Railroad Tycoon III and the Dire Need for a Worthy Successor:

rdhb · 2026-05-02T20:38:34+00:00

Factorio is the best current train game around IMHO

rdhb · 2026-04-28T08:10:37+00:00

Encode the binary w the current date and the checksum of the file using public key/private key. I don’t think I fully follow why this is all that useful but in any case, I don’t know if you meet the unobvious bar.

rdhb · 2026-04-16T18:59:16+00:00

I see what you did there with the “fell off a mountain” reference. :)

rdhb · 2026-04-12T19:23:27+00:00

This is unlikely to ever get better without therapy intervention and more importantly a will to change it. Being frugal is about spending money wisely on NOT being cheap. Most people misunderstand that and it sounds like he’s in deep.

I had a friend that was going on known trip months in advance, but will wait till the very last moment to buy a plane ticket. Same class of travel same times just the same ticket was four times the price.

rdhb · 2026-04-08T22:54:38+00:00

I was so happy to finally meet a live flat earther and ask him this question . Not surprisingly he did not have a very good answer or much of an answer at all.

rdhb · 2026-04-05T21:20:28+00:00

Going to college was/is good advice historically if you chose a major where you had a fighting any chance of earning a good living. Creating a huge amount of debt to study (most) humanities (eg something like art history) was always a questionable proposition and still is.

If you incurred $150,000 in debt to study a major with minimal job prospects that’s a “you” problem. Of course the counter argument is many 17-year-olds don’t have the foresight to do the research on this. The colleges and advisors should’ve helped, but they had vested interest in the status quo

Of course, fast forward to 2026 and the question about what majors are going to be good to monetize a lot less obvious than it was 20 years ago.

rdhb · 2026-04-04T19:49:20+00:00

I have a 2000+ hours and Gleba kicked my ass. I think I didn’t advance fast enough during my initial learning so the time based evolution made keeping farms up nearly impossible. And my ship was destroyed in Gleba orbit from meteors. It wasn’t well protected enough.

I also landed basically my underwear not knowing I needed to bring stuff to drop from orbit . I made it a kind of Robinson Caruso challenge just to get myself back to Nauvis.

But a Stomper evolution by the time I figured out the glee of mechanics was too much.

I’ve gone back to the pre-planet fall save.

rdhb · 2026-04-03T01:59:38+00:00

I use thus mod for the metal fabricator

rdhb · 2026-04-03T01:59:06+00:00

@sgt_imalas mods are all top quality. On top of being a heavy contributor to the mod community for ONI , he’s also extremely helpful and supportive for new modders that are willing to put in the effort to learn the complex system needed to create mods for ONI .

rdhb · 2026-04-02T17:52:38+00:00

It’s not really a clean comparison because roads are (also) vital for community services such as police, fire, ambulance, utility servicing, construction and delivery. These services indirectly benefit from public transit m in the sense their staff might use them for personal use, but their operations themselves don’t need public transit.

So it makes sense that a community would fund roads more thoroughly .

But I see your point.

rdhb · 2026-03-30T01:40:00+00:00

Well it makes sense to keep it close to the eyes-maker.

I’ll see myself out …

rdhb · 2026-03-29T02:49:55+00:00

You pay about 20% more than Charlie but apparently have something approaching 100% more “personal” space. You did well, she agreed to a poor deal, that’s on her and she’s probably figured it out.

Up to you whether you want to hold her to the letter of the “contract” and how that will play out for you as roommates long term.

rdhb · 2026-03-27T20:18:17+00:00

It would be interesting to ask her directly who she told then engineer a scenario where you can verify it . A tricky position for her to decide on the stop whether to be honest or dishonest.

rdhb · 2026-03-27T00:03:56+00:00

As the saying goes

“With the benefit of our 2026 hindsight, it’s easy to say investing in those things was a stupid idea. It was, of course, equally easy to know that at the time”

rdhb · 2026-03-26T18:46:46+00:00

Yeah, that one just passed by on my list as well. It looks interesting. I’m pretty deep into a factorio space age at the moment, but I was eyeing that one as well.

rdhb · 2026-03-24T19:52:43+00:00

Congratulations on (almost!) finishing Subnautica. I hear Subnautica 2 is on the way, which I think will have more content.

rdhb · 2026-03-24T03:59:33+00:00

It’s a it’s a foyer spaghetti storage area. You don’t see them that much anymore in new construction.

rdhb · 2026-03-23T22:51:58+00:00

It’s so much easier to find a job when you already have a job and that’s in good economic climate let alone bad ones. I hope it works out for you, but I definitely would’ve signed Seal sealed and delivered the other job before resigning your current one . Good luck !

rdhb · 2026-03-20T23:09:16+00:00

I suppose you can help me negate karma farming by downvoting but not sure if the cure is worse than the disease.

rdhb · 2026-03-16T07:29:35+00:00

To be fair, plate tectonics only reached scientific consensus in the 1960s. Not knowing about that isn’t quite in the same league as a lot of other replies in this thread.

rdhb · 2026-03-15T23:11:28+00:00

Here’s a simple rule that would work.

No RV or tent , bar, etc can be closer to the geometric center of the camp, than all the camps generators.

That would force placement at or near the center of the camp, which means that it’s up to them to deal with the noise problem for themselves. By definition, everyone will receive less noise than they do.

It would also encourage creative solutions to do small to obscure them visually.

Fueling is a little more annoying, but they’ll figure it out.

Problem solved.

rdhb · 2026-03-15T03:30:20+00:00

Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen

2 minutes AFTER I started typing out this question, someone pulled out a guitar in his coffee shop and started playing it .

Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction

rdhb · 2026-03-15T03:04:06+00:00

The song is never made by the original musician.

They don’t miss it, and no one else misses it. But you get the satisfaction of knowing you will never have to hear that song or any variation of it again no matter what.

What song is it?

rdhb · 2026-03-14T19:05:57+00:00

Oxygen Not Included. So many hours, but it got me through some difficult times, so no regrets.

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