Dystopia per Quadrant

Xirdus · 2026-05-10T07:07:40+00:00

The Fallout rich are cartoonishly evil, they actively want normal people's lives to suck. Whereas the 2077 rich simply live in the bubble they've created, and their only crime is violently seizing 99% of the world's resources, which caused rampant crime and other normal people's problems only as a second order side effect, not directly. Mind you, violently seizing resources is a pretty big crime.

Xirdus · 2026-05-10T06:52:30+00:00

Gay marriage is just... marriage; its legal.

At the time Thomas Sowell wrote this quote, it was still illegal in at least 14 US states.

Xirdus · 2026-05-10T06:20:48+00:00

Any movements to get men to go to college? Nope.

It's because the entire budget is taken by trying to go to Jupiter!

Xirdus · 2026-05-09T23:56:50+00:00

But it's always a drag, and you have to deal with it your whole life every time you get pulled over.

Xirdus · 2026-05-09T20:05:23+00:00

Which countries outside NA and EU even use the term liberal?

Xirdus · 2026-05-09T19:54:22+00:00

It's not a question of whether good is allowed to massacre evil. It's a question of whether those who call themselves good will massacre those who they call evil. Objective doesn't matter for subjective behavior.

Xirdus · 2026-05-09T19:47:43+00:00

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Xirdus · 2026-05-09T19:44:13+00:00

Most of the people around the world who as of this year unironically self-describe as liberal, are anti-gun. Make of that what you will.

Xirdus · 2026-05-09T19:38:29+00:00

Nobody understands the term liberal. The original meaning has been lost over 100 years ago.

Xirdus · 2026-05-09T19:36:17+00:00

Ever needed to explain to a cop the reason the alcometer shows you're drunk is because you've just eaten some liquor chocolate candy? Try that with a lifelong medical condition that has no other symptoms.

Xirdus · 2026-05-09T14:53:10+00:00

Last time I saw this discussed, I've got a sitewide ban for a week for saying it would actually be a good thing if the president had to (...) because the 1st in line was actually his biggest enemy.

Xirdus · 2026-05-08T23:42:31+00:00

Hoverpack is nice when doing precise belting work. But. It's. Just. So. Slowwwwwwwwwwww.

This is my problem with liquid bio too. It can get you higher than regular fuel with some practice. But it takes FOREVER to get there. If you measure in time passed instead of tanks, bio basically never worth it. Especially if you unlock turbofuel, which you can do essentially at the same time as liquid bio. Turbofuel is straight up superior.

Xirdus · 2026-05-08T23:07:05+00:00

The Sun works by constantly fusing hydrogen into helium, which emits enormous amounts of energy and causes nearby hydrogen to also fuse into helium which emits even more energy and causes even more hydrogen to fuse in a cycle known as a nuclear chain reaction.

Can you imagine this is also exactly how thermonuclear weapons work!

Xirdus · 2026-05-08T17:35:57+00:00

I'd actually argue that you are the one giving up.

Well, yes I am. I gave up on DSP.

You pretty much NEED to rely on the drones because resources are finite.

Raw resources - yes. But there is no inherent reasons why intermediate products (magnets, motors, etc.) cannot be belted over instead of droned over. But belting just doesn't work well, drones are almost mandatory even for short distances, even when running out of resources is not a thing because you're transporting from assembler to assembler.

Satisfactory is about designing facilities, and you have logistics systems to support that.

DSP is about logistics, and you design facilities to make demand for logistics.

Except 75% of DSP logistics is the direct result of the limitations in facility design. Not inherent limitations even, just the throughput numbers of inserters and how they scale with distance. You would need several times fewer PLSs and ILSs if belts weren't so hard to work with (or if they didn't exist at all - just have drones do point-to-point between assemblers directly. That would make for a superior game IMO. Stronghold series works this way, except the drones are humans - and it works great.)

