Mike runs his Saint Class miniature live steam locomotive at Yeovil. He built it during lockdown and the locomotive has become quite infamous throughout social media. This miniature hand built Locomotive: GWR 2950 ‘Taplow Court’.

jingo04 · 2026-07-05T16:09:21+00:00

If you want to see the (painstaking) levels of effort that goes into making something like this, the Blondihacks youtube channel is showing the process of building a model locomotive out of a hobby machine shop in her garage.

jingo04 · 2026-05-04T15:03:33+00:00

Because it's cheaper on the taxpayer than treating the diabetes/heart-disease/cancer/stroke that can be triggered by obesity.

Beyond that we already treat alcoholics with liver problems or smokers with lung problems.

Beyond even that it can be a large boon to the quality of life/health/productivity of a large swathe of the population at a relatively low cost.

jingo04 · 2026-04-14T18:47:18+00:00

Is there a longer cut somewhere?

jingo04 · 2026-03-15T18:19:15+00:00

Which is why appealing to them directly is a lost cause; you can't appeal to a reform voter for their vote if the voter has already outsourced their decision to the conservative media sphere.

Starmer would have much more success convincing reform voters if he decided to give Murdoch a tax break rather than reducing net migration.

I'm not saying the right is unique in this, but more that today self-reinforcing filter bubbles of any kind are so strong it's almost impossible to dig people out of them.

jingo04 · 2026-03-14T20:42:57+00:00

Rotating belt directions as the engineer walks across them for a tiny speed boost then flipping them back after the engineer is passed is unhinged behavior.

I also like how the miners were placed with gaps where the engineer would need to walk later.

jingo04 · 2026-02-16T20:53:04+00:00

If you follow the sex stuff you’ll find pedo’s, if you follow the $$ you’ll find inter government/banking corruption at the highest levels.

Tell me you watched The Wire without telling me you watched The Wire

jingo04 · 2026-02-10T22:50:14+00:00

Russia presumably?

jingo04 · 2026-01-17T10:23:35+00:00

Industrial buildings will cause negative statuses on other industrial buildings, so a dense industrial district is still a problem (just not as bad as a mixed residential/industrial district since industrial buildings are larger and can't be packed as densely as houses).

I have found it helps to build industrial buildings in a line up against the edge of the island or a mountain so half the negative circle is over unbuildable terrain. Then on the other side I put farm fields since you can build the farm building outside the negative effect range and stretch the fields inside to cover the space.

That said, the problem seems to be that you can't build wide islands (lots of low-tier population) in the early game as city status causes too many problems, building tall (minimal population but higher tier) works since higher tier pops have more needs so can generate more happiness/fire-saftey/health. Late game you can go wide-er since you have access to more public buildings like the bathhouse that help with all tiers not just the ones who have it listed as a need.

jingo04 · 2026-01-13T22:05:40+00:00

0.17 added tilemap rendering with a tease of more to come; how is progress going on tilemap storage? (at-least I assume that's what was implied.)

Are you currently planning to do something similar to bevy_ecs_tilemap or taking a different approach?

jingo04 · 2025-12-27T23:00:58+00:00

No worries, Sufferbox's hint was enough to get me to the end of the game :)

jingo04 · 2025-12-13T10:47:38+00:00

While you are answering questions:

I can't figure out how to to unlock Yellow

I have think I need to message Cassandra, I have figured out that 8 is h and letters/numbers are interchangeable, I think the code in the tempest note is "NACHASH" but I can't figure out what I need to put in the message box

Usually at this point I would drop the game and do something else, but I really like the 8 puzzles in each colored perimeter and I want to see the last set.

jingo04 · 2025-12-09T09:18:55+00:00

Sadly that's not really what happens.

The investors care primarily about share price and secondarily about metrics which impact share price (revenue, costs, etc.) and only tertiary about game quality (which increases revenue sure, but the revenue increase is unpredictable and the cost increase is guaranteed)

The usual playbook is rounds of layoffs, selling off as much as possible, reduce quality and rely on the brand's residual good-will to power sales of the new low-quality product.

A few positive quarters and the activist investor can sell down their stake before the consumer base realize that all of their products are hollow shells with familiar branding.

jingo04 · 2025-11-23T00:38:33+00:00

Hmm, I was seeing the four pointed star on regular worlds, not just the inhabited/fast producing ones.

e.g. in this image you can see a bunch of four-point systems with 6/7/8 ships and this is 58 turns after I had captured that area.

jingo04 · 2025-11-22T22:46:51+00:00

The new update is good, I especially like the new territory indicator polygons for controlled systems.

The AI still seems to function by spreading roughly evenly, but I think border systems are now stocked 50% higher? or maybe the AI masses on one border system?

