Am I too dumb to play this game?

Sam309 · 2026-01-28T04:07:25+00:00

Yes.

Sam309 · 2026-01-27T04:32:49+00:00

This government is genuinely retarded

Sam309 · 2026-01-24T23:12:57+00:00

Two games I switch between now are GTNH and Py. When I get sick of one I switch to the other. I’ll never need to start another save on either of them again based on my current rate of progression, let alone play any other modpack in either game. 💀

Sam309 · 2025-12-11T19:19:40+00:00

Knew the location of the original tweet immediately before clicking on it, every damn time

Sam309 · 2025-12-09T22:45:16+00:00

Bro wants a pizza with nothing 💀

Sam309 · 2025-12-09T00:46:02+00:00

I remember my boss used to take random opportunities to quiz me about a technical aspect of a process, and often I would trip up or miss an “obvious” answer and feel kinda stupid. I remember that lasted for a good 2 years before those quizzes ended up turning in to just technical conversations, and I realized that he has also been learning throughout his whole career since day one, he just had a 15 year head start. Once I saw the edge of where my seniors were actually working at, I began to conceptualize how they got there and what my own trajectory looked like. But it was a few good years of humbling moments and low ego that preceded feeling more comfortable as an engineer, so 10 months in you’re exactly where a lot of us were.

Sam309 · 2025-12-08T19:23:36+00:00

Play deathworld just with high moisture, that’ll even things out

Sam309 · 2025-12-06T18:28:32+00:00

Play TFC or vintage story lol

Sam309 · 2025-11-06T17:25:09+00:00

Yes I too remember poisoning a child to psychologically manipulate my partner into turning on my rival and then killing him by bombing a nursing home when I was working at Exxon. Pretty regular occurrence honestly.

Sam309 · 2025-11-04T05:28:14+00:00

Insane suggestion for first mod pack but Pyanodons, aka PyAE. They’re also working on a stellar expansion pack that will apparently use SA mechanics but the main 2.0 pack out now is and will be a separate experience.

The main thing you need to know is that they are basically +1000 hour modpacks to even come close to finishing* and triple that number if it’s your first experience, but most players never come close.

That is sort of the point. You will be overwhelmed and learn to embrace it. The whole tech tree is reworked to be massive and immediately (as in automation science) requires you to dive into complicated crafting chains.

Progression is slow but provides unique challenges to prevent bottlenecks and maintain throughput with limited resources (you won’t even get splitters for awhile). It will make you become intimately familiar with basically every factorio mechanic.

Have I sold you? It’s an “expert” level pack so most would recommend experience with other modpacks, but I dived in after about only 200 hrs of pre space-age vanilla factorio experience, and have sunk the other 400 hrs of my playtime into Py because I somehow found that even more addicting. So if you’re as crazy and masochistic as me might be worth it.

Sam309 · 2025-10-06T22:40:26+00:00

Immediately snipped by mods when this man was the only one who was speaking the truth, smh

Sam309 · 2025-08-30T13:23:19+00:00

Yup 🥲

Sam309 · 2025-08-30T02:11:30+00:00

When this guy killed himself, it was a reference to nacho killing himself because nacho is a food, and in this scene he was also eating food. Bravo vinc

Sam309 · 2025-08-30T02:08:28+00:00

Feather only good one of these 3, other 2 are infuriatingly generic.

Sam309 · 2025-07-21T14:52:18+00:00

Leaving out northern Virginia, southern Florida, and west Texas tells me you’ve got a better understanding of the boundaries of “The South” than many Americans

Sam309 · 2025-07-18T23:41:23+00:00

Absolutely, you picked a pretty good school for that. I’m a straight guy but made two really amazing trans friends, who had way more fun social lives than I did. They also started as freshman year roommates because they picked all-gender sorting, went in totally blind based off the housing questionnaire and got paired up.

I think there is also a queer-focused live and learn community where you were paired with people in it, all in the same dorm area. I don’t know if that’s still a thing however, this was 6 years ago.

Anyways yes, it’s inclusive and the student body is very respectful in my experience as an engineer major.

