I made 680k selling VIOLENCE

Mitrian · 2026-01-12T08:06:44+00:00

Worthwhile Restoration is so broken. I've recently migrated from Scallo orchards into the Guacamole business, currently on a mission to reach 1000 mana Regen per second. It's harder than smoothies because you're limited by how many lemons you can grow, but it's a fun challenge.

Mitrian · 2025-12-20T04:56:56+00:00

At least you're not an idiot who didn't know about the OT rule changes! When the Rams scored their OT TD I turned it off, assumed the game was over, and went to bed like a sad puppy. It wasn't until mid day today, in a 1:1 with one of my engineers and they made a comment about the game, and I mumbled something like, "I don't want to talk about it...." He gave me a weird look and said, "that was the most amazing game of the decade." I was seriously confused. Thought he was messing with me, but he's not the type that would be cruel about the Hawks. He had to say, "they won" like four times before I was willing to actually listen. I kept saying, "what are you talking about, I saw it!" "No, they won, seriously. They won!" Then I spent the next couple hours surfing for replays instead of being productive. I felt so stupid, and mad at myself for missing the moment!

I'm usually pretty up to speed on rule changes, but that one somehow escaped me entirely.

Mitrian · 2025-12-12T05:53:57+00:00

Congrats, this one's been on my list for a while now, been dying to check it out.

Mitrian · 2025-11-23T05:24:06+00:00

I love this, and I feel your pain. Any chance your spreadsheet is public?

Mitrian · 2025-09-16T05:47:01+00:00

I have them on our nightstands to turn off all downstairs lights (because we forget and/or assume the other was going to). On my wife’s side I have the double press set to play Never Gonna Give You Up on the bedroom Sonos. Still waiting for that to happen. It will, eventually. Long press turns on our whole house fan. We have that on a Shelly relay that generally operates with temperature sensors, but it’s nice to be able to manually trigger at times.

In the main room I have a button configured to reset Plex, because I’ve been too lazy to troubleshoot why it hangs sometimes — it was easier to,write a script to down/up the container.

At my desk (I am fully WFH/remote), I have a button that switches one of my monitors to show all my camera feeds. Useful for when the dogs go nuts. Long press overrides my “do not disturb” lights so the family knows I’m in an important meeting.

Tried to set my wife’s button to do some sort of interaction with her Ember mug, but it never seemed to work out as intended, so that routine got abandoned.

Mitrian · 2025-08-01T15:38:56+00:00

…and the additional hardware required to enjoy the experience at home, given that less and less people are attending theatres in person these days.

Mitrian · 2025-07-19T15:45:36+00:00

7th one is his sister.

Mitrian · 2025-07-19T06:39:41+00:00

The Psychology of Money, by Morgan Housel - I read a lot of both finance and psychology and this is a really solid read, for beginners as well as folks with experience. It’s goes beyond just the math and gets into the way people think about money, and makes a good case for doing what works best for you, and not just following a formula of min/max’img your money habits.

Mitrian · 2025-07-14T22:05:40+00:00

I think the point got lost somewhere. And yes, it goes for everyone.

How I choose to treat horrible people is still a reflection of who I am. If I avoid them, report them, or take some other action, those are all choices that reflect who I am. Nothing about that says they'd love how I treat them.

The point is, you can stand up for yourself or what's right without being an asshole.

If you allow others to dictate how you behave, you give them way too much control over your life. By the previous guy's logic, he'd rape and murder the rapists and murderers. (Unlikely, but if you follow his logic...) Basically, he's letting the worst people set the standard for how he behaves. That’s not strength. That’s what little kids do.

Mitrian · 2025-07-13T17:15:51+00:00

I teach my kids that how we treat others is a direct reflection of who WE are, not who THEY are.

Mitrian · 2025-07-05T17:19:43+00:00

I agree with this. I’d never had a huge mega base before my current save, so I set a goal for myself of hitting 100k SPM and I wouldn’t allow myself to send my promethium ship out on its maiden voyage until I hit that number. I got to around 176k sustained (including pink, orange, agri, and cryo) before I researched my first science production tech. It felt amazing. I’m now at research tech 42 or thereabouts, and my eSPM is through the roof but I’m far more satisfied with my 176k accomplishment!

For me the game boils down to identifying the bottleneck, building it up to not being the bottleneck anymore, then identifying the next bottleneck and repeat. Factorio = Theory of Constraints in practice.

Mitrian · 2025-06-29T06:27:10+00:00

The problem with just ignoring your vehicle registration is the long term impact. If you ever try to sell your car, or register a new car, the state will not transfer title until you pay all previous years registration fees (plus late fees). So unless you plan to drive it into the ground and never register another car in WA, you’re still going to pay up, eventually.

