Almost to the Fourth extra planet in Factorio, just beefing up Nauvis production first so I can bang some higher quality items out first.

I always rate my games on price per hour played, rather than just total cost.

Factorio is one of my cheapest games ever.

If you enjoyed the base game, you’ll like the expansion. It’s a lot more content with tons of new things to deal with and optimize.

I’m almost 60 hours into factorio’s space age expansion that just came out out 10 days ago. However I have over 2500 hours in the base game.

That being said, factorio is notorious for never once having gone on sale.

The only other game I play launch day for is path of exile expansions.

Everything else I buy later on sale.

You can get eggs from Salmonella vaccinated chickens, it’s just not the norm in north America.

Everyone should get off X, I stopped using it the moment that Muskrat bought it. It wasn’t great before, but it’s turned into an absolute dumpster fire now.

Path of Exile new league drops on Friday, so I’m practicing and theory crafting ahead of that.

Not that I am above piracy, but this is one of the only games worth actually paying for. I’m so excited for the expansion.

Yup, the factorio devs have earned the trust required.

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Counter point, society wouldn’t exist if there weren’t reproductive pressures

Luckily you get to choose whatever you want in this case, but as you’ve found out there are annoying consequences for your choice.

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It literally says you’ll be notified, and can opt out.

That’s exactly what will happen.

A lot of new studios will form out of the ashes of these layoffs.

That’s why you often see “from the former developers of X game” or similar in marketing for new games.

I don’t disagree.

Unsarcastically, yes.

Capitalism can be great, if given the correct regulations to improve quality of life for everyone.

I will say however, that not all industries should be handled by capitalism, there are a few big ones where market competition simply doesn’t work due to inherent physical flaws (like for example needing to run five sets of water pipes to your house if you wanted to have choice among water providers)

Yea, was more of a general take. Thanks.

A lot of people misunderstand economic systems by anthropomorphizing (it means to give them human characteristics) them, giving them the illusion of thought or feeling.

Capitalism doesn’t care at all about humans, it’s not human, it doesn’t think, it doesn’t feel. It has no concept of right or wrong.

Capitalism says “what is most profitable”, do that. If killing someone to make money is the most profitable, it’s supposed to go ahead and do it, and it absolutely DOES already do this on a daily basis.

Now clearly, that’s going to give us some really fucking bad outcomes from a human perspective. So government regulation is how we attempt to prevent corporations from doing these bad things.

If we tell a company: “if you kill people it will cost $X” and $X would reduce their profit below “most profitable” they will stop doing it.

If we want to fix the bad stuff corporations are doing, simply put a larger cost on those things. It’s that simple. Pollution, Safety, Health, whatever… price the negative externalities (economic speak for bad things humans don’t want) properly and the market will sort itself out.

Some idiot said it was “almost required”

And a bunch of people piled on him for being ridiculous.