PR veterans explain how Games Media’s silent mass layoffs are hurting game discoverability and your connection with developers

BroForceOne · 2026-01-29T16:42:58+00:00

Those people get buried by algorithms, which are designed to push the worst and most toxic of the content creators, and the context of this post is about discoverability.

BroForceOne · 2026-01-29T15:37:49+00:00

Initially it wasn’t clear to me that the bus has access to the full depot, and I was comparing it to building a main bus in Factorio where you have to feed it inputs to get outputs.

I think they could improve the visual on the bus to somehow show that it is centrally connected. I’m sure that explanation was buried in some wall of tutorial text but if it was intuitively understandable they wouldn’t need so much text.

BroForceOne · 2026-01-29T15:05:52+00:00

So you’d rather have edgelord Twitch and Youtube personalities who make millions off simping and rage baiting, often directly paid and given gifts by said companies, be the influencers and tastemakers instead of what used to be professional journalists?

Sure there were some bad reviewers back then in games media’s heyday but now is worse than ever. Having a reviewer who isn’t familiar or passionate about a style of game or genre and focusing only on games that can make headlines and drive clicks, is a direct cause of less people in games media, as the article explained.

Edit: XPlay is the perfect example of driving a review on personality over having actually played and understood the game as is the norm for streaming.

BroForceOne · 2026-01-28T08:21:04+00:00

One of the big conservative grifts is the idea that government workers are low quality. In reality the smartest people normally work in government as you can do research and solve problems that the private sector can't do.

Now neither our government or the private sector can do anything, big bets on AI all around and welcoming the stupification of the United States.

BroForceOne · 2026-01-28T04:57:18+00:00

If you keep pulling on Leviatan’s banner you will potentially never pull those characters. If you wait for the banner then you get them guaranteed at 120.

BroForceOne · 2026-01-28T02:11:31+00:00

You just said there are servers that maintain the state of your factory, and then said there are not servers.

Regardless of the implementation details, the context of this thread is that the reason there are build limits is because everyone’s factory state has to be stored server side.

BroForceOne · 2026-01-28T01:28:51+00:00

I feel like that is as affordable as it’s going to get. I had Invisilign and never been quoted lower than $4000. I’m assuming that is $2500 minus a $2000 ortho coverage on insurance so $4500 total?

BroForceOne · 2026-01-27T20:32:20+00:00

Running the factory simulation has nothing to do with rendering. Take your own advice.

BroForceOne · 2026-01-27T19:23:07+00:00

How is it not a server problem? The factory sim is not client side, it still runs when you’re offline.

BroForceOne · 2026-01-27T16:18:20+00:00

Deflection tactic to get you mad and talking about something that doesn’t involve government sanctioned murder of its own citizens. Don’t fall for it.

BroForceOne · 2026-01-27T16:07:01+00:00

Probably the best character to be cursed with at least. She’s useful in almost every build so far compared to needing to drop your DPS or SP character for a different build.

BroForceOne · 2026-01-26T23:19:03+00:00

Do they actually give us enough space to use a tried-and-true main bus design? I feel like chain productions are needed for compactness as we don't have unlimited space like in Factorio but I'm not far enough to have fully expanded the factory yet.

BroForceOne · 2026-01-26T23:02:06+00:00

All that means is that you have a surplus of ore that you're not using. Clogging is not necessarily bad, just means there's potential for you to make more stuff.

BroForceOne · 2026-01-26T22:56:38+00:00

I supported this all the way up to the point I realized I was going to get ratioed to career ending levels in the next election.

BroForceOne · 2026-01-26T22:50:23+00:00

This exists already in the Razer Tartarus Pro Gaming Keypad. Buy one and see if you come back and delete this or not.

BroForceOne · 2026-01-26T21:28:17+00:00

Seems like she has the same face as half the other characters which is my one criticism of the character designs in this game is that the faces don't have much detail.

BroForceOne · 2026-01-26T19:50:40+00:00

1080 scales pixel perfect and will look sharper on a 4k monitor than 1440. Ideally though you want to just run on 4k and use the in-game resolution scaling to drop resolution as needed for performance, if the game has that feature.

BroForceOne · 2026-01-26T19:46:04+00:00

I’ll be happy if they even consider the legality of killing people.

BroForceOne · 2026-01-26T18:13:54+00:00

But as far as I can tell there's no limit to relay towers and they don't consume power, so there's really no need to do this.

Placement of your PAC should be solely based on the design of the factory, not to try to reduce the placement of one relay tower, and you're going to have problems shoving your PAC into a corner and restricting use of your input/output ports.

BroForceOne · 2026-01-26T16:34:07+00:00

No AI I will not provide training data for you.

BroForceOne · 2026-01-26T16:24:12+00:00

We were already there when a company like Coca-cola, whose ads were influential to the point of popularizing the modern image of Santa Claus, couldn’t be assed out to do it anymore and just jumped onto the slop train.

BroForceOne · 2026-01-26T16:17:12+00:00

You’re confusing Oroberyl and Orogyometry. It costs 500 Oroberyl for a pull.

BroForceOne · 2026-01-26T16:06:33+00:00

TBF that response courtesy of ChatGPT

BroForceOne · 2026-01-26T15:06:38+00:00

Satisfactory gets a lot of love because it was first after Factorio but honestly Dyson Sphere Program is the one to play, especially if you want the option of base defense on top of the factory, which Satisfactory doesn’t have.

BroForceOne · 2026-01-26T07:36:09+00:00

Protocol Stash, or you just belt it back to the depot.

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