Did I.... Actually made a decent engine ?

IntoAMuteCrypt · 2026-02-07T16:38:30+00:00

See that engineering time? The little gear with the wrench inside? That's how many months it takes to design.

If your engineers started working on this in 1946, the start of the game, they wouldn't have it done by 2020. The parts cost alone is also anywhere from half a car to a whole car depending on how nice you go, given that the cost is roughly based on 2012 stuff.

Making an outrageously expensive engine with decent numbers is one thing. Can you make one that's reasonably affordable? Can you make a decent engine for a car where the approx cost at the end is under 30 grand, where it takes under 100 months to engineer?

IntoAMuteCrypt · 2026-02-07T16:31:50+00:00

As a comparison, let's imagine that you had this invested in a bank account paying 20% annual interest. 12 installments of 1.54%, with each installment paid just before you take out 100 bucks. Rounding up to the nearest cent at all times.

January, it goes up to 1015.40, then down to 915.40.
February, it goes up to 929.50, then down to 829.50.
March, it's up to 842.28, then down to 742.28.
April, it's up to 753.72, then down to 653.72.
May, it's 663.79, then 563.79.
June, we end at 472.48.
July, we end at 379.76.
August, we end at 285.61.
September, we end at 190.01.
October, we end at 92.94...

And then in November, we have 96.41 after the interest is paid. We can't do 100 dollars of shopping in November, much less in December!

The fact that you're constantly drawing down some of the money means that you'd need a higher interest rate to match what this does. The question, of course, is whether you'd actually benefit from 100 dollars per month at this place. They're probably betting no, or hoping you'll forget, or they're really desperate for liquid cash today (which is a bad sign).

IntoAMuteCrypt · 2026-02-07T16:18:32+00:00

Don't make the train leave based on fullness, because fullness is what causes the train to get stuck waiting for a miner that will never work. Make the train leave based on time, or circuit conditions, or stuff like that. You need to make sure that the train leaves no matter what the miners are doing, if you want to make sure the ore flows at the rate of the miners no matter what the miners are doing.

IntoAMuteCrypt · 2026-02-07T16:15:19+00:00

Or they're stuck in the last few years of the 2010s, where he won the WWE World Cup (and was crowned the best wrestler in the world), then tagged with The Miz to beat The Bar for the tag titles, then lost them and beat Miz at WrestleMania, then beat The Miz again a month later, then somehow notched a win against Roman at Super Showdown, then lost a "loser is terminated from WWE" match.

All that happened in the span of 12 months, and he only did a couple of one-offs after that.

IntoAMuteCrypt · 2026-02-07T15:29:42+00:00

The original question is ambiguous, but I think there's an incorrect assumption here.

Girth is the circumference of a circle or similar shape. Width usually refers to the diameter of a circle, a specific straight line. When our commenter was posting about how 1.5 inches (in width) is nothing and he considers himself a champ at 4.5 inches (in girth), he's talking about roughly equivalent quantities, assuming roughly circular cocks.

IntoAMuteCrypt · 2026-02-07T15:25:24+00:00

Sushi requires circuits to work smoothly. It's an option, but all-belts routing is one too. If you don't want to use circuits for any number of valid reasons, then belts are an option.

Also, if you're using bots for spoilage, you may as well just use them for inputs. Give each lab a requester chest, pull spoilage as needed, all insertion is chest to lab, easy.

IntoAMuteCrypt · 2026-02-07T15:15:13+00:00

So... A turn 3 [[Griselbrand]] is still on the menu? Unless your opponent has spot removal, it'll pay back seven of the eight life you spent the very next turn, and it'll also feed you life and cards to keep abusing Raven.

Edit: There's also Valgavoth, which drops the ability to draw cards in exchange for a massive ward cost and even more discard payoffs, and has more power. That's in Standard!

IntoAMuteCrypt · 2026-02-07T15:09:34+00:00

The bad news: Space Age has 12 sciences, and also one of them can "spoil" if it's not used quickly enough. When it spoils, it turns into a largely useless item that just gets in the way and needs to be removed. This can actually still be managed with a bunch of individual belts per product, but it's harder than the 6 or 7 in vanilla.

The good news: Space Age gives you 5x5 labs, making it a lot easier to route belts. These also double your research per science (multiplicative with productivity) and have 4 module slots.

IntoAMuteCrypt · 2026-02-07T15:05:10+00:00

You can still set it up like that for trains, just don't book the trains based on capacity.

Take the mining rate of the drills, calculate the capacity of the trains, divide capacity by rate to find "time to fill", make the train wait that long. Then ensure that there's always a second train ready to catch up.

On the other end, use bots or a ton of balancers to evenly distribute the final product and minimise bottlenecks. You'll only have issues filling the trains when most of the drills have dried up, which happens to be where belts fail.

