Same. I'm not a god, I'm not gonna pretend to be.
Yeah, I'm calling myself "cautiously pessimistic" on this one. Coffee Stain's leadership has proven they know what the hell they're doing, but being directly under the thumb of shareholders going forward is a powerful force for enshittification. Being based in Sweden, where they have strong regulations on workers rights should be a good balance, but we'll just have to wait and see how all the powers balance out.
Regarding the bonus question: underclocking. You'll unlock that in the MAM eventually, and that'll let you scale diwnstream machines back to match the upstream, instead of only being able to scale the upstream up to match the downstream.
Trying to make production lines all balance to run a single end machine at 100% is a nice goal, but it falls apart pretty quickly early-game. Some products are just REALLY slow, and you might not feel comfortable early game with scaling up your upstream production THAT much.
Me personally, I don't recommend trying to build "permanent" factories until about the time you get Mk.4 belts.
I mean, Nazis fighting is Nazis fighting, sure, but it's still all running over an undercurrent of Nazis veing in charge of the country.
Bro, we all already fucking knew that. This says WAY more about you than it does Trump.
Either you're just drawing the obvious conclusion, like the rest of us, in which case, this statement is pointless, and you're an idiot. Or you actually DO know it for a fact, and you've been cool with it, this entire time. Also, in case #2, we gotta wonder how you learned that fact. The obvious answer is "because you're on there, too".
Me for sure. Every so often, I'll pull something up just for the sake of some tears.
My go-tos include (in no particular order):
Probably some more I'm not thinking of, at the moment.
I love how he's got 2 Alaskas and 2 Hawaiis on the map, at the end.
Nah, Musk and Trump are both self-serving dipshits that care only about themselves, and have absolutely no capacity for foresight.
Is Musk really sincere in disliking Trump? Who knows. But he's sincere enough to be willing to (attempt to) ruin Trump's reputation, if he thinks it'll repair his own at all.
If you're asking whether Trump and Musk coordinated this feud, I'd say that's a hard "no".
The only REAL criteria for getting married, thst isn't just personal social preference, are as follows:
Is there any kind of social imbalance of power? Like a boss/employee relationship, a really big age gap, an extended prior relationship where one party was a an adult, and the other wasn't, that kinda thing. Any of those is a big red flag. Definitely doesn't sound like the case here.
Have you talked about marriage, casually? Like, has the relationship evolved enough that the topic has just come up, and neither of you has been clear that you're not ready? Sounds like that's indeed the case here.
Like, the only "time threshold" that really matters is that #2 part, whether the relationship has matured to that point. Every relationsholip evolves at a different pace, in this regard.
In short.... (top-right panel) https://www.questionablecontent.net/comics/3738.png
I played it for about 70 hours like 8 months ago, and quite enjoyed it. Will definitely go back, at some point, to see what's been improved. There's a REALLY solid foundation there, I think. I like to say it's the factorio/automation genre, but distilled down to nothing but the gameplay, in its purest, most-concentrated form. My wife and son picked it back up immediately today, when they realized the big update dropped.
One thing they've talked about doing is improving the high-level progression. Specifically, they said their concept for better progression will be that milestone products will feed into future milestones, rather than having them just get thrown away, just like you describe. Not sure if that's made it into the game yet, or not.
For $25 in Early Access, I think it's a deal. If you're really worried about there being enough gameplay/progression to keep you interested, wishlist it, and keep an eye on what the updates are adding.
What I want Supergiant to do is.... whatever the fuck they want.
Next floor is done.... except that I JUST realized upon looking at this picture that I forgot to paint the floor.
With everything on this floor except for the last wall done, there's one little addition I want to make...
ELEVATOR!
They are absolutely as awesome as they look. Coffee Stain REALLY outdid themselves. I don't think there's ever been a feature they've added that I didn't have at least SOME small criticism about, but not this one.
Last wall filled in.
WE BACK!
Yeah, I haven't burned out on the game quite yet, I just haven't had a gaming PC for about 2 weeks. We dismantled the entire office in order to get the wood floor resurfaced.
Anyway, let's get this Caterium mine built up.
Lovely. I'm enjoying getting to play with the new beam variants. Disappointed that the "Shelf" beams can't have a sign nudged into them, without covering it up (at least, not with half-meter nudging).
