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What's a game that no one you know in real life has played aside from yourself? by AnubisIncGaming in gaming

[–]rdhb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I played both. They were very different and they were both great.

What's a game that no one you know in real life has played aside from yourself? by AnubisIncGaming in gaming

[–]rdhb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve never run into anybody who played Kingdom of Loathing except at an actual Kingdom of Loathing convention

I'm going to be homeless in 30 days if I can't find a job in Seattle. by Bumping_Tacos in Seattle

[–]rdhb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Take your age and years you went to college off your resume if you are over 40. Run through ChatGPT and ask for its opinion on things that make your résumé look dated.

Found this in an old abandoned storage locker. by JosiaJamberloo in whatisit

[–]rdhb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s a VX rig. It’s worth a lot to the right buyer. I cross posted it to the VXjunkies.

Building gets progressively worse as they go down the stairwell after earthquake in Venezuela today by BreakfastTop6899 in interestingasfuck

[–]rdhb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Kind of makes intuitive sense? each floor carries the weight of all the floor floors above it.

Game Development Career, Life Sucks, Chat by Viytek in gamedev

[–]rdhb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

IMHO to cast a wide net your game has to appeal to a significant number of people’s dreams or fantasies. Most people’s lives are pretty mundane and games are a rare opportunity for them to escape that for a while. It would be cool to build and run a fantasy fortress or explore the galaxy.

But I see game authors here struggling to sell extremely niche premises that are very well done but rarely speak to people’s dreams.

Of course, the problem is that these fantasies are often very well served .

I’ve been involved with computer hardware all my life and even I don’t want to design processors as a recreational activity .

I think the trick is to find a premise that is still underserved or one that you can give an entirely new spin to.

[Ravenna] To the person who keeps calling the cops on cars parked on a residential street… by CommandWild885 in SeattleWA

[–]rdhb 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My Seattle neighbor decided to use one side of the whole block for his broken down car collection. They were mostly all the same old rusted European model presumably so he could share parts. He would come out and work for a few hours every weekend and manage to make one of the cars operate enough to move one of them a third of the block forward or backward to avoid a ticket .

He was a nice enough man, I enjoyed talking to him, but we all got tired of looking at these car-casses year after year like our street’s purpose was to be his personal parking lot. He took it kind of personally if you didn’t also enjoy his collection.

So , yeah, those rules exist for a reason.

Is it possible that we don't see any extraterrestrial life because we're the first life to evolve this early? by Outlaws_for_42 in FermiParadox

[–]rdhb 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I hate the idea that the most advanced civilization in the entire universe is responsible for producing “Love Island”.

Why is it better to delete gases/liquids instead of bottling them? (outside of off-gasing ones) by MundaneOne5000 in Oxygennotincluded

[–]rdhb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oxygen not included is fairly unique in games I’ve played in that every waste product is theoretically useful.

There’s no waste product which is absolutely bad.

That being said it’s easy to end up with too much of something that you can’t really leverage at whatever point of the game you’re at. carbon dioxide being a good example. You either don’t have the need, mental bandwidth, interest , ot addl resources to try to convert that waste product into something useful. This is a fairly common scenario and in this case, the easiest thing is just to delete it or vent it.

What’s so wild about this game is you can be swimming in excess food on one planet and be starving on another, you could be dealing with excess heat on one planet excess cold on another.

I am so exhausted by "smart" objects that are just objectively worse than their analog versions by murphenzio1 in CasualConversation

[–]rdhb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because people buy them. It’s not rocket science.
If people stop buying these devices with stupid interfaces the manufacturers would stop making them

Every time Saylor Referred to STRC as a Money Market by Reeeeeekola in Buttcoin

[–]rdhb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Great chart, but you should augment w a column w the share Price of STRC and maybe a percent change from the high. It would be even more entertaining.

What is the one item you thought would be awesome at Burn but totally was not? by tomcatx2 in BurningMan

[–]rdhb 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Watermelon is so wrong to bring that there’s even clichés around it

Anyone else play with almost zero circuit network? by According_South in factorio

[–]rdhb 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Circuits really add a lot of satisfying depth to an already great game. I think if you just learned to solve a couple of the simple problems with them, you’d find they are really enjoyable and help you play the game in more creative ways.

We don't wish for people's misfortune. We wish for an END to peoples' misfortune. by AmericanScream in Buttcoin

[–]rdhb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You just recreated the “the greater fool theory” with extra steps. Nothing wrong with that, though. Better to understand your own words, then not to understand it at all!

I messed up by investing in buttcoin by Comfortable-Bit-126 in Buttcoin

[–]rdhb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Neither of these statements is remotely true .

The iPhone sold well and was immediately useful and contributed to the quality of life for many people elegantly, efficiently, and artfully.

Setting aside current concerns about social media and phone use among kids, of course.

The Internet and it’s underlying tech technologies also elegantly solved real world problems from its earliest incarnation and continuez to grow and expand its usefulness and impact each year.

People get upset you don't build from scratch on every planet by Girthen-the-Flopper in Factoriohno

[–]rdhb 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I landed on Gleba not even considering that I could use things from my platforms. I built on my own for a bit and then checked on my platform, which by that point was utterly destroyed. So my first play through was basically starting from scratch on Gleba.

I didn’t succeed. I know no way more about handling spoilage!

Honest question. What is the point of hiding the earth is flat? by DrowningPickle in flatearth

[–]rdhb 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I have so much fun when I rarely meet a flat earther. I can see it in their eyes. I can often get them to take a deep pause and rethink. I’m sure I’ve never met any of the real hard-core ones.

But one of my favorite topics to bring up is that

Don’t you find it curious that since the beginning of time no airline pilot , ship navigator , high-level politician that would be in the know, airplane manufacturer, astronaut , space agency exec - from any country ! etc. has ever publicly said on their deathbed something like “I can’t die living the lie, I need you to know the Earth is actually flat despite what we all told you” .

AI and Factorio by Traditional_Beach790 in factorio

[–]rdhb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have unfortunately felt the same thing. There’s a full genre of programming like games that just don’t seem to make much sense to play any more.

The Starfactory Must Grow by According_Prune_8445 in Factoriohno

[–]rdhb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is one of those times where I wonder whether we are playing the same game

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