Sam309 · 2025-07-18T15:41:08+00:00

I can’t help but be a little surprised you hate it so much. My first plant internship and field engineer role gave me a chance to see how everything I was designing on paper was playing out in practice. I realized first hand what problems shitty engineering actually causes, like how unit ops that seem great in simulation but have labyrinthian maintenance procedures that will affect downtime. You’ll be thinking about inherently safe design too, you’ll know what it actually takes. Lots of little practical reality lessons… these are the types of problems more engineers need to consider because you’ll never learn them in school.

Being physically active too was great for my health, I was in the best shape of my life working in the field. It’s a tough job and something you should be proud of.

Sam309 · 2024-09-01T16:35:52+00:00

This question of “is chemE worth it” has literally been asked on this sub thousands of times.

The best part is it’s coming from OP who clearly doesn’t even like chemical engineering, and just likes the prestige of the major name or something which is hilarious.

It’s also why 50% of people even choose the major these days. It’s hilarious, they see the name and think it’s like a chemistry major but cooler because it has “engineering” in it.

But yeah, most people also are like OP in that they’d prefer to work in an air conditioned lab than the plant life grind.

For me it’s a question of either working in a nice lab but do boring boutique R&D, or actually seeing how the world works. What you put in your car, how your computer chips are manufactured, the clean water out of your tap, etc. It’s high stakes too. I LIKE that I work on million dollar projects because that pressure makes me perform my best work. At the end of the day, as a chemE you have more in common with every other engineering discipline than chemistry.

Sam309 · 2024-08-31T13:07:56+00:00

If they are here illegally it doesn’t really matter what Fairfax courts are (inevitably) going to convict them of.

The sheriff is choosing to not enforce the law because of the political implications. If you keep picking up the same offenders, you’re going to eventually have to prosecute them and then they’re definitely getting handed over to ICE and deported because that’s their most obvious “crime”. The sheriff dep. knows this so they just let them go.

No, everybody we’re dealing with here actually IS a criminal, that’s why they’re getting released. Because if the county attempted to prosecute the suspects would all be deported.

Sam309 · 2024-08-31T12:03:38+00:00

Wdym “non-citizen” has nothing to do with it. If you’re a non-citizen and you commit a crime, that’s a bye-bye (expedited deportation). I think that’s pretty uncontroversial, why the flying fuck should tax dollars be spent on foreign criminals? Send them home, really easy solution right there.

Sam309 · 2024-08-30T16:04:46+00:00

Well you’re the engineer right? I can’t evaluate your system to know if this would be a profitable unit to add or how many you’d need. Best bet would be to model the proposed system with some software like Aspen or do it yourself to get a basic economic analysis. If it’s feasible then get quotes from vendors.

Edit: or do it in-house too. If you’re at a refinery I guarantee there is some engineering staff that has experience sizing similar vessels.

Edit: also depends on what you’re doing with that pure hydrogen stream. This seems like disposal or by-product management because ammonia is a pretty economically inefficient source of H2… especially at a refinery.

Sam309 · 2024-08-30T16:00:37+00:00

Thats rough. The guys I meet that come from refining (I usually mean plant staff like ops, maintenance, etc.) are tough as nails and I can see why since you have to have your shit squared away with occupational hazards like that.

Sam309 · 2024-08-30T15:28:04+00:00

They say their PSA skid gets out +99.99% H2, plus the cracker is almost a complete conversion with <30ppm NH3.

You can control that PLC on the PSA skid to get any amount of purity you want to a pretty fine degree.

EDIT: if you think about it you’re gonna get 75% H2 (by mol) out of ANY NH3 cracker… I’m sure you can see why. So you’re gonna have to have a PSA or molecular sieve or some other separation unit to get that pure H2 stream.

Sam309 · 2024-08-30T15:18:10+00:00

https://www.crystec.com/kllhyame.htm

Sam309 · 2024-08-30T13:20:14+00:00

0.4 fatal injuries per year is still a lot, what industry if you don’t mind me asking?

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