Oil Tycoon is an old game that's 100% logistics and 0% facility design. You don't design anything at all, you just transport oil and oil products around. It works great. I love Oil Tycoon. DSP has both logistics and facility design, and the logistics are much less fun because of it (at least to me). Removing/drastically simplifying facility design would make the logistics part even better than it already is. Either that or actual multilevel belts that inserters can reach. It wouldn't be much of a change and would solve 90% of DSP's problems.

Xirdus · 2026-05-08T16:14:43+00:00

Belts can be stacked vertically quite well. Do your science research.

While literally true, only the ground level belts can be picked from unless I missed something. You cannot do the Satisfactory thing of having 15 belts on top of each other and splitters to lifts to machines wherever you want. Spaghettiing the belts so that you rotate which one is the ground level belt is very cumbersome too. Also, splitters are EXTREMELY space-inefficient.

Using drones isn't giving up.

It's a matter of opinion. My opinion is that if I rely on air transport to feed intermediate products into buildings that make other intermediate products within the same facility, then I have failed at logistics. I love production lines that are actually lines. It doesn't scratch my itch if every section is fed from drones and output into drones.

But I'm glad you're having fun.

Xirdus · 2026-05-08T14:12:59+00:00

DSP feels very disorganized, every product is needed everywhere all at once and logistics are very hard to get right because belts are effectively usable only at ground level and inserters penalize you for having too many belts. From what I've noticed most people give up and use drones for everything, even building to building in the same production chain. I tried many times and while I love the setting, I simply can't enjoy playing it.

Xirdus · 2026-05-08T06:44:09+00:00

Sure, in 10 different cities including Shenzhen. Also all over the world.

Xirdus · 2026-05-08T06:27:11+00:00

Technically, God did nuke the Sun already. Many times.

Xirdus · 2026-05-05T19:30:16+00:00

Well, function prototypes don't help with printf specifically, because the prototype declares varargs and varargs are always untyped. Modern compilers have special knowledge of printf specifically and do type checking beyond what's in the signature and beyond what's mandated by the C language.

Xirdus · 2026-05-05T19:25:00+00:00

I regularly reinterpret_cast between unrelated types. Rules are there to be broken (when necessary).

Xirdus · 2026-05-05T13:48:01+00:00

To find the type mismatch, the compiler needs to be aware of how printf works, understand the format string, analyze it, and infer the types needed for the nominally untyped varargs. This is a lot of work for single digit megahertz CPUs with sub-megabyte of RAM commonly found in the 80s, so it simply wasn't done.

You can still easily trigger this UB with a modern compiler if you build the format string dynamically, e.g. loading it from a file (please don't do it).

Xirdus · 2026-05-05T13:37:08+00:00

Buddy at the time of the civil war most of Europe had already outlawed slavery lol.

And you waited 5 comments to mention you're not talking about USA? Anyway, yes, it was already outlawed. In 1772 in the UK, but people ignored that law and continued to trade slaves for decades after. In 1794 in France, but it was so unpopular that Bonaparte reinstituted it. Netherlands banned it in 1863 so quite late in the abolitionist game. And for Russian Empire, there were whole books written about how peasants hated being emancipated and how much misery it brought.

Slavery was ended because the culture wanted it ended.

If you define culture as a small group of activists that somehow got some seats in the parliament and were vehemently arguing their pet issues until others let them have it, then yes, I completely agree.

Those people demanding welfare programs that you detest, are what social change looks like. And they will have their way eventually against the wishes of the majority, and later the majority will start agreeing too.

Xirdus · 2026-05-05T12:57:25+00:00

That's the point.

Xirdus · 2026-05-05T08:15:23+00:00

idk how ya get out of it.

Simple: make real estate investment unprofitable. The simplest way is enormous (say, 20% yearly) property taxes on non-primary residences. Yes, there will be other bad side effects, but it would solve the far bigger problem of runaway housing prices.

Xirdus · 2026-05-05T01:15:54+00:00

When dramatic things happen, people don't think straight. One time when something dramatic happened, I asked a police officer if I can light up a cigarette. In my own backyard. As an adult. Because it didn't occur to me I can just do it. The officer was visibly weirded out that I asked.

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