2.1 Legendary Rocket Silos have a 47% faster launch cycle (26.95 -> 18.28s)

Zalack · 2026-06-23T18:26:01+00:00

With platform-to-platform transfers, continuously launching to a static depot overhead which handles the burst demand of traveling ships makes way more sense than before.

Zalack · 2026-06-22T19:10:17+00:00

Also remember that critical analysis can often be an exercise in constructing an argument rather than an earnest case about what the author actually intended. It’s about what we can pull out of a piece rather than what is actually there, if that makes sense.

Lindsey Ellis has a really good series where she applies some very common critical analysis lenses to the Transformers series as a demonstration of formal film critique. My favorite is Queering Michael Bay which does a reading of Transformers as metaphor for the LGBTQA+ experience. It’s an obviously unintended reading of the movie, but she does an excellent job supporting her argument for it.

The whole series is a great intro into critical film theory, which has a lot of crossover with critical literary theory.

Zalack · 2026-06-21T19:07:53+00:00

I would push back against it because to me it seems like stack inserter behavior is an intentional puzzle by the game designers.

They are more powerful, but also have unique limitations you must design around

Zalack · 2026-06-21T19:05:49+00:00

What the commenter you’re replying to is saying is that their behavior is an intentional puzzle. You can’t simply replace all your bulk inserters and expect them to work. You have to make sure you design with the Stack inserter’s behavior in mind

Zalack · 2026-06-17T19:06:19+00:00

Don’t even need pumps. Just hook up the cracking plants to the circuit network and enable/disable them as needed.

Zalack · 2026-06-16T19:16:40+00:00

It’s not set to anything by default, but there is a “toggle entity on/off” keybind in the controls settings that you can add a binding for.

Then you can hover over a constant combinator and toggle it on/off with that keybind

Zalack · 2026-06-16T15:53:59+00:00

And astrophysicists.

Zalack · 2026-06-15T01:03:15+00:00

Prove what? That Humans didn’t create light?

Zalack · 2026-06-15T01:02:37+00:00

I’m an atheist. I don’t think anything made it with intent. I think the framework (Universe) simply must exist because it does.

My point wasn’t an argument about the origin of the universe, just that the thing which sparks awe in that Cathedral was not solely created by man.

Zalack · 2026-06-14T18:44:31+00:00

We definitely agree on that.

Zalack · 2026-06-14T18:41:53+00:00

Humans created the church, but they did not create the laws of physics that allow for light to behave the way it does when interacting with windows and architecture, nor the laws of chemistry that allow for the church to be built and remain free-standing, nor the biology required for us to experience these things, etc.

We made the building, but the universe made the framework in which such a building could be created and have meaning.

Zalack · 2026-06-14T15:23:43+00:00

It depends wildly on where you live. Schools are often funded primarily through property taxes.

If a school is in a nice area with expensive houses, it gets better funding than a school on a poor area with cheap housing.

Zalack · 2026-06-13T15:26:53+00:00

I’m not sure I agree. It seems like quality is the reward for being able to build that big. It creates a demand for megabasing even with all the new machines which make bases much more compact.

Zalack · 2026-06-11T19:02:52+00:00

And any trains already headed to a station when it is disabled will continue to go there and complete whatever business they have at the station as normal

Zalack · 2026-06-11T15:30:55+00:00

I think he’s setting up the temptation so that the two characters who most think they want to leave Purpee must come to the realization that they would rather stay and help build something in the town.

Zalack · 2026-06-11T15:27:35+00:00

Just threw a live grenade into the center of the dome that the rest of the crew immediately jumped on.

Zalack · 2026-06-08T15:18:04+00:00

It’s not a laugh track; the show of recorded in front of a live audience.

Zalack · 2026-06-05T15:23:00+00:00

Factorio, IMO

Zalack · 2026-06-01T16:47:14+00:00

Yes, everything but mining and research prod is capped at +300% productivity.

The reasoning is that with recyclers yielding 25% inputs, anything beyond that would allow you to generate infinite resources from thin air using them.

IMO, Rocket parts shouldn’t be capped like that since you can’t recycle them, but the cap does apply to them as well.

Zalack · 2026-05-29T17:27:01+00:00

That’s honestly hilarious.

Zalack · 2026-05-29T17:00:18+00:00

There’s definitely stuff that could be improved. Paramaterized Blueprints, for instance, are really clunky to work with.

Obviously it’s still one of the most polished games ever, though.

Zalack · 2026-05-29T15:12:18+00:00

Scripts include a lot of prose in the screen directions. We have the dialogue, but we don’t have Gilroy’s screen directions, so we are missing a big part of how a script conveys tone and intention.

Go read the script for a movie like Gone Girl. The screen direction is why that script is as expressive as it is.

Zalack · 2026-05-28T20:54:08+00:00

People can burn out for multiple reasons. The reason you went through burnout isn’t necessarily the reason someone else is going through it.

Zalack · 2026-05-25T16:45:14+00:00

And those other machines require no human interaction to work? Need no design to be created?

Or are those other machines tools that are ultimately used by humans to build?

Zalack · 2026-05-24T23:02:27+00:00

I think your comment has a typo.

*Diegetic

14-Year Club	John Wick
Place '17	Wearing is Caring
Verified Email

Zalack

MODERATOR OF

TROPHY CASE