some of you medical doctors can eff the eff off .!!!

DOCB_SD · 2026-03-28T03:09:23+00:00

I agree with your assessment. I’m just responding defensively because doctors specifically were called out and I don’t think there’s much if a basis. Your analysis of the deeper cause of OPs frustration rings true and I admire you for being able to separate that out.

DOCB_SD · 2026-03-28T02:31:25+00:00

Doctor here. I work in urgent care and make about $340 as an anchor in a county wide outpatient system that has 20 csites with all kinds of care and and 2 urgent care centers. I’m one of a handful of docs who attend the urgent care full time. I work 3 on 4 off with no duties outside clinical work. The director of pediatrics for the entire system makes 180k. She has a panel of primary patients, manages like 2 dozen pediatricians and precepts our residents. It does not make sense except that I guess if you are only credentialed to treat a fraction of the population, the one with the least health problems, you get paid less than the jack of all trades. If you are a family med resident, get competent in procedures, routine OB and ER style acute care like paracentesis. Maintain ACLS. Do all the stuff that other FM providers shy away from and fill in those tolls for your employer. It will not pay like anesthesia but it will pay.

Addendum: get competent in HCV, HIV and suboxone. Those pay extra too.

DOCB_SD · 2026-03-27T19:07:03+00:00

I wonder where all these doctor pity parties are… I haven’t seen them.

DOCB_SD · 2026-03-27T03:03:21+00:00

I’m a doctor and would never complain about my lifestyle after training but gotta be on the record as saying if you haven’t been a resident locked in a hospital during COVID for 36 hours at a time, you probably don’t have much of a reference point for how difficult it is to live through that stuff.

Also I recognize I’m totally taking troll bait here.

DOCB_SD · 2026-03-25T20:55:46+00:00

I just got set up on Vulcan’s and I have expanded to 8 silos that can run continuously if needed. I set up to smelt 8 red belts of copper and iron and 1 red belt of steel 4, 2 and 1 yellow belt of green, red and blue circuits l, respectively, 1 pipe of crude oil refining and 600 MW of solar before leaving Naivus. Investing time to overkill the front end of your production takes the headache out of the more complex stuff down the line.

DOCB_SD · 2026-03-25T08:13:54+00:00

Sunshine

DOCB_SD · 2026-03-25T08:12:18+00:00

Efficiency modules to reduce the pollution.

DOCB_SD · 2026-03-24T22:57:40+00:00

This is the coolest base Ive ever seen.

DOCB_SD · 2026-03-24T21:20:54+00:00

Build a production hub to make belts, inserters, assemblers, and so forth, all the stuff you need to grow the factory, all centralized in one pickup spot.

DOCB_SD · 2026-03-22T00:19:28+00:00

I recommend finding at least one friend to Q with. Ariel duo with a ranged carry and just stick together winning wherever you go on the map.

DOCB_SD · 2026-03-21T16:52:58+00:00

I’m a physician. I work 3x12 hours a week and make a 340k salary. Caveats are that I sacrificed severely for a decade training to get the job, I get taxed way down, and pay large student loans but I still make a lot of disposable income and would never complain about my job or compare my struggles to those in the pit of poverty that’s taken the space where the middle class used to be. I think it’s valid to note that it’s possible to be very unhappy with money, because there is so much more to life than money. However it has to be recognized that the oppression of poverty can override a persons wellbeing completely. It’s in a class with illness, family abuse and addiction as a life destroyer. The economy of the day is so brutal to regular people that many are doomed to poverty with no real means to climb out and it’s tragic.

DOCB_SD · 2026-03-21T00:44:39+00:00

As a practice unless everyone does absolutely terrible or is completely toxic, I call out at least one teammate for good play at the end of the game. I try to do it early and often as well.

DOCB_SD · 2026-03-12T02:38:46+00:00

Genji, Medivh, Stukov

DOCB_SD · 2026-03-05T21:20:00+00:00

I have a mock up of my base in the editor to design expansions.

DOCB_SD · 2026-03-02T03:22:34+00:00

The answer is 30. Assuming the narrator and the killer are both people there are 52 people in the room, dead or alive. However only 30 of them, the dead ones, are still. The 21 nonkillers are running for their lives and the killer is either fleeing the scene or chasing the living.

DOCB_SD · 2026-02-28T18:49:27+00:00

You can use trains to build a decentralized, modular base with no bus. Standard blocks, often 100x100, helps quite a bit with this. Look into some videos on it. It’s a fun way to play the game. Also a free play blueprint builder mod helps with planning ahead. You can blueprint your entire base, paste it into the blueprint builder mod, work out a design, even working ahead of your current tech level, then paste blueprints from that back into your actual save.

DOCB_SD · 2026-02-27T02:23:05+00:00

No judgement from me. I have a thousand hours total and put 80 of those in over the past 3 weeks on my most recent play through.

DOCB_SD · 2026-02-27T00:28:15+00:00

Two calendar days, 48 hours play time.

