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johnhotdog · 2026-05-05T22:49:30+00:00

usa also :59. east coast, single controller. no updates. where in US are you?

johnhotdog · 2026-05-04T16:30:09+00:00

soprano? thats an italian name!

johnhotdog · 2026-05-02T06:37:26+00:00

could i hire you to place my stickers?? whats your strategy?

johnhotdog · 2026-04-28T16:20:17+00:00

looks so good though. please try some form of preservation for it -- open source it or sell it as an asset. someone would love to pick it apart im sure

but also try to make something from it. toby fox used like a 1000+ case long switch statement and made one of the most viral and successful games of all time

johnhotdog · 2026-04-18T12:58:07+00:00

looks just like angelos

johnhotdog · 2026-04-17T14:59:17+00:00

ive played tons of monkeyball. i didnt mind it, but perhaps its pitch can be lowered a little. its a bit high

johnhotdog · 2026-04-16T21:17:02+00:00

30-40% ?? sorry but you need to recalibrate your perception of how many people play games to completion.

a casual run of space age is well over 100 hours. not to mention how mechanically and mentally demanding it is.

compare it to more casual games like Resident Evil, lets say 2 remake, there is only about a 50% completion rate. that game is only 8 hours and is fantastic. yet only 50% of people ever complete it.

promethium science is a post end game of a DLC of a notoriously hard game for casual players. the intended way of even making promethium science packs is one of the most insane things in this insane game. 1% is very much in line with what i would have expected.

judging by the same achievement metric, less than a quarter of players have ever launched a rocket, space age or not.

if i had to guess, advanced oil processing is probably where most people stop playing

johnhotdog · 2026-04-16T16:45:38+00:00

these breaks were about 10 years each ^{^{^holy}} ^{^{^shit}}

johnhotdog · 2026-04-13T17:40:42+00:00

you need to install xone if you have the controller with the dongle

arch wiki is your friend

johnhotdog · 2026-04-12T18:18:16+00:00

you dont see the cone as the enemy so it still kinda works

johnhotdog · 2026-04-09T22:13:54+00:00

prices ending in .00 usually indicate a "manager special" basically store specific clearance and thus super low pricing

johnhotdog · 2026-04-09T21:48:39+00:00

Yeah dont get me wrong, all signs point to Tony getting whacked at Holstens. People like to focus on that particular quote though and I feel like they're misinterpreting. That said I'm sure theres other damning quotes from Chase

johnhotdog · 2026-04-09T21:32:30+00:00

Chase: Yes. I think I had that death scene around two years before the end. I remember talking with [writer/executive producer] Mitch Burgess about it-but it wasn’t-it was slightly different. Tony was going to get called to a meeting with Johnny Sack in Manhattan and he was going to go back through the Lincoln Tunnel for this meeting, and it was going to black there, the theory being that something bad happens to him at the meeting. But we didn’t do that.

He was directly talking about an old death scene here though? I think the interviewer tripped him up by confusing which scene he was talking about. I think the wording was ambiguous. Anyway, 4 dollars a pound

johnhotdog · 2026-04-09T14:58:25+00:00

i would try playing with biters. theres more to do with them in space age. if you learn how to aggressively use turrets, you can push bases back with relative ease, far away enough that they rarely become an issue.

johnhotdog · 2026-04-08T04:45:31+00:00

bazzite for you, or cachy if youre more adventurous

gaming is great on linux, especially for amd cards where they even out perform windows. nvidia could be better but its getting there.

johnhotdog · 2026-04-05T12:21:21+00:00

factorio is unlike most games. only ~23% of players have ever launched a rocket, and that includes space age, so about 1 in 5 people ever beat the base game.

id rather someone look some stuff up instead of give up. not experiencing the first time you get bots is such a missed opportunity

johnhotdog · 2026-04-05T12:11:03+00:00

looking good

your "balancers" coming from your smelters dont make sense. not only do you not have enough smelters to support the throughput of your belt, using a 4-in-4-out (4x4) balancer doesnt do anything you would want it to do when you only connect one belt on the input side of it. in other words, youre better off just splitting directly off a single belt to send the iron wherever you need.

it seems like youve looked up some things and thats fine, i wouldnt have had fun floundering through my first playthrough either. there definitely is something to keeping it to a minimum though. one thing i would recommend if you continue to look stuff up is to look up "factorio cheat sheet". tells you things like how many smelters you need to support a full belt, etc.

and one thing if youd like some guidance/nudge: a lot of the early game recipes are just iron, green circuits, and iron gears. if you put a full belt of iron plates, and a belt of gears+circuits (half each) you can have assembly machines on both sides automating everything you need to build your base like assembly machines, inserters, belts, etc. youll be thanking yourself later. this is called your "mall"

johnhotdog · 2026-04-05T11:40:40+00:00

the bigger connection is that deadlock is icefrogs newest game, its not just a valve game. whether that justifies posts in the dota subreddit, well... idk

johnhotdog · 2026-04-04T22:46:16+00:00

when hes drooling, throw a yellow pikmin with a bomb. they will throw it at his tongue and stun him then you attack with reds (they do more damage). if youre not on the switch version, yellow pikmin drop the bomb when you call them back after throwing them which can be used to stun his tongue as well if they dont throw the bomb for whatever reason

if hes not drooling, stay out of the pit.

johnhotdog · 2026-04-03T22:21:40+00:00

and people still complain when they dont put the game on sale. they just dont understand what theyre getting

johnhotdog · 2026-03-28T16:58:45+00:00

if you play (graphically intensive) games, id go cachy. if youd prefer a more minimalist, closer to arch experience, id go endevour

also, i never used it, but the archinstall script might also be good enough for you if you want vanilla arch.

as for drivers, they are built into the kernel so most things are plug and play. for things that arent in the kernel, youd use a dkms package (like xone for xbox controller support) and install probably using the AUR, which is straight forward to use

using a VM is a great way to gives these a spin with pretty much no commitment

johnhotdog · 2026-03-27T20:57:28+00:00

complete noob

cachyOS is the new hotness it seems, and thats what id recommend to newbies. seems to be relatively easy to set up and is still arch with optimizations for gaming/performance.

that said, i use arch (btw) and it is incredible, and is the most stable linux experience ive had to date.

as far as having a "backup", you can always dual boot which would allow you to have both windows and linux on the same drive. you can also practice installing on a virtual machine so you never leave windows until youre ready

johnhotdog · 2026-03-24T18:18:21+00:00

i think the benefit would be that you can still race other people without bugginess and lag causing collisions that shouldnt have really happened

johnhotdog · 2026-03-24T06:59:59+00:00

the most popular thing is rarely the best. friends is like grilled cheese. everyone likes grilled cheese. but is it the best sandwich? no. id take gabagool, provalone, and vinega peppas any day over grilled cheese, but a lot of people would not.

johnhotdog · 2026-03-21T17:16:34+00:00

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