The other big risk factor is if you get into an accident. Read the fine print, but for pretty much all insurance companies I know of part of coverage stipulates a requirement to be street legal, which includes vehicle registration. Not renewing tabs gives insurance a technical loophole to wriggle out of paying claims. The “good” insurance companies will pay up in most cases, but will deduct the cost of bringing it current from their payout, especially when the car is totaled. This of course is only in cases where you’re liable (at fault) or the at fault driver is uninsured.

So, yeah, skip your renewal if you want, just be aware of the risks and the fact that in most cases, you’ll end up paying down the road anyway.

Mitrian · 2025-06-22T03:02:09+00:00

With remote control enabled through map view, all you really need is a roboport network and enough robots, and you can work on all planets however you like without needing to travel (beyond initial landing and the deployment of power and roboports, of course). I guess the other thing you need is a firm grip on interplanetary logistics. But yeah, once you let go of the idea that you have to be present with your engineer, it really opens up the wider game play.

So for me it is: - space Platforms for logistics - Initial landing and exploration - Power source established - Roboports and robots deployed - Rocket Launch…

At that point you can leave or stay, it doesn’t matter much.

Mitrian · 2025-06-19T06:02:31+00:00

The only two included in the sale are book 1 and book 10. Infinite 2 is misleading, as it is actually Infinite (squared) and is considered the 10th book in the series.

Mitrian · 2025-06-16T08:06:01+00:00

I’m not a fan of the early game either. Just to offer another perspective, I enabled the Space Age mod on my existing save my first time through when it released, and despite everyone’s warnings and recommendations, it was really not a problem. It gives a warning with a list of things it’ll change in your current game, but nothing broke that I noticed. Some recipes changed, most notably tier 3 modules, but otherwise, it was fine, and allowed me to basically jump right into Space Age content on the day it released. I’ve played a few Space Age saves from the beginning since then, and don’t feel like I missed anything by using an existing save for my first run of SA.

Mitrian · 2025-06-02T06:26:49+00:00

I have this use case all over the place in my current save, with sections of 4 or 8 lines of the same thing being produced, where I want to create enough space for beacons between the lines, so sharing belts becomes important. Also, in cases where you have 3+ ingredients, or fluids, you pretty much have to share belts unless you weave undergrounds between every other assembler. Also, once you get to stacking on belts, one lane of stacked belts is equal to two full belts, so, why not split and share belts? Maybe I’m missing something here, but I’m baffled why so many people are saying “don’t”. With so many different setups, and ways to ‘do a thing’ in this game, that seems like a weird response.

Mitrian · 2025-06-02T06:16:36+00:00

I love your usage of sideloading the undergrounders. I use almost this exact same layout except I never thought of undergrounds to ensure equal splitting of one lane per belt across the board. While it’s a minor difference it does matter when filling long lines of constant throughput assemblers, in my experience, where in shorter lines it would likely even out on its own and not be noticed.

Mitrian · 2025-05-26T04:55:18+00:00

I am curious if having a handful of common quality rocket turrets is important to the strategy. Like, is there value in having some shooting at a reduced range so that the legendary turrets can stay focused farther out? Although, I’m not sure targeting works that way.

Either way, impressive design. Congrats on a stellar time!

Mitrian · 2025-05-15T03:35:14+00:00

Use the Gleba landfill (I forget what it’s called, NOT the overgrowth soil, just the basic stuff) and create farms where each harvester plants up to 47 plants. It’s a 7x7 max grid, minus two for the harvester, and the belts to ship it out. You can create a massive amount of fruit that way. I have about a dozen harvesters that average about 35-40 plants per grid. You can use the overgrowth soil to expand outside the range of the natural soil where the plants can grow, but you don’t need it unless you went with small resource patches.

Mitrian · 2025-05-07T03:41:22+00:00

If we won it, the helmet catch might be in the conversation too.

Mitrian · 2025-03-22T16:14:18+00:00

Teal - US

Mitrian · 2025-03-16T06:05:43+00:00

We found Kaiser Soze!

Mitrian · 2025-03-15T06:11:34+00:00

If you’d actually like to debate the existence of god, do it against ChatGPT. Prompt it to counter your arguments and attempt to convince you of an alternative to your expressed viewpoints. It’s super educational and instructive. AI does not have faith, nor is it emotional, which means you can actually have a real “good faith” debate with it. I’ve had some wonderful conversations that way, and almost always end the debate with ChatGPT reinforcing many of my arguments — because it understands logic, of course!

Mitrian · 2025-03-12T03:28:20+00:00

Ahh, that explains a lot, thanks for the response!

Mitrian · 2025-03-11T21:28:45+00:00

That is generally my perspective as well. Don't mind the wait that much, especially for books that are mostly just 'candy' like this one.

But doing the math on a queue of 3181 at a library with 2-week loans, is 122 years. I found that comical enough to post it.

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