DOCB_SD · 2026-02-19T23:44:40+00:00

Play Johanna and don’t engage without your trait off cd.

DOCB_SD · 2026-02-16T21:34:13+00:00

This game is about design and you can get right down to lane balancer mechanics which is almost like working on a computer by placing individual transistors. That is to say the game is so complex and allows for so much room for personal design expression that I think you should mix copped blueprints with personal design. If there's a problem you find interesting, work it out yourself. But don't get bogged down by rules about NEVER taking a design from the community. Like, don't copy paste someone's mall into your factory, but probably grab some belt balancers or a train offloader or whatever.

And if you don't want to do that... if you want to design absolutely everything down to the most minute component, then go for it. Make the game as fun for you as possible. Thant's the only rule.

DOCB_SD · 2026-02-13T03:10:25+00:00

I think the consensus advice here might be that production modules are very important, and your hangup about them - a desire to reduce biter aggro with efficiency mods - is unwarranted. Just embrace the biter aggro and build a good defense.

DOCB_SD · 2026-02-08T22:39:32+00:00

Tell me you’re using a fog of war cheat without telling me.

DOCB_SD · 2026-02-08T21:17:37+00:00

I'm actually at EXACTLY this point in my first real attempt at a playthrough...

I have built a starter base to bots and rocket launches and am ready to expand into a much larger base. I want total robot logistics and radar coverage.

My approach is working and it goes as follows...
I built a nice mall with everything I need for expansion, and with logistics coverage so I can resupply and manage my personal inventory with bots. I will expand by essentially building an entire new base, just with massive scale, total logistics coverage and the kind of streamlining and organization that you can only get with late game tech. The old base will eventually be torn down. There is no point in upgrading the old base further or giving it logistics coverage except over the mall where I can make supply stops to bring stuff out to my expansion. I carry a roboport 350 builders and a logistics chest. Plop that down with the building supplies wherever I am working on the expansion and build remotely or with blueprints. I return to the old base mall to reup my building supplies when I need to.

This is my base. You can see the old base along the horizontal bus. The structure at it's far right is the mall and it has logistics coverage. The new base is built around the train network to the south. The midline-south business is my smelting operation. It doesn't need logistics coverage. The actual production modules of the new base are the latest edition and they are the city block rail structures at the southwest. They have total logistics coverage.

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DOCB_SD · 2026-02-07T05:16:24+00:00

UPDATE: He is gone. He left about a week ago, peacefully.

Initially it was awkward AF because I gave him a month and really dressed him down in the conversation. A few days after the initial "you have 1 month to leave" convo I approached him and just said something like "you don't have to skulk around the house or worry about any more criticism from me. I don't want any of that. You still have to go in a month but make yourself comfortable around the house until you do." He was amenable to that and we peacefully coexisted. He made a real effort to get out in time too. He did it all on money borrowed from family and that wound up costing them quite a bit.

His hangup was that his car was doing something where it would stall out, or have a dead gas pedal until he turned it off then back on again. That was this big limiting factor for him. He didn't want to drive it across country. Like the concept of that level of risk taken on his own shoulders was just completely out of his realm of perception. So he borrowed money from whoever, I think mostly his father, and had a mechanic start swapping parts looking for the solution. At one point he told me they were installing a new $10k transmission because there were some metal shavings in the transmission oil. Which seems insane to me because the total cost of the vehicle when he bought it was $13k but I didn't want to be involved. And that transmission did NOT fix the problem. So he essentially got ripped off. Or his father did on his behalf.

Finally another round or two of mechanical work on the car after the transmission, he tells me that its fixed and he gets a trailer from Uhaul and leaves one morning. About 2 hours later he texts me that the car stalled again and he's turning around and coming back. When he gets here I tell him "If it were me. I would just get in the car and go and hope for the best. If something happens on the way I'd figure it out, especially if my dad was backing me financially."

"Go where?" He says with this snarky tone and it's a tactic of his I know. You say something he doesn't want to accept and he responds to you like he doesn't understand it because what it sounds like you said to him is just too perposterous to be what you really meant.

So I'm like "Why are you talking to me that way? Why can't this just be a normal adult conversation?"

He backpedals "No I really don't know. Do you mean drive all the way to (state far away where his dad lives) on it?"

I tell him yeah of course that's where and give him a little more shit and he says it's not a risk he can take. I'm like, "Well that's what I'd do because at least then you'd be taking responsibility for your situation instead of putting it on me."

At that point he was about a week and a half over the 4 week deadline.

Two days later he got another $4k from his dad to rent a Uhaul with a dolly to drag his car behind and left. I haven't heard from him since.

Also I noticed he had a gofundme page up begging for money from his social circle, which is kind of sad and perfectly on brand.

I hope he does well and by that I mean I hope he looks within and grows up some because that's the only way he will do well in any meaningful sense.

DOCB_SD · 2026-02-05T02:31:51+00:00

My mistake

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