But that’s literally what you do, you build a starter factory to help you build a mid tier research factory which can then help you build a proper factory that can support megascale production

some people use the logic gates in the game to create basic computers to automate expansion

https://youtu.be/oP-jeBaPjmw?si=EFRQYKuJl8UepiVN

They got that mostly working

I cannot stress this enough if you're remotely worried you'd get addicted you definitely should NOT play. I used to do opioids and I'm not exaggerating this game was more addictive for me. Like lose your job addictive. I'm adhd and on the ASD and absolutely obsessed with the concept of optimization. The thing is you'll never really reach peak automation unless you do like this project, 400 people 10,000s of hours.

I'll give you another reference point. I've also played wow, Arma Life, and Foxhole, all very common addicting games. I'd sit down to play one of those with a beer and after a ~3-5 hours and a few beers I'd take a break and notice time went by. Factorio I'd sit down at 6pm and never touch my beer, never move an inch from my seat and think a few hours went by when it's now 8am and I only notice 14 hours went by because I see fucking sun light.

Fuck this video really makes me wanna play again haha.

Just don't start it in the evening. You will lose your whole night.

Don't worry, you can't craft hooks in Factorio.

be very afraid

Last time I played it was in college. I tried it out, and played my first game while relaxing before bed at 10:00 PM. I never ended up going to bed, and only realized I played all night when I heard my roommate making breakfast at 8:00 the next morning. I ended up uninstalling after the next time I played it, the same thing happened. After uninstalling it I was still thinking about optimization.

This game is too addictive. Calling it cracktorio is absolutely accurate.

I think I know what needs to be done too but... How are we going to get Emma Watson's shoes?

It's because they don't want to trivialize the refueling puzzle part of the game.

There is a mod for that, https://mods.factorio.com/mod/ElectricTrains

There's a mod for electric trains. Actually there are several.

kills my immersion

Bruh the game is not trying to immerse you it's a puzzle.

Yeah they’re going way beyond what a single game session can handle. ~500GB of RAM combined!

RTFA (yes)

It's also just a game. No one needs it to be productive.

Edit, ok actually looked at Mindustry. It looks fun, but it's also nothing like Factorio. Don't know why you brought it up.

Besides, even if Factorio isn't open source, it is available for Linux as a DMR free download. We should be supporting it.

Open source is more important for productivity software. Servers, Office Suites, Graphics and Game Engines. The game itself isn't as important for opensource, as a game company changing the play mechanics wont effect someone's income.

I might've missed it, but what's that got to do with the article?

I spend too much time on lemmy: I immediately assumed your comment was a meta-joke about lemmy, since every post about a software has a comment about its foss analogue. But now I'm unsure whether you were serious or not. Anyway it made me lol.

lol

He referenced a developer in a blog post who has some problematic "old school tech" ideas. When people told him to add a trigger warning to his blog post he told them to shove it up their ass. Then reddit did a reddit and tried to cancel him.

Tldr no

He referenced a talk about programming made by a conservative guy called uncle bob, in a blog post and doubled down that he doesn't care

The talk used to be referenced often but now less for both some of the technical principles falling out of fashion, and the author just pushing bad take after bad take thinking he's 10 steps ahead while staying 20 steps behind because he can't tell the difference. And also the conservative stuff

https://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2018/12/14/SJWJS.html

https://twitter.com/unclebobmartin/status/981218164427165701

https://twitter.com/unclebobmartin/status/1088552799753945088

It was all just a "do we separate art from the artist" discussion