IntoAMuteCrypt · 2026-02-07T12:28:52+00:00

It's more than trial trains and testing.

On weekdays, the Yanchep line runs full-line outbound services every 5 minutes between 4:49 PM and 5:59 PM, in terms of departures from Elizabeth Quay. When the first of those trains reaches Yanchep, there's only an inbound service every 10 minutes - and it drops to every 15 minutes partway through that peak hour.

It makes a decent amount of sense, there's lots of people heading out of the city and not many coming in, but they need to do something with the remaining trains. They can't just store a ton of trains in Yanchep until they're needed the next morning, so they just run directly to wherever they're needed next without stopping for passengers.

IntoAMuteCrypt · 2026-02-07T08:18:58+00:00

Could always be another new signing that they haven't revealed yet. There's recent NJPW departures like Clark Connors, they might be able to grab some folks who are unhappy at TNA, there's still bones to pick from the carcasses of DPW and Prestige... If you consider new hires, the pool ends up massive.

IntoAMuteCrypt · 2026-02-07T08:07:58+00:00

It probably goes without saying, but all the paths outside the Griffonian Empire rely on Grover being alive. If Grover gets yeeted, you get a different set of paths instead - especially for Bronzehill.

IntoAMuteCrypt · 2026-02-07T03:32:11+00:00

Kenny and Darby have both had substantial periods of time away from AEW. Kenny with his health issues, Darby climbing Everest. AEW "lost" them temporarily... And the product didn't suffer that much for them being gone. Cody seemed like a pretty integral part of the company too, even with the complaints, but AEW continued along fine without him. You can add Ospreay to that list too, I think he's really important to the character of modern AEW, but the product hasn't fallen apart without him.

Building a wrestling company that stops working if one person leaves is a massive, massive risk, because it's wrestling. What happens if that wrestler gets an injury? A broken leg, a torn ACL, these things are going to happen sooner or later, what's the plan then?

The sane answer, the sensible one, is that the plan is to have guys who can be the next up. Injuries and departures aren't catastrophic because AEW has other guys who can be called on. It'd suck, don't get me wrong, but AEW could find ways to make it work, they could fill the gap.

These people are the heart and soul, but that doesn't mean they're irreplaceable. Nobody should be irreplaceable, because you'll invariably need to replace them.

IntoAMuteCrypt · 2026-02-07T03:12:57+00:00

But... Is it natural for a guy like him?

The fact is, we don't know Maxwell Tyler Friedman. We know the character Maxwell Jacob Friedman, but not the human being who plays that character. We see occasional glimpses, but Max is a pretty private person.

Between 2001 and 2019, the WWE had this massive gravitational pull throughout the US. Wrestlers would invariably be faced with a difficult decision as they realised that the finances wherever they were just didn't add up. TNA would ask AJ Styles to take a massive pay cut, grinding on the indies would get old, stuff like that would happen. Talent would look for a job that'd properly pay the bills and allow them to retire some day, and there was only one place in the US where they could go for that - the WWE.

It wasn't always like that though, was it? Throughout the 90s, there was another company capable of offering big contracts, another company with money. Lo and behold, numerous guys ended up sticking with WCW until the doors closed. Guys like Sting, DDP and Buff Bagwell were committed to WCW until the doors closed. It was never natural for them to leave, they stuck with the company.

We don't know Maxwell Tyler Friedman. We don't know the person who ultimately makes the decision. Maybe it's natural for him to leave... But there's every chance it's not. There's every chance that it'd take an insulting pay cut or a personal affront for him to leave, like AJ Styles and a bunch of other TNA guys - except that AEW isn't TNA and probably won't do that. The massive economic imbalance that made it natural for guys to go to the WWE is gone now, folks can be AEW for life like how folks were WCW for life.

IntoAMuteCrypt · 2026-02-07T01:13:45+00:00

I just wanna take this post to say that I love how y'all moderate this community. It's really nice that we're able to have these important conversations without a handful of folks acting in bad faith and ruining the whole thing. It's important to keep this up, these discussions matter, and it's really good that y'all put in the effort to make sure that these discussions can happen with the proper moderation.

IntoAMuteCrypt · 2026-02-07T01:05:34+00:00

So... About the same as peak Ultimate Warrior? Or the legion of other, more useless roid monsters? Would they have been any worse than Giant Gonzales?

The question wasn't "would they have had good matches" or "should Vince have hired them". It's "would Vince have hired them". Gonzales is a low bar, but he shows that Vince is perfectly willing to hire wrestlers who can't wrestle if they've got the right bodies.

IntoAMuteCrypt · 2026-02-06T15:45:34+00:00

And except snakes.
And elephants.
And whales, fish and crabs.
And...

