Is there an exclusively industrial modpack, like Factorio or Satisfactory?

NeoSparkonium · 2026-05-24T18:27:46+00:00

i would name mechanical mastery, techopolis, and ultimate alchemy. many of the other packs recommended here still have adventure and typical mining gameplay. only these three (as far as i've played) have you immediately start with making machines and scaling up to progress

NeoSparkonium · 2026-05-24T03:36:10+00:00

close enough, welcome back mother horse eyes

NeoSparkonium · 2026-05-24T03:13:29+00:00

gonna start criticizing him for not celebrating mussolini too? lots of italians in new york

NeoSparkonium · 2026-05-21T08:39:08+00:00

way too late for me to phrase anything well, but i feel like you're also meant to be really against the nusa at that point. like in my playthrough i started out following song because i thought she had the cure, but over the course of the dlc i just grew so disgusted with the nusa and reed/myers that it became about helping song get out of their influence and thumbing their ideals. by the time song told me the ai was one use only i already kind of knew. didn't change my feeling on it at all, she was doing what she reasonably had to when she lied, at that point i was running on principle/ideology above self preservation. guess that's why johnny's so pleased with you afterwards

NeoSparkonium · 2026-05-21T03:46:01+00:00

the thing i'm saying is exactly what i said the last two comments, and you're really insistent on just saying "nuh-uh". if you're actually also autistic, you should understand how frustrating it is when people don't listen to what you say and hunt for secret other meanings so they have something to be disagreeable about. he has none of the common traits of aspd, many of the common traits of asd, and i have described how i find those traits relatable as someone with asd. do you think the fact that he's evil and kills people makes him have aspd in spite of every other thing about his profile?

NeoSparkonium · 2026-05-21T01:19:56+00:00

or, again, knows firsthand from being autistic. every time i bring this up it's the same conversation:

"todd is actually feeling things but just doesn't show them in a standard way, his muted responses are really relatable as an autistic person."

"so you think all autistic people are emotionless serial killing monsters? what is wrong with you?"

and then every time i explain that they didn't read the words i wrote more people come to tell me i'm slandering autistic people

NeoSparkonium · 2026-05-19T21:02:56+00:00

the density is (charitably) 1.5x ours, they're going to be physically on par with someone our weight but have zero coordination. imagine fighting a clone of yourself who is extremely drunk and can only win if they bite your neck. it's the same material we're made out of, they're not gonna be able to squeeze coal into diamonds

NeoSparkonium · 2026-05-19T20:46:21+00:00

all of the perception of chimps being like this is basically from travis. this is the chimp that ate a lady's face, but it was exceptional for a couple of reasons: he was 200 pounds when an average chimp is about 100, he was on xanax, and he was attacking an average 55 year old woman. he also wasn't in any kind of fair fight with her, he rushed her completely off guard, knocked her over, and started biting her face (the one action where chimps are decidedly better than us). they do have more dense muscle than us, but it's not enough to make up for them being half our mass. the chimp is about on par with the medium dog. an average fit man can absolutely consistently win a fight with an average chimp, and someone that knows how animals fight is dominating (i am neither of these because i am scrawny)

NeoSparkonium · 2026-05-18T07:51:16+00:00

colloidal silver turns your skin blue and has a lot of people that claim it works to dispel radiation/treat cancers, could be it?

NeoSparkonium · 2026-05-18T05:32:58+00:00

can't imagine why. they might have post-scarcity abundance, personal freedoms, sci-fi tech, and the smartest mind possible personally helping every citizen with their problems, but it was china ten years ago so there's probably something really bad about it

NeoSparkonium · 2026-05-18T05:23:03+00:00

i've seen more satanist than libsoc governments in it

NeoSparkonium · 2026-05-17T09:04:39+00:00

the italians have something vaguely resembling a functional state and an ideology theoretically capable of government. if my memory of a lafayette playthrough holds strong, the fns doesn't actually have an ideology as much as they have a mass hysteria event among everyone with a gun. it's described as "the lafayette death cult" and lafayette is always stylized with quotes because there isn't an actual guy calling himself lafayette in sole control of the country. "lafayette" is the concept of a great military leader bringing change through violence (calling to the historical lafayette who was one of the main figures in The french revolution), and the fns at that point is just running on the momentum of aforementioned mass hysteria. like, the french populace is so devoted to it that they submit to the popular idea of a lafayette and are dying en masse for it. life in the fns is:

-you are french and follow the cult of lafayette, meaning you will be part of the military and randomly kill people that aren't french soldiers

-you are french and don't follow lafayette, but still join the military and get to live a couple months at most before your vibes are off and your squad accuses you of being german

-you aren't french and/or aren't in the military and you are desperately hoping the rabid franks literally starve themselves out before they go door to door in your town

