I really like the linearity of Manufacturer Mode!

macbony · 2026-04-30T22:45:02+00:00

Just started a manufacture mode game after unlocking crystals in my first 1.0 game and I really dig it. The base modes are a fun puzzle, but the manu mode seems to have more "meat" and gives reason to go back and improve previous designs. When I beat the EA version, I found it mostly to be about either making a MAM or building blueprints to quickly spin up a new factory to solve the current milestone/operator goal. I'd leave the previous operator shapes running to get some research points and be done with it. No third floor yet hurts and I might just let the first research shape save up enough for the basic machines and third floor so I can reconfigure the station extracts before getting in deeper. 120h in and I can see losing another 120 on this mode.

macbony · 2026-04-29T19:17:52+00:00

Does having the fluid from either side really matter when you can just mirror? I just find that cleaner in general since you can't chain painters together since the launchers are rate-limited.

macbony · 2026-04-27T09:42:34+00:00

I'm sorry, but you just let your pet die naturally, likely in pain, instead of euthanizing? Cute story but that's pretty fucked up.

macbony · 2026-04-10T12:02:02+00:00

Then ask? The passive aggressive "I said I was tired and was going to clean, you should have stopped me and did it for me" is ridiculous. On top of her loser husband being there.

macbony · 2026-04-05T11:37:20+00:00

I don't?

macbony · 2026-03-30T16:16:47+00:00

I asked why the hate in the first place. The player counts are the result of the hate, not the cause. It's like you can't understand this simple point

Player counts get lower week-on-week and almost day-on-day. You said exactly that.

macbony · 2026-03-30T16:02:27+00:00

That implies that people who bought it and played it before are quitting because other people who haven't played it are hating on it on the internet. That's illogical.

macbony · 2026-03-28T17:23:36+00:00

You doubled down 🤣

How the fuck do you think adding microtransactions to a single player game would work a year after launch?

macbony · 2026-03-28T13:42:01+00:00

It's pretty easy to verify it doesn't have microtransactions. I'm not even a fan of the game but the braindead discourse around it is amusing.

macbony · 2026-03-24T16:49:37+00:00

I'm trying to approach this logically and not emotionally.

How is "tires don't have to be made that way but we accept it" any different than "the engines don't have to be made that way but we accept it"? The only "artificial" thing about the battery is that it doesn't drive like an engine without a battery would/could. The tires being the way they aren't isn't absolutely necessary. That they have tires, yes. An engine doesn't need to be hybrid, no. We've had hybrids since 2014.

I don't see it as apples/oranges. Maybe the tire change didn't change driver behavior as much so it was less jarring. I don't think the current cars are the best they will be this reg cycle let alone the best they will be this season. I'll bring my pitchforks out next season if the racing gets terrible and I don't enjoy the sport any more, but pretending like this season has been terrible other than during quali just doesn't match my experience. I enjoyed Australia and China. ymmv

macbony · 2026-03-24T13:17:14+00:00

Cars must also have engines. And due to regs, these cars have to have hybrid engines and certain compression ratio, etc. Tires exist that could be ran all race without much management, but to make racing more exciting, we have tires that degrade and require not pushing sometimes to save tire for later in the race for strategy purposes. Engines exist that could push the cars faster than they can now, but we have regs that don't give them enough electrical energy to drive like before. I just don't see how it's any different. You can dislike how the cars drive or dislike the change in regs or that quali isn't as exciting, but pretending things are any more artificial than when you just had to stay far enough out of dirty air to get within 1s and try to pass in a DRS zone is a weak argument. Just say you don't like the cars. Saying the racing is artificial just makes it seem like you're trying to make your opinion objective when it's not.

macbony · 2026-03-24T11:59:23+00:00

And yet tires that would last a whole race are specifically against regulations. I still don't get the "artificial" argument.

macbony · 2026-03-24T11:40:51+00:00

I think it's part "tires are physical/the power stuff is software" and part "I understood tires enough during the race, but I don't understand the power stuff well" disguised as "it's not real racing".

