage). This feature was prominent in earlier versions, as in the footage of the 2005 version, small creatures hopped around, grazed, or simply wandered off with no nests for them.

I love Spore, but replaying it today I see how much is missing from making each stage really fleshed-out. Being honest, the Creature Stage is clearly what received the most attention, while subsequent Stages are not as fun.
A lot of it is to be attributed to Maxis and Will Wright: apparently much of what was shown in 2005 and 2006 was never really playable.
But things like this suggest a heavy involvement of the publisher as well:

During the SXSW 2007 demo, Will Wright said that the Aquatic Stage was on the verge of being cut. He also said that, if cut, the Aquatic Stage would be one of the first things to add via an expansion pack, though ultimately no such expansion was released.

There was a plan to add the Aquatic Stage into the full game via an expansion pack titled “The Depths”, although it was never publicly announced. except for one advertisement.

But no Discord.

So you can actually register a bunch of numbers under the same name

You can already do that with the ubiquitous vCard format.

Anno 1800 is a great game.

It is, in the way that it takes away jobs from people, but Lemmy seems to not realise the parallel.

People still need to earn money, though. You advocate for all cashiers to lose their job.

(I have been a cashier in an electronics store and loved the task, minus the customer relations.)

You are not faster than a cashier.

Why would they pay more cashiers if you shop there anyway?

You can really feel the thrill of discovery and exploration.
Also I am glad that Nintendo is finally taking a political stance wath that sentence at the end.

That is up to The Pokémon Company.

It doesn’t work for anyone. People use up their vacation days.

A lot of programs and services I use are not present so I did not include those alternatives.
Of those I included, I use only a few, too. These are sane alternatives for the common user.

ReFra too, it’s almost perfect.

uBlock and Privacy Badger should not be used together.

See: https://eddrit.com/r/firefox/comments/o28yi4/ghostery_on_firefox/#%3A~%3Atext=ago-%2CPrivacy%2Cfingerprinting

Not everyone uses a powerful smartphone.
«Works for me» is seldom a good advice. OsmAnd is perfect on my Google Pixel 4a (2020), but can’t run decently on my father’s Sony Xperia L3 (2019).

No, only the OsmAnd Start cloud features.
It syncs Favourites, Settings and OSM edits/notes

https://osmand.net/docs/user/personal/osmand-cloud/#osmand-start

Florisboard also exists, which has more features than e.g. Fossify.

I use Unexpected Keyboard because it lets me write in many different languages with the same layout, and I don’t have to go on an expedition to find a special glyph.