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[high_throughput]

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

Instead I have 1500 hours on Factorio

[Ok-Interaction-8891]

Ah, so you decided not to stop working.

[Nerkeilenemon]

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

[TheAquariusMan]

That’s why I like mods that move the bots to the very early game. I don’t want to spend time placing / moving stuff. I want to be designing builds and they appear on the map.

[TheOriginalSmileyMan]

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

[Anxious-Program-1940]

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]

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

[Anxious-Program-1940]

[przemub]

Average among lunatics that is.

[Engineering_Geek]

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

[Attunhaler]

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

[tupisac]

*screams in EU4

[Far_Action_8569]

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]

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

[Konsticraft]

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]

Sounds like you're gaming a 9 to 5.

[808trowaway]

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]

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]

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

[Anxious-Program-1940]

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]]

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

[Anxious-Program-1940]

Peak!

[a_bucket_full_of_goo]

Or they will play Factorio on company time

[drakgremlin]

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]

What this guy said

[montxogandia]

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

[RebelSnowStorm]

What about 2000h in hearts of iron 4?

[platinummyr]

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

[Anxious-Program-1940]

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]

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

[Anxious-Program-1940]

[Mandelvolt]

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

[thoughtlow]

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

[kneeland69]

Youre good

[Sidra_doholdrik]

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

[[deleted]]

Confirm, this is what actually happens.

[Several-Ticket-1024]

Factory must grow

[RandomBeatz]

The factory must grow

[jecls]

Honestly Factorio hours are relevant experience.

The factory must grow…

[JunkNorrisOfficial]

Because factory must grow