Leaving when others are getting fucked is making a stand and having principles. Yay applause.
Going lalalalala and staying on right until you get fucked is just whatever. Don't brag please.
Deestan
joined 2 years ago
A Celebrity Does A Grift.
This happens a lot.
In crypto, it usually goes like this: Celebrity makes a coin. Uses fans goodwill to make them buy in. Coin gets rugpulled (oh no!) as in the celebrity and their tech friend cash out and leave the fans with a dead coin worth 1% of what they paid.
The celebrity will then say they were flimflammed. Fooled. Duped. Tricked. Teary apology. Very sad. Victim like you and me. Very also kept the advance $50k from the tech people. Also kept the cash they got from rugpulling. Don't ask about that.
"CEO of shoddily coded autocomplete app says it will kill us all and he should get a trillion dollars to stop it."
Basically the same headline repeated 8392 times the past three years, just phrased differently.
All autistics are human.
Some humans are shitty people.
Therefore some autistics are shitty people.
QED
I was a teenager before smartphones were a thing.
Things I did when not phone, and no random book or comic nearby:
Waiting for bus: Running off to explore the plants behind the bus stop shed, missing the bus.
Waiting for bus: Trying to see if I could grab the bus stop sign and somersault by running up the bus stop shed wall. I could not, and faceplanted the concrete breaking my glasses.
On toilet: Grab shampoo bottles to read, comparing the grammar of the instructions.
School recess: Climb onto the school roof, get in trouble.
School recess: Try and kick the feet of a school bully while he was proudly demonstraring rhe roundhouse kick he learned to see if he would fall on his ass. He fell on his ass and we did not become friends.
The absence of a phone will not calm me down.
The two countries are deeply economically tied, are political allies, share much of the power structure. I don't think it makes sense to separate them in this context of morality, corruption level, or personal risk.
But it was an unconscious simplification that may not apply to others judgements. Apologies for the confusing inaccuracy.
Today! Very well news! Good journalisted news! Headlines:
My toddler says she will never eat food again in her life because we demanded she eats two pieces of broccoli.
The child rapist who shits himself says he will kill the world if they don't do what he says.
My cat says (interpreted) that he is literally dying of hunger and sadness if he doesn't get a double portion of his favorite food.
CEO of shoddily written autocomplete app claims it will kill us all if he doesn't get a trillion dollars.
Fridge magnets fell on floor, say FOOD ANY IS IS SUN FOR THREE.
It is good to tell stories like this, for the public good, but I refuse to sympathize.
He chose to "make a fortune" in a famously and obviously through-and-through corrupt dictatorship known for figuratively grinding migrant labour to bonemeal to pave their roads. Literally chopping up journalists. Murdering villagers for a fake greenwashing project.
He put on tall boots and waded into this pool of blood to "make a fortune". Smiling at people stabbing each other in the back, he brought his son along to grab soggy fistfulls of blood money. And he just... stayed there until his luck inevitably ran out.
The privacy statements are fucking lies.
I will not share my innermost mental issues with some group of 20-something "move fast and break things" sociopaths in Silicon Valley.
He's really getting under my skin. I think I will go over there and give him a piece of my mind.
We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without? Yeah that sounds like something a manual cunt would say.
R U L E
Most of them can be solved with various applications of patience, so the trickiest one was the Express Delivery - winning Space Age in less than 40 hours.
Some tips for others who want to try it:
You can not reduce biter base sizes without invalidating the achievement, but you can turn down pollution, biter evolution and biter expansion. Turning the starting area size up to max means you can get all the way to Aquilo without seeing a single biter.
Resource patches can be turned up high and cliffs can be turned down low.
The scale needed is absurd and the main strategy should be on being able to scale hard and fast. My Nauvis base had 20 rocket silos going constantly, two 4-reactor nuclear plants, and it still felt a bit underscaled when I got to Aquilo.
Nauvis was the easiest to get to bigscale in this timeframe, as it already had a head start by the time the other planets were operational. Don't bother setting up blue chips on Vulcanus. Copy-paste the blue chip production on Nauvis and just ship them over with rockets.
What worked for me to scale:
- BOTS BOTS BOTS thousands of bots immediately and forever on all planets.
- Make sure to produce at least 2 per second of any science.
- Nauvis is the backbone. It can just ferry nuclear fuel, blue chips, rocket fuel, and low density structures to all other planets. (Fulgora gets trivially self-sufficient after a while though)
- Make production modular. Not necessary with perfectly symmetrical or cityblock, but enough that you can just zoom out, copy-and-paste "the area that turns iron ore, copper ore, and raw oil into blue chips", and just connect it to some new miners or a new oilfield.
- Inefficiency and waste are better than starved belts or constant tuning problems. Need 20 red chips per minute? Copy the thing that makes 20 red chips per second. Give it a separate set of miners, and don't care if it spends most of the game idling.
- On each planet, establish a bot network and stable power, then GTFO to the next one. Build the rest via remote.
My time was 36 hours, following these rough milestones:
- Logistic system before 10 hours
- Aquilo before 30 hours
Update on https://lemmy.world/post/26605581
Playing on modified Marathon setting: 100x science cost instead of 4x
I think I'm finally over the challenging part of the challenge. Until now it was extremely uncertain whether my base would both survive biter evolution on Nauvis and manage to claim enough resources to get to space and Vulcanus for "unlimited" iron and copper.
At some point the biters evolved past my tech: I can't assault behemoth biter bases with only low damage tech red bullets, effectively making any unclaimed resources unavailable until I could tech up (which would need resources).
I can, however, guard against behemoth biters with walls of red bullet turrets and flamethrowers.
Vulcanus also turned out to not be as straightforward as I hoped. While I do get a lot of resources in the starting area, the initial tugsten patches are guarded by small demolishers. Fortunately, 100 turrets of red ammo and spamming poison capsules proved enough to clear out a significant area and secure enough tungsten to get me far up the tech tree.
I feel like I "won" the challenge now that I can safely tech past any future hurdles, and the remaining tasks are just putting in the hours. Not sure if I'll keep playing past this, but it was a ton of fun. :)
For anyone who wants to see a true maniac attempt what I assumed to be impossible: Michael Hendriks may be able to win with 1000x science cost, exploiting deep knowledge of the biter expansion algorithm, spending tens of hours filling the map with pipes, and meticulous calculation of resource usage through the tech tree carefully adapting or not adapting quality, modules etc.
Some screenshos of the current state:
They were stress-bored and were fidgeting by tapping their watch so much that it accidentally triggered the emergency mode and sent me this SMS.
Alert not intended but also in some way accurate.
From the comic "Girl Genius" by Phil and Kaja Foglio
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Dunno why they needed to manipulate the upper ground plug to be more rapey. It would honestly be funny enough unaltered.