Factorio

This is still far from the true Magic benchmarks, but it is a lot better than previous efforts.

Ustra plays Factorio Space Age, successfully launching a rocket and reaching a third planet.

Local expert Patrick McKenzie says this means it will with time win the game, and Daniel Vestal who is running the experiment agrees.

Fable only got as far as the first two science packs, whereas Astra already has seven, and Luna got nowhere.

As soon as it happened, it started rebuilding, learning from its mistakes by adding more turrets up front and a big ammunition buffer.

There's an image here.

Factorio factory base with machines and blue storage chests.

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That's really cool.

Then boom, Factorio, your factory must grow.

It's not optimized enough.

Well, this game, you're constantly worried about how to optimize your code, which is cool because you would actually have to worry about that in real life.

It definitely seems appropriate for me and a lot of the other people that I know where it's like, it's not that I don't enjoy social interaction, it's just that it's taxing, right? Yeah.

And I can only do it for so long before I just need to go sit and like, you know, again, listen to Daft Punk and write some code or play Factorio as I've been doing a lot more recently, right?

So that Tron soundtrack, oh, you see, I mean, that's a great one too, but like the Nine Inch Nails one is pretty darn awesome.

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because I'm able to be so much more effective in such a short period of time.

So it's like, if you're looking for a past time, if you're looking for something to pass the time, it's not as good at that because I only have so many ideas for kind of like actually interesting hobby side projects.

Before you have to go back to Factorio.

Right.

in a general framework how do computers work you know how does logic work and then when you're building systems i mean like really like one of the reasons that the models have gotten so good at everything is just it's just math you know like it's so we're basically just backing into logic and fundamental logic you can do whatever you want with it almost um And so it's just thinking in those terms.

Like I brought up Factorio earlier, stuff like that.

That's literally what it is.

It's you have some kind of thing that you're optimizing for.

Absolutely adore that game.

Um, and Factorio is my number one.

Oh, nice.

And that's like a huge jump, huge jump in hours.

If you build a new structure, you need to build lumber to it so it can be built.

If you then do stuff in the structure, let's say a smithy you produce or forge you produce ingots and they need to be transported to something like a bladesmith, then blade just turns into weapons and then the weapons will be supplied to soldiers and the soldiers can man and military outpost which can then extend to territory which then gives you extra more resources and so and so on and so forth and this like kind of says you did compare it to those idle games and it's i would say it's almost the basis for that like maybe not this game specifically the office as well but basically it's always like one more thing it's a bit like um Like Factorio, where, oh, I would like to do the thing, but I need these resources.

And for this resource, I need this building.

And for the building, I need the other thing.

Just to try and find a ceiling for myself.

I'm not really sure.

At 4.01, we put Factorio.

That's where Factorio ended up.

I made a resource widget that turns different colors based on the CPU, memory, and disk thresholds.

So now I can play Factorio during Kolmina builds and know when it's time to return to work faithfully reenacting the ancient...

XKCD, my code is compiling.

Amazing.