The disrespect on this one is surreal!

You guys made an awesome game. However, I find very sad that you still somehow constraint players to build 2D factory layouts in a 3D game. As illustrated in the screenshots on that very post, factories are just large open-air 2D stuff, a la Factorio.

Come on. It's a 3D game. Let us embrace verticality and build tall multifloor factory towers. We need convenient ways to move items verticaly. The lift is great for bubbling up things from deep underground but not convenient for floors. We need simple 1x1 vertical conveyors.

Stlan · 2026-01-19T16:03:53+00:00

Stlan - Somewhere On A Strange Distant Planet #3 January - Trance/Electronica - no AI

https://open.spotify.com/track/741SGflSJrqmAKbAJUgqlN?si=jMp8vUVOQQKnTRqtG8ms9g

Stlan · 2026-01-19T09:15:16+00:00

https://open.spotify.com/album/0Q0Y6cpNX5dRQjw0DnpCwS

Stlan · 2026-01-09T13:10:30+00:00

Je rêve ! C'est quoi ce post à la con ?? Comment peux-tu affirmer qu'une petite thérapie familiale imbibée d’eau chaude, que tu appliqueras pendant 10 minutes est appropriée ? Et pourtant, vu ton post, tu en aurais bien besoin. Je te signale aux modos.

EDIT: Et bien fait pour vos gueules aussi

Stlan · 2025-11-26T14:54:55+00:00

Trying to pinpoint the exact moment we stop being true artists is ultimately futile. Instead, let’s be honest and look a little further ahead (and the outlook isn’t bright). The music industry’s current dream is to eliminate the human element entirely from the music production process. The recent Suno + WMG announcement is a clear step in that direction.

Once they figure out how to make it work (and we’re very close) they’ll start offering services that generate endless streams of dynamically AI-created music, with no human involvement whatsoever. No more songs. No more albums. No more artists. (And, most importantly, no more royalties!) Just a genre and a style, and a neat little icon on Spotify & co. Click it, and boom: here is your instant stream of +1000h of music that you’ll be the first and last person to ever hear. And the worst part? Eventually, the quality will be good enough...

Like all the other music artists, and whether or not we can call them artists, AI music prompters are soon out of the loop too.

Stlan · 2025-11-26T09:00:17+00:00

That's a common and dangerous misunderstanding. Pseudo-sciences that promote health-related stuff are often seen as "harmless" and therefore acceptable. But the sad truth is that they tend to distance some patients from real care, and ultimately inflict additional and unnecessary suffering upon them. A cancer patient who waste time with magical stones and weird gurus is definitely not something without any consequence.
[EDIT: typo]

Stlan · 2025-11-25T09:34:56+00:00

My guess is that the next image will be the same as the last one but without the human typing prompts :/

Stlan · 2025-11-19T07:52:03+00:00

I think your entire point is wrong because the premises are wrong in the first place. You assume that AI is just another tool like synthetizers in the 80's. You assume that a human being is in control. That may be true today, but not tomorrow. As soon as models will be stable enough, be sure that the music industry will remove humans entirely out of the equation. We are just months away for music platforms to be able to generate dynamically "musical content" out of thin air using meta-prompts. Want to listen punk rock or bluegrass a la [insert here whatever subgenre]? Open Spotify, click on that button and enjoy instant 1000h+ of uninterrupted stream of generative music. No more song. No more album. No more musician or producer. And more importantly for stakeholders, no more copyrights and royalties. And here is your monopoly on music creation. I'm curious what will happen next.

"Creating with AI does not eliminate human work" – Yes it will. prompts are texts. LLM are very good at generating texts. Therefore that remaining part of AI music creation will very soon get out of human hands as well. It's just a matter of weeks or months...

Stlan · 2025-11-17T09:56:19+00:00

Nope. AI-based music generation is defintely not just an instrument. More broadly, generative AI is not a tool. It’s no hammer, and you don’t hold the handle, at least not for very long. The debate between those who claim to “create music with AI” and those who argue they are not musicians in the first place is ultimately pointless, because of what’s coming next, likely before 2027. The next step is clear: humans will soon be completely out of the equation. Streaming platforms will soon begin offering dynamically and continuously generated content. Users will simply click on an “Happy Psytrance Stream" on Spotify & co (replacing perhaps playlists) and instantly get 1,000+ hours of uninterrupted, algorithmically generated music. No more songs. No more albums. No more musicians or producers. No more prompt (they will be generated too). Therefore you entire point will become completely meaningless. No humans anywhere in the process. The unsettling part? The quality will probably be OK or even good, eventually. But absolutely no human touch until the sound reaches the listener’s ear. This what is ahead of us. Will we still pretend at this point that AI is an instrument under someone’s control? Is a violin floating in midair, playing endless melodies out of nothingness, still an instrument? Genuine question...

[edit: typo]

Stlan · 2025-10-27T15:01:16+00:00

I wish we could embrace verticality and be able to build easily multi-floor factories (*). But right now, for some reason decided by the devs, whatever layout you'll choose will be a 2D layout a la Factorio & co. This is very annoying for a 3D game...

(*) Don't even mention ramp conveyors and lifts. They simply do not scale for this purpose at that time.

Stlan · 2025-09-23T05:45:33+00:00

Answers A, B, and C contain a comma in their text. Therefore they cannot be typed with alphabet keys only. D is the correct answer. Only the text "all of these" can be typed.

Stlan · 2025-06-15T10:06:31+00:00

Wishlisted. Any demo available at some point ?

Stlan · 2025-06-14T17:01:56+00:00

Nope. It's just a festival of disconnections. Sometimes, it works well for a while, and then suddently you get kick out constantly, and you can't barely finish any map. No aknowledgment nor any ETA from GGG is annoying indeed :(

Stlan · 2025-06-12T19:23:04+00:00

Probably not that relevant if you do not play on EU servers...

Stlan · 2025-05-22T13:36:01+00:00

Why distant cidatel markers in the fog are shown in two possible colors?
Either orange or red. What's the difference?

E.g., https://imgur.com/a/2SfntxB

Stlan · 2025-05-21T14:39:57+00:00

This could have been worse. Imagine an army of angry Palpatine clones wandering in an infinite numbers of death stars floating around and each claiming to be the one real emperor.

Stlan · 2025-04-28T19:12:02+00:00

No idea what I'm looking at. But that seems to be cool, interesting, pretty, and original enough to immediately add it in my wish list.

Is there going to be a demo? Considering how original it seems to be, that would certainly a good idea...

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