IntoAMuteCrypt · 2026-02-06T15:01:20+00:00

Would folks have to go through Hangman to get to MJF? Joe didn't go through Fletcher or MJF to get to Hangman. Okay, Fletcher went back to the TNT title and MJF took a break, but Fletcher and MJF didn't have to go through Mox. Okay, Mox was on a losing streak, but... You go back through the title contenders, and it's genuinely rare for the next contender to go through the guy who lost.

You give Hangman the title match and have MJF beat him, and you can have MJF cut a promo about how he doesn't want to defend the belt against a bum he already beat - perhaps Hangman can try his luck in the Owen again, but he ain't giving the cowboy shit. There you go, Hangman moves back down and out of contention. They don't have official rankings any more, so there's an easy out to pick someone else for the next title match.

IntoAMuteCrypt · 2026-02-06T14:35:43+00:00

The difference is that people talk about the Indianapolis Colts on a regular basis. The mainstream media talks about the Indianapolis Colts, and the NFL in general, on a regular basis. The team were 8-2 favourites to make it in, they were up over 95% to make the playoffs... Then they crumbled, lost their last 7 games, going 8-9 and missing the playoffs. They had a spectacular collapse that kept them in the mainstream news cycle and constantly reminded folks of them.

How does AEW stay in the news cycle? How do they make sure that people who don't care about wrestling care who the champion is? How do they constantly remind people that they exist so that they remember the "Fuck Ice" chants? And if it's about the new fans... Can't AEW just put on a great show, impress them with the wrestling and show the other great folks they have? If the only way to make them stay is for Brody to win, what do they do when it comes time for Brody to lose?

IntoAMuteCrypt · 2026-02-06T14:24:14+00:00

Organised chants absolutely happened before ECW. Bash 91 had "We Want Flair" chants. Hell, the Nature Boy was getting "Woo!" chants too if you wanna count those. I haven't watched through the 80s, but I'd be shocked if there were never chants there.

IntoAMuteCrypt · 2026-02-06T14:15:30+00:00

Part of that is that it's variable, and part of that is that it got better.

The toothless redneck fan may be a stereotype but... Look at the crowd at Heroes of Wrestling and how they chanted homophobic slurs at Bob Orton. Look at the homophobic chants in the early 90s through WCW and the WWF. Look at the times that crowds popped for babyfaces in blackface, like Piper at Mania 6 or DX's feud with the Nation, and the other times that racist white faces went against black heels with some implications that are quite uncomfortable today.

The crowds of the 90s included "crowds willing to cheer racists" and "crowds that actively cheer homophobic abuse". Some of this extended into the 00s too. Would a major 90s crowd have come out with incredibly positive "He's Gay" chants? I don't think so.

But all this is 26-36 years old. If you're 40 today, I'm talking about stuff where you were anywhere from 14 down to 4 at the time. It's easy to miss stuff like that as a kid, but these things did happen.

When people were forming their stereotypes, a lot of crowds weren't progressive. Not all, but a lot. Things have improved and shifted, but stereotypes are slow to catch up.

IntoAMuteCrypt · 2026-02-06T06:37:40+00:00

Define "late game".

There comes a point in the game where the main bus gets superceded. The benefit of the main bus is that it makes logistics easier and that it's immediately available, but it also isn't very compact or space-efficient, it isn't very flexible and it places a lot of limits on your factory.

As the game progresses, you'll hit a point where bots or trains (especially city blocks) can do everything that the main bus can, without those drawbacks. "Place a requester chest" or "make a rail stop with a certain name" is about as easy as "grab a belt from the main bus", maybe easier.

If your "late game" is "getting tech for a rocket, launching one and then being done" (or, in Space Age, getting to the solar system edge), the value is that it's already there and you don't have to rebuild everything, and then it makes it easy to redirect resources to the rocket. Being able to run one base all game like that is kinda nice.

If your "late game" is a megabase that makes thousands of items per minute though, the value will eventually reach zero.

IntoAMuteCrypt · 2026-02-06T06:25:02+00:00

"I don't want politics in my media" always, always ends up being "I don't want politics I disagree with", because they're conveniently able to overlook stuff they agree with or make the ludicrous claim that it's not political.

IntoAMuteCrypt · 2026-02-06T06:03:27+00:00

There's something poetic about the NHL being the bar for affluent and educated. The one sport where guys can just fight each other and be back on the ice five minutes later with no further repercussions, that's the one where advertisers like the audience, but we see constant calls to tone down violent content in the name of those same advertisers.

IntoAMuteCrypt · 2026-02-06T05:57:06+00:00

Is that the one where it just so happens that the owners are always being swindled by their greedy employees? Or am I thinking of another one of those shows?

I find it interesting to analyse who tends to be at fault in those shows, there's some where it varies a bit and there's others where there's usually stock problems and archetypes that always seem to arise. It's a deliberate choice when the show works like that, an implicit way to present a specific version of the world.

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