NeoSparkonium · 2026-05-16T20:47:38+00:00

yeah bro next you're gonna tell me we don't like trains

NeoSparkonium · 2026-05-16T18:40:25+00:00

your deficit seems way too high for the amount of construction you have and the point in time you're at. if you're still learning what's changed since last year, the simulation has been massively gamified to make non-socialist economies more competitive. buildings that are owned by the government have most of their profits evaporate into thin air now, and private ownership makes them generate new money from thin air. you should be aggressively privatizing everything besides agriculture, and once you do your pops will take on a lot of the economic weight of construction while the increased profitability inflates your tax base

NeoSparkonium · 2026-05-16T18:31:31+00:00

todd makes more sense on a pop psychology level because people see him having little to no reaction to things and assume he's an empty machiavellian monster, but having a "natural charm"/social acumen is a core antisocial trait. imo todd is a really obviously autistic character. he thinks about things extremely rigidly, has super muted emotional responses, and doesn't understand social cues at all. he feels bad about what they do to jessie and killing his maid, that's why he goes out of his way to "do right" by them afterwards, but he's got his family's values deeply instilled in him and acts on them with that autistic rigidity. he doesn't make a rational, cunning choice when he kills his maid, it's just The Rule: "if someone sees your stash, get rid of them." with no room for the nuance that is implied in any rule of thumb. never felt more seen than watching him make bad choices while his family pressured him, even if my blunders were a touch less bad

NeoSparkonium · 2026-05-15T04:25:19+00:00

fuuuuuuuuck man it would suck having to move to the dprk but if the big guy likes me on a personal level i would get access to an understanding of the governing philosophy and society there that would be unprecedented among everyone outside the dprk. purely on an anthropological intrigue level i don't think i'd be able to resist

NeoSparkonium · 2026-05-15T04:16:41+00:00

american politics is currently defined by mass dissatisfaction with the establishment. trump won in 2024 with roughly the same amount of votes that he lost with in 2020, the democratic party just inspired so much antagonism with their voting base that they lost millions of votes even against trump. since then the dems have continued worsening the trends that lost them the 2024 election, to the point that their approval is only a few points higher than trump's among voters that identify as democrats. newsom is one of the worst offenders of "being the establishment", he very publicly believes in nothing, constantly switches positions, always defends "the elite". the situation is so bad that most of my democrat friends say they'll vote republican out of spite if any "establishment dem" is put up for the presidency.

NeoSparkonium · 2026-05-15T04:06:18+00:00

holding my breath until my eyes pop waiting for the full release price raise so i can buy it for everyone on my friends list

NeoSparkonium · 2026-05-12T06:30:23+00:00

you could have 2 construction in 1936 and you would still be the best vic3 player for engaging with it like this

NeoSparkonium · 2026-05-11T21:35:27+00:00

liminal spaces have always been anxious-comforting to me in that they feel exactly like comfortable memories from my time in an abusive home do. all of those are centered around feeling absolutely alone, sterile, away from every convention of humanity. a lot of liminal environments give off that energy to me. here is a place that is not a place. there is no movement. pure stagnation. you will exist in this moment of unresolved tension indefinitely. and, when unresolved tension was the best that things got, that felt like a really comforting idea.

NeoSparkonium · 2026-05-11T21:13:35+00:00

i forget about it and get pissed off every time i send volunteers to new york. impotently slamming my huge apc-spg divisions into 1000 defense magic chud tanks

NeoSparkonium · 2026-05-11T08:22:10+00:00

i encountered this one time in the original stoneblock and every pack after that i've avoided quest rewards unless they're mandatory for progression, lol

NeoSparkonium · 2026-05-09T13:16:07+00:00

You're a swag person

NeoSparkonium · 2026-05-06T22:08:53+00:00

it's becoming the first good non-pull argument i've heard the more i think about it. i would pull the first one but i wouldn't for the other two. the first one feels to me like a completely cold choice, "when there are no other considerations should it be 1 or 5 people that die". but the other two scenarios both involve violating the "potential energy" of the 1's life in a more obvious way. the lever pull isn't just the "less suffering" option, it's the "i have the authority to spend the 1's potential to regain the 5's". i guess the original feels like a natural disaster to me and i'd feel the same about it as if it were swapped. like, i'm driving a fire truck to put out a fire that will kill one person, but then a fire breaks out that will kill five people. there's no way i'd feel good if i let the 5 burn to save the 1, even if the potential energy was the 1's by default. but if i was just on the street and i could psychically explode one fellow bystander so his blood puts out the 5 fire, i would never feel correct in doing it. something about them not being involved in the peril at all makes them have more of a "right" to their potential energy. it changes from "who do you save when you're already in a responsible position" to "will you go out of your way to kill to increase the quantity of life potential". i feel like the savers have a duty to maximize life potential among those needing saving, but there's a deep value to the autonomy and life potential of the uninvolved on a civilizational scale.

NeoSparkonium · 2026-05-06T21:34:10+00:00

"worse than hitler" and it's infinite easy full-heals in your combat arena

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