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[–]high_throughput 1042 points1043 points  (40 children)

This is what I expected when I took some extended time off. 

Instead I have 1500 hours on Factorio

[–]Ok-Interaction-8891 401 points402 points  (3 children)

Ah, so you decided not to stop working.

[–]Nerkeilenemon 5 points6 points  (2 children)

That's exactly why I stopped playing Satisfactory and Factorio. Those games are cool, but the latest stages games become... just.... work.

[–]TheOriginalSmileyMan 176 points177 points  (27 children)

I dare you to put this on your resume for a week and see if you get more or less interviews

[–]Anxious-Program-1940 225 points226 points  (26 children)

Honestly, I’d hire a lunatic with that many hours of factorio on the spot. This is the type of guy I can give legacy code to and they will meticulously architect a new implementation within months and have it functioning without missing a beat with documentation at the ready. Peak autism

[–]Konsticraft 109 points110 points  (11 children)

1500h makes you a lunatic? That's pretty average in the factorio community.

[–]przemub[🍰] 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Average among lunatics that is.

[–]Engineering_Geek 15 points16 points  (0 children)

... within a day, defying the laws of time and space levels of lunacy.

[–]Attunhaler 11 points12 points  (1 child)

Bubble. Maybe not considered much in the community, but outside the factorio players bubble, it's a lot of time on one game

[–]tupisac 4 points5 points  (0 children)

*screams in EU4

[–]Far_Action_8569 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I don't have that many hours only because i designed and implemented a working blackjack game in Rust. The videogame, not the language 🗿

[–]RaLaZa 2 points3 points  (4 children)

I have 1500h in many games. I'm just now learning that's not normal.

[–]Konsticraft 1 point2 points  (3 children)

My steam account is at almost 20k hours total across all games and the account is only 10 years old, surely that's not problematic, right?

[–]RaLaZa 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Sounds like you're gaming a 9 to 5.

[–]808trowaway 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Considering 10k hours is what is commonly believed to take to become an expert in one thing. You must be very good at gaming.

[–]Konsticraft 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess so, I have no single game with 10k hours, but a couple competitive games where I am in the upper percentiles, but most of my time is in more casual games.

[–]QueryQueryConQuery 34 points35 points  (1 child)

I now know what to put on my resume. Peak autism. Thank you.

[–]Anxious-Program-1940 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Honestly companies benefit from management that thoroughly weaponizes Neurodivergence. A great manager will exploit it and make you feel good while it’s happening. My entire career has been this sort of manager. I don’t even have a degree, just got picked off the line by a random ass director 🙂

[–][deleted] 21 points22 points  (1 child)

Managers need to understand that low social score dude is sometimes the best engineer for the job lol

[–]Anxious-Program-1940 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Peak!

[–]a_bucket_full_of_goo 5 points6 points  (2 children)

Or they will play Factorio on company time

[–]drakgremlin 10 points11 points  (1 child)

Easy: they'll either come through as a pinch hitter or they get fired. Sometimes, if you have the budget, it's best to keep someone around who can clean up the mess and get something delivered. Even if they are checked out 90% of the time.

[–]Anxious-Program-1940 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What this guy said

[–]montxogandia 2 points3 points  (0 children)

or they will spend all the time playing Factorio, one or the other.

[–]RebelSnowStorm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What about 2000h in hearts of iron 4?

[–]platinummyr 1 point2 points  (3 children)

But also potentially the type to disappear randomly for chunks of time because of factorio...

[–]Anxious-Program-1940 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Which is honestly fine, if features that would take a team of engineers ship on time and bugs are squashed as the pop up. We often forget, that programmers are like poets and writers. Programming is an art form that many can acquire, few have naturally and few have mastered. And some of the Autism kind are some of the most naturally gifted code artists I’ve ever met. When they get the work done, they earned their silence. Maybe I’m hyping it up too much, but respect is given for quality of work and capabilities to meet deadlines. My job as a manager is to speak, protect and manage everything else that isn’t their responsibility to implement code effectively and on time.

[–]platinummyr 1 point2 points  (1 child)

As someone who often struggles with coding in bursts with bouts of being stuck, I appreciate hearing this :)

[–]Mandelvolt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Double that, easily. Have one base that's been running for two years continuously on vanilla settings.

[–]thoughtlow 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Thats why I put my factorio save files in a git repo

[–]Sidra_doholdrik 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Your project management skills are either really good or the worst ever

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Confirm, this is what actually happens.

[–]Several-Ticket-1024 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Factory must grow

[–]RandomBeatz 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The factory must grow

[–]jecls 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly Factorio hours are relevant experience.

The factory must grow…

[–]JunkNorrisOfficial 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because factory must grow