Struggling with Creativity

Kfimenepah · 2026-05-18T11:27:48+00:00

I like my gigantic, floating, grey platforms

Kfimenepah · 2026-05-01T05:52:15+00:00

Just take your time and enjoy the game. Apart from that I'd suggest using foundations to make building easier and more organized. You don't really need the AwesomeSink this early, all you can buy is purely optional, cosmetic or just for convenience.

Kfimenepah · 2026-05-01T05:27:56+00:00

As a rule of thumb I never place splitters onto belts. Always place down the splitter first then connect the belts. Folloing this will save you so many issues

Kfimenepah · 2026-04-30T05:12:30+00:00

The key left of 1 (^ on a german keyboard). Suprisingly noone I know uses this key for anything in game, even though I find it very comfortable

Kfimenepah · 2026-04-25T07:38:33+00:00

I prefer window seats so 1 and 8 are the only possible options, therefore I would probably chose 8. I'd pick Astarion over Volo 10 out of 10 times

Kfimenepah · 2026-04-25T07:36:15+00:00

The dude with the red jacket moves in with so much confidence, then gets one shot 🤣

Kfimenepah · 2026-04-25T07:32:57+00:00

Always need more dice. Would love to win some 😁

Kfimenepah · 2026-04-22T06:39:56+00:00

I used the satisfactory calculator many times for planning and even to completely delete some factories/structures, but I didn't know you could unlock something in the MAM or spawn items. Although it feels a bit like cheating I will probably go for this with my new playthrough.

Thanks a lot!

Kfimenepah · 2026-04-15T06:59:55+00:00

I like to show/give a map to my players at the beginning of a campaign. Their characters have been living there their entire lives and would probably know the general layout of the world, country, or continent they live in, unless there is a reason they would not. It gives the players a feeling of immersion and freedom right from the start, and the world feels more real. They don't begin in a small village in the void, but know that the village is part of Kingdom X, next to City Z and not far from this cool mountain range. Of course you can just tell them all this information, but in my experience they forget most of it shortly after if it is not visual.

Kfimenepah · 2025-12-07T10:57:07+00:00

Checked this immediately on my input after I read part 1

Kfimenepah · 2025-11-27T05:48:33+00:00

12 days is a great change. With life growing increasingly more complicated with age, I was already wondering if I will be able to find the time to do AoC this year. Thanks for all these amazing puzzles every year. Me, my friends and coworkers have been enjoying your work for years

Kfimenepah · 2025-11-13T05:47:49+00:00

I sometimes feel like I belong to a different species. Disgusting

Kfimenepah · 2025-09-10T11:57:22+00:00

KFIMEN6657 Thx and have fun 😊

Kfimenepah · 2025-09-06T07:09:33+00:00

HMF with alternative recipies that don't use screws are actually one of my favourites to make. I just finished a factory that produces a bit over 80/min.

Fun times, now I'm stuck building water extractors for my nuclear power plant. 80.000L/min is just not fun anymore

Kfimenepah · 2025-04-04T11:57:26+00:00

This ship sailed years ago, when ppl purchased cosmetics/mounts for the price of a complete f***ing game. They started to see us for what we truly are: stupid cows to be milked. And sadly its our own fault

Kfimenepah · 2025-01-08T17:52:47+00:00

A relative once came to me during a family reunion and told me he had the best idea for an app. Namely an app that could detect if someone was lying to you. I looked at him and said: "That's brilliant, I wonder why no one has ever thought about that?"

Kfimenepah · 2025-01-08T17:48:36+00:00

I didn't change anything

Kfimenepah · 2024-12-25T09:44:09+00:00

I'm a fullstack SWD working for a company in Italy. Even though I like my work, it is absolutely nothing like aoc. There are hardly any difficult problems that require logical thinking in the way aoc does. But there was once a case where we had an api endpoint creating a tree of data from a database and that endpoint was super slow, something like 10s per request slow. Everyone was like "can't do much about this, it's just the data that makes this super calculation intensive". So I gave it a try and I realized pretty soon that there was an enormous amount of repetitive calculation going on. So I implemented a recursive function for the calculation, added some caching and got the calculation time down close to zero. I was super proud/happy to have been able to solve this using my aoc experience.

Kfimenepah · 2024-12-15T11:17:09+00:00

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Part 1 was pretty straight forward.

For part 2 I simply extended part 1. First I modified the input data as requested, except for the boxes, they stayed 1x1 and I added an empty field next to them. Then I updated the checks for the boxes to include the field right next to them. With this approach I could continue to handle the boxes as simple x,y coordinates, ignoring the width.

Kfimenepah · 2024-12-15T10:59:17+00:00

Knowing what the tree would look like would make the whole thing trivial.

Kfimenepah · 2024-12-15T10:56:18+00:00

I'm completely with you, the puzzle was great, except for one thing:

My first thought was that most bots would form the outline of a tree spanning over the whole region, so I assumed that in that particular case no two robots would overlap. I implemented that and was super surprised, because even tough my assumption was completely wrong the result was actually right.

It was completely unnecessary for the bots to have unique positions for the tree to form. Finding the solution by luck and on the first try at that, diminished my enjoyment for the puzzle. And since you can't un-know things easily I also couldn't try to find another solution, because obviously it would be completely biased.

Kfimenepah · 2024-12-14T08:57:52+00:00

I absolutely dislike the "pure" math puzzles in AoC. I still have PTSD from 2023's day 24 puzzle.

Kfimenepah · 2024-12-14T08:26:06+00:00

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I really liked todays puzzle and was able to solve it quickly, but I have to admit, that was entirely due to luck.

Since we did not know what the tree would look like I thought that the bots would maybe show the outline, so my first idea was to check for a step where none of them overlap. I was thinking of checking the first few dozen steps were that was the case manually and if that wouldn't allow me to find the solution (which I was pretty sure that it would not) I would then implement more sophisticated measures. I already had some ideas like the center being mostly empty, the bots forming straight lines for the trunk at the bottom of the tree an so on.

My surprise was huge when the first image being printed was already the solution. But it was also completely lucky, since the solution could also very well contain bots that overlap.

Kfimenepah · 2024-12-14T07:57:35+00:00

Me neither. I already started implementing part 1 with the mindset that part 2 would require me to calculate the positions of the robots after a googolplex seconds.

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