Foundation: a beginner’s guide to setting up a successful first hour

Before you place a single building, you’ve already made the most important choice of the run.

You want the obvious stuff: wood, stone, berries. That’s table stakes. But the real early-game hero is fish. A river or coastal start gives you a food source that’s reliable, low-maintenance, and doesn’t require processing chains. Fish buys you time — and in Foundation, time is everything.

If you’re playing your first serious game, don’t crank difficulty or custom rules. This isn’t about proving you’re clever. It’s about learning how the systems breathe.

You don’t place roads. You let them happen.

This is the first mental reset Foundation (get it on Steam) asks of you.

There is no road tool. Villagers create paths simply by walking where they need to go. Those paths harden over time into roads. Your job isn’t to design infrastructure — it’s to encourage movement.

Avatar: Fire and Ash — Back to Pandora once again

Some movies just settle into your family rhythm, and Avatar ended up becoming one of ours. 

My better-half and I first caught it in theaters back in 2009, and years later, once the kids were old enough, it turned into one of those films we’d rewatch together, over and over. It just stuck. Especially with the kids.

When The Way of Water arrived, we made it a family outing on IMAX; the kind of big-screen moment you don’t forget. And because we clearly hadn’t had our fill, I went back a second time with the kids. They were all in, and honestly, so was I.

Now that Avatar: Fire and Ash is landing this December, we’re keeping the family tradition alive. The four of us will be there, heading back to Pandora like it’s a place you return to whenever you get the chance. And in a way, we have, every time we could. Between big-screen and home-screen rewatches and our 2018 visit to the Pandora attraction at Walt Disney World, it’s become one of those worlds that quietly works its way into your shared family history.

Eywa’eveng yìt ftu frakrr!

From wanderers to warp bubbles: why ‘Go Incredibly Fast’ feels like the next chapter

How Erik Wernquist and Dr. Harold “Sonny” White carry Carl Sagan’s spirit of exploration into the physics of tomorrow.

Directed by Erik Wernquist | Written by Erik Wernquist & Harold “Sonny” White | Narrated by Harold “Sonny” White | Music by Cristian Sandquist

For as long as we’ve had fire and stories, there’s been that one person staring past the edge of the village, wondering what’s out there.

“Go Incredibly Fast” feels like a love letter to that restless few — the wanderers who traded coastlines for continents, continents for worlds, and now, worlds for stars.

The short film, created by digital artist Erik Wernquist for the Limitless Space Institute, is narrated by aerospace engineer and warp-drive tinkerer Dr. Harold “Sonny” White. It’s less than five minutes long, but it plays like a quiet manifesto: a reminder that the open road never ended at the shore. 

It just moved… up, way up, into the stars.

It starts with a future that feels strangely ordinary.

We’ve made it to the Moon. To Mars. Maybe there are families in lava-tube suburbs on the lunar far side, kids kicking dust at the edge of a Martian canyon, people commuting between orbital habitats the way we take the bus.