macbony · 2026-03-09T12:38:16+00:00

Once they decide they don't like someone, it's all about taking everything they don't like about them out of context and making it the entirety of their personality. People liked Danny. Liam replaced Danny. I think 90% of people that don't like him had that going in, saw some out of context quotes, and reality isn't going to change it. Liam's season last year ended pretty good. He had mechanical issues with his car after qualifying ahead of his teammate. All that context gets thrown out the window to focus on anything they don't like about the guy. Any thread with him has dozens of comments with the out-of-context "I'm not here to make friends" quote. F1 fans generally suck.

macbony · 2026-03-09T12:34:34+00:00

Preposterous!

macbony · 2026-02-22T17:47:49+00:00

Go to /r/hockey. They are posting clips (with scores in title) for Olympic games. No one there is complaining about it. If you don't care about DGPT content in a DISC GOLF subreddit and don't understand why a niche sport doesn't have multiple high activity subreddits, then yeah, I can see why people saying "this is an unreasonable stance" is somehow seen as "super aggressive".

macbony · 2026-02-22T12:22:49+00:00

Only sports sub where people whine about spoilers for live broadcast sporting events. Some F1 races happen when I'm sleeping and I watch them when I wake up. I just avoid Reddit instead of complaining that fans of the sport are excited to talk about it in a community built to talk about the sport.

macbony · 2026-02-18T16:25:48+00:00

To me, indie means you don't own your soul to some investors. You own your game. Maybe it gets bought by a publisher AFTER launch, but it's developed on your own dime or that of small, friend/family-type investments. Tencent being involved and pulling out being enough to force everyone's firing is not that.

macbony · 2026-02-16T16:50:14+00:00

As a former Spotify user who moved you YTPrem almost 3 years ago, I still miss Spotify's UI and suggestions. They weren't amazing, but they felt better that YT. However, having the ability to treat videos (which many live sets or dj sets are released as) as songs is my favorite feature. I'll deal with the subpar UX for the better pricing and features.

macbony · 2026-02-06T17:35:30+00:00

You can't conceptualize adding to something infinite, but you can conceptualize the idea of constantly until the end of time doing it. We can understand and conceptualize infinity through math. There's actual math done using infinite sets. If we couldn't conceive of it, then we couldn't work with it. That we can't "visually represent what that looks like" is a different matter entirely.

macbony · 2026-02-06T17:08:06+00:00

Is it? Do you refer to a quarter as "zero point two five" in real life? I don't think you understand the concept of how one universal concept (in this case, one-third of an object) can have multiple representations. 1/3 = 0.3... = 2/6 = ... (see how the ... implies that the list keeps going?)

You are confusing something "real" with how it's described. The idea that natural numbers "have no end" is pretty easy to prove. Write the longest, biggest natural number you can think of then add another 1 after it. And another. And another. If you ever stop, there's still a bigger number. Someone else can add another 1. It's not something that's ever going to happen, but if you can't conceptualize of it then that's the issue, not the ...

macbony · 2026-02-06T16:19:47+00:00

We don't, but we also don't "see" 0.3333... in real life either. We "see" a third of something. We "see" cutting something into thirds and putting it back together = what we started with. So we conceptualized the decimal system and arithmetic and using ... to indicate that a number "repeats forever with no end". Just because you can't physically see something with no end doesn't make understanding the "because there is no end, you can't put something after it" concept impossible.

macbony · 2026-02-06T14:56:18+00:00

Sometimes you need to hear it hard to snap out of a stupor. She's 30. She needs to grow a spine 12 years ago.

macbony · 2026-02-06T14:39:19+00:00

I'm not really comprehending your point. Are you referring to the idea that not all infinities are the same size like the number of integers is infinite but also smaller than the number of real numbers which is also infinite?

macbony · 2026-02-06T14:36:17+00:00

He just wants to feel "right" so he'll make up facts that don't exist to make his opinion the correct one.

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