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NPCs (NonPolitical Comics)

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Hey everyone! This is a new community focused on NonPolitical Comics (NPCs), which essentially means no gloom and doom of the day stuff.

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[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 20 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I'm more of a Satisfactory guy. I stayed up to an unhealthy time playing that tonight actually

[–] Visstix@lemmy.world 11 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Factorio just stressed me out when I played. Satisfactory was chill.

[–] Piatro@programming.dev 8 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

I was complete opposite. Filling up the bio generators was like a ticking clock and it stressed me out so much.

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

I hate that phase too but you can burn though it to coal pretty fast

[–] Visstix@lemmy.world 8 points 22 hours ago

That's fair. The bio generators are a bit annoying. But nowadays you just go out exploring for a while and just grab all the plants and you are good until you unlock coal. There's not much of a penalty with running out of power for a bit than a bit of time lost.

[–] DosDude@retrolemmy.com 9 points 22 hours ago

These days you can belt it up to a stash, and fill that up to the brim. The bio burners are only really needed for like 0.1% of the game.

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 6 points 23 hours ago

Satisfactory just stressed me out when I played. Factorio was EFFICIENT.

[–] Dupelet@piefed.social 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

FFF (Fun Factorio Fact): On Steam alone, players have wasted over 88,000 years of collective time playing the game. That's not accounting for the fact they release a DRM-free version on their website.

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 11 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

You know, when the apocalypse happens the machines won't even bother bulding the simulation, they're just gonna plug the human batteries into a Multiplayer Factorio server

[–] Djehngo@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

I was talking about this the other day;

I hope when (if? 😭) millennials and zoomers retire some nursing homes become enormous persistent Lan parties.

Imagine waking up, no work, no obligations, but you get to work on your factorio or Minecraft play through with the gang who are similarly flush with free time.

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I have 1,500 hours. But I know someone with 13,000 hours. That's not a typo, thirteen thousand hours. 10,000 is on steam.

[–] mrsemi@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

One

And a half

YEARS

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 6 points 1 day ago

Wow! I'm only 1000 hours on steam, but I know the real number is much higher. Factorio lan parties at work (all use a local nondrm copy, Factorio doest care). The factory must grow!

[–] JetpackJackson@feddit.org 12 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I play mindustry and yeah ive had to reoptimize so many times

[–] Phineaz@feddit.org 8 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

But that's the charm of it I'd argue. Saying "fuck it, this is fine" after running another belt supplying ammo across your entire production line despite already struggling with an expansion is peak Mindustry.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 points 16 hours ago

I'm more of a efficient circuit guy, so most factory games are not for me, because they are "build a 100 of this" to get things going.

[–] Goun@lemmy.ml 5 points 21 hours ago

"No no no, not now -- it's getting late, go to sleep!"

[–] notthebees@reddthat.com 7 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

This is how I feel playing space engineers.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 7 points 23 hours ago

Im here to do Crack and play factory games, and im all out of Crack because I did it all while playing factory games.