Dimension 52

lance: don’t you touch her!

me, sobbing even though i’ve watched this scene 100+ times: n-nice…

[On the first date]

Adrien: Do you like cats?

Marinette: I love them

Adrien, trying to impress her: [pushes her drink off the table]

Dwarf Fortress is riduculous. a world I generated contains a manual on adhesives called "It Is Glue". it's 103 pages long and the game describes the writing as "completely serious, yes overflowing with sadness".

This is interesting coming from a post-expansion perspective. I do feel Space Age in some ways tried to approach this problem, and succeeded in some ways. Ultimately someone else pointed out very well that this isn’t a problem inherent to Factorio. It’s a problem that stems from how humans approach problem solving as a whole. We like to find one-size fits all solutions that we can apply over and over again. Ultimately what the expansion tried to do to solve this problem was to introduce new mechanics to act as new constraints. Spoilage is a constraint, constraining your throughput by time. So is Aquilo’s increase power draw for bots. Likewise Fulgora’s inverted crafting tree and Vulcanus’ lava do force you to rethink how you approach certain problems and they don’t reward a one-size fits all solution. Sure, a bot base WILL WORK for EVERY planet, but…

Spoilage will cause a lot of unnecessary bot work, and bots do NOT take freshness into account, which I think is intentional. Aquilo requires a lot of bots to get anything done in a timely fashion and they drain power like crazy too. Fulgora’s biproducts likewise introduce more jobs for bots. They end up becoming very unscalable on 3 of the worlds, and I think that’s a good thing. Ultimately it won’t stop you from just building huge bot bases on them, but it definitely works to discourage that. Each planet tends to have different optimal solutions, and we’re currently in a time where we’re free to explore those. Admittedly there’s still some of the old problem as the “LDS Shuffle” presents a new endgame homogeneity for solving the Legendary production problem, but something like it would evolve regardless. I admit… I also turned around and went to modded playthroughs after finishing the vanilla game for similar reasons. And I still am doing that, but now it’s less of to explore the fun of the base game, and more to explore new mechanics because I like seeing how people try to create their own challenges for mods. Like I’ve been meaning to do a playthrough of Ultracube myself

there's something kind of amazing about this. that you can take an obviously terrible design approach on purpose as a challenge and then on some level it turns out there's still a one-size-fits-all solution that is... maybe not 'optimal', who knows, but, highly optimised? the whole factory is in large part the same basic building block stamped one time after another. the design constraint prevents the already-existing standard solutions from working but then you find there's a new kind of standard solution, even more uniform.

and on some level you'd think that was an artefact of this run, but no. i've seen this guy's other challenge runs, like the beltless one and the all-burner one. they all end up with 'yeah turns out there's a standard solution i am just going to keep implementing over and over'.

i am reminded of what @definitelynotplanetfall was saying about how the main bus architecture and more broadly the factorio 'meta' of standard arrays for doing things means it's very easy to just take The One Tool That Solves The Problem and implement it and it feels... a bit like drudgery? idk i don't want to put words in their mouth that's the impression i got from what they were saying. and like at the time i pushed back a little because, like, i am having fun playing.

which i am, but. idk. there's something there. it seems easy sometimes to take the tools that simplify your life in this game a little too far and simplify the fun away. but at the same time it's also the case that i hate it when i grow used to a tool and it goes away, like when i started a vanilla playthrough for reasons a while back and noticed how much lacking simple things like module inserter and autodeconstruct was annoying me.

What is it about mice with swords that is so dang appealing

From that time I opened a sulfur geyser in a oil biome, with a magma leak. Also featuring molten lead because I decided to just keep cranking up the heat so I could double my lead extraction from here.

Idenbebmal

Also known as Paddleglens.

Granite 1st, 500

It's a fort I've recently been put in charge of as the expedition leader. I've been instructed my leadership will reign until Granite 1st of 501. My family has a history of mine engineers and as such I've been given this opportunity to establish a new outpost. I was given a rough map of the region, and the chance to select our starting supplies as well. The location I chose, our prospectors had noted should contain fluxstone, iron as well as a few other metals & sand and clay, all of which were things I was looking for in my planning. They've also informed me of the nice benefit of a small river being in the locale.

With the location mapped, we've got to prepare for the journey. I've taken our budget and massively cut unnecessary expenses for more expensive goods. While I recognize the utility of bringing wooden tools like buckets, splints, crutches, wheelbarrows and the like with us, I trust our carpenter to be of sufficient skill to craft them upon our arrival. Plus the options the merchants offered were of too low quality. I was shocked to see that they kept suggesting I buy pigtail for our cloth, ropes & thread. Spidersilk is half the price! Being a fiscally minded dwarf, I demanded the Spidersilk I knew they had available. With most of the budget savings we've had from the various cuts, I've turned around and spent the money on buying us animals to help establish our outpost. Llamas, goats, and sheep were my priorities, as I know they'll provide our necessary cloth later on.

With our wagon loaded, and six other... unfortunates in tow with me, we've set out to strike the earth!

Shooting The Star

Rating: T+

Characters: Dipper Pines, Mabel Pines, Bill Cipher

Word count: 1,604

Summary: An AU taking place in Take Back The Falls where Bill really does kill Mabel. Watch out because I made sure to make this INCREDIBLY feelsy.

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