Ah I see you are enjoying yourself. Would you care to know that you are, in fact, enjoying yourself incorrectly?
There is no joy to be had the way you are doing it. If there is, it is a fault in your character.
Deestan
joined 2 years ago
Tradition and authenticity is bullshit.
Food from good ingredients prepared well matters more than if the cheese was stared at for two hours by the sheepwife of the mayor of Scrumthrorpeshireffield.
For example: Wine tasters were clear that French wine just tasted better than Californian wine. They were extremely convinced. Then they tried a blind test and hoo boy did everyone get pissed when they couldn't tell the French wine was better without knowing it was French first. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judgment_of_Paris_(wine)
And if he is: Does he know? Is he moving his GI Joe figurine forward on the chessboard and going pew pew while being outmaneuvered in 3 dimensions?
If people offering criticism offend you so much, just stop listening to them 🫡
Dunno why they needed to manipulate the upper ground plug to be more rapey. It would honestly be funny enough unaltered.
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.
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.
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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True. Culture, history, etc as an experience is valid.
It is where people pretend it is important to quality and taste, I call bullshit.
As for the experience... If the old bearded Italian man who served you traditional cheesemelt pig in wooden clogs while singing Por Trancone Parditto were to, say, replace the cheese with Swedish Gulost and not tell you... You would have the same experience.
Not saying it'd be the same, but that the food taste and quality are entirely separate from the authenticity.