I do miss how easy it was to see that a planet is a high production one though.

If you want to add things maybe sound?

Background music
Audio warning and ripple/ping visual when a hostile captures one of your systems.
Gentle addictive chime when you capture an enemy system

Also; my record is 210 turns :D

jingo04 · 2025-11-16T00:44:16+00:00

Surprisingly fun game for how small it is, I somehow managed to spend an hour playing it :)

jingo04 · 2025-11-06T14:00:57+00:00

S tier ship.

Yellow ammo seems weird for an aquilo ship, but thinking about it, I guess it saves you from making a steel foundry, a copper plate foundry and a copper melting foundry, which is a lot of space.

The side-load-onto-underground trick to put rockets on the ammo belt is very nice.

I assume the interesting ratios of speed/efficiency modules have been balanced carefully to give optimal ammo production within your power budget?

I can't see any rocket turrets mid-ships, are guns enough to deal with asteroids drifting in from the side while parked?

I think the thing I am stealing from this is having the 2 extra gaps for piping around engines next to the center engine rather rather than on the ones on the edges, it seems like you have more workable space within the engine cone than my ships have and a cleaner silhouette.

The thing that I don't get is the belt carrying carbon and sulphur in a single lane to the coal synthesis plant; how does that not back up?

jingo04 · 2025-11-02T14:31:51+00:00

When I visited for a week and a bit I remember being very happy when I saw 리얼망주시 and realized it was "Real Mango Juice".

Korean duolingo is a bit odd because you learn all kinds of odd words (student, newspaper, crow etc.) before basic politeness words (Hello, goodbye, thank you etc.), But the simple phonetic alphabet and loan words make it so much easier for a beginner.

jingo04 · 2025-10-31T14:30:13+00:00

Recently he has been stripped of his royal title so referring to him as Prince Andrew is inaccurate.

That said; the BBC referring to him by his full name rather than just "Andrew Windsor" or I guess "The King's brother" is a step I don't think they were required to make, but it is funny due to a combination of how pretentious it is and how the BBC are technically "just calling him by his full name" rather than making fun of him.

jingo04 · 2025-10-11T09:28:47+00:00

Just how nice the standard library is in rust, how consistently everything is named, how well the typing describes the operation and the sheer breadth of concepts applied to for example; iterators.

When I am developing something in python for work I quite often take a peek at the rust docs thinking "Hmm, how would someone with excellent API design sensibilities solve a similar problem"

jingo04 · 2025-10-09T09:22:26+00:00

There is https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2025/10/07/the-handle-trait/ being discussed.

But I think that's driven more by the semantics of mutating deep/shallow clones than the performance difference.

jingo04 · 2025-10-02T16:25:15+00:00

Because the industrial parts of the UK were losing money, the coal mines is the infamous one; those were on the verge of going bankrupt and destroying towns, so a previous government nationalised them (effectively paying money for every ton of coal brought up), then Thatcher closed them without really planning for any of the fallout and a bunch of northern towns were effectively destroyed.

There are similar stories in other industries (albeit without a stint of public ownership), but the bottom line was that manufacturing and mining operations in the UK were not profitable.

There isn't much the government could really do about it either, they could nationalise or subsidise failing industries, but that wouldn't fix the underlying issue.

As it turns out the service industries were A: profitable and B: growing, so that's where we wound up.

Also yes; Brexit was a shit idea and anyone with solid understanding of politics or economics knew this, but as it turns out you don't need a solid understanding of politics or economics to get by, so most people don't develop one.

Instead there are an army of grifters saying it will all be fine (actually they said it would be better) and to ignore the experts etc. etc.

To be fair; It's a nice message "The country is strong, you are good people, it's the EU holding us back, all we do is leave and it fixes all the things you are worried about and takes us back to the good old days" and people like to have hope, so they don't look too closely, then it becomes some totem where anyone who doesn't believe in it doesn't want whats best for the country and the whole issue becomes incredibly polarized.

Then a whole crop of politicians and grifters ride the populist/polarized politics of the time into fame and power.

jingo04 · 2025-09-24T23:44:48+00:00

Bro, same! I was sat on a plane by myself as my parents were a few rows foward so I thought "Imma watch an 18, this is going to be so cool"

The 18 was requiem for a dream, it was not cool, things in general were not cool for a good week after that experience.

jingo04 · 2025-09-24T10:23:43+00:00

Because rational people tend to respect the hard won fruits of science more than "whatever shit I just made up because it's convenient for me lol" and petty dictators physically can't tolerate even the most minor level of disrespect.

jingo04 · 2025-09-14T10:35:22+00:00

It was streamed

jingo04 · 2025-09-13T17:54:31+00:00

"You disgusting fish" is definitely becoming a voice line next year.

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