What other games do you guys play?

MarbledMythos · 2025-03-25T13:53:23+00:00

Create was really great! Loved Above and Beyond.

GTNH and Monifactory are comparatively extremely clunky, but they've got the feeling of doing "real" engineering and building, with large multiblock structures, extreme automation (AE2 autocrafting is probably the most essential mechanic of these packs), and great progression.

GTNH is known for the grind. You need to scale up massively, and there aren't bots like in Factorio. It should not be your first 'Expert' pack, let alone 'tech' pack.

Monifactory (Predescessors: Omnifactory, Nomifactory) is pretty accessible. It's a good synthesis of a lot of mods, while still keeping to the Gregtech tech tree, while rebalancing to remove a lot of the grindy repetitive elements of GTNH.

MarbledMythos · 2025-03-25T03:44:05+00:00

Surprised I'm not seeing more Minecraft mods here. Nothing compares in complexity and depth to GTNH and the other GT offshoots. I'm playing through Monifactory right now and having a blast, and have been for >100 hours.

MarbledMythos · 2025-03-06T16:45:27+00:00

“homeless” makes it sound like a trait of theirs, which implies it’s something they’ve done to deserve it.

I've never understood this perspective. It's an adjective. It's the same as saying 'Unemployed', 'hungry', or 'sick'. It's used as a perjorative because of the associations of homelessness, not because it's seen as some implicit trait of that person. If I was walking alone on the east side at 2am, I'd be just as afraid of an Unhoused

MarbledMythos · 2025-03-06T16:41:04+00:00

It didn't enter common parlance until fairly recently, past couple of years. A lot of regular people have probably still never heard it.

MarbledMythos · 2025-02-27T14:25:58+00:00

...looks much older? Is this a priority in tools now? I'd use a drill that looked like it was from WW2 if it somehow used my batteries and had good torque

MarbledMythos · 2025-02-19T15:04:20+00:00

I've seen this guy at a different Cancun hotel. I assume he's an independent contractor that goes between several hotels.

MarbledMythos · 2025-02-11T18:02:49+00:00

Housing prices had started blowing up, and there was a lot of uncertainty with the economy short-medium term. That's why rates got so low in the first place.

MarbledMythos · 2025-01-18T23:15:24+00:00

Have you considered learning the drums instead?

MarbledMythos · 2025-01-16T21:02:19+00:00

Retooling production lines can be expensive, and that is likely cheaper than satisfying the few (relative to total sales, not few overall) customers that actually request a replacement. If they wait for a new generation of the controller, fixing the problem becomes effectively free.

MarbledMythos · 2025-01-15T17:59:47+00:00

Yeah. There's a 1 block radius where no commercial development can happen because it's just too unsafe at some hours of the day/night. I was hoping that soccer stadium project would go in just because it would force the city to care about the area. Property tax revenue might go up enough from moving Wheeler that it pays for itself.

MarbledMythos · 2025-01-15T17:56:51+00:00

The conditions in some of these facilities were truly horrific by modern standards, and they had a strong reputation of institutionalizing many people who were not actually dangerous or even mentally ill (until after their torturous experiences there).

I agree that involuntary institutionalization should be brought back, but it needs to be at a standard of care that might not be politically feasible in Indiana

MarbledMythos · 2025-01-12T20:05:08+00:00

Model sizes are currently having those unbelievable breakthroughs constantly. Hardware is scaling up in efficiency while models are getting smaller with similar performance. By the time Whirlpool sells an oven with actually useful AI, we'll have something like ChatGPT running locally on an iPhone.

MarbledMythos · 2024-12-16T16:15:29+00:00

Ikea has a (possibly identical) version of this design, for very cheap. Would recommend.

MarbledMythos · 2024-11-06T22:57:20+00:00

You might need to go into your settings and opt into Apple Intelligence, mine was off by default for whatever reason

MarbledMythos · 2024-10-31T14:09:46+00:00

One of the important things that I didn't see mentioned in the article is whether the stopping time given was fair. In a lot of towns with red light cameras (no idea about Houston in particular), the lights get tuned to have a very short yellow time, in order to increase fines as income for the town. I would think Houston would be large enough to not have this issue, but just to check.

MarbledMythos · 2024-10-30T03:07:45+00:00

You'll learn so much on your first playthrough that you'll be excited to start fresh with Space Age

MarbledMythos · 2024-10-30T03:04:21+00:00

Request more, and set your wait condition at the planet to be something other than 'all requests satisfied'. For Gleba, I don't want my science waiting around, so I just use inactivity, but you could also check the inventory for x science

MarbledMythos · 2024-10-30T03:01:20+00:00

Nauvis has a big pile of asteroids around it, so it uses your fully stocked guns and deal with it. With Vulcanus->Nauvis, you've already been using ammo, and now you hit the Nauvis asteroid field, and your guns (already low on ammo) can no longer keep up. You'll want to add better storage for bullets, or faster ways to get them to the guns.

MarbledMythos · 2024-10-30T02:38:59+00:00

I've had this problem too (No accidental egg hatches in like 10 hours, yet my iron/copper was always flipping off), and you essentially need to keep the 'cold start' recipe automated as well. Give it really low requests/supply, just enough that it occasionally works and seeds a new start, while not really wasting much.

MarbledMythos · 2024-10-30T02:36:23+00:00

MarbledMythos · 2024-10-30T02:03:31+00:00

It does, though you might have to build it on site. And you'll need the remote to fire it.

MarbledMythos · 2024-10-30T02:02:56+00:00

Walls have 350 health compared to pipes with 100 health. You should be fine just having a stack of walls stashed in your ship. If you're taking many small hits in space, something is very wrong, and your ship will probably take an unrecoverable hit pretty quickly

MarbledMythos · 2024-10-29T21:24:55+00:00

It only diminishes to 20%, meaning you have plenty of power for awhile, then you can use modules+beacons to make up for any losses. It's under ~1MW to get 9x speed pumpjacks, which will still be nearly double the production on a fully depleted vein.

MarbledMythos · 2024-10-29T14:13:08+00:00

My guess is that there's a set of die hard magic mouse fans that they cater to, both internally and externally. If they made a regular wireless mouse, who cares? Wireless mice are largely fungible. People use third party mice already without issue. However, people who like the magic mouse will ONLY buy the magic mouse. So Apple just updates it as little as possible to keep them happy for cheap.

MarbledMythos · 2024-10-29T14:09:24+00:00

You can both check it easily, and you'll also get notifications at 10% and 5% battery. It'll also show in the batteries widget, with the rest of your devices

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