Now, the bridge between the 2 buildings.
Moving on to the first floor of the main building.
More tomorrow! (heading out-of-town for the weekend after that, though).
No comments today. Just a finished building.
Yeeeeessssssssssss.........
YEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSS.........
YEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSS!!!!
So, will all that squealing worked out of my system, I got the tower mostly finished. Still need to color it and maybe do some lighting or other detailing.
Was also able to confirm that, yes, we are still playing Satisfactory.
Well, this took like 4 hours to get right. Rather happy with it, thought.
I'm just gonna pretend this is a vertical splitter, until tomorrow.
Now, I'm not interested in building the full shell for this tower yet, not until I put in the vertical splitters, and verify that it all works, so I can't put in the final power lines. Instead I just plopped down some temporary connections.
Also put in some temporary ACTUAL splitters to work around the non-existing verticals.
Finally, I had to connect up the trunk lines from the off-site Refinery facilities.
Everything APPEARS to be running, so far. We'll see tomorrow, after a few hours, if there's any defects in the system.
Slapping a new floor down on top of the last one, we've got just a few more floors to build out.
This floor makes Caterium Circuit Boards for the lower two, and BOY did it turn out as a bit of a rat's nest.
The big issue with ALL of these floors has just been the sheer volume of Fused Quickwire needed. If I had built it all out on one floor, I would've needed 32 Assemblers, 3 belts JUST for the Copper Ingot, and 6 fully-saturated belts to move all the Quickwire output, and I was NOT interested in trying to build a balancing system for distributing those 6 belts across all the different production lines. So, instead I just dappled Quickwire Assemblers in among all the production lines, such that each one only feeds one or two downstream machines, and there's no concern for belt throughputs.
I'm quite happy with it all, although maybe I should save my satisfaction until after I prove it all works.
Next floor is much simpler, just making normal Cable from the last of the Copper Ingot.
And one final floor for sinking and uploading.
So, with all the machinery, in theory, built out, I need some resources to feed into them. So, I got all the beltwork brought over from the two Refinery buildings, and I should be ready to get it all connected up next time.
Next floor is for High-Speed Connectors.
Next factory floor is fully built out. Caterium Computers, in this case.
Built the setup today for Tempered Caterium Ingot production.
Today's gonna be prepwork for the remainder of the project we built the last two buildings for. That means more tubeway.
What's left on this project is a lot more convoluted than just dropping down like 80 Refineries, so I had to spend some time brainstorming and measuring layouts.
With a rough layout in mind, and measurements of how much space I THINK that'll need, it was time for building footprints. I decided to go with 2 separate buildings.
Since I needed to wait on concrete a bit to fully build out the foundations for those buildings, I went ahead and rebuilt that section of tubeway that I needed to raise up by 4 meters.
Then I finished the foundations and the rest of the new tubeway.
Alllllllllllrighty. So I played around for a little while, and came up with this as a support for the resource trunk line, running down the center of the building.
With that, I got all the rest of the belting and pipework built out.
Also, got all the rest of the power lines run.
So, with that, I figured it's time to power up and test everything. Which means I had to bring the main tubeway up to the building.
Also means I need to fill the Diluted Fuel loops with some canisters, so I went and harvested a bunch from the recycling facility.
Realized I needed pumps for all these Heavy Oil Residue lines.
Looks like everything is running now.
And with that, we're all set to move on to the final, primary manufacturing facility.
Alright, so the realization I had right at the end of yesterday was that I've forgotten a pair of Refineries. Decided to plop them in next to these 4 in the center, and shifted the entire chunk over to the left, to help some of the piping line up.
With those in place, I was able to finish out most of the logistics work for all these machines in the middle of the facility. That's all the Heavy Oil Residue and Polymer Resin dealt with.
Now, I'm toying with the idea of an elevated central bus of some kind to handle the rest of the logistics work. Still not sure where I want to go with this, design-wise, but I think I'm gonna use this concept of pillar supports.
See, when people say Democrats need to start DOING things to push back against Trump, this is what they're talking about.
Is this a foolproof idea? Probably not. Could it backfire? Possibly. Will it really help? If it makes the admin second-guess what it can get away with, yeah, that's helpful. This is the energy we need. Stop